Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-09-16
Henry L Palmer.

The entire copperhcad press OF the
State are becoming 50 much alarmed at
the effects Of the disloval platform adopt
ed at their late State Convention. that they
are now laboring to convince the peo-
pie that Mr.. Palmer, their candidate
for Governor, Is really Il war democrat
To prove him such, the Milwaukee Ne1rs
which paper, by the way, would no more
support Mr. Palmer if he was in favor Of
q vigorous prosecution Of the war than it
would President Lincoln-selects an ex
tract from Mr. Palmers speech at 4 war
meeting in Milwaukee something more
than year since, which contained the
/ following sentence:
a most gigantic and stupendously
wicked rebellion has arisen to destroy,
with bloody and parricidal hands, this fair
fabric, raised at the cost Of our fathers
I blood and now we are called upon to put
! it down and save oGr loved land | trust
we stand here to-day rs Americans only
and that we shall not fail in taking effect
i've measures to answer the call of our
/ country and to send succor to our broth
/ ers III arms and peril in the south. Our
troubles sprane from small things till
they now oyershadow the land. We have
armed men and sent them to the field, but
the government now demands an addi-
tlonal force TO perpetuate republican in
stitutions. Will you not respond 10 the
call ? | trust and believe YOU will.
Even the Home Tntcltgenccr, of this
city, much as its editors hate the sight of
blue coats and shoulder straps, publishes
the extract, with the hope of sugar coating
Mr.. Palmer in such a manner rs to secure
for him the support of loyal men at home
and in the army. But the deception will
never win. Had Mr. Palmer felt friend
ship for our brothers in arms and peril
in the south, his vote in the legislature
would not have been invariably against
granting 10 them the right of suffrage.
Whether Mr.. Palmer was sincere in his
remarks ut Milwaukee twelve months ago
or whether the pressure of circumstances
forced him, as it has some in this vicinity
, TO express sentiments he did not feel, we
do not pretend to say But admitting he
then spoke his true sentiments, he is not
the first nor the only man who has proved
recreant to his own honest convictions.
Even Judas was one of the chosen twelve
and for n time, We have no doubt served
his Lord and Master faithfully. but for 4
consideration even less than the nomina-
ton rendered to Mr. Palmer. became a
traitor, and betrayed the Saviour of man
kind into the hauds of his murderers -
Benedict Arnold was once n loyal man to
his government and was intrusted bv the
Father of his Country with as important
positions al occurred in the war of the
revolution lie too proved traitor. and
tried to betray his country Harlow :.
orton, the man who presided at the cop
perhead convention that nominated Mr.
Palmer, and then exhausted every vocab-
ulary in the land for language of bitter
ness against the administration. the war.
and everything loyal, less than one year
ago professed 10 be loyal man and in
( favor of vigorous prosecution OF the
war Once whis afterwards an abo-
litionist. and then a democrat and pro
fessed war democrat until recently, lie too
has proved the instability of man by be
coming copperhead of the rankest kind.
Moses NJ Strong two years ago was one
OF the leaders of the Union Convention
at Madison, ana afterwards almost singly
and alone attended a Union Convention