The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-10-06
For The Jefsrsontan.
Camp in the Breastworks, |
Sept. 27, 1864.

nication from member of Co. G.. 142nd
Regt. P. V. touching the political COM
plexion of the company, think it but
justice to myself, and also to the compa-
ny, to state .feao facts, on the subject
The writer of that article says that he
has just returned from Washington. This
is true but he did not tell the whole
truth, and that is that he spent some fit
teen months in that city, that he went
there an Orderly Sergeant, and that he
has just returned to the ranks, private.
He tells the truth, too, when he says that
he found the boys all in good spirits, but
he wanders far from it when he says that
he found them all hoping that little Mac
would be elected President in November.
He knew that he was falsifying the facts
when he penned that assertion. So far
as the company is concerned, l think the
men stand, politically, as yet, about half
and half, but there is no doubt that the
election will find handsome majority for
Old Abe. In the company on our right,
Co. K, / do not know a single man who
will vote for Mac, and l have taken some
pains to inquire.
AS to the settling of Petersburg and
Richmond, permit me to say that the Ar
my has the fullest confidence in all our
Generals, and that Grant will do all in
these particulars that is expected of him
no one here, who really loves the cause,
for moment doubts. But, says the wri-
ter in the Democrat, "after that we want
Little Mac" President" We want no
such thing, and the writer knows it
But why wait until after Richmond or
Petersburgg or both are captured?
He further says-"In nearly all the
papers we get, we hear Little Mac run
down." Does this look as though nearly
all the soldiers were going to vote for the
Chicago bantling. should think not.
Soldiers are allowed to get just such pa
pers from home as they desire, or as their
friends choose to send them. Would it
be at all likely that if they intended to
vote for Little Mac, they would encour-
age the receipt Of such papers only as op-
pose and run him down? But, the wri-
ter says he has good opportunities of find
ing out. I should think he had His
Division must have been the one he
tarried with SO long in Washington, when
he speaks of it as the Division three
fourths of whose members will vote for
him. l cannot exactly understand
whether he means himself or Little Mac
He also says "you may take that as crite-
rian by which to judge the whole array"
He must consider himself the whole Di-
vision, indeed the whole army, or he new
er could say what he has said And
then, too, he has "noticed it in many Of
the Hospitals in Washington" l am
sure it was not in the Hospitals in the
field. BY the way what was he doing in
so many hospitals?
Again in his letter he says,-"They
are taking the names of the men who
will vote for Lincoln, and publishing
them; "and that he knows to a certainty
that one half, if not more, of the men
say they will vote for Old Abe merely to
get furlough, and that when they come
to deposit their votes, they will vote for
Little Mac, for be has heard them make
their brags of it. IF the Government
would be guilty of such piece of folly
as sending men home to vote, l do not
doubt that there are men, or things who
would do as he says, nor have | the shad
ow of doubt but that the writer in the
Democrat would be one of those very
men. But the Government, in the pres.
ent condition of affairs will not send men
home to vote, no matter what they prom
Sc, and am happy to know that, hence,
such rogues as are alluded to will, for
'nce, at least, be kept honest and truth,
'ul.
believe there can be no doubt as to
he result of the vote in the army. When
take into consideration the fact that
he 10000 McClellanites of Pennsylva-
lila voted, to man, against granting the
oldier the freeman's privilege of voting,
md this in connection with their nomin.
tion of Pendleton for the Vice Presiden-
y-the man who has yet to cast the first
'ote for the suppression of this rebellion,
II to relieve the necessities of the soldier
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