Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-10-14
70 Unlon men in Grant County:

Asscinblymen and county othcels nave ~
ready been provided to be voted this fall
By such voters as call themselves demo
Gratis.
One Of the rules of human C nduct is
to Judge a man by the company he keeps.
We say Of a lawyer whose clients are all
counieneiters thieves and nsnrdercrs, thathe
runs a shop. for the heBefit Of such and IS
therefore not a whit better than they. The
preacher, whose church Napbels are
drunkards. swearers and fighters, must be
yending bad sort Of religion. The polt-
ical party, half Of whose members have
but just gone off in rebellion, is 10 be dis
trusted, lest a part Of The other half sym
pathise with rebels. This brings us tojust
what we want to say to union dem
ocrats of Grant county.
Those in whom you confded as being
patriots two years ago have, many Of
them, deceived you. Your famous leader,
Mr.. Douglas, was IN unconditional union
man; slavery or no slavery, he was for the
union; before his death he said, "in this
mortal conflict between the North and
South, there can be but two partics-loyal
men and traitors" Do you remember,
democratic reader, hearing men say before
the election in GO, t4at. "alhough zoe Uots
for Mr.. Douglts, zee do so under protest
for are really prefer Breckenridge for
President" AhJ too, you remember this
was quite generally the position of the
leaders of the democratic party. We re-
member hearing several whose names are
now on the Grant county democratic tick
ct and whom as democrats you are now
asked to vote, say, "Iprefer Breckenridge
6t vote for Douglas under protest because
ae think best not to split the party at
present By haping Breckinridge ticket"
Well, all such arc now in positive sympa-
thy with the rebels;. Breckinrijge was
then their leader; jeff Davis is now their
leader and they regard him as their cham
pion to defeat the abolitionists and save
The democratic party-all being in their
opinion abolitionists who support the union
and war.
Union democratic friends, wherever you
may live, just look about you. At Potosi
who are the ones you suspect Of being dis
loyal-opposed to thewar against the reb-
els, opposed to confscation, opposed to the
tax for supporting. TIKI. government, op-
posed to sending traitors to Eft. Lafayette,
opposed to the soldiers voting, opposed to
subsisting our army upon the property Of
rebels. opposed to everything the govern
ment has done to whip the rebels and save
the union? Answer, they are disloyal
men who are working for the democratic
ticket this fall.
Who in BeetoWn meet TO rejoice and
boast over every rebel victo y? We an
swcr, they are rebel sympathizing demo-
Gratis who will hurrah fer the democratic
ticket this fall. Di>loyal democrats in
Grant county Ll,ye been heard by loyal
democrats to hope, wish and pray with an
oath that every union soldier that leaves
the county to fi5ht in this abolition war,
as they call it, may never retufnl Such
are the men who will hurrah for the dem
ocratic ticket.
Some days ago a man was saying in
Lancaster thai if compelled to fight lie
would 90 and help jeff Davis; we said to
him ''you bad better not talk so, for there
are men in town who would not be too
good to hang you for such words" He
said with an oath, 81 am a democrat, this
is free country and will advocate such
politics as | like This mans ignorance
would be his Just excuse but for this, that
he but express the feelings Of his superi
ors-the entire democratic leaders Of Grant
county.
In parts Of the south part Of the coun-
ty, Mahoney is openly justified by demo
cratic loaders-the same who patrcnized
the n. Y. Day Book till its existence
ended.
Union democrats, you find republicans
disagreeing as to the Conduct of the war,
any believing that itiAis not carried on
with proper energy, aud that the rebels are
too kindly treated. but you do not find
them entertaining the least sympathy for
the rebels. You ind republicans working
as a unit along with union democrats for
raising volunteers, for aiding tho sick and
wounded soldiers and for every thing cal
culated TO ail the union cause. You see
the democratic leaders hanging back in all
these, and you see them sneering and ever
rejoicing over rebel successes and the loss
of union soldiers. Have you seen demo-
cra;ic leaders aiding. enlistments In
son cases only-they urge union men to
enlist, but 90 around among democratic
voters and say to them, ado not enlist IN
this abolition agdri stay at home and help
us carry the eleetiols MiSJdH.' In spite
Of such counsels, many loyal Young demo.
Gratis have enlisted. AMI have toll publicly
what was said to them by democratic
leaders.
AT Mineral p, mi lei Smith. one Of the
few loyal democrats Of that city, said to i
distinguished democratic leader, "sir you
are a ID traitor The vulnerable Smith
could not stand to hear bis country abused.
and thus disposed of his distinguished host
at orce.