The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-02-25
WHO SAVED THE UNION.
The Political Sentiment Of the Men
Who Went Into the War.
""T" Democrats In the Field than
Honor 90 Whom
i"nOr is Due-Figures
Ih"t do Not Lie, and
SnIin ERcIs
! From the n. Y. World. /

The last resort of the republican cam
pai9n orators is always the cry, eve
republicans saved the union" Hardly
deHociat has come up for an impor-
tant Office since the war who was not
Charged with disIOyaiiy because he
was democrat Mr.. Hendricks is
Charged with being rebel sympathiz-
er, although he was in the senate dur
ing the war and voted for every i'm
portant war measure. Mr.. Cleveland
ls charged with having been disloyal
because he did not go into the army,
the iaGt 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 aues.
toned, though he hired substitute
when drafted just as Mr.. Cleveland did
Ii the nation is to be ruled by that
class of men who put down the rebel
hon by actual service in the field then
the democrats should assume the reins
OF government at once, for they fur
hlohC' HlOsJ VI lUC SDIulefS.
The author Of these tables has an
uninpeachable military record made
by his services in sixteen engagements
IN the DID Sixth Corps, Army of the
Potomac. was n prisoner of war and
lost limb on the field of battle, and
has been graduated from two colleges
OF high standing in the world of letters.
Ihe bgures relating to the voting
power OF political parties in 1860 and
| IN 1861, or five months before the be.
ginning of hostilities, and five months
before the ending of the civil war,
were taken from the publications OF
T. B. Treat Il Co., of New York City;
X. G Treat and G. w. LiIley, of Chi.
cago; Ira s. Brainard, of St. Louis;
A. l. Talcot ~ Co. of Pittsburg, and
IL. III. Bancroft, Of San Francisco, upDn
historical, political and statistical sub
Jects, and Will be found to be correct
Tor all practical purposes of the statis-
tician or historian.
The h9ures pertaining TO troops sup
piled to the federal government during
the late rebellion in the southern states
were compiled from the official reports
of the adIuIant general of the army of
the United States for 1890, excludin"
black troops organized at various
places or stations in the states i'm rebel
lion, which cannot be properly assign
ed 10 particular states, and of course
were without political opinions, IN a
party sense of that term, and, there
fore, inappropriate in u tabular state
ment OF this kind
The term ''solid south" il one of
p"iii'co geographical Specification,
harmony OF political action upon stated
propositions within the limits of a
geographically prescribed section of
our country heretofore known in com
mon pariance as the slave holding por-
ton of the United States, and properly
Speaking ii means the same now. PoIit-
icaliy considered, the volunteers com
prIslng the land and naval forces of the
United States dnring The late civil war
must have been furnished bv or from
two, and only two sources: Demo
cratic and republican in a party sense
OF those terms after November, 1860.
DkNoCHATs AND REPUBLICANS 'wHo WORE 1HE
BLC - BErwEEN ISL AND 1855