Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-05-30
Address OF Mayor Sherman OF
Chicago.

Address OF Mayor sh.rn.n OF
Chicago.
F. G. Sherman Of Chicago, took his
Ieat on the 5th inst The following is tho
portion Of his address:
It will probably BE- expected of me, that
should say something respecting national
Affairs do not know that would have
done 50 further than to deplore the calam.
ity Of civil war, and to express the hope
Of . speedy peace. with full recognition
Of national authority everywhere through.
out the land, were it not for the persisten
efforts made BY my opponents, both before
and since the election, to create tho i'm
preston here and elsewhere that my cleo.
ton Was to be considered % giving aid
and comfort to the rebellion, and hope
and encouragement to those northern
men whose sympathies and feelings are
hostile to the Union, and in favor of the
Southern Confederacy. If the newspa-
pers and others. who make this assertion
believe what they say, never was there q
greater mistake; if they do not believe it,
never Was there more groundless false.
hoods uttered. If there be men in this
city who have any sympathy with the re.
bellion; who desire the recognition of the
Southern Confederscy, who desire q with.
drawal Of our troops from the rebel States
and coast, who desire peace that will
directly or indirectly impair the territorial
or political integrity Of the Union, such
men are strangers to me personally and
politically. l have no relations with them
of any kind. I am not their friend, nor
are they my friends. If any such men
voted for me, which think is impossible,
they did 50 with full knowledge that
was not in any way favorable to their
schemes against my country. If it be
necessary that I should state my political
position, it can be done in very few
words.
lam Democrat, devoted to the sue
cess Of Democratic principles, because
those principles make the Constitution the
sole and unehangsble test Of all opera.
tons. While the Democracy do not favor
every measure that may be strictly Con.
stitutional. The Constitution has provid.
ed sufficient means Of determining the
Coustitutiouality Of oil legislative and ex.
ecutive action, and the Democratic rule
has been, and hope always will be. to
resort to those means, and not to rebel
lion or insurreot,on to test the validity of
Objectionable legislation or executive op-
preston. This devotion 70 law, as the
only arbiter Of public rights, necessarily
requires that the Democratic party should
give their undivided support to the Gov
ernment, no matter by whom administered,
in every effort to maintain the Constitu.
ton. This rebellion is an effort to over.
turn the Constitution and destroy the
Union; that rebellion must be put down,
no matter at what cost Of money or sac
ri6cs Of life it is . struggle for national
existence, in which individuals must be
prepared to sacrifice all that the nation
may legally demand to preserve the na.
tional life. No Democrat can b. true to
his principles, WHO does not render to his
government oil the aid. in whatever form
it may be legally required, to put down
the rebellion, which if allowed to be sue
cessful, will destroy both Constitution sud
Union, and plunge the nation into civi
and border warfare, which for years vii
keep the country desolated, bankrupt ant
ruined.
The doctrines I have stated as thos'
taught aud enforced BY the Democratic
. party are my political faith, not, howeves
expressed now for the FIRST time, but ar
and have been we'll known to all M
!. friends. personal aud political; and it i
> to the fact that held, and was frml
D fixed in holding such sentiments, that
Q attribute that unanimity with which th
!. Democratic party supported and elects
. mo at the recent election.
q Gen. Rosecrans, . few days age, receive
!, the following pertinent letter from an II
% dignant private:
Geueral-I have been in service eigl
teen months, and have never received
f. cent. desire furlough for fifteen ,. A,
ar in order to return home aud rr..nove !