The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-09-03

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~ It may be that the dastardly and
traitorous scoundrels assembled at Chicago
in convention think that their resolutions
Of Tuesday viii be swallowed by the peo-
ple N . certain cure for the evils of civil
vaf. Men who are fools enough to be
traitors are not good judges Of the temper
Of the people any more than they are Of
honor, or duty, or patriotism.
Here we have a political convention, pro-
Tossing to act for Democratic party, as
sembled In the midst Of great rebellion
against the authority Of the Nation, and
for the express purpose Of destroying that
Union, set on foot under Democratic Ad-
ministration, and principally by men who,
at the time, were among the leaders Of that
party, adopting q series of resolutions
which do not contain one word Of censure
or condemnation of the treason or the re-
volt. Or that can b construed to condemn
either! The resolutions do condemn and
denounce the Administration. These foul
instruments Of the Slave Power know how
to express censure of what they hate. They
hate the Administration for devoting itself
to the effort to suppress the Rebellion, and
they denounce it for doing so. And they
denounce 1t most heartily for doing those
things which were most necessary to be
done, and for those acts particularly
which would not have been done but
for their own active efforts to give laid and
comfort" to the rebels!
All this can have but one significance.
The men who concocted that platform
made it what II is because they believe the
rebels are right. They made it to give
them "aid and comfort ITO assure them
that here in the North there is a party
which will assist them just as far as they
possibly can. The men who adopted it did
80 for the same purpose, and the men who
shall be guilty of voting for candidate
who consents to stand upon that platform,
will do so because they wish the rebels to
succeed in dividing the nation, or because
they are too blind to know what they are
doing.
The proposition of a cessation of hos
tilities with view to an ultimate conven-
ton of the States" means, not even posi-
Die /" reconstruction" or possible preserva-
ton of the Union, but absolute acknow-
Judgement Of the Confederacy and eternal
separation. To stop the war does all this
at once. To cease exerting the power ofthe
Union to maintain it, legitimate authority
IL to confess that its authority is abrogated
by the Rebellion, and that the Confederacy
IL . fact accomplished. To cease exerting
and asserting our authority is simply re-
it. Whenever we do that, the
" Confederacy" stands before the world .
nation.
The idea Of doing all this /" with view
to an ultimate convention Of the States"
suits none but traitors and can delude none
but idiots. The men who put that in knew
that such . convention would be forever
impossible the moment We cease to wage
war for the Union. Itwas put in ~ de-
ception, and will be preached utassuch.
But suppose it were possible, what then9
What would it, what could it amount to,
but an assemblage in which the Statescall-
ing themselves Confederate would die
late their own terms, and insist upon an
absolute submission to them? If Ue did
not submit would they not say, "Weareout
IF the Union and refuse to return" How
could they be compelled to return? Only
BY resuming the war, after having basely
yielded all the advantages we have gained
BY our sacrifices Of blood and expenditure
II means. The platform means nothing
ess than success to treason and ruin to the
country. 1t IL an out-and-out Peace-cn-
lny-terms platform. Whoever is base
enough to stand upon it il the candidate Of
traitors. If he succeeds, it does not matter
he toss Of copper whether he is named
reff. Davis or George B. Mcclellan.
rhe Chicago Coave10ion-Treasen
Ro0p0Dts
The Chicago Convention is q gathering |
4 rebel sympathisers, and in the utter
'nces Of it, leading delegates, the purposes
4 its assemblage its every act, wish |
md hope, is an auxiliary of JEFF. Davis
Rebellion. That there il perfect freedom |
y speech and OF the press Is pretty appar-
mt when such body Of men assemble for
uch . purpose. Acknowledging their
for and fellowship with the
ebels-in fact, numbers Of them, with the
Hood of our loyal soldiers in their skirts,
we're In attendance, these Chicago dele
ates openly proclaim their sympathy with
he rebels and denounce the war, the Ad-
and all who are fighting for
be Union, in the bitterest language
Warmed by liberal flow of whiskey, or
brown of their guard by supposing them
elves the people, or forsome other reason,
the devil which is in them, we
ave such an exhibition of rebel sympa-
by and loud-mouthed blatant treason
rom this National convocation of Copper
cad vileness as never before has been
cen outside the rebel States.
That we speak the truth concerning the