in the name of the Union,
and as one great Union party, and asked all patriots, dismissing for the
present all old party names or issues, to unite with it for the
salvation of the Union.

My first objection, then, to the organization against Mr. Lincoln is,
that it is a mere party organization, arrayed under an old party name,
and marching under an old party banner. In the midst of a great contest
like this, when all old party names and prejudices should be forgotten,
and when Democrats and Republicans should be united as brethren in the
one grand effort to suppress the rebellion, the Chicago McClellan
Convention reopens old party strifes, renews old party issues, and,
denouncing Republicans, assumes the name and professes to represent the
Democratic party. It was the banner of the Union that was raised by the
Convention at Baltimore, and the salvation of the Union, with its rescue
from present and future perils, the suppression of the rebellion, with
the removal of the cause, constituted the only issues presented by that
Convention to the people of the loyal States of all parties.

It was far otherwise at Chicago. It was a mere assemblage of partisans,
some for, and some against the Union, in the search of power and
emoluments. It was the flag of the Union that was given to the breeze at
Baltimore. It was the flag of a party that was unfolded at Chicago.
'_For the Union_' was written on the flag of the one--'For the
Democratic party' was inscribed on the standard of the other. It was
said that the Baltimore Convention has made the abolition of Slavery one
of its issues; but, as well might it be objected that it had made the
prosecution of the war, or the maintenance of the army or navy, part of
its creed. The Emancipation Proclamation of the President had its whole
constitutional force as a _war measure_ TO SAVE THE UNION, and, as such,
it was adopted by Mr. Lincoln as ex-officio 'commander-in-chief of the
army and navy of the United States.' That it was, as a war measure,
perfectly constitutional, I have never doubted, and so declared in an
article published at the time in THE CONTINENTAL MAGAZINE. It is the
duty of all persons, not aliens, to unite with the President in
suppressing a rebellion. Slaves, in the relation which they occupy to
the National Government under the Federal Constitution, are '_persons_.'
As _persons_, they are thrice named in the Constitution, and by no other
name whatever. Especially, under t