Litchfield enquirer., 1864-09-08
The Chicago Convention.

The Chicago Convention.
 The Copperhead Convention have done heirtwork, and, as the New York Word says, "have done it well.' We couldn't have ask apprehended that they might nominate can- didates for the Presidency and Vice Presidep- cy, whose record was not clear and distinct, and whose capacity or incapacity could not be clearly appreciated by the people, and that they might erect a platform for their Candid ates to stand upon which might not be plainly understood and interpreted. Fortunately, they have done neither. They have selected candidates for the highest offices in the gift of the people, certainly we'll known and fully ap- preciated, and they have presented platform, wrapped in hypocrisy and deceit indeed, but whose leading principle may be read and known of all men.
 We have given upon another page this plat form, in contrast with that of the UNION Cow vENT1oN, so that both may be fairly scanned and interpreted by all who can read and un- derstand the English language. We have no need to go further than to ask careful re- perusal o: the one, and perusal of tho oth- CT, to convince any candid man of the truth of the statement we are about to make :-that the copperhead platform is infamously base, cowARDLY and TREASONABLE.
 It complains that the Administration have been guilty of disregar,ling the Constitution, of treading down public liberty and private rights, of subverting civil law, of suppressing freedom of speech aud of the press, of disre- garding " State rights," and of everything that the Government has done to put down this gigantic and wicked rebellion but it has not 8 single word of disfavor to find with those that inaugurated the civil war, and who are now opposing with arms in their hands, the civil and legitimate authority of the Gov ernment. This is its baseness
 Itdemands in the name of "Justice, hu. manity, liberty and the public welfare" that immediate efforts be made for the cessation cf Possibilities, with the view of an ultimate Convention of the States, or other peaceable means, to the end that peace may be restored on the basis of the federal union of the States;" when it knows that Jeff. Davis and his crsw laugh to scorn any proposition or " Con. ventlon" to restore the "federal union of the States Y and will recognize only such terms as the cannon and bayonet offer them. This Is the platforms co,oardice.
 Finally, it resolves to "resist with all the means and power under it's control" the le gitimate military power of the Government in suppressing incipient treason in States still claimed by the Confectionery" and in secur. ing the right of suffrage to Union citizens, un. awed by rebel bludgeons or rebel bullets. This is the platforms trsason
 Upon this platform, the Convention placed naturally and properly GEO. B. MCCLELLAN and GEO. H. PENDLEroN as Candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. The one is a soldier" who we'll nigh ruined one of the finest Union armies by his "strategy." and whose every campaign ended in defeat and disaster to the Union cause and the other is Statesman" one of the ever infamous five. who steadily voted against every appropriation to carry on the war and furnish men and means to enable the Government to to put down the rebellion.
 From the beginning to the end from Gov. ernor Seymours labored and fulsome speech of giittering hypocrisy to the eonsnu nation of the platform from the operation of "the previous question" stiaing debate on the res olutions and making the boasted freedom of speech" farce and sheer, to the infamous utterancss of Long, and Harris, and vallan. digham; from the nomination of Met Clellsn to the nomination of Pendleton, the proceed ings Of the Convention were all of piece. s'eeped in malice. iu bigotry. in partizan hate,
 ," open treason, and We have no fears what seal the AMERICAN PEor1E will put upon them