The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-10-27
The Georgia Peace. Platform.

The Macon Confederate Union news
paper has an official account Of the reply
of Governor Brown, Of Georgia, to an
inquiry concerning the peace negotia.
tions between him and General Sherman.
Governor Browns reply is bng, but its
substance is small. 1t is merely State
soyercig ignty. If the United States want
peace, says the Governor, let them con
tess that they are not the United States,
and they can have it, Let them confess
that their Government is destroyed, and
that the Union is foolish chimera-let
them agree that every State may do ex.
actly as it chooses-that the Constitution
is compact which any one of the parties
may break at will-that the Union is a
partnership at the pleasure Of the part
ners in word, that Washington, Ham
ilton, and Madison knew nothing of the
Constitution, but that Mr.. John G. Cal
houn was its only true e.pounder-let
the United States merely do this, let Mr..
Lincoln proclaim an, armstice, aud then
let every sovereign State decide for her.
self whether she will join the old or tho
new League, and We can have peace at
once.
Governor Brown adheres to the Chi
cago platform, and to the views of Mr..
Pendleton, the Chicago candidate. These
are precisely the political opinions of
Calhoun, of Jefferson Davis, and Of Geo.
IL. Pend!eton. "Just give it all up"
says Governor B 'just agree that you
are all in the wong, and we all in the
right; Just confess that the war is q
a crime, as friend Pendleton calls it, and
there We are"
Whoever votes for Mr. Pendletou
votes for the views of Governor Brown.
If his vote be honest, he can rot regard
the war as any thing but a uonstrous
wrong against the rights of the States.
If Mr.. Pen epdeton's theory of our Govern.
ment be correct, that it is a mere league
or confederation of sovereign powers,
then the war, waged upon the ground
that the United States are nation and
their Government a Government, is totally
unjustiiablc. 1t comes TO that at last.
10 negotiate, to compromise, is to sur
render the national principle, and to con.
cede that the authority Of the United
States is name and the American flag,
foolish rag. That is what Jefferson
Davis and Judah Benjamin declare. -
That is what Horatio Seymour aud his
Chicago Convention assert ; and to bring
it to test before the American people
that Convention declares the war a fail
ure, and invites US to sc1uit Jefferson
Davis by voting for General Mac e.dle
ton.-Harper's Weekly.
WHAT DANIEL WEBSTER DID SAY,
As the copperhead calumny on Web
sters sentiments has been exposed and
exploded, it may be we'll to recall wha,
Daniel Webster did say in his speech a,
Buffalo, May 22d, 1851, ono of the las,
speeches he ever made:
"lf the South want any concession
from me, they won't get i.-not a hairs
breadth of it. l never would
consent that there should be one foot o,
slave territory beyond what the old thir.
| teen States had at the formation of the
| Union. Never, never! The man can
show his face to me, and prove that
ever departed from that doctrine. He
would sneak away, or sink away, or hire
mercenary Heep, that he might say
what an apostate from liberty DAME
Webster has become. He knows himself
to be hypocrte aud a falsi6er. ."-Bos.
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