The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-10-22

OopperneduS we mean every man
who by his acts shows that he regards
party more than he does country every
man who by word, or deed, sympathizes
with treason III any form; every man u ho
by voice, vote or pen, seeks to weaken
the hands of the administration every
man who croaks continually of the ina
bllity OF the Government to crush the
rebellion and who does not throw his
whole influence in favor of the Govern
ment; that we will fight traitors evrey-
where: that we can and we will lash the
revolted states into the Union, and then
| by our votes live may, blythe strong arm
! if we must, drive treason at the North to
| treason S grave.
| Resoieed, That it makes no difference
to US whether the musket thatspeeds bull
/ lets against treason are held in hands
| black or white; that every man who
/ loves liberty and hates slavery, who re-
/ spects law and despiscs anarchy, who
reyeres loyalty and abhors treason, is
welcome to the privilege of fighting for
! the presentations of free institutions
and we will measure the honor due him
| by his merits and not 10y the color of his
skin: and although the Governments does
not attack slavery, if slavery folly shall
rejoice and thank God for ever.
! Unanimously adopted by the 25 tn
| Wisconsin Volunteers April 10, 1868.
Allthese are noble words. and reflected
the true sentiments of your hearts at the
time they were uttered They are as
true to-day as then With no desire of
yengenee, we ask your disapproval of the
men who were your country enemies in
| the time of war, and who have never re-
canted their heresies, nor disavowed their
acts and Intentions or acknowledged their
guilt. But with an influence worthy of
Iuclfer, not only the men who were OPP
enly or secretely favored the enemy at
home but the most guilty of the rebels
In arms ask you to assist IN placing them
in the seat of power which they have
1isgraced and from which they have
been hurled by your valer and endurance
We have not space nor do we think it
| necessary to argue the question at length
But we wish to call your attention to the
fact that the late Democratic National
Convention was controlled by men whom
you fought for four years, and who still
insist that what they failed to gain by
war they intend to. win by the so-caled
Democratic victory. The Convention
contained twenty five rebel Generals,
thirty Colonies, ten Majors, and thirty
Captains, and among them the notorious
Wade Hampton and the Butcher Forrest
the fierce Governor Vance, who asked
his regiment to fight until hell freezes
over and to pile hell so full of Yam
KEGS that their feet would stick out the
windows, with others who were the
master spirits of the Convention. If
these men had an honest intention to sub
NIT in good faith to the laws of the land
they might be forgiven. But their in
tentions oozed out through the platform
forced on the the Convention, through
the character of the men they nominated
aad through the Convention. Wade
Hampton claims the credit of inserting
in the platform herevolutionary doctrine
rthatthe acts of Congress since the war are
unconstitutional revolutionary, null and
void. Having secured the platform in
favor of a reinstatement of the rebel gov
ernments of the rebel States IN defiance
OF Congress and the Supreme Court, they
proceeded to defeat the nomination of
liberal minded men like Chase, Hancock
Ewel and others, for the Presidency and
Vice Presidency, and nominated man
for President who said, III 1861 -
IF 1t is true that slavery must be
abolished to save this Union then the
people Of the South should be allowed to
withdraw themselves from that govern
ment which cannot give them the protec-
ton guaranteed by its terms. -
They nominated man who said, ''Let
US see if successful coercion by the North
is less revolutionary than successful sec
cession by the South. > Who counselled
| the mob in these words: Remember
| this that the bloody reasonable and revo-
| lutionary doctrine of Public necessity can
be proclaimed by mob as we'll as by gov
| eminent" who addressed mS5 as my
friends and informed them that he
had sent his Adjutant General to Wash
Government but ito have this draft sus-
pended and stopped" who, when he
forwarded troops who We're bound to go
did so under constant protest against
the war, and who instead of suppressing
riots in his own State, compelled the gov
ernment to senl forty four regiments
to New York city to preserve the peace
1t was this record that gave the nolnina-
ton TO Horatio Seymour
But the greatest victory of the rebel
element was achieved by the nomination
of Frank Blair. His letter to Colonel
Brodhead was the key note of the plat
form, and upon it he was enthusiastically
supported by the rebel element This
platform, in his own words, is:
There is but one way 10 restore the gov
eminent and the Constitution, and that
for the President elect to declare these acts
null and eoid. compel the army to undo
ics usuIpd ions all over The South, d5sperse
the carpet bag State Governments 1lloU
the t0hite people to recognize their oaon
governments, and elect Senators and Rep
resentatires. We must restore the Con
! stitution before we can finances, and to do
| this WE MUST HAVE A PRESI
! DENT WHO WILL EXECUTE THE
WILL OF PEOPLE BY TRAMP
LING INTO THE DUST THE USER
PATIONS OF CONGRESS KNOWN
! AS THE RECONSTRUCTION ACTS.
| WISH TO STAND BEFORE THE
CONVENTION UPON THIS ISSUE,
but it is one which embraces everything
else that is of value in its large ana COM
prehensive results
Fellow comrades, this means another
war, and can mean nothing else. And
you are asked to assist in getting it up.
You are asked by the Southern war
Democrats and the Northern peace
I'ShioSideS " thio" 'Iie CouutTy ONCE
more into commissions, in order that the
men who made the last war, and were
soundly whipped, may reap the fruits of
our victories.
| But let US ask you, what is to be gain
ed by voting with and for our late enc
mics? Let them answer for themselves.
Governor Vance, of North Carolina, a
/ delegate, says, THAT what the confeder-
acy fought for would be won by the cleo
ton of Seymour & Blair" Pollard, the
Southern historian, says, ''Men of the
| South should realize that the confederate