Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-10-02
Latter Of General HIengher 90 the Union
Committee OF Ohio.



NKw YoRK, Sept %, 1863.
DrAR sin Very urgent business called me
10 Washington to-day fear il will not be In
NV power to get away from there in time to
keep my engagement with your Committee. II
Obliged to break the engagement, shall ex-
ceedingly regret it. To aid you, were It ever
80 feebiy, in the contest in which you are en-
gagged, would crafty me beyond measure, Jack
sonian Democrat as am. The issues involved
in the contest are Of National consequence
They concern every loyal State and should ex-
cite the solcitude Of every loyal citizen.
The contest ITSELF to be sure, would be con-
fined to Ohio; but with the principles the in
terests the cause at stake, California is virtually
identified SO is Maine. SO is Illinois. SO Is
Oregon. so is every State that has proved its
fidelity to the National compact, and fully COM
prehends; as il proudly values, the significance
Of the National flag the brilliant and vast ad- |
vantapes of National unity, the necessity Of a
| National Government and the obligation to
sustain II, heart and SOUL in perfect strength
authority, and power with life as well as treas
ure. It is not too much TO say, indeed, that in
this contest in Ohio the Government at Wash
inptun il on trial, and that, with it. the noble
armies it has sent forth TO recover the National
domain and property from the insurgents OF the
South, shall either be renounced and condemned,
or be heartily sustained, as your votes decide
the day.
Electing Mr. Brougb, Ohio vindcates and for
tifies the National Government Electing Mr..
Vallandipham, Ohio abandons, and, so far as
one State can do SO, weakens and prostrates it.
Electing Mr.. Brough, Ohio stands true to the
splendid soldiers, who, from the rocks of Get
tysburp hurled back bold invasion--from the
bluffs Of vicksburg broke the fetters of the
Mississippi, cousecrating il TO Freedom and the
untrammeled service of a united people, and
who, at this very hour rain deserved chas-
tisement on the city in which the National Flag
was first struck down, and the torch of treason
tossed aloft as the signal of revolt Electing
Mr. Vallandigham, Ohio turns her back on these
brave men, disowns their services, discards the
victories they have won, sends them vote OF
repudiaton instead of a vote of thanks, and, IN
place of cheering them on in their new enter
prises, casts a cloud between them and their
fame their proud memories, their exalted pur-
poses and hopes making them feel they have
poured out their blood in the defeat of armed
TRAITORS in their front but to encounter the
faithlessness and base ingratitude, or at best
the eauivocal recognition and impoverished
praise, of mutinous party in the rear.
Such, if mistake not are the main issues OF
the contest in which you, the citizens OF Ohio
are engaged. There are, however, other inn
portant consequences involved.
The election of Mr.. Brough will deepen the
. depression and confirm the discontinue of the
South, going far to convert into woefulness and
bland despair the ecstacies inspired by the Peace
meetings and riots of New York. Iowa, and
= other places where Copperheads abound, aIic
the venom, as well as the slime, the fangs, al
"a well as the spperly skin, of the reptiles war;
the community Of danger.
On the other hand, the election of Mr.. Val
landigham will rouse the dropping spirits of thu
guilty States, that have been effectually Grip
= Dled Of late 1t will revive in those States
great expectations of diversion in their favor
and stimulate them to renewed efforts of des
: peration Summon Mr. Vallandigham from
his congenal exile in the bosom of his British
v sympathizers, seat him in the Curule chair o
n your State, let him have the disbursement o
the patronage with which it is richly padded
and, not doubt of it, the usurpers at Rich
mond will have good reason to infer that they
have reliable friends at the Moth, and tha
President Lincoln is beset, undermined, ham
pered and overborne by swarm of enemies.
The severe, thin features of Mr.. Davis will
d dilate and soften with the news. Another
y Thanksgiving day will be added by his authori.
\ ty to the long list of Feasts and Fasts, in which
\ the fluctuations of the Confederacy, from the
,r penitental to the hilarious phases of piey, arc
z, commended, as lesson on the variability of al
!, = human affairs to the study of an rreverent and
a headlong age The sweetest smiles will break
out and play in tropical radiance over the nea
Ut round chin, the dainty lips the plump and rosy
III cheeks of Mr. Judah Benjamin, and, yielding Il
the enchantment of the glad tidings he may
indulge in the vision of a triumphal entry int
Cincinnati ON the invitation of Gov. Vallandg
IN ham, and, more blessed than his forefather
On were, may in his dreams partake of grapes sucl
nd as the cleaning of Ephraim never yielded an,
eS @ of hams such as Soloman in all his glory, witt
all his gold and silver with all his ivory, ape
and peacocks never had the happiness to taste
g Mr.. Toombs, even, may be induced, in the en-
u livening sunshine Of the event, TO think bette
81 81 of the financial system he has recently wit
or such a sepulchral sobriety and heaviness {
"a L. l,,k,.
h, Picture to yourselves the transports of til
IA Ia refined and exquisite editors who danced-i
es the King of Dahomey dances at his loathsoT
AN and awful nolocaunt-over the siranglng an
NJ, muiilation of the harmless and helpless negro
~ of New York and the massacre c at Lawrence, Il
nu- insiigation to which harbarities-unparalel'
me since the butcheTies of the Scptcmbrists ar
aS er the Noyadcs of LyOns-rDusl have sprung fro
il the deepest abyss of hell. Picture 10 yourscv
the Transports of these delicate and chivalrol
: gentlemen when the news reaches them th
their persistent champion-who from the Ou
b set of the war has done everything in his pow
N, er to aid the insurrection, while he has left
stone unturned that could embarrass and il
n capacitate the National Government-has tr
IMPLIED in his disaffection and disloyalty, b.
coming invested with magisterial functions th
will enable him all the more boldly. all the mo
defantly, all the more mischievously, to resur
rs the line of conduct that compelled the Nation
The South, be assured of it, will interpret h
In election in its direct bearing and full sign
eel canoe. They will recognize in it the defeat al
use condemnation of the National Government al
nd it is this defeat and condemnation the power al
~. TM predominance of the conspiracy which foste
leir and facilitates secession, voting down suppl
}. to the Army destroying public confidence
am the Administration, instigating resistance to I
ed laws of Congress, compelling the withdrawal
zen veteran troops from the field to enforce the OF
, of dience which State authorities think it no du
the of theirs to see to, and by every other artif
to compatible with its malignant safety, doing
the best to sap and paralyze the good, great cat
to it lacks the courage TO rear its head against
hes with brilliant audacity assail.
ity Nor will the election of Mr.. Vallandighi
ms be hailed with less satisfaction in Canada a
England than in South Carolina and Virgin
Canada will illuminate in celebration Of I
OR event. and give full swing to the bells OF
TIE town-hall and churches. The London Time
startled little and brought to its senses by
repulse of Lee, and by the surrender Of Pc
berton and Gardner, and the Greek fire I
brought home her doom to Charleston, q
far awakened her at midnight to the conscousn
and of her crime and the punishment it suprem
nds merits-the London Times, on its being te
- graphed from Liverpool that Mr.. Vallandigh
''e' has been elected Governor Of Ohio, will
ices itself again; and over this check and dispara
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