The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-11-03
The Army on Peace and the Chicago
Platform


Mcclellan and the Chicago platform do
not got much encouragement from the
Union troops. Listen to a few of the
gallant leaders of our army:
Lieutenant General Grant say:
"Ihe end is not far distant, if we wifi
only be true to ourselves. All we want
now to insure an early restoration of the
Union Is determined unity of sentiment
north
Major General Dix says:
II can have no part in any political
movement Of which the Chicago platform
is basis"
Major General Hooker says:
"Thls Union must be preserved, and
there is no way Of preserving it but By
the power Of our arms, by fighting the
conspiracy to its death. This rebellion
Is totterlng while | speak; it is going
down, and will soon tumble into ruin"
Major General Logan says:
"Ihe greatest victory of the rebels,
greater than fifty Manassas, and the only
one that can give them particle of hope,
will be to defeat the war party at the in
coming campaign"
Major Gen Wool says:
Nothing, for aught can discover. will
save the Union and it's government but
the successes Of Grant, Sherman, Farra-
gut and Sheridan.
Major Gen. Sherman says:
81 want peace, and believe it can only
be reached through Union and war. and
will ever codduct war purely with view
to perfect an early success. But you can
not have peace and a division of our coun-
try. Ii the United States submits to a
division now it will not STOP. but will go
on till We reap the fate of Mexico, which
is eternal war"
Major Gen. Meade says:
'Dlsmlsslng, as now useless to discuss
all questions as to the origin of this war,
We have daily and hourly evidences that
1t exists, and it can only be terminated by
hard fighting, and by determined efforts
to overcome the armed enemies of the
government"
Major Gen. Burnside says:
"Would it not be cowardly for US to
say that this rebellion cannot be crushed,
and the authority of the government sus-
tanned There can be no such thing as
laying down of arms, OF cessation of hos
tllltles, until the entire authority Of TIE
government is acknowledged by every
citizen of our country"
Major Gen. A. j. Smith says:
''I want to see us united from Maine
to Texas-one united and happy people
There is but one way of doing this
Rebels commencA the war; now let
them ask for peace How are we to have
peace | say, when the south shall ask
for peace, then it will be time to get it.
Never let the north say peace but when
the south ask for it let US be mercitul.-
[ would rather sec that old flag under
which have been fighting sunk fathoms
deep in the Mississippi than we should
give up and sue for peace,
Gen. Truman Seymour says:
mo Democrat can be elected on peace
platform. Certain it is that the remain
ing hope of the south lies in Lineolns
defeat"
General George A. Mccall, an old
Democrat, says:
Il now believe, as | ever have believed,
that if the Union is worth preserving it
is worth the prosecution of the war to
successful conclusion With regard to
the conduct OF this war, | cannot indorse
all the measures of the present admins
tration, but [ regard any administra;
tion that will energetically prosecute
the war as preferable to one that is in
favor of an armistice and a convocation
of the States until the States in rebellion
have laid down their arms"