Year: 1864

almost disbanded on furlough? How will
you ever strengthen the snews of the nation


up to the height of reopening the war after
once you have dropped the sword from your
hands? Why, fellow citizens, they who pro-
pose that know as well as know that an ar
mistice means peacc-that the cessation of the
war means the end of the war-that the end
of the war means the end ofcoercve measures
for the restoration of the Republic and when
they once propose that an armistice shall be


instituted, without even saying that if its pur-
poses fail the sword shall again be drawn,
they tell us, in the most distinct language,
that their purpose is to stop the war and take
the consequences they tell us that their pur-
pose is to stop the war and not look beyond
at the consequences of the stoppage Of the war.
Peace is what they want, and that is all.
And when we turn to the letter of acceptance
of General Mcclellan there is a repetition
substantially of the platform, but with no ad.
iiton to it. lie is in favor, as the Convention
is in favor, of ''perpetuation of .he Union. u


He thinks, as they think, that it ought
to be pcrpetuatcd; but he nowhere says that
after an armis'ice and failure to agree, he is
in favor of taking up the sword. 1t may be
that he is. can easily Believe that Gen
eralc might desire to be Commandcr-in Chief
of a half million of men. But who and
what is Mcclellan? lie is what his party
friends make him--what the men are who
elect him--what they are who stand behind
him. Fernando Wood has told you that what
ever the private opini rs of the candidate nay
be. when he is once nominated and elec ed he
will think and speak and act as the body OF
the 4taat party that. ELECTED him may desire
that he should think, and speak, +, and act


L" He will be- says Mr.. Wood, . our agent,


the creature of our voice" And you all know
what tie voice Of Fcrnan 10 Wood is. Laugh


ter and applause. Fernando Wood, a nan
who in the better days of the Republic, no.
| body would have thought it worth while to
name at public meeting, has now become
one of the mischieveous and poisonous reptiles
that are biting the Republic to death. Ap.
plausc. Alexauder Long, of Ohio, Clement


Yaiandigham, Of illomcned fame-these are
thc men who are supporting him I; these ar,
the men who look to high Office under him


these are the men who represent the grca


mass and body Of the so-called Peace Dcmoc


racy and if there be anything but a Peac,
Democracy anywhere that is now supporting
Abraham Lincoln, | do not know the man is


or where he is Applause. | never could find
a Peace Democrat in Congress who world d.
anything except swell a majority when hi,
vote was not needed, and leave you to be de


fcated when his vote was required to make


majority, Place them in the majority, anC
they are all peace men. One would like th'
war to 90 on, for til trc are picking and steal.


ngs and plunder in it another of them woult
like it to ge"on because, possibly, he nigh


have some chance Of military fame +; but th


body Of them. the men who must form th


Congress, the men who must vote the money


the men who must organize the army, th


m1h who stand outside of Congress and sent
them there are for peace; they are agains


taxation they are opposed to paying tw'


cents box for matches. Laughter They ar


the people who are guilty of the wretche'


folly and, hypocrisy of placing side by side TIL


columns Of taxation of Buchanan's Admins


tration and the present Administration, as


everybody were as big fool as the poor Dem


ocrats, whom they want to cheat by that con


trivarcc- applause. And yet they are tn


men whom you are to place in power wit


Mcclellan they are tie men who are to holt


his hands in the strugge-who are to sur


port b,n with men and money-who are I


guide MS policy To repeal every law updl


the statute book for the carrying on of til


war would be their first act whenever the
should get a majority of both Houses Ha,
ing majority of one House OILY, The
veot'ld palsy the majority in the other Hou


that might be desrous even 6fftrfisfihg til
Government with the means for carrying {
The. var, They wruld strike immediate


from your armies 1900 or 200, 900 neg
, soldiers COR fear they woIl disband the re,
: Of tho army They would remove the SUI
ttr3ioh Of the hateas corpus in order tn
: Democratic traitors might walk at large al
, colamuncate with the enemy, [Applausc
, There is no measure necessary to the col
duct of the war that they are not alreao
3. pledged to destroy Their canvass is aglin
4, the measures Of the war, an the people


= the United States have co.rc to the solel


conclusion that they who are not in favor
carrying On the war at all (; that they who Il
/, tor paralyzing the arm of the Governmen
/ by stripping it of the peedfcl Legislation
= the conduct of the war, cannot be trust
with The conduct of the war, and, as ration
: men. they turn their backs on those who pr
Eess hal5re high ifcaveil that Lat is the
, purpose, and turn to men who at least proft
TO be willing to carry on the war-who


, least haSe struggled to the best of their alb
e ity 'te It poor or great, for four years to CT
, ry it on--who at least have accomplish
some results, and if they are not stripped


t power now b. men who, under the dissuj
, # nre.ending to be in favor II. the war, q
0 really against it, will, in reasonable tim
: put an end TO it. .lGreat applause.l I.the