Year: 1864

loOl dllOll, lCdNluS IllO " CllOli uloSOh SlSu
the power of the Government for self
preservation paralzed, having trans
ferred its arms and present resources
of defense to the possession Of fthe par
ty, and carried the States which it
still controlled, and which it had arm
ed with the public arms, into war
against the National Union.


Having received the trust from the
people with the country at peace and
in the highest prosperity, and when
all sections and parties united in the
acclaim that the Government was the
best the sun ever shone upon, the De-
mocratic party, when called upon by
the constitutionally declared will Of
the people to deliver up its trust, de.


voted the remainder of its term to de-
stroying it, and as it went out Of Office


it carried the country into civil war


whose destruction and suffering the


human mind can scarcely compass,


and which is still making its demands


for hundreds of thousands Of our brave


young men for its slaughter


All this is the work solely Of the


Democratic party. The Democratic


party passed from the control of the


Government to the control Of the re-


bcllion. Its leaders hold in the Con-


federacy the same position they held


in the Government Of the Union. The


Confederate Administration is simply


a continuation Of the Democratic Ad-


ministration, with diminished domain,


which its Northern adherents are try


ing to restore to It's original dimen


sions.


After nearly four years of these ter


rible consequences of the control Of


the Government by the Democratic


party, its Northern adherents have


had the effrontery to come together


in Convention, to offer again to take


the control Of the country, which they


have plunged from snch hight Of


prosperity to such depth Of Voc


And what declaration of penitence for


the past or of promise for the future do


they mako to excuse this unparalleled


assurance? The only expression in
their platform to indicate their posi-


tion in regard to this terrible Demo
cratic war, is that the Government
cannot put it down by war, and, there,
fore, the effort must cease, and it must
submit TO such terms as it can procure
+ by q cessation of hostilites and by ne.
gotiation.


This is substantially declared in the
4 second resolution, and it is all that


this platform declares as to the side
e the Democratic party takes in this


war. Is it any different from the atti-
: tude taken by their Confederate lead
/. ers? When Mr.. Jefferson Davis de-
j. clares that they will never submit tc
o the Government of the Union, that
they can never be subjugated, and
# that they will have independence Oh
= determination, does he declare any
y thing essentially different from The
t platform of this Chicago Confederate
!, Convention, which lays it down as
: doctrine of the Democratic party, to be
u carried out in its administration of the
!. Government, that this Democratic wal
: cannot be put down by force, anC


therefore the only alternative is az
h armistice and such terms rs it vii
= grant to the Government


S The Confederate Democrats declare
i in the South, they will never submi
!. to the Constitution and laws of The
r. Union in the North they can never
J. be forced to submit. In ore section
: they maintain their declaration will
,nI ,I arms; in the other they advance i


by this treacherous method of weak


oning the Government, and Of encour
st aging their bravcr and more honcra
e bic fellows in arms. Is there any dis
r tincton between these Confederate
y Democrats of the South and North
III except between open warfare and COW
), ardly treachery?


D. The love of the Union was on tn
IN lips of every Democratic conspirator
" even while he was transferring tn
St public arms to his gang TO be used t
/ destroy the Union. 1t is on tn


tongue of every secessonist in tn
70 South and in the Border States. 5


this Chicago Confederate platform dc
re clares o devotion to the Union; bu
X in q war whose avowed purpose is t
ii tn sever the Union, it declares that non
ed but peaceable means shall be used t
ng preserve the Union. What is this bu
h. n, submission to such terms as the Con


federates demand?
". The other resolutions of the plat
form contain tho customary charge
ID which the Democratic party has use
=, n to create disafIection in order to criI
as pie the Government in carrying o
an an the war. They arc based entirely S
lIyy liIy far as they have any base, on the il
5o cidents of war, and altogether do nj
,o amount to the proportion Of sing


drop in the vast ocean of wrong an
6" suffering inflicted by this war. Whi
en- en- is all this talk Of arbitrary arrests an
GS cS of restraint upon liberty of spoecl
M compared with the murder of sing
/. Union soldier, the bereavement Of


single family Of its head and supper


by this Democratic rebellion whic
90 90 has on its hands the blood of half
I million of murders on both sides?
lis The Convention could not agree
do declare itself for the preservation
ms the Union as the first condition Of an