Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-10-20
What Patriotic German says of the Re-N0m-
inati0n Of Abraham Lincoln.

At the Union ratification meeting in Chica-
go last week, Col. EDMUND JUssEN, formerly
Of this city, and prominent among the radio
al anti-slavery Germans of the Northwest,
said:
The time has arrived, when every citizen
who has the welfare of his country at heart,
and who desires the reconstruction of the
Republic as it should be and not of the Union
as 1t was, whose love of country and liberty
and desire for the perpetuity of this free
government is not yet stranged by selfish
ambition, will pledge his support to the stand
ard-bearers of that great and noble party,
who by their action at the Baltimore Conven-
ton have chosen the next President and
Vice President of these United States
hail with enthusiasm the nomination of
Andrew johnson, of Tennessee, that noble
representative of democratic sentiments in
their original purity, free from the blighting
influence of modern Democracy; a man born
of the people, reared by the people and now
so deservedly honored and rewarded for all
| his unceasIng labors in defence of liberty and
progress.
Abraham Lincoln, the rail-splitter of Hi
nois, is again called upon by the freemen of
the North to split the skull of this wicked
rebellion.
| Although l am surrounded by men who
| greeted the nomination of the present Exeeu-
| tive with unmeasured JOY and enthusiasm,
whose very hearts beat responsive to the roar
OF cannon which yesterday proclaimed the
| result OF the Baltimore Convention to the
metropolis of the West, | will not, cannot.
| deny that Abraham Lincoln was not nv first
choice.
But since John Z. Fremont and his ambi
tious radical friends have seen fit to dictate
to the great party Of progress, since their
ambition Is greater than their love of country.
since they have adopted the policy of rule or
ruin, and, in time like this, when, among
the friends Of liberty, all should be harmony
and good will, have inscribed the detestable
words "ReUe2ge Of personal acrongS" upon their
| banners, L am hear and soul with the party
| and with the men who shaped the future des-
TIMES of this Union at the Baltimore Conven-
ton. l will gladly and willingly sacrifice nv
| personal preferences and feelings upon the
| altar OF our common country, and henceforth
| with word and deed, and with an earnest
enthusiastic WILL shall advocate the cause of
| the regular nominees. And | desire to tell
| those gentlemen, who are the acknowledged
leaders of the radical German party of this
city, and who boastingly proclaimed to the
world that their visionary political transcen-
dentalism was shared by four hundred thou
| sand of their German tellow-citizens, that
before the ides Of November have arrived,
their vision of success will vanish like a
dream; they will see the ranks of their army
thinned to desperation, and there will be no
one left but Infatuated Generals and orna-
mental file-closers to charge the rife-pits,
and battlements, and impenetrable forts of
the great Republican party. For know too
well the practical sense of the Germans; |
am too well convinced OF their patriotism and
love of country to believe that any great
number of them can ever be tempted to throw
away their vote on John c. Fremont, and
thus bring about the fearful possibility even
| of the election of an ultra conservative can
| didate.
AS the brave German soldier in the field
stands by the good old flag, fearless of the
storm and carnage around him, so will the
| German citizen at home, in the coming
Presidential campaign, perform his duty tic
his country, and vote for the candidates cho
sen by the party of p. ogress, regardless o.
| the howlings and threats Of an ambition:
! faction.
With these remarks, w-citizens, in com
mon with you, l accept the challenge tender
ed by both radicals and copperheads, ano
from this moment to the eve of election,
shall hope and pray and work for the bril-
liant, overwhelming success of Lincoln anG
johnson.
"Gail Hamilton writes an indignant arti