Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — Who Saved It? [ARTICLE]

Who Saved It?

It is one of the favorite boasts of the orators and organs that the Republics party saved the union. The boast is usually accompanied with assertions like the following, w icn appears in Mr Blaine's evenig organ in Chicago: “The Northern democrat of those days were popul >rlv known us copperheads srd fire in-the rear Bourbons. They were too cowardly to go to the front, but gave all the bid and comfort to the enemy they could by denouncing the leaders of the republican party and resolving in the conventions that the war for the preservation of tbe anion was a failure.” Ihete are no statistic- directly showirg the political complexion of the soldiers composing the armies of the imion, but there are statistics which pretty thcurgbly establish the emptiness of this boast and the utter falsity of such assertions. Take for instance the following:

N n m ber of white trot ps Voted for furnish'd Lincoln the union State in iB6O. armies. Alabama None 3.576 Arkansas None 8,289 California 39 178 15,725 Connecticut 43,592 57 370 Delaware . 3,815 18,670 Florida None. 1,288 Georg a None. Illinois 172,161 259,147 Indiana.... 139,633 197,147 lowa 70,409 76,809 Kentucky 1,364 79,6*5 Louisiana None ' 4,*54 Maine 62,811 72,114 Maryland 2,284 50,310 Massachusetts 186,533 152,048 Michigan 88,480 89,375 .Minnesota 22.069 25,625 Mississippi .None 545 Missouri ..17,028 109,111 New Hampshire 37.819 84,629 New Jersey 58,324 81,010 New York 342.646 437,047 North Carolina None 8,156 Ohio 231,610 319,659 Oregon 5,?70 1,810 Pennsylvania ...,268,130 366,107 RliodcTslaiid 12 344 23,699 South Catalina None Tennessee None 31,092 Texas None 1,9<-5 Vermo- t 33.808 35,262 Virgi i ia 1,929 32,668 Wisconsin 86,110 96,424 Total 1,866,352 2,746,370 It is thus that the statea furnished 880 018 more "nion soldiers than Lincoln votes. It half the rt publican voters had volunteered (which is a very liberal estimate),th>y ivo’l have made up an army of only 933.176, whereas the ur-n furnished by the States nurm bered 2,746,370. leaving 1.814 194 that must have been drawn from other sources than republican voters. The quota of every state it will be seen, was largely in excess of its republican vote. Illiuois sent 87,000 more soldiers to the field thau she cast voms for Lincoln. Maryland cast 2,294 votes for Lincoln and sent 59,316 union soldiers, Kentucky cast 1,374 Linco n voters and sent 79,025 uniou .soldiers, Missouri sent 109,111 uniou soldiers to the front while she cast but 17,028 Lincoln votes. It seems pretty safe to conclude that there were about as many democrats as republicans in the union army. Certainly there is nothing to sustain the claims made on this point by the republican orguus and orators.—Chicago Times. Yes, quite “as many Democrats as Republicans in the Union army,” and when the subject is furthei consider ed we may safely claim—many more. The exceedingly large majority given Republican candidates at the elections during the war certainly is conclusive proof that ihe bulk of that party remained at home to do the voting, while the bulk of the Demo* erotic party were at tbe front fighting for the uniou. Let the record be correctly made,

The following letter is from Judge Scott, brother in-law of Senator Harrison. Lucius B. Swift, Esq.. President Independent Republican Club, Indianapolis, Ind.: Dear Sir—After much hesitation and long and mature consideration, my course is now clear to me I shall cast my vote so as to contribute its weight at least toward the defeat of those who shamelessly practice corruption iu office, and de Cbit, misrepresentation and tlie intolerance b mn of acknowledged unworthioess, in the pursuit of it. aqd will, therefore, be for Cleveland and Hendricks, la view of this, you may, if you choose, place my name on the roll of membeship of your club. It will, at any rate, add one to the units malting up the aggregate of your numbers. Yours very truly. J. N. Scott, Indianapolis September, 16.