Michael Moore and the Democratic convention of 1864

In August of 1864, when the Democratic National Convention met in Chicago, the following plank was added to the platform which was passed by the majority of delegates:

This convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war ... justice, humanity, liberty and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an immediate convention of the states, or other peaceable means, to the end that at the earliest practicable moment peace may be restored on the basis of the federal union of the states.

When they learned about this from the newspapers, how did the terribly bloodied ? but still advancing ? Union armies in Virginia and Georgia feel?

What did they think of this Democratic Party platform when they considered how many hundreds of thousands of their comrades had been killed in action, or badly wounded, in service of their country?

Since the Democratic nominee, Gen. George McClellan, personally repudiated this platform, it would seem obvious that his fellow soldiers felt about this Democratic platform the same way that today's U.S. armed forces in Iraq will feel about Michael Moore's latest alleged documentary, "Fahrenheit 9-11."

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