New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-14
TUR CHICAGO CONVENTION.
Appeal Of the National Union Committee
10 the People Of thc United States.
HEADQUARTERS NAnoSAL UNION CoMMITrEE !

and posts which IL treacherously seized nave Ooci
occupied and held by the soldiers Of the Republic
sts foreign allies have ben detached from its sup
port, and its hostile arm, paralyzed by exhaustion
and discouraged by defeat, is upheld solely by the
hope of political victories to be achieved BY Its
allies in the Presidential election OF November
next.
If the People in that election sustain the Govern
ment if they reasser it's just authority and reairn
their purpose TO maintain il by war so long as wal
essails it, the Rebellion will speedily end. If they
salter in this determination or leave any room for
doubt on this vital point the Rebels viii take fresh
courage and prolong the contest Every utterance
of their organs and their agents airns and confirms
This position. Every REBEL arms and every Rebel
in offce-every Rebel organ in the Rebel States or
In foreign l6nds-every hater of Democratic Free
dom and the Rights Of man, longs and labors for
fhe overthrow of the administration and the expul-
sion Of Abraham Lincoln from the Presidential
shair
In The Northern and Western States this hostility
has been embodied and organized in the acts and
declarations of the Chicago Convention. That Con-
vontion gives silent approval Of the rebellion It.
self and an open condemnation Of the war waged
for its suppression. Without word Of censure for
The oonspirators who plotted the nations death, it
brands with unsparing denuncaion the patriots
aud heroes who defend its life. While il passes in
ritter silence the gigantic usupatons Of Jefferson
Davis and his confederate traitors-while il over
1ooks entirely, and thus, by just and necessary
Inference, approves their abrogation of political
rights and personal liberties over all that portion of
the United States in which they have been able
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out its wrath, without stint OF measure, upon every
oct by which the constitutional President Of the
United States has sought TO defend and protect the
1ife and liberties of the nation, whose executive
power is placed in his hands.
That Convention had no words of eIultation for
our Victories no thanks and honors for the soldiers
end sailors who have shed their blood 10 achieve
them. While it denounces our Government for
neglect of duty toward our "fellow-citizens, who
ARE now, and long have been, prisoners Of war in
suffering condition" it has not even a syllable of
censure for those Rebel authorities who with more
chan savage cruelty and in utter disregard Of every
dictate of humanity as well as Of every usage of
civilized warfare, have deliberately and with sys
Eematc purpose inflicted upon those prisoners all
Che tortures of exposure, of neglect and starvation
brutal guards to whose grim custody they have been
consigned. And, on the very eve Of the most glori-
GUS victories that have ever crowned our arms-af-
Ger three years of bloody, costly and successful
war when three-fourths of the territory originally
held by the Rebels has passed into our hands, at
the very moment when the Rebellion itself is tot
ering to its fall and the flag of our country is rap
idly advancing to its old supremacy, the party rep
resented at Chicago demands that 4" 'mmedlate
Efforts be made for a cessation Of host'hties'-a
step which would instantly arrest our conquering
srnies and snatch from them the glcTies Of final
triumph repeal the blockade, and throw the whole
Rebel frontier open to the supplies they so sorely
need, secure the recognition Of foreign powers, and
either accomplish their independence or give them
the ability 10 fight for it four years longer.
We appeal TO the people of the United States
Towers of the Union and friends of Freedom-against
the consummation Of the foul crime against both
which the acts and declarations of the Chicago Con
venton involve. We invoke them not 10 sanction
these principles and sentiments by elecng the can
didates put forward to represent them. Weimplore
them as they love their country, as they seek the
renewed integrity of its territory as they desire
the peaceful protection of its flag and the blessings
of It's free institutions and its equal laws for them
selves and their posterity, not to arrest the blow
which is just ready to descend upon the Rebellion
now lettering TO its fall; not to give the Rebels
time to renew their strength for fresh conflicts not
20 aid those who would aid them in oyerthrowiug
our Government, in destroying our Union, in plung-
ing into chaos of anarchy the great communities of
which the Constitution makes one great and glori-
Gus Nation, and in thus eytinguishiDg, finally and
forever, the hopes of all who have faith in Freedom
and the Rights of Man.
We call upon the People TO bear in mind that, ly
whatever sophistnes they may cloak their purposes,
the Chicago Convention neither condemns the ac-
zion of the Richmond Rebels, nor proposes TO expel
thcm against their WILL by any exercise Of force,
from the seats of power they have usuIped. In all
essential respects the action that Convention
took accords with the results the Rebels seek Both
desire a cessation of hostilities. Both denounoe,
with unsparing bitterness the Government of the
United States, and both alike seek its overthrow.
Both demand that the at; mp; to conquer armed
Rebellion by force Of aTlHs shall be abandoned.
And both demand that when the Government OF
the United Shall have passed into the hands of men
opposed TO an armed defense Of t.e Government
against rebellion, the war shall end by peaceful
conference of these allied powers. What more
than this could the Rebels ask need for the con-
animation Of all their plans We call upon the
People to bear in mind that, if they elect the cam
didates of the Chicago Convention, they arrest the
Government in the execution Of its plans and pur-
poses on the very eve Of their fulfllment and one
third of a year before any new administration can
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