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Newspaper
Beaver Dam Argus
Location
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1862
Page
2
Fragmentary report recalls partisan clashes during a campaign season in Wisconsin. It notes Republican-leaning factions debating candidates and leadership while soldiers and battles are mentioned in passing, with references to Generals McArthur and Prien and Wisconsin regiments in action.
A confrontation over farm mortgage issues and party tactics unfolds as critics accuse Eldredge and allied backers of bias against mortgagors. The Argus defends fair treatment while opponents charge loyalty breaches and question support for wartime measures and Union aims.
A dated column critiques editorial attacks on Eldredge and Douglas, defends Democratic principles, and issues sharp rebukes of opponents. It notes Juneau conventions and lists nominations for Congress and state offices, urging Democrats to unite to defeat the opposition.
The New York intellectual Uiram Ketchum resigns from the Republicans amid sectional clash between abolitionists and conservative masses. He urges voting at the ballot box to change representation and asks voters to answer two questions on suppressing rebellion and slavery, pledging to oppose servile war and align with white supremacy. he claims no party allegiance since infancy.
A Union era column decries subverting constitutional authority while praising General McClellan as loyal to liberty and law under the three branches. It notes Republican debates on county conventions, warns against fusion, and urges readers to stick to a single political line amid shifting loyalties in Dodge county.
A long excerpt debates militia organization and the economics of delayed payments, arguing Republicans would have waited until January if Democrats had rescinded an adjournment joint resolution. It includes Civil War era directives from General McChinnay on civil authority over military and political restraint, plus local editorials attacking Republican figures and praising Eldredge for wartime enlistment efforts.
A Union member accuses the late legislature of misrepresentation by the republican press. The Democratic votes passed a soldier aid bill of five dollars per month, the Senate cut to three, then reversion to five with House concurrence. Governor urged tax funding. Democrats voted 275,000 by tax, Republicans preferred state bonds. Claims militiay bill killed, electioneering tax proposed, and wet nurses sent under militia guise.
Dispatches from Jackson Tennessee report Union forces repulsed Price Von Dran and Lovell near Corinth with heavy enemy losses. Gen. Rosencrans notes serious Union officer casualties but greater enemy losses. Gen. Hackleman killed, Gen. Oglesby wounded, Gen. McPherson's column reached Corinth, Hurlbut chasing enemy toward Bolivar with 6,000 men. Around 900 to 1,000 prisoners captured. Later reports say Ord and Hurlbut forced enemy across the Hatchie, two batteries seized, about 200 prisoners taken. Rosencrans claims total enemy rout as Gen. Martin is reported killed.
The Madison Journal editor attacks the Union movement as a corrupt, office seeking faction of Republicans aligned with Democrats to block abolitionists. He urges true Union men to unite in all districts to preserve and enforce the Constitution, arguing anti abolition votes must not be split.
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