The Weekly Union Record

Voices from Chicago.

We trust that pains have been taken to procure full and accurate reports of all the speeches made by Democrats at Chicago, inside and outside of the Convention, by members and others, in order that the voters of the country may have so exact understanding of the character of the Convention, and of the influences operating upon it, that resulted in the nomination of McClellan and Pendleton, and the construction of the Democratic platform. It is made peculiarly necessary by the evident attempt to hoodwink the people both in the ticket and in the resolutions. So let us have all the light on the subject we can get.

In the meantime, we present such fitting extracts of speeches made by prominent Democrats, most of them members of the Convention, as can be gathered from the reports of the Chicago papers:

FERNANDO WOOD'S DEMAND.

This leading Democrat said:

Let us demand of the Convention, above everything else, that they give us peace. Let us insist that they shall respond to that demand, and not intermit our efforts until we have brought them to a triumphant conclusion.

[Cheers.]

NOTHING TO HELP THE WAR.

Mr. Van Allen said:

I have been a peace man from the beginning, and have done nothing to help the war that I could avoid, for I believed that it would result in an abortive attempt, and that an effort to subjugate sovereign States would only bring destruction to the people, collapse our finances, and send desolation and death through all our homes. Has not that been the result?

[Cries of Quite right.]

WHAT IT IS TO REINFORCE OUR SOLDIERS.

Rev. Henry Clay Dean said:

Since the day when Ahasuerus issued his edict for the murder of the Jewish nation, a more gigantic crime has not been recorded than the recent edict of the ignorant baboon at Washington, calling for half a million more of your sons and brothers, for a fresh immolation to the Abolition god.

A WORD TO WAR DEMOCRATS.

Mr. O'Brien, of Illinois, said:

But we have men who call themselves War Democrats. Such are Ingersoll, Logan and McClernand. They are not Democrats, they are Abolitionists, and this Fall we will bury them in the same grave as the Abolitionists, and damn them to eternal infamy.

THE WAR DEMOCRAT IS A JUDAS.

Mr. McMasters, of New York, said:

A man who is in favor of this unnatural war insults the holy name of Democracy when he claims a place in its organization. He is a Judas, and should be cast out as an enemy to humanity and to God.

WAR AT THE NORTH THREATENED.

Prof. Woodruff, of New York, said:

The scenes of Missouri will be repeated in Illinois in less than six months, if the war should be continued. [Yes, and all over the country.] If the war continues, you may rely upon it that every man's hand will be turned against his neighbor, and the result will be that there will be a contest between Republicans and Democrats here among us.

ALL PEACE MEN FOR THE CHICAGO NOMINEE

Mr. Baker, of Michigan, said:

I am for peace [Cheers]. for war is destroying our liberty. I came here to proclaim peace. [A voice: Will you support a war man if he is nominated? We don't want a war man.] I will support any man nominated at the Chicago Convention. [Cheers.]

NOT DEMOCRATIC VOTES ENOUGH—WHAT SHALL BE DONE?

Major Stambaugh, of Ohio, said:

I am a native of the same county with Mr. Vallandigham, and there is but little difference in our ages. I know him to be a pure patriot.

Loud cheers! We have not Democratic votes enough to elect our candidate. We must have the conservatives of the Republican party. Shall we open the door and receive them? [Yes, let them come.]

NON COERCION AND DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS.

Mr. C. C. Burr said:

The Democratic party must recognize in their nomination the doctrine of non-coercion, or it will not and ought not to be successful.

This campaign will be satisfactory only if conducted upon the principles of the old Democratic party, and they were peaceful principles.

These doctrines must either be represented in the candidate or the platform. Get the candidate if you can, but the platform at all events.

VISION OF A DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION.

Captain Kurtz, of Pennsylvania, said:

The Democratic government must be raised to power, and Lincoln, with his Cabinet of rogues, thieves and spies, be driven to destruction. What shall we do with him? [A voice: Send him here, and I'll make a coffin for him.]

Yes, (continued the speaker,) dip him and his miserable followers. I do not propose to give you, to night, the platform of the Democratic party, for as yet it is unborn: but I should like to see the noble George B. McClellan as President [Cheers], and that great Democrat, Horatio Seymour, should occupy the position of Secretary of State. In the Cabinet I would see the names of Voorhees, and of the brilliant galaxy of gentlemen statesmen who cluster round the Democratic banner.

This, we think, is enough for one day. Let the people read, and then reflect that of such influences and associations as these were produced the Chicago nomination and platform, which are now before the country for approval or rejection.—Bee.