Rutland Weekly Herald

RUTLAND HERALD.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1864.

Political,

The Washington correspondent of the Boston Daily Advertiser says there is private information that Gen. McClellan will not endorse the Chicago peace platform; he will not decline the nomination, but is preparing a letter in accordance with his West Point speech, and in which he will take the ground that the recent victories at Mobile and Atlanta indicate the speedy restoration of peace through the overthrow of the rebellion, on which letter and his war record he will go before the country.

How this programme would suit the "peace" democracy may be inferred from the following from the New York Daily News:

"The nominee of the Chicago Convention for the presidency is not the candidate of our preference; but, standing upon the platform upon which he has been nominated, and being the recognized standard-bearer of the democracy, he is entitled to, and he will receive, our earnest support."

And again:

"At the Chicago Convention, contrary to the usual custom, the platform was adopted and the candidate was then nominated and placed upon it. Its acceptance by Gen. McClellan pledges him to peace measures, and this secured his nomination. Mr. Pendleton stands upon the same platform, and upon it he has stood since first the war commenced. For a more single-handed and able advocate of peace measures is nowhere to be found. This we have from his speeches in Congress, and from his own lips, and from his every political speech; for he has never failed to avow his peace sentiments whenever a proper occasion gave him the right to do so. The peace men, then, may well rejoice at this victory. They have peace upon pledged-to-peace measures, and it behoovesthem to be no laggards in the great contest that is to elect the candidate and give peace to the nation."

While it would be better, then, for McClellan's own reputation, if he should become so affected by the Atlanta and Mobile victories and by the obvious popular condemnation of the democratic doings at Chicago as to repudiate the Convention, it is nevertheless probable that in trying to throw Wood, Seymour, Vallandigham & Co., he would be the first to come down himself.

In the meeting of the Mozart faction of the New York democracy, held to ratify the doings of the Chicago Convention, resolutions of congratulation were adopted that their "peace" doctrines had prevailed in the gathering of the democracy of the whole country, and Fernando Wood expressed confidence that McClellan could be relied upon to carry out those doctrines in response to the universal demand of the democracy.

Just what these "peace" doctrines are, is most clearly expressed in a speech of one Mahoney made at Chicago during the Convention. He said:

To get them (the South) back, you must repudiate the disgraceful treatment they received, and thrust from power the instruments of their attempted degradation. We must elect our candidate, and then, holding out our hands to the South, invite them to come and sit again in our Union circle. [A voice-"suppose they won't come?"]

If they will not come to us then I am in favor of going to them. [Loud cheers.] Our constitution can be made acceptable to them, and then I have the assurance that they will return and forget the past.

The Chicago Tribune says of the speeches made in that city by democratic orators, big and little:

And such harrangues! Treason to the government has for hours at a time cascaded over the balconies of the hotels, spouted, squirted, and dripped, and pattered, and rained, and misted on our out-of-door listeners and pedestrians: wordy and windy torrents of diatribes against the war, against Lincoln, have flooded the city. We are glad of it. The country will be the better and the purer when all this foul sentiments works to the surface for a cure. The convention, in this respect, has been a vast eliminator of treason and rebellion.

The Boston Transcript says truly and forcibly:

"Of all the senseless gabble the world has ever been afflicted with, the resolutions and harangues of the copperheads about free speech and a free press are the most ridiculous. The very parties who are charging upon the federal government all manner of tyranny, despotism and usurpation, are, in their daily utterance of disloyal sentiment, and their daily endeavors to embarrass every measure for the defence of the nation against armed rebellion, monuments of the leniency and toleration of the authorities they studiously misrepresent and malign."

The New York Tribune has at length declared fully for the republican ticket, and says:

"Henceforth, we fly the banner of Abraham Lincoln for the next presidency, choosing that far rather than the disunion and a quarter of a century of wars, or the Union and political servitude which our opponents would give us. * * Mr. Lincoln has done seven-eighths of the work after his fashion; there must be vigor and virtue enough left in him to do the other fraction. The work is in his hands; if it passes out of them, it will be, as there are no better, but far worse, to receive it, to our utter ruin. We must re-elect him, and, God helping us, we will."

The Chicago ticket has, in addition to the rebel sympathy, that of the London Times, which hopes that "a president may be elected unpledged to a war policy." It will be pleased, therefore, with the action at Chicago, as it is with everything that seeks to embarrass the government in prosecuting the war till the Union is restored.