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« A M I F O R P E A C E t Y E S I "

[Hon. D. S. Dickinson, that grand old Democrat of New York, being written to by a lady and the Inquiry mado of hiin if lie was for peace, returned this ring, ing reply.—Iron Platform.]

FOB the peace which lings out from thecatwon's throat, ; And suasion of shot and Bheil, Till rebellion's spirit is trampled down

To the depths of its kindred hell.

For the peace which sliall follow the Squadron's tramp Where the brazen trumpets bray,

And drunk with the fury of storm and strife The blood-red chargers neigh.

For the pcaco that shall wash out the leprous stain Of our slavery—foul and grim—

And shall sunder the fetter* which creak and clank On the down-trodden black man's limb.

I will curse him as traitoi- and foul of heart : ' Who would sin ink from the conflict now, •

And will stamp it with blistering, burning brand . On Iris hideous, Cain-liko brow.

Out! -out «f the way! with your spurious peace, Which would make us rebellion's slaves; .

We will rescue our land from the traitorous grasp Or cover it over with graves.

Out I out of the way! with your knavish schemes, Toil trembling .and' trading pack 1

Crouch away in the dark like a sneaking hound That its master had beaten back.

You would barter the fruit of our fathers' blood And sell oat the stripes and stars, '•.

To purchase a place with rebellion's votes Or escape from rebellion's scars.

Iiy tho'Widow's wail; by the mother's tears, — By the orphans who cry for bread,

By onr our sons, who fell, we will never yield. Till rebellion's soul is dead.

—— '— m •^ m* RALLY | ROUND THE FLAG* BOYS I

'" [Harper's"Weekly contains a spirited' engraving, representing ABRAHAM LINCOLN bearing aloft the Stars and Stripes, While around him the gallant boys of the army and navy are rallying with the song:]

RALLY round the Flag, boys! :" Bally once again; • - • - - • Thcro are traitors in the camp, hoysj"

And pirates' on the main : There are rebels in the front, boys,

And foes across the sea, Who hate the proud republican

And scoff at you and me. • '

Bally round tho Flag, boys! Bally in your might;

Let the nations see how freemon Can battle for the right;

Make the throbbing mountains echo With the thunder of your tread;

With music sweet of niartial foot Salute our gallant dead.

Rally round the Flag, boys! Rally with a cheer;

For all you: love and cherish most, For all that you hold deaf,

Defend the brave ojd banner. Unsullied from the oarth—

Within its folds enshrined it holds ' All that this life is worth.

Then rally round the Flag, boys! Rally; rally still!

Bally from the valley, And rally from the bill;

Bally from the ship, boys, And rally from the plow;

Now or never is the word— •Never! failing now.

O I L M A N ' S S P K E t H .

From the St. Paul Press.

The plaintive Oilman has made a speech. He made it at St. Anthony. It we mistake not he has made several speeches It is a way he has ol foot­ing up the periodical results ot his rich and varied mental experience. A speech is to him what an odometer is to a carriage wheel. It indicates the number of revolutions he has made since he last spoke in public. If all his speeches could be collected they would form as entertaining a medley as the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Mother Goose's tuneful classic, Foxfs Book of Martyrs, the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and Ovid's Metamorphoses, all bound in one volume, and illustra­ted by Whipple's dissolving views.

You see there is nothing monotonous about Oilman. He never wearies your attention by sticking too long to any one position, or exhausts your interest by the dull sameness of consistency.-— He piques your curiosity by the play­ful capriciousness of his "solemn and deliberate convictions," and tickles your sense of humor by the abrupt­ness and versatility of his tergiveisa-tions.

And so, of course the speech which Gilman delivered at St. Anthony was as unlike the speech which Gilman delivered at St. Paul a few days before as the latter was unlike all its lachrymose and protean predeces­sors. At St. Paul—but that was be­fore McClellan's letter—Gilman was the Chicago Platform draped in mourn­ing. At St. Anthony—but that was after McClellan's letter—Gilman was McClellan's letter bathed in tears. What he was five minutes afterwards we don't know—except that he was still weeping. It is evidently as he appeared at St. Anthony, that he pre­fers to go sadly down to a lugubrious posterity, and accordingly we find the Gilman of that doleful hour embalmed in some three melancholy columns of. the Pioneer print. And, on the whole, we don't wonder that Gilman is proud of his speech on that occasion. For it was a marvelous success in a very dif­ferent role. It shows -genius. * It strikes out new paths of despondency

and new inventions of spleen. It dis­closes the woudeiful atrabiliar capabili­ties of tho human soul,' and more es­pecially its prodigious power of adapt­ing itself 't'6 the dismal exigences of tight sepulchral places. It beats Gor-man or Baron;. Muochausen or Barere in that lofty field of imaginative art where these illustrious raconteurs have heretofore stoM without a rival, and surpassing Pecksniff or Dick Swiveler in pathos. If&short;, it is a good thing. We find, upon- actual count, that this speech averages just one lie to every three lines; which is about one-third of the standard Gbrmanic proportion.—' With a little more practice] Gilman will undoubtedly be aole, before the cam­paign is over, to come up even with his great model in this respect. But the lack of quantity is abundantly made up by the superior quality of Gilman's artistic creations. One of his lies is as good as at least sixof Gorman's. Th ey do not, it is true, possess tlie colossal rough-hewn grandeur and picturesque wlldness of Gorman's' extravaganzas— but they have a neat, artistic finish and symmetry of their own which are as much superior, to the latter as is the nicely chiseled bas relief to the block blown from the quarry, or the Venus of Praxitiles to tbe Egyptian.Sphinx

Here for example is a gem to com mence with:

Well, war has now raged for three and a half years, and the end is not yet. The administration has had without opposition all the men and money it has asked.

Without opposition ! If endeavoring to discourage enlistments, to excite re­sistance to the draft, the draft riots in Democratic districts, if all this is not "opposition," what is it ? And here is another;

Two million five 'hundred thousand men have been called for and furnished, and over four thousand millions of dollars, and still the cry ia for more men and more mon­ey. ^ a :

That is a very pretty little lie. Gor­man wuu.d have said a thousand mil­lion men and ten thousand millions of dollars. Gilman contents himself with doubling the actual figures, thereby giving it a plausible verisimilitude which is altogether more effective than Gorman's Brobdignagian monstrosities Then comes this airy and delicate little equi'cogue ;

I apprehend there is no one who does not believe thai, the rebellion could have been overcome long ago by a judicious and pa­triotic use of ene half the means in men and money lhat have been furnished this administration.

Now apart from its context that's an indisputable fact; it becomes a lie only in its application. If during the first }ear and a half of the war it had been as patriotically, as judiciously and as energetically conducted as it ha3 in the last year and a half, there can be no question that the rebellion would have been overcome long ago. But unfor­tunately during the first year and a half the conduct of the war was en­trusted to such "conservative and con­ciliatory policy" of damaging the reb­els in the least possible degree. In that year and a half, before the rebel power was organized, no one can doubt that vigorous blows with the immense forces at -McClellan's command would have crushed all resistance in the rebel States. Instead of that he waited and dawdled in camp and parade, restrain­ing our impatient armies for seven months, moving only when he was per­emptorily ordered to do so—and theti waited and dawdled in tho field, and dawdled and waited, and ditched and dug, giving the rebels time to organize and equip an immense force, to buy ships and materials of war, to build for­tifications and mount them with guns from Europe—his troops led by their gallant corps commanders, winning vic­tory after victory, only to be thrown away by their General, till finally he dragged his victorious and invincible army at his heels, in a disgraceful and humiliating retreat, and turned a cam­paign' that should have been a decisive and overwhelming triumph, into the most complete and disastrous failure of the war. That was the time "when a judicious use of the men and money furnished the Admistration would have overcome the rebellion j " but unlucky it was a time when, according to the confession of Col. Keys, a confidential aid of Gen. McClcllan, who was ex­plaining why the latter did not crush Lee's army when he had it in his pow­er at Antietam,—"It was not the poli­cy." That policy he went on to say, "was to exhaust the resources of the

combatants on both sides," and thus re­duce them to the necessity of effecting a compromise.

; It was that- terribly disastrous year and a half, when the war was confessed­ly managed by General MoClellan, in order to exhaust th? resources of the na­tion,—when onr army lost its morale. and the nation almost lost hope—which <-os< the Government more thin two-thirds of its expenditures of nionej/ and men,

f'If this is so," says Gilman, "is it not. time that we had a change of ad­ministration?" ? " I

Yes, certainly, now that under other generals and another policy, a hundred decisive victories have blessed our arms, and the rebellion is nearly overcome, it is about time for those who want to save it from utter extinction to restore that military administration and policy, which gave the rebellion all its vitality, cost us two thirds of our national debt, arid destroyed four or five Union ar­mies, and which, by "exhausting the resources of the nation" and of "states­manship," would force us into a humil­iating and ruinous compromise with the n«w despairing traitors.

All this brings us only to the thresh hold of Gilman's great speech. We must take another time to explore the interior splendors ot this "palace of woe" which the dejected soul of Gil­man has built unto itself. :-

, ,.i*i^wft,y • — -W A K D E M O C R A C Y .

General Hayne, in a recent speech, delivered in Springfield, III., thus de­fines what wp understand gehuine War Democracy to be :

"My friends-, I am a War Democrat And I will tell you what kind of a War Democrat I am. About the matter of the everlasting nigger, I do not care if I do happen to be found voting side by side with my Republican frieuds. Tha is a thing I care nothing about. I do care about t?ie preservation of this Un­ion. And when you ask me if 1 do not think, we will have to fight a good while for it under Abe Lincoln's ad ministration, I answer that I am ready to fight for it. I will fight till my hair is white, and wlidi 1 go down to my grave, I will leave this war as a legacy to my son, and charge him in like man­ner to transmit it to his son and his son's son, unless we have an honorable peace, upon the terms of submission by the South to the power of the Federal Government. This, my friends, is War Democracy as I Understand it. 1 weuld to God that this was the Democ­racy of George B. Mc( lellan."

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D E M O C R A T S F O B L I S C O h N I N P K N S -

S Y I V - A K I A .

The Philadelphia Press gives a long list of leading Democrats in the State of Pennsylvania, who have declared for Lincoln and Johnson. Among them are John Cessna and Benjamin H. Brewster, of Philadelphia, who have national reputations; Benjamin Champ neys, a State* Senator; Won M Heis-ter, Secretary of Stale under Govern­or Packer j John 0. Knox, Attorney General under the same administration, and quite a number of others of the same school, enjoying decided local in­fluence.

W H A T D A N I E L . W E B S T E R S A I D .

As the Copperhead calumny on Web­ster's sentiments has been ex rosed and exploded, it may be, well to recall what Daniel Webster did say in his speech at Buffalo, May 22,1851, one of the last speeches he ever made:

If the South want any concession from me, they won't get it—not a hair's breadth of it. * * * I never would consent that there should be one foot of slave terri­tory beyond what the old thirteen States had at the foundation ot the Union. Nev­er, never! The man can't show his face to me. and prove that I ever departed from that doctrine. He would sneak away,, or slink away, or hire a mercenary Heep, that he might say what an apostate from liber­ty Daniel Webster has become. He knows himself to be a hypocrite and falsifier.

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GENERAL MCCLET,LAN occupies one of two positions: If h3 accepts the nomination for the Presidency on the Chicago platform, then he is the Peace candidate. If he accepts the nomina­tion, and does not intend to carry out the principles pf the party tendering it, as enunciated in the Chicago resolu­tions, then he is a dishonest candidate. Either he is a*candidate who believes that "immediate efforts should be made for a cessation of hostilities," or a can­didate not to be trusted.

A L . 1 T T 1 . E S P E E C H B Y G E S . H O O K ­E R .

The Pioneer asserted a few days ago that Ger. Hooker had come out for McClcllan. The following little speech, delivered by him at a Union meeting in Brooklyn New York, will show how he has Come out for McClellan. We give the Tribune's preface:

At this point the audience caught sight of the soldier-like form of "Fight­ing". Joe Hooker, when a scene o.ccur-red transcending anything ever wit­nessed hereabouts in the way of a re­ception. The whole audience sprang to their feet, cheer rose upon cheer, of the magnetic, e'ectrical kind, that thrUl along the nerves; ladies waved thair handkerchiefs, gentlemen swung their hats, Gen. Hooker bowing his acknowledgements, and for a moment, seeming almost overcome by the dem­onstration. When the applause had somewhat abated, Gen. Hooker stepped fqrwaid, in answer to loud calls, and said;

Ladies and gentlemen: I need not tell you that I am totally unprepared for this i I cannot and do not take this demonstration or any part to myself. I em not worthy of this reception — ("You are,'* and cheers.) I am no more worthy of it than you. We are all here in the same, boat, you have been working in one place, and 1 have been working in ahotluer (cheers.) Your victories are as dear to us in the front as i he victories in the front are dear to you. The victories of last fall, I speak with full knowledge, were hailed with as much joy and enthusiasm in the ar­my as though they had been achieved by the army I belofig to. The victory of Ohio, we felt, and hope we may feel many more, and 1 do not doubt that next November we shall taste of one to which this rebellion has furnished no parallel, I need not tell you that I am rejoiced to fiu.d such an assem­blage here to night, and it shows that it is all right with our cause and our country. (Cheers.) No misfortune can befall us when pur people are animated by the feeling which is evinced here to* night. If the war has been prolonged it has not been from our weakness, but from our consciousness of strength.— We have not put forward all our ener­gies and resources, although we have shown and we have employed resources which have amazed the w( rid. But in the North, the North has not yet made that one great effort to crush this revolt by a blow—it could do it and can do it any day when it moves for that purpose. (Cheers.) The people in these loyal States, and I am proud to say it, the people have been in the advance of the authorities in all of this rebellion,— (cheers) and they will bo until they reach the end, and the end is not re­mote. (Cheers.) I am rejoiced to meet yon, and to meet you under such aus­pices as I do to-night. Tidings, glo­rious tidings reach us from all of the armies j the work goes bravely on.— There are no copperheads (great cheers) —there are no Copperheads in the ar­ray. (Cheers.) They will fight well, and they will vote well. (Cheers.)— More devotion, more loyalty, never, never animated the hearts and the hands of men more brave.

I thank you most kindly for the kind­ness with which you have received me to-night. I am unworthy of it. (No.* No!) I have in the humble capacity in which I have been placed, I have never failed to do my duty, (cheers and "That's so !") and I don't intend to now. I wish you all good night.

The General then retired amid loud and prolonged cheering.

— «t — m _ WHAT the Copperheads say:

Resolved, That immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities.—Democratic Platform.

What the rebels say : "An armistice, in any intelligible sense

whatever, could mean nothing less than a cessation of every act of war for the time agreed upon, both naval and military; nothing less than the withdrawal of the in­vading troops from every part of the Con­federate States, and a suspension of the blockade of the coast,"—Richmond Exam­iner, Sept. 11,

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. The Bcrton Herald ji one^ot the stauoebcat and nK»t|n'fluentVp3,. jour -nsiElrt^ev^ountry, /n the true and literal sense ofthe/^erm Democratic m

In 1860 it supported Stephen A. Douglas because it believed the doc­trine he advocated, and the platform ot the party which nominated him were in accordance with the Constitu­tion, and formed a basis upon which all true Union men could stand, both" in the North and in the South. In the issue of the 12»h instant, the Her aid squarely and " bbrdfy repudiate.' both the platform and candidate of the Chicago Convention. Of Douglas i: says : "He was defeated by the.actior-of certain men at the South, who ar: now theleaders of the rebellion,'' Ami it adds, as truthfully as forcibly;

"Having failed to accomplish theii designs by the jjereexof arms, arid real iaing the dangerous position in whicl they are placed, they ate resorting t" political action as. the last step to savt them from that condemnatiJU and pun ishment which they ao richly deserve Hence we find them active in the fret States among their old co-workers t( produce a revolution, at the North which will enable them to carry;ou_ their original purpose of separation ant independence. , Hence we jfindjiht agente of Jefferson Davis at Niagan Falis, arranging the platform and tht candidate to be put forward at tbe Chi cago Convention, by and through whicl they are in hopes tb fool arid to chea; the free States, out" ©Tlbe.. advantage*-gained, and whicn' if continued wil wipe the rebel leaders out. So far a: the platform, the speeches}.: and candi dates arc concerned, the"Conventioi held at Chicago might as well have

-—Duringthe thunderstorm on Wed­nesday night, the 21st inst., as Mr. Hugh McKay was driving home from this place, and when about six, miles out on the Cannon Falls road, a bolt fell and instantly killed his wife and the oxen, besides stunning Mr. McKay — Hastings Independent.

been held in Richmond. It was a mis erable, fawning, sycophantic, and de grading surrender to the men who ar" in arms against the Government, anc who have done their utmost to der<troi American liberty."

The example of the Boston Herak will be followed by every Democrats paper in the land which honestly anc from conviction endorsed the opinion: of the lamented Douglas; and support ed him for the Presidency four year ago*

A T the late Democratic State Con vention held in St. Louis, oBe of tht-McClellan electors, in a speech spok< of the Missouri soldiers in the Confed erate armies as "our boys." Bather i frank, though somewhat public admis­sion, of bis "sympathy" (see Chicagc platform) for the rebel cause.

A S I C C L E M J A N C O N V E N T I O N .

A copperhead meeting was held at Virginia, Cass County, Mo., on the 8th inst., which endorsed the Chicago plat­form with three cheers for McClellan, The second resolution adopted read as" follows:

Resolved' That we, the Democracy ol Cass county, will resist the draft at all hazards.

Another read; Resolved. That a Committee be appoint­

ed to Visit the oth.er counties in the StateM learn the organized strength, and. report to the Springfield meeting, and there appoint delegates to visit the Indianapolis and Co­lumbus (Ohio) meetings

J. H Shaw, a lawyer of Beardstown, the principal speaker, said that the draft nor any other .-ict of the Administration could be enforced among them ; that they would drag Lincoln from his seat, overthrow the. Government, and place the power in the hands of men of their own choosing. He declared also, that everything was in read­iness in Illinois, and when the hour came the first movement in this State would be the capture of Springfield, the seizure of the State officers, and the placing of the State Government in their old hands.

The Richuaond Examiner says of tha Chicago Convention and its nomina­tions : • •

So this proud democracy, once in its union with Southern men, the pride of tbe Rcpublie and the hope of the world, forgot a second time promise." Selectirg a man who had^solemnly pledged himself in favor of war, and who was weak enough to promise to be whatever the party might desire him to be, they coupled this puppet of theirs with an avowed peace man, hoping thus to offend none, and conciliate .all.— * Like all half measures, this policy is sure to fail, and will pay only into the hands of Lincoln "

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A VETERAN soldier of the army of the Potomac inquired of a comrade wheth­er it was possible for him to vote, for . McClellan without voting tor Pendle­ton ?. On being informed that he must accept both or none, his resolution was expressed in the emphatic words: "Then I will vote for neither !" This will, we doubt* not, be the decision «f nineteen-tweutieths, if not of a still lar- ' ger proportion of our country V- bra*« defenders.

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