Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1908 — DEMOCRATIC SOLDIERS. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC SOLDIERS.

Not infrequently do Republicans make the absurd statement that it was theft party that fought the battles on the Union side, and that very few, if any, Democrats were in the army. Sometimes these statements are made ignorant of the facts and sometimes they are known to be false. It was the duty of the governors of the states to keep a record of all soldiers furnished by the several states, of their ages, politics, religion, residence, nativity and pursuit in private life, and from that record we gather the following political facts: Maine 29,592 40,005 New Hampshire... 16,406 7,440 Vermont t ... 8,461 24,327 Massachusetts 52,220 .75,510 Rhode Island 6,745 13,522 Connecticut 27,645 ' 28,210 Total New England 144,050 229,122 Alabama . 2,576 Arkansas J..*....... 8,280 Delaware 8,400 3,815 District of Columbia 9,283 7,251 Florida 1,918 Indian Territory 19,981 1,548 Kentucky 74,396 1,363 Louisiana 5,224 Maryland ................. 44,344 294 Mississippi ..... 545 Missouri ................. 92,083 17,028 North Car01ina............ 3,156 Tennessee 31,092 Texas 1,995 The Virginia 5.;........... 31,130 1.928 Total South 341,832 85,230 California 9.345 6,386 Colorado 5,762 2,151 Dakota % 115 91 Illinois 136,094 154,001 Indiana /. 140,398 82,695 All other States 998,035 967,708 Total Volunteers: 1861 to' 1865 1,456.907 1,222,060 Democratic majority of Union Volunteers 234,847

An army of 234,847 more Democratic soldiers that Republican soldiers engaged in putting down the rebellion, in these official figures. There were fully as many Democratic generals and important army officers as Republicans, men who were Democrats before, during and since the war. The military record of General Geo. B. McClellan, General Winfield Scott Hancock, General "Pap” Thomas,.General Meade, General Rosencranz, General Franz Sigel, are but a few of the Democritic hosts in command of the armies fighting for the Union. Not infrequently during the campaign we hear from the rostrum occupied by one of these old political prostitutes, charge the Democratic party with disloyalty, as seeking the destruction of a government established by them and in which they had a greater numerical interest and at least an equal property interest with the Republicans. In the light of these facts how absurd is the claim made by Republicans that the Republican party put down the rebellion. If the party furnishing the greatest number of loyal men in the late war is to be given the credit of preserving the Union that honor belongs to the Democratic party for 234,874 more Democrats than Republicans responded to President Lincoln’s call for volunteer troops —-The Hoosier.