Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-10-22
.Ao,,,,ou Living and Swearing Apou'
the Election.

The Journal of this city Is awfully mad about
the ,esult of the election in this Stase' anu
hence It falls to lying and swearing prodigioas
10 n alleges tha. on the day Of the eleeaon
fu, A ftv thousand Abolition voters were OUT OF
the State, in arms for the defense OF the goou
old aag. while the Democrats were at home
electing themselves to cfi,e. The 'OI'"u'
knows that this 10 most egregious bare faced
lie. II knows that Democrats have uniformly
in this and other States volunteered more ffee'
" than Aboli.ionists, and that Thousands VINO
went into the army favorable to the Aooll'iOn
policy have since, from contact with the negro
and other causes, been thoroughly converted TO
4. Democratic and conservative views'
The Abolition msjority in our State Legisla,
ture did not believe this lying insinuation OIL
the Journal that there we're more AooltionlS'H
than Democrats in the army. Had tney pe-
lieved Il they would not, when gerrymandsriDg
the State, in order to keep Democrats out OIL
Coperess, have refused to allow the soldiers
the rieht TO vote. The Democrats in the Leg
isls,ure all voted for the bill allowing the SOL
diers the privilege Of voting, wherever shey
might be, in their several regiments The Ao'
oltion members killed the bill, because they
knew that majority Of the soldiers were Dem
ocrats. or would vote the Democratic ticket
such ia the record of its own party, proving
the Journals assertion that the Abolitionisss
lost the recent election in this State because
their voters we're In the army, while Democrats
remained at home and voted, utterly false.
But the Journal did not of itself get up this
lie about the election. 1t has appeared In eve
~ Abolition paper in the State, and has been
manufactured expressly to deceive those whom
il is possible to blind through partisan preju'
dice. as to the real causes of the tremendous
Democratic and conservative gains. The Gin
cinuati Gasette. on the l6:h inst, the day but
one.sfter the election, published the same lying
insinustion in the following paragraph;
A DrmocRATlc VIcToRY.-f enough Kepub-
llcans volunteer, and enough Democram stay az
home TO vote, Democratic victory may pc
wrought This is thing which can be demon
started. But whether such victory Is highly
honorable to the Democratic party In time OF
war, Il question for Democracy to ask;
To this the Louisville Democrat sarcastically
and truthfully replied:
Bet you fresh ginger cake horse that you
can't show one Republican In the army, from
any portion of the North, TO two Democrats.-
Will you take the bet? You know what You
insinuate to be exactly the opposite OF the truth.
Come, now, Gazette, try your hand at another,
bat don't make it such Whopper, II you ex-
pect your own hood winked readers to believe
10. .llgt
Bat the Journal, not content with lying, takes
TO swearing. Itpretsnds to quote JACKSON, but
for an Abolition paper to cite the authority Of
that ataunch old Democratic Hero, is worse
than the DEVILS quoting scripture to justify his
deceit and wickedness. II not blasphemy, it is,
to say the least, downright profane swearing
Though the Democrats have carried the State
this fall. the Journal swears--by the Eternal,
they shan't do It again. This oath is not Jack
souian, but Gsrrisonian, and the people Of Ohio
will In one year hence stamp iis utterer as po-
liticalIy peIjnred man.