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

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 The Chicago Platform.
 MR. EDroz,-ls it conceivable that the people of the loyal States of this Union, are so degraded in the scale of intelligence. as to be satisfied with the compound of falsehood. plat itudes and deception which hes been put forth by the Chicago Convention as basis of politi- l cal actionfora great Nation, in this the greatest crisis of it's historyi
 If, after struggle of nearly four years, made by as loyal people as ever lived, to maintain ss bsni6cent government as man ever enjoy. ed-a great party, acting in a national capacity. has nothing to offer to such people, but to advise them to sink entirely out of view all the blood and treasure and every effort they have made for the maintenance of this government; have no word of rebuke for the enormous crime which the rebels have perpetrated, and ars willing to prostrate themselves before these rebels, and ask them to do just what they re- fused to do in the commencement, viz. to call Convention of all the States to see if war could not be avoided if, repeat, this great Convention had nothing higher and more d'gnited to offer to great people struggling for its very existence than these things, then indeed it must have put low estimate upon the intelligence of the norheru people If the people of these States are SO dsmented as to be satisfied with such stuff as basis of politi. cal acton, then are they unworthy of tue high privilege of self government. They are mot 50 demented. There are thousands and tens of thousands of them who, though they may not be able to control convention or pull the political wires successfully as the profaue Dean Richmond, or the arrogant and insolent wv. Eaton, are nevertheless their superiors in in, telligence and all manly virtues, who will not he satisfied with such stuff as is contained in the 4th Resolution of the Chicago Convention. It is therein resolved "that the aim and object of the democratic party is to preserve the Federal Union, and the rights of the States, unimpaired," &c.,, which is absolutely false SO fer as that portion of the democracy is concern ed which represents the Chicago Conventions; for it is notorious that Fernando Wood declared that he was only restrained from rendering aid to the rebels in the way of arms, Sc. by the Metropolitan Police of New York, over which fortunately he had no control, and that Wm. w. Eaton declared that soldiers attempting to pass through Connecticut on their way to the defence of the Nations Capital would have to pass over the dead bodies of tho Connecticut democracy, or words equivalent to that. 2, ',
 Is this the democracy that "aims only at the preservation of the Union," &c., when it is notorious that many of them would have joined the rebels in their attempt to operthrow the Union, if they had not been terrified by the wonderful uprising of the people after the rebel attack on Fort Sumter? Has the democracy which was headed by Horatio Seymour, who claimed as his # tends the mob in the city of New York that attempted to defy the authori- ties of that city-that threatened to defeat the draft, and to thwart the Government in its efforts to raise soldiers for the defence of the Union,so pooran opiuion of tdeir fellow citizens as to presume that they have forgotten these and other kindred acts in aid of the rebellion The gross attempt of this portion of the de- mocracy to ignore the facts of history, and blind the eyes of the nation to all their shame less acts of aid and comfort to the enem5. tor ,ohona they have never y, had d word of 7ebuke. are too glarng to deceive an intelligent people.
 If Mcclellan were thousand tanes more worthy than he is of the exalted station which these lying sympathisers with treason would bestow upon him, multitades os intelligent democrats would still refuse to vote for hsm, placed upon platform made up sitb 50 little regard to the facts of history. These facts give the lie to much more OF this baseless platform, a platform of curses for all who really hare offered their lives and fortunes in defence of the Union.