Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-10-26
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
General John A. Logan Dissects ant
Exposes il.
Below are the views of Genl Logan O,
the Chicago Platform, as extracted from
speech he recently delivered at Carbon.
dale, Ill We wish every man would feac
| them:
In continuation of nv remarks in refer
enoe TO parties as at present organized,
wish to examine into their status little
further There was a convention at Bal.
| timore which nominated Lincoln and John
SOD, and there was convention at Chica
90 which nominated Mcclellan and Pen
dleton. 1t is for me to examine the pat
forms of these conventions, ascertain what
their intentions are, and whom | support
l expected, when the Democratic conven-
tion-as they called it can't call it that
but ahey do-assembled, it would break
up or they would present something which
would look like they were sustaining the
Government, but | was doomed to disap-
pointment
l defy any man, l care not how artful
he may be, to take the platform of the
convention at Chicago and find any thing
in it but opposition to the Government
{ Apr lause. The second resolution reads
as follows
g That this Convention does explicitly de-
clare, as the sense of the American people,
that after four years of failure to restore the
Union by the experiments of war, during
which, under the pretence of military neces-
sity, or war power higher than the Constitu-
ton, the Constitution itself has been disre-
garded in every part, and public liberty and
private right alike trodden down, and the
material prosperity of the country essentially
impaired, justice, humanity, liberty and the
public welfare demand that immediate efforts
be made for cessation of hostilities, with a
view to an ultimate Convention of the States,
or other peaceabe means, to the end that, at
the earliest practicable moment, peace may
be restored on the basis of the Federal Union
of the States"
IS THE WAR FAILURE?
Now | want you to give me your atten-
tiou while | examine this platform and
see what it means The first proposition
is, that after having prosecuted the war
for four years, for the purpose of putting
down this rebellion and restoring the Con
stitution, it has proved failure. What
are the facts? Has this war proved a
failure? Nearly four years ago our ar
mics were first put in the field When
they were ready, what did we find? We
found the Southern Confedcracy, as it is
called. standing in opposition 10 this Gov
ernment with an army of over O0OOO
men. y larger army than was ever thought
of being organized in this country. How
far South could you travel then? Not
further than Cairo. They held the Ten
nessee river, they held the Cumberland
river, and nearly the whoe of the soil of
Virginia, nearly up to the very gates of
Washington City, and every part of the
Southern States in defiance Of the Govern
ment They had the Mississippi river, and
you could not pass down it as a citizen
You could not pass up the Tennesse or
the Cumberland without being shot. The
rebel flag foated all the way down the
Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio
1t foated along the banks Of the Ohio, and
upon the soil of Virginia almost within
the sight of the Capitol Their cannon
river, and upon the seaboard clear down
by pirates upon the sea.
How is it now? Yet the war is fail
ure Let US examine and sec how the
country stands now in contrast to its po-
sition at that time Instead of the rebel
flag floating as it did thea, you see that
proud old banner streaming out proudly
to the breeze, inviting al citizens to come
and repose under its folds We found the
Tennessee commanded by Fort Henry.
Now it is swept away No longer does
there stand there a fort occupied by rebel
officers and men. Fort Donrelson which
stood on the Cumberland defying all river
craft and the land forces, is now occupied
by the Federal Government, and the star
spangled banner now floats over it. On
the Mississippi river our victorious army
and navy have travelled and now hold it
through its entire length. Only last fall
they held Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia
and nearly the whole of Virginia Have
the soldiers and all of US worked in vain :?
Is it not true that Sherman's army has
travelled over two hundred miles, driving
the rebel horde before him like so many
cattle and strewing their bones along the
whole line; And is the war failure
Has not Grant driven Lee from the banks
of the Rapidan Does he not seek shell
ter under the Notifications around Rich
mond outside of whose gates jeff Davis
dare not 90 Did not Atlanta, the heart
of the so-called Confederacy, iall by the
prowess of the American army?
Then when they declare that the war is
failure, | ask you if it is not false on its
vervf face. | want TO know how many
men there are here-old men who have
sons sleeping in Southern soil, or who
have brothers sleeping the sleep of death
beneath the sod of the South How many
women who have lost their loved ones,
who have passed the bourne whence no
traveller returns, because they followed
the rebels to their Southern homes, and
fou -ht them there, to restore peace to this
happy land, in obedience to the calls of
their country, and their conscience, and
because they be ieved it TO be their duty
as American citizens, are willing to admit
that this war has been failure?
TIE ALLEGED ASSUMPTION OF POWER.
Let us look at the balance of the resolu-
ton The next proposition Is that under
the pretence of military necessity, OF
war power higher than the Constitution,
that instrument itself has been disregard
ed in every part Let US see who that
applies TO- 1t cannot Apply TO the Gov
ora~o,r oc ,ha Irritn1 States Has not