Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-10-09
Opposition 10 Mr.. Bingham in
his own Party.

his own Party.
The Ohio Democrat, published at New
Philadelphia contains correspondence
between Joseph Kinsey, delegate to the
late bogus Union State Convention, and
ID. W. Stambaugh, its secretary, and
Prosecuting Attorney of Tuscarawas coun =
ty, in which the most satisfactory reasons
are given why Union Democrats aud con.
scrvative Republicans cannot consistent
ly vote for John A. Bingham for Con
gress. They are as follows:
1st. Mr.. Bingham is in favor Of liber-
ating the four million of slaves by Con-
gresSional legislation, in violation of the
Constitution of the United States and his
own solemn oath to support that instru-
ment.
ID. lie is also in favor Of allowing
these four million negroes, or as many of
them as wish, to come to Ohio and crowd
every department Of labor to the exclu.
sion Of white laborcrs.
3D.. lie is in favor of giving to such
of the negroes as would come to Ohio,
all the rights, privileges and immunties
of white men, as clearly indicated in his
address, written last spring, to be adopted
by the Republican members of Congress.
4th. lie insists that eleven States
have lost their existence as States by rea.
son of the rebellion, doctrine terrible
in the extreme. If Bingham is right our
Government is destroyed, and we are n OF
a Government Of thirtyfour States, but
Of twenty-thrcc only.
9th. lie lepudiates the main portion
of the Union platform adopted in the
Ohio Union State Convention last year,
and reallirmed this year without oppo,i-
tion, except by Mr. Bingham.
9th. He is one of the men who brought
to bear upon the President the heavy pres
sure Of which the President, in his al
dress to the border State members o. Con-
gress SO bitterly complains.
7th. He has been eight sessions in
Congress. lie was there when the law
to raise the pay of members from eight
dollars day to three thousand dollars
and mileage year was passed, and re-
fused to vote against it, and never has he
made an effort to reduce this salary.
Mr.. Stambaugh closes his able and con-
vincing letter with the following truthful
paragraphs:
While | fully endorse the sentiments of
President Lincoln, as expressed in his let
ter to Mr.. Greely, l cannot so far violate
my Judgement, conscience and sense of
duty, as to vote for a man to represent
the people in Congress whose opinions
and principals are So directly adverse to
my own as are those of Mr.. Bingham.
There is no Republican party in Ohio,
as State party. The organization
more thaan year ago suspended. And
by express understanding no new party
was formed by the act of running a I'm,
ion ticket, and therefore there is no such
thing as the so-called Union party
Whenever ticket is formed by fair rea
sanabe equality of Democrats and Re.
publicans, the same may be called I'm
ion ticket. Mr.. Bingham and his Repub
lican friends in Harrison county, has ev.
er refused to make Union ticket n,
Democrat has been allowed to be candi
date on the county ticket in that county
From tn" present appearances not one
Democrat will receive the nomination for
Congress in hio, in any so called Union
convention. All the Assessors and Col.
lcctors in Ohio, appointed under the in
ternal tax law, are Republicans, and most
of them ultra .antis'avery men OF Abo-
litionists.
am acquainted with j. w. White,
the Democratic candidate for Congress,
and am happy to be able to say, that he
is man of ability, integrity, and un.
blcmished moral character and an un.
conditional Union man, for whom any
one who is devoted to this Government as
our fathers made it M well vote.
d, w. STAMBAUGH.
That will do very well, coming as it
does from the Secretary OF the late Flu
sion State Conventional gentleman who
has taken quite prominent part in the
Fusion movement in Ohio.
His reason for opposing Mr.. Bingham
will apply with equal force to the other
radical candidates for Congress in this
State, - Ohio Statesman.