The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-09-24
BURLINGTON, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER Sl1BS4

81 rs ia .sAtEs CIV Afssff N@kf1.s3 as &.
want 70 make peace with ust; they wanted
peace lbr their Confedetacy. Il was athat
portion Of the Democratic party fighting
10 IN tho South, and the other portion suo.
porting them in the North, who wore No
gotiatine terms of cooperation. The one.
bali, says are fghtiugus ut the South, and
the other half forming conspiracies and
Awning their secret sons IN the North; and
they Of the Not1h send commissioners %
the C1ifton House in Canada, and they Of
the South already have their commission
On there. They met and agreed upon .
common platform, which IL taken to Chi
cago and ratified BY the Convention.
What u the moral ofAl thisf It is that
considering the origin Of the platform, its
concert with treason here, and the compile
it1 of.Earopesn capfe1 in the whole affair,
We have got them g dead, infallible cer-
ted States art never aS0ine 70 stand that
aort Of thing-the concoctin8 Of . platform
by rebels, its approval by our violent ene-
mics in Europe, agreed TO by disloyal men
at the North, and then brought to be run
down our sthroAts, willing or unwilling.
We amt going to swallow it, you may rest
assured: IGrsst sRPplcnse:l R This i the
De
There was one of the Kentucky delega-
tiona, gentlemen who have been the most
futi0uss, negotiatiopists on earth, If you
could believe their declarations; and
there was General Combs, that has not al
lowed the grass to grow on any stump in
his district for years, by reason of his war
speeches; the one accepted . war candi.
then. promised Mcclellan $1,000 majority
in Kentucky. i reckon you have ali seen
=, little instrument lying on the table OF
some neighbor, by which, ii you look ut a
thing with both eyes at the same time the
thing changes to something else. AtChicago
they fixed up their platf?rm'in this way.
If you look At with one eye it is one
thing, and if you look at it with the other
i is another thing; but if you look at IT
[Laughter.] So if you look at Mcclellan
with one eye, and at Pendleton with the
other eye, you don't see either Mcclellan
or PehdletOn, but the one runs into the
other, and you see the platform! laugh
teri But If you shut the Mcclellan eye
you don't see the platform; and if you
open it and shut the Pendleton eye you
don't see the platform. You have got to
look with one eye at Mcclellan and the
other at Pendlotoll, or you will not rec the
platform. The whole thing il . cunning
awindling trick that does not suit this
latitude, and it win not 60 down. [Cheers]
AN ARMIsT1CE-wHAT THEN9 !.
cannot now 70 into consideration ol
the platform in detail. But their great CRY
il an armistice and . Convention Of the
States. What after that3 They may NOT
make peace, and then what IL to be done!
But, hrst, how il the Convention to be
|called?- 1t requires two-thirds Of Congress
TO vote for such call, which call must be
be ratified by three-fourths of the States;
and these votes you can never get. What
chance is there Of getting three e-fourths OF
the States to go for Convention for the
purpose Of bringing us under Je6. Davis,
or for dividing the Union1 The thing is
absurd. III It cannot be done, what then?
Then We are in favor Of any other peacea-
HE remedy. Dear. blessed souls! Any
il not peaceable. Now for Gods sake, and
for your country's sake, look 1t it. Here
~ are, after between three and four
years war; after spending two or three
thousand millions Of dollars; after spilline
the blood of million of our brothers, and
cousigning five hundred thousand OF them
to their graves; after conQuering an extent
Of territory l,doo miles il length by eco in
bre1dth; we have an army IN every State
Of the Confederacy, and the majority Of
them under our contsol; we have every
stronghold taken from them, ,exc cept Mobile
and Charleston and Richmond; and not
withstanding all this, We are asked, ~ il
we were . set Of poltroonA, to disgrace our
selves to the latest generation Of mankind,
to sacrifice everything We have fought for,
and that IL worth living for, and make all
the world say free Government il worth.
less, that 1t cannot take care OF itself God
Almighty IN heaven grAnt that every man
who utters such thought may be choked
until he becomes penitent and better man.
tGreat cheers.l
No, sir! 40, sir we will never do any
such thing. We love peace love II for its
own sake. They love peace because they
are afraid We viii first whip the rebels and
then punish them. They want peace that
they may make new conspiraciee, and the
peace they propose il disunion peace, which
means separation of the States and endless
ruin to the whole country. Ten thousand
times better would 1t have been for as tc
have acquiesced at first, and never shed q
drop Of blood, than under these circum-
stances, and at this time, to make such 9
peace a. that.
ABOUT PBAcE.-God knows, we desire
our country's peace. We have never said
~ dnnA au0hf vsit1in0lv In mt off the Qla0