Litchfield enquirer., 1864-08-25
The Chicag0 Convention,

els, axd Rebel Sympathisers, are all agog and agape this week waiting for the meeting of their " kindred spirits" on Monday next, at Chicago. There appears to- be an oppressive feeling of doubt among the harmonious opposi- tionists as to what is best to do, and what is go- ing to be done, which we hope will be relieved after Monday. Whether their Convention will declare for peace or war, whether it will nom- mate War man on a peace platform, or Peace man on Q war platform, or George B. Napoleon as very little of both, seems to be the question that agitates at this moment the "demosratic" mind. 1'
 We'll, we hope they may es1A1d relief and com fort from Cbicassssss;o: though how the incongru 9rss 9rss~s Elements that are there to assemble arc i. going to mingle, we confess is beyond our ken to foretell. This much, however, we are per. : mitted to learn from the past, that the hunger for office will prove in the end superior to ali , differences of opinion, and sort of semi -ad- hesiveness will be given to the product of the seething cauldron.
 violent and persistent abuse of the present Administration, will be the principal plank of
 the Chicago platform and the watchword of the coming campaign. Nothing that President
 Lincoln, or his advisers, or our armies or
 their commanders have done, (excepting, per- haps, the "Little Unready," who did so littIe J will suit these gentlemen, more than they have
 suited their Master in Richmond.- Nothing
 can be done in the future, that will suit these same apostles of peace and harmony, unless their own peculiar stripe shall occupy the high
 places in the synagogue. The States whose
 secession from the General Government was
 winked at by Buchanan, one of the old light
 copperheads, will undoubtedly be restored to
 their former dignity on the accession of new dispensation of the same sort of blessing
 Another plank of the Chicago platform will
 be, undoubtedly, an exposition of the McClal-
 Ian plan of |" How not to do it 2" We shall
 thus all be able to know how this war is to be
 brought to an end, and the rebellion put down
 and the "wayward sisters" brought back, by
 letting them peacefully alone, or by treading
 so lightly over the ashes that have been left of
 them by the '1Linooln Government" that they
 shall immediately rise up and call us (demo-
 crats) blessed. The policy of hurting rebels
 will doubtless be distinctly disavowed, and
 we shall have pathetic appeal to give them
 instead, democratic moral Q suasion.-
 This will undoubtedly be the great sticklsr
 for the Convention j. for if policy of hurting
 the rebel by bullets is adopted, several friends
 of the Convention will be hurt throu ghout the
 country.
 Then will ceme up the great question of Who shall be the candidate! Shall it be "Lit- tie Mac" the great soldier, or Frank Pierce
 the great statesman, or H. Seymour the great politician, or Fillmore the great fossil, or Val the great martyr? Or shall it be somebody whom nobody knows now, or shall know here after. but whom every democrat shall love with an intense love from his nomination to
 his defeat in November? Who will best unite all the discordant clements, not only assembled f at Chicago, but scattered all over every vil- Il lage and town throughout the Union? We'll, - we will all wait as patiently as we can. with , all good democrats, coppsrheads, rebels and s sccessionists, north and south. to see what is 1T done, and we shall chro aicle it's doings to an 9 impatient..werld. .. S .