The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-12-05
The Difference.

Senator Douglass was an able man, q true
democrat and patriot. He was ready to lay
aside all party feeling and fight manfully for
the Union.
Gen. o. B. Wilcox was leading man in
Michigan, strong democrat and worker
for toe party. He says: We should think
of nothing but crushing tie rebellion, and
whatever may have been the causes that led
to this war; We ought all to stop twitting and
90 to fighting. The man who stays at home
cursing the government and the abolitionists,
YOU may depend upon as being either cow
ard who wishes to shield himself from going
to the war by bowling out against the way 1t
is to be conducted, or else he has in his heart
the venom of traitor"
Gen. Dix i, e. democrat, and he writes to
the committee of New York, that this is no
time to get up party feelings.
Gen. Hooker is democrat, but he chooses
to support the government rather than stay
at home denounciag it.
Gen. Burnside is democrat, yet he would
blush to hear men denounce the government.
Gen. Halleck is democrat, and yet he
finds his opinions the same as the Presidents
Secretary Stanton is democrat, and yet
he has nothing 10 say against the presidents
policy of emancipation.
Gen. Mcclellan is democrat, and yet he
sustains the government, and though scme of
his too jealous friends think he ought to de-
nounce the government and stir up sedition,
he thinks himself bound to be as loyal citi-
zen and as faithful soldier as ever. 1t is
evident that those fellows who abuse every
thing but the rebels are no more democrats
than are the fungi which grow on the Oldest
oak part of the solid wood.
Some would have us believe that there is
little difference between a democrat and a
traitor. This is false The difference is as
wide and as distinct as that which divides
vice from virtue, light from darkness, truth
from falsehood. The democratic element in
cur country is true. The genuine democrats
in the army do not say, as their pseudo dem
ocrats would have US believe, 81 will resign
if | cannot have this or that General If the
President tries to carry out this or that pol
icy they do not howl about "nigger on the
brain," nor 60 about telling that this or tina,
caused the war 1t is enough for them to
know that our country needs their strong
willing hands, and so with generous ignor
ing of all party feelings they have sustained
the President in all his endeavors to save our
country from destruction.
Those men who 90 about denouncing the
President, stirring up party feeling, distract
ing the energies of the people. instilling mu-
tiny among troops, and telling what should
or should rot be DONE are the vultures that
follow in the wake of every national calamity
the ours that stay at home bowling while
the noble hounds are dragging down the wild
boar. They are the vampires that snaw at
the heart of their country. Claiming to be
Democrats in order to gain prestige from the
old. timehonored name, they act as traitors.
Claiming to be supporters of the Constitu-
ton they try to inure the Government by
the supporting of which We can alone aid ouI
country.
|, is time these human owls were driven
out from the grand old Democratic Temple
and no longer suffered to disgrace its honest
inmates.