Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1866-08-14
UMrKD STATES MARsHAL's OFFICE, !
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ONO,
CINCINNATI July 70 1866.

ever that may be, } No. 400 Twelfth
street, Washington, d. c.;
SIR Your printed circular, un.
der the frank Of Edgar Cowan, Z.
S. Sem" has reached me. 1t con.
tains a printed document, signed by
yourself as President" and by five
others with you as Executive Com
mitteo National Union Club" to
which four other individuals have
appended a SOFT of endorsement. AT
the foot is a printed note signed by
you as President, calling my atten-
ton to the circular, or "call, as you
designate it, ISSUED by the National
Union Club, Of this city, (Washing-
ton.) representing all the States in
the Union" From this understand
you have club in Washington City,
which considers itself capable OF rep
resenting all the States in Uui-
on" / live a long distance from
Washington, or perhaps the idea
would not occur to me, but it does
occur to me that you have taken a
large contract. | live in the great
valley, where Washington does not
seem 70 be much larger than other
cities OF the same population, and
vet the county stretches on a
good ways further west If it can
all be represented by little club in
Washington, it Will be a great saving.
The gratitude of the country will
perhaps be creator from the fact
that YOU seem to he volunteers. So
far as ! can learn ycu are only paid
for attending to some official duties
there, rather scant salaries at that,
and yet, it addition to your legal du-
ties, are willing to take tie trouble
Of representing all the States in the
Union" Whatever doubts may be
entertained Of the souedness Of your
doctrine, none would seem possible
concerning the libera3i4W of your mo
tives. All is we'll that ends we'll
You may get safe through your job,
but there is more or less practical
danger in such eases, that the peo-
, pie Of all the States in the Union viii
take Il caprice not to consent to be
represented on your labor-s&ving
plan. Ii they should, they would
make fun of you. You add Elf
this call meets your appreciation, you
will be good enough to signify it by
brief letter, with authority to pub
lish the same" The assertion that |
"will be good enough, is rather pos
tive, but you can count on me. /
will be as brief as / can, and you
may publish what | say. | discover
that you do not ask my opinion on
~, in case | approve, YOU do not say
what il to be done You leave me
to consider that for myself. You
compel me, therefore, to look into the
plan.
Your call consists of thirteen para
graphs just the number Of States
which went into the rebellion, or
tried to 30 in. A number Of these
consist in sentiments very wholesome
to be addressed to those thirteen
States, but no more appropriate to
tho people of the loyal parts of the
country than a repetition of the ten
commandments, or the preface to
Webstor's spelling book. There are
peculiarities Gf expression even in
these which leave good deal Of
inside room for menta! reservation.
Your polite request to be brief, or
rather your positive statement that
| will be brief, cuts me off from eX
tended observation | have heard
much constitutional discussion, about
the courts and elsewhere, within the
last few years. Some of your pro
. positions are new, or expressed in
language new to me, but | dare say
they are good enough for the use
they arc put to. At all events you
leave a liberal margin for construc-
tion, and | see 10 reason why man
whose chance for an office may de
pend on his discretion should under
take to criticise them. All ! wish
to commit myself to is that you
have probably done as well as you
could under all the circumstances.
| wish you had left out that para
graph which requires that "every
9l&LIlOb SuOulu lIONll On AClS ANU
proceedings" alluded to but not
specified or else that you had des
cribed them, SO as TO prevent mis-
takes. In order that frowning, o.
any sort OF making up faces should
be impressive it must be we'll done
Al the right time. and Mt the righ'
thing. There will be good deal OF
tendency to do it in the Convention
you are aiming at without pledgine
men to do il beforehand If they
should get a. it without more speci
fc explanations than yop have made
the members might misunderstood
each other, and resent it as personal
can conceive state of affairs in
which it would become very embar
RAISING Besides, is there aot more
or less danger that the pec..!e out
side will take it mp? They lrown an
managabIy whom they begin it.
notice you do not claim to represent
the Union party, which has ii re
."ember right, an Executive Com
mittee, appointed by full copvcn