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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12

At last we have the authoritative an.
uouucement Of wlsat we have heard so Of
ten intimated, that Gen. Milroy, Of this
Ststo. has been found innocent of every
thing charged against him in connection
with the defense and abandonment of Win
chester last summer. The following is
the Presidents Endorsement on the report
of the Judge Advocate in the case:
In June last division was substantial.
~ lost near Winchester. Virgins. At
the time. it was under Gen. Milroy as i'm
mediate commsnder in the field; General
Schenck as department commander ct
Baltimore, and Gen. Halleck as General.
in Chief at Washington. Gen. Milroy.
as immediate commander. was put in ar.
rest, anil subsequently Court Of inquiry
examined, chiefly with reference to DISC.
bedience Of orders. and reported the evi.
demce. The foregoing Is synoptical
statement of the evidence, together with
the Judge Advocate Generals conclusion.
The disaster. when it came, was surprise
to all. 1t was very well known to Gems.
Schenek and Milroy, for sometime before,
that Gen. Iialleck thought. the division
was in general danger of surprise at Win
chester, that il was OF no service there
commensurate with the risk 1t iuenrrcd.
and that it eught to be Withdrawn, bus
although he more than once advised its
withdrawal. he never positively ordered
it. Gen. Schenck. on the contrary, be.
lieved the service of the force at Wincbos-
ter was worth the hazard, and SO did not
positively order its withdrawal until il was
so late that the rebels had cut the wires
and prevented the order reaching Milroy.
General Milroy seems 10 have concurrsd
with General Sehenck in the opinion that
the force should be kept at Winchester.
at least till the approach of danger, but
he disobeyod no order on the subject
Some question can be made whether
some of Gen. Halleck s dispatches to Gen.
Schenck should not have been construed
to be orders to Withdraw the force and
obeyed accordingly. but no such question
can be made against Milroy. In fact. the
last order he received was to prepare to
withdraw but not to actually withdraw
until further orders, which further orders
never reached him. Serious blame Is not
necessarily due TO any serious disaster, and
cannot say that in this case any of these
officers are deserving of serious blame
No court martial is deemed necessary or
proper in the case.
(Signed. A. LINCOLN.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12
Soldiers Wives,

I Fanny Fern never wrote two paragraphs
which contained more touching truth than
those which follow:
What an immense amount Of heroism
among this class passes unnoticed. or is
taken as matter of course; not only in
this most righteous war which we are wa
ging. but in those Of oil past time. For
the soldier. he has his comrades about
him. shoulder to shoulder; he has praise
if he does well; he has honorable mention
and plying tears If he falls nobly striv-
ing. But alas! for the soldiers wife!--
Even an officers wife, who has sympathz-
ing friends. " no has comforts and many
luxuries of life; whose children's future is
provided for if their father falls; what
honrs OF dreadful suspense and anxiety
must she pass even in these favorable cir
cumstances? How hard for her. But for
the wife of the poor soldier. who in giving
her husband to the country has given ev-
erything; who knows not whether the
meal she and her little ones are eating
may not be the last for many hungry.
desolate day; who has no friends to say
"well done." as the tagging weeks Of sus-
pense creep on. and she stands brayely at
her post. Keeping want and starvati IN at
bay; Imagination busy among the heaps
of dead and wounded or traversing the
wretehed prison dens and shuddeling at
the thought of their demoniac keeper;
keeping down her sobs as her little daugh-
ter triistfully offers mp her nightly prayers
'for papa to come home." or when her
little son. just o'd enough to read. traces
slowly with hi. fingers the long list OF kill
ell and wounded. Ito see if fathers name
is there" shrouding her eyes from the
possible iuture of her children should her
strength give ont under the pressure OF
want and anxiety; no friend to turn to
when her hand is paisied with labor; nor
waving banners. nor martial music, nor
one procession to chronicle her valorous
deeds; none but God and her own brave
heart to witness her noble unaided strug.
gle. When l think of these solitary wo-
men scattered throughout the length and
breadth Of the land. my heart warns to-
ward them; and would fain hold them
up in their silent struggle, for oil the
world to admire. - -. l.ssr.lsxs ~ !
When the history Of this war shall be
written & aud that can not be now) let the
historian. what else soever he may forget.
forget not to chronicle this sublime valor
of the bearthstone, all over our struggling
ienu. VSHl .TTsI lLa fNit. ls N'tli
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12
FROM CHARLESTON.
The Bombardment of Fort Sumter
Smells Thrown into the Oity.

New YoRK, Nov. A Folly Island
letter OF the 29th. to the Herald. speaking
of the re-opeuing of the bombsrdments on
Sumter says: From all our sources Of m
formation. we judge the intention Of shs
enemy to be the erection of sand battery
within the battered walls of Sumter, sim.
liar to Wagner. but unlike that work. So
cnre from approach by sap or parallsl.--
The present purpose OF Gen Gilmore. tits
blie,et is TO prevent tho consummstioa
of Beauregard's plans. and II necessary to
level the foundations of Sumter to She
waters edge.
Moultrie and johnson lrsve so far direct.
ed tn ir shots against Battery Gregg. but
the accuracy of their fle has been entirely
destroyed by the guns which We have
trained upon them. Als Jos ~ 80
Oa Tuesday the Gre of one heavy Yiasd
gun between Gregg and Wagner was di-
rected at the spire Of 81. Michael's church
IN the city of Charleston. and at least
three shells exploded in the city. whsth-
'er they were successful IN accomplishing
any injury. is not yet known. .i-saso4e
The general belief is that orr batteries
will succeed IN utterly dcst, Dying Sumter.
and driving from it the diminished gari-
son now holding il. iadi '0I sgsT i e
De.erters from the enemy acknowledgs
fear among the rebel soldiers that We
will yet get into the city. Those who
closely watched the fort on Monday morn
ing say steamer took from The fort 70
the city large number of troops immedi-
a.ely after our basterirs opened fire upon
IL
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12


xThc War Democracy of Ohio. Indiana,
Illinois, Wisconsin. and other Northwest
ern States having. separately. proclaimed
their devotion TO the true and time hon.
ored principles OF the Democratic party
as sEppounded by Jefferson. illustrated
by Jackson and practically carried out by
the faithful statesmen and heroes of that
party of the present time--having also man.
Tested their reprobaiion and rejection of
the -dieloyal and odious heresies which
the seceders from that party are unblush-
ingly seeking to interpolate into its estab-
Iished creed-and desiring. as a paramount
public duty in this hour Vt our public dan
ger to unite the counsels and endeavors
Of all 1eyal men of the Democratic party
in the interests Of their country, and to
extricate the faith. honor and organisation
Of that party from the hands of unworthy
demagogres. they propose to hold con-
ference at Chicago. Illinois. on the 25th
day of November, 1853, for the discussion
of these and other important subjects.
The War Democracy of the Several
Northwestern States are, therefore. re-
qucsted to take such measures as they
may think proper to cause themselves to
be represented in that conference.
(. ilsT q ssisseri1n PREsco WnIoRr. '
es Chairman State Cen. Com. LII. 81
Aus7N H. BRows, i,ls
WV j. ELLIOTT.
For State Cen. Com. of Ind.r
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12
A REASONABLE Letter from Mr.. ma.
- son. 80 @
WAsurNorox. Oct. Is.


The following is letter from Mr.. Ma
son to JEFF. Davis. found among the inter-
cepted correspondence Of the latter. It.
plainly shows the reasonable purposes of
the writer at the time:
30, 1S56.-My dear Sir: have letter
from Wise. Of the 27,h. full of spirit.
He says the Governors of North Caro-
lima. South Carolina and Louisiana. have
already agreed to the rendezvous at RAJ
leigh, and others will. Thisis for your most
private ear. He says further that he had
officially requested you to exchange wi it'll
, sion for flint muskets. don't know the
usage or power Of the Department in such
cases. but if it can be don,. even by liber-
al construction, | hope you will acccde.-
Was there not an appropriation at the
last session of Congress. for converting
flint into percussion arms? Ifso, would it
not furnish good reason for extending such
facilities to the States? Virginia pro5a-
bly, has more arms than the other Soathcrn
States and would divide in case Of need
In letter yesterday to committee in
South Carolina gave it as my judgement.
! in the event of Fremont's election, the
South SHOULD no. pause, but proceed at
once to immediate. absolute and eternal
separation. So l am candidate for the
first halter. Wise says his account from
Philadelphia is cheering for old Buck in
Pennsylvania. hope they be not delu-
sive.
Signed j. NJ. MAsoS.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12

EI Week before last. speaking Of tn,
quota Of this county, under the last cal
for troops, we said:
"The Republicans or Union men o.
Marshall Comfy have so far sent eight to
one. and their able bodied yonng men arr
pretty well used up, bnt there are still
enough able bodied democrats to fill two
companies without any trouble"
The Democrat replies as follows:
'"We scarcely know which TO admire
most the charming simplicity. or the down
right impudepce Of the Republican. as
manifested in the above
1t was a little impuslcnt in MS. that's [.
ifact. to talk in that way. knowing as ",
did. and have for a long time. that on,
might as well sing pslams to dead mule
with the expectation of vitalizing his car
cass as to try to persuade a Copperhead tt
enlist in the service of his country. Blu,
We thonght we would draw our neighbo,
out. We are not at all surprised at tn,
spirit OF his reply. lie sometimes claim,
TO be loyal citizen. but he will certainly
not have the impudence to do SO any
more. We admire his holiness but mus,
despise his treason.
The Democrat adds Immediately after
the above:
at IS decidedly refreshing to hear the
Rep. TINS virtually admit that its only
hope OF avoiding the draft in this State il
centered in the democratic party"
We, admitted no such thing. either di-
rectly or Indirectly. II we did entertain
any such hope it wonli be sure to die
of disappointment. II would have been
hoping without any grounds whatever
Some OF our friends in other counties are
trying to infuse some loyalty into Copper.
heads. but they are only fooling away
their time. in our opinion.e . II enough
Union men to 6ll the quota cannot leave
their families. or business conveniently.
why the draft will be sure to come. Not
single Copperhead or Democrat has en-
listed in this county for year past, that
we have heard Of. and precious few before
that time. comparatively. The leaders
have discouraged enlistments from the
start and are still att. They will try to
deny their infamous record when the war
ends. which we begin to think is near at
hand. but it will be held up for all .men to
gaze at and denounce.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12
THE. REPUBLICAN.
- sris PLYMOUTH. IND..2 aas
Thursday, Nov: IL, 1868.
~ The C,opperheads try to make peo

EE The Copperheads try to make peo.
pie believe that il is the war policy Of the
administration and not the war they are
opposed to; but that is false. If they
were sincerely in favor of prosecuting the
war until the rebels laid down their arms
or begged for peace. they would not be
particular about the measures adopted to
accomplish the result. Every body
knows they have denounced the war from
the start, and carped at and misrepresent-
ed every measure adopted by Congress or
the Administration to raise volunteers or
provide means to pay them. When the
the President made the first call for troops
to put down the rebellion they called him
. usurper and said that it was violation
OF the Constitution. When Congress au-
thorized him to call for 100000 more they
began to carp about the expenses, called
it an abolition war even when our Gene
rails were issuing orders for the soldiers to
return runaway negroes to their masters,
misrepresented facts. and discouraged en-
| listments. When the confscation Act
passed they denounced it as great and
unprecedented outrage, declared it uncon-
stitutional and howled over it like dem ons.
When the tax law passed they not only
tried to make it as odions as possible by
grossly m.srepresenting its provisions, but
threatened to resist it: an when the con-
scription bill passed actually organized
secret X. G.. G. lodges in almost every
county and neighborhood in the State.
and procured arms for the purpose. they
said, of resisting it and the tax law; but
this was q mere pretext: their real object
was to get up an insurrection in Indiana.
and in all the North Western States, the
rising to take place simultaneously in all
Of them. for the purpose of making a di-
version in favor of the rebels, forming o
North Western Confederacy or annexing
themselves to the Southern Confederacy
The only reason this programme was not
attempted to be carried out was because
they could not get enough Democrats to
join them. 1t was freely canvsssed and
agreed upon in their State Lodges. and the
County Lodges notified to hold themse' ves
in readiness to rise At a moments notice.
These are the conservatives! the law and
lnrder menl the men who talk so much A.
bont constitutional rights. the tyranny Of
the president, in suspending the writ of ha-
beus corpus in few instances!
The Democrat may possibly venture to
deny the truth Of portion of the above
statements. but it dare not eeny that we
have correctly represented the position CT
Copperheads in regard to the measures
adopted to crush the rebellion.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12
H It is useless for people to den,

Eg 1t is useless for people to deprc-
cate radical stump speeches and radical
newspapers, while SO terrible an engine OF
radicalisma as war is rolling onward through
the South. What is the radicalism OF
Wendell Phillips to that OF the march OF
fifty thousand armed soldiers, through
slave plantations? What is the radical.
ism of the New York Tribune to dash oil
cavalry. o; q bayonet charge? -Ah, it is
civil war with 500, 900 armed men, march
ing to and fro. which is overthrowing,
trampling. and crushing like brittle potte-
~, the peculiar institution" Of the South,
and it is not worth while for feeble minded
men to turn aside from the war, to vent
their indignation at the radicalism oi
words.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12

kE The Rev. j. G. Fletcher gave rs
last evening. brilliant lecture on the re-
ligion. customs and people Of BRAZIL
Seldom have We rslished anything more
than the picture he laid before his audience
Of that exuberan: garden Of the tropics la
den with its strange variety Of fruits and
flowers. teeming with perpetual harvest
for the hand Of man. Sursly that co antry
must be the garden af the world, and If
its people had the enterprise which moves
this Yankss nation. imagination coul,l
not set bonnd to the rssults they would
produce there. Az relevant 10 this com
psrison the Reverand gentleman stated
that the best Remedies employed there for
the diseases to which they are subject. are
invented xnd supplied tothem-by our own
well known aeountryman. DR.. j. G. Aver
Of Lowell. Mass. and that not the people
only but the priesthood and the court OF
the Emperor down. have constant reconrss
in sickness to the Remedies of this widely
celebrated American Chemist.--Lsdeer.
Boston, II sl - -
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12

fI- Virginis City. Nevada Territory.
is probably as near an approach to the
New Jerusalem as most OF its inhabitants
will ever see. The Bulletin says IL is actu-
ally no figure Of speech to say that the
streets are paved with silver. for IL is q
literal fact that they are. Thousands Of
tons of rock. which in other countries
sould pay we'll TO extract tho silver from.
are used to level and maeadamize the
streets. Rock that will not pass through
: he screens at the quartz mills is carried
IN to the roads. though some Of it in any
other locality would be considered rich
In such town as that there is some mean
ing in the phrase. a pocket full Of rocks.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12
ez- School, nrospet IN Micb;o.n

kE Schools prosper in Michigan and
Copperheadism languishes. Tho people
Of Ionia village have voted $4,000 to
erect q new school house. to be placed in
three acre lot on the top OF hill. The
annual school meeting at Dowagiac voted
$500 for the purchase Of a philosophical
and chemical apparatus. Lapeer has vo-
ted to raise $50 by tax, TO make the La
peer Union school free. o
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12
Golorado-A Picture Of American
-. +-fs prOgraaS - a-,f-

1t is difficult to find word sufficiently
strong and expressive to describe the 70
ahead power of the people of the United
States. Take the Territory OF Colorado
for example. Stretching along tho base Of
the Rocky Mountains, in q region of the
far.oIf West. Of which the people herea-
way have hardly any conception. it il
making lightning progress towards estsb-
fishing itself one OF the States Of the
American Union We can almost num-
Der by months the time since IL was but .
waste. The Territory was only organized
in February. 1861. and alreaiy it is pop.
nlous with cities and settlements. 0ss
of these is Denver, and il greets It's AZ.
lantic sisters with daily Newspaper that
would do.Do shame to the best of thsm.--
We read in its columns Of hs Mayor, its
Councils and its "municipal regulstioos:"
Its churches and its public schools, its
banks and its Theatres. Yes, thesssss.
in the plural. for there are already two e
them.
We read. too. Of tho First Colsssdo
Cavalry and the First Colorado Infantry.
and Of other military organisations. uss
king up three thousand good and trus nsa
who have gone from this infant Territory
to swell the great armies Of the Unien.-
And all this progress IN the midst Off
gigantic wsrl .s
s Of course. this is not . singnlsr instssce
Of the rapid spread Of our psopls. carry.
ing civilization and all her bountiss With
them into shetracklsss wilderness: bat %
Is the latest developmsnt Of The c1ssslssu
energies by which they hare eonqnsSed
the interior Of continent thst would hsvo
remained waste in the possession sfsny
other race. e 50 te .t -leff',i'
We have already remarked thst We csn
almost reckon up the existence Of this nsw
member of our political family BY mouths.
yet so fat are its inhabitants and 90 I'D
have they become by their own psculikr
modes of calculation that . person Hhaire
preparing sketch Of the Terrisou
tises for contributions connG
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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12

VINO ARE THE TRArrons?-Among the
latest, truest and noblest utterances of Ste.
phsn A. Douglas. is. the following: ga
mcrica wants no friend. acknowledges the
fidelity Of no citizen who. after war is de.
elared, condemns the justice Of her cause
and sympathizes with the enemy. ALL
SUCH ARE TRAITORS IN THEIR
HEARTS"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12
rv The Dem ocr.t tells its friend. ~

EV The Democrat tells its friends not
to volunteer. and insists. because the war
is not conducted to suit them they are not
under any obligations to enlist. If this
is to be the rale, hereafter. in our wars
with other nations, we will never again be
a united people. The rule heretofore,
among patriots. .of all parties, has been to
stand by the country, right or wrong. in
time of war. but the Copperheads ignore
it now entirely, which demonstrates their
trne status. In the war with Mexico the
Wings contended that it was an unjust
and an unholy war, and denounced the
President for precipitating il upon the
country in violation of the Constitution.
which gave Congress alone the power to
declare war; yet. during its continuance,
with few exceptions, they stood by the
country; almost. il not quite as many VOL
unteering to fight the enemy as Democrats.
Not only so, bnt not solitary Wing ed
itor or leader could be found in all the
| land who did not rejoice over the victories
Of our armies. or mourn over the disasters
that happened them. No man among
them was found mean enough or traitor
enough to discourage enlistmcnts. and had
any one been heard to say. on hearing dis
astrons news. that he .'had not cried d-n
bit that day. or had wished the enemy
would capture our Nat ional Capitol. he
would have been kicked by his oVpparty
friends. - t'e'
lldisapproves the war policy Of the admin
istra,ion, there onght to have been pro
vision in the constitution cxempting him
from service. We always thought a ma
jority ruled in this country, and that it was
the duty Of the minority to acquiesce. In
q war with rebels or other nations the pol
icy always has Beer to cripple our enemies
in every possible mapne, sanctioned by tn.
rules of civilized warfare. There has been
no remonstrance from any source sgainsr
the manner our government has conducted
the war. except from the rebels themselve,
and their Copperhead allies: then thosf
who are opposed to the. policy of the ad
ministration in the conduct Of the war, AM
claim exoneration from service on that ac-
count, ought also TO claim. to be consist
ent, that they are not bound to obey an,
law they do not approve. This would he
anarchy. nothing else. Is this tho object
the Copperheads are aiming at?
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12
A New Rebel Idea.

the Mobile Register. of . recent date.
declared that "the negro is no longer an
object of small talk in the South. The
people of the South have place for them.
and that is in the army. TAere should be
no distinction in color when man is will
'ng to fight for his homo and msster."-
As the rebels recognize no distinction OF
color. we should not be surprised to hear
OF Copperheads doing the same.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12

Our neighbor did not hear a word
last week from the elections in Massachu-
setts. New York. Illinois and Wisconsin.
or else he was afraid he would dishearten
bis friends by publishing the result.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12

same party. His statement wss-that a
certain man (naming him) had . short
time before it was commenced threatened
to poison the dogs, and that since he had
accused him of it to his face and cursed
him it had stopped. Do you call for the
uamss, Mr., Editor? sIc8 ~ IS s1sd.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12

4 r. When Ex-Governor Packer. OF
Pennsylvania. visited the poll. st Will
iamsport. to vote. he bosstfully heldnp his
ticket, exclaiminR. 8" Here is ticket which
is copper all overl'' Immediately behind
Packer came jolly Hibernian. also in the
act Of voting. who cried out in lusty
voice. "Be jabsrs. here is ballot to kill
yonr snake!'' st M la6
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-11-12

81 AT the wire rope Mandatory Of
John A. sRoebling. 1t Trenton. is being
prepared the material for the construction
Of . wire suspension bridge over the Ohio
river st Cincinnati. which win cost 81
50O.V00.s This is nearly four times tie
cost Of the bridge 1t Niagara Falls.