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The Daily Dispatch: August 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
rs a fierce battle raged, the cannonading being terrific, interspersed with musketry on either side. The enemy did not catch us napping, and they were finally repulsed, leaving their dead and wounded on the field, between the two lines. The rebels are represented as having lost heavily. Affairs in New York. A New York letter, dated the 19th, in the Philadelphia Enquirer,, say: The city delegates to the Syracuse State Convention have returned with sore heads. They say Fernando Wood and his gang were completely outgeneraled by the peace men from the rural districts.--Fernando's programme was to have an advisory committee authorized to go to the Chicago Convention, there to dictate terms. Fernando expected to lead this delegation, and by virtue of his position, to be able to procure, if not a place on the ticket at Chicago, then his renomination for Congress in New York. But, as I have said, the expectation was cruelly disappointed by the voting down of the resolut
The Daily Dispatch: August 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], The peace meeting at Syracuse. (search)
dopted call for peace, and present, in strong colors, the outrages of Lincoln upon the liberties of the people of the United States. The following resolution contains the action of the body: "Resolved, That, speaking for the many thousands here assembled, gathered together from every county of the State of New York, we believe that it is the duty of the coming convention, to meet at Chicago on the 29th of August, to give expression to this beneficent spirit of peace, and to declare as the purpose of the Democratic party, if it shall recover power, to cause this desolating war to cease by the calling of a national convention, in which all the States shall be represented in their sovereign capacity; and that to this end an immediate armistice shall be declared, of sufficient duration to give the States and the people ample time and opportunity to deliberate upon, and finally conclude, a form of Union." Vallandigham, Fernando Wood and others made strong speeches for peace.