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EVENING EDITION.
A VOICE PROM THE ARMY.
Air—" Just before the battle."
Just before the election, brothers,
We are thinking most of you,
, While on picket, or in trenches,
"With the enemy in view."
Bravely we have - fought and suffered,
And with wounds and fever died,
That the bright tri-colored banner
Still may float in starry pride.
Cuo.—Listen, brother, you may never
Hear from us in life again,
But, oh! you:11 not forget us, brothers,
If we're numbered with the slain.
Every night, in dreams we. see you,
In those pleasant Northern homes,
Where the peaceful dawn of morning,
Brings no stirring roll of drums,
And it costs a pang of sorrow
That ungrateful men there be
Who would sell their country's honor
And her soldier's liberty.
Cao.—Tell them we can face the bullets
That their "Southern friends" shall send,
But, oh ! we'll not forget them. brothers,
When this "cruel war" shall end.
All along the rebel earthworks
We have savage shoutings heard,
You will scarcely believe it, brother,
But "McClellan" was the word.
Think of that, ye Northern voters,
Will you make such demons gloat? -
Ask our fallen comrades' widows,
They will tell you hoW to vote.
Cuo.---Sonless mothers, weeping sisters,
Raise imploring hands to you,
And, oh! you'll not forget, brothers,
And destroy their country too.
Let the traitors keep their pity,
We are soldiers, and can bear
All the hardships of the struggle,
And courage yet to spare;
And we ask no wiser helmsman
At the ship of State than he
Who has paid, and fed, and clothed us
As the army of the Free.
Crea.—llark it is the bugle sounding,
Grant still finds us work to . do,
But, oh! we'll not forget those traitors,
When this bloody war is thro'.
THE EQUATORIAL REGIONS. —ln a letter to
a friend, written the day before his death,
the late Captain Spoke, the African traveler,
said : "There is no richer land in the world
than the equatorial regions, and nothing more
of importance to the interests of Egypt, as
well as our own merchants, than that of open
ing up those lands to legitimate commerce."
Ir is stated that in Cochin China, where
brandees go to the play, the actors fare rather
adly. If the groat man does not approve of
their performance, he waves his hand, and his
suit Immediately rush upon the nnforttmate
performer and administer a sound drubbing
with the bamboos.
A HOME Woaderi.—Abigail Fogg died re
cently in N. H. During her long life of nine
ty-four years, running back to 1770, or six
years before the revolutionary war, she never
left the town in which she lived.
Two TOM% ladies have disappeared very
mysteriously from New Haven, Conn., within
a week past. A body, supposed to be the re
mains of one of them, was found in a coal
yard last Saturday.
Calomel. BROWN, recently returned from
imprisonment under fire at Charleston, has
been assign'ed to the command of Hart's Is
land, New York bay.
THE ex-King of Naples hasn't got much roy
alty, property, kingdom or crown left, but he
wants to borrow $3,000,000 on what there is
of it.
A I.L&N in Chicago, who had acquired the
bad habit of taking drinks and not paying for
them, was recently shot dead by a bar-tender,
to settle the account.
A no of eighteen, named Eads, employed
in the Quartermaster's Department at Nash
ville, has obtained $50,000 by forgery, and
decamped.
Md . = Mummy has been sentenced to the
Boston House of Correction for six months;
for unmercifully beating his child with a cane.
A. KAN named Murray has been arrested in
Boston on a charge of murder committed six
years ago.
TEE Emperor of Russia's hotel bill during
three weeks of travel recently, was $35,000.
40,000,000 francs are expended in supplying
Paris with fresh water,
Oslo this year yields 1,500 to 2,000 pounds
of tobacco to the acre. •
J 39 tr,eienrapQ.
Great Union Meetings
Lincoln, Johnson and Victory
GREAT SPEECHES BY ELOQUENT ORATORS
Pennsylvania Will Give an Immense Majority
for the Union Nominees,
Special Dispatch to the Telegraph,]
PIaLADELPHLt, Oct. 31.
The Union League are still hard at work in
the cause of Lincoln, Johnson, Union and
Victory.
Col. B. Stockett Mathews' speech at the
Hall of the League, was a masterly effort,
and sound in argument. He made converts
to the cause. He spoke to-night at Chestnut
MU, in the northern rural part of Philadel
phia, eleven miles distant from the centre of
the city.
The Hon. John Cessna, Hon. F. Hassaurek,
Ron. Lewis Baker, and Dr. Chas. Meigs spoke
this evening Tinder the auspices of the Union
Leltlrtir of thislity.
The League is in possession of news from
different partrot tte - Sta - airreirisylvania,
from whieh it is rendered very 'certain that
Lincoln and Johnsimwill receive such a heavy ,
majority as will essentially mash Jeff Davis
and Ws copperhead allies. C. C. IV.
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BY GEORGE BERGNER.
FROM BUFFALO.
• —.—
Preparations to Defend the City A gainst
Raiders.
The cityls being patrolled by the military
and police, in anticipation of the raiders, but
none have yet appeared.
Last night companies were stationed at the
elevators and around the docks,• but nothing
occurred, through the prompt action of the
authorities, and the fact that the militEiry
were all out yesterday attending General-Bid
well's funeral, entirely frustrated the rebel
plans. Many suspicious persons have been
observed in town within a few days, and it is
even stated by some that rockets were thrown
up, and guns fired by unknown parties, for
the purpose of signalling to parties on the
opposite shore.
The Vermont Bank Robbery.
MONTREAL, Oct. 31st.
The Confederate managers in the case of the
St. Albans raiders, in the event of a decision be
ing given by the Canadian Court to surrender
up the raiders, intend appealing to a. : Judi
cial Committee of the Privy Council in Eng
land.
It is reported that the United States Gov
ernment has notified England of their inten
tion to increase their armament on the lakes
for the purpose of protecting the frontiers.
The Secesh Railroad Guard.
ALEXANDRIA, VA., Oct. 31.
The citizens of Secesh sympathy, who have
been detained for special service in guarding
our trains running on theArange and Alexan
dria railroad, are feeling somewhat uneasy in
their new duty, from a 'threat Moseby has
made, that their presence should not deter
him from attacking the trains as formerly.—
Mr. Wells A. Harper has lieen added to the
number doing guard duty.
Markets by Telegraph.
There is very little trade doing in any de
partment, and no life is anticipated until
after the Presidential election. Cloverseed
commands $lO 50®11, and flaxseed $3 25.
There is very little shipping demand for Flour,
but holders are firm in their views; sales 500
barrels extra family at $ll 25®12, and fancy
at $l2 25. Rye flour steady at $9. In Corn
Meal nothing doing, There is again an up
ward movement in Wheat, and 5,000 bushels
red sold at $2 56 for Penna., $2 50 for South
ern. White held at $2 75®2 80. Sales Rye
at $i 67. Corn scarce, and yellow commands
$1 70. Oats steady at 88c. In Groceries and
Provisions no change. Petroleum quiet; we
quote crude at 40, refined in bond 62®64;
and free - at 80082. Residuum is held at IW.
Whisky moves slowly at $1 78 for Ohio, and
$1 76 for drudge.
Nxw Yoaa, Oct. 31.
Flour has advanced 10c for State ; sales of
12,000 bbls at $9 95®10 20 for State ; $lO
85@12 25 for Ohio, and $ll 90015 00 for
Southern. Wheat advanced I®2c with un-:
important sales. Corn firm; sales unimport
ant. Beef dull, Pork steady; sales of 1H
000 bbls at $43 00043 121. Lard firm at.
20®22 kc. Whisky dull.
BALTIMORE, October 31.
Flour firm; Howard street superfine $ll.
Wheat has an advancing tendency; the mar
ket active, and prices &gbh higher; South
ern White $3, Kentucky White s2@2 88.
Corn dull and heavy. Whisky dull.
New York Stock Markets.
Gold quoted at 2211. Stocks better; Chica
go and Rock Island 984; Cumberland pre
ferred 62f ; Illinois Central 128 f; ditto
bonds 1151: Michigan Southern 711; New
York Central 1221; Reading 1321; Hudson
river 122'4; Canton Company 34; Missouri 6s
604; Erie R. R. 97f; One year Certificates
95f.
Philadelphia Stock. Market
PioLiDELPirre, October 31.
• Stocks steady; Pennsylvania s's 934; Read
ing Railroad, 664; Morris Canal, 93; Long
Island 46; Pennsylvania Railroad, 70. Ex
change on New York par.
NEW ADVDRTISEMENTS.
PEIPHER'S DAILY LINE
BETWEEN PHILADELPHIA,
Lock Raven Jersey Shore, Williamifott,
•lintOntown, WatsontOtvi t. • Milton,
Lewisbnig, Iforthumberhind, Sun
bury, Treverton, Creorgetovvn, •
Lykeustown, Millersburg,
Halifax, Dauphin,
A.ND HARRISBURG.
The Philadelphia Depot being centrally located, the
drayage will be at the lowest rates. The Conductor goes
through with each train to attend to the safe delivery of
all goods intrusted to the line. Goode delivered at the de
pot of WILLIAM E. BURK, 812 Market street,
Philadelphia, by d o'clock P. x., will be delivered in Her
!Labium the neat morning.
'Freight Always as Lew as by Arty Other
Line.
JOS. MONTGOMERY 80
Philadelphia and Reading Depot,
oet2l•t( Foot of Market Street, Harrisburg,
NEW LIQUOR STORE.
IMPORTANT TO LANDLORDS AND
OTHERS.—The undersigned offent at whotesate,to
the trade, a choice lot of the - best fivers ever brought to
Harrisburg, viz: French, Dr.ofdies, Holland Gins, Scotch,
Irish, Bourbon, Wheat WWI R3le Whisky; For jet"
and Domestic Wines; soak as OMMpagne,, Card, Catawba;
ific. All liquors warranted; as represented. Landlordfi
and others will find it to their advantage to call and ex
amine the assortment at the store, on South Second
Street, two doors below Chestnut.
mr2746ra • GEORGE WINTERS
'VRENCH CHALK AND PENCILS,
j: Suitable for Banks, Offices,
At Schelrer's Bookstore, Harrisburg, Pa. se29
ENGLISH BREA K FAST - TEEL—just
colv.ed t a fine cheat of English Breakfast Tei4 at -
SEMLER' & RAZER'S,
(Snowmen to Wan. Dock. JO
A TEEM supply of Hiohenefo Celebrated
Beim Cared Boma and Dried Beef, at
no2SI BOYMAJCIWRERIL
IMOONOMY NESS SHAD.—We received a
fresh let this morning, at
sep7,s BOYER & REAPER'S
MICEMParki-exceloiOr-hasio, of thief Seas
Am , . =tug. Just reboil's:l addtor [isle by
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"THE UNION—NOW , AND FOREVER."—Webste.
BUFFALO, October 31
Parc,u)maquA, Oct. 31
NEW YoA; Oct. 31
HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENTING, NOVEMBER 1, 1864
HEAR A MINISTER OF CHRIST
EX - POSE - T R A. I TOR S!
And Denounce Treason ! !
cathing Review of the Chicago Convention
A Democrat Demolishing Mod
ern Democracy.
The Peace Panic—lts Authors and Objects,"
[CONCLUDED,]
17. The origin of this peace-at-any : price
platform issued at Chicago, by the combined •
factions in the loyal States, is as shameful
and traitorous as its spirit is fraudulent and
hateful. The New York correspondent of the
London Times, under date of August Bth, in
forms his employers that the Clifton House
(in Canada, at Niagara Falls,) had become a
center of negotiations between the Northern
friends of peace and Southern agents. This
British publication is dated twenty-one days
before the meeting of the Chicago Conven
tion ; and at that period this foreign agent,
and probably spy, was accurately informedlof
what the compact contained, which these
Southern agents and the Northern friendsof
peace had'agreed en after negotiation. An
armistice—a convention of the States--the
withdrawal of the arbitrament of the sword—
the nomination of a president on this plat
form—and,the defeat of Mr. Lincoln by all
possible means; this is the compact, as stated
by: the British agent twenty-one clays before
the Chicago Convention met. This is the ei
senee of the Platform actually adopted by
that body—in proof of its complicity—and
ratified by its partisans everywhere. The
peace patriots, and the British agent, and the
- Southern traitms, all mutually furnish proof
against each other, of the audacious proceed
ing. For while the proof against the whole.
of them is compl etc, Mr. George Saunders,
the companion of Mr. Holcombe and Mr.
Clay, makes a ape oial record as to the com
plicity of the peaco patriots with the Southern
traitors, after the fact. As soon as the doings
of the Chicago Convention were completed,
he telegraphs from St. Catherine's, Canada
West, on the Ist of September, to Mr. D.
Wier, of Halifax, that the Platform and Presi
dential nominee were unsatisfactory (that is,
were not bad enough--nor possibly quite up
to his notion of the contract ;) but that the
Vice President and the speeches were sat
isfactory. This Mr. Wiex is said to be a, Con
federate agent at Halifax, and an accomplice
of the patriots and traitors in conference.
Mr. Saunders desires Mr. Wier to tell .Phil
more not to oppose the result reached at
Chicago. Mr. Philmore is said to be the con
ductor of the insurgent organ, in London.
Mr. Saunders seems tehave still conflded:iii
the fidelity of the factions Who had cheated
him and his colleagues a little—had cheated
each other a great deal, and had combined to
cheat the nation out of its honor, its safetY,
and perhaps its lifb ; confided in them, that
is, far enough to trust'them for the full exe
cution of the terms agreed on at Chicago ;
though the Chicago aspect of these terms was
not so good, for the rebels, as the aspect of
them agreed on hit Canada. Every one um.
derstands that Ger ieral McClellan's acceptance
is considered by the peace-panic men an at
tempt to take the
. platform for substance only
—while lie takes he chance of the Presiden
cy, without the let tst equivocation. How Mr.
Saunders and his accomplices, how that por
tion of the Dem , at.racy which is conspiring in
the North forth& portion fighting in the South
—in short, how all the affiliated patriots, trai
tors, and conspirator s—will digest their mu.
teal and multifarious cheats, intrigues, expo
sures, and perils, we do not pretend to under
stand. But we do perfectly understand, that
every American heart that is in the right
place, will turn with horror from a conspiracy,
at once so black with tre.sson, so base in de=
sign, and so degrading in the manner of its
execution, as the one we have developed—
and of whose existence and action we con
sider the proof conclusive.
18. It adds another shade of turpitude to
this peace fraud, and furnishe Is another damn
ing proof that the real obje let of this peace
conspiracy was to aid the rebe is, even by the
dektruction of the nation; the t every one en.
gaged in concocting it arid end oirsingit, knew
perfectly well that it was impossible to make
any peace with the insurgents i nt the way they
pretend, or in any other way, ex cept by con
quering them, or by giving then independent
national existence. From the very begin
ning, this is what every rebel Ste; te, what the
Confederate Government, with every rebel
who has spoken or written, what every im
portant event in the history of th .e revolt—
has continually proclaimed. TO separate
from the United States and make a new and
independent nation—for what purp me, or for
how many purposes, is immaterial h ere—was
the very object of their whole thirty • years of
treasonable efforts, preceding the civil war;
of the secession of every one of tht 3 eleven
States, that united in that war and in t, be Con
federacy that has waged it; and of a 11 their
sacrifices, cruelties and crimes &lint ± that
way:. Every man who forfeited his life 131 v trea
sonable conferences with the rebel agm its at
Chicago, knew this, andknew that this was still
the frantic and unchangeable purpose oft very
rebel authority to which peace could be pro
posed. Every man who has forfeited th e eon
'fidence of his country, by taking part i n or
ganizing the Democratic party, and as hung
secret bands of traitors ?, and menacing • was
upon the Government, and raising this tu Thu
lent and seditious clamor, all for the exp iTeSS
purpose of forcing us M bake, cowardly, rind
fatal attempts at peace, knew -all this with ab
solute certainty.' We are &bilged, therefin'e,
to say that a Most fatal and gigantic fraud is
attempted upon the peop'ie of the United
States, by means of this pence panic; and t hat
the object of the fraud can be no other than: to
gain-power through our mational htimiliation,
and ruin, or to co=operate with the insurge.nts
in establishing their treason. What, special
motives might actinktF3 American citizens to
seek power thus or to use it thus when stib-
Mined, is an inquiry - 1 %/doh throws open te us
all the passions, the ill iterests, the Weaknesses,
the corruptions. of # monstrous period .in
Which we live. Our duty is to defeat, the ter
rible design.; to prey cut the attainment of tlhe
fatal ohlieefa pmpos_ed; to hold :44
such attempts rest t ionsible for them; to' extir
pate, root and bn 'snob, the dangers aiiia
threaten the natic After that peace. .
19. It is the en ,moron outcry ,of. the North
ern• section o 1 - the rebellion, that the
Southern seotiv a will change their minds as
eoon as their Northern friends come in pos
session of the Federal Government, and will
agree readily to make peace without independ
ence, If they believed these, why did they
attempt to make a double-faced platform ?
Why did they concert with rebel agents in
Canada, the execrable terms contained in that
platform? Why do the agents of the rebel
Government, and all peace panic accom
plices, distrust General McClellan—and why
do all sincere sympathizers with the insur
gents dread the incompatibility between the
candidate and the platform? Why does not
some whisper of Peace, without independence,
come from some rebel Government, General,
or State, to help their Northern accomplices
in this moment of impending wrath? And
yet, if some mixture,of truth lurked in these
fraudulent, professions, it is easy to under
stand that there, are, in the nature of things,
terms on which such traitors as the Southern
conspirators, and such accomplices as their
Northern supporters, might substantially ac
complish what they desire, if the Northern
conspirators can only . obtain power. 'Mus—
a new'confederacy might be formed, embrac
ing all the States; but uniting them in a
league, as if each State was a nation—instead
of being united, as now, into one nation—
made up of States.and people, under a com
mon government. Or, there might be three
or four great confederacies carved out of the
nation, the nation itself being destroyed, and
each of the new confederacies being only a
league. Or these leagues, each constituted iof
many States,inight be again united into one
confederacy, in which the great leagues only
would stand related to each other. And very
obvious conditions might be added against
. us, and for the benefit of the successful party,
in the unjust war which this peace party as
serts that we are urging. As, for example :
that we pay their expenses of the war ; that
we pay for the lost negroes and the destroyed
property of every kind ; that we guarantee
the restoration and the perpetual security of
negro slavery in all the States where it ex
isted, and in all the Territories ; with many
more of .a similar character—till very honora
ble and satisfactory in the view of such
Americans as will agree to put into power 'a
party capable of such disinterested complian
ces. We wish every sane man who reads this
paragraph, would stop and consider what the
men deserve,' who desire such things—or
things having the very least resemblance to
them—to happen to this ; great and free
nation ! We wish he would try to make his
mind up, as to what must happen tea mighty
and heroic people, before any such things as
any of these can come to pass! We wish he
would determine within himself, what such a
nation, such a people, will do after any such
things have been put upon them, by force or
by fraud—and they hate - waked up to the tre
mendous reality ! .
• 20. But suppose we agree to believe that ,
the war is an utter failure, • on' our part, and
also agree o believe all the other declarations,
dependent, on AO ,one ; which any one can
believe ; who sees nothingtokbeqtrue,unless it
suits lug Purpose, and nothing to be falSe un
less it stands in his way. Suppose, moreover,
we agree to see that our duty as brave, wise,
and patriotic citizens obliges us to give our
adhesion to the peace panic party, and crown
their seditious and anarchical movement with
triumph; which any one can 'attempt as soon
as he has, lest the power of diatinguishing be
tween good and evil The peact party ob
tains power. But it professes to be loyal to
the Constitution and the Union. And it
knows the rebels will conclude peace with
them by giving up their mad purpose of in
dependence, and returning to their formei
status in the Union. Now we encounter at
the threshold of every attempt to put these
principles into practice, constitutional diffi
culties,. on both sides, which are inseparable,
and in the: face of which all negotiation is
absurd. Mr. Davis is the President of a Con
federate Government of sovereign States,
with specially defined powers. He has said
continually, and most truly, that he had no
power at all to destroy that Confederacy, by
treaty ; no power to mar it, by surrendering
any one of these sovereignties to the United
States ; nopower to negotiate with the United
States, on the , subject ofslavery, or any other
subject exclusively belonging to each of these
sovereignties ; no power to stipulate that
either of them shall unite in -the convention
of States, demanded by the Chicago Platform
Mr. Davis continually asserts, that he has no
power to treat about any of these matters
that if he had full power, he would not treat
about any of them, and that the complete re
cognition of the independence of the Con
federate States, is the sine qua non, prelimi..
nary to any treaty stipulation with any power
on earth. On the part of the rebel Govern
ment, there stands the first practical lesson
to be studied by these crazy devotees of States
rights,
as soon as their fraudulent promises
are to be conciliated with their anarchical doc
trines and their traitorous desires. The wholei
secession theory explodes--or every Demo
--
Grade promise of peace, with reunion, by
treaty, and without rebel independence, ex
plodes. Nor is the impossibility of peace,
by treaty, with or tithout reunion, less abso
lute on the part of the Federal Government.
This matter does not lie in the domain of the
treaty-making power of the Federal Govern
ment. The President and the Senate can not
compound a rebellion, which the Constitu
tion and the lawn require' to be suppressed.
These confederates are neither more nor less'
than rebels in arms. The President might
pardon them, op their returning to their obe
dience to the Constitution and the laws of the
United States. He might do this, in behalf
of any individeal, after conviction—possibly
before that ;he might do it, on the latter sup
position, in behalf of every individual in any
particular State ; and therefore, in behalf of
all, in all rebel States. But if he were to do
so, except upon condition of their return to
obedience, he would prostitute the powers of
his great office.. His only alternative is to
quell them by every proper means at his dis
posal, and in the exercise of every power
vested in him, by the Constitution and the
laws. What these are, and how far a state of
war warrants, by the Constitution' and the
laws, innumerable acts demanded by the
safety of the State, which would be mon
strous under other circumstances ; there is no
occasion to examine here. Whoever will
carefully examine the Constitution of
the United States, will be struck with
astonishment at the' boundless comps*
hension of the powers bestowed by it on the
Etovertnnent and its dliferentidepartmentsolo
far as regards the,ends for Which. the '
; 'people
Of the Mated States' did "ordain and estab
lish" it. - And those -indri, great beyond
precedent, involve all that is now at stake,
"in order to form a more. perfect_ Unimak. es
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tablishlustice, insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defence, promote the
PRICE THREE. CENTS.
general welfare, and secure the blessings of
liberty to ourselves and our posterity." But
not a valid, not a syllable, about changing
the. Constitution otherwise, or for other ob
jects, than is provided in its own terms. Not
a word about the destruction, the dissolution,
the division or the reconstruction of the na
tion. Not a word about a treaty by or with
any State, or with or between any combina
tion of States, except that it is directly forbid
den (Article I, Sec. 10, p. 1;) thus rendering
the very idea, as well as the mode of exist
ence of the Confederate Government, a Con
stitutional nullity, and forbidding the Federal
Government, whose first duty is to suppress
it, to make any comp6sition with it concern
ing its crimes or its continued existence, or
with any State that adheres to it. Let
reader observe that these insuperable difficul
ties, on both sides, which no mode of con
struing human obligations and rights can
evade, are rendered more and more potent as
the doctrines of strict construction and State
sovereignty are more stringently held. It is
curious to see how these Secessionists and their
allies axe swamped, at the first crisis, by the
operation of their own political extravagance.
21. The doctrine of the peace panic pro
ceeds thus: The wards a failure; the Consti
tution is set aside "in every point;" under the
pretence ' "of a Mitary necessity or war
power;" "public liberty and pfivate right (are)
alike trodden down;" "the material prosperity
of the country (is) essentially impaired;" on
which accounts, 'justice, humanity, liberty,
and the public welfare demand, that an im-
mediate effort be made for the cessation of
hostilities." This cessation of hostilities is,
therefore, meant to be, and will be, necessa
rily the end of all further war--as the plat
form of the united factions immediately pro
ceeds to declare, as we will see presently. It
is one of the ludicrous effects of putting a
war candidate on a peace platform, that Gen
eral McClellan, ;while accepting the state
ments of the Convention why the war should
cease, and accepting also the method pro
posed by which it must end at once, should
be obliged, by respect for himself, to repudi
ate the infamy involved in the inevitable 'con
clusion. The temptation is too much for him;
so also is the degradation they united 'with it.
When he is beaten, it will be a consolation to
him to reflect that the temptation which over
came him, did not make him degrade himself.
If he should chance to be elected,'his country
ought to be that much safer in' his hands,
that he has repudiated the infamy of a dis
graceful peace, 'as the end of a just, necessary
and successful war. But these statements, on
which unconditional peace is made the-basis
of the platform on which he runs—which he
must be held to indorse, while he refuses to
indorse their conclusion—are, in part, palpa
bly false, in part utterly absurd, and as to all
that are trim in any sense or degree—the Chi
cago Convention, and those they represent in
the North, and those they co-operate with in
the South, are a million timed more to blame
than thoke=they aecitise.. 'AMA 'the first result
they seek, and which he Mast 'beheld to ac
cept--immediate-cessation of --hostilities—is
.
conclusive against the party that supports
him, and against . his fitness to hold a mili
tary commission in our army; much less to be
I President and Commander-in-chief:' What
can the nation possibly gain •by an ordinary
cessation of hostilities, that will relatively
weaken the rebellion or strengthen the nation?
Absolutely nothing. On the - contrary. in the
present state of the tan, and' the parties to it,
any change produced 'by a general cessation
of hostilities would necessarily be favorable to
the rebellion, 'and damaging to the nation. If
the rebels were' to ask for such a cessation of
hostilities, with the openly avowed purpose
of returning at,once to their allegance as loyal
people and States, the unconditional and im
mediate granting of thekzequest would be a
, subject requiring grave 7bneideration—cer
tainly it would require that we should be fully
satisfied they were acting fairly and in good
faith. But so far is any temper of this sort
from being found in them, ,that, from the
highest to the lowest, they scoff at the idea of
a general cessation of hostilities, unless, as
connected with it, our armies should be with
drawn from all their territory—onr fleets should
cease to blockade their coasts—all their cap
tured cities and forts should be given up, all the
border' States clahned by them should be
turned over 'to them! Our deliberate judg
mantis, that any American citizen who fa
vors a single. one of these propositions, know
ing what he does, is .a_ traitor.; and that any
officer of the Government of the United
States, from the President down, who at
tempts to :grant any one of them to 'these
armed insurgents, deserves death. We can
not conceal from ourselves, that the leaders
of the factions represented in the Chicago
Convention—some more, some less, but all of
them in some degree—did mean to embrace I
these damning propositions in their demands,
if they were necessary in, order to .obtain
peace ; that they did know, -sufficiently to
make them deliberately guilty, the horrible
nature and effects of what they' demanded,
and, that they now expect, and intend, to make
an armed insurrection, in the North, in sup
port
of these shameless demands, if they fail'
of
of success at the impending presidential elec
tion. We have, in effect, pretty nearly con
quered the rebellion. Now, if their accom
plices in the loyal States put to the Araerican
people the alternative of conquering them I
also, or of stopping short in our career of
duty, safety. honor, freedom, and national in
dependence, wrought by our arms upon
Southern traitors ; even let them get ready
—for the American people will, when need
requires, conquer them also, by arms. They
can do what seems good in their own eyes.
But they had as well reflect, that what they
are now doing, may bring destruction on
themselves, and possibly much injury upon
their country, but can never bring independ
ence to the rebel. States, or peace to us.
22. The constant profession is, that the
great end is peace ; the time, the earliest prac
tical moment ; the means, any that are peace
able, but explicitly immediate' efforts for a
cessation of hostilities, "with a view to an
ultimate convention of all the States." It is the
remedy contained in these last words which
we have quoted, which is now to be consid
ered. The slightest examination of the sub
ject makes it apparent that this mode of ob
taining peace is proposed in mere ignorance
and recklessness, or that it is, proposed as the
means of dissolving: the Union. It may be
naturally supposed that it is proposed in the
former way, if we -reflect that the Constitu
tion of the United _States does not.. permit
PeAce to be made by a convention , of the
States ; and dofis not allow such a convention
to divide the Union: There is ItO - peWer, by
the present Constitution, , fora convention of
the States to assemble at all, except by. act of
Congress, passed at the application of the
Legislatures of two-thirds of the States; and
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then the single object of this only lawful con
vention of the States, is to propose amend
ments to the Constitution, which must
afterward be ratified by three-fourths of the
States before they have any validity. (Arti
cle V.) Very clearly, these madmen might
say, that it might be proposed to amend the
Constitution, by dividing the nation into two
or three parts. r But in that ease, we suppose,'
it would be very clear that their intention was
to divide the Union. But that intention
fraudulently carried out, in contempt of the
Constitution, would be far enough from prov
ing that they destroy the Union constitution
ally. Every one can judge of the probability
of getting two-thirds of the State Legislatures
to demand of Congress this convention of the
States; every one can see, after all this is
done, and all proposed by the plotters is car
ried through Congress, and through a conven
tion of the States; how soon and how cer
tainly three-fourths of the States would rat
ify those amendments which profaned anclde
feated every • object avowed in the Constitu
tion itself, for its very existence, and then
pretended—not to amend the Constitution,
but to dissolfe the nation itself ! And all this
we are to accept as the means of immediate
peace, on the basis of the Union and the Con
stitution! Of course, therefore, what this
, call of a convention of States means, by the
' leaders of this peace-panic conspiracy—is the
immediate dissolution of the Union. The
cessation of hostilities once carried out—
those hostilities never to be renewed; the
project of the convention of the States drag
ging along for years, futile as to the professed
object of it, full of all manner of danger and
mischief in the hands of the parties using it
—means only an instrument of ruin confided
to the hands of traitors. The mischief was
accomplished in the first act. The. Chicago
Convention menaces the Goverment with res
olutions nothing short of a conditional declara
tion of war; and then, after the fashion of most
revolutionary tribunals, refuses to dissolve it
self, and declares its existence permanent.--
Its other acts Were perfectly in keeping with
these deliberate schemes for the overthrow of
the Constitution, for the triumph of the avowed
enemies of the nation, and for the universal
reign of disorder. It is natural that in launch
ing upon such a career, they should feel some
solicitude about escape if it failed. They should,
therefore, consider it a friendly act on our
part to warn them.that the Constitution of the
United States makes the way to peace narrow
and difficult for all who, force war upon us,
and internal anarchy does not tend at all to
help our enemies to get rid of just punish
ment. To foreign enemies in arms against
us, the only way to peace is to satisfy the
President of the United States, and two-thirds
of the members of the National Senate; that
is, to satisfy the army and navy, through their
Commander-in-chief, and to satisfy two-thirds
of the States and people of America s through
their Senators in Congress. On the , other
hand, if these public enemies be armed insur
gents, in rebellion, the way to peace for them,
as they are s
far greater criminels,orild hardly
beim' decisive. It lies, abiolutely,. in their
first ceasing to be traitors and enemies; and
then, in their returning simply and in, good
faith, to their loyalty to the United States,
and to their obedience to its Government, its
Constitution and its laws. If they will not.do
this, it lies in the conquest of 'Merck by arms,
and the just punishment of so many of them
as duty to God and the country may demand.
Besides these two there is no other way, ex
cept an appeal to the clemency of the Presi
dent, in the exercise of his power:to pardon
under the Constitution. To be a lotion, to
have a government, to live under the domin
ion of laws, absolutely demands, in substance,
what our own noble institutions require. And
what we are now about is, in effect, to deter
mine the sufficiency of free institutions, in
protecting human society and human Civiliza
tion; the compatibility of personal freedom
under republican institutions, with sufficient
I power in the Go ‘'eruni,nt to prevent anarchy,
I and sufficient strength to,preserve indep.entl
ence. The first aspect of the great trial, was
rebels relying on foreign nations; the second
aspect is, disloyal factions Mang partwith the
defeated rebels, in proportion as foreign na
tions withdraw their countenance. The new
disorder only shows how deep and malignant
was the poison, of the old one. Both are but
proofs that the malady was workin,g our death
without our heeding it. Now that we, know
all—if we are worthy of the mission God has
appointed us unto—we will not do His work
deceitfully, but gird ourselves" up to its perfect
' accomplishment. The motives to an opposite
course suggested at Chicago are degradixtg in
themselves, and founded upon a view.of the
nature of our situation, our duty. and our
destiny, wholly absurd. Those motives which
spring up in our own minds and hearts, aris
ing from the ties and the hopes these relent
less insurgents have despised, are such As
outraged but loving parents, and kindred, and
friends, can .not disown without anguish.
But in presence of the exalteddemands of
duty, and the majestic dictates of reason--the
way before us all is clear, like light
23. 'We must hear in mind, that. the peace
portion of the supporters of General M'Clellan
and Mr. Pendleton, have continually and
clamorously denounced the war, and the co
ercion of the rebels, both in its origin ; and at
every step of its progress; and professedly
agreed to support General M'Clellan only
upon the conditions - of his being 'placed on a
platform consistent with their principles, and
of having as his Vice President a man holding
these particular principles. Both conditions,
now, in effect, set aside by the letter of Gen.
M'Clellan, if he means what he says, were ap
parently Secured to them at Chicago. Whether
they agreed, by a secret and corrupt bargain
with the Copperhead Union men, to take
M'Clellan, knowing he did not agree with
them, or with Mr. Pendleton, or with the
platform; or Whether those Copperhead Union
men, who have continually and clamorously
professed to desire the suppression of the
rebellion by arms, privately and corruptly
agreed that both they and M'Clellan should_
act on the peace principles of Mr. Pendleton
and the platform, after he was elected by the
help of his own principles; is of small conse
quence to any one, except the parties con
cerned. And it is not of much consequence to
them; for. in a proceeding so fatal to the
character of all engaged in it—what the peo
ple have to do is not to parcel out the
where there. is no possibility of any -being
innocent—but promptly to repudiate the
whole.. For cur part, it exceeds all idea we
had of human effrontery, that men should
stand upwith the Chicago Peace Platform in
one hand, and theLonisville Coniiervativri War
Platfoira of May 25th in'the °filet handi:-aMI
ask the public to confide in themrafterlhey
had adopted both in abontninety'daisl. With
such facility of reconciling light and darkness,
there need be no surprise that, upon a little
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