The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1863-08-22
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WhenA ajntApt aaneral TbDmas ssWaA
Ia the s9nths WeatyS organizing Negro
Regime tO help oohauer ana hold tie
Valley 6 ae Mfssissippi, several lowe
officers wsEe present on one occasion,
and puhllS expressed to Gen. Thomas
and the Nbops assembled their hearty
concurretAee, Eiotonly in the policy ofthe
President Emancipation Proclasnation.
but that Of aiming the Slaves of Rebel
Masters and placing them in the field as
soldiers. Among those who expressed
themselves fn this manner, was Brigadier
General James Tuttle, the present nom
inee Of the copperhead Party for Coy
ernort IsAwasAa voluntary expression of
opinion on his part, and those who heard
him believed he. was sincere q, On, the
contrary, at the Copperhead State Con.
yertion held in this City on the 9th of
July, Ed. Johnston Of Lee County read
extracts from letters which be said he
had received . from BrigadierG General
James NJ. Tuttle, expressing directly
cont traTy opinion; and abusive OF the Conn
mander in-Ghief. of the Army for press
ing these War Measures upon the army
and the country! Here was tdiscrep+
ancy of profession which General Tuttle,
as an honorable man and high-minded,
Soldier, could not afford to tolerate |
He has of course long since seen the re-
ported proceeding of the convention, and
in dozen words over his own signature,
could have stigmatized Johnson as falls
iAer and vindicated his own name and
character; but no such disclaimer has been
sent to the public. More than that: Gen.
Tuttle has been informed by the publish
ed reports of the action of the Conpen-
ton, that after that body had adopted
the identical Platform upon which the
TraitOrous Vallandigham was nominated
IN Ohio, he-Brigadier-General Tuttle--
came within few votes of nomination,
his friends present reading dispatches,
professedly from him, saying he would
accept the place representing that style
of principles! lie has been constantly
informed of the measures which were in
progress, to crowd Fisher off from the
ticket, and put him-Tuttle-on the tick
ct. lie knows that the State Central
Committee of that Party, in addition to
the Vallandigham Resolutions which had
been adopted and published, and cer-
tain other moro infamous Resolutions
which had been adopted, but not pub
lished issued supplemental Declara-
ration of Faith, of which the following is
sample: .. II
9. Rssoi5sd ThAI = measure Of mitigating The
abomu. bic iRequAlitie. Of the Institutional
Con nrcEpton Act, By VII CD Denocrsts sogst 10 be
FoHc into aboiitn which they detest, 1t is
recommended that the ratification nsattngs 10 be held
hrough the state 90 or ah1tihe arst Of Ausnat, 90
petloH the county authorities to app oprlate kuffs
uf n IA
service in "ther wuTds puFchGse our fFsed0m las
the rich are prode TO do for themsevssl, Of each
paor white VINO may be drafted In Iowa, and upon
hose labor a family may be dependel lt for support
Gen. Tuttle knows that this resolution
and; the series of which it is q part were
made and issued under the sanction of
the same State Central Committee which
put him in nomination for Governor ct
Burlington on the 7th inst He knows,
therefore, that anything short of a full,
frank, unequiVocal repudiation -of the
sayings and doings of the Cepperhead
State Convention of the 9th July, and
that of its Central committee on the 7tla
August, will exhibit him to the people
of Iowa. in and out of the Stats, as d will
ful falsifier and contemplate demagoguel
What he has done in the field has been
liberally accounted to his credit, but it
will weigh as nothing in comparison with
that perhdy which stimulates profess
sedly Union ofIicers who has received
high promotion Mt the hands of the Gov
ernment, and who III the field has profes-
sed to sustain the measures of the Gov
ernment, to put himself at the head of AL
organized party of Home Traitors, who
are now the most formidable obstacle to
the full restoration of Union Authority
Gen Tuttle, as the nominee of the Iowa
Copperheads, ranges himself along aide
of ValIandingha1n Of Ohio. Wiekliffe OF
Kentucky, Thomas II. Seymour of Con
necticut, Horatio Seymour of New York,
and other leaders of murderous rioters
and Traitors
It looks to us as though Brigadier-Gen-
erh James NJ. Tuttle couldn't afford TO
forfeit the respect and abandon the com
panionship of Loyal Men by course oI
dishonor such as his acceptance would
involve; but the leading Coppcrheads
here profess to be in correspondence
with him and to believe that he will -
In few DAYS all doubts will be solved