Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-07-30

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soldiers.
1t has become practice among Re-
publican officers in the army, in order to
facilitate their own promotion and ag-
lgrandizement, to get up an address or
resolutions abusing the Democratic par
" or some one OF its leading men, then
get the muster rolls and copy off the
names of privates, attach them to tho ad
dress and send it to a Republican paper
to print, and finally send copy of the
paper to tho Governor or President,
marked. In fow days after this the
President or Governor receives an appli-
cation with recommendation for the
promotion expected.
This dirty practice originated among
! the Abolition officers from New Eng and
! in the Potomac army, ayear ago, and
has since been commenced in the Tennes-
see and Mississippi armies. Some OH
GERS in the 5Ist recently tried, the trick,
but spoiled the job by putting to the res
olutions the names of some soldiers who
had died or been discharged, we forget
which.
Last Spring some Republican officers
10 tho SOth Ohio invited Col. Bartison
and Capt. John j. Robson to dinner,
given to Capt Goodrich Regardless of
all descencv they concocted some Sian
lerous resolutions against the Democrat
ic party, and passed the same, Col. Bar
tison and Capt. Robson not voting at
all, but feeling indignant at the insult
offered. Yet the concoctors of the Sian
ders han the impudence to falsely print
the resolutions as being endorsed by Col.
Bartilson and Capt. Robson. Both of
these gentlemen have since voluntarily
notified us that they never endorsed one
word of these ISLANDERS uttered against
their party. and had it not been that
they were invited guests at this dinner,
they would have denounced them and
their authors on the spot as calumni J.
ors.
!, Col. Barfilson and Capt. John j. Rob
ison are now here at home, and anyper.-
son doubling what we say, can soon sat
sfy himself by inQuiring of them.
We'll now If men are lost to ali sense
of honor as to falsely put their own broth.
er officers in false position, what won't
they do with the private aoldiers ?
1t is well known that the last Demo
cratic State Convention was the largest
ever held in Ohio, and represented in
their platform and resolutions the uni
= versal sentiment of TWO HUNDRED THOU
SAND patriotic, Union-oving Democrats
of the State, an army of itself large
than those commanded by Gen'la Gram
and Rosecrans combined. Yet in tn,
: face of this a few tricky, unprinci plec
|, Republicans, to further their own private
Y ends, have just published an address con
V tanning most Infamous ISLANDERS on The
whole of these two hundred thousanC
Dem ocrats of Ohio. We give one cx
= tract from it, thus
"1heir last hope is from Northern sympathi
: zers without t. at their cause is hopeless An
e while we hurl back with Indignant contempt th
false sympathy expressed for soldiers in the felt
lby u resolution adopted in the platform OF tn
~ copperhesd party of Ohio, at its late Couventio
'e in Columbus, we can plainly see that the mas
'e by which Satan deceived our first parents ma
hide DEVILS face, but fails f'r its damning pur
:. Ise on a cjpperheads We denounce, as fol
Is traitors deserving our .hisSes Of scorn, those VII
20 most shamefully, anbushingly acd heartless
. faLsifed by expr, ssng such sentiment, AMI the
"a committing the objectionable insult OF nomini
ting foi Governor for our State, aud for our suf
le fruge as snch, the infamous, the seditious an
IL traitoroas Vallandigham"
II And as they did with Col. Bartilso
and Capt. Robson. SO have they don
70 70 with the privatcs. for we find they hav
~ copied the muster rolls of the regimen,
>, >, and all are put forth endorsing their io'
- , ISLANDERS and calumnies on tue entir
!" Democratic party. inclusive of the fail
- ers, brothers and relatives and friends
- these soldiers themselves.
9 But these slander ng Abolition offic e
~ overdo the thing themselves. Read tn
extract from their foul address. Th,
!; say:
:, "Be not deceived with the cry of Abolitio
H. sm, or charge OF unconstitutional acts, fro
H. those who have contributed nothing to the 81
ov port of the war, but who have steadily withh6
of all volun airy aid to both government and 81
,, diers."
~ 1t is known to every man in Caro-
80 Tuscarawas and Coshocton countie
i that the above charge is false and wick
" in every particular. 1t is within the l
membrance of all that Democrats al
y Republicans all contributed alike in mo
y, :" ey, clothing, blankets, stockings and e
y" y" erythng else to the S0th regiment VIII
~ =, at Camp Meigs, and when the regime
,Ss ~ WIS leaving, small sum of the cont
%. %, button fund was left unexpended, whi
Wv Wv was handed to Surgeon Buell. to buy |
=, ,.' tic things for such soldiers as should s
~" sick, and he did SO.
"s all this fund was raised by men OF
-, parties, and they havs confined ever sir
-" ~ to send box after box OF clothes and 81
=" tleries to the soldiers, and from the d
w., the regiment LETT to this time have
'a' Democrats Of these three counties Civ
e.. dollar for dollar with the Republicans.
or taxes and contributions for the supp
of the Government, the war, the soldi'
L., and their families. And yet a half doz
~ unprincipled officers, who want to 8
~ promotion and make little more none
nn NV have the hardihood to put their soldi'
70 who have been thus assisted and befrie
tbo ded, in the !alse position of slanderi
an. their benefactors, Shame, shame, sha
"a on the Lying slanderers
,os. In conclusion we say to the soldi
;zs aud sergeauts and corpoIals in the S(
;,s Ohio, that the follies of the Administ
of tion has made it many enemies, who "
p work until they hurl it from power.