The Burlington Weekly Hawk Eye

A NOBLE SPEECH from A UNION DEMOCRAT.—Col. Lucius J. Fairchild has been nominated by the Wisconsin Union State Convention for Secretary of State. Col. Fairchild, of the Iron Brigade, was formerly a citizen of Ohio. He has led the old 2d Wisconsin through many a storm of shot and shell, and, in the struggle at Gettysburg, lost an arm. In accepting the nomination, he said:

I have no political aspirations, I ask no office. My heart is in the army. And my heart is also in the cause at home which will help the army. I do not, I can not agree with the Democrats with whom I have always acted upon the issues of the day; and I say it with sorrow, because it cuts me loose, for the time, from all my political associates; but I can not believe they are right now. I can not believe any discouragement to the Government can help to put down rebellion, and, not believing it, I can not go with them in support of any policy which is not in favor of the Administration. Whether I like this Administration or not—whether I like what it has done or not—I am bound to support it, because, under it, we are to live or die. This country either lives or dies in the next two years, and we can not change the Administration unless we do it by rebellion, and that is what we are trying to put down. Personally, I would not turn over my hand for any office in the State—I entered the army simply as a matter of duty, and my earnest wish is to stay there. I have been told by some of my friends that they thought it my duty to accept the nomination, as I am an invalid and a cripple. I accept it with the understanding that party lines have been kicked down, and we are all Union men. [Applause.] I do not care whom I train with, or what their policy is, provided they are for putting down this rebellion in the shortest possible time. I accept the nomination. I accept it as a Union Democrat—as a Union man supporting the Government through thick and thin, through everything. This is the only platform I have in the world.