The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-10-20
TIPTON, IOWA, OCTOBER 20, 1864.

| form or McClellan's acceptance means
anything, these negroes arc to be return
cd to their masters, to fight or labor ou
the other side. Does any one doubt, if
returned to their nestes, they would be
at once sent into the rebel lines, where
alone such properly has any value? Up.
on the theory of the Chicago platform
and McCle!lan's constitutions, rights of
States l think itwould exhaust the re-
sources of states smAnship' to show why
these men should rot be returned to their
former masters, as indeed, was the prac.
ticc in General McClellan's army.
"Still further, does not General Nc
Clellan twice over in his letter and plat.
form promise new constitutional guarau.
ties to the rights d the South"
MAJOR GENERAL wool.
Major General Wool, an opponent Of
the AdmiuissraticJpart before the war,
and veteran officer, earnest and intelli.
gent as he is sincere, records his testi.
mony as follows: ..a
"The conspirators have taken advan-
tage of this silence aud apathy of the
Republicans, who have profcsscd to be
supporters of the war, and have not fail.
cd to add to their ranks the weak, the
timid, aud the cowardly of the Republi-
can party, as well as of the Democratic
party. Within the last two days, how
ever, the Republicans have been some
what reused from their lethargy by the
recent successes of Major General Shcr.
man. Nothing, for aught that can dis.
cover, will save the Union and its Gov
ernment but the successes Of Grant, Sher.
! man, Farragut and Sheridan.
sit was not the sword of Caesar that
destroyed the liberty of Rome, bu! the
domagogues that thronged the forum with
souls dead to their country's honor, and
spotted with corruption"
MAJOR GENERAL MEADE.
Major General Meade, the hero Of Get.
tysburg, and the commander Of the Ar
my of the Potomae-a Democrat in for
mer politics s-testfiss as follows against
the Democratic peace platform:
"Dismissing, as now useless to discuss,
all questions as to the origin of this war,
we have daily and hourly evidences that
it exists, and tina. it can only be termn.
atcd by hard fighting, and by determined
efforts to overcome the armed enemies Of
the Government"
MAJOR GENERAL BURNSIDE.
Major General Burnside, Democrat
and personal friend of General McCiel-
Ian, is known as the author of the arrest
Of Eal'andigham, and the leader in sew.
cral victorious campaigns. He is openly
in favor of President Lincoln, and oppos
cd to the election of General Mcclellan.
Hear him: --.. --........ .-.....s..
"Would it not be cowardly for US to
Say that this rebellion cannot bs crushed
and the authority of the Government
sustained? There is in my mind no qucs-
tion of it. There can he DO such thing
as laying down of arms, or cessation Of
hostiitirs, until the entire authority of
the Government is acknowledged by ev-
cry citizen Of our country"
MAJOR GENERAL DIX.
Major General John A. Dix, formerly
Secretary of the Treasury in Buchauan's $
Administration, says:
Il believe that cessation of hostili-
ties would lead inevitably and directly to
a recognition of the insurgent States;
and when ! say this need hardly add
that can have no part in any political
movement of which the Chicago platform
is the basis No, fellow citizens, the op-
ly hope Of securing an honorable peace
"a peace which shall restore the Union
and the Constitution, lies in a steady, per-
sistent, and unremitting prosecution of
the war-[grcat applause and believe
the judgment Of every right thinking
man will soon bring him to this convic-
ton"
MAJOR GENERAL srcKLEs.
Major General Daniel i Sickles, who,
before the war, was one of the most dis.
tinguishcd Democrats of the North, and
who lost leg at Gettysburg, pledges his
faith in these noble words:
"until the Constitution and laws are
vindlca'ed in their supremacy through
out the land, the Government should be
confined to no hands that will hesitate to
employ all the power of the nation to put
down the rebellion.
peace, so won, through the noble as,
pirations Of the people, will exalt the no.
tional character, and challenge the bom.
age of all who honor patriotism and valor.
Peace, imposed upon US by an audacious
uud a'Iosant fuc, wllu wo~ia owe hi, tr;
umph not to the superiority of his arms,
but to degenerate population, unworthy
of their lineage, and forgetful of their
traditions, could only last until tho con-
tempt of mankind evoked from our shame
enough manhood to renew the struggle" ]"
MAJOR GENERAL LOGAN.
Major General John A. Logan, the
gallant corps commander under McPhor.
son, and leading Douglas Democrat, of
Illinois, spoke the views of all the Gen.
erals in active service in the West, when
he said:
"The greatest victory of the rebels,
greater than City Nanasseses, and their
one that can give them a particle Of hope,
will be to defeat the war party at the in-