The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-10-15
COL. JOHN NJ. CONNELL's LETTER OF
ACCEPTANCE.


date for State Senator. The only no.
tifcation of the same received by me
being conveyed in your Aattering note
and the announcement of the newspa-
pers,
l have had no time to reply to your
kind note. The history of this cam
paign will disclose the incossant labors
Of Rosecrans' Army, and they are my
apology for neglecting all private cor
respondence.
If my health had continued firm as
for the past two years, | would not
have permitted my name to be used
for any Office, my duty being in the
field where my heart and judgment
brought and keeps me.
Still suffering under the wasting dis
ease for which | submitted to an oper-
alton last summer, and general health
much impaired, respite from the
active duties of the field during
the winter, became a necessity with
me; therefore, | am willing that the
true Union men of my district should
vote for me for an honorable, civil
position, to which, unasled by me,
they offer their aid to elevate me. |
thank them for their confidence and
high esteem, and have endeavored,
and shall continue to strive to deserve
it.
Stand fast, true men at home. Yours
is a battle TO be fought for interests as
great as any contended for on the
bloody field: The triumph of "peacc "
parties at home is more dangerous to
the interests Of The Republic, Than a
dozen victories Of armed rebels in the
field.
The only issue in this contest is that
Of arms All that opposes the end Of
the rebellion and peace are the armed
force Of the South, and reasonable
party organizations in the North.
There are no civil rights in the
Southern Confcderacy; it has ceased
to be anything else than n military or
ganization, for the support Of which,
all Of the resources Of the South are
called upon. A majority Of thepeoplc
Of tho South desire peace and the old
Union--the chief conspirators, officers
Of therebel army and portion of the
large Shareholders only holding out
They look to the Vallandingham par
tizans of the North for aid and com
fort infinitely moro strongly than for
foreign aid and intervention. When we
whip therebel armies, peace comes and
n united nation--and the blood Of our
noble dead on every battle field cries
out against the miserable partizans at
home, who, for the sake Of the offices,
form organizations which retard all
efforts to make war with the vigor re-
quircd.
The hccatombs of brave dead from
Ohio, piled up on the bloody fields Of
Chickamauga who sealed their faith by
thoir blood, went to that sacrifice only
because there was distraction and di-
vision in Northern councils, and among
the people of the NoMh, and because
formidable party organizations in the
North so resisted the proper prosecu-
ton of this war, as to weaken our
forces in the field and give confidence
to armed treason in the South. Had
no Valandighams and his followers
existed the rebellion would have been
crushed before this, and the integrity
Of the nation established by its own
Inherent power. This will be done
eventually.
In the Ieadcn hail of Chickamauga,
by thcsdc dead, dying, and wound
ed comrades, new VOWS were registered
by the brave men ofthe army of the
CumbcrNnd-who are hero to-day to
execute thcm--with faces to the foe in
front, they will not forget, on the 18th
of October, their enomies in the rear
With the brief statement of my po
ltical faith, that all who believe il
the power of the Government to crusl
this rebellion by armed force will vote
for me; aud all who favor diShonorabl,
peace, and n recognition of the trait
Gus Southern Contederacy, will vot,
against me and many thanks to my
true friends and the friends of th,
country for their confidence in me,
remain truly your friend,
J, NJ. CONNELL,
Captain Stinchoomb Recruiting,
Tim Gallant CnnIoin Stnnhnon,l