The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-22

Democratic company from New Bedford
Captain Devereux, OF Salem, was Democrat,
and large portion of his men were Democrats.
General Quincy says the 9th Regiment was
composed entirely of Democrats. Colonel
Burrill was Democrat, and majority of his
regiment entertained the same politics
opinions. In Minis Battery nearly every
man was q Democrat. General Butler says
there were not three hundred Republican
voters among the six thousand men he en-
listed to follow him to New Orleans. Among
the Democratic officers whose commands were
also largely composed of Democrats, were
General CowdiD, Colonel Parker, Major
Wilder, and many others. When Major
Wilder was called upon to suppress the riot in
this city, he was ready for duty in less than
two hours after notice, and did his work
faithfully.
But few weeks ago DIR. Loring received a
merited rebuke from General Schouer, Presi-
dent of the Grant Club at Lynn, at Republi-
can meeting there. Loring, like Charles
Sumner, called the Democrats Rebels, and in
the course of his remarks appealed to General
Schouler to confirm his allegation. The Gene
raj said in response, "He had been Republ-
can from the start, and did not come into the
party after the war was over; that he could
not endorse the remarks of Lorng; that
Democrat as well as Republican had voluu-
teered for the defense Of the Union; that
side on every battle field of the South; that
Democrat as we'll as Republican had returned
to their homes worn and disabled by the war;
or lay side by side in every graveyard in New
England; and that he, for one, would not ac-
quiesce in the ISLANDERS that had been heaped
upon them" The General as Adjutant of the
State during the war, knows as we'll as any
citizen in IL the character of the men who
filed the ranks of the army from Massachu-
sets, and is too honorable to indorse the
calumnies of grovelliDg recreants who fawn
for thrift before the power of radicalism, and
abuse their old associates to ingratiate them
selves into favor with those they deem ready
to reward scandal with promotion. In civil
action the Democrats were as prompt in sus-
tanning the war as the radicals. Governor
Andrews said, in addressing soldiers, that the
heart of all Massachusetts beat in sympa-
thy with his words from the shores of Cape
Cod to the hills of Berkshire. Party spirit
was allayed, political differences were for
gotten. The Hon. B. +. Hallett, Democrat,
and the Hon. Edward Everett, Republican,
addressed the same meetings. Mr.. Northend,
Democrat, in the Legislature moved to pro-
vide for the discipline and instruction OF
military force and to aid fami-
lies of volunteers. Governor Andrew COM
missioned officers without regard to their poll
tics. Henry Wilson said ne recommended
citizens for commissions without thinking of
their party. The law authorizing the issue of
seven millions of State scrip to sustain the
war was voted for by every Democrat in the
Legislature. General Schouler in his history,
says the people of the State were unit in
support OF the war. The Hon. II. l.. Dawes
publicly cOmplimented the Democratic press
for its supported of the war. The Democratic
State Committee in 1861 expressed themselves
as decidedly in favor of energetically prose-
cutting the war as did the Republican Com
init Tha
President of the State Senate, 1862 said
"Already have gallant sons of Massachusetts,,
native and adopted, of every class and cond-
tion, and holding every variety of opinion
upon controverted questions of policy and
principle, marched as band of brothers to
the field to uphold the common dag, or to fall
in its defense.' The Hon. Caleb Cushing
Democrat, in calling the House of Representa-
tives to order, as the senior Representative,
same year, called upon its members to dedi-
cate themselves, heart and SOUL 'to uphold
to re-establish and perpetuate our sacred and
beloved Union" Mr.. Bullock President of
the Republican Convention, 1862, said, call
were agreed in the prosecution of the war;"
So in the private walks of life, the Demo-
Gratis were as active-and their famiies-in
sustaining the war for the Union, in every
manner in which the humanity and the pa
triotism of citizens were indicated, as any por-
ton of the community; facts more numerous
than we have space to here enumerate con-
clusively establish this. In the midst of the
war the Democrats nominated aGeneral in the
field as their candidate for Governor; after the
war they nominated another General who
nobly distinguished himself in the war, and
who was selected, at the close of the great
contest, to present the worn and stained battle
flags of the State to the Governor to be pre-
served in the archives of the Commonwealth.