The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-10-21
Letter from the Country.


letter from the Country.
Il must talk or write, or grow nervous
There is no one to talk to but my wife, and
/ have gone into ecstaces so often in her pres,
ence, that3I fear she will be weary of it.
Who then can venture upon with SO much
freedom, as your dear. good, faithful old
Democrat, a weekly visitor in my Democrat,
ever since you changed your name, and for a.
long time before, when you were single.
We have not always seen the path of duty
precisely in the same direction. But eye to
eye, have we seen, and shoulder to shoulder
have we marched, during the two and half
years of bloody conflict, to aid in giving gen.
erations yet unborn, a heritage, that will be
blessing,
Denizens of villages, cannot sympathize
with isolated farmers, on such oecas ions as the
present. You are continually meeting the
tried and true, and the glad tidings may be
seen in the eye, even if the lips for want of
time, fail to give utterance. Yesterday morn
ing standing alone in field, / found myself
hurrahing for Brough at the top of my voice.
If some one had been present to speak to. or
even. to look at, should not perhaps have
been guilty of anything apparently SO foolish.
Still foolish it may have been, it proved
not only relief to pent up feeling, but a
source of amusement for the time.
We have very distinct echos, in this corner
of the town of Atwater, and understood
echo to answer Brough. Surely I thought
some Copperhead must have been in hear
ing. I am not precisely in the right place for
echo. I will change my position and try
again. Vallandigham," and echo answered
Dam. Inyery fear it was running into pro-
family tested it no further
Now as Rayenna is the hub of the Uni
verse for PORTAGE County, must leave it for
you 10 determine, whather there was any
thing singular IN all this, and if decided af-
frmatiyely, to give an explanation.
The hub is perhaps not fully impressed
with the comfort the felies are taking over
the revolution of the wheel, on Tuesday, the
! 3th.z wish we could have smash up, get
in closer proximity, and close up, with a un-
ion love-feast.
80 Glory enough for one day, that John
Brough is Governor elect of Ohio Not that
he is pre- eminently fitted forthe place
There are many Others equally well qualified,
and as worthy.
But we choose him our standard bearer,
and under the stars and stripes, made sacred
by ancestral blood, we have fought a good
tight, are entitled to, and will yet wear, a
crown of freedom.
The humiliating sight will now be spared
us, of looking upon two lines of men in mar
tial array reaching from the State Capital, to
the Canadian shore, to insure a safe passage
to the Gubernatorial Chair, one, who has left
untried no means to aid rebelsin arms. in the
overthrow of a Government, to which from
first to last, they have made no objection, but
that it failed to recognize as paramount, the
right to make slaves of human beings Eter-
nal infamy rests upon the man, who would
aid in thing so vile. @
And now what greeting We can give to
our brave boys. in battles red front. We
have lainathe enemy in your rear-the only
one you ever feared-bors d,s combat. Your
work now lies before you, and when you re-
turn, it win he as friend to friend, not with
sword and musket, to enforce measures abso-
lutely essential to the putting down of the
rebellion, and consequent salvation of great
country.
Atwater, Oct. I6, 1868.