Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-09-21

forces are no longer effective, or even
available. By such proceeding we shall
have agreed with the enemy and gwen
him the victory. But III that agreement
the constitution and the Union will have
persisted, because when it shall have once
been proved that minority can by force
or circumvention defeat the full accession
of constitutionally chosen President, no
President thereafter, though elected by
ever so large a majority, can hope to exer,.
else the executive powers unopposed-
throughout the whole country. One OF
two things must follow the fatal error
Either a contest between your newly
elected compromise President, and the
same usnrpcr, in which the usurper must
prevail, or else combination between
them through which the 'surper or his
successor, subverting your constitution and
substituting his own, will become Fresi-
dent, King or Emperor Of the United States
without foreign. aid, if he can, with foreign
Intervention, if necessary. Crhat's SOY
To be sure it is so, nothing is more certain
than that either the United States and
+! their constitutional President, or the So
called Confederate States and their usurp
ing, President, must rule within the limits
OF this republic l therefore regard the
pending Presidential election as involving:
| the question whether hereafter we shall
have a constitution and country left u.s.
j How shall we vote, then, to save the couu-
try from this fearful danger2 (Vote Lin
coin in again) You have hit it exactly,
j my friend. We must cote Lincoln in
; again, and fight him IN at the same time.
II we do this the rebellion will perish, and
leave no root. Ii we do otherwise, we
have only the alternatives of acquiescence
in perpetual usurpa,ion, or Of entering
an endless succession OF civil and social
wars.
WHAT SEWARD THINKS OF THE CHICAGO CON-
vENItoN.
To me, therefore, the Democracy at
Richmond and the Democracy at Chicago,
like Caesar and Pompey, seem to retain all
their original family resemblance. They
are very much alike-especialiy Pompey.
: Bnt it is not in mere externals that their
similarity lies. They talk very much
alike, as | have shown you. When you
. consider that among the Democrats at Chi
; cage, the Indiana Democrats were present,
who have imported arms to resist the ma
tional laws, and that the Democrats there
assembled agreed to justify that proceed
ing, think you will agree with me that
the Richmond Democrats and the Chicago
DEMOCRATS have lately come to act very
| mach alike. l shall now 90 further and
| prove to you that they not only have a
common way of defending it, but they
have even adopted that publicly in con-
cert with each other. You know that
when the Chicago Convention was ap-
preaching in July last, George Sanders,
Clement q. Clay, and j. P. Holcombe ap-
peared at the Clifton House, on the Cana
da bank Of the Niagara river, fully in
vested with the confidence and acquainted
with the purpose of jefferson Davis and
his Cenfederates at Richmond. You know
also shat Chicago Democrats resortcd there
in considerable numbers to confer with
these emissaries of Jefferson Davis. Here
is thesfruit of that confer encc, and no one
can deny the authenticity Of my evidence.
is extracted from the London Times,
the common organ of all the enemies of
the United States. The New York CORES
pondent of The London Times writing
from Niagara Falls under date of August
9th, says:
Clifton House has become centre of
negotiations between the Northern friends
OF peace and Southern agents, which pro-
pose a withdrawal of differences from the
arbitrament of the sword. The cores
pondent then goes on TO explain that an
effort is to be made to nominate candi-
date for the, Presidency on the platform OF
an armistice and Convention of States,
and to thwart by all possible means the
efforts Of Mr.. Lincoln for reelection.
Mark now, that on the 9th of August,
1864, Northern Democrats and Richmond
agents agree upon three things to be done
at Chicago, namely-First, withdrawal
of the differences between the govern.
ment and the insurgents from the arbitra
ment Of the sword second, a nomination
for President of the United, States on 9
platform of an armstice and ultimately g
Convention ofthe States; third, to thwart by
all possible means the reelection Of Abra
ham Lincoln. Such conference, held ir
neutral country, between professedly
loyal citizens of tho Unired States and the
agents of tie Richmond traitors in arms
has very suspicious look, But let tha
pass. Political elections must be free, ant
therefore they justly excuse many extrav
agencies.
HOW THE WAR WILL CEASE.
When the insurgents shall have disband
ed their armies and laid down their arm,
the war will instantly cease, and all thu
war measures then existing, including thos
which affect slavery, will cease also, ant
all the moral, economical and politica
. questions, as well as questions affectin!
slavery as others which shall be existing he
tween individuals and States and the fedcr