Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1864-10-29
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| The Chicago platform declares the war a
failure, and demands cessation of hostili-
ties This, as child might see, is an un-
conditional surrender to the rebels; for If
the majority of the people should, by the
election of Gen. Mcclellan, endorse that
platform, therebcls and the rest of mankind
will take il as a proclamation that we are
| vanqushcd that we will not, because we
| cannot, fight any longer that we are in the
condition ofany other conquered people, at
the mercy Of our enemies, and obliged to
accedc to whatever terms they may choose
to impose This is the issue. There can
I've no other The rebels know it, and hence
they regard and speak of the election of
Mcclellan ne their triumph. HIS election
would he Office to Copperheads; but to them
it would he victory, triumph, life--giving
them either separate independence in their
new Confederacy, or supreme control in a
new Union. 1t twould be life TO them, but
death to the old Goyernment-lifet to Slavery,
, death to Liberty.
Now, let us see whether the Chicago Con-
vention has asserted the truth in declaring
the war failure. Nearly one half the ter
-itory of which the rebels had undisputed
possession in the beginning of 1862 has been
/ wrested from them At that date they held
the Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio
to the Gulf; now it is all in our possession.
Then New Orleans, .Natchez, Vicksburg,
! Memphis, Nashville, Norfolk, Pensacola,
Chattanooga, Atlanta, and many other i'm.
portant towns were. apparently as firmly in
the possession Of the insurgents as Baltimore
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, st. Louis and Chicago
are now in ours. They shave lost hundreds
of thousands of miles of territory; we not
an acre. City after city, fort after fort, has
been wrestcd from them; we have not lost
one There armies are rapidly melting away
under the triple operation of casualties, di
sease and desertion, the means to recruit
them having been exhausted; while our!
are at this moment stronger and more eff
cient than they have been since the war be
gan. They are everywhere struggling, bu
struggling in vain, to defend themselve
against our victorious and advancing hosts;
while at no point are we standing on th'
defensive. And yet those fellows who me
at Chicago, with traitorous design anC
shameless mendacity, in the face OF facts lik,
those, voted that the war on our side ha
been failure. 1t is falschood, and bast
slander upon the brave men whose galian
deeds and splendid achievements will shin,
in history with lustre surprising that of tn
heroes of the Revolution. 1t is but an echt
: Of the language of the tories Of that day
and will eonsign those who utter it. to- tn
= same undying infamy. Every man who vote
for Gen. George B. Mcclellan on the Sth o
November, will set his seal to- and becom
the endorser of that traitorous utterance
! He may make what disclaimers he pleases
but, so far as his vote goes, it will be pro
clamation to the world that the war is fail
ure-that we are conquered-that we ar
ready to throw down our arms at the fee
f of victorious rebels, and sue for peace.
r Perhaps, however, the traitors who me
. at Chicago forgot, in the midst of their tri
bulation, for whom they were speaking
/ Possibly they meant that the war on tn
t part of their insurgent friends had been
failure; for jeff Davis himself, in his rccen
speech at Macon, admitted the same thing
In fact, that speech of Mr.. Davis is the mos
, complete refutation ofthat lying declaration
} that has yet appeared. 1t is wall of despai
the strongest possible confession of failure
Have both sides failed? 1t must be so, O
else the Chicago Convention has lied.