St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-10-08

til part Of that people who has made them
all they are, aud among whom they are liv-
ing upon pretended friendly terms -
Against these principles, and the men who
advocate them, those Of our brave country,
men who are now in the field of strife, hurl
their bitter invectives, and what is more
strange than all those who once claimed
to be of the same political party, are the
most bitter in their imprecatops.
The soldiers have been in the midst Of
the rebellion. They see it as tits and what,
if successful, the results will and must be.
A Vallandigham may win the appreciation
of disatfected few, but the ajority of
his party out of the army and all Of those
in it, tepudiatc his doctrine and scorn his
unprincipled motives a Fernando Wood
may cajole few uniformed foreigners
aud lead the majority OF his followers in
to the very jaws Of an ignominious death,
but the mass Of those whom he would con-
troll remember Ireland, the House of Haps-
burgh, tho tyranny Of Rome-ahd turn
from h1m in disgust.
A Van Voorhees, may rant in malig-
nant fury at the cruelty Of this war-with-
out, OF course, saying one word against
those impious villains who forced it upon
us--may call the brave volunteers "Lin-
coins Dogs with collars" but an indig
nant Indiana soldiery, outraged beyond
measure, can remember him and proudly
refuse to ride upon the same train with
trai,or. And, coming into our own State
and mentioning a less important but more
contemplate man, because of ignorance
and perfect stupidity. A hurry may call
those who are in government employ, "the
Pimps Of Government, "a term he has
no doubt become familiar with from asso-
ciation--but this utterancc does not win
for him the respect of those who are fight
ing to perpetrate government that has
given him the only honorable position he
ever enjoyed, and protected him even in
giving expression to sentiments that, while
they portray the man, are only fit to be
heard in low brothels and dram shops,
where celebrated French writer says
call treason, conspiracy and inddelity to-
ward governments are FIRST coEcocted, and
leaders first selected" nor will finely drawn
calculations of that faction of a party he
pre,ends to represent, and as set forth by
the late Convention held by portion Of
them at our Capital few days since, meet
the appreciation of the party, who. acting in
i ->lAAA NAL
the expectation that they would do honor
to themselves and lasting good to thei,
country by announcing principles of 10y
atty and adopting measures, which if car
ried out, would assist in crushing AN un-
holy rebellion aud restoring peace to our
country. Every soldier in the army curs+
es their platform in his heart. Every true
Democrat in the State abhors the instru-
ment, and boldly asserts it to be the off,
spring of vile copperhead traitor;sm, and
denounccs the whole scheme as unworthy
the party and the times in which it was
formed. Almost every editor in the State
claiming to be Of tho Democratic party,
have come out fearlcssly and periodically
denounciny the entire sche.Lc and like
the true men they are, have pointed out
the only duty Of Minnesotians IN the pres
ent crisis, and that is simply to leave the
platform and the candidates running on
the ticket they have nominated to their
richly deserved fate, and vote for men
whose loyalty is unqnesticncd, ard whose
patriotism has been tried. And now, at
this stage Of the rebellion, while thou
sands of the South pant for an opportuni-
ty to return to their allegiance-while
the soldiery of the secessionists are de-
serting the (for which they have been
conscripted) by regiments, and Aocking to
the support of the Stars and Strips by
thousands---while everything bids fair to
overcome those misguided ones who still
battle against right and freedom, only one
thing is required to make further contest
useless on the part of the rebels, and that
is simply united North.
If the people of the North, forgetting
for time all past political animosities.