The New York herald., 1864-10-27

OF the Rebel Armies.
The Chicago platform denounces this war for
the Union as 80 failure" and demands that
immediate efforts be made for cessation OF
bostlities." In this libel upon our gallant and
victorious soldiers and sailors, In this scanda-
lous peace offering Of peace-at-any price, the
leaders Of the rebellion recognize "a ray OF
light" They have accordingly become, ai-
though in "the last ditch" more insolent and
defiant than ever before. They avail them
selves Of every occasion to tell us of the loyal
States that they will have no peace which
does not recognize Southern confederacy; no
armistice which does not concede the equality
of the spurious government at Richmond with
the national government at Washington; no
convention of all the States which does not
involve the complete dissolution Of the Union;
they will, In q word, have nothing but South
ern independence or Southern subjugation
The subjugation Of the rebel armies thus
becomes the first essential to peace. We have
no alternative. Our only peacemakers are
Lieutenant General Grant and his able subor-
dinate major generals and tho armies OF the
Union, cooperating with Admirals Farragut,
Porter and the navy. We are satisfied, too,
with the progress Of their negotiations, and We
are sure that they will result in solid and
enduring peace. This, then, is the ground
work, the foundation Of the HERALD Presden-
| tial platform--tbe demolition, dispersion, dis
| solution, and absolute subjugation Of the
armed forces and war leaders of the so-called
| Confederate States" They will have it So
We must put them down or they will put us
down. we must make good the great and
| glorious fabric Of the American Union, or they
will destroy it, Short Of Southern confede-
racy, there Is nothing in the future for JET.
Davis and bis associate rulers but an Infamous
| death or an ignominious exile OF course,
then, they will fight to the last and we can
have no peace, If we would maintain the Union,
except in their overthrow and expulsion from
| the country.
| The organization Of their mock confederacy
was the work Of a reckless conspiracy, in
which fraud, robbery. terrorism and the most
outrageous asurpations were the means en-
ployed. Excepting South Carolina, every
State involved in this rebellion was thus drag
| ged into it against the wishes of majority of
its people. Virginia, for instance upon the
direct question of the Union or Southern con-
federacy. elected in February, 1861, a State
convention by an overwhelming popular ma
jority, and by corresponding majority in the
convention, in favor OF the Union; and yet
that Convention was dragooned by secession
mob, and by the bombardment of Fort Sumter,
into the service Of South Carolina, and, as her
drudge and packhorse, to bear the. heaviest
burdens Of this war. Thus, too, were all the
unguarded border slave States coerced and be-
| trayed. The oonspirators who did this work
still hold the whip hand over the Southern peo-
| Pile thus entangled in this suicidal revolt. Let
| them be relieved Of their despotic rulers, and
| we shall have no difficulty in restoring the
| Union General Grant, therefore, heads our
peace commissioners In this business.
That great bag of wind, Yallandigham, the
Hon. Ben. Wood and all the noisy copper
beads Of the North, have much to say OF this
Lincoln despotsm; but it is a despotism over
flowing with milk and boney-it is Paradise
Lost to the Southern people, compared with
the savage, remorseless and frigbtful despot-
ism Of JEFF, Davis. A prominent South Caro-
| linian, the Hon. Mr.. Boyce, before his own peo-
| Pile, has recently sketched it, and a more re-
| voting picture Of military reign Of terror
and absolute despotism has not been exhibited
since the days Of Draco among any intelligent
people under the sun. Tie legitimate and
| absolute autocrat Of all the Russias, in at
| tempting such despotic powers as those exer-
| csed by JEFF. Davis, would be speedily hurled
| from bis throne. Nor can Mr.. Boyce promise
| anything better than all absolute monarchy or
military despotism with the success Of Davis.
The necessities OF his position, if successful in
this war, will make him just such another dis
penser Of Souttern rights as the late DR..
Francis, that terrible tyrant of Paraguay.
We contend, therefore, that even for the
salvation and liberation OF tie Southern
people, groaning under the horrible despotism
| Of JEFF Davis, the Union baycnet is our
| only peacenlaker There is no other. This is our
position; this is the verdict Of the people in our
late September and October State elections;
and this is the main test, the great issue upon
which the Presidential election will be deter.
mined. The intelligent, experienced and
sagacious people Of the loyal States are not to
be deluded by false issues, side issues or dead
issues. Democratic principles are all claptrap.
| Republican principles are as weak IS moon
shine if they stand in the way OF this first great
necessity to the life Of the republic-the sup
preston OF the rebellion
Hore, then, the question resurs, how stands
President Lincoln, bow stands General McClel-
Ian, upon this vital preposition' We know the
position Of Mr.. Lincoln. He is prosecuting the
war and is pledged to fight it out. So far,
therefore, we are answered in his behalf But
what says McClellan' He says "the Union at
all hazards" Good. But what else does he
say He says in his letter Of acceptance to the
Chicago committee, 80 soon as It is clear or
even probable that our present adversaries