The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-09-17
A. LINCOLN.
FAIRFIELD COUNTY REDEEMED.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.

From the Cincinnati Commercial.
Lancaster not Totally DislOyal-UniOn
People Enough TO Save the County
Methodist Conference and Butternut-
ism-Lnrge and Enthusiastic DcmOn-
stratiOn-Speeches by BrOugh, sher-
man and Carey.
LANCASTER, o., Sept. 9, 1863.
This rather hal d ONE and pleasantly
situated city suffers odium and re-
proach that do not properly belong to
it. 1t is true that DR.. Olds, Of waste
paper notoriety, lives here, and it may
be true that he is a fit bGdfellow for no
less a traitor than jeff Davis, and so
vile politically that, as Gen, Cary says
ofhim, waste paper and his Bible can
never cleanse body and soul of the old
man. 1t is true, also, that the Ohio
Eagle is published here the most
corrupt, unscrupulous and infamousIy
disloyal sheet, not excepting the Chat
tanooga Rebel, published North or
South, And it is, moreover, true that
Fairfield County last fall gave the Dem
ocratic ticket between 1,S00 and ! 900
majority. Notwithstanding all this,
Lancaster and Fairfield must not be
given over to the; or, more polite
ly, but none the less Internal, to the
evil spirit of Vallandigham disloyalty.
There are other trees than Butternuts
growing in these beautiful valleys( (and,
as the fruit Of this tree is generally
blasted this year-a good omen-there
may be fewer of them hereafter than
now, copperheads do not abound as
much as they might if every patriots
hand was not raised against them
All Democrats here are not disloyal, as
witness many of the most respected,
such as Hon Alfred McVeigh, Colonel
John M. Connell, and hosts of others,
who are for the Union no matter what
becomes of the Democratic party
Other papers are read here besides the
Ohio Eagle, for the Lancaster Gazette,
published by some Union men, and ed
tied with ability, has circulation full
ly as large as it, and the Cincinnati
Commercial and Gazette larger than
both Of them; and the fact that fifteen
or twenty thousand Union people turn
ed out to day to manifest their loyalty
to their government, proves that the
bastard Democracy will find it difficult
to outnumber their votes in October
next. In truth, the display here to-day
ought to wipe out the odium that has
of late attached to Lancaster. Let DR.
Olds be forgotten, and the place remem-
bered for its good, sound, patriotic, and
respected citizens, and for the assidu-
GUS efforts they are making to redeem
their county from the thraldom ofpar
ty. TO the extent that they can reach
the minds of intelligent and candle
men, they are succeeding admirably
but to men who deny, in conversation
with soldiers, that Vallandigham refu
sed to vote for the bills necessary t.
carry on the war and to pay the sol
diers, as we heard done to day, nobody
can do anything Another specimen
of the character of the butternut por
ton of this community may be illustra
ted by the present County Clel&, whC
is a candidate for reelection, and whC
curses his own father, an aged and rev
erend clergyman, because he will no
support the traitorous Vallandighan
ticket. This is evidently mistake
The present County Clerk has no ageC
reverend father who is a clergyman :
The father Of Vandemark, the presen
candidate for County Clerk, is a clergy
man-EDs, GAZETTE. gt-.... I'D.
METHODIST CONFERENCE AND BUTTER
IN 10 '-.l. NUTIsM. asau .Hr
Tho Methodist clergymen of thi
Conference assembled here to-day, t
the number of about 200. Patriotism
and the support of civil government
being a part Of the religion of thesC
times, at eleven o'clock the ecclesiastic
al body adjourned, and marched ou
almost unanimouly to the groveto heal
the political speakers. l noticed tha
most of them gathered around Gen
Cary stand, and they especially ap
plauded his wholesome anti-slavery
Sentiments, as well as his pious illus
tratiOhs and calculations. n &''.'.'s
Inlthis connection, 1 may refert to {
marked exhibition Of the spirit Of Sc
cession which exists among the Meth
odist butternuts here. DR.. Olds play
ed the Jeff. Davis in smallway, ,somC
weeks since, by seceeding from hi
church, because the father O.