Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-10-13
The Dsmocracy and ,ns Rebellion.
THE CHICAGs PLATFORM AND GEM
MeCLELLAN.
LgrrgR FROM THR VETERAN GEN, WOOL.
Let Ero.y Nan Read II.

TROY, Ath october 1901.
To the Hon. John A. 0riswold, Mem
Der OF the United States Congress Lear
Siy. You have my thanks for copy o.
| the New York World of the ia c''3',
containing an untruthful article relating
tYe' ] have not time 10 notice IL
at ,he present moment, but may do SO
at future day Meantime you Will
please accept the following remarks
Ii is more than four years since a
| Democratic Convention met, nrst AT
| Charleston and subsequently at BATH
| more TO nominate candidates for Presl-
| dent and Vice President of the United
| States. The prominent leaders OF this
| Convention from the South $50 called
| Democrats) were the political disciples
| of John @, Calhoun. As declared by
| Rhett. of South Carolina, since 1880 the
| purpose was entertained by them To sep
arate the Southern States from the IN
| ion. Their idea was TO make COTTON
| king. which, sin few years, SAID
| Rhett. "would rule the world" Fooled
in several previous attempts TO accom-
plish their object, they determined as a
last resort to divide the Democratic par
w and run two candidates for President,
| that the Republicans might elect their
candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom they
had denounced as IAN abolitionlst. In
this they succeeded. The faction OF the
Southern States nominated the then
Vice President, Mr.. Breckenridge; the
faction of the Northern States nominal
ed Senator Douglas. The result was the
election of Abraham Lincoln to the Pres
idency. In the following December, the
State of South Carolina assigning the
election of MIR. Lincoln as Jusnhaole
cause for the act, seeded from the IN
ion, and this, too, without the slightest
effort on the part of the President James
| Buchanan, to prevent 1T.
? Thus commenced this nefaricus rebel
lion. encouraged and assisted by maj
orjty of the Democratic Cabinet OF Pres
. ! ident Buchanan. John b. Floyd, his
Secretary of War, detaulter for a large
. amount in his own state, Virginia,
, robbed the Northern States OF arms ana
, ammunition, and transferred them TO
the Southern States, at the same time
, ordering the greater part OF the army 10
the most distant frontier posts. Thomp-
, son. his Secretary Of the Interior, rob
! bed the Treasury, as reported, OF eight
! | hundred thousand dollars in indian
- bonds. Toucey, his Secretary OF the
= NAVY. to prevent interference with the
rebel ports, ordered the United States
Z ships OF war TO Europe and other DIS
tant regionS Cobb, his Secretary OF the
- Treasury. violated his oath OF Office ana
I Joined the rebels after nearly bankrupt
: inc the treasury and running the nation
- al credit. Black, his Attorney-General,
- was his friend and confidential adviser,
% and no less guilty in his encouragement
of the South in their rebellious scheme
than the President.
Ofsuch men, called Democrats-witf
ID the exception OF Gen. Cass, Secretary o
at state. and Joseph Holt Postmaster
o. General-was composed the cabinet O
. the Democratic President, James Buch
anan. MIR. Buchanan was himself tn
v devoted friend of Elk Vice-PresidentJ OH
ne c. Calhoun, who, in consequence oil
tn Quarrel with Gen. Jackson and his Sec
ri rotary of State, Martin Van Burer
al abandoned his party and was the bite
:, enemy of jackson. Mr.. Calhoun becam
IN a nullifer, and after he defeated tn
IL nomination of Martin Van Buren, a
Dr. Minister to the court of st. James, IL
signed his Vice Presidency and went t
orc South Carolina, where he was receive
an he declared, having given up IN despal
of his aspirations for the Presidency, thu
IN the fact was nc longer to be conceale'
ne that henceforth the Southern States,
zen retained IN the Union would be only hey
co. ers of wood and drawers OF water i
in. the North To this he would never co
fer sent, He proclaimed the scheme
forming a grand slave Confederacy tn
was to make cotton king and rule Il
rHR world Not long after military schoo
ech were established in the Southern STATE
im, secret associations formed, and final
red the Knights of the Golden Circle orga
'di- lied to CRY into execution the gre
plan of the Democratic consplratols
Is the Southern States. Reference Is he
10 made to Mr. Calhoun in order to she
ne the origin of secession. and establish t
sho fact of the determination of the Sout
'Geo ern Democracy to separate the Southe
let from the Northern States, dating ba
!, 1 more than thirty years ago, and also
l.u- show that the election OF Mr.. Lincoln
ave the Presidency was not the cause but t
uns pretert for accomplishing their long n
'oh ditated designs.
To aid in concentrating the treaso
ont aUlC SCnCbiC; VIC lidu LII Lille Tree SCau
ave such Democratic representative leade
! 10 as Buchanan, of Pennsylvania; Pier,
ned of New Hampshire Cushing, of Mass
,me chusetts; Seymour, of Connecticut;
n to Woods, OF New York; Vallandigha
ter and Pendleton, Of Ohio; Bright a
r to Voorhees,, of Indiana; Gwinn, of Ca
ST. fornia, and Lane of Oregon, all pror
gith nent Democrats and sympathizers wi
ear the South. During the rebellion.
have seen the same men, with MANY Of
RIGA er Democratic leaders at the North.
has voring the re6cls and making bit
last partisan warfare upon the Governme
tion of the United States. The sympathizt
nds. and workers for secession at the MOI
bic have done all in their power to preve
,ean the patriots of the free States fro
d to prosecuting the war for the preservati
of the Union, by discouraging emil
ments and encouraging desertions.
nth IT was these so-called Democrats
Nc the North, who co-operates with the
he of the South the staa fa ct friapdc of