Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-10-09
Address OF the Union Executive Com
mIttse OF ohio 20 the people OF that

Address OF the Union Executive COm
mittee OF Ohio 90 the people OF that
state. -1t- -
STATB UNION EXECUTIVE Con-. RO0Ns,
CoLUMBUs, O., October l, 1868.
To the Friends Of the UaiOn IA tie State o
Ohio:
We address you in behalf of our country
and our Government. The eyes of the
nation are upon Us. Our cause is the ma.
tional cause. Our defeat would be a ma.
tional calamity, over which the rebels in
arms, and their aiders and abetters, the
world over, would rejoice.
THE VoICE OF TRAtTORs.-TheR Richmond
Enquirer says: ''If Rosecrans should be
defeated at Chattanooga and driven back
on Nashville, the YallandighAm men would
carry the election iu Ohio next Tuesday
with little difficulty"
The Georgia COnstitutionGEist ntters the
same sentiment. Il says: /" II Johnston
aud Bragg can defeat Rosecrans and Burn
side, Charleston still holdiUg out or II
Lee, with his recruited army can defeat
Meade, then we may expect the most fa-
vorable results in the Ohio election and
Lincoln Congress-" And worse than these,
Mr.. r. L. Griffith, an agent sent by the
Secretary of State into RosecTaDs' army
to take copies of the law and poll books
to enable the soldiers to vote, Is reported
to have admitted, and il has not been au-
IhoritauVely cOntradicted, that his party
believed the Government could not sup
press the rebellion aud are in favor Of
Internationally stopping the war, and that
by the successes of our armies their party
would bs disappointed and its prospects
injured, and that they have no interest in
the fight; bat worse still than this, g. l..
ValIandigham said TO Colonel Webb of the
3lst Alabama regiment, that "the South
did not pursue the right policy that in.
stead of allowing the North to invade
Kentucky and Tennessee and making the
battle fields in these States, they should
transfer the battle fields. to Ohio and Indi-
ana; and that, if they did so, o strong par
ty would deduce in their favor, aud that
the Administration would be compelled to
recognize the independence OF the South. I"
We have arrayed against Us an organi-
cation which seems 70 have no interest
with our soldiers in arms, because their
defeat would promote its success. We
earnestly call upon all lovers of the cOun.
try and its Institutions, to rally to their
support. Let demagogues not deceive
with cries for free speech, free press, aud
hGbeaS corpus. The only attacks on these
rights come from rebels in arms against
the Government. Secure it against its
foes, and no loyal man need fear any other
enemy of his rights. Guard well your ball
lot-boxes. We implore all citizens TO
guard the ballot.box from desecration.-
Upon it rests the liberties Of the country,
and upon it's sacredness depends our att
tachment TO it. None but an enemy Of
both would attempt to destroy our conf.
dence in It; yet Fumors reach Us, which
seem. worthy Of belief, that an attempt will
be made to import voters from other states
into Ohio, and from one county into an.
other. We beg you 70 see that none but
legal voters be allowed 70 vote see that
none bat good, resolute, active and vigil
liant committees are ut every. poll 10 the
State, and punish with the utmost rigOr
of the law any and every man who violates
or attempts 70 violate il.
GSigued1 WV. DBsHIsoH,