The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-09-04

A Copperhead Scheme of Coloniza-
tion To Elect Vailandiehum for Goy-
ernor of Ohio.
The following communicate We
have received from wcll-knowd gen
tleman, who, we have reason to be
licve, has many facilities for obtain.
ing accuatc information. He gives
the most solemn assurances of tho
truth of overy statement made. il
may be well to give the matter atten
ton:
COFPEBHEAD V1LLAINY
We are by no means disposed to il
dnlge in alarms. We are in poses
sion Of facts, however, which leave
no doubt of the existence of one o
the most nefarious and elaborately
prepared plots that human depravit,
could devise, to overwhelm the puri.
ty ofthe elective franchise in Ohio
and elect the traitor Vallandigham
next October. We lose no time il
sounding the alarm. and putting tht
friends of the Union on the alert.
1t is known to all, that in Indiana
there is no election this fall. There.
fore, Il most formidable secret society
has been organized in Ohio and In
diana, TO transfer heavy copperhead
vote from the latter to the former
State. This organization exists prin-
cipally in the border counties of both
States, along the line from the Ohio
River to the north line of the State,
and large sums ofmoncv have already
been raised to execute the damnahle
scheme. Funds, too, have been con
tributed in large amounts, we are in
formed, in New York and elsewhere
in the East, and men are now actually
employed in arranging and putting
the internal machine in working order:
and some voters have already been
brought over and scattered around.
The plan is, to contract with and pay
copperheads in Indiana, who have no
families, to come to Ohio, ostcnsibly
for the purpose Of laboring, who are
to receive part payment in advance,
and take an oath that they will vote
for Vallandigham. They are to be
forwarded by committees there to
committees in Ohio, who will quietly
distribute and locate them. They are
chiefly to he left in large cities. and
towns most subject TO floating popu-
lations, thereby to avoid suspicion.
Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton, Colum-
bus, Toledo, Sandusky and Cleveland
are specially selected, a. fit places III
which to operate. Ample provision
it is said, has already been made to
pay, and send over and locate, TWEEN
ty-tiyc thousand voters,
W e understand that some of the
oldest and most Inscriptions copper
head politicians Of the country. are
connected With this diaholical scheme
to oyrrcome the power of the ballot
box. Circumstances have been dis
closed to us which lead our minds il
resistihly to the conclusion that the
late protracted visit oil VOORHEES, and
other men of his ill, from Indiana,
and of citizen Sammedary, the great
Ohio copper-bottomed martyr of the
Crisis, and other Ohio rebel sympa-
thiaers, to Nallandigham in Canada,
and to New York, had reference to
this damnabie- scheme of colonization
and proposed uprising Of secretly
organized copperheads in the North
western States to resist the draft, and
through the terrors Of civil war, to
overthrow the Lincoln administration
and destroy the Government.
On the material points of the foul
plot we have exposed, our information
is derived from a man of reliability,
who profess and is believed by cop
perheads TO be lone of them" He
is amember ofthe organization, meets
with them takes part in their pro-
ceedings and has duties assigned to
him in the execution of the scheme
y part of the programme is to throw n
sufficient force of illegal voters on
election day into such townships rs
have copperhead Trustees, or where
the Union element is weakest to take
possession of the polls and stuff the
ballot box, us was done by the border
ruillans in Kansas
Let the friends Of the Union every
where take warning and prepare. pre-
pare now Let not day be LOST
Remember, .'the price Of liberty is
eternal vigilance =