Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-03-25
The Municipal Elections.

Municipal elections or elections OF city, Town
ship, town and village officers take p'a's
throughout the State one week from mOnua'
next. These elections are important In otu'us
~ times; but are doubly 90 in the presen' Or''''
Of public affairs. Our State and country are
apparently on the verge of utter ruin anu 'neie
10 no salvation but In the active and cease'eS'
vigilance Of the people.
The peril 10 which We 6nd ourselves piace'
has sprung mainly from single cause Inc
secession rebellion which broke out nearly TWO
years since, might have been easily crnsneo
and peace and harmony restored long ere tnis'
had the party in power and the Administrator
under Its control kept, as was promised a. tne
beginning of the war, an eye single on tne
preservation of tie Union, the Constitution
and the rights of the States unimpaired.
But instead of this they chose to conduo' tue
war upon q party basis and with policy more
intensely partisan than was ever the manage
ment Of political campaign. And now they
execrate and persecute as rebel and trsitof
every man who does not favor their Aeoiinon
policy. Such a man, however much be may
love the Union and reverence the Constitution
and whatever sacrifices he may have made for
the preservation Of both, they would sooner
consign to Bastile than place in the most In
ferior municipal Office.
Such being the conduct and such the bitter,
almost insane partisauship of your political op-
ponents, IL behooves you, Democrats and Con-
servatives, to guard well through the ballot
box all the avenues to political power and in
Auence. Your political opponents, who like the
Phsrisees of old boast that they alone are loyal,
are unscrupulous and reckless All over our
State and country they are forming secret clubs
and pledged or oath bound leagues in order to
entrap and devour you. Beware of them The
only condition on which they will cast vote
for one of you, or even admit that you are en-
titled to the common rights of citizen, Is that
You cast in your lot with them, and become
like thsm ,oolly-headed.
Now, fellow Democrats and Conservatives
let us profit by the teachings and example of
our political opponents. and stand united and
Arm by our own candidates, men whom We know
In be loyal and .rue-not merelv to party or
an Administration to the Union, the Con-
,.,tutiou and the rights Of the States. Let us
vo.a for no man, however high his position in
.ociety, or however lofty his professions Of pat
r,o,ism may be, who is ready for the sake Of
office TO take an oath to support the National
Constitution and our State Constitution, and
than periurs his own soul BY violating, or con-
sentine to the violation Of either. Let no man
rsceiye our suffrsges for even the lowest mu.
nIoipal Office, who does not believe that the
National Constitution is the paramount and
suureme law In war as we'll as In peace, binding |
alike upon all citizens and all officers, civil,
military, legislative, executive and judicial,
from the President down to corporal or street
scsvenger.
Begin, then, on Monday, April 9Th, the glo.
rious good old Democratic and Conservative
work Of "saving the Union" and saving your
State as we'll as your own lives, liberty and
rights, BY eleotIng men who will be faithful
10 their oaths of office, without falteriDg or
evasion.