1       Bucks County Intelligencer, A Soldier’s Views on the Election  October 21, 1862  Page 3  Col. 1       1

 

A Soldier’s Views on the Election.—An officer of the

104th Regiment, of strong Democratic antecedents, having

been born and bred a member of that party, gives ex-

pression to the following noble and patriotic sentiments

in a private letter written to a friend in Bucks county,

dated on the 10th of October:

“ I am sorry to see so much partisanship in the elec-

tions at home, and would feel rejoiced to see the Demo-

cratic ticket defeated.  To look over the list of men who

were active in forming the ticket, and the seal with which

those of more than doubtful loyalty urge its success, it

ought to stink in the nostrils of every decent man.  The

blind bigotry of Party has brought this nation to the verge

of ruin, and we are now receiving the chastisement of a

just God.  Must we continue to merit them ?  I almost

fear at times that the idea of self government is a mag-

nificent delusion.  Yet I have faith, in the omnipotent

law of progress, and that good in the end will come out of

all our inequities.  God rules the world in love, and his

purposes are not to be thwarted by the blind bigotry of

rebellious men.  Nay, the very evil they may be consum-

mating, is so much work on the side of progress.  I hope

to see slavery die on this continent.  It is a question of

towering magnitude to abolish it, and colonize the Afri-

cans, but deride the idea as we may, there is an irrepressi-

ble conflict, between Slavery and Freedom.  If we cannot

grapple with the question now, will we not be less able to

do it some years hence ? “


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