The following is an extract of a letter over | phia Hospital, and was summarily discharged the signature of J. W. McKay, of the 25th therefrom, for no other reason, says the PhilWisconsin Infantry, and published in the Re-adelphia Age, than appears in the following publican papers with approving comments, ap- official note, which was proved a lie just after the election: peared about the same time as the above: "We warn Northern "Copperheads" to keep hands off; ruin to their friendship is better than ruin to our country, and if they force us to deal with them as enemies, we shall do our work for all coming time." Enough! The heart sickens at the recital of such bloodthirsty threats with no higher motive than to gain a few votes. MONEY USED TO CARRY THE ELECTIONS. Read the following from the Providence (R I.) Post: "MONEY.-The Republicans admit that they used $40,000 in this city on Wednesday. We guess they used more. They gave as high as $25 for a vote, and there was no competition, either. We are glad that men who are willing to sell out are beginning to ask a high price. "In East Providence the price ran high, notwithstanding the fact that our friends did not use a dollar. "In Warwick the Republicans found Colonel Butler a hard man to beat, and offered thirty dollars for a vote all day. "In North Providence the Republicans spent fifteen to twenty thousand dollars." Can a party which sanctions such rascality be a friend to Republican institutions? PHILLIP, of Macedon, used money to destroy the liberties of the Athenians, and ADDISON in speaking of which says: "A man who is furnished with arguments from the Mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible. Philip of Macedon refuted by it all the wisdom of the Republic of Athens, confounded their statesmen, struck their orators dumb, and at length argued them out of their liberties." History seems to be repeating itself very rapidly and unfortunately for our once great country. Our political opponents now in power seem to only have studied the very worst side of it. The saying that "when the wicked rule the people mourn," originated from just such history as our rulers are repeating. NO POLITICS IN THIS WAR. One CASPER HAWES, a disabled soldier, obtained the situation as sutler in the Philadel HAWES had been crippled for life in the defense of his country, and this was the only means he had of getting a living. MOWER U. S. GEN'L HOSPIAL, PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 30, 1863. "SIR:-Having heard from Mr. Sands, of the Chestnut Hill Union Committee, that you voted the Democratic ticket, and expressed yourself inimical to the present Government, you are hereby notified that after November you can no longer be a sutler to this Hospital. By order of the surgeon in charge. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, THOMAS C. BRAINARD, Ass't Surgeon U. S. A., and Executive Officer. No politics in this war! Just prior to the election in Wisconsin, in 1863, the Milwaukee Sentinel, the leading Abolition paper of the state, kept standing in its columns, in flaming capitals, this line: "Those who vote must fight." This was intended as a fraud on those of our foreign born citizens who had not become sufficiently acquainted with the laws, customs and "regulations" to know its falsity. The object was to create an impression among this class of citizens that the act of voting would of itself send them into the army. In this way thousands of Democratic voters were kept away from the polls. It may be a fine thing to laugh over and to impugn their "loyalty," as the organs of that party were wont to do, but the army records show that this class of citizens have been as free to volunteer as those excessive "loyal" Republicans, who always cry "go," but never say "come." ABOLITION ROORBACKS. The Abolitionists have been in the habit,just before the elections, of starting some wonderful "roorback," detailing some great Union victory over the rebels, with a view to obtain votes, by making the people believe they were really doing something and were entitled to confidence. Just before the Chicago election, in April, 1863, that party caused it to be tele-graphed west that Charleston was taken, when they knew it was not The knowledge of this false news was charged upon the administration and has never been denied. Similar roorbacks, for similar purposes, were started and circula ted about the taking of Vicksburg and other | house that read it-make it too hot for them to places, when the conspirators knew them to be stay there-turn them out." false. THE UNION LEAGUE MACHINERY. DR. LEIBER ON SOLDIERS VOTING. JOHN W. FORNEY, early in 1863, stated Liberty and Self-Government," says: that "The Union men-in such organizations as Union Leagues, or whatever capacity they please to act, have opened the campaign, and intend to support the President in 1863, and if possible to control the election of President in 1864." It will be remembered that all along the radicals had denied that the Union Leagues were a political organization. But FORNEY boldly admits what all outsiders know. Now, how do these Union Leaguers propose to carry the elections? Let them speak for themselves. At one of their meetings in Cincinnati March 1863, Judge WOODFUFF, who presided, said: The American flag [Greeley's 'flaunting lie'] and the laws [excepting such as they don't like] maintained, and THE ELECTION CARRIED, EVEN AT THE PRICE OF BLOOD, for upon this everything depended." Mr. HANCOCK, who disgraced the profession of school teacher, spoke at the same meeting, and declared: * * "An election can have no value whatever if the following conditions are not fulfilled: The question must have been fairly before the people for a period sufficiently long to discuss the matter thoroughly, and under circumstances to * The liballow discussion. erty of the press, therefore, is a condition sine * It is espequa non. cially necessary that the army be in abeyance, as it were, with reference to all subjects and movements appertaining to the question at issue. The English law requires the removal of the garrison from every place where a common election for parliament is going on. * * * * * "All elections must be superintended by election judges and officers, independent of the Executive, or any other organized or unorganized powers of the government. The indecency as well as the absurdity and immorality of the government recommending what is to be voted, ought never to be permitted. If any one of these conditions be omitted, the whole election or voting is vitiated." * * And again, says the Doctor in another part of his celebrated work: "He believed that mob law was wholesome, ever, not only requires short approbations and sometimes!" A Col. GUTHRIE also spoke: "He informed those present that the League was military as well as political-that they were drilling nightly, and were prepared for any emergency.' After appointing delegates to attend the Grand Council of the Union Leagues of the United States at Chicago on the 25th of March, Professor ALLYN, of the Weslyan Seminary a teacher of young ladies, said: "But this time we must make it all right, and carry the election by any measures necessary to do it" We omit much of the filthiness of low profanity that marked much of what was said, and will close with this League by copying the following proposition they had up for discussion : "A perfect dependence of the forces, howlimited authority of the Executive over them, but it is further necessary-because they are under strict discipline, and therefore under a strong influence of the Executive-that these forces, and especially the army, be not allowed to become deliberative bodies, and that they be not allowed to vote as military bodies.WHEREVER THESE GUARANTEES HAVE BEEN DISREGARDED, LIBERTY HAS FALLEN!!! GEN. MILROY ON "HOME TRAITORS." In April, 1863, Gen. MILROY, no doubt per order, (he has certainly never been censured for it) published a letter (a poor way for a General to fight) in which he thus sets forth the bloody purposes of himself and partizans: "I join with my fellow soldiers of the Union everywhere, in warning these traitors at home [all Democrats who do not vote the Abolition ticket are called "traitors"] that when we have crushed armed treason at the South, and restored the sovereignty of our government over "For the members of the Association, and these misguided States, (which under God we all other Union men, to prohibit all the news are sure to do) we will, upon our return, while boys from conveying and selling any opposi- our hands are in, also exterminate treason in tion paper; to note every man that takes and the North, by arms, if need be, and seal, by reads it, and forbid him entering your compa- the blood of traitors, wherever found, the perny-give him no employment-run him from manent peace of our country and the perpetu your midst-turn him out of your church-ity of free [negro] government to all future mark every man and woman at your boarding generations. R. H. MILROY." What a lovely prospect for the people of the | V. and his friends, while no Abolitionist has North! "After this war is over"-"while our ever asked to have CONWAY punished, or in hands are in,"-[blood] we, the partizans of any manner interfered with. The reason and the Administration, in the army, will imbue the only reason is as plain as the sun at midour hands in the blood of our Northern broth-day-CONWAY votes the Republican ticket and ers and neighbors, who have not agreed with is in favor of the Radical scheme to break up all the President has done. or may do! This this Union-VALLANDIGHAM is right the reis literally what these bloodthirsty marplots verse way of thinking, and has exposed their mean. We are making history which "we can- treason. not escape." BROUGH'S APPEAL FROM THE BALLOT TO THE JOHN BROUGH, the candidate for Governor of Ohio, against Mr. VALLANDIGHAM, in one of his campaign speeches in Ohio, in 1863, said: "What will be the effect of electing Mr. Vallandigham Governor of Ohio? I will tell you what will be the effect of it. It will bring civil war into your State-civil war into your own homes-upon the soil of your :wn State -for I tell you there is a mighty mass of men in the State, whose nerves are strung up like steel, who will never permit this dishonor to be consummated in their native State." In plain language then, this meant that if the people should elect Mr. VALLANDIGHAM BROUGH's friends, and the administration MORE THREATS FROM ARMY POLITICIANS. H. BERTRAM, Colonel of the 20th Wis. Vol., published in the Wisconsin State Journal of April 18, 1863, a series of resolutions, which he claims were nearly unanimously passed by said regiment [its officers], from which we se lect the third resolution, as bloody enough for a MARAT: loudly and so lithly about the suspension of "Resolved, That those who complain so the writ of habeas corpus and the institu tion of martial law in time of actual rebellion, ought themselves to be suspended between heaven and earth by a few yards of hemp well adjusted around their necks." Neither in France or Austria would such demoniac resolutions be tolerated over the signature of military officers. But in this "free would have inaugurated civil war in the State, and enlightened" country, anything to obtain and put him down by force. What a commentary on free government! MORE THREATS. A Washington correspondent of the Wisconsin State Journal (supposed to be a United State's Senator) under date of May 6th, 1863, said: "The morning papers bring the announcement of the arrest of the notorious Vallandigham who for the last eight months has been flooding the country with treasonable speeches, and no doubt some of his disciples and co-laborers in Wisconsin are already writing long editorials against 'arbitrary arrests,' styling him the martyr of a military despotism. Their time may come next! A brilliant success of the army may save them, but if our armies should be repulsed, let them beware!?? That these threats have not been carried into execution, shows no want of disposition, but only the lack of brute courage. CONWAY Vents open threats right in the very portals of the Capitol, and within its halls, by advocating a dissolution of the Government. VALLANDIGHAM never uttered a sentiment of that kind, and yet these terrible threats and a black cloud of denunciations are hurled at Mr. votes. THE WHOLE THING JUSTIFIED. The Boston Commonwealth, in admitting the wicked and unlawful means resorted to by the Administration to carry the elections. attempts to justify the monstrous wrongs: "We do not find fault with the machinery used to carry Maryland and Delaware. Having nearly lost the control of the House by its blunders in the conduct of the war from March, 1861, to the fall of 1862, the Administration owed it to the country to recover that control somehow. To recover it regularly was impossible; so irregularity had to be resorted to. Popular institutions will not suffer, for the copperhead element will have a much larger number of members in both branches than it is entitled to by its popular vote. Ohio, with its ninety thousand Republican majority, will be represented by five Republicans and a dozen or more Copperheads. It is fitting that this misrepresentation of popular sentiment in the great state of the West should be offset, if necessary, by a loyal delegation from Maryland and Delaware, won even at the expense of military interference. If laws are silent amid the clank of arms, we must take care that the ag gregate public opinion of the country obtains recognition somehow or other." THE NEW YORK INDEPENDENT BOASTS OF THE | ing document, and was printed by the million, and circulated throughout the North and the INFAMY. In speaking of the spring elections, the New South-the expense being equally divided beYork Independent said: "The Administration, for the first time since it came into power, used its legitimate influance on the right side in the New Hampshire election, and the second occasion was in Connecticut." This "infinence" consisted in sending such and only such soldiers home as would pledge themselves to vote the Abolition ticket, and refuse to allow any Democrat to go. And this is that Administration that come into power on the promise of freedom and reform. God save the mark. CHAPTER XXXV. SYMPATHY BETWEEN RADICALS AND REBELSTHE DRAFT, &C. The Rebels Hate the Democracy and Sympathize with the Radicals...General Remarks...Benjamin's Speech in 1860 ... Breckinridge Seceshers Toasted with Office, &c... Richmond Examiner on Vallandigham, Cox, &c... Mobile Register on Democrats and Abolitionists....The Draft vs. Volunteering....Volunteering a Success....Wilson's and Fessenden's Admissions....Thad Stevens on "Alarming Expenses"...Too many Troops to pay, but none to Spare McClellan....General Remarks, &c....The number of Men called for....Cameron's Eulogy on Volunteering....Cost of Conscription....Opinions of the Republican Press on the Draft....Albany Statesman....The Draft in Rhode Island ...A candid Statement by a Republican paper....The Conscription in Massachusetts....A mysterious Draft in New York....Result of Draft in ninth District of Massachusetts and eighth District of New York....Thurlow Weed on "Sneaks"....Drafting in the time of the Revolution....Remarks Thereon. That the Southern rebels have from the start hated the Northern Democracy and gave preference to the Abolitionists, because they (the abolitionists) hate the old Union, has been known and appreciated ever since the campaign of 1860. During that campaign it is well known that the secessionists and Republicans worked together, cheek-by-jowl, for a common purpose -that common purpose was a division of the Democratic party, that a division of the Union might follow. This is a hard charge, but when read by the light of confessions, which abound in this work, no other proof is wanting. On the 22d of May, 1860, the great rebel leader, J. P. BENJAMIN, a Senator from Louisiana, made a gross and unprovoked attack on STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, and called it a speech. This was expressly intended as an electioneer tween the secessionists and the Republicans. The portion of these incendiary documents falling to the Republicans, were sent all over the North, as plentiful as autumn leaves, under the franks of Republican members of Congress. We have one before us that came under the frank of "JAS. R. DOOLITTLE, M. C.” Yes, this speech, which contained doctrines that slavery must be protected in all the territories, by law, that it was held sacred there by the constitution, and which also contained the most florid puffs on ABRAHAM LINCOLN, was sent broad-cast over the North by Republicans, acting as twin coadjutors with the Southern rebels. In speaking of the relative merits of Mr. DOUGLAS and Mr. LINCOLN, this Southern fire-eater said: "His (DOUGLas') adversary (Mr. LINCOLN) stood upon principle (in the Illinois Senatorial Canvass), and was beaten, and lo! he is the candidate of a mighty party for the Presidency of the United States." This was said to the praise of LINCOLN, and the disparagement of Mr. DOUGLAS. Through. out the whole speech, not one word is uttered against Mr. LINCOLN, or what the South pretended to believe his heresies, but DOUGLAS was vehemently denounced. And why was this? Because there had no doubt been an agreement-an understanding between the two wings of Disunionists, to help elect LINCOLN, and as soon as he was elected, this same Benjamin and his rebel followers were to claim the election as a cause for secession! One of the main objections to Mr. DOUGLAS was, as seen on page 4 of said speech, that he had acted" consistent" with his former course. Such were the means resorted to by these twin factions to break the last link (the Democratic party) that existed between the North and the South. All other links-the churches and civil relations, had long before been sundered. Now, take these facts in connection with the treasonable utterances of the leaders of the party in power-their votes-their resolutions their anathemas against the Union-in short, their former and their present attitude with regard to the "Union as it was, and the Constitution as it is”—and also take what follows in this chapter-and who that has sense and patriotism combined can doubt that the sad events of the past thirty months have not been the result of an "understanding," clear the Abolition ticket in New York. Hundreds and well defined, to break up the Union? The mad schemes and disunion purposes of the BRECKINRIDGE faction were as well known (we make a few honorable exceptions for those who were really blinded) as they are now.— The fact that they contemplated disunion was patent, for they boasted of it. Neither BRECKINRIDGE nor his friends would answer the queries of Judge DOUGLAS, propounded at Norfolk, as to their designs at revolution. And still, the Republicans took these traitors to their bosoms. They furnished the means to establish and keep alive newspapers at the North, in the interest of that faction, where they were not numerous enough to keep alive a 7x9 half-penny sheet. In all the state of Wisconsin the BRECKINRIDGE ticket only received some 800 out of near 153,000 votes, and yet an expensive newspaper, called the Argus & Democrat, was kept up at Madison, in that state, by Republican money, and it is well known that Republicans paid for and distributed a large number of copies among the people, nor was this all. One CALKINS, who was the willing tool to defame DOUGLAS and advocate the secession platform through its columns, was rewarded by a fat office at the hands of the Republicans. N. B. VAN SLYKE, one of the BRECKINRIDGE electors in the same state, was rewarded by a fat and lucrative office, as one of the military blessings that flowed from Republican hands. Another elector on that ticket, in the same state, H. D. BARRON, has been not only appointed by the Republican Governor as Circuit Judge, but has been twice elected by that party as member of the Assembly, and received as high as 46 votes for Lt. Gouernor, in their State Convention of 1863. These are sample specimens "away out West." In the East the big leaders of the Breckinridge faction were among the first to be invited to the Abolition feast of spoils. Ben. Butler, who boasted of having voted for Jeff. Davis one hundred times, was rewarded with a Major General's commission, which enabled his brother to make a "good thing" in the Department of New Orleans, it is said, to the tune of thirteen millions. EDWIN M. STANTON, another, who rode the Breckinridge hobby, occupies a seat in the synagogue of ABRAHAM the I. DANIEL S. DICKINSON was rewarded by a high place on and thousands of others were likewise rewarded by the abolitionists for their subserviency to the destroyers of our Union, all of which show that it pays to have been an advocate of secession candidates and the extreme southern doctrine. Let the student of history draw his own conclusions from these facts. JEFF. DAVIS' OFFICIAL ORGAN ON DEMOCRATS. The Richmond Examiner, the especial organ of JEFF. DAVIS, in speaking of VALLANDIG. HAM and Cox, of Ohio, used this expressive language, which shows where their rebel sympathies lie, April, 1863: "We wish from our hearts they were both already safely chained up at the present writing. They have done us mose harm-they and their like-than ten thousand Sewards and Sumners, We tremble to see their unwholesome advances, and still more to see a morbid craving here to respond to them, under the delusive idea of promoting intestine divisions at the North. "Oh, Dictator Lincoln, lock ye up those two peace Democrats-together with Richardsonin some of your military prisons!" THE MOBILE REGISTER SAYS "GIVE US SUCH MEN AS SUMNER," ETC. The Mobile Register, shortly after VALLANDIGHAM's deportation uttered the following remarkable piece of cozening to the Abolitionists. Read: "We thank God from the depths of our hearts that the authorities at Washington snubbed Vice President Stephens in his late attempt to confer with them on international affairs, without form or ceremony. It has long been known here that this gentleman thought if he conld get to whisper into the ears of some men about Washington, the result might be terms of peace on some sort of Union or recon. struction. He seemed to forget that Douglas, with whom he used to serve, is dead, and notwithstanding his mantle has fallen, by dividing. it into four pieces, upon Richardson and Voorhees, Vallandigham and Pugh, still the Democratic party is not in power now, thank God for it. "The prospect looked gloomy to the Vice President, whose infirmity of body no doubt cast a shadow over his spirits, and he said that one of two things must be done: either some terms must be made, or the whole militia of the Confederacy must be called out, and immediate alliance proposed with foreign powers. President Davis gave him full powers to treat on honorable terms, and started him off to the told him there was an impassible gulf between Kingdom of Abraham. But Father Abraham them, and the Vice President had to steam back to Richmond, a little top fallen. |