Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-03-09
A MOTION To KESClND u IN OK
DER.

When the Democratic National Cou
vention shall meet in Chicago next July.
it will DO nearly score Of years since
a National Convention Of that party
met in that city to nominate oandi-
date for President. That occasion and
the utterances Of its members long since
became historic. The great var for the
preservation of this Union had bsen
waged with varying fortunes for three
weary years. Hundreds of thousands
Of lives had been sacrificed. and hun
dreds of millions of dollars expended.
on one side to destroy the government,
on the other TO preserve II. That oon
vsntion assembled August -, 1864 II
adopted a platform Of principles and
nominated for President and Vice Pres
ident Mcclellan and: Pendleton, on the
ist day Of Septsm or Of that year. The
p atform then adopted declared the war
q failure. advised compromise and a
cessation of hostile operations.
Before that convention had assem-
bed, Grant had moved from the Poto
mac 10 the Rapidan and fought the bat
ties Of the Wilderness, had marched his
army through Bowling Green to Geld
Harbor, aud by the flank across the
James and Appomattox to Petersburg.
which he invested. Sherman VAS we'll
on his march from Chattanooga to the
sea. He had driven Johnston step by
step to Resacca, Dallas, kencsaw Noun
tain and Smyrna, and forced Hood, his
SUCCESSOR, against stubborn resistance
to Atlanta. FArragutsaad defeated the
Confederate feet in Mobile Bay and
occupied Fort Morgan. When that
convention met, Grant with his army
sat, implaoable, in trout Of Petersburg
Sherman had raised the siege Of Atlanta
and the stars and stripes hoated from
the mastheads Of our vessels and the
battlements Of Fort Morgan in Mobile
aarbor. A circle WAS being drawn
around the doomed Confederacy, which
~ It contracted would. unless broken.
choke 1t to death. While that conven-
tion was in session. on the second day
Of its meeting, Sherman ~ Jonesbor-
rough had again defeated Hood. and
the day after its adjournment. Septem-
Der 2, 1864. his victorious army entered
Atlanta, which Hood had left during
the previous night.
In the midst of these successes of the
Union arms, while elate with victory,
the hosts of Sherman were "msrci ING
through Georgia" and the forces Of
General Lee, hemmsd in. we're slowly
but surely being depleted and democrat
lied by cavalry sorties in his rear. fire.
quent conflicts in front, and excessive
vigilance at all tines: when in short i.
had become apparent that the end Was
certain defeat to the rebellion. and that
the date of its termination had now be-
come but mere question Of endurance.
then II was that the Democratic party.
In National Convention assembled.
Rravely announced that the war for the
salvation of this Government, had proved
TO be a failure.
The result OF the election that follow
cd is well known. Abraham Lincoln
WAS reelected by a magnificent major
ity. and the war went on to its success
full end. A wave of indignation spread
over the North, aud the army was prac. /
tically unit in denouncing by i,s votes /
the slanderous assertions Of that con-
vention. and In hospital, In camp. and
In the field, from the day its utterances
were made public. the loyal soldiery of
this Republic, rising above all former
partizsn predictions. awaited eagerly
the time when. by their votes, they
could consign the utterauce to merited
The Democratic National Convention
wall again aeet in Chicago in July. viii
L. NJ Is customary, reaiiirm its all, ei- ,
Anee to preceding platforms. and point
With pride to its official utteranses Of ,
~ years asoI We JOIN III the .uerev. /, /