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The Daily Dispatch: August 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], The peace meeting at Syracuse. (search)
The peace meeting at Syracuse. --The peace meeting at Syracuse, New York, on the 17th, was a very large affair. The resolutions adopted 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
The Daily Dispatch: August 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
n published touching the revolution of 76; and there is not one of these books in which the conduct of Lord Cornwallis is not severely reprobated. The idea of drafting men against their will to fight against their own countrymen, and probably to kill or be killed by some of them, is too shocking to think of. The Yankee historians were perfectly right in denouncing the atrocity when it was practised by the Myrmidons of Cornwallis; but we hear not a word of censure, now that the executors of Lincoln's will are doing the same thing. No men denounced more bitterly than the Yankees the English practice of impressing seamen from vessels belonging to the United States. This was one among the many causes that conspired to bring on the war of 1812, and during that war the Congress of the United States, in a formal document, denounced as unchristian and inhuman a policy which retained the American seamen thus impressed, and rendered them liable to fall by the hands of their own countryme