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PARTY PLATFORMS,
PLATFORM OF THE NATIONAL
UNION CONVENTION.
The following are the resolutions
adopted by the Convention which nom
inated Lincoln and Johnson at Balti
morn, June 9th 1864 :
Resolved, That it is the highest du
ty of every American citizen to main
tain against all their enemies the in
tegrity of the Union, and the para
tnount of the Constitution and laws of
the United States; and that, laying
aside all differences and political opin
ions,we pledge ourselves as Union men,
animated by a common sentiment, and
aiming at a common object, to do eve
rything in our power to aid the Gov
ernment in quelling by force of arms
of the Rebellion now raging against its
authority, and in bringing to the pun
ishment due to their crimes the Rebels
and traitors arrayed against it.
Resolved, That we approve the de
termination of the Government of the
`United States not to compromise with
Rebels, or to offer any terms of peace
except such as may bo based upon an
"unconditional surrender" of their hos
tility and a return to their just alle
giance to the Constitution and laws of
the United States, and that we call up
on the Government to maintain this
position and to prosecute the war with
the utmost possible vigor to the com
plete suppression of the Rebellion, in
full reliance upon the self-sacrifice, the•
patriotism, the heroic valor, and the
undying devotion of the American
people to their country and its free in
stitutions.
Resolved, That as slavery was the
cause, and now constitutes the strength
of this Rebellion, and as it must be
always and everywhere hostile to the
principles of republican Government,
justice and the National safety de
mand its utter and complete oxtirpa•
tion from the soil of the republic, and
that we uphold and maintain the acts
and proclamations by which the Gov
ernment, in its own defense, has aim
ed a death blow at this gigantic evil.
We are in favor, furthermore, of such
an annulment to the Constitution, to
be made by the people in conformity
with its provisions, as terminate
and.forever prohibit the existence of
the jurisdiction of the United States.
Resolved, That the thanks of the
American people are duo to the soldiers
and sailors of the army and navy, who
have periled their lives in deteage — Of
country, and in vindication of the hon
or of the flag; that the Nation owes
to them some permanent recognition
of their patriotism and valor, and am
ple and permanent provision for those
of their survivors who have received
disabling and honorable wounds in
the service of the country; and that
the memories of those who have fallen
in its defent .3 shall be held in grateful
and everlasting remembrance.
Resolved, That we approve and ap
plaud the practical wisdom, the unsel
fish patriotism and unwavering fidelity
to the Constitution and the principles
of American liberty, with which Abra
ham Lincoln has discharged, under
circumstances of unparalleled dificulty,
the great duties and responsibilities of
the presidential office ; that we approve
and indorse, as demanded by emergen
cy and essential to the preservation of
the nation, and as within the Consti
tution, the measures and acts which he
has adopted to defend the nation against
its open and secret foes; that we ap
prove especially the proclamation of
emancipation, and the employment as
Union soldiers of men heretofore held
in slavery ; and that we have full con
fidence in his determination to carry
these and all other constitutional
measures essential to the salvation of
the country into full and complete ef
fect.
Resolved, That we deem it essential
to the general welfare that harmony
should prevail in the national councils,
and we regard as worthy of public con
fidence and official trust those only
who cordially indorse the principles
proclaimed in these resolutions, and
which should characterize the admin
istration of the Government.
Resolved, That the Government
(wires to all men employed in its ar
mies, without regard to distinction of
color, the full protection of the laws
of war, and that any violation of these
laws or of the usages of civilized na
tions in the time of war by the Rebels
now in arms, should be made the sub
ject of full and prompt redress.
Resolved, That the foreign emiara-
Lion which in the past has added' so
much to the wealth and development
of resources and increase of power to
the nation, the asylum of the oppress
ed of all nations, should ho fostered
and encouraged by a liberal and just
policy.
Resolved, That we are in favor of
the speedy construction of the railroad
to the Pacific.
Resolved, That the national faith
pledged for the redemption or the pub
lic debt must be kept inviolate, and
that for .this purpose we recommend
economy and rigid responsibilities in
the public expenditures, and a vigor
ous and just system of taxation ; that
it is the duty of any loyal State to
sustain the credit and promote the use
of the national currency.
Resolved, That we approve the posi
tion taken by the Government that
the people of the United States never
regarded with indifferenec the attempt
of any European power to overthrow
by force, or to supplant by fraud, the
institutions of any republican Govern
ment on the western continent, and
that they view with extreme jealous
sy, at menacing to the peace and in
dependence of this our country, the of
forts of any such power to obtain now
footholds for monarchical Governments
sustatned by a foreign military forde
in near proximity to the United StateE.
MI
WILLIAM LEWIS, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XX.
The Appeal of Loyal Southenrers.
Loyal Southeners from the States of
Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia
have directed an appeal to Governor
Yates of Illinois, and through him to
the Governors of all the loyal States,
on behalf of their oppressed brethren
of the South. These gentlemen are
Mr. J. A. Stuart, Dr, W. C. Hicks,
Messrs. W. 11. Smith, Robert S.
and A. A. West, members elect of
the Alabama Legislature. They tell
us that not a vestige of liberty exists
in the South, and that the people are
"under a reigning despotism which,
for cruelty and relentless barbarity,
has no parallel in the history of man
kind." This we cannot hesitate to
believe after the treatment bestowed
upon our prisoners at Andersonvillo
and Richmond. The public has not
yet asked itself the question—"lf the
rebel authorities servo our prisoners
so, how proportionately, do they treat
their own people P' But what claims
more direct attention than this painful
memorial of the condition of the South
is the warning addressed to the Gov
ernors of the North :
"In addressing you, in reference to
our grievances, we wish to be under
stood as appealing, not only to the
Chief Executive of the State of Illi
nois, but to tho Govornora of all I,llu
loyal States, to bo on their guard
against the.insidious encroachments of
rebellion at your own doors and your
own firesides.
"No pains will be spared by our
leading rebels to bribe, seduce, deceive,
or overawe your citizens into deadly
conflicts and civil strife, so as thereby
to render complete the downfall of free
government upon the American con
tinent, and wo beg you to oxeuse us in
thus taking tho liberty to warn you of
a danger which we consider imminent,
and to urge you to lot no considera
tions of mere party triumph be per
mitted to shut out from view, even for
ono moment, the great paramount ob
ject—the suppression of rebellion.
"'Tell the people of the North that
we implore them to drop the negro
question, both pro and con ; and feel
assured that we would not give up the
Union for all the- slaves on the face of
the earth.
• "We claim to know what rebellion
is—its height and depth, its length
and breadth—and having, through
changes wrought by tho fortunes of
war, been placed whore wo can once
more exercise free speech, wo yield to
the impulses of duty, not only to our
whole country, but to thousands of
Union men who are yet held in bond
ago, when we assure you that nothing
but the strong arm of military power
can ever subdue it, or destroy its pow
, er for mischief."
The appeal proceeds to review the
causes and designs of the rebellion, on
the claim of an experience of all the
hardship and privation incident to a
life in the midst of rebellion. Eman
cipation is approved in the interests of
the white man, and the disunionists
are denounced for the degradation to
which they have reduced him. A.
rebel leader calls his negroes "my
negroe4," and his fellow-citizens "my
people ; a strange expression to North
ern ears. _The authorities of the
South have already abandoned all
their former pro-slavery and Secession
principles with the view to a still
greater oppression of the people; so
that everything is merged in the am
bition to "rule or ruin " the South.
Thus with all the bitter pro-slavery
principles of Mr. Yancey, be was com
missioned to offer Emancipation as, a
bid for the recognition of France; and
Jefferson Davis, spite of all his profes
sions of State rights, is now intent on
preventingby coercive measures,every
where exercised toward the people, the
rebellion from seceding from itself—
This is the catastrophe to a paradox
the most amazing the world has ever
known in events, and it is the final
comment upon the absurdity of Seces
sion. In the important words of the
appellants, the rebel leaders "have
committed themselves again and again
in the strongest terms known to the
English language, to never, under any
circumstances, subnnt. to the reconstruc
tion of the Union; and here, to our
sorrow, we can assure you that, until
their proud spirit of rebellion is subju
gated by the coercive power of war,
we will neither have pence nor re
union. The masses of the people South,
if released from their present bondage,
would not hesitate to accept any just
and honorable propositions forreunion,
but until their tyrannous leaders are
whipped they can never eXereiso this
privilege. This is precisely the view
taken in the recent able letter of ex-
Senator Jeremiah Clemens to his
neighbors in Alabama; and hero we
may note that for every prominent
Copperhead in the North who tells ns
that the war ought to be stopped, we
have soMo eminent Sontheners like
Clemens, Gantt, Fishback, Durant,
Breckinridgo, or the three members
elect of the Alabama Legislature, who
tolls us that the war should go on till
the people of the South are rescued
from their bondage.
What loyal Southerners writing from
Rome, Georgia, have to say upon the
Presidential question has extreme in
terest ; and, beyond all feeling of par
ty, we think the following words de
serve the thought of every class of
citizens :
"The struggle fur the Presidency of
the United States in this trying hour
fills us with fearful apprehensions, and
we cannot close this paper without
urging you to guard the people against
suffering the prejudices of party spirit
to blind thorn to the groat paramount
object of conquering our rebel leaders
and restoring the Union. Lot who
will be clected,it is his duty to preserve
the Union at all hazards, and to take
care that the laws of the United
States be enforced; and it is the duty
of every citizen of every State, so fur
as it is in his power, to sustain the
President, even in the exercise of extra
ordinary power, if necessary, to sup
press the desolating scourge of rebel
lion."
This, surely, is not the doctrine of
the Chicago platform ; and, however
necessarily and proporly reserved in
regard to candidates, we have no
doubt as to the side which these loyal
Southouers would approve. We recall
the words of Senator Clemons, of Ala
bama, regarding the election of the
Chicago candidate : "From this source
you have nothing to expect but still
greater destitution and prolonged
misery."
PRESIDENT LINCOLN
PLAIN WORDS TO THR PEOPLI
`.Cho President was serenaded at the
White House to-night, and on appear
ing at an upper . liill — Tao - K - gplrirtarre -
lows, being frequently interrupted
with applause :
"I am notified that th;s is a compli
ment paid ma by the loyal Maryland
ers resident in this District. I infer
that the adoption of the now Consti
tution for the State furnishes the occa
sion, and that, in your view, the ex
tirpation of slavery constitutes the
chief merit of the new Constitution.
Most heartily do I congratulate you
and Maryland, and the nation, and the
world upon tho event. I regret that
it did not occur two years P ooiier,
which, I am sure, would have saved
to the nation more money than would
have met all the private loss incident
to the measure. But it has come at
last, and I sincerely hope its friends
may fully realize all their anticipations
of good from it, and that its opponents
may, by its effects, be agreeable and
profitably disappointed.
A .word upon another subject.—
Something said by the Secretary of
State, in his recent speech at Auburn,
has been constructed by some into a
threat that, if I shall be beaten at the
election, I will, between then and the
end of my constitutional term, do what
I may be able to ruin the Government.
Others regard the fact that the Chica
go Convention adjourned not sine die,
but to meet again, if called to do so
by a particular individual, as the inti
mation of a purpose that if their nomi
nee shall he elected he will at once
seize the control of the Government.
I hope the good people will permit
themselves to suffer no uneasiness on
this point.
I am struggling to maintain the
Government, not to overthrow it. I
am struggling especily to prevent oth
ers from overthrowing it. I therefore
say that, if • I shall live, I shall remain
Prosicent until the fourth of next
March, and that whoever shall be con
stitutionally elected therefore, in No
vember, shall be duly installed as presi
dent on the fourth of March, and that
in the interval, 1 shall do my utmost
that Whoever is to hold the helm for
the next voyage shall start with the
best possible chance to save the ship.
This is duo to the people both on
principle and under the Constitution.
Their will, constitutionally expressed,
is the ultimate law for all. If they
should deliberately resolve to have
immediate peace, even at the loss of
their country and their liberties, I
know not the power of the right to re
sist them. It is their own business,
and they must do as they please with
their own. I believe, however, they
aro still resolved to preserve their
country and their liberty; and, in this
office or out, I am resolved to stand
by them.
I may acid that in this purpose to
save the country and its liberties no
classes of people seem so nearly unan•
imous as the soldiers in the field and
the seamen afloat. Do they not •have
the hardest of it ? Who should quail
while they do not? God bless the
soldiers and seamen, with all their
bravo commanders I"
TifEuE in a great deal said about
"Wasbington influence," and it has
been pronounced malign—General
Sheridan came front 'Washing9n di
rect whoa he whipped Longstrcet. It
did not sown to hurt him,
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1864.
EMIZEIM
-PERSEVERE.-
Insurance on .M'Clellans Life.
Every war Democrat who votes for
APClcllan and Pendleton becomes an
insurer of the life of the former; for
no war Democrat would vote for Pen
dleton, the avowed peace-at-any•prico
seeker. If AVClellan should be elected
and should die after his election, Pen
dleton, whom the war Democrat would
not think of voting for as President,
glides into that office. The war Dem
ocrat who votes the Chicago ticket
can only do it upon the basis that he
will run the risk of IPClellan's not
dying during the next four years; ho
is willing to trust his country to the
chanches of the life of one man.
Is there any war Democrat who
owns a house, or a farm, or oven a
good horse, and will agree to give it
up in the event of any particular man's
dying within four years? Select his
most robust and hearty friend, and
propose to the war Democrat to give
a mortgage or transfer of his proper
ty which shall become Valid only in
ease that healthy specimen of mortal
ity shall die within the stipulated pe
riod, and otherwise to be null and void.
Is there one that will agree to it?—
Certainly there cannot bo found ono
so insane. Ar.d yet how many are
there who will blindly place the
on and our eountry in just the very
position into which they would refuse
to put any price of property. Is the
country of less value to them than.
their land or chattels ? We invite an
swers from any war Democrat willing
to give up any piece of property in
the event of 31'Clellan's dying before
November, 1808, and a legal friend
has offered to draw the papers by which
in case such an event as the death of
the young Nepoleon should occur, the
pieces of property- which the patriots
are ready to imperil would enure to
the use of any charitable institution
to be designated by the party putting
up the stakes. We fear that the in
stitutions will "go a begging," and,that
the Copperheads who will peril the
-rate-of a nation - ow - the slim tenure of
a single man's life, will be too cautious
to expose any :port of their worldly
estate to such a risk ; that they will
run the chance of handing their coun
try into the hands of those who have
sworn to destroy it, but will not run
the same risk of their property's going
to the most laudable charity.
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The Transcendent Issue.
The great decision is to be made
two weeks from to-day. The fact of
the American Union will then be set
tled. It is almost impossible io real
ize that an issue of such tremendous
moment is so close upon us, and de
pendent upon the little act of dropping
one bit of paper into the ballot-box
rather• than another. We naturally
associate the settlement of the desti
ny of a great nation with mighty con
vulsions, or with the long operations
of some silent influence. It is some
thing new that it should turn on so
simple and brief an act as casting votes
between the rising and setting of the
sun.
This is now the absolute fact in res
peat.° the grandest nationality the
world has over seen. Tho vote of tho
Bth of November will settle the fate
of this republic, because it will settle
whether the national principle which
holds it together• is or is not, to be
maintained. There is no way where
by this principle can be maintained
except by war against Rebels, its ene
mies. The choice lies between giving
rule to the party which is for such war,
or to the party which has declared
itself against it. If the former keeps
the rule, the war will be ended before
the next Presidential term expires, in
the complete overthrow of the Rebel
lion and the settlement for all time
that the Federal Constitution is in very
truth what it declares itself to be, "the
sup•one law of the land," to be inter
preted and executed solely by public
officers appointed under its own regu
lations. If the latter• takes the rule,
the war will be brought to an immedi
ate close, and it will be left to civil dis
cussion whether actual repudiation of
the Federal Constitution shall be eon
firmed, or merely the right to repudi
ate; or, in other words, whether the
independence of the Conlederacy shall
be recognized, or the Union be recon
structed on Confederate principles.—
This is but a minor question—a ques
tion of manner rather than of result.
Shall the Union perish by the quick
dividing stroke, or by a deadly agen
sy of slower operation ?
It is certain that the Confederates
will not return to the Union under any
peace policy, without a reserve to
themselves of the right of future
peaceable secession. Their foremost
peace advocates have declared this in
the most unegnivocual terms. There
is no possibility of meeting the Rebel
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leaders on peace ground short of that
mark. The leaders of the peach par
ty hero in the North themselves ac
knowledge it, by disclaiming all right
of cooretion.
To abandon the war at this stage is
to surrender that right, and to remit
the Government to a condition of mere
trusteeship, revocable at any time at
the pleasure of any - State. Such a
Government has no element of stabil
ity. It would quickly meet the fate
of our old confederation, shaped after
the same principle. To adopt it, would
be to make the breaking up of the
Union a mere question of time, and
would settle our national fate just as
inevitably as if we were to recognize
the Confederacy to-morrow.
Of course, of the opponents of the
present war Administration, do not
generally acknowledge that any such
result would come from their success.
But they do not say whatresult would
come from it. They shun, as much as
possible, all reference to that matter,
and devote themselves to assaults up
on President Lincoln ; and to produ
cing discontent with the war. Their
conduct of the canvass has done abso
lutely nothing to develop whether the -
Confederateir can be induced to return
to the Union at all by a discontinu,
anee ot the war. On that - vital point
they have nothing to show, and for
the simple reason that there is nothing
to show that would make in their fa-
EC/
Further than an ousting of Presi
dert Lincoln and a "cessation of hos
tilities," they aro without policy or
programme. To the clearest demon
stration that the national authority,
without which no nation can live, is at
stake; they uniformly avoid definite
answer. They have a few incoherent
generalities about maintaining the
Union, but not the least semblance of
a practical measure calculated to in
sure it. Party success is their sole
aim. Beyond that, they desire noth
ing,. seek nothing.
Even if there: were definite plans for
the restoration of the Union tiff - Mfg - IT
peace, they can rest only on theory,
and ought not to be trusted. There is
a "logic of events" in great national
junctures, before which, all preconceiv
ed designs aro nothing. The confect
crates schemed 1,0. take their States
out of the Union without serious war,
and were sure they would accomplish
it, But, once praitically engaged in
the movement, they found themselves
borne, in spite of themselves, into the
most terrible war, of modern times.
Every calculation was foiled, every
theory scattered to the winds. Had
they fureot>ecx whit they wr.kr() coming
to, they would have wooed destruction
itself -sooner than law° undexunkon
this business of secession. Precisely
so will all Northern theories and plans
for a restoration of the Union by ne
gotiation fail. The peace movement
once prevailing, it would sweep on,
bearing doWn everything in its way',
to any extent of disorganization.—
Whatever the South demanded would
be yielded to them. Even their Con
federacy itself would probably be re
cognized, if they were the only alter
native to the resumption of a war
which has been pronounced a "failnre."
it is the height of presumption for any
man who professes to be for the Uni
on to trust, its fortunes to what he
merely hopes and supposes would re:
salt from a peace policy. Consider
ing the almost infinite interests at stake
we might Well call it an absolute in
fatuation.
The safety of the Union can be so
cured only by maintaining the princi
ple of national authority. The Uni
on party alone holds firm to that prin
ciple; and war is the only instrumen
tality by which it can be vindicated
and secured. shall the Union party
prevail ? Shall the war be maintain
ed These are the questions that
will be determined two weeks .from
today. All that constitutes the real
life of the nation depends on the de
cision
VS., At a McClellan meeting in Cin
cinnati one of the banners represented
McClellan and Jeff. Davis shaking
hands—'`exhausting all the ants of
statesmanship."
11F.„, In Chester county not less than
thirty mills are at'work, manufactu
ring Sorghum syrup. The price charg
ed is 25 to 30 cents per gallon.
"SERGEANT, •you have come
home, I suppose, to vote the Democra
tic; ticket„' said n merchant in New
Bedford to a veteran who entered his
store.
"I have been shooting Democrats. or
three years," said the soldier. "I am
not in the habit of voting for the game
I kill:
TERMS, $1,50 a year in advance.
Front tho Cairo, (III.) Dally Nom:
Horrible Atrocity;
The Law Abiding "Democracy" Blus
trated—Assassination of an Enrolting
Officer—The Body cynic in the River
—Full C6lVession of one of the Mur
dereriz—Seven Arrests Wade. •
We had detailed to us last evening
tho particulars of ono of the most das
tardly and cold blooded assassinations
that has over occurred in this State,
rivalling, in bloody and fiendish atroc
ity, the most horrid tales of savage
barbarity committed by the Indians
in tho early history of the country.
Capt. M'Carty, formerly of the 42d
Indiana,and enrolling officer for Reeves
township, Daviess county, started on
Alonday last to notify the drafted men
of the township. In the afternoon,
while riding along the road in the
southeast part of tho county, ho was
shot by men in ambush, and, as it ap
pears from tho confession of one of
the conspirators, by a detachment of
eighteen who banded together for this
purpose.
After killing .11fCarty they placed
the body on a Bled and dragged it the
distance of one and a half miles to
White river, and, tying a large stone
to the body sunk it in the river. His
horse ran to a house, not far off, and
was taken pp but not recognized.
On Tuesday his family beeonling
alarmed at his protracted absence, in
quiry was made in relation to his
movements, and his horse was.found,
.and traces-of- blood discovered on the
saddle.
Ono man was arrested on suspicion
I of having committed the murder, but
no proof of his guilt could be adduced
and ho was liberated. On Thursday
the place of his assassination was dis
covered, and the track of the 'sled trac
ed to the river bank.
The man who had been arrested ae
ompanied the party on the search,
and when the body was dragged from
the water, stricken with remose ' he
burst out crying, Mid declared that
though his hands were clear of MT.sar
ty's blood his heart was not, and then
proceeded to Make a Intl confession of
his guilt, and of the damnable conspir
acy that had been sot on footand thus
cowardly executed. Eighteen had
banded together for this purpose, and
on Monday, knowing of the moves
ments of Capt. :11I'Carty,had , divided
into squads and waylaid the .different
roads along. Whieh they supposed he
-- would pass,. Five men fornietrtlio
squad that did the killing.
He gave the names of the entire.
band, and seven of them had been ar
. rested and sent to Indianapolis, and it
is"hoped by this morning the entire
eighteen will have been secured.
Capt. M'Carty is represented by all
who know him as an excellent and es
timable man, and even the man who
murdered him so cowardly and cruel
ly bore this testimony to his charac
ter.
Thus has another good man, an es
timable citizen; a man who has serv
ed his country in the field, an officer
of the Government while in the prop
er discharge of his duty; been foully,
cowardly and brutally murdered in
cold blood, by his noi,ghborsby those,
some of them, who had grown up as
playmates with him.
Let the people reflect upon these in
dications of the spirit of rebellion in
oar own State, and let all honest men
fbisalte a party that has encouraged
such acts.
This is ono of the legitimate fruits
of the teachings of the Vincennes
iSun and the Evansville• Times, and
other Copperhead papers.. Every
man engaged in this diabolical act is
a Copperhead, and intended to vote
for It'Clellau and Joe 31!Donald.--
(Evansville Journal.)
We all know the preparations of
this most abominable deed, and would
almost bet that wo could namo the
very man who perpetrated it. Four
years ago, we were publishing a 'pa
per in Daviess county, called'' the
Washington Democrat, a Douglas or
gan, and the victim, Captain M'Carty,
was ono of our most ardent friends
and supporters. Ito too, was a Doug
las Democrat, and was ono of the few
friends who stood by us when the
Democracy, led by old Ben. Goodwin;
the sheriff' of the county,
took the county patronage
away from us because, forsoothO, we
published and endorsed the last speech
of Stephen A. Douglas. They said
Douglas had turned Abolitionist, and
they would support no man who sup
ported him. It is this gang of men
who have foully murdered our old
friend, Capt. M'Carty, as good a -Uni
on man (thoug,h a Democrat,) as. ever
lived. Captain M'Carty is another
victim to Copporheadism—his blood is
on the souls of these damnable trai
tors, and may they roast in hell for the ,
dastardly act in our sincere prayer.—
This nefittious proceeding is the legiti
mate result of Copperhead teaching.
Day by day, we hear accounts of Cop
perhead outrages of this kind, and yet
when the military arrest the ring lea
ders of this iniquitous party and place
them in prison, it is hearlded through
out the country As an outrage 5 and
"arbitrary arrest," etc.. Had we the
power, we would make short work of
these f'/lows, and lot their foul car
casses dangle from the and of a rope.
There is no use tampering with them;
it is but compromising with the devil.
Let the Government be more vigorous,
say we, and let them howl, until their
lungs, like the Irishman's pig, "gin
out." The Government must protect
its loyal citizens, even if it becomes
necessary to hang a few worthless trai
tors higher than Haman. The time
has come when the issue must he made
fairly and squarely. Wo must destroy
or be destroyed. Which policy will
American citizen do.?ide upon ?
Prisoners Paroled to Serve undet
General McClellan.
Wo print, as follows, an important
statement, now to the public+, but in
its present shape, attested by the law ;
and sworn and subscribed to by a Un
ion soldier before respectable and well
known witnesses; its value as en index
is great. -Whatever may be thought
of General MeCumr,LAN, it cannot be
disputed that oven the most inveter
ate rebel desires his election to the
Presidency. Tho meanness and folly
of the act which a Union soldier's
sOlemn oath puts upon-record belcitr,
are far exceeded by the cruelty with
which our soldiers have been treated
in the prisons of the South; and per
haps we shall realize that after All, to
Use an old idea, knaves are nothing
more than fools by a kind of ciroum.
bendibus :
NO. 18.
Montgomery Cotinty;ss.
Personally 'appeared hdfoi'd
justice of the peace in and for said
county, Franklin Schwenk, of Upper
Providence to wship, Montiomery
county, and State
.of Ponnsylvaniaj - a
private of Company H, 13th Regiment
Pennsylvania Catalty; who, on Ids
solemn oath, deposeth and says, that
on the 9th day of March, 1864, he was
taken -prisoner near Bristow Stailon,
Va., and coveyed to Bello Isle prlschi;
and from .thence to General Hospital
No. 21,- in Richmond; that on the last
day of . August, 3864, the Director of
said hospital waited on him, and pro.
posed to parole him and to perna,it him
to return home if ho would promise td
vote for George B. McClellan at the
approaching election ; that he, the
said Franklin Schwenk, in order to es
cape from starvation and rebel atrocity,
did make said promise, and therefore
was paroled. The said Franklin Sch
wenk further says, under his solemn
oath, that all prisoners of said hospi
tal who frankly and positively said
they would vote for Abraham Lincoln
wore not paroled, but retained in said
hospital.
'FRANKLIN SCAWE - Nlt.
Witnesses present: Dr. Warron ithyrei
Samuel Pennypacker.
Sworn and subscribed to before me ;
this 10th day of October, 1864.
TEELCRY W.
Justice of the Peace.
Will men who doclaro their faith ink
the Union still doubt that the hest
way to servo the ruinous purpose of
the robels is to vote that faction into
power which made Gen. IdoCLELLAN's
nomination unanimous?
gQr. There is a great deal said about
"Washington iniluonce," and . it hUS ,
been pronounced malign—General
Sheridan came from Washington di—
rect when he whipped Longs treot. It
did not seem to hurt him.
PLATFORM OF THE cfEEIC'AG'0 0
CON MENTION.
l'he resolutions adopted by the Con—
vention which nominated McMillan
and Pendleton at Chicagct on the 31st
of August, 1864, are as follows:
Resolved, That in the future, as ie
the past, we will adhere with unswer;-
ving fidelity to the - Union, under the'
Constitution, of the only solid founda
tion of our strength, security and hap
piness as a people, and as the frame,
work of the Government, equally con
ducive to the welfare and prosperity
of all tho : States, both Northern and
Southern.
Resolved, That this Convention does
explicitly declare, as the sense of the
American people, that after four years , -
of failure to restore the Union by the'
experiment of war, during which, uti--
der the pretence of military necessity,
or the war-powor, higher than the
Constitution itself has been disregar
ded in every pail, and public liberty
and private right alike trodden down ;
and the material prosterity of the
country essentially impaired, and that
justice, humanity, liberty and the pith
lie welfare demand that immediate
efforts be made for the cessation of
hostilities, with a view to the ultimate
convention of all the States, or other'
peacable means to that end, that at
the earliest practicable moment peace
may be restored on the basis of thou
Federal Union of the States.
Resolved, That the direct interfer:,.
once of the authority of the United
States in the recent elections held in - .
Kentucky, Maryland Missouri and ,
Delaware was a shameful violation of
the Constitution, and a repetition of
such acts in the approaching elections
will be held a 4 revolutionary, and will
be resisted with all the means and
power under our control.
Resolved, That the aim and object
• of the Democratic party is to preserve,
the Federal Union and the rights of
the. States unimpaired, and they here
by declare that they consider the ad
ministrative usurpation of extraordi- -
nary and dangerous powers not gran- .
ted by the Constitution, and supervis- -
ion of civil by military law in the ,
States not in insurrection, the arbi
trary military arrest, imprisonment,
trial and sentence of American citi
zens in States where civil law exists
in full force, the suppression of free
dom of speech and of thepress, the de
nial of the right of asylum,
the open
and avowed disregard of State rights,
the employment of unusual test oaths,
and the interference with and denial
of the right of the people to bear
arms, as calculated to prevent the res
toration of the Union and a perpotua•
tion of a Government deriving, its just
powers from the consent of the gov
erned.
Resolved, That the shameful disre
gard of the Administration to its du
ty in respect to our fellow-citizens who
now, and long have been prisonerS,
and.arp now in a suffering condition,
deserves the severest reprobation on
the score alike of public and common
humanity. -
Resolved, That the sympathy of tho
great Democratic party is heartily
and earnestly extended to the soldiery
of our army, who aro and hnve been
in the field under the flag of our coun
try, and in the event of our attaining
power they will receive all caro, pro
tection, regard and kindness that the
bravo soldiers of our Republic have so
nobly earned. . •
The resolutions were adopted with
but four dissenting voices ,