Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-10-21

There is much in il that's ambignous.- niue
that will admit Of double Interpretation. =
When the speaker went into one locality b
found that the people interpreted il one way
and when he went into smother locality h
found that they gavcit an entirely dftren
construction. The only true method cftls
termning the real character of the platforl
was to learn and determine the character G
the men who composed the convention whic
adopted it. Who was the most conspicuou
person in the Chicago conventions 1.-The ma
toward whom all eyes were VIII
| impressed himself most forcibly on that body
and who dictated the platforms ClemC n
III. Nalandiellap, tried and couvicte
traitor. - convicted after fullEand impartia
examination. n Not satisfied he appealed t
the distric, court Of Ohio. presided over by
life. long Democrat. and after a second herr
ing the ncorrup'ible; old judge prononncst
the verdict just and right No,y yet satisfied
he appealed to the people Of Ohio. and the,
pronounced the sentence Just by a msjorit,
Of more than one hundred thousand vctes--
Not yet satisfied he took his case TO the su
premc court Of thu nation, and this high Fri
bunal by leaving the case just AZ they found
it also pronounced the sentence just and
proper. 1t was yallandgham who in a
speech in New York city. in November, 1861,
called God to witness that he would never
vote dollar nor a man for a war, to bring
back the Southern States il they chcse to
sacede. Most every one has heard Of the
,rcasonahlc organization existing in the
Northwestern States. under the name Of the
Sons Of Liberty In Indiana they have been
exposed, and upon trial ii was developed that
tho members were in league with the rebels,
They had contemplated an uprising in Aug
ust last, when they were to have seized all
the arscnals and released all the prisoners in
Indiana. Illinois, Wisconsin. Ohio, and Mich
igan. The released prisoners, numbering
from 10000 to $1,000, were 10 he aimed
with the arms taken from the arscnals,-
They were to he joined by members Of the
Sons Of Liberty, and civil war was to be
inaugnrated at the North. That this was
the programme has been clearly proven he
fore legal tribuna. at Indianapolis. Who
was a. the head Of this reasonable organiza
ton? Vailandgham was the chief of the
order, and it was at his order that the fires
IF civil strife were 10 be kindod throughout
the North II man commit murder arson
or robbery you hate him, you loa'hc him,
ynn condemn him but these. men coutcm,
plated more than murder, arson and robbery
combined, and it was through 10 fault Of
theirs that the devilish plo, was not carried
out The strong hand Of the Government
and saved MS from the fearful peri!
which threatened us. IT there is IN all the
region CT spirits damned one spot more
wretched than another, it should be reserved
for such ,niscreantS. Such men are base
SANDER on the Democratic party, and Demo
Gratis who would rather not see smoke and
smell! sulphur had better leave the rotten old
party on double quick. '.
Another prominent. man in the Chicago
Convention was Fernando Wood. who. Oh
the floor Of Congress. said that there is No
such thing as a War Democrat. Harris, Of
was there, who publicly declared
that he prayed God that our armies might
not succeed in subduing the rebellion. Alex
Long was another prominent character in
the Convention, and he SAYS il is the duty O
the Government 10 ncknow ledge the South
ern Conrederacy. Belmont the agentof the
European capitalists who deal in Confederate
bonds, was another leading spirit there.
Saunders. Thompson & Co., the emissarie!
Of the rebellion, tclegraphcd from Canada Il
Chicago that the platform and the speechr
were very satisfactory. All the prominen
Northern sympathiscrs with Southern trca
son were there. Those who are PRAYING fo
the defeat Of Grant. Sherman, Sheridan, Far
'aeul, aiIl ''li b'tNC illiNS SItla W iHTp,WfFi
there. The spoakcrthankcd God that inAg
ing from the successes of our armies Of late
the prayers nf these men had not assembled
very high. When that Convention assem-
BLEED, we had SEQ O)0 mrn fighting the bat
Ties OF their country while on the othe,
hand there were over 400 600 rebels in arms
without cause or justification. fighting FOL
the overthrow OF the nation. Yet in all Tx
speeches made in that Convention. there was
not a word uttered in condemnation Of rebels
while the English language could not furnish
explosives sufficient to express their hate 70,
the government and its defenders. All thi:
admits Of but one conclusion, and that is
the members Of that Convention are our enc
mics. ard not our friends. 80. o..
They commence the second resolution o
their platform with lie, and end il with
fraud The war has not been a failure. -
How was ii st the outbreak Of the rebellion
The North was without an army. n navy, and
without arms and munitions Of war Al The
arms of the government had been transferred
to the South. and there they had been orga
niZing fnr war for months previous to the
time they committed the overt act The rcb
els held New Orleans; the Mississippi rive,
up as far as Cairo; the Tennessee and Cum
herland rivers were in their possession from
the mouth Of the Potomac to the Ro Grandl
they held all our sea coast. Tennessee, Mis-
sonri, Kentucky, Maryland, "cd West Vir
ginia were under their control How is il
nov: The speaker here summed up tn,
great progress the Nortl, has made in the
war.-citnS his hearers to the scores of
brilliant victories gained, and the vast cxten,
of territory wraSted from the rebels and sue
ccssfa'ly held. Their whole sea coast is now
securely hochadcd. and there is not a singl,
State in the Union but that we havra foot
bold on. How is it with the South? TIL,
rebellion has hecn driven back into the mar
row limits within which SECESSION had IL
birth. Their currency is worthess-bank
rupicv StareS them in the fare--and wors,
oil &C., 1t