The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-10-08
Address OF the Union state Central
Committee

Committee
State Union E:r. Committee Rooms,
Columbus, o., Oct0Jer /, 'G3
To the friends Of the Union In tho state
OF OhIOi
We address you in behalf Of our
country and our Government. The
eyes of the nation are upon us. Our
cause is the national cause. Our de.
feat would be national calamity, over
which the rebels ia arms, and their aid
ers and abetters, the world over, woald
rejoice.
THE VOICE OF TRAITORS The
Richmond Enqirer SAYS IF Rosecrans
should be defeated at Chattanooga and
driven back on Nashville, the Vallan-
digham men would carry the election
in Ohio next Tuesday with little diff
Guilty
The Georgia Constitutionalst utters
the same sentiment. 1t says If
Johnston and Bragg can defeat
Rosecrans and Burnside, Charleston
still holding out; or if Lee, with his
recruited army can defeat Mead, then
we may expect the most favorable
results in the Ohio election and
Lincoln Congress" And worse than
those, Mr. RL.Griffith an agent sent by
the Secretary Of State into Rosecrans,
army to take copies of the law and
poll books to enable the soldiers to
vote, is reported to have admitted, and
it has not been authoritatively y contra
dicted, that his party believed the Gov
ernment could not suppress the REBEL
ion and are in favor Of unconditional
ly stopping the war, and that by the
success ofour armies their party would
be disappointed and its prospects in
.iured, ard that they have no interest
in the fight; but worse still than this,
c. L. Vallandigham said to Colonel
Webb Of the 3lst Alabama regiment,
that "thc South did not pursue the
right policy; that instead of allowing
the North to invade kentucky and
Tennessee and making the battle fields
in these States, they should transfer
the battle fields to Ohio and Indiana {;
and that, ifthey did SO, strong party
would deduce in their favor, and that
the Administration would be compel
led to recognize the independence of
the South"
We have arraycd against us an or
ganization which seems to have no in
tcrest with our soldiers in arms, because
their defeat would promote its success.
We earnestly call upon all lovers Of
our country and its institutions, to raj
ly to their suppor'. Let demagogues
not deceive with cries for free speech,
freedom Of the press, and habcas cor
pus. The only attacks on these rights
come from rebels in arms against the
Government, Secure it against its foes,
and no loyal man need fear any other
enemy Of his rights. Guard we'll your
ballot boxes. We impIore all citizens
to guard the ballot-box from desecra-
ton. Upon it rests the liberties Of GU:
country, and upon its sacrcdness de-
pends our attachment to it. None but
an enemy of both would attempt to
destroy our confidence in it; yet ru-
mors reach us, which seem worthy Of
belief, that an attempt will be made to
import voters from other States into
Ohio, and from one county into anoth-
er. We beg you to see that none but
legal voters be allowed to vote; see
that n one but good, resolutc, active and
vigilant committees are at every poll
in the State, and punish with the ut
most rigor of the law any and every
man who violates or attempts to vio-
late it.
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