Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-09-15
Valuable Campaign Documents Circulate and
Read.

The Union Congressional Committee are
publishing some very valuable campaign doc
uments. Compiled from official records, they
will furnish the people with mass of intor-
nation relating directly to the questions in
vol7ed in the present political canvass
They are as follows:
First: McClellsn's Military Career, reviewed and
exposed.
Second: George H. Pendleton, his disloyal record
and autecedents.
Third: The Chicago Copperhead Convention. -
The men who composedit.
Fourth: Base surrender of the Copperheads to
the rebels in arms.
Fifth: The military situation and the glorious
achievements Of our soldiers and sailors.
Sizth: A few plain words with the heroic private
soldiers.
Sere1tb: The history Of McClellan-'' Arbitrary
arrest of the Maryland Legislator
Eighth: What Lincoln's Administration has done:
Ninth-Do ctrine of the Copperheads North and
the Rebels South Identical.
Te1h-Rebel terms of Peace.
Elerenth-Can the country pay the expenses OF
the War?
T1celfth-The Con stituton upheld and main
tanned.
Thirtesntt-Peace, to be enduring, must be con-
quered.
Fourteenth A history of the cruelties and afro
cities of the Rebellion.
observation-disclosures of the Copperhead conspir-
aces in the Northwest
SIICecnti-N at votes IN the present congress.
These documents will be printed in English
and German and sent for two dollars per hun
dred copies. Let the loyal men everywhere
send in their orders to Hon. JAMES HARLAN
Washington, D. c.
Let Union Clubs, County and Town Com
mittees, and Union men who wish to contrib
ute something towards the general cause send
on orders Immediately for these documents
and see that they are thoroughly distributed
among the people. 1t is no less important to
defeat the political allies of JEFF. DAVIS in
the North at the ballot box, than his armed
legions of rebels in the field. Our system of
free Government would be in just as great
jeopardy of its administration were placed in
the hands of a man who is pledged to surren-
der to the demands Of rebellion as it would
from the defeat and humiliation Of our arm
les. Let the people understand this thor
oughly, and the Copperhead Peace Democracy
will be crushed in utter and irretrievable dis
comfture at the balot-box in November.
To this end circulate the decuments-place
them in the hands of every voter, and let the
questions at issue be thoroughly discussed
and understood.
A vigorous fall campaign by the Union ar
mics in the Southern States, and vigorous
fall campaign by the Union masses in the
North will finish the rebellion and restore
the Union with a lasting and glorious peace
Soap in Hand.n
On the 28th of May, 1861, scarcely two
months after the firing upon Sumter, the
Richmond Wing said of the Northern people
eve must bring these enfranchised slaves
back to their true condition. They have long
very properly looked upon themselves as our
social inferiors-as our serfs; their mean,
niggardly lives, their low, vulgar and sordid
occupations, have ground this conviction into
them"
Then, after speaking of the Northern de-
termination to put down the rebellion, and
saying that /" their uprising has all the char
acteristcs of ferocious servile insurrec-
tion," the editor concludes that the war "will
enable us to restore them to their normal con-
dition Of 0assalage, and teach them that cap IN
hand is the proper attitude Of the servant before
his MASTER"
And with b" cap in hand the whole Cop
perhead party now stand before their masters
ready to do their bidding The remarks of
the Wing are perhaps entirely just, when ap-
piled to this class of our people, for they
have ever been slaves to the party, and the
party has been the vassal of the South.