The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-10-14

A Hard Nut for Ex-senator Alien 10
All CoppcrhcadS 60 Consider-CoP-
pcrheads Are Traitors.
Correspondence of the Perrysburg JOurual.l
CAMP OF rHE 6srH o. v. IT,
vIcKsBuRG, MISS, Sep. 20, 1868.
Eps JouRSAL; Although we have been in the
service two years, during which time we have be-
come qaite familiar with everything that makes
war calamity, and the most dire of all necessities,
yet notwithstanding this, and the fact that our s0S
men have been reduced to less than 400, we do not
desire to lay down our arms, nor wish the army Of
the Southwest to give up its victorious career Of
uninterrupted successes, and go home with the
pitiful story that We are too eowardly to contend
longer with the noble chivalry of the South, simply
because vallandighatn twho says his sympathy is
wholly with the South) says the only way to save
the Union is toquit lighting for it, and let those gen
tlcmen alone who have sworn that hothing but a
disinemberment of the Republic will satisfy them.
When say the men Of the 0sth are in favor of
vigorous prosecution of the war until peace is re-
stored to our once happy and prosperous country,
do not mean the officers only, but the private SOL
dicrs--thc men who are undergoing the hardships
aud privations of this war, and the men too, who,
above all others, are watching, fighting and praying
for an honorable peace. II the men, who, in this
warm climate, are compelled to travel from 10 to
80 miles day, with gun, cartrdge-box, knapsack,
canteen and havorsack-weighing in the aggregate
IS pounds standing picket at night, excluded from,
the society of friends, and deprived Of all the luxu-
ries of home and civilization, and the still more
saddening, sickening spectacle of witnessing their
comrades suffering and dying from disease and the
! a. Of nf for 40 yh
can be? Yes, they would give any thing but the
Union or the honor aud integrity of the Nation, and
THESE THEY WILL not GIVE.
We understand that the Copporheads claim that
the reason the soldiers are unanimously in favor
of the prosecution Of the war, is because they are
ignorant of the present issue before the American
people. My answer to this false ealurny is, that
the reason the soldiers are so unanimously loyal to
their country's cause in the hour Of her greatest
peril is because they are so well informed AS TO the
real issue. As far as newspapers are concerned,
We have superabundance and it Il man can not
read, others read to him, that the litcratc and
ilteratc have tho very best opportunity to know
all about the news; and as for the proclamation,
armng the negroes eto., certainly know at least
as much those who never saw any Of its practical
workings and as to what can be said the other side
of this issue, we who have an opportunity of fre-
queny conversing with rebels, certainly know more
about the arguments they have to offer in favor of
secession and in opposition to coercion, than those
who never saw armed rebel in their lives,
But they say don't get Democratic papers.
| Well I'll admit we don't get many; bu, WHY don't
a'e get them? They tell you it is because some
body is to blame. Bat WHO is to blame? They say
it is those who have charge of the mail, or the
missioned officers. This is nothing bur a-lic; but,
as they have nothing better TO lie about, they may
just well lie about this. will tell you the
son they don't ct Yallandigham papers. Yallan-
digham papers don't agree with their way of think
irg-
We had paper in camp yesterday, containing a
speech of VIM. Allen, in which he said that the
Southhad nothing lcitth but an appeal to arms
ard that they were fighting Tor nothing but their
rights. This same Allen, liz a speech delivered
since the commencement Of the rebellion, said the
South had no excuse for this rebellion, and gave
his reasons for the assertion; but he comes be-
fore the people and tells them that the South had
many grievances justifyirg their conduct. He says
the platform upon which LinooiH was elected, was
a declaration of war. We poor. ignorant fellows
srodld like fGr hiln to tell WHY it docara-
ton of war 1t certainly not be very plain, or
'ex Senator Allen could have seen it when he made
his speech, in which he said the South was wholly
inaccessible. What was once go obscure to him,
he certainly can not expect the masses, or espe-
caly the ignorant soldiers, to understand without
SOME explanation; and especially do we demand an
explanation upon a subject of such Importance,
ba,, L., -.
o&s Sste5-'e1t' that the S94!h had 40 pretext for
attempting the destrutttoi Of the G vcrn1nent. lie
tells us, too he wants to save the Union and in or
-er to do this, he proposes to call the arny home;
that, uE believes, will save the Unop. BUt what
evidence does he give rs tla. tis cGsctticn is cor
rect? None at all. If he believes this would eEd
the war and save the Union, WHY NOT GsvEC rs TEE
EVIDENCE?
We all kno1 the leaders IN this rebeh?cu s.t they
will not come back into the Union Under any con
dition ahatever When che vallandiEhaHa party tell
us they know if We G,iH Fighting, the rebels will
then love what they now hate, we would like for
them to give evidence of the truth of their as
serton. If they will come back into the Union,
shy can they not get them to say so? If their
theory is correct, why no. get these who have con-
troll of the rebel army to promise to lay down their
arms and come back into the Union, with the assur-
ance that we will then wthdraw our armies from
the SoSth' Bat Ec, this wou!d haRtate the
South, and Vallandigham wants the Government
to give up and allow the South to come back hon.
orably, for if she should be at all dishonorcd il
might prevent her from repeating The experiment
Some think that the people Of the South wish to
come back Af'o the Union. I believe they do
have heard hundreds of them say so but is this
any reason tia, ttc Government should quit pros
ecuting the war while the rebel army remains in
the field No; but il makes It the n,brc indispen-
sable thatthe rebel army should be dispersed, that
tAe people may act. 1t matters uot how anxious
the masses are for peace and Union. it is abso-
iuteiy impossible until the rebel army is dispersed
and this, remember, we are going to do before we
80 home. You might as well expect the Devil to
become missionary, as JEFF. Davis to favor Union
when he has all the power in his own hands.
We are asked to lay down our arms and return
home, and allow the Southern army to occupy all
the South, and all the forts that belong to the
Government, and the South will come back inta
the Union no, not exactly Yallandigham says
they will TALK about it! Who but traitor can
wish the Government to disarm herself, and allow
the South, armed and possessing all the power, TO
settle this question for us 1t is impossible to
make me believe, but that those who wish us to
lay down our arms; while the rebel my remains
in open hostility to the Government, ARE THE
vsRIEsT TRAITORS THAT EVER BREATHED THE AIR