Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15
What Democratic Generals Say.

Democrats, have recently taken occasion to
put themselves on record against the Chica-
90 nominees and platform, and in favor ofthe
reelection of Mr. LINCOLN We make some
extracts from these letters and speeches, as
follows:
General Dix, who, at the outset OF the re-
bellion, when member Of BUcHANAN's Cabi-
net. directed that any man attempting to
haul down the American flag should be shot
on the spot, in a recent speech at Sandusky,
said:
alt has been my conviction from the be-
ginning that we can have no honorable peace
until the insurgent armies are dispersed ana
the leaders Of the rebellion expelled from
the country. | believe that cessation OF
hostilities would lead inevitably ana directly
TO 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 only hope OF securing an
honorable peace peace which VIII restore
the Union and the Constitution, lies In a
steady, persistent and unremitting prosecu-
ton of the war, and l believe the Judgment
of every right-thinking man will soon bring
him to this conviction.
Major General JOHN A LOGAN, well known
as a leading Democrat in Illinois, in "a recent
speech at Springfield said:
There are but two parties in the country
at the present time, that composed OF loyal
men, and that composed of traitors. The
| party OF which Mr.. Lincoln was the acknow-
lodged head was the loyal party, and he was
for that party. He considered any man who
was against the country and the war IN which
it was engaged, because he did not like Mr..
| Lincoln or some particular act of his, traitor
to his country. He said he was called a
traitor. not to his country, but to little or
ganization in it called the Democratic party.
| If that was to be traitor, he thanked God
| that He had made him one, and he would
| continue to be such traitor to the hour OF
his DEATH He was opposed to the Chicago
| Convention, to its principles, to the men who
composed it. He was now and forever against
such Democrats as Vallandigham, Voorhees,,
Pendleton, Belmont Richmond and the two
| Seymours. He was for Lincoln and the
Union against such men, and all the traitors
and rebels with whom they sympathized and
to whom they gave aid and comfort
Gen. B. F. BUTLER has recently written a
letter in which he says:
"Whatever may have been or may be the
preferences of any man as to any person for
| the chief executive of the nation, or dissatis-
| faction with the course of the Government
| upon matters of mere administration, yea
| even in an important point of administrative
policy as laid down in the platform and fore
| Swallowed in its acts, it seems to me the plain
/ duty of every loyal man to support the cleo
ton of Lincoln and Johnson After advert
ing to the repugnance that many true Demo
Gratis feel to the radical anti-slavery plank il
| the Baltimore PLATFORM he concludes. Some
| diff ent system of labor must be devised fol-
| the southern country in the future, and peace
| upon any terms, even the acknowledgement oil
| the COniederacy, cannot prevent it. If am
| right in this view of the subject, and upon
| this conviction / have acted since | saw the
| facts in Louisiana in 1862, then what is there
| in the Baltimore platform to which any true
loyal Democrat who loves his country and is
determined to fight, if need be, for its integ
| rity and honor, can object | see nothing
But in the changes so rapid in the admins
trative policy made by this war, no one will
tie himself to any party platform. l have
tut one article in my political creed at the
present time. am for a sharp, thorough
and decisive prosecution of the war, until the
| authority of the Union is acknowledged, anC
| its laws obeyed upon every foot of soil within
| the boundaries Of the United States"
Major General DANIEL Z. SICKLEs, formerly
Democratic member of Congress from New
York in letter declining to be candidate
for Congress- says:
% The war acas deliberately begun By tie rebel
and is persiSte,,ty acqged By them to divide a,ac
conquer tie Union 1t is not so strange tina
our enemies should find allies among European
antagonists of free institutions, but it vii
never cease to be matter of humiliation anC
wonder that our own people could be serious
ly divided upon the question of submission o.
resistance. Let aoto ,CiU be for submission,
am for resistance as long ace hare a battalion
and a battlefield left
"Until the constitution and laws are vindi
Gated in their supremacy throughout the
| land, the government should be cOnfided Il
no hands that will hesitate to employ all tn,
power of the nation to put down rebellion
The resources of the insurgents are alread,
so far exhausted that they will give up the
struggle as soon as a majority of the people
at the ballot-box, secondiDg the martial sum
mons of Farragut and Grant, demand the un
| conditional surrender of the enemy.
"Peace so won, through the noble aspira
tions of the people, will exalt the nationa
character aud challenge the homage of all VIII
honor patriotism and valor. Peace imposes
upon us by an audacious and arrogant foe
who would owe his triumph not to the supe
riorty Of his arms, but to a degenerate pop
ulation, unworthy of their lineage and forget
full of their traditions, could only last unit
the contempt of mankind evoked from gu
shame enough manhood to renew the struggle
Gen. MCCALL, formerly commanding tn,
Pennsylvania Reserves, under MCCLELLAN
who ran for Congress on the Democratic tic
ket in 1862, has written a letter in which h,
says:
No one deplored more than myself the
stern necessity which required the Northern
| States to take up arms to quell the rebellion
| of the South, yet no one more than mysel
felt the necessity of rousing and exerting al
the energies of the county. To this end, one
of two things stared us in the face, either the
positive suppression of the rebellion and the
| preservation of the Union, or the utter anC
| irretrievabie loss of position among the ma
| tons of the earth and the entailment on ou
| children of an everlasting disagreement, con
tention and war with southern people. l nov
believe, as | always believed, that if the
Union is worth preserving, it is worth th'
/ prosecution of the war to a successful conclu
| sion. With regard to the conduct of thi
| war, | cannot approve all the measures of the
present administration but l regard any ad
minstration that will theoretically prosecute
| the war, as preferable to one that is in favol
| of an armstice and convention OF the
| States, until the States in rebellion have laiC
1 down their arms