The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-10-05
The Soldiers.

| Inc o0lQleTs.
Extraordinary efforts are being made
by our opponents to obtain the votes of
our fellow-citizens recently returned from
the service of the country in the army of
the nation. In these efforts they should
and it is confidently believed that they
will fail
/. Because a vigorous prosecution of
the war for the suppression of the rebel
lion has ever been urged by the Union
party of the country
g. Because the war has never been sus-
tanned or advocated by the leaders of the
party opposed to the administration.
8. Because the friends of the Union
cause have always sustained and suppor-
ted the soldiers in the field, and the lead
ers of pretended Democracy have ridicul-
ed and dcrided the soldiers of the Union,
calling them 'Lncoln's hirclings," "rob-
bers," "plunderers," and other epithets
unfit for repetition.
4. Because when volunteers were call
ed for, they demanded draft. ~
5. Because when the draft they op-
posed the Communication clause, and de-
clared it was discrimination against the
poor man.
6. Because when that clause we repeal
ed they. complained that the only hope of
the poor man was gone.
7. Because they denounced the war as
negro war, and did nothing to aid or
assist in carrying it on.
g. Because they became highly indig-
nant when negro troops were called for,
and threw the benefit of all their sympa.
thies with the South. '''''
8. Because they opposed every mea
sure the government found it necessary
to adopt for the suppression of the rebel
lion.
10. Because they magnifed every re-
bel success, and deprecated every Union
victory.
IL. Because, i'll 1864, they declared
the war failure.
r. Because, in 1865, they declare tina;
the fruits of the war are "debt, disgrace.
and slaughter" :i
l3 Because they tried to prevent the
extension of the right of suffrage to sold
iers in service.
IA. Their leaders almost Invariably op-
posed giving bounties to volunteers, while
the friends of the Union party always
sustained and supported these measures.
Is. Even since the war is over, they
employed their ablcst lawyers in an effort
to declare the bounty laws unconstitution
al, aud really persuaded their two friends
on the bench of the Supreme Court so to
hold -'..s
Is. When men were greatly needed
to Eli up the ranks and the Government
ordered a draft, they resisted, and all Of
their representatives upon the bench of
the Supreme Court declared the law au
thorizing the National Government to
take men out of the State, by draft, was
unconstitutional and void. Men were
only obtained, and the nation saved be
cause their party was defeated at the
polls in 1863, and the act Of three of these
Judges rebuked by the people, and one
OF their places filed by a loyal man and
sound Judge
II. Because they have tried to iniure
the credit, and disparage the currency oil
the country, by means CT wkieh the pay
bounties, and pensions of the soldier can
alone be paid. This point they also pres
sed before the Supreme Court of the
State, and failed by a division Of three to
two.
Is. Because the platform of the Union
party recognizes the services of the sold.
ier-declarcs that the war was commen
ced by rebels-that peace was the result
of the courage and hcroism of the Union
the cause in which he fought
was holy and sacred, and that honor, glory /
and prosperity to the country, and mol
''debt, disgrace, and slaughter" are the
legitimate fruits of his toll.
10. Because when Union men expressed
the hope that our troops might soon be
able to conquer the South, even by their
and want of food, those lead.
ers OF the new Democracy declared that
we could never conquer the South"
ind that ''they had more to eat in the
South than We had in the North"
~. Because when rebels were starving
'ur brave soldiers by the hundreds at Lib
~, Belle Island, Audersonvile, and else
Shere, these same leaders excused or
the crime by declaring that s
they fed our prisoners as we'll as they
nd their own men," that Sowing to the
unconstitutional blockade of the tyrantj
lincoln, they could not obtain asufhciency
# food"
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