Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-08-16
Communication from Judge Hubbel.
From the Milwaukee News.

From the Milwaukee News.
MEssRs. EDIToKs:--I observe in your
paper of the Sd instant, the resolutions
Of the SO, called "Democratic Conven-
ton of the State of Indiana
They forcibly announce some sound
sentiments, and with equal force de-
nounce a great many real and supposed
abuses in the administration Of the gov
ernment. And that's aW
They depict none OF the horrors OF
the war in which the country is engag-
ed. They pass by the dangers, now
threatening the overthrow of the gov
ernment and the constitution. They
treat the murders, the robberies, the
burnings, the poisonings, the worse
than savage warfare, which in every
imaginable form has been waged, and
is now being waged against every friend
Of the Union. in the Slave States, as
thing Of no moment. They omit to
mention the invasion of the State Of
Indiana, by armed bands of rebels, and
the threatened raid of traitors over all
the North. w estern States. They con
tain no call to arms, no burning appeal
to the patriotic and loyal people Of In
diana, TO fill up the ranks Of her brave
but shattered regiments now in the field,
to rescue them, and with them the gOu
er7ente1at, from the vast armies arrayed
for their destruction. On these all alb
sorbing topics, they are silent.
Why so? Are the Democracy of
Indiana insensible to the perils which
menace the Union, nay, which menace
their own State and environ their sol
diers in the field?
Or, was this Convention of mere
politicians, who love their party more
than their country?
Nero fddleG while Rome was burn
ing; but true democracy is sensitive to
all the dangers of the government, all
the wrongs of the people. We all re-
member when old John Brown, with a
handful of men, made an armed inroad
into Virginia, how all the South, and,
literally, ali the North, rang with de-
nunciations of his futile attempt to in
wade the constitutional rights of prop
erty in Slave State.
Yet now, when all the Slave States
are banded against the constitution it
self-when six or seven hundred thou
sand men are in arms, and the leaders,
at least. are fired with tieidlSh hate,
against both the Constitution and all
who dare defend it, a great Democrat
ic Convention meets, and utters not one
word of condemnation against this as
founding crime! Is it because this
monstrouS crime is slavery begOtten-
that this self-styled democracy is dumb?
Or. is it because the admniStra by
and through which alone the national
life can be defended, is styled repnbli-
can? What, in the name of patriot
ism, of liberty, of honor, would those
politicians have the National Admini>-
tration do? Has not the President, for
fifteen months, conducted the war upon
their own plan? Has he not guarded
the dwellings, protected the families,
spared the property OF rebels, even
when they were known to be i'll arms
against the government? What fur
ther. except that we should ground in
COW ardly submission, could even trait
ors ask? And what have been the
fruits of this unparalleled magnanimi-
ty, generosity, forbearance? What has
this olive branch armed system of fight
ing accomplished We have seen the
war at every hour waged upon us with
increasing violence and malignity.
We have seen every loyal man, with
in the reach of the rebels, hunted down,
robbed, murdered, or swept by con-
scription into the Confederate ranks
while every avowed traitor, capable of
bearing arms, has been enrolled as a
soldier, or sent forth as a guerrilla, to
do battle against the friends and de-
Tenders of the Constitution-untilt this
force has gathered such strength, and
is pushed forward with such terrific
hate, that it not only threatens the de-
feat of our exhausted and decimated
armies, but threatens the over-runninc.
sacking and destroying of the free
States and cities of the North What
patriot will halt in crisis like this p
Arms and armies alone, will crush the
foe. Arms and armies only will save
us and save the Constitution. Let us
awake, let us arise then, Messrs. Edi.
tors, to the fearful emergency that is
upon us. Let us come to the rescue o1
. the country, and leave party issues tc
, brighter and more convenient season.
Let us doubt that the resolutions in
question express the sentiments 0,
i breathe the spirit of the true democra
cy, anywhere. And if pretended de
mocracy, if sympathizing, treason
r defending spirit has given birth to them
3 let us repudiate them, in the name o
y fho notriotic TTpiop lo,;on Jo,,o,,. =,