Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-09-20
And the Hon. James II. Reed, of In

diana:
'The will of the people is declared FOR
peace, aud in this declaration there is moth
ing tending to folly, in a. much as in the
coming election they intend to oust the in
cumbents of Office, and TO inaugurste a rule
VIII ieh win bring peace and prosperity once
N ore to this land" i-. l...- bind f--l'.
So the Rev. j. A. McMaster, of New
York .H a.. .-..e't ..-
''Let Us demand cessation of the sacriHcs
until the people shall pronounce their great
and emphatic verdict for peace, aud let the
tyrant understand the demand comes from
earnest men and must be respected. We arc
/ often called the 'Unterrifcd.' I trust You
are. | hope that your nerves may be Of steel,
for there is q day of trial coming and you
must meet it,"
1t is hardly worth while to multiply
examples of this seditious peace spirit in
the convention, and we will content our
selves with few indications Of the mode
in which the party elsewhere endorsed it.
I Thus at the Mcclellan Ratification
Meeting, held in New York, August go,
1864. every speaker declared in favor Of
peace, denounced the draft, and congratu-
lated the party that it had finally and
definitely accepted the peace policy. Mr..
James Brooks exclaimed, "No more fight
ing fighting will never restore the Union;
fighting and cutting make no friends. >.
Judge DAILY Thought there was Il posi-
bility of peace and preservation of the
Union through compromise Mr.. Mel
son Smith told the crowd of admiring
Democrats
"The question row is, whether after four
years Of war this Union can be saved without
any further pr osecution of the war .......
After four years of war, We must now resort
to some other means than war, b. which our
troubles can he settled and peace restored
that peace is receiyeed as the duty of the in
coming administration, cessation Of hostil-
ties, and convention cf the TWO PEOPLE or
THis COUNTRY, 10 see if they cannot settle
This matter ..r ....-.
Mr. Conrad Swackhammer assured his
applauding auditors that, ...-.........
George d. Mcclellan win be the next pres
idcnt, and within twenty four hours after that
election peace will be declared. We are tired
and sick Of calls for 500, 200 more men by
those who have no.thou ght hvt for slavery
hope in November you viii all 90 forth, not
with n musktt to take your brothers life. but
to cast little white ballot FIR Mcclellan and
Pendeton, and thus this war will be stopped.
Tbs war will be ended by diplomacy
Mr.. Eober: G. Hutchins declared that,
1.-The people demand some other means Of
restoring the Union than that Of war, and be-
lieve that a restoration can be reached by
peaceable meane and not by massacre. War
and only var can never restore the Union:
eii armistice may. but million of men can
not it hats been proved that an armed force
cannot"
Mr.. William G. Cover said:
'I ar in favor of an armist;ee, and believe
that we can settle our difficulties better by
diplomacy than we can by the bayonct and the
sword ..-
Mr. Johu l.. Overfeld e1orted his
bearers ..~ ,......
Now, gentlemen, you ,e bat TO. look this
Iqatter in the face and say whether you will
pay II ese high prices, and be drafted and torn
from the 6osoms of your families. tCries,
No, no. Will you BE torn from these. or will
yon stay at home and rain sour children up;
that. gentlemea, is to be dc5ide1 next Novem-
ber.' ... ir-.-. ..,.-. .- 4
\ And. the great peace organ, the New
York Necs, rejoiced over the authorita-
tive exposition of its favorite principles,
as follows e., ..-... ,-...-...... -..... ...-,
1--WE accept the platform ofthe Convention
as great triumph of the peace party. The
proposition for an ar,histice and convention
of all the States, as suggested several 1onths
ago by The Neus, has received the sanction
of the Democracy through their delegates.
and the peace rsen may rest assured that
that proposition, carried into effect, will
bring about an enduring peace between the
sections. The nominee of the Chicago Con-
yention for the presidency is not the candi-
date of our preference, but, standing upon
the platform upon which he has been nomi-
mated and...... being assured that with the
election of General Mcclellan the war, will
emo, wewill support the nsmipaiions made
at Chicago, from this hour until the Close OF
the polls in November.
"The nominee for the Vice Presidency is
the man Of all men, whom, had the choice
been ours, we would have selected. In the
nomination of George H.. Pendlston, a trib-
ute has been worthily offered to the peace
sentiment, of which he has been bee n con-
sistent champion" - uJ:ss'Gac IL yufe --
It is true that General Mcclellan
made feeble attempt to justify the War
Democrats in their support of him by
some generalities in his letter of accep-
tance, but he was speedily given to under
stand that, as James Buchanan said, he
was platform and not man. Thus
Fernando Wood in meeting held Sep
tember II, in New York, assured his
hearers:
Besides, if elected, I am satisfied he viii
entertain the views, and execute the prin-
oipIes of the great party he will represent
without regard to those he may himself
possess. He will thus be our agent, the
creature of our voice, and as such cannot
if he would. and would not if he could, do
than execute the public voice Of