Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-09-04
THE LOYAL DEMOCRACY OF xvrs.
s." A". CONSlN,

The loyal Democrats Of Wisconsin have
batted the Coz perhead ticket put in nomina.
ton at Madison on the 9th Of August. and
have issued cal for Convention at James.
vile on the 18th inst, to take such steps as
shall appear conducive to the interests of the
loyal Democracy and the welfare of the coun.
try. The Green Bay Adpocate, whose editor
is Chas. NJ. Robinson, one Of the leading
D M Gratis Of the..State, says of the move
ment: ". ''t ..H '.. -.f @a
This movement has for its purpose the
concentration Of the loyal element of the
Democratic party, which cannot be driven
into the support of u ticket based upon
reasonable platform on the one hand. and
holds its old party allegiance with too firm
affection to abandon even temporarily it's
Democratic organization on the other. 1t
was outraged by the action of the Conyen,
ton which met at Madison on the 9th. and
now seeks, in rightful, an independent, and
a patriotic way, to set itself right before the
country and maintain its own dignity of opin.
len and character. Already the meeting
which was held at the Newhai House in Mi.
waukee last week, is met with an overwhel.
ming response from every part of the State,
The best, the most intelligent and tho most
trusted men of the Democratic party are ca.
gerly joining in the movement, and it has be.
come an absolute certainty that the coming
Convention at GAINESVILLE will be fitting and
terrible rebuke to that doubly false organiza.
ton which adopted the Ryan address-false
to the country, and false to all the antece.
dents and time honored principles Of the
Democratic party. - so
There is another and perhaps a higher
meaning involved in it. It is that the 0ues-
ton whether the Democrats Of Wisconsin, are
loyal or not must Be tested. The time has
come to do it. A great danger is overshad.
owing the land. Our gallant armies. in the
field are lessening in numbers from death and
disease, and demand support. The govern.
ment is assailed not only by q common enc.
my in the South, but by an insiduous and a
more dangerous one in the North These
are great facts with which we have to deal.
and which in this hour of necessity will not
be dissipatcd or put off by frivolous minor
questions. There are only tsoo kinds of men
nou in the United States-those scAo are enc
mies to the Union and the lases, and those
soho are rithout reserve or question for sus-
tanning them and the government achich rep.
reseats them. Peeled
The Convention at GAINESVILLE will be one
of the greatest demonstrations that ever took
place in Wisconsin. 1t will be gathering
to which its numbers may point back in az
ter life as one Of the proudest pages in their
record. Some time, and God grant it may
be soon, when the Angel Of Peace shall once
more brighten the land with her coming, and
the true and faithful Of the nation shall re-
count with each other the gloomy history of
the past, there will be no gladden. memories
than those Of the men who marched in par.
ty array to the support of the country with
the mottos and legends of their old Demo.
cratic flag not blotted our but interlaced with