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Day
23
Month
September
Year
1864
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We aro constantly cheerod with such tfvidences of tho zaal, the vigor, and the cotifijcnue uf Oemocrats in all parts of j the oouutry ihut it is our duty to make ihc fucts kuowti to all our friends who are hard at woi-k, euch in his own viciiiity, aud who may desire to kuow "what eheer" oomes from feüow-workers beyond their own range of observation. 1. Everywhero the nomination of Geu. McClellau has rousod tho utmost euthusiasm in tho ranka of the Democcracy. Every Demooratic vote will be polled in November, aud uo oue ueeds to be told thal viotory perches on the banuers of the party whose candidates elicit a full party vote. Moreover, the youug men are with us everywhere. The young men who have come of age since the last presidential eleution will vote tho young meu's ticket. "Littlt; Mac" is the man they want for Presidunt. 2. The deiectioDs from the Repubü can party are increasing daily, aod they have only begun to be couuted. Our corresponderás write us from alinost every state, of this man or that man, prominent ia his city or oounty, who voted for Mr. L.ncolu iu 1860, but who will vote tor McUleilan ïu JNoveinDer. The clianges of this sort whieh are well known of iu this city will be niatched iti every other city iu the North. Party tiis are straw to Araerioau citizans, wheu by disregarding them a vote can be giveu for Uuion and peaee. We hear of several distiaguished men, recognizod leaders in this and adjoiniiig states, who have etraintíd a poiut to support the administratiün while it was charged with the respousibilitiea of governmeut, who will seizo the opportutrity to vote out the men who have so wretohedly failed to discharge their responsibilities. These uien mean nol only to vote for, but to work har l for the election of General McClellan. 3 Tho influenee whieh the disohargod and disabled soldiers of the repubüc are exerting in favor of General McClellan is tremendous. Every one of them has his oii'cls ot frietids, and they are makiüg proselytes by the huudred. ïhe calumnies of the Liücolu organs against their favorite commander only inflame them into more ardent exertions. Soldiers who have served in the Army of the Potomac can't listen to these wholesale slanders with much patience, and there are enough of them scattered over the country to nail every new lie to the counter as fast as it is uttered. 4 We speak what we kuow wheu we 5ay that there will be no defection from n the ranks of the Democratie party worth T eonsidering - do ' bolt" worth countiug. c The uaistake made by our anxious publican friendo, and by the few boltérs j, thuuiselves, was ia supposing that the t Democratie niasses wantod peace at the j expense of the Union ; that they would c for a moment think of purchasing peaoe ] at the price even of a nioment's peril to t the Union - at the prica of one hour's risk of disuniou. Gentlemen of the ( ministration party, you reokoned without , your hot. You made the blunder of [ believinj; your own slanders of tho triots arrayed against you ! ( Aud mark I For erery disunion x ■'bolter" who bas left us, and so purified ( the party, one hundred Uuion aud peace loving men will march out of your ranks '{ into ours I 5. The pledge of the Chicago platform, ( which Gen. McOlellau accepted, of course, when he accepted the nomination of the Chicago Covention, was that one earnest, frank, and fraternal efforts ahould be made for peace if possible "without the effuxiou of another drop of blood" - for the peaoe which every houest and intelligent man "would hail with unbounded joy" - for peace on the bais of this Uuion - the conditien sine qua non. And wbenever there is good reason to believe that rebels are "ready for such a peaoe" - in God's name, should we not make all haste to give them peace ?" Will any Republican who loves his country aud his fellow-men answer us that ? This ia what the "peace sentiment of the Democratie party" means. We share this peace sentiment, avow it, and now and at all times will uphold and deloud it. Thia is all thut it means. Hiere js no división ín our ranks. II any ruau wlio has culled Limself a Duiaocrat means more than tbis - which ia fairly implied in the much abused Chicago platform, and cle:irly expressed in tho much-praíbed letter ot' accoptance of General MoClellan - then lie is a Duiuourat no louger. And we wish to be understood as meaning precisoly what we say wjien wc add that this and nothing but this ia tho peacö geutimeut of the great West, and that, in full and satiefied cxpresüion of thia senümeut, the wholu Detnocracy oí tho West will cast its vote for McClellan ind Pend letón next Novembor, God spiiriiig their uves.

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