Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-07-19
An Army officer on Abolitionism.

lHe IoiloWlng Is an extract from 2
private letter written by an officer of
The regular army, holding high posi-
ton or the staff of Gen. Nc Clellan,
dated June II, 1862:
[ have been told that confessions are
good for the soul. / am gong to make
one to you. | am at lastSan abolition
list! Not that love the negro or am
prepared to say, cart thou not a man
and brother % but I do love my coup.
try and the white race. Nv old prein-
.dlces and political feelings have been
wiped out one by one, slowly but sure
~. could not pass through all that
have witnessed during the last year,
and not see what every honest and can
did man should, that an institution
which can so change whole people in
their feelings and actions towards their
eountrymen and their country must be
wrong, and the sooner it is done away
with the better
l am no stickler for the constitution.
al rights of the South; a people who
are. trying SO earnestly to destroy tn
own safeguard should not be protected
by that which they are so anxious to
overthrow. I can now appreciate and
echo the SAYING Of Wendell Phillips !:
S'Let US destroy that institution which
has disturbed the peace of our country
forseveral years." -
You, like myself, have DO doubt in
past times had high idea of Southern
chivalry. Like many other things down
South, find that boasted institution a
.humbug. Among all the Southern Off
GERS with whom Ihave met and have
been brought in contact with, I have
found scarcely one that was even the
peer Of a Northern mechanic.
L could tell you of deeds of barbar-
ism perpetrated by these knights of the
South that would make YOU shudder.
A day or two or since | was told by an
aid Of Gen. Keyes that one of our eff
GERS was found dead with both his ears
cut Off. This is one of hundred cases
OF their cruelty. Yesterday two suffers
were found in the woods hanging by
the neck, and some teamsters with their
threats cut. Yours truly, -
The New York Post AYERS that the
writer Of the above has always been
known as an uncompromising bunker
democrat. He has everbeen unsparing in
his dennnciations of abolitionists aud
Republicans, whomhe considered, when
be left here few months. ago, really
responsible for the war. Nothing could
be more significant of the change which
experience and observation are silently
effecting in the minds Of our soldiers,
than the fact that such a man now
quotes approvingly the sentiments of
Wendell Phillips
TERMS OF CoURr-7rH C1RcU1T.-
Below we give the act changing and
tabiishing the terms Of Court in this
Circuit: 49,
Published jane %, 1862.
CHAPTER 369
An Act to prescribe the time for hold
ing courts in the seventh judicial cir
cult.
The people ofthe State of Wisconsin, represent
ed IN Senate and assembly, do enact as fol-
loms @ -. s-.-E
Sec. /. That from and after the first
day of July, A. d. 1852, the general
terms Of the circuit court in and for the
several counties comprising the seventh
judicial circuit, in this state, shall be
held in each year as follows:
In the county Of Marathon, on the
second Monday in March and last Mon
day in August;
In the county of Portage, on the
fourth Monday in March and second
Monday in September;
In the county Of Wanshara, on the
second Monday in April and the fourth
Monday in September; 1
In the county of Waupaca, on the
third Monday in April and the first
Monday in October;
In the county of Adams, on the
fourth Monday in April and the third
Monday in October: ~
In the county of juneau, on the first
Monday in May and the fourth Monday
IN October s
In the county Of Wood, on the fourth
Monday in May and the second Mon-
day in November
Sec. 2. All writs, summons, process,
indictments, recognizances and other
proceedings, made retnrnable to the
terms now fixed by law shall be deem
ed and considered returnable to the
terms, as the same are prescribed by
this act; and all aijouruments, contin-
uances, motions and notices of proceed
ing in the circuit courts of said coun-
ties, made or taken to any date ssubse
ouent to the date when this act shall
take effect, shall be held and taken for
the time herein provided for the held
4 .ine of the terms Of said courts.
See. 3. All parts of any act in con