The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1863-04-10
JEFFERSON BARRACKS, No,
March 81, 1868
EDITOR PIoNEER-Deay SIR

March 81, 1868
EDITOR PIONEER -Deay SIR:
Should a
word from an old patron, now fighting to
sustain our Constitution, our Government
and our nationality, prove worthy ofyour
consideration, please find room for it in
your columns.
A few days ago, | received a copy of
the democratic Union" containing a
letter writer by Captain in the army,
who resides in your village.
Being soldier in the army which he
represents as being "demoralized, discon-
ted and insubordinate," beg the prive,
ege OF entering my solemn protest against
the sentiments contained in that letter.
Such sentiments cannot come from true
and loyal heart. but from either traitors
or towards. The dissatisfaction in the
army, and the opposition to the Presi-
dents Proclamation is all in the eye
The great heart Of the army is loyal and
true, and such men as this Captain de
serves the just condemnation of all good
citizens.
l, also learn through the Press and
and other sources, that since we have, in
response to the call of our country entered
the field to sustain and defend her in this
her hour of peril, from an atrocious con-
spiracy against her life. Numerous indi
vduals even in the District from which
we hail, has been concocting and attemp-
ting to carry into effect, schemes Of eom-
promise with the consprators with whom
we are at war, and under the ilimsy pre-
ex OF being "peace makers" are endea
voring to distract and divide the counseIs
of those who are determined 10 maintain
our national integrity. ,-t ......
These proceedings can only tend to
strengthen tho hands, and nerve the arms
Of our enemies, who are arrayed against
the Government.
Any oyerlures of peace any compro-
mise propoupdsd to the so.called South
ern Confederacy must be looked upon by
every honest man as treason against our
! Government.
The individuals engaged in promoting
these schemes Of perfdy against our
country, have taken mean and coward
ly advantage of the absence of the men in
arms, to effect their designs; and it is the
duty of our fellow citizens not in the ar
my, to recognize this fact, and to regard
those plotters of treason according to their
deserts, and at the close of the war, if not
sooner, they should be called to a strict
account
| The army, or at least that part Of it
with which | am connected. is unit in
the views which it entertains of this
whole procedure.
The individuals who have insugurated
and who uphold these schemes, and that
portion of the press which is endeavor-
ing to sustain them are in every respect,
more despicable enemies of our country
than the conspirators who have inaugur-
ated the present war, and who have come
forth boldly with arms in their hands to
encounter us in the field.
The sentiment Of the true and loyal
people OF the country, is, that the Union
must and shall be preserved" So it is
their duty to regard all schemes as de"
signing, and intending to strengthen the
hands of the insurrectionists in the South.
, ern States, by giving them "aid and COM
fort" and assisting them in their nefari-
GUS designs against the nations life.
Even should any differ in political
views with the President in his admins
tration Of affairs, it certainly is the duty
Of all good citizens to lay aside such par
ty issues for the present, as we in the ar
my have done, and TO unite in fully sus-
tanning the Executive in his unfaltering
determination to quell this insurreotion,
and to transmit, unimpailed, the sacred
inheritance which we have received from
our noble ancestors, in trust for posteri.
".
The only compromise we miuht, under
existing circumstances, consent to make
with that arch-traitor, Jeff, Davis and his
supporters in the South, would be the
adoption Of cartel that "Copperhead"
be exchanged for Union Conscript, un-
till all Union men Of the South shall have
been released from consoription, and the
"Copperheads" obtain their appropriate
position with their brethren in the South.
rem Confederacy.
-, BATTERY.