Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-10-13
po,,,ioai Notes.

.oimated the managers OF the OhIVaso
Convention, what was rejected as well
"a what was adopted IN The cohstruc-
zion of their platform should be consid-
sred Some interesting revelations on
this point have been made Ex-ooV'
HINT Of New York, 1t is known, intro
auced in omen Convention Il resolution
Utbat in the future as in the past we
will adhere with unwayering fidelity 10
the Union and Constitution "''a "S@l ."
maintaining ne national W"'ty,' NC ms
resolution was referred 20 the platform
Oommlttee, the words printed in italics
xyere. stricken out by the Committee
aud the balance adopted by them and
the Convention, as the first plank OF the
pIatform What was the objection TO
the words end irsSt on maintaining me
,sational unity Why were they stricken
out n
Again, it has been question oil very
great Importance, what the chicago
Convention democrats proposed to
do, in case their soft persuasions and
.sarts of craftsmanship should fail TO
induce the rebels to lay down their arms
and come back into the Union would
they then consent to the dissolution OF
the Union by letting the rebels go, or
would they renew the war and insist
on maintaining the national unity"
Was the cessation OF hostilities" TO be
final in any eyent7 On this point we
are enlightened by indisputable authorl-
ty that of a prominent member OF the
platform Committee Vallandigham him.
self He said lin his speech at sgd
ney, Ohio,) that the proposition Ior
renewal OF the war, in case negotiations
should fail, was brought before the Com
mittee on resolutions and unanimously re-
;scted He further said that the " arts
of craftsmanship" should be at once re-
sorted TO-, whether our adversar'es
were ready to return to the Union or
not. and that proposition before the
committee not to "exhaust these arts OF
craftsmanship" until the rebels (they
were not called rebels in the Convention,
however, were ready TO return to the
Union. received but three votes in the
Convention. In short the committee
declared for peace and surrender, imme'
diate unconditional and absolute, and
50 did the convention
The resolution above referred to, de-
elares that In the future as in the past
we lthe Democracy will adhere TO the
Union" &c. That must have been IN
tended as a pleasantry-wh Artemu'
Ward would call "goak.' Just how
JEFF. Davis and all his democratic breth
rem of the South have adhered TO I'M
union in the past" Is matter of history
30 with James Buchanan, when durin!
his administration the southern demo
cratic traitors inaugurated the presen
war for the destruction Of the Union
and Fernando Wood, who publicly eS
pressed his grief at the detention Mort
of arms intended for the Southern DEN
ocratic rebels and Yallandigham, an
voorhees, and all that tribe. Pendleto
ia one of the standard bearers OF the d.
mocracy, chosen by the same conventio
solution, and this is the way he "adhe
ed to the Union in the past" In
speech in the House of Representative
delivered January Is, 1861, he made tn
most tender and "gushing decla
ton -
eff these Southern States cannot
conciliated, and if you, gentlemen, ca
not find it in your hearts to grant the
demands-if they must leave the fami
mansion, L wopld sgnalise their departure
" TOKENS OF LOVE. I,cona bid them ia
meR SO tendelg that they soou9d be fore'
touched By the recollection Of 1t" H
In the future, then, the democra
q. will adhere to the Union I" as IN the pss
undoubtedly.
That stanCh, patriotic democr
- Daniel S. Dickinson, seems to have
lively appreciation of the difficulty
McClellan's position. A letter from h
was read to all immense Union meeti
in Pittsburg, on Thurday of last we,
which closed as follow
4 Believing General Mcclellan entitl
to fair treatment, | am quite inclined
censure those who are proposing to
tort his comedy proportions by placi
one foot in the sliding slippery SURF,
der structure of Chicago, and the OIL
on vigorous prosecution of patrio
war on conservative principles" 1t
Quires too much tension of muscle, a
is entirely unjustifed at the prest
price of ready clothing. The c
ossus of Rhodes though made of br,
nearly equal to that of Chicago, fell
attempting to stand astride much n
rover gulf than separates these poir
ana as the General is well read in h
tory as well as classic fable, he will hs
no apology for attempting an exploit
such unusual daring. Hoping for
success of the Union cause, and bell
ing that our good land is to be reset
from the grasp of che despoiler,
sincerely yours"
Gov. Morton of Indiana, explained
other day about the freed negroes, G.
n N yuh hoo.