The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1863-10-28
Rally Akound the Flag Boys

Governor Eod says only five thousand |
more volunteers are wanted to-flf out
Ohios quota. If these are not forth
coming By the 9th inst, draft will be
uruered
Que hundred thousand able bodied |
Ilen, as strong and healthy as any equal
number We have now in tile army, voted |
for, John Brough on the 18th illst, thus
endorsing the negro freeing and negro
aruling pelicy of the Administration
all its length and breadth, its highth and |
depth.
1T one in twenty ofthese hundred thou
sand able bodied supporters of John
Brough and free negroism, would volun-
teer, Governor Tod would have his FIVE
thousand; Ohio's quota would be full, !
and our noble Commonwealth be saved
the disgrace of draft for so paltry
number, and its honor, as the Journal
would express it, wouid Ieulain unsul-
/ lied
Instead of twentieth. one would
/ suppose that the whole Hundred 1hous-
ANA would volunteer at once. Why Just
look at the condition OF things. There
the army OF the Cumberland under Rose
Grams shut up at Chattanooga, aud bic
to move either forward, or back, or side
NAYS. And while Bragg holds that army
there as Ill vice, he is sending off it Is
said. re. .nioroements to Lee.
Than, there is the army oi the Potomac
under Meade kilograms in this papcr
III, orm Us that Meade, unwilling to risk a
fight with Lee, who offered battle, had
tarlen back to .Centerville; that even sick
: soldiers h.d been detailed from the con
Nalescent camps to work on tic defenscs
OF Washington, and hat It was appre-
honded Lac Was about attempting another
invasiol ofMaryland.
La this critical state of affairs, whore
are the Hundred Thousand able bodice.
Bro1gh shting men? One would think
they would rush to the field of glory and
honor at on.e, relieve Rosecrans, drive
bragg into the gulf, snccor Meade and
annihiiate Lee. They voted for Bruugh
because lie stood on the Administration
war platform; now let them rally to its
support ir the hour OF peril, or Confess
themselves too cowardly to back up their
votes by their acts.
They surely won't whine out" He'll
wait Tor the draft SO that the Copper
heads may be forced to 60 too" That
would be ridiculous, gentlemen, since
your organs assure US that the "copper"
heads are all dead You surely will
not wait for dead men to be drafted Be-
sides draft Of five Thousand will not
yield a hundredth part Of the men the
Administration sorely neels and must
have to carry on the war Oh the platform
, you indorsed by your votes on the second
iTnaSdau nf fbiS
Ceyond all this, if you wait for men to
be forced into the field by draft, it will
take months-the War Department, if we
mistake not, has fixed it till the first of
January to get. respectable army into
the service. In the meantime, God only
kneEs what will become of the country,
[ if the war continues to be conducted on
the policy which you have approved, aud
4 you stand back, waiting for draft
No, gentlemen who voted for Brougli,
nonc of your subterfugcs will shelter vou
3 from public shame and odium if you hold
back at this critical moment, Every abe,
) bodied man of you should volunteer at
! once, and every mnu who is not ph hysical-
4 ly fit far service, should sec that his son,
) his brother, or his neighbor who is fit, is
of without delay, and if need be, hclp
support his family, if he has one, in his
absence.
We urge this, because it is your duty;
d because you have given pledge to the
; State and country that you would do it
You said by your votes OH election day
to The Administration-'sG ahead; free
all the niggers; disregard the rights OF
Southern men to person aud property;
Ipay no attention to the question of the
existence OF non-existence of the rebel
States; but carry on the war vigorously or
Q the radical platform. and We will sustain
!, you, we will rally en- Dtusse to your sup
: port" 5e aaa
. 'Now's the time and 'now's the hour :?
Wake up, Loyal I.esguers and see to i
that in less than teii days not merely ir,
n thousand, bnt twenty times that number
: Of volunteers have offered their services
to ''the Government; You used ever,
d act, every device, you spent time and un
IF meg, to get vetCs for Brough; now Sc,
v What you can do in getting soldiers fo
d Lincoln, who needs them worse thai
j. Brough needed votes Now prove you
If patriotism by your works, or stasd befor
s the world hated, condemned and despise,
as mere trieksters and towards. OH
nj States0sdR.
Id NEGRO VOTING.
Six NEGROES who enlisted In Hockin