The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-11-04
THE NEW YORK WORLD AND
THE OHIO ELECTION

The New York IFor7a is a very singular
paper. About year ago, to the astonishment
Of the country, it came out vigorously and eff
ectively against arbitrary arrests and viola
tion of freedom of speech and freedom of the
press by Mr.. LINCOLN and his advisers. 1t
still, however, sustained the war policy of Mr..
Lincoln, under color of which all these out
RACES were perpetrated. This being its in
consistent position; and such its antecedents,
we were not surprised to find the following
0uIuIpentz II of the TEth upon the
Ohio election. It says
SIT is clear, of course, that Ohio has gone
against Yallandigham by heavy majority
The Democrats of that State, smarting under |
the military rule of Burnside, and aroused to
indignation by the arrest and deportation of
Mr.. Vallandigham, were so unwise as to nom |
mate that gentleman for the Governors chair,
| thus burdcnipg their clear and noble cause /
with his well known and avowed peace princi-
ples With Mr.. Vallandigham as sufferer
for freedom of speech and political discussion
the people of Ohio had keen sympathy
Fl a3 Pugh or Cox, or any other prominent
War Democrat, been nominated instead of
Vallandigham, and the election been fought
on the issues to which they have attempted
to conine it 10 spite of the peculiar position
of their candidate, one doubts that Mr.
Brough would have been defeated But the
Republicans have refused to allow the issue
! to be simply what is was and should have
| been, the question of an Endorsement or repu-
dation of the military and political policy of
the Administration, and its subversions OF the
safeguards of civil and personal liberty. They
have represented it plausibly and successfully
as an issue Joined on the question of war fer
the Union, or peace with or without the I'm
| ion."
"It has turned cut to be hopeless, as any
/ politician of ordinary sagacity might have
foreseen that it would, to attempt to persuade
| plain people that in voting for Vallandig-
| ham they were not voting for Vallandigham's
avowed political principles. 1t only needed
that the Republicans should nominate some
old Democrat whom the rebellion and the war
have swung away from old. tnoorines, and
/ their success was guaranteed in ADVANCE
Pugh andNCox and their coadjutors have
made gallant fight, and have greatly atter
uated the Administration victory.
s'This experience will convince the lead rs
of the peace faction in Ohio and New Yo k,
and elsewhere that the people do not iHdorse
their opinions. The people do not believe
that peace is a means Of reunion. That is the
significance of the Ohio election. 1t is the
total significance of IT,"
Now it is sufficient reply to all this to
state that in I8e1s=at4the last Goyernor,s
election in Ohio, the Democrats nominated
Hugh j. Jewett for Governor, who wrote
| svigorous prosecution of the war" letter He
was beaten $4,000 votes by David Tod, and
received some 25, 900 or 80, ,e0e less Demo
cratic votes than Mr.. Yallandigham has now
received In Maine the Democrats adopted
the Worlds New York Democratic platform,
and ran Mr.. Bradbury for Governor, who was
in favor of the prosecution of the war upon
constitutional principles. .UEou that platform
the Democrats were beaten 10000 votes,
which, considering tie vote polled, was a
worse defeat than ours in Ohio In CalifoIn-
ia the Democrats adopted thepGovernor Sey-
mour war Democratic platform, and wore bad
ly defeated. In Iowa the Democrats run Gen.
Tuttle, an ultra war and ardent Administra lion
man. for Governor. He has been beaten out Of
sight. In Pennsylvania George w. Wood
ward, the Democratic candidate for Governor,
according to General Mcclellan, in letter
published before the election, and extensive:
ly circulated, took this stand General Nc
Ciellan says:
aI understand Judge Woodward to be in
i favor of the prosecution of the war with all
i the means at the command of the loyal States,
until the military power of the rebellion is
/ destroyed. -
/ 81 understand him to be of the opinion that
while the war is waged with all possible deci-
sion and energy, the policy directing it should
be in consonance with the principles of hu-
manity and civilization, working no injury to
private rights and property not demanded by
by military necessity and recognized by mill
tary law among civilized nations. y
"And, finally, / understand him to agree
with me in the opinion that the sole great OBJ
jects IF the war are the restoration OF the uni
! ty of the nation, the preservation of the Con-
stitution and the supremacy of the laws of the
country =
+. Nov; hen we cuusidcr- He fact that -Penxa-
sylvania is naturally Democratic and That
Ohio is naturally an Opposition State, Wood
ward has been as badly bcatensin iPennsylya-
MIA as Vallandigham in Ohio.
In view of these facts, how foolish for the
World to say that if the Democrats of Ohio
had nominated "some prominent War, Demo
crat, they would have carried the State" We
know the temper of the party, and have no
hesitation in saying that in that event they
would have been beaten far worse.
We agree with the World that the e.people-
majority of them-are not yet ready ''to try
the policy of peace as means to reunion p
1t is just as clear, also, that they are in favor
of continuing the conduct of the war in Re-
publican hands. They believe that as the Re
publican party is responsible for the war, and
got it up, that ii can manage it better than
any other party. They want the war to be in
the hands of its friends. The Democracy car
never come into power as a war party. The
great mass of the Democratic party believe
with Andrew Jackson, in his Farewell Ad-
dress, that the Union can not be preserved by
force; and with Stephen a. Douglas that sswar
Is disuniop. now and forever. - They believe