Year: 1864


Cincinnati Enquirer. In the course of hi
speech he alluded to the coming Chicago
Convention and the relative prospects there
of nominating war or peace candidate
He declared himself opposed to nominating
any war man-be he general or civilian
just as Sam Medsry has already declared
himself with reference to Mcclellan. We
quote an extract from Vallaudigham's 's
speech to show what his views are on this
point:


s'I think we will put forward peace
candidate. Why not? Suppose we were
to nominate a war democrat, pledged to
prosecute the war, in what respect would
such ticket be better than the Lincoln
ticket? You would have all the evils of the
war still to press you down, increased taxes,
drafts and the slaughter of your sous
What would you gain by his election over
that of Lincoln2 You say that he would
not interfere with the negroes South
Well, that is no consideration with me.
What do we care for the negroes down
South, when our own liberties and lives
are at stalker We want man who will
try compromise in the settlement of our
national difficulties, and such a man hun
dreds and thousands of republicans are
looking for. If they want a war man,
they have as good a one as they could get in
the person of Lincoln. I would as soon
be drafted under him as under q war demo-
crat And 1 would agree with Abraham
that it is no time to swap horses while
swimming a river. What we want is man
who will go back to the policy of Wash
ingtou and Jefferson, and Madison and
Clay-men whom you used to swear by,
and who settled national difficulties by
compromise. Such a man the democratic
party will bring forward for the sutfrages
of the people"


Such an utterance from such man, a
delegate to the Chicago convention, the
great Ajax of the peace party, its martyr
and its chief orator, taken in connection
with the same utterances from the most
influential organs of the so-called Demo-
cratic party, we mean such papers as the
New York Nsocs, the Chicago Tines, and
the Cincinnati Enquirer, go to show to the
country Just what it has to expect from the
success of these views, and to show also
that disguised, as it may be, under whatever
preteuse, there is really no substantial war
element of any kind in opposition to the
Administration. We know of no single
newspaper, in all our exchange list, thgs
is opposed to the administration and yet
advocates a more vigorous prosecu-
ton of the war. They all caVil, and
snarI, and rail, and falsify, and
vituperate, and offer nothing but peace
talk, which means submission to such
terms as the rebeIs:may be willing to make


Vallandigham hits the nail on the head
when he says that if it is war man the
country wants the one we have will do as
well as any other. For his part he sees
no object in a change, if it is war, and not
peace, the country wants. He knows very
we'll the difference between peace and
war-that the two are as irreconcilable as
day and night, cold and heat, oil and water.
A war man goes for force-for putting
down the rebellion-tor fighting it as long
it resists-whiIe peace man goes for
peace land not war at ALL upon some
terms-the best terms-any terms at all
rather than further prosecution of the
war.


Since writing the foregoing we have re-
ceived the platform adopted by the "Dem-
ocratic" State Convention held at Syracuse
New York, on Thursday last, at which Con-
vention Vallandigham was present and
spoke in the evening, to mass meeting
The 5th resolution of the platform is as
follows:


ResoZVed, That if in the platform and can
didates of the Chicago Convention the noW
pervading peace sentiments of the country
shall be disregarded, and that body shall
place another war candidate and platform
before the people, making third party OF
this character entering the canvass for the
Presidency, there will be no real issue tc
decide at that election. Each party and
each declaration of policy and principles
will be alike on the fundamental question
of the day, viz: shall it be peace or shall II
be war? Therefore we eujoia upon that
convention the folly of aiming to OBTAIN a
portion of those who are already war
pledged. The candidates already nomlna-
ted represent all who cling to the war, and
it is sound policy to gather together, under
our banner, all who entertain the opposite
sentiment, ana are III iaNUL vi leSIOtAHS 'Ne
country to its former condition OF prosper
ity and happiness only to be obtained oy
the election of Peace President, pledged
to the support of Peace policy.


1t will be seen that this resolution ex-
actIy embodies the idea presented in the
extract quoted from VaIaudigham's speech
viz: that all war men are the same to peace
men-that they can approve or vote for nc
such meu-that it is ce-peace-peace
at any price, they are after-and further
war not at all, at any price or on any
pretezt.


We hail this coming out-this showing
of the haud-this disclosing of the clover