Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1866-11-20
(Eron he State Jeurnal)
Copperhead Tricks on Eve of Election.
LAsrcaRns OF 4 CORRUPT AND DYING PART

wauked Netes and Madison Union
published almost simultaneously what
purported TO be an extract from .
speech made by Col. Cobb, the Union
candidate for Congress, in which he
was represented as defending the in
crease of salary and as oonfessine
that Congress had provided an cA ira
bounty to negro over white soldiers
and defending the act on the ground
CT the superior merit as soldiers 81
the neSro troops. We branded the
/ pretended extract at once as for
! gerry, and the shallow trick probably
imposed on no one who had brains
enough to feel an i.clination to vote
the Republican ticket Since the
election the Milwaukee Sentiael has
received the following:
LETTER FROM COL. COBB.
"MINERAL POINT, Wis. Nov. G, SO.
'Ldtc Sentinel IS Some friend has
sentme the enclosed slip, cut, think,
from the Milwaukee Ne,ys, contains
ing what | am reported to have said
IN a speech made at Tafton, Grant
county.
/ Col Cobb, the radical candidate
for Congress in the Sd distr of this
State, has told frankly, plainl and
very ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the adical
Congress voted its members tic0 M0u-
sand d0l.ars per year extra pay-in
Guiding n year that bad expired prev
iously TO enacting the law. In q
speech made at Tatton, Grant, coun>
ty, he is reported saying
1T is impossible to uphold and
maintala a party without money
and is it right, is it just, for members
to take the money from their own
pockets for that purpose? | would
ask any sensible Republican if can
travel all over our district and speak
and defend the party against the as
saults OF the enemy and rcfute their
false accusation Of them at my own
exl ense No! 1t would bankrupt
the weafthiest man among you to do
50 and know you do not ask it of
me. We're to pay this vast expense
out of my own money, [ should not
have moiney enough to get back to
Congress if elected. And, gentlemen,
| can assure YOU that ever cent Of
that money will be faithfully cxpen-
ded in promoting the interests Of the
party. 1t is absolutely necessary
that Ill Che old members ofCongress
should be returned, in order to check
mate thg President, who is in favor
o theseirebcl States coming into the
Union .. once and we are opposed
to those 'rcd-handcd satellites Of jeff.
Davis having seat anywhere in the
Governr4cnt, or holding any Office
under it. but they shall take back
seats, and that treason shall be made
odious. '[Tremendons applause.
If AIRY person should be at loss to
divine tl,e reason of Col. Cobb thus
letting the cat out Of the bag, we
can only refer them to the old adage
in ujAQ il. refdaS'
Il amhot so idle as to occupy my
time in Gontradicting the SANDERS Of
rebels aid dcscrters on account of
any eifeat which they can have on
me whe,c | am known. But that
those WHO DO not know me, and par
ticularl9, nay fellw-soldicrs, may I'M
dcrstand the reckless character Of
this hire,ing rebel press, | wish to
state through the columns of your
paper, now that the election is over
and you' may have room to spare,
that Ih4re not been III I,yt0n, graft
county, nor 1aft0n IN any other county,
since tie month Of AugltSt 1864, when
| did maze a speech there urging men
to yoluateer in the 43d regiment,
which | was then raising to fight the
rebel Democrats in the South. l
have never used the language nor the
ideas attributed to me, anywhere nor
at any time. I have had no dispo-
sition to defend any member OF Con-
gres5 for voting to increase his own
pay, and neither my colleague Mr..
I Ellrcdgc, nor Senator Doolittle, the
only members of Congress from this
State vAo voted for that measure,
have requested me to defend them
and if they bad | should not have
cratidel them by condemning my
own vote and those of my honorable
colleagues General Paine and Mr.
Sawyer, and that Of tie honorable
Senator from Wisconsin, Howe, in
opposition to the same measure.
i trest, Mr. Editor, that the vote
this day given will teach the Copper
head press, as we'll as some other in
situations, that they cannot rely up
on The stupidity and ignorance Of
even their own followers.
sAMAsA CoBB."
TIE DEVICE OF \ FOOLISH VIRGIN.
The people Of Plattoville are large.
IL c0tcr6stcd III the early completion
Of the l'latteville & Calamiao Rail
ROAD. On tie morning Of election
handbills were posted up by tn {
friends of Virgin, the Copp srhead
candidate FOR Congress, as follows
MATERIAL AID TO TIE PLATTE
WILLIE & CALAM1NE RA1LBoAD.-Tht
present members of Congress wert
elected under law that gave then
a salary Of $4,000; they increaseC
their salary to $4,000, making an in
crease OF $4,000 for the term.
should | be elected to represcn
this District on the next, or 40tl
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