Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-10-13
Whit Democratic Generals say.

go nominees and platform, and in favor OF the
reelection-of Mr.. LINCOLN We make some
extracts from these letters and speeches, as
follows:
General DIX, who, 81 the outset Of the re-
beliion, when member of BUcHASAS's Cabi
net, directed that aDv man attempting to
haul down the American flag should be shot
On the spot, in recent speech at sandusky,
said *sT.
1t has been my conviction from the be-
ginning that we can have no honorable peace
until the lnSurgent armies are dispersed and
he leaders of the rebellion expelled from
the country. I believe that a cessation of
hostilties would lead inevitably ana directly
to a recognition Of the insurgent States; and
when say this l need hardly add that can
have no part in any political movement of
which the Chicago platform is the basis. No,
teIlow-cltlzens, the only hope Of securing an
honorable peace-a peace which will restore
the Union and the Constitution, lies in a
steady, persistent ano unremitting prosecu-
ton OF the war, and believe the Judgment
OF every right man will soon bring
MN to this conviction"
Major General JOHN A LOGAN, we'll known
as 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 wko
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. lie 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 dissats-
| faction with the course of the Government
upon matters of mere administration, yea
| even III an important point Of administrative
| policy as laid down in the platform and fore
| Swallowed in It's 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 in
| fhn Roll IL
| different system Of labor must be devised for
the southern county in the future, and peace
upon any terms, even the acknowledgment OF
| the Confederacy, cannot prevent it. fl am
| right III this view of the subject, and upon
| this conviction have acted since | saw the
| facts III Louisiana i'll 1862, then what is there
| III 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 i'll the changes so rapid in the admins
tratiive policy made by this war, no one will
tie himself to any party platform. | 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, and
| its laws obeyed upon every foot of soil within
the boundaries of the United States"
Major General DANIEL E. SICKLEs, formerly
a Democratic member of Congress from New
York in letter declining to be candidate
for Congress, says;
| The a'ar WaS Deliberately begun By tie 7c5cL
| and as TeISiste1eHy pGged By them to diyide on1
conqNor the Union. 1t is not so strange tina
our enemies should find allies among European
| antagonists Of free institutions, but it vii
| 10, orl L.,
| wonder that our own people could be serious
| ly divided upon the question of submission o.
| resistance. Let 2aho nil be for submission. j
an for resistance as long ace hove 5atta7io,
| and a battle, field left.
| Until the constitution and laws are vindi
| Gated in their supremacy throughout the
| land, the government should be confded tt
no hands that will hesitate to employ all the
| power Of the nation to put down rebellion
| The resources Of the insurgents are aIread,
SO far exhausted that they will give up the
! struggle as soon as majority of the people
at the balot-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
| tons of the people, will exalt the nationa
| character aud challenge the homage of all who
| honor patriotism and valor Peace imposed
| upon lis by an audacious and arrogant foe
who would owe his triumph not to the supe
rlorltY 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 ouI
| shame enough manhood to renew the struggle
| Gen. MCCALL, formerly commanding the
Pennsylvania Reserves, under MCCLELLAN
who ran for Congress on the Democratic tic
ket in 1862, has written a letter in which he
| 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 mvsel
felt the necessity of rousing and exerting all
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 and
irretrievabie loss Of position among the ma.
tlons OF the earth and the entailment on Our
children Of an everlasting disagreement, con.
tention and war with southern people. | now
believe, as I always believed, that if the
Union Is worth preserving, it is worth the
prosecution Of the war to a successful conclU1-
SION. With regard to the conduct of this
war, cannot approve all the measures of the
present administration; but I regard any ad-
mlnlstration that will energetically prosecute
the war, as preferable to one that is in favor
OF an arnistice and convention of the
States, until the States in rebellion have laid
down their arms"
Brig. Gen. JAMES L. HERMAN, of Cincin-
natl, was recently announced to address a
Democratic meeting in Cleveland, Ohio. In
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says: