The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-02-20
raj UNION

1t is really not worth while at this
late date to quarrel over the question:
who saved the Union? There are
certain facts, however, which may
be occasionally referred to with profit
and which may be remembered with
out prejudice to either of the existing
political parties. This becomes all
the more apparent from the fact that
during the debate upon the Fitz John
Porter bill it. was asserted that the
Republicans alone saved the Union.
Mr.. Holr. of Michigan. in his very
Objectionable speech upon the sub
ject pointed over to the Democratic
side Of the House and very dramat-
ically urged everybody to a'stain
from voting, because he said they re-
| ceived the benefit of what be called
"Po1ter's treason" aud should let
only Union people solve the ques-
tions arising from it. But right in
the midst of the men whom he thus
| adiured were Generals Rosecrans,
Slocum and Greenleaf, all Union Of
ficers, wno have a fine war record.
Mr.. Horr, 1t is hardly necessary to
say, faced the enemy bravely only
after the war was all over.
Commenting on this fact an ex
change considers, in a serious view,
what party furnished the men who
saved the Union. Linc0ln's popular
vote in 1880 was 1855, 200, while the
Breckenridge and Douglas Demo
crats) aggregated 1,64s. 62s. Bell,
who an on the American ticket, and
secured all the old Wings who had
not turned Republican, received a
popular vote OF s ,463. Thus will
be seer that there vas in the United
States in 1880, 1880 who were not
Republicans and who voted against
MIR. Lincoln. Suppose the Lincoln
voters alone had been depended upon
to save the Union, how long would
it have been before Gen. Toombs had
carried out his threat to call the roll
of slaves at the foot Of Bunker Hill
monument? There were, according
to the official tables. 2,32O,272 men
furnished by the States to the Union
army during the three years of the
war, nearly half a million more than
the total of Republican voters In the
country. If we should estimate that
every Lincoln voter went to the
war on the Union side, which is
ridiculous, it still remains a
fact that the Democrats and Know
we're depended upon to fill
out at least one-third of the quota.
But as to the leading men of the
.army-the Generals whose brains
and ability made the bayonets to
and pointed them right.
General Grant was a Douglas Demo-
GRAFT when the war broke out, and
really never became a Republican
until he was nominated for the Pres
General Sherman was also
/ Democrat, and even now his broth J
n. the Senator. Is uncertain whether :
n not he is a Republican. General |
NcClellan's political record is we'll s
General George H. Thom- |
IS. who is regarded as the zeal SOL :
lier by all who served under him, =
vas a strong Democrat. General
Hancock was none the less patriotic {
or his political views. General Joe !,
Hooker, General Rosecrans, General :
+ames 3. Steedman, General George
v. Morgan, General Franklin, of Z
Connecticut, General John NJ. =
'almer, General Phil Kearney. Cen q
raj Rousseau. of Kentucky, General q
rank Blair, General George Stone !
aan, OF California, General A. ]. q
Warner, of Ohio, and General Butler, n
f Massachusetts,. These Are all a
recalled as prominent names g
a list which will far outstrip any a
imilar list of Republican warriors. a