Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-08-14
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From q letter written by member of the
Twenty first Ohio to several of his old neigh
bore In Van Bnren, Hancock county, and publish.
ed In the Hancock Courier, we make the follow
iug extracts. lis dated near Athens, Alabama,
July 3D.. and the writer no doubt speaks the
We've of niue-tenths of the soldiers now in the
Aeld, no matter what their views we're previous
to entering the service:
But you get more news than we do, and also
plenty Of lies, from the newspaper correspond.
ents In the army. There are some long faced,
God .forsAken, Republican Abolition ouill.driy.
ers In nearly every division of the army. There
is one Of this class In our division, and he does
more against the cause of the Union than q
regiment can do for Il. will take few lines
from one Of hisletters, dated "Hunteville, Ala,
May 20, 1862" published In the trl-weekly edi-
tiou of the Cincinnati Times, June 4sh. He
has been out on morning ramble, and after
telling of hearing the sound of slaves several
times, he comes out In this form: "There,
again hear that sound! see a slave; and
still another note nearly as dreadful. am
secessionist Never will Americas wars cease
until these chief notes of discord are forever
hushed." There. what do you think of that
doctrine2 The Becesh are nearly as bad as
slavery. That 10 the doctrine of the Republi-
can-No PARTY e.,"Union Party" NY opin-
Geese until this party (the Black. Republican
Abolition Union) and secesh principles are both
sunk into the loWermost pit of He'll, or some
other worse place, If possible. II Ia very easy
for members Of Congress to fight battles in
Washington, but il they had to do 1t In the
field, with knapsacks on their backs, and hard
crackers and warm water TO eat and drink, in
place Of mint.julps, there would not be 80
many of our houses clothed In mourning. Who
can estimate the blood that the 37th Congress
has spilled upon Americas soil; how many
widows have lost their sons; how many orphans
1t has made2 Yet ali this misery has been oc
casioned by the attempt to carry out the princi-
Piles of the Union. Abolition Republican party
What is the difference between their principles
and those of the id Confederates7 None;
they are both sectional. One is for one eection,
and the other for the other section. They are
both alike murderers, or causes Of murder
Yet you will find plenty of these same Union.
Republican. Abolitionists in Hancock county,
who will tell you that 1t will not do to say any
thing about politics now; we must ell vote to-
gether. This is the most dangerous thing that
can be done, for, as said before, their princi-
Piles are harder to fight than the id
rebels.
AS fast as our lines are extended, disgraceful
Abolition papers and speeones follow US, and
then the Constitutional men of the South tell
Us If that Is what we are fighting for, we cannot
have their aid. Then we have to smoothe the
matter over ss we'll as we can, and pledge our
selves that there will not be such another Con-
gress ever elected, and there will not be any
more Of the Government money paid for mig
gers. We tell them we don't want to have any
thing to do with their niggers, and that is the
reason the 2lst has such good name wherever
nnRN NhaoA aaf 0AW nd Al &c
hcers are Democrats, and are fighting for the
Constitution and the Laws, and not for the
negro. These pledges are made wherever the
Federal army have gone, and now IL is left tc
the voters of the Northern States to make then
good. Isis left for them to say whether this
war ehall be carried on to sustain the Constitu
tion aud the Lave, or for the emancipation oi
slaves. IL 10 left to them to say whether thit
war shall cease, or be carried on for years.
What will the State of Ohio say TO her soldier
at the fall electIon7 Will che cay: "Com,
home, my brave boys, you have done well; yol
have finished the work God gave you to do, b,
msiU tanning the Constitution and the laws o
the land?" If she wishes to welcome her con
home, and the return of peace to our once hap
, py, but now distracted country, let her show he
willingness by electiDg the Democratic ticket
Il would be no task to do IL If the soldiers wer,
at home, and know there are enough Consti
tutional Republicans to elect the entire Demo
cratic ticket. Democratic principles will saw
the Union. But If Ohio does not wish her SON
to return from this disgraceful war, and wishe
more blood shed, more widows and orphsns
and more nggers In she State, so that whit
man cannot get anything to do in the way Q
labor; or, in other words, II che thinks more O
the sons of Ham than she does of her whit
men, let her elect the No-Party-A Abolition RI
publican Union ticket.