Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-07-20
Soldiers, Read.


Iilden and Vauandighan - Til
den's scar Record-Ho,o Samuel
Stood 1welve Years aqo-Hoso he
Declared the scar a failure, and
Demanded a Cessation Of Hos
tilities.
We give the following extract,
taken from the Cincinnati Gazette OF
the 11th inst, in answer to an inquiry
sent from this city:
The Democratic National Conven-
ton assembled at Chicago, August
%, 1864. THAT body nominated
Geo. B. Mcclellan for President, and
passed a resolution as part ol the
platform, declaring the war failure,
and demanding cessation OF hos
tilities. Mcclellan, it will be recol-
lected, repudiated that resolution;
but Lincoln was elected President,
and in eight months thereafter the
war, which had been pronounced a
failure, proved a complete success,
and the rebel armies surrendered.
The question now comes up as to
the authorship Of that resolution
We received yesterday the following
communication:
"Was Tilden Chairman of the
Committee which introduced the
resolution in the Chicago Convention,
declaring the war q failure, etc.9
Who was on the committee from this
State? Give resolution in full. We
are anxious to know the whole.
Democrats deny it here.
| GALLIPOLIS."
From the regular report OF the
proceedings of the Convention, we
| find that the Committee on resolu-
tions was composed as follows:
"Kentucky, James Guthrie, chair
man; Maine, John W. Dana; New
Hampshire, E. Keyes; Massachusetts
George Lunt; Connecticut, Charles
R. Ingersol; Vermont, D. P. Red
field; Rhode Island, Charles S. Brad
lev; New York, Samuel j. Tilden;
Pennsylvania, - -; Delaware,
Charles Brown; Maryland, Thomas
G. Pratt; Ohio, Clement l.. Valland
igham; Indiana, James Nj. Hanna
Illinois, S. S. Marshall; Michigan, A
c. Baldwin; Missouri, William A
Hall; Wisconsin, George B. Smith
Iowa, J. F. Bates; California, John
B. Weller; Kansas, William c. Nc
Dowell; Oregon, Benjamin Stark"
;. This committee appointed a sub
committee of five TO draw up the res
olutions. This subcommittee con
! sisted of Samuel j. Tilden, of New
York, Chairman; Geo. Lunt, o
Mass. S. S. Marshall, of ILL.,; Geo
| B. Smith, of Wis, and John B. Wei
ler, of California. This sub-comnit
tee, through its chairman, Samuel j
Tilden, presented the resolutions
unanimously, to the full committee
which in turn presented the report tt
the Convention aoithout a dissenting
vote, and it was adopted. The noto
rious peace resolution, as it was re
ported by Samuel J. Tilden to thu
full committee, and through it to thu
Convention, and adopted as part o
the Democratic platform, reads a
follows:
I "Resolved, That this Convention
does explicitly declare, as the sens
of the American people, that, afte
, four years of failure to restore th'
Union by the experiment of war
during which under the pretence OF :
military necessity or war power othe
than the Constitution, the Constitu
ton itself has been disregarded il
every point, and public liberty ant
private right alike trodden down
and the material prosperity Of tn
country essentially impaired, ant
justice, humanity, liberty, and tn
public welfare demand that an i'm
mediate effort be made for the cessa
ton of hostilities, with view to al
ultimate convention Of all the States
or other peaceable means to that end
that, at the earliest possible moment
peace may be restored on the basi
J of the Federal Union of the States.
At that time, as has since beel
we'll known, the rebellion was nea
T its end, and the only hope of tn
. rebels was in the Democratic party
The resolutions were prepared ant
adopted at Chicago, after consulta
tion with representatives of tn
South. Vallandigham was also
member of the Convention and O
the Committee on Resolutions.
The people in 1854 repudiated tn
treasonable resolution reported b.
Samuel j. Tilden, and it now re
mains for the patriotic people to re
pudiate the author of that resolution
Republicans should carefully pre-
serve this record. 1t will prove use
full during the campaign. 1t show
where Tilden stood in 1864.