The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-06-13
Gte AaiGu dunrttal.
The Issue I'm Ohio.

l. ne HdTIDOnlOuS nomination OI -. II
Vallandigham by the Democratic party
of Ohio, as their candidate for Governor,
brings the issue of ignominious peace,
or rvigorous prosecution of the war, direct
ly before the people of that State, and in
form that ought not to be unacceptable
to the Union men. The issue has to be
met and decided at the ballot box. The
prosecution of the war to successful
termination depends wholly upon public
opinion. If majority of the people
have become so timid and time-serving
as to desire peace, though it cost their
manhood and Governmental they are
really degenerate sons of noble sires,
and need only the opportunity to pro-
claim their baseness to the world-we
do not regret that the opportunity is be-
fore them. +-
We do not believe the people of Ohio
will prove recreant to the example of
their fathers. We are confident they
will be found true as steel to the Govern
ment and as sharp as steel to its oppo-
nents. We are sanguine that the over
throwof the 4" rumps' of the democratic
party which, with Vallandigham at its
head, seeks to obtain control of that no.
BILE State will be as certain and over
whelming as that the day of election will
come.
A better selection than Vallandigham
! for q representative man, could not have
been made. He is in the West. what
Fernando Wood is in the East-the en-
bodiment of:the pusillanimous sentiment
ofthe country. Either that, or he heads
an organization that contemplates moth
ing less than the total destruction of the
Government. His partisans may i'm
pale themselves on either horn of the di-
| lemma.
Vallaudigham has consistently and
pertinaciously opposed the war. At the
outset he was in favor of accepting any
terms, however ignominious and degrad-
ing, that the South saw proper to insist
upon. At every stage of the contest he
has done every thing in his power to
harrass the Government, cripple its re-
sources, thwart its designs and paralyze
its efforts Offered Brigadier-Gener-
alship in their armies by the rebel au-
thorities at the beginning of hostilities,
he refused the com mission for the as
signed reason that be could better aid
the Rebel cause by remaining where he
was, and operating in the loyal States.
He has been consistent with this pledge.
1t has been his boast that he has never
voted man or dollar in support ofthe
Government, while he has drawn thous-
ands away from it. He has, time and
again, used every instrumentality within
his power as Congressman, to rush our
Government into foreign war, while he
was not willing to contribute a farthing
that could be avoided, towards sus
tanning it in its domestic troubles
We never heard of his contributing
anything but curses, either for the Gov
ernment or its brave defenders, while
his admiration of the rebels has beer
unbounded and outspoken. In one
breath he denounces Union soldiers as
. invaders of the rights of Southern peo
pie, and in another he eulogizes the hero
ism of the rebels in their resistance tt
law and rebellion against authority.
1t will be remembered that Vallandig
ham acknowledged, on his way South
that if the Government was determined
to subdue the rebels it was right in ban
ishing him as it did. In the light of this
admission the Democracy of Ohio nomi
nate him for Governor Thus the,
boldly avow that the war shall not b,
. prosecuted-that the rebellion shall no
be crushed. Vallandigham is as mucl
: their "style of man as he is the Chat
l.. tanooga Rebels.
The issue being made, it only remain
for the Ohio loyalists to prepare for tht
]; conflict. If they will organize an
h fight with only half the determinatio
that has characterized the conduct {
rs their brave boys in the army, victory
sure. If we are not mistaken they wi
be aided in their noble work by thos
brave men who have bled on the battl,
field. The last legislature passed la
extending the ballot box to the soldier;
and they will return it with no uncertai
answer. Rally, then, noble Buckeyes
lie and may your battle cry ascend from th
r. hills and wales of your magnificent Stat
rs, with the same cheering, enthusiastic a
IS, surance of victory, that it has gone u
III III from the battle fields on which yor
friends and brothers have poured OF
- their life's blood.