The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-13
PRICE THREE CENTS I
THE PRESIDENCY.
Candidates Of the Peace Democracy
to be Nominated.
MCCLELLAN HoPELEsSLY
REPuDIATED.
Another Convention to be Held
New Movement.

nminafy steps arc being taken by the friends of
Peace to call National Convention of the De-
mocracy, to place in nomination candidates for
President and Yice-President
DisOrgnnIEatiOn.
4 From ne N. T. Daily Ncps
The World journal that claims to be Demo
cratic, lays down in yesterdays issue new plat
L form. Ignoring altogether the platform laid
down by the National Convention, il has placed
IN is leading column, at full length, that officers
letter of acceptance, under the head of "McClel-
lAn's Platform" This reputation Of the regu-
larry enuncated doctrines of the party in favor of
the arbitrary dictd of an individual, is one of the
most extraordinary acts of disregard of party dis
Y cipline that we have ever known in the case Of
Journal that claims alliance with the Demo
crdcy.
i Fromhs " J. Daily NcNs.
IL is not our purpose TO be withdrawn Mt this
moment by personal resentments or sef-vind-
cation, from the exclusive duty which we owe to
the great cause of humanity and peace. Nor do
4 we propose at any time except in so far as NAV
be absolutely unavoidable, TO strike at our
assailants of the Democratic war press, or the
candidate whom they are supporting, in the
temper and spirit with which il seems their policy
TO attack the proprietor Of this journal.
Nevertheless, IL is no part of our intention to
sit quiet under personal denunciatOn and SLAM
der, nor shall we permit ourselves to be disturbed
In the maintenance of the great principles against
! which General Mcclellan and his advocates have
yarrayed themselves by any sdueamishness as To
upon the candidate or his followers. If General
Mcclellan is wrong at all, he IS grievously and
I fatally wrong, and wrong with deliberatiOn and
Z foreknowedge. We believe him to be so, and
{ he is not entitled to be spared
The World of yesterday, with characteristic
r duplicty and ieebeness, attempts to delude It's
readers into the belief that the great and the only
objection of the peace party and ourselves to
General Mcclellan IS what it calls "his Union
ism," or as IL otherwise is styled the "invincible
tenacity with which he holds fast to the Union"
No one knows better than the editor of the World
n that this is dishonest and unworthy clRp-trap-
disreputabe peryersion of an issue which il has
not the manliness fairly and openly to meet.
The question between peace men and the war
party has never been, and is not now, question
Of union or disunion. No men have more earn
estly, patrotcally, and persstently struggled
=, for the Union than the advocates of the peace
policy. They have adopted that policy because
they have believed war to he certain disunion
and have seen in pacific counsels and the cessa-
ton of carnage the only hope of union ever
hereafter. Il is true they are not now sanguine
enough to see, even in peace, an absolute
y certainty that the happy ties which once bound
us together will be re-estabisbed as of
old, but they do believe that peace will restore
them, sooner or later, If anything can, and that
at all events, the nearest possible approximation
70 their re establishment will be secured by its
blessed and healing influences. To that part
therefore, of General McClellan's letter which
promises to exhaust the peaceful resources of
craftsmanship and civilization for the restoration
its whole heart and unanimous voice.
n II General Mcclellan has developed any genu-
\ inc "Unionsm" at all in his letter, it is in the
portion referred to, and from that no word of dis
sent has been uttered by this journal or by any
other which speaks the feelings of the Peace De-
mocracy.
< But the advocates of peace are welded to a
1 principle which goes side by side with, and is in
separable from, their devotion to the Union-the
7 great principle Of self-government-the consc-
Grated American principle, that all legitimate
Z government is derived from the consent of the
governed. Resting upon this, which they believe
TO be the historical cornerstone of their free in
stitutions, they believe the idea of Union
brought about by force to be, intrinsicaly pro-
a higae absuTdity.
They believe that war can never rebuild the
blessed fsbric raised for us by our fathers which
the bloody hands of fanaticism and violence
I have already shattered into ruins. They believe
4 that we cannot fight free men into Loving us !;
that we cannot beat and chain them to dwell
I with us; that we cannot slaughter and trample
them into brotherhood with US, and that, even If
we could, we should be immeasurably more infa.
nous than they.
The Peace Democracy believe further, that
the armed coercion of States is a constitutional
Il heresy, and that it cannot be consummated with
out striking vital blow at the first principles of
Il the Federal compact and consolidating a despot-
a isl Washington, in the stead Of the benignant
an, mited power which was meant TO foster the
y peat nj Union Of happy and consenting States.
The convictions, as an organ OF the Peace
Democracy. The DAILY Neios has never
ceased TO promulgate and defend. They are
the solemn creed OF the good men and true
y for whom il speaks. Erery eren Of the accurSed
iodr rhich IS upon as, has illustrated aud confirmed
Ftheir truth and If the World and IT'S cOreigiOnists
IN blood had dedicated themselves to tie support of
such principles, instead Of scattering the internal
seeds g. by6ay and hate, ace Should net Rol0 be at
i the melancholy POINT, ,eiere tie Democratic nary
and rs candidate are disputing, 'oiH abOhtioniSH
and its representative, the palm of deUotion to
policy of determination. We uSe this language
deliberately and Gdrisedly. General McClellans
words ard purposes cannot be mistaken or mis-
4 understood. After promising 10 "eXhaust the
resources OF craftsmanship" TO re establish the
Union, he says -
"If frank. earnest, and persistent effort to OBJ
tain those objects should fail, the responsibility
for ulterior consequences will fall upon those who
remain in arms against the Union. But the
Union must be preserved at all hazards"
To what "ulerior consequences" does he
alude, and to what hazards !" lie means
Z war, and no honest man will pretend that he
7 means any thing else. If he had been frank
he would have used the word He means that
7 If he cannot reconstruct the Union by nego
ftiation-Day more, TO use his own language in
i another part OF his letter--if the people Of the
South are not "ready for peace, on the basis
of the Union, as condition precedent to nego-
tiatiOn-the consequences will be upon their own
heads, and he will make war upon them unit
they yield. They may have sOlemny declared
by State Conventions or otherwise, that they will
NOT re-enter into common Government with us
their leaders; they may have resolved TO have
independence or death, as Mr.. Davis has recently
declared; still, General Mcclellan is pledged "a
Orerthroto their Tesolres by fire and slcoTd lie 4,
2 pledged to tight and Stag them til they SDrende,
he principle of choosing their oion fern of Coz.
eTRnient. he IS pledged 10 an Iiterm0'abie strife
tlfMefe IS permanent resistance. lie Is pledged "a
carnage and deraStatiOH--tO all the appliances
of ruin and overthrow, which are within the
"hazards" and curses Of civil conflict He has
y fixed no point, but Unon at which he will stay
, the tide of blood.
To a policy SO wicked, so nhumanly absurd
we cannot nor can any peace Democrat subscribe
without renegading from every conviction and
from every instinct of selt-respect. We should
be false to all that we have learned and
all that we have taught, If we were no
to spun and denOunce il, come what may. Wa
coyet, sincerely and ardently 1.-The unity OF the
2 Democratic party, but we cannot cOunse
and We will have no part in its decentralization
) and disgrace. We do not lbelieYe General
& McClellan's sentiments TO be those of the party
We know that they are in direct antag )nism 10
the spirit and meaning of the party platform
and we are sure that they cannot be made tC
command the sanction of the party except by
sophistry and fraud. These, 1t shall be our bus,
ness and it is our duty TO unmask and TO thwarJ
John A. Lowell, of Boston, has made regu