Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-08-28
vniIandigham Dlssoctcd By Demoerat.


ty, Thomas Miliken, Esq, distinguished law
yer aud lifelong Democrat of that county,
man who has never faltered in bis fealty to par
ty when it did not mean treason 10 his country
delivered speech which made a deep i'm
preston on the audience. He thus presentet
the issue, and the two candidates before the peo
pie for their suffrages for Governor of Ohio:
The issue presented is plain one. The sol
ders who have gone to the field have done theii
duty nobly, and we are called upon by them tC
keep the spirit of patriotism alive here. We arc
to stand by them at home while they are crush.
ing out the foe in the front. The Government
in all its departments, as well as the people
must be faithful to them. Now, in this campaign
we have two men presented as candidates fOi
Governor of Ohio. One is John Brough, who ha,
been all his life an active and influential man IL
the Democratic party; man whose character i,
unimpeachabe aud unstained; of great executive
ability man who for the last fifteen years past
has been withdrawn from the conflict of party
who has not mixed in the intrgues ofpoliticians
and who accepts the gubernatorial candidacy al
great personal sacrifice, and only upon the
earnest solicitation of patriots. He says he will
lend the general Government all aid im his pow.
er for the purpose of putting down the rebellion
That is his PLATFORM and that is all there is Of
representative of the Union idea. This is sim.
pie platform, and yet broad enough for every
honest man to stand upon. We ask no man
what his antecedents have been; we do not ask
him whether he has been Democrat or a Whig
a Republican, or an American heretofore. w,
do not seek to restrict nor ask him to abandon
any political principle of the past. We ask hin
simply, are you in favor of the integrity of the
Government, and OF tho employment of every
f,ta afa,
required of any man who stands upon the Union
platform.
Upon the other hand, who have we presented
as candidate for Governor by a party of men
claiming 20 be DemOcrats2 A man who has
misrepresented this district in the American
Congress for the pasttwo years. 1t is not ne.
cessary to trace his history back for more than
two years. Up TO that time he (the speaker
had voted for him on every occasion he was q
candidate for Office. He was the representative
of the party, and therefore he voted for him
He will remember how in NAV, 1861, after Fort
Sumter had been bomharded, aud the s ar OF
the Vest had been fired into, the people of But
Ter county, with great unanmity met in con.
venticn at Hamilton. The men who presided
on that occasion were principally Democrats
the mass of people assembled were principall,
Democrats They met to give some expression
10 their feelings of the conduct of the rebels il
bringing on a war with the Government TIL,
resolutions adopted expressed in plain languag,
that il was the duty of the Government to pnt
down the rebellion, pledged the support of the
people to every measure necessary to that end
and instructed Mr.. Vallandgham, their Rep
resentative in Congress, to vote for every man
and every dollar required to wipe out this in
suit to our national flag. Applause. Those
resolutions voted for alike by his party friends
as well as those opposed to him in politics
were sent to Mr.. Valandigham. What was his
response-the response of the man who reads
every body out of the Democratic party who
does not support him? How did he treat the
people who voted for these resolutions? With
scorn and contempt! They instructed him to
vote for men and money for the purpose of put
ting down this rebellion, and he would not do it.
Instead of representing this District he repre-
sented himself. We of Butler, were all War
Democrats then; Vallandgham stood alone as a
Peace Democrat. You remember at the time OF
his return from that reasonable session of Con
gress, how closely he kept himself His very
name was odious to the people.
The speaker then referred to the McGinns
resolutions, adopted by Butler county conven-
ton on the Sd of August, 1861 and the action
of the State Convention in making platform
for the party in the Stale. In the spring OF 1862
the Democratic party again stood upon war
platform-in favor of putting down the rebell-
ION by force of arms. In a Butternut county
convention of the same year. resolutions intro
duced by Judge Clark were voted down becaus,
it was supposed they were too favorable to Sc
cession, aud war resolutions were adopted in
stead. Where was Mr.. Vallandgham all this
time? He was opposing the war aud the Gov
ernment. When, in the fall of 1862 the party
of the District departed from the war platform
and nominated Mr.. Vallandighanl for Congress
the speaker felt it his duty To leave him We
now have Mr.. Vallandigham as candidate for
Governor We find that he has acted in oppo-
sition TO the war from the beginning. We know
he refused to vote to pay the soldiers in the
f-ld. We know that he has been persistent in
the support of every measure having for its OBJ.
iect the paralyzing of the arms of the Govern.
ment.
We know that he has never uttered word OF
sympathy for the soldier; that he has never cast
a vote, never indorsed resolution, never writ.
ten letter. never done anything to help the
Government in this day of trial, and yet we are
called on to support him for Governorl TShame,
shame u Suppose you present his name to the
army for their votes? Why he could not 90
there but at therisk of his life. We know that
when he was carried South he was taken secret
ly through our lines az his own request, and
those of our boys who were aware of his pres
ence followed him crying "hemp hemp !" And
this is the man you want to fasten upon the peo-
pie of Ohio for Governor? Voices: ave will
not vote for him."
Suppose you elect Mr.. Vallandigham, swear
him to support the constitution of the State
and the constitution of the United States, and to
obey the laws what then2 The National Gov
ernment call for troops to assist our forces in the
field, and Valandigham continuing the course
he begun in Congress, refuses. What is the re-
sultH You bring on directly conflict between
the State and the national government, and you
have civil war inaugurated in the North. There
fore, the man who votes for Vallandigham votes
for blood-shed, and carnage, and robbery, aud
arson, all the horrors of war TO his own fireside
Let every man remember this. There can be
no mistake about it. You know what his sem
timents are. You know that he would not let a
single soldier go out of the State tn assist the
general Government in putting down treason.
Aud how can you consistently, with duty to
yourselves, do anything more Tor your country
at this time than vote against himY