St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-02
SENTIMENT OF MEN WHO WENT INTO
THE WAR.

JTore Democrats in the Field than Reptsb.
IicGns-HonOr to Whom Honor 10 DUE
Figures do Not Lie and Facts that Com
trorert Sfdnder-IHterestin5 Statistical
Record
New York World.
The last resort of the Republican campaign
orators is always the cry, 1--WE Republicans
saved the Union" Hardly Democrat has
come up for an important Office since the
war who was not charged with disloyalty be-
cause he was Democrat. Mr.. Hendricks is
charged with having been a rebel sympathi-
ger, although he was in the senate during
war and voted for every important war meas
ure. Mr.. Cleveland is charged with having
been disloyal because he did not go into the
army, and the fact that his two
brothers went that he might STAY at home
to support a widowed mother and
several helpless sisters counting for nothing.
The meaning Of all this is that In order to
have been in favor of the preservation of the
Union, one must have been a Republican
whether in the army or not. The LOYALTY of
Mr.. Blaine is not questioned, though he hired
4 substitute when he was drafted inst "a
Cleveland did. If the nation is to be ruled
by that class Of men who put down the re-
bellion by actual service in the field, then
the Democrats should assume the reins of
government at once, for they furnished most
of the soldiers.
The author Of these tables has an unim-
peachable military record made by his ser.
vices in sixteen engagements in the old
Sixth corps, Army of the Potomac, was
prisoner of war and lost limb on the field
of battle, and has been graduated from two
colleges of high standing in the world O.
letters.
The fgnres relating to the voting power
political parties in 1860 and in 1864, or ivt
months before the beginning of the hostili
ties and five months before the ending Of th
late civil war, were taken from the publica.
tons of E. B. Treat Il Co., of New Yorl
city; R. c. Treat and c. w. Lilley, of Chica.
go; Ira 5. Brainerd, of st. Louis; A. L. Tai
cot " Co., of Pittsburgh, aud H. H. Ban
croft 81 Co., Of San Francisco, upon histori-
cal, political and statistical subjects, and
will be found to be correct for all practical
/ purposes of the statistician or historian.
The figures Pertaining to troops supplied
/ to the federal government during the late
rebellion in the southern states were COM
| piled from the official report Of the adjutant
general of the army of the United States for
/ 1880, excluding black troops organized at
various places or stations in the states in
rebellion, which cannot be prop
erly assigned to particular states, and OF
\ course were without political opinions, in q
/ party sense of that term and therefore, in
/ appropriate in tabular statement of this
/ kind.
The term ''solid SOUTH is one OF political
| geographical Specification meaning harmony
Of political action upon stated propositions
within the limits of geographically pre-
! scribed section of country heretofore known
in common parlance as the slave-holding
portion of the United States, aud properly
speaking 1t means the same now. Polite
ally considered the volunteers comprising
the land and naval forces of the United
States during the late civil war must have
been furnished by or from two, and only
TWO, sources; Democratic and Republican
in party sense of those terms after Novem-
her, 1860.
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS WHO ''woRE TN
BLUE BETWEEN 1861 AND 1865.