Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-11-09

LABRIIso THE GENERALS "DgNo-
| cRATs."-The Democratic bill-stickers
| who started OFF so briskly 10 paste the
partys property-marks all over the
great army commanders, are standing
rather chop-fallen just now, pail and
brush in hand, staring at the general
military notice; paste no bills here. "
In reply to Haskin's soft persuasion TO
allow the party's label 10 be stuck on
his back, the great Sherman wrote let
ter TO Gen. Fitzpatrick, which the gallant
dragon read at meeting In Brooklyn,
N. Y, on Friday of last week. 1t is
choice:
Gen. y,.dson fitzpatrick
Dear Sir: have observed with inter-
est your political contest In New Jersey.
II Is really provoking, hardly worthy of
a serious thought, but rather OF satire
and ridicule, the squirming of the poll
ticians called Copperheads, who opposed
the war from every conceivable motive,
some from sheer cowardice, Others TO OPP
pose political party, some because they
thought we could not whip the South
and now that II Is reduced TO demon
stration, have hard work to explain their
conduct, even to themselves. l have no
patience with that class of men, and be-
lieve the people of the South have more
respect for us who belabored them so
soundly, than for the Copperheads, who,
nominally their friends, led them deeper
and deeper into trouble.
w. I. SHERMAN,
Major General.
At the very hour that Gen. Fitzpatrick
brought down the house by reading this
expression of Gen. Sherman's contempt
for and detestation of Copperheads, the
comic Van Buren, made Democratic au-
dience in Kingston tumultuous with the
impudent declaration
Congress, overwhelmed by univer-
sal popular sentiment, took the war out
of the hands of the Republican party,
as embodied in the divine Stanton
Cloud laughter) and passed law Great.
ing the Office of Lieutenant-G General, and
assigned the Democratic General Grant
to take possession of the army. Loud
cheers) Then it was, %hen the army
was weeded of these Republican parts
ans, that military operations were hand
ed over to such Democrats as Sherman,
(cheers) and Slocum Cloud cheers) that
the war was practically endedn loud
cheers.l
Gen. Fitzpatrick declared of man who
from the platform had claimed Grant as
a Democrat
&C. If old Grant had been by when that
was said, he would have caned the fell
low"
The expression of Sherman's loathing
for the copperheads is the more valp-
able, as it is directly responsive to let
ter written by John B. Haskin, begging
from him a good word for the Demo-
cratic party" Copies of this begging
letter were sent to Gems. Fitzpatrick and
Logan. Logan, in his Brooklyn speech,
responded thus:
"The rebellion was brought about by
a political organization which was based
on human slavery. That political or
ganization was called the Democratic
party. No man who has distinguished
himself in upholding the rebellion be-
longed to any other party. This is the
same party who ask you to-day to put
them into power. They sympathized
with or assisted the rebellion during it's
entire existence. These men now claim
that they are the friends of the Govern
ment, of Andrew Johnson, and every
thing he ever did. It is natural that
they should do this, as they merely want
to get into power. Their object is to
have the rebel States represented in Con-
gress, so that, together, they may rule
the country as they ruled it before the
war" --Nes0 York Tribune.