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To Brig. Gen. W. H. Koontz
(Column 5)

Summary: Chastizes Brigadier General W. H. Koontz, Republican candidate for Congress, for suggesting that Democratic newspapers celebrated when the Union army was defeated in the First Battle of Bull Run.

Trailer: H. G. & G. F. Baer, late editors of Somerset Democrat

Origin of Article: Somerset Democrat

Editorial Comment: "We had no idea that such a blatant war man as General Koontz was, after all, but a dunghill fowl, until we saw this article in the Democrat. Read it."

The Lesson it Teaches
(Column 6)

Summary: Suggests that Republicans who are frustrated that there is nothing in the Democratic platform to render it offensive should recognize that there is no viable option except the one provided by the Democrats.

Excerpt: "In this day of national tribulation when the people have for four years been watching the administration struggle in their feeble way to keep the rebels out of Washington and out of the Northern States it will be refreshing, and will be accepted as promising in the future, when the Democratic party, by unanimous vote, proclaims that there can and shall be no peace save on the basis of the federal union of States."

Another Letter from Hon. Reverdy Johnson of Maryland
(Column 6)

Summary: Senator Johnson, a Republican, explains why he will be voting for McClellan in November.

Excerpt: "His [McClellan's] perfect devotion to the Union and his expressed determination to make its restoration the 'one condition of peace'--the purity of his character, his demonstrated ability, and his military attainments-- furnish guarantees, that in his hands the executive power will not be abused but be directed in strict subordination to the Constitution, to the sole end of restoring the Union."

Trailer: Reverdy Johnson

"Striking at the Cause"
(Column 7)

Summary: Argues that Lincoln's present policy is similar to what John C. Breckinridge would have done had been elected president in 1860. Suggests that Breckinridge would have forced the North into submission by making slavery a national institution, using the sort of coercion that Lincoln is currently relying on.

Origin of Article: Age

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