Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-11-15
A Copperhead Forgery.

A Copperhead Forgery.
Just before election the Milwaukee NeOs
and Madison Union published almost sim
ultaneously what purported to be an ex-
tract from speech made by COL Cobb,
in which he was represented as defending
the increase Of salary. and as confessing
that Congress had provided an extra
bounty to negro over white soldiers, and
defending the act on the ground Of the SUI
perior merits as soldiers of the negro
troops Every intelligent republican could
at once see through the trick, and it was
at once pronounced a forgery. But as
Col. Cobb is not personally and politically
known to every person who might read
the pretended extract from the speech, he
has written the following letter to the
Milwaukee Sentinel:
MINERAL PcINT, Wis, Nov. 6, '66
Editor Sentinel-Somo friend has sent
me the enclosed slip, cut, think from the
Milwaukee Meas, containing what am re-
ported to have said in speech made at
Taften, Grant county:
''Col. Cobb, the radical candidate for Con-
gress in the Sd district of this state, has
told frankly, plainly, and very instructive
ly-why the radical Congress voted its
members t1oO thousand dollars per year
extra pay-including year that had ex-
pired previously to enacting the law. In
a speech made at Tafton, Grant county,
he is reported saying:
at is impossible to uphold and maintain
a party without money-and is it right
IS it just for members to take the money
from their own pockets fof'that purpose !?
would ask any sensible Republican if
can travel all over our district and speak
and defend the party againsts the assaults
of the enemy, and refute their false accusa-
tons Of them at my own expense? No
/: would bankrupt the wealthest man
among you TO do Sc; and know you do
not ask it Of me. Were | to pay this vast
expense out of my own money, should
not have money enough to get back to
Congress if elected. And, gentlemen, [
can assure you that every cent Of that mon
ey will be faithfully expended in promoting
ly necessary thai all the old members of
Congress should be returned in order to
checkmate the President, who is in favor
of these rebel States coming into the Union
at once; and we are opposed to those red
handed satellites Of jeff Davis having
seat anywhere in the Government, or hold
ing any office under it, but they shall take
back seats, and that treason shall be made
odious." Tremendous applause.
If any person should be at loss to d.
vine the reason Of Col. Cobb thus letting
the cat out OF the bag, we can only refer
them to the ola adage in elmo in Ueritas"
| am not so idle as to occupy my time
in contradicting the ISLANDERS of rebels and
deserters on account of any effect which
they can have on me where am known.
But that those who do not know me, and
particularly my fellow soldiers may under
stand the reckless character of this hireling
rebel press, | wish to state through the
columns of your paper, now that the cleo
ton is over and you may have room to
spare, that haze not been IN Idfton, Grant
county, nor Tuition IN any other county,
since tie month Of august, 1864, when l
did make a speech there urging men to
volunteer in the Add regiment which I was
then raising to fight the rebel Democrats
in the South. | have never used the lam
guage or the ideas attributed to me, any
where or at any time. l have had no dis
position to defend any member of Congress
for voting to increase his own pay, and
neither my colleague Mr.. Eldridge, nor
Senator Doolittle, The only members of
Congress from this state who voted for
that measure, have requested me to defend
them; and they had, should not have
gratifed them by condemning my own
vote and those of my honorable colleagues
Gen. Paine, md Mr.. Sawyer. and that of
the honorable Senator from Wisconsin,
Howe, in opposition to the same measure
trust, Mr.. Editor, that the vote this
day given will teach the Copperhead press
as well as some other Institutions, that
they cannot rely upon the stupidity and
ignorance of even their own followers.
AMAsA COBB.
AS the Democrat was very ready to pub
fish and endorse the forgery, we hope it
will have honesty enough to publish Col
Cobb's letter in full