Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-09-20
At tho great Democratic meeting of
January l6. 1861, at Philadelphia, the
ninth resolution adopted declared,

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January 10. 1861, at Philadelphia, the
ninth hresolution adopted declared,
"we are therefore utterly opposed to any
such compulsion as is demanded by portion
of the Republican Party and the Democrat
ic Party of the North will. by the use Of all
constitutional means, and with its moral and
| political influence, oppose any such extreme
policy, or a fNatricidal vsr thus to be inaugu-
rated" [r.r4
And month later, at the Democratic
State Convention, held at Harrisburg,
February 90, 1861, the following resolu-
ton twas received with the most raptur-
Gus applause, nearly all the members Of
the Convention rising, cheering, and xav-
ing their hate" e. es'aasl-t
h "Rsso,red, That we will. by all proper and
legitimate means, oppose, discountenance and
prevent any attempt on the part OF the Re-
publicans in power to make any armed ag-
gression upon the Southern States, especially
so long as laws contravening their rights shall
remain rnrepealed on the statue books of
Northern States, aad so lcng as the just de-
recognized by the republican majorities in
these States, and Unsecured by proper amen
datory explanations Of the Constitution
1t was in precisely the same spirit that
Benjamin G.. Harris, Democratic mem
ber'of Congress from Maryland, on April 9,
1864, had the effrontery to declare in the
House of Representatives:
THE South asked you to let them 20 in
peace. But no. you said you would bring
them into subjugation. That is not done yet,
and God Almighty grant that it never may
be. ] hope that you will never subjaga,e the
South ...l t.-..,- n .
This being good Democratic doctrine,
it is moi surprising that, with one excep.
tion, the Democratic members voted in a
solid body against Mr.. Harris expulsion,
nor that, when he. was sent as delegate
to the Chicago Convention, he was re-
ceived there as member of the party, in
full communion and good standing.
At Chicago, indeed, Mr.. Harris found
himself among congeuial spirits. There
the Rev. c. Chauncey Burr, Of New Jer-
sey, publicly declared,
You cannot have the face TO ask the South
to come back into the Unicn until you with
your marauding army. Is there man in
this audience that wants 10 have one-half of
the States conquered and subjected No.
VIXEN this is done you have ended the Gov
ernment. After three years of war, who are
conquered, you or the Souths say you are
conquered. }on cannot conquer the South,
and pray God you ne, = may"
James S. Rollins, of Missouri:
Il lore our Southern friends: they are a
hoble, brave, and chivalrous people
cheersl ]. although they are trying 10 break
up the Government; and however much we
may hate them, We must remember that they
are our countrymep, and cannot be subdIed
40 long as we insist upon depriving them of
their rights
John j. Van \ Hen, Of New York:
''war is disunion. Wat could never pro-
duce peace. 1t was impossible to subjugatc
eight millions of people, aud it ought not to
be done, if it corld be dome -
In fact, the Chicago Convention was
peace convention, Of which the ruling
spirit was Vallandigham. He framed the
second resolution of the platform, which,
as we have sse1, vas regarded at the
South as tatamount to recognition of their
Independence. In his Chicago letter OF
October p, 1864, he boasted that, in the
Committee on Platform, it received fifteen
votes out Of eighteen; and in his speech
at Sydney, Ohio, he stated that an amerd;
ment, Suggesting the alternative Of war, /
in case of the failure of .'peaeeable |
was unanimously rejected. So /,
we'll was he satisfied with the result, that,
while yet fresh from Chicago, in his Day
ton Speech, of September s, he exulting-
y exclaimed .'....,..--. |
''That convention has met every expecta- !
ion of mine. The .fromises have all been |
realized. The convention was emphatically
not only peaceable but q peace convention. I
It was peace convention; and, speaking in
he name Of more than twenty millions of
freemen, it demanded peace after the failrre |
IF the experiment Of war. No man among /
.he earnest advocates of peace, from the be-,
ginning of the war till this very hour, has
n any formal public declaration demanded
more than that convention has declared. 1t
meant peace, and it said 50. Tt meant. and it
means now, that there shall be no more civil
war in this land" ;Z sst,S ..7'i,
Mr.. Vallandigham was justified in this
not only BY the platform, but
BY the temper of the Convention, as
shown by the speeches Of it members and
hangers on. Thus Mr.. g. G. Sandefson
ee2 ai. a,lls'. 3. .2g 77a
sis it not time that this internal war should
,tops ICries of yes. Has there not been
blood enough shed Has there not been prop
,rty enough destroyed Have We not all been
bound, hand and .foot,to the abolition car that
is rolling over our necks like another Jugger-
naut. We must have peace. Peace is our
notive; nothing but peace. If the Soushern,t
by any possibility, be esubjugated
by the abolition administration, the next
d 3 ~ How an ha