New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-01

the RebelS nave uoho oiy "ioh6' Va '""' WV
Government in resisting their efforts has done
any thing right.
The Democratic Platform demands wholly
and unouslifcdly that tho war shall, on the
part of the Uuicn, DO stopped. Suppose this
we've done tomorrow. President Lincoln sends
m envoy 20 jeff. Davis, saying, "Let US have
/ cessation of hostilities." Certainly" re-
spcnds jeff. "withd:::.,~r yorr fcrces from the
Conrederucy, raise your blockade, and agree
TO an srmistico." (The Rebels have already
indicated that they will have 10 Oher.) Sup
poas this were conceded: must not every Eu'
ope an Government at once recognize the Com
federacy' On what ground could any refuse
We should have given up tho contest, and re-
tired baiIled and defeated. Europe is famish-
inr for Cotton and Naval Stores, which the
Rebels have to spare; they are in desperate
want OF q thousand things whereof Europe has
surplus. They would Of course trade only
with their friends. Who doe, not SEQ that this
is Dsunion, complete and inali Having
tamely surrendered NewOrleans, Newborn.
Port Royal, Vicksburg. Memphis Nashville
Knoxville, Little Rock, and Fortress MONROE
all the fruits Of our long and arduous struggle
who imagines what Confederate would fear,
that we should ever plunge afresh into war, and
try TO take them over again
II is fraud, then-an impudent. wicked fraud
for this Platform to talk after this. of peace "on
the basis of the Federal Union" We have war
only because certain States have repndiated and
now defy that Union. That Union il the bone OF
contention--there is mono other. How. then,
having deereed cessation Of hostilites, ore
you afterward to have the Union' You recoS-
nize tho traitorous aristocracy who claim to
have seeded as composing their respective
States: We deny it, and, counting tho whole
people, insisted that there is Union majority
in every State. On what Democratic principle
can you constrain Rebel States to return 10 the
Unioni
But ga Convention of the Statcs"-nay. "an
ultimate Convention Of all the States"-is in
your programme. But tho Rebel States had hs'T
Convention at Montgomery nearly four years
ago. and framed there Constitution wherewth
they proies, to be perfectly contented. That
Constitution ignores ours. supersedeS IL, and rem
ders your Convention simple nullity. Stop the
War now, and they will laugh your " ultimate
Convention to scorn. They will tell yon that
heg have frst-rato Constitution, formed At
Montgomery, ard that if you want union with
them, you must adopt that. and apply to be adj
mitted into their Conlcderacy. Having admitted
that tho aristocracy are the States wherein they
live, having stopped the War how do you Ca
poet to unite with them except by creeping in at
tho back door Of their C'niedcracyi That Is The
precise point to which yol arc now tondng.
Three and a-hslf ycan ago. before drop Of
blood had been shed. We Republicans proposed q
Convention, or rather adopted the proposition o
Kentucky, that cne be called. Had you Demo
Gratis then favored a Convention. we should long
since have held one. But you resisted il,
fought it, voted it down, inducing even Ken
lucky to join you in defeating it. And now,
after three years Of carnage and devastation,
You come round TO our position, and vaguely
recommend Convention. We stand by it, and
will help carry it; but that will not put down
the Rebellion. We must first have Peace, tlen
hold Convention.
All the rest Of this Platform is wind, signify
ing very little. IL amounts in substance tn
lust this: The Administration has no. SUTTON
dered the country 10 The traitors, North or South.
It has suppressed treason in loyal States, not
sternly nor very consistently; II has not allowed
those who defy the authority and tramplo on
the flag Of their Country, to have every thing
their own way. The Bramlettc-Gu,hrie party in
Kentucky thought this all right when II opera
ted in their favor; now that it no longer does,
they unite in denouncing it. We only wish
they had had Jackson in tho White House "
give them something real to complain Of.
Tho sympathy" rendered to the soldiers BY
this Platform ia wantOn insult. Every liue OF
it implies that their blood has boon fruitlessly
shed, snd that they might better have stad al
homo and let the Rebels have every thing their
own way. What real sympathy can there be
between those who regard the War for the Tn.
ion as unjust and ruinous, and those who have
laid their lives on tho altar OF their country's
salvation' What soldier can desire the sympa.
thy Of those who have no word Of reproof Cor
tho cruel villains who expose our prisoners IA
die in open lots, unshetered and but half fed,
but heap all thor "rcprobation" on the Gov.
eminent, which would protect and release them
L it couldf
Unionists Of all the States it is incumbent or
US to beat this Platform and its backors! Lot