The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-10-06


New- York, Sept. 9, 1864, !
The great rebellion which tor more
than three years has wrapped the nation
in the flames of civil war, draws near its
crisis It's armies have been beaten, its
territory has been conquered, tie forts
and posts which it treacherously seized
have been occupied and held by the SOL
diers of the Republic, its foreign allies
have been detached from its support, and
its hostile arm, paralyzed by exhaustion
and discouraged by defeat, IS upheld sole
ly by the hope of political victories to be
achieved by its allies in the Presidential
election of Nov ember next.
If the People in that election sustain
the Government, if they reasser5 it's just
authority aud reafirm their purpose to
maintain it by war so long as war assails
it, the Rebellion will speedily end. IF
they falter in this determination, or leave
any room for doubt on this vital point,
the Rebels will take fresh courage and
prolopg the contest. Every utterance of
their organs and their agents affirms and
confirms this position. Every Rebel In
arms and every Rebel in offce-every
Rebel organ in the Rebel States or in
foreign lands-every hater of Democratic
Freedom and the Rights of Man, longs
and labors for the overthrow of the ad-
ministration and the expulsion of Abra-
ham Lincoln from the Presidential chair.
In the Northern and Western States
this hostility has been embodied and Or
ganized in the acts and declarations of
the Chicago Convention. That Convcn-
tion gives silent approval of the rebel
lion itself, and an open condemnation of
the war waged for its suppression. With
out word of censure for the conspirators
who plotted the nations death, it brands
with unsparing denunciation the patriots
and heroes who defend its life. While it
passes in utter silence the gigantic usur-
pations cf Jefferson Davis and his confed-
crate traitors, rs,-while it overlooks entirely,
and thus, by just and necessary Inference,
approves their abrogatlon of political
rights and personal liberties over all that
portion of the United States in which they
have been able thus far to sustain their
usurped authority, it pours out its wrath,
without stint or measure, upon every act
by which the Constitutional President of
the United States has sought to defend
and protect the life and liberties of the
nation, whose executive power is placed
In his hands. t.f- ;.a.tt
That Convention has no words of exu-
| tation for our victories; no thanks and
honors for the soldiers and sailors who
| have shed their blood to achieve them.
! While it denounces our Government for
! neglect of duty toward our "fellow- citizens,
| who are now, anG long have been, prison
ers of war in suffering condition." it has
not even asylIable of censure for those
Rebel authorities who, with more than
savage cruelty, and 10 utter disregard OF
4! every dictate of humanity, as we'll as OF
/ every usage of civilized warfare, have de-
li5erately and with systematic purpose
inflicted upon those prisoners all the tor
lures Of exposure, of neglect and starya-
ton. and have offered premiums for their
murder to the brutal guards to whose grim
custody they have been consigned. And,
on the very eve Of the most glorious VIC
tories that have ever crowned our arms
after three years Of bloody, costly and
successful war, when three -fourths of the
territory originally held by the Rebels
has passed into our hands; at the very
momeut when the Rebellion itself is tot
tering to its fall, and the flag of our
country is rapidly advancing to its old
supremacy, the party represented at Chi
cago demands that "in,nscdiate e6orts be
made for a cessation Of hosttltties" "a step
which would instantly arrest our conquer
ing armies and snatch from them the
glories of final triumph, repeal the
blockade, and throw the whole Rebel
frontier open to the supplies they SO soreIy
need, secure the recognition Of foreign
powers, and either accomplish their inde-
pendence or give them the ability to fight
| for it four years longer ,a--s 81
We appeal to the people of the United
States-lovers of the Union and friends
| of Freedom against the consummation
of the foul crime against both which the
acts and declarations Of the Chicago Con-
yention involve. We invoke them not to
sanction these principles and senti-
ments by electing the candidates pu. for
ward to represent them. We implore
them as they love their country, as they
seek the renewed integrity of its territory,
as they desire the peaceful protection of
it's flag, and the blessings of its free insti-
tutions and its eoual laws for themselves