Year: 1865

self democrat, will read and carefully
consider the letter of Gen. Sckles to Gen.
Fitzpatrick, which we publish below. 1t
was read at the great Union meeting at
Newton on Thursday last, and it places in
so clear light the folly and wrongfuness
of the Runyon party In this state, that it
should be generally circulated


BosToN, Sept. 25, 1865.


MY DEAR FITZPATRICK have receiv-
ed yours of.the 2lst, inviting me to go up
into Sussex with you on the 2Sth | wish
my engagements here permitted me to do
so, for ] am sure we would enjoy day
or two at the Fair, and especially the
promised sport of the races. The jour
nails give glowing accounts of your anima-
ted and brilliant campaign in New Jersey,
and if | were Jerseyman like yourself |
should be in the thickest Of the fight with
you. And as it is, when / hear of the un-
generous and unjust things that are said
of your motives and conduct, | feel in
clined to break through all the reserve
about politics that have imposed on N.Y.
self while in the army, and draw some Of
the Copperhead fire that is concentrated
SO hotly upon you just now.


Before the war you and | were among
those who exerted themselves TO put the
Democratic party of New Jersey in pow
er. | believe the masses Of the Demo
cracy of New Jersey are today as pa,rio-
tic as any Of our countrymen but the
controlling leaders have managed to put
the State 10 an attitude Of obstinate and
persistent hostility to the Union sentiment
of the nation In New York the Demo
cratic State Convention has recently de-
clared that, banishng all minor party
considerations, and acting in the spirit Of
an enlarged and generous patriotism, they
cordially support President johnson in
the policy he has avowed to enable the
States late in revolt to put their Govern
ments in practical operation. and in all
such constitutional measures as he may
inaugnrate to harmonic the country and
restore and cement the union of the
States" AS | understand it, this is pre-
ci ely the ground you occupy in New
Jersey, in supporting the Union platform.


The party in power in New Jersey
might learn good deal from South Car
DINA, Mississippi and Alabama. In these
States, when Slavery was found dead, it
was decently buried by the voluntary de-
crees of the people, pronounced by the
Conventions now in session. New Jersey
refuses her assent to an amendment of the
Federal Constitution abolishing Slavery
Is this Democratic


We do not so understand it in New
York. Here the Democratic Convention
halls with commentator the ''frank and
generous acceptance by the Southern
States people Of the condition in which
they have been held by the recent war,
including the abolishment of Slavery =
This is right and manly. All parties
agree to it.


When | read the so called Democratic
platform of New Jersey, for 1865, | find
there an effort to screen the rebels from
their treason, by casting the blame of the
rebellion on the northern majority which
elected the lamented Lincoln; find there
long and not very novel lecture about
the limited powers of the Federal Gov
ernment; the advantages ofspecie curren-
cy the right of the States to do as they
please that our national debt is calam-
ity and curse demand for the admis-
sion into Congress of the United States
Of all persons elected according to the
laws of their States a demand which
would restore Davis. Slidell, Toombs and
their associates to Congress, whether par
doned or not, and in spite Of their trea-
SOM and, in one breath, the admnistra-
tion of President johnson is condemned
for arresting Northern traitors, and for
refusing to pardon de6ants


The truth is, do not believe the au-
thors of the New Jersey Democratic plat
form of August 80, 1865, regard the reb-
els as having lost either rights or consid
Grafton by their treason. Neither the re-
bellion nor its authors are denounced ex-
cept the government that put the rebel
lion down. These are not the real senti-
ments of the New Jersey, Democracy.
They will repudiate them as the same
mschievous errors have been already re-
pudiated in New York and rejoice to
see you charging through them, as, under
Pleasanton. you broke the enemy's lines
at Brandy Station, and as you afterwards
drove the flying foe before you to his hid
ing place behind the Notifications of
Richmond


] would not have you suppose, my dear
General. that am not duly grateful for
the kind offer of sympathy" rendered by
the Democratic Convention of New Jer-
sey to the officers and soldiers engaged in
the late war ); ! presume that they are
sorry for us that we did not keep out of
the war, as they did and Of course we
ought to seize with avidity that compli-
ment to "whte" courage and ''white"
patriotism paid to us at the expense of
the black troops


1.-THE credit of the victories won by
the Union Armies are due alone to the
White officers and soldiers" This quota
tion from the seventh resolution is as gen
erous as it is grammatical. You and
know, as all our comrades know, that the