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Title: The Civil War : the national view
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Thorpe, Francis Newton, 1857-1926
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Publisher: Philadelphia : George Barrie & Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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rous attackon the policy of the administration, accusing it of violatingthe principles on which the American government is founded.The draft was the common object of complaint and attack.Horatio Seymour, governor of New York, was made per-manent chairman and with vigor and characteristic adroit-ness accused the administration of causing the ills fromwhich the country was suffering: the substance of everyspeech was that the Democratic party alone could save theUnion; that the administration could not save it if itwould. The dominating spirit of the Convention wasClement L. Vallandigham, at the head of the Ohio delega-tion. He it was who dictated and carried through the res-olution which defined the attitude of the party towardthe Nation and toward the Confederacy: This Convention does explicitly declare, as the senseof the American people, that after four years of failure torestore the Union by the experiment of war, during which,under the pretense of a military necessity, or war power
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o C T THE FOURTH TEAR OF THE WAR 417 higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself hasbeen disregarded in every part, and public liberty and pri-vate right alike trodden down and the material prosperityof the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, lib-erty, and the public w^elfare demand that immediate effortsbe made for a cessation of hostilities, vv^ith a view to anultimate convention of the States, or other peaceable means,to the end that at the earliest practical moment peace maybe restored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States. This was a surrender to the Confederacy. General McClellan received 202 votes, and upon Val-landighams motion the nomination was made unanimous.George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, was named for vice-presi-dent. The Convention adjourned and its committees wereinstructed to notify the candidates of their nomination.While yet the notices of the committees were in prepara-tion, Sherman took Atlanta, the commercial capital of theSouthwest

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