Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-08-02
The Rebel Convention.

The Rebels who met at Des MoineS on the
oath inst. nominated Hon. CHARLES MASON,
Of Des Moines county (Burlington) for
Governor; MATURIN L. FISHER, of Clayton
county, for Lieut.. Governor, and j. NJ ELL.
WOOD, of Polk county, for Attorney General
Cur impression is that Mason and ELLwooD
will stand the disgrace of such nomination,
and that Mr.. FISHER will decline. No patriot
will consent to stand on such platform as
the convention manufactured; there are too
many treason-planks in it.
The resolutions are just such as we should
expect to come from such body of men
Buchanan office holders, Breckenridge voters,
and treason-venders generally. The resolu-
tons regard the rebellion as the result of the
successful teaching of the irrepressible con-
fict doctrine condemn the course which the
rebels have taken to redress their grievances;
oppose the doctrine of secession pledge the
Democratic party (kind souls! y to all Consti-
tutional means to put down the rebellion
condemn the means restored to by the Presi-
dent to accomplish the end d; declare that our
Government can never be prepetuated by
force of arms favor convention Of the diff.
ferent States of the Union; and repudiate
thr doctrine that the States are indebted for
their present position in the Uunion to the
Federal Government.
Can history furnish another such set of
contradictory, damnable resolutions? Their
substance is that the Democratic party is op-
posed to the rebellion and to the means of
putting it down; that it favors all constitu
tional means for preserving the Union, but
not resort to arms that the General Gov
eminent must be sustained, but that the SOW
ereign States have sovereign rights which the
Federal Government must not NEEDLE with
The resolutions originated from the Virginia
school of politics, and, taken as whole, are
totally destitute of patriotic sentiments.
The patriotic portion Of the Democratic
party of this city condemn the resolutions in
the strongest terms, and three of them have
sent us communications on the subject. The
doings of the Convention will stand as long
as our State, a blasting stigma to its members
and to our young patriotic commonwealth
Dubuque Times.
MAJOR GENERAL ROBERT PATTERSON
jor-General Robert Patterson was born in
Ireland in 1892, and emigrated to this coun-
try when quite young, taking up his abode
in Philadelphia. He received a collegiate
education, and early manifested military in
clinations. After graduating at college, he
was appointed First Lieutenant in the 22d
Regiment of regular U. S. Infantry in April,
1918, he was transferred to the 32d Infantry !;
appointed Assistant Deputy Quartermaster
General with the rank of captian) January,
1918, and Captain-,n-line. 1914, and there
upon relinquished rank in the staff. He
retired from the army in the same year, upon
the disarmament Of his regiment He sub
sequently followed the profession Ct the law
in his adopted city, and for many years was
connected with the military of Philadelphia
In 1s47 he was appointed Major General of
volunteers, and proceeded to Mexico and
assumed command of his division, He was
actively engaged in the siege of Vera Cruz,
but shortly afterward his health failed, and
he returned to the United States, and was
therefore unable to take part in the well con-
tested battles in the upper part of Mexico,
which crowned the American arms with glory
and conquered peace.
MAJOR GENERAL Fremont arrived in this
city Thursday morning, accompanied by his