The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-08-06
A Fighting Democrat ON the War and
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visitto his friends. In passing through
Cairo the people gathered around him,
and he made few impromtu remarks,
which We give below. Gen. Logan, it
will be remembered, was strongly op-
posed to coercion. After the attack up
on Sumter, and when there was hope
that the difficulties might be settled BY
compromise, he went TO Richmond to
talk to the leading politicians there on
the subject. He was told that if the
Administration would give them asheet
ofwhite paper, and allow them to make
their own terms, they would not &C.
cept the offer short of dissolution
of the Union. Logan then made up
his mind that the Union could only be
saved by war; he abandoned his anti
coercion ideas, came home and girded
on the sword He has since been serv-
ing his country in the army. This is
the man who speaks as follows;
1t makes no difference whether you
call me Democrat, Republican or Abo-
lltionist-as some haze of late named
me. 1t does not change my feelings
does not alter my action. / am for my
country every time-for my country
first, last and always; and am fight
ing for the right of that country to be
numbered among the honorcd nations
Of the earth. Until that is brought
about, and this rebellion crushed out, I
am but an American citizen When
that right shall have been asserted, then
should we find that there is something
wrong in the fabric that our fathers
reared, something we desire to change,
it will be time enough to come up and
demand the change. Now we have
this accursed rebellion to rootout. 1t
must be rooted out. l am for using
ecery means and ALL means for putting
it to an end. Ifthe people at the North
would use the same force Jeff. Davis
and his minions use-and were as unan-
imous as they are-for in the South
force of arms c0mpels every man to act
as though he sanctioned the rebellion,
whether he feels inclined or not-this
,car UOuld be successfully terminated in
in less than sic months
Every mothers son who is opposed
to the war should be compelled rather
to take up arms against us or for US
Then there would be no talk of peace
herein the North, no talk resistance,
no sach men as FaLandigham, no Suoh
cO,cards as those who support all such men,
and sag these things.
Vallandigham says he has Travelled
over the Contederacy-using the term
"Confederacy"-not the phrase so-cal-
led Confederacy (for I do not acknowl-
edge the existence of any authority or
government in America aside from
that of the United States land has
not meta man,woman or child who does
not sustain the war, and who is not de-
termined to fight it out to the death or
the bitter end. Vdllandigtam here sim
| ply lies. He tells what is not true, and
he knows it. Vallandigham aside
from the leading men-Jeff Davis,
Toombs and Stephens-did not, ven
ture to say, speak with a dozen per-
sons while taking his involuntary ride
through Dixie. Had he done so. his
report would have been of a different
color. The people who fighting against
this Government-the Door whites
comprising the rank and file OF the Re-
bellion-nine-t -tenths of them do not
know what they are fighting for; do
not know what they are fighting
against, A majority Of them do not
know any thing, and hundreds of them
never saw the American flag in their
lives until they saw it march into
Vicksburg in triumph. They do not
know the Fourth of July, or anything
else that is good. But poor and igno-
rant as they are, let them express their
own free minds, and they will, almost
to man, demand speedy termina-
ton of this war-would submit to al
most anything rather than fight one
day longer as they have been lighting.
It is only By the force of bayonstS that
their army is kept together. Even that
cannot prevent their deserters from
flocking into Jackson by hundreds, to
take the oath of allegiance or Join the
Union ranks And 1 tell you what 1
know when l say that it will not be
many days ere the entire States of
Mississippi and Tennessee will be
knocking loudly for re-admission to a
Union which notlongsince they thought
their puny efforts could quickly dis
solve. They are talking of it even
now.
Speaking of being united, tell you,
by the Eternal God, there was never a
more truthful sentence than that of
Douglas: "Those who are not Witha are
against MS; and reiterate it, and add
that those who are not with us should
be hung, or should be nth their Southern
brethren, fighting Nth them,
To all Copperheads, peace men, agi-
tators, anti-war men-be they Repub-
licans or Democrats-for we have them
here pretending to be both-I have
word to say on the behalf of our brave
soldiers. And you have undoubtedly
been told that the war has its opposers
in the ranks of the Union army. 1t is
an accursed and foul asperslon upon
the fair fame of men who are willing to
spill their blood, give their lives for the
country. They are for the Union
They fight for the people and their counS
try, for the suppression Of the rebel
lion. Let us say to all opposers of this
war: The time wiu come when men