Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-11-10


We owe an apology 10 the country for
not having larger union majority in Grant
County. That there is majority Of 1900
IN the County favorable to the war for tie
whole union we have not a doubt; but
many stayed at home 10 dig potatoes and
prepare for winter; many also voted the
80 called Democratic ticket under the belief
that the democratic party is still loyal 10
the old constitution. This, however, is
clear: three-fourths or more of the genu-
inc patriotism of the democratic party has
been sifted out Of il, and has been bagged
by the union party. The other patriotic
fourth is exceeding ignorant and bigoted
and will be bard to bag. AS to the leaders
of that party they are driven up to des-
peration, mad at every body and raving in
despair. Seeing that their Babylon has fall
len they have passed to degree of hatred
and madness next to self-destruction. We
could here recite Jewish history to illustrate
The copperhead desperation, but It's no use.
Well, the great, long promised reaction
has not come by which Babylon with her
iniquities was TO govern. Babylon has fall
len, never 10 rise again. The first ball fir
ed at Fort Sumter rebounded upon Baby
lon; the New York riots and Ryan address
were the last fatal shot, and Babylon is no
more. That fine piece of music, entitled
"Ba6yloa has Fallen" by Root d Cady,
rs Clark street, Chicago, price rs cents,
should be IN every union family. Oh how
it seals in fate lrrevocable that truth upon
the mind, that "the yoke that binds upon
the necks of Gods poor shall surely be
shifted to the necks of the oppressors." -
Man can't hinder what God designs.
Bill Seward said, 1.-The status of no class
is to be changed by any result of this war"
Poor Seward What now of thy Higher
Ld,0 bv which right law was recognized
by thee only for traffic as merchandise. The
Lord hath said, the status Of men shall
be changed by this war, and thou, Bill
Seward, art the unwilling agent by which
100000 Africans are put into the field to
shoot traitorsl And the people by major
tiles of hundreds of thousands, polled upon
slave as Well as free soil, have said, ego it
Africa, for thou art commissioned Ly the
Almighty to shoot traitors, and to bind
them in chains for the judgment"
The Copperheads refuse to volunteer to
aid in the war, and Government is thereby
made short of men. The necessity arises
tberefrom for more men from some quarter,
and they cannot be had except from the
ranks of the bondsmen. The blacks fill
the places refused by copperheads. 1t was
expected that the country would sicken at
this dose, and that these fall elections would
provide rebuke for that which God willed
and feeble men so reluctantly ordained the
arming Of the blacks to fight the rebels
But the elections have endorsed the DEGREES,
and this ends the copperhead heresy. So
the demagogue rattle, that "this abolition
war for the rigger, to elevate the blacks to
equality with white men," is failure
Inc war Is Dound 10 go on Till Inc union IS
saved and the rebels subdued- -subjugated.
That'sit.
Readers, for the first time since the Rev
olution against Britain we are IN war where
in the oppressed have a voice and an inter
est, and God is on their side. Their pray
ers avail much, more than all the white
champions Of religion. What they have
so lorg prayed for will be granted. The
Copperheads have aided them unwittingly
BY refusing to support The war. Bill Sew
aro, BY Lis thoughts to forestal Jehovah,
has given anothsmifew at the car Of liberty
and has drawn Y clear out of the mire.
The elections have put that car upon an
iron track and il viii run through TO Rich
mond. All aboard.