Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-04-24
These facts bear hard OH the few

! These facts bear hard on Inc rev
honest republicans who, i'll their ig-
uorance, have claimed that their par
ty "put down the rebellion II
must grieve them to see by the OIL
cial report that thirteen slave states
furnished 5S,155 more men for the
union army than did thirteen free
states in which their party was
the maioritv during the war. Why, |
in Iowa the republican majority has
, been nearly AS great as the whols |
number Of men furnished by thai
state to the union army. But pre-
. yious to the war Iowa was one of the
reliable democratic states. The war
: record, taken in connection with the
2 election returns, Indicates most
clearly that democrats enlisted,
: while the brave republican boys
s fought and voted at home. This The
J., ldemocratic party has always con-
J. tended to have been the fact, not
e only in Iowa but generally through
g out ali the states, and now VIC haYc
1 figures furnished by the secretary
It of war, a stalwart republican citizen
h of Iowa, which sustain the demac-
% racy apd brand the republican party
.s as UNIV orthy of credence when speak
s ing of its war record.
e. Again: ttHT .i '
h States that We're democratic or
,e doubtful before the war largely re-
IN publican during the war, and no "
r. democratic or doubtful:
OF Massachusetts .l52 .ois Ohio 3I9, s.!
le pennsylvana 3sj. lo7 Illinois s... .....25s ! {
ae Wisconsin...... 95,44 Michigan. Ss,3i:
,g That large majority Of the mer
he furnished the Union army from tht
"a sight states above iiaiaed were at tin
ay time of the enlistment democrats i
n evidenced by the fact that the repub
lie lean party had naajorities of thou
W, sands, Immediately after enlistment
10 began, Uhere previously 1t acdS in III
Ter ninority. These figures from TIL
nd war department. fully condemn u
ii false the claim that the republlca
ne party pat down the rebellion. The
is. show that thirteen slave states /
me which tie republican party had no OF
,n- ganization or ticket before the peo
be- pie, furnished to the Uuion arm
op- 5S, ,155 more troops than did thirtee
eX- uorthern states i'll which the republ
vas can party was in the majority durln
La the war, solely because democrats hd
md enlisted evhite republicans rename
Gus at home 10 cote and suppress tr,
nea speech.
the 1t is to be presumed that repuhl
cry cans will admit that New Jersey w,
me both loyal and democratic ,houg
uld during the war her democratic III
rhe jority was greatly reduced because
into the enlistment in the Union army
the 81 ,O10 volunteers.
hen There are those still living WI
his have not forgotten that Penusylvam
n OF was invaded by the southern arm,
Gle, that Gov. Curtin called upon t
,w's governors of each of the northe
d at states for aid when Harrisburg w
ling in danger, and that at that time the
ran were but two democratic governor
uoratis Seymour, of New York, al
ned joel +. Parker, Of New Jersey, a
tner that these two governors Of dem
Sar- cratic states heard the call of tn'
ing. sister state, in danger, and furnish
ton, the aid asked. No republican sli
r St. responded to that call. Gov. Sc
,cin- mour Immediately turned over
and Maj. Gen. John E. Wool, U. 5.
nan commander of the department of I
,hsn east. and stationed at New YOl
,ent. $4,000 state militia, armed, and fu
ou's equipped for active service. l ST
rent pose Blame repuoilcahs weuiu c
until these troops Seymour's rebel den
EN-. Gratis. Gen. Wool accepted these m
mith and sent them forward at once, a
a he they were in the thickest of the fis
. lett ere Pennsylvania had got her o.
been militia into service. The cOntedera
take supposed this noble band of don
und cratic volunteers to be old vetera
,thnr so bravciy did they stand fire u
and regularly close their depleted ran
+ hpr For accepting these democra
a up. troops, Maj. Gen. John E. Wool, "
lng had been in the service since the v
oe 0t of 1872, was, by "a republican adm
!; ,t !slration, removed from his comm
,ght and sent 10 his nome III Troy, n.
When asked by the adminlstrat
why he accepted troops from S
muur without consultation with
war department, that brave
Ont democrat seat to the traitor Hall,
an answer that will never d
When my country is in DANCE
know nothing about red tape"
The people were taught that q
seymour was q rebel sympathl
with wheM Gen. w DOL was on fric
~ terms, and therefore should
remain in coInmand of the dept
de- mcnt of the east. The presence
tha Gov. Seymour's militia at Gett
JTr- burg alone stamps the claim of
~Ito- republicans tor the credit of putt
,.,t,;, do WI the rebellion as Il lie.
DOUGIAS DEM0cR RAr