The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-10-27
The Chicago Platform DiSsecttd.

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MEssRs EDITors:
The Democratic C?) convention held in
Chicago, published its platform, and nomi.
mated its candidates for President and vice.
President, standing on that platform. The
one because of his availability, the other for
his reasonable proclivities.
That party makes faces at all who are in
favor of the Baltimore Union platform, and
its candidates, and vigorous prosecution
of the war, to subdue rebels in arms. They
are stigmatized, in its partisan speeches,
and papers, as Fanatics, from the Ryan ad
dress down to that pure sheet C?) the Mil
waukee News.
The very persons and papers, that adhere
with the tenacity of death struggle, to
some moral or physical impossibility, being
themselves the impersonation of fanaticism,
deem all sensible, patriotic, liberty loving
citizens, 'Jaaatjcs." The ranting lunatic,
considers all crazy, but himself, left as a
monument of grace, the only sane man in
the universe.
The fellows that cons tituted the noble
multitude, that howled at Pilates bar, calling
Him, who was on trial for his life, 'this tel-
l0W perverting the nation, &C. no doubt
deemed Him fanatic, and from that day
to this, men of like stamp, when whitening
f under the rebules of truth and conscious
want of patriotic virtue, find miserable re-
lief in calling all who are engaged in a
righteous work, ''taRoticS," or in stigmatiz.
r ing their opponents with some opprobrious
f epithets like those embodied in the Chicago
platform.
: The first resolution Of that platform, with
= a platitude of words, conveying no definite
/ idea to those uninitiated into the secret vo
: cabulary of the leaders of that patriotic e,
= body speaks of the constitution, "as though
it were created by some foreign power con-
trolling us, and the ''St0teS'' as corporations
d merey-bodies politic-and the people as
asserting to the rule of such foreign power
with the right to dissent or Seccde, at any
:. time, either with or without a reason, asso
s ciated and kept together by the whim, O
. some national Or personal interest, of the
q oliticians like an association of Banks fol
= amutual bank interests, that unite IN ar
u greement that the President and director
j. equally conducive to the wei
a " fare and prosperity of all the banks bot
+ "northern and southern" The People
mudsills, who are not stockholders, director
or officers, are left out in the cold to shirl
y for themselves.
t. The Glorious old constitution made b,
d g the people to establish JUSTICE, INSURE DC
{" MEsTIo ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS for the com
"mom defence promote the general welfare
V "and secure the blessings of liberty to our
g "selves and our posterity'-is made b,
D. the first Chicago resolution to be the crea
ture of the old thirteen StGteS IN their corpc
rate capacity as States, with which the pee
le pie, as citizens, have nothing to do, only a
S, the officers Of the State, or its political dem
ly agogues may dole out crumbs of comfort t
them
What an exposition of the preamble of GU
constitution, to talk of securing the blessing
of liberty to Estate" or to the pOSteYtty {
q estate !" The important rights secure
~ to the citizens by that constitutions are thos
ne priceless Ones that it is evident the Estates
ut as such never had, or could permanently sc
lo cure, and therefore the people constituted til
peculiar form Of government they have III
der the form of State and national sovereign
- ties-in which there is no ''c0mpTOmjSe' q
r the meaningless slang phrase Of the politi
A. clam of any natural rights, or sectional il
:. terests-but State and national constitution
- are the outspoken and expressed lCiW OF tn
te whole "PeOp}e" in reference to their choic
e, tof the form and organization of the govern
SIS ment, State and national. This wjU of tn
= whole people, the rebels free of fanaticisr
, in modern democratic eyes, are endeavorn
10 to thwart and overturn, and the sages
A. Chicago, in sympathy with such treasonabl
III endeavors, i'll their second resolution sex
20 picitly declare" that ''after four gears
, failure to restore the Union By the experi2nea
/ Of ogor," &C. What definite and patriot
IS O. idea, this -four years Of failure !" Appl
re this form of expression to any common mat
o, ter. merchant, for instance, ''after fou
Q years of failure to earn 80 per cent on hi
capital, having made 20 per cent. of it, there
2 fore gives up merchandising to farmer
D four years Of failure to produce a Gro
" yielding sixty fold, when each year he rails
= ed thirty fold, therefore SOW no more crops
- TO mechanic after four years Of of failure
\. in building a wagon when it is finished bu
j, the stripping off" The American peopl
" in putting down treason, and after catching
= subduing and destroying thousands of trait
" ors, and after restoring two-thirds Of its ter
d ritory, this is called ''Gtjer four years 0
= failure I" and this, when treason at the soutI
N shrieks to It's Chicago friends for instant aid
save us or we perish" This is the 'faiL
ure," and if a failure who caused it (? tn
u patriots in the north, or the treason sympa
/ thizers in our midst, whose motto is ''divid
o and conquer"
The resolution declares that the ''fou
- years of failure" has been failure ''to re
u store the Uni0n." Union of what OF til,
1t People Of the United States under the consti
q tuition, and republican form of government
/, Not at ALL but of the States, loose politica
70 compact, for the resolution itself declares il
= TO be a Federal union of the States mere
IS ly, system Of government hitherto un.
J., known to but few Of the people of the Uni
ted States.
The resolution terms it an experiment
: Of war How many Of the delegates to that
C convention ever had a hand in that Sexperi-
: ment," unless to aid in causing it to be a
. failure ?" What right had that convention
Except a mendacious right to mscall it an
!, ''experimeat 2" AS well might the thief,
i with the bailitf's hand on his shoulders, call
s the chase and capture Of him an 'experi-
ment" Of a chase; or the sentenced traitor,
= with the halter on his neck and the sentence
for his execution about being read, call his
capture, conviction and sentence, all ''ex-
! periments.
Did the author of those resolutions deem
that we, mudsilIs, never had an idea, right