The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-09-22
From the Cincinnati Gazette
THE SPIRIT OF THE CHICAGO CON.
VENTIOG.
The Real Platform Of the De-
..H InOcTaCy.

1t intimately concerns all who,
hardly satisfied with the manner in
which Mr.. Lincoln has conducted tho
war, are conjecturing whether Gen.
Mcclellan would not manage it better,
to understand precisely what spirit
animated the party that put Gen. Nc
Clellan in nomination. That which !
his advocates and hackers were, he is.
Platforms are and are intended to
be deceptive. it is to the unstudied ut
terances of the orators who caught
the common thought of the masses at
Chicago and put it into words which
evoked their stormiest applause, that
we must look for the real spirit and
purpose Of those who placed McC lell-
an and Pendleton in the field.
That spirit and purpose are of vital
Importance to the American people.
If they were for the subjugation of
rebels, then the question at the ap-
preaching Presidential election is on
y as to disputes about the best means
for carrying on the war, and crushing
the rebellion
If they werc for the cessation Of
hostilities against the rebels who have
made hundred thousand northern
homes desolate, and an effort at terms
ofcompromise, then the question is
War, to the end of permanent
Peace, based on tho sure foundation
of a Universal Freedom, or, Peace for
a season, on the basis of Slavery tri-
umphant, to the end of interminable
future dissensions, till at last we shall
be compelled, through much blood, to
90 back to our beginnings, and put
away the accursed thing forever from
our midst.
What spirit and purpose then real
ly ran through the popular speeches
of the men who nominated Mcclellan
and Pendleton and animated the vast
masses who checred these htterances
to the echo?
Let us look at them; / rely solely
on the reports of the acknowledged
Democratic organ of Chicago-only
supplementing them. in cases where
it suppressed the boldest passages,
iom the notes Of our photographers.
The Pennsylvanians were ultra Nc
Clellan men. They went to the Con-
) vcntion united for him, and claimed to
be peculiarly his representatives
Here is the way Hon. Geo. c. Sander
{ son, one of the Pennsylvania delegates
: talked:
Feow-Cfzcns: What say you Is it not time
that this Internal war should stop? Voices, eyes.
Has there not been property enough destroyed
Have we not all been bound hand and foot, to the
abolition cN, that is rolling over our necks like the
wheels of another luggernaut2 II is for You, fellow
citizens IL is for the white men 0fthe North, to say,
at the election in NovemberneXt, to Abraham LIN
a. coin and his combined mnions and satraps, "Thus
Tar hast thou gone, but no farther shalt thou go,
row, q candidate for the Presidency Ia voice. "lor
Gods sake give us man who has had nothing to do
wththe war''l-who will use his besteiiorts to bring
9 around apeace.
y There is nothing would rejoice us more than to
r. sec the stars and stripes, the glorious emblem OF
q Union, reestabsned all over this country, but
i ought to be done by concession and compromise,
J, Applause. veice-"That Is the doctrineNl Ii
4 must not be by further shedding ofblood 1t can
not be; "a yoce"t VIII 9Syer pSoer be done by
' tive; nothing but peHce-an honorable peace
# IprcdictednN public speech nearly four years
would be the death knell Orthe Union. have never
: changed my opinion from that day to this: This
: country never can he restOrod-I mean this Union
by force of arms This Union never was formed by
force of arms. II was formed by compromise and
!, concession. 1t was continued by compromise and
concession. ltmns be restored ever IT is restor'
. | cd, by compromise and concession Ia VOICE
= "'Thntis so" and applause
!; Hon. Jas. S. Rollins, of Mo-, anoth.
i. er Mcclellan man, followed this up:
r. As longas thiss war against Southern instltu-
!, tons; long as it Is war of conliscaon. andio
!, the elevation of the negro it must fail itit shoulo
- continue n thousand years. ] love our Southern
a friends they noble brave, and chlvalrous
people, checrs, although they are trying to breaE
" up the Government; and however much we may
hate them, we must remember that they are oui
countrymen, and cannot he subdued so long as We
,t insist iI on dcpryns them Of their rights.
Hiram Ketchum, Jr,, Of New York
+ a prominent Mcclellan leader, said:
n We want peace. We feel that this land has sus
hi tanned too much tesolaon we feel that too mucl
blood has been snt; feel that too much treasure
las been wasted on both sides Of the line for us t
a continue this struggle any longer we son nGnoraD non @
the South, 'Come back will restore to you ever!
IN constitutional privilege, every guarantee that Foucy
" er possessed your rights shall he no longer lnvad
81 ed; we will VINE out the emancipation proclana
st ton we will sweep away this contscation act, al
l. that weasll of yous to come back and live win u
the old terms. We arc bOll lllt llll N''hl WV
want to live together again. lApplMsc.J Now, gen
tlomen, have met few persons; hut not many, wh
,o say that that is too harda condition. l"No, no;
There are some who say we ought not to he SATISFIED
with that, and that we ought to 60 further and de
70 clare that we are in favor Of letting our Sduher
x brethren go' l. for one, am notm "vor oil tha'
c. tApplaust
u Hon. Mr.. Curtis, of New York
s, 81 thought any man who would continue
q: this war, worse than Satan himself:
'' I trust the day will never come when the scene
witnessed in the Commonwealth oil Kentucky VIII D
II, enacted on this soil But, II that day should come
before God and In the sight of Heaven, would IN
x. woke the aid of counter revolution. Loud cheers
Id people who submit to that degree oil Outrage an
H. TYRANNY which destroys the character Of their ber
IN ties nre not fitted to live and stand up men, bu
ms should lie down and die as slaves Cheers and erie
nm of "good."l In regard to this struggle, remcmbe
n. that peace can only be brought abont by supporting
v the nominee of the present Conventions lCheers
lie itel YOU that the South to-day willing to com
We bnok 10 their rights under the Constitution, If thel
w rights are guaranteed to thon beyond a peradven
n. ture. Cheers And any man, who, IN spite Of th
mute but eloquent appeals of those bravo mcnWhos
m heads now liem the cold sods of the Valley I
~ the immense buraen ofdcbt and taxation, will con
nd tinue in course ofnatona destruction and revenge
en- must be worse than .negro-yes, even than Satl
nj. himself Loud cheers'l
Hon. Mr.. Trainor, of Ohio, (tem
porary President of the State oonven
ton last year, said au
w Ifyuu wish for peace, great glorious peace, vot
w for the nominee Of the Democratic Convention.
bloody war has beenwaged, not for the liberty Of n
white man. but for eevating him to equality with IN
% negro. AT the FIST call 1000 were called. The
proved insufficient. Next 100000 more; and som
DO 1000 900 lives have been lost IN this war NOW Tn
ms President has called for 900 more. Shall he hav
nd themi mo- no, from the nudience.l The Demo