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At Camp Fountain

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Day
23
Month
August
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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' o nave visitad Ctitnp Fountain twioe sin ce Co!. Iíohkrt? assutned tho eommand, nrul h'nd the discipline in tho Camp matermHy improved. The tents have been nrranged un either sido of the round-houae, tie parade ground lia been thro.ughly clean ed ofF, ;ind tho groumls around tho enlrance both within and without the gito havo ;ií Buaied on atractiva ippeiiraneo, and speak wi-11 for the officera in ohnrpe. Tho men l:avc boen divided into C"rrpanics, and under tho newly commistioned offioersare undergoing thorongh drill-- say eiftht hmirs per d:iy. Col. li. and Muj. Whittlesby, and all the otber officers, are sparing neither paios nor labor to placo tho regiment n the Lest poBeible cimdition, andthe daily hnprovemont is perceptible. The number in Cartip is about sis hundred and oighty, and it is poasibiö, umi even probable, that ihe regiment will be ordered forward to Washington before it is filled, and tho nnrñber necessary to complete it foryárded when rocruited. m rmn in ■ Í5F " Diirinfí Llio lu?it wook wo have heard a niiniber oJ our Elepublicuñ fríen da denounce in bitter tenue thu reíusal of tho Demócrata of Nmv York and ühio to abandon tiioir organization and join tho liepublioüt) - Argut Nobodv nsks tho Domocrats to ' join the llivuhli-íin ptiri." Tho nropoition of the Repub.iouna i" thai botb partiea uniie, not as líepublieanti uor ;t DeHiocrate, but as patriota ,and elect a ticket mado II p oí men of' both Republiean and Dotnocratic antecedente who are in laVor of sii)iressing tho rebe'lion. Tho Argun tal ka as thoogh ihe propoaition i n volved the dostrncti n of tiio Democratie party, whilo the Republien8 weru to preserve thcir nrgantzation. They huve miido no sauh prpo8ttion. - látate fletes. Now read this" psragraph, and tcll US what kind of a unión feaet tho Republicana do invito Ihe Demdcrftta to pal tafee of :■ Tho guillotine hns fallen upon tho houd ol T. C. Pitzg'bbon, Knq. About a year ago he was appointed i route agent on tho Detroit and Milwaukoe Kailroad, a poeilion which he Un filled niñee with fidelity and entire tatiefaetion ío the Postoffiee Department, as wo have reaeon to believe. He is an1 rishman and si Demoorat, but s be wu the only ono in the State wlu hold an office under the general (Jovernment, vo doubt whetlioi' t he Postmaster-General might nt with perfect üsfety to t he country, have penniUed hiiri to retaiu hw place until wo huvo no turther neod of Irishinon and Demócrata to aid in fighring tho battlea of thu Union, il do longar. - Detroit Adnertiser, (Itep.) Demócrata are permitled to enlnst in tho ranks and ehouldor a musket ; Demócrata nro appointed Captains, and Colonels, and even Generáis, tor Captains, and Colonels, and even Generids muy got killed in battlo; (and ,besides, soine maliuious persona have inainuatcd tliat tliero aro not lít'publicans compotent encragh to fill all dangerous military positions ;) but tho energy with whioh all Demócrata holding even the most unimportnnt oivil placee are hunted up and removed, shows with what finoerity tho real Republiean leaders dosiro u union of partiea and a sinking oí party lioes ; and what 7cind of a union it is they desiro. Wo cite these remováis in no oomplaining spirit. Democrata need no httlo oíRce.s to induce t hef n to support tho Government, aye to support the Admini.stration in discbarge of all its legitímate duties. This tliey will do as cit'zen-:. as Domocrats, as patrióte. But, 1 honostly asked to forsake all party lineé and r.nite with the dominant party remováis exiept ƒ ir eause xhonld stop unil men who havo been recopnized a Demoorats ebould now bo reoognized as uitizeos, iind permitted to servo tho government in a civil as ""ell as in a military capacity TJittil this grucious permièsion is granted we have no conüdence in llepubhcaiideaires for a unión of partiea.

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Michigan Argus