The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-10-01
To THOSE WHO HAVE FRIENDS
IN THE ARMY


two years, is to guide the Ship of State
through the breakers and over the
rapids ofthe great rebellion. The issue
is presented fair and square Shall the
efforts of all on board be directed to
bringing the ship safely. through, or
shall the hands of all ON board lie idle
and allow the vessel to founder, The
issue is presented openly: Warrior the
Union, or peaceand disunioa. On the first
of these platforms stands John Brough,
the standard bearer of the loyaLpeople
ofOhio, a lifelong Democrat, butnow'a
patriot and Union man above all par
ty and without conditions. On the
second, stands G. L. Vallandigham, a
lifelong Calhoun Democrat, and con-
sequcntly, now Southern sympathi-
zer, secessionist, and banished public
enemy. John Brough stands pledged
to furnish men and money to sustain
the soldiers in the field and to crush
the rebellion. John Brough is the
unconditional friend Of the soldiers
and the country. G. L. Vallandigham
stands pledged never to furnish a man
or dollar to sustain the soldiers in
the field and to crush the rebellion, as
he himself declared in his Cooper In
stituto speech, on tho I'd of November,
1860, in the following words: II never
would as Representative in the Con
gress of the United States, vote one
dollar Of money whereby one drop of
American blood should be she'd in u
civil war "--as he repeated in card
published in the Cincinnati Enquirer,
on the 10th of November, 1860, in the
following words: "And / now delbo-
rately repeat and rcaffirm it, resolved,
thought stand alone, though all others
yield and fall away, to make it good to
the last moment Of my public life =
rs he reiterated in speech delivered
at Newark, New Jersey, and reported
in the New York World, in the follow
ing words; II never would contribute
by my words or acts, to the shedding
Of one drop of blood in a civil war
as he declared in a speech delivered at
Dayton, on the I'd of August, 1862, in
the following words 81 have not vo-
ted for any army or navy bill, or any
army or navy appropriation bill, since
the meeting of Congress on the 18th OF
July, 1861 and as tho journals
which favor his election declare, rs
witness the following from the Rome
Democratic Sentinel N. Y: "Hc viii
not commission another officer of Ohio
to prosecute this unconstitutional war.
C. L. Vallandigham is, therefore, the
enemy of the soldiers and the country
Among the voters OF Fairheld coun
ty are many fathers who have sons il
the army. Some Of them wero killeC
in the late battle of Chickamauga, somt
were wounded, and many remain who
must be sustained by the government
and tho friends at homo, or be over
powered and slaughtered or captured
They went voluntarily to keep the en-
emy away from our homes, aad are on
during all the horrors and hardship
comprehendcd under the name o
War. To desert them would be sil
and shame. 1t would bo murdc
and suicide together. Is thero a faith
er in Fairfield county who will vot
for tho enemy of his son-who will
vote for the man who stands pledge,
never to furnish q dollar to pay an,
subsist his son, nor man to supper
him when overpowered by the enemy
There are also many voters who hav
brothers and friends in tho Army
Will you stand by the man who stand
, by them, or will you stand by tho maj
who deserts them, and refuses to sus
tain thcmY
Do you call this any unholy an,
unjust war? If so, can your son o
your brother gain any honor by cnga
: ging in dishonorablcwa Can the,
1 gain any glory by fighting in an in
; glorious cause2 Are you willing b.
4 your word and your votc, to bran
: your son or your brother with dis
? honor? Arc you willing to throw
/ shadow on their glory by saying thc
y they arc engaged in an inglorious wal
= Why is 1t such glory and such hone
to have fought in tho war OF the Rove
:. lution2 1t is the sacredncss of til
cause. And when the rebellion is SUI
If pressed and tho Union restored, tn
war will be as honorable and as glor
o ous as that of the revolution, and ifyo
Q vote for C. L. Vallandigham, your vol
l. will stand recorded against the glor