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Who Put Down The Rebellion?

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
September
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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Pid it ever occttr to yon that the persons who dahn that the republicana pnt down the rebellion are jeaierally those who staid at home and did not (to to tí front? Tliis boast (loes not come f rom respectable men who served fn the unión army. Tt romes from the sfciilkers. Republican veterans know too wpiII that they marched shoulder to ■houlder with demoerats, and they make no iuch ridicnlons claim. Kinetenths of the private Boldiew who wentont from Massaohnsettsweredemocrats, whfle the peñeráis, colonels. captains and oth.er offirers vve.re mainly republioans, appofnted by repuhliemi Ifovernors. Tl.eniaiority ofthe soldiers wbo dW the hard flehfing at the front wre demoerats. Many of the sontliern dtates ftirnished more men for the unión army thnn some northern states of republican proclivities, Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee. Maryland, Delaware, Arkanaas, Lonisiana, South Carolina, North Carolina,Florida, Texas, and Mississippi toether sent to the front to fleht for the unión 482,227 men, while Maine, New Hampshire, Vertnont, Massachusetts, RhodeTsland, Connectiont. Minnesota, Kansas, Colorado, Nevada and Towa together sent only 373.472 men. Tt wonld be farnear■the truth to say thal the republicana Md most of the offices, civil and military, durins thP war, and didthe most talicinR while the demócrata did the most (ïffhting. Notire tliat reaily every republican speaker who says Ma party put down the rebellion is one of tiiose ■who never smelt powder.

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Ann Arbor Argus