Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-08
The shodiy slecting.

meeting In this city tonight. To the emu
that large crowd may be brought OUT
they not only propose to "rob the craule
and the grave,n but the treasury OF the
LOYAL League and such other treasures as
may be under their control. The amount
expended on this meeting would be, II
properly applied, sufficient to keep all the
families of absent or dead soldiers In this
city in fuel and provisions all winter; but
instead of that the money will be expended
In exploding powder, burning torch-lights'
and hiring boys to shout all to get up the
impression that there Is great enthusiasm
among the people for the great joke ana
widow maker. The winter is approaching
apace; it will be a season of unusual hard
ship and terrible suffering among the poor
but what Is that to the Shoddies, who
having coined the blood of the soldiers and
the sweat of the poor into money, riot in
reckless extravaganza, and flourish and re-
joice amid national sorrow and calamity.
Let poverty starve in its hovcl-let valor
and patriotism rot in the gutter-let the
wives and the little ones Of the dead or
maimed soldier shiver unpitied in their
garrets-shoddy, bloated with unholy gain,
big with unutterable patriotism, swollen
with sudden wealth, puffed with unworthy
power, radiant with the glory achieved in
sutlerships, contracts and Government OIL
ces-shoddy will be gay, let the world wag
as it may. There will be no lack of Roman
candles, burning gunpowder and cheap
enthusiasm at the meeting to-night-not ii
shoddy money will procure them.
But what illustrious patriots, fresh from
fat contracts or loyal pastures vernal with
greenbacks, are to address the faithful and
inspire the multitude with the love of the
Union, reverence for the Constitution, and
respect for the laws? What orators, grown
grey in thirty years defense of the Union
from the assaults ofits seHemies.will make the
night memorable by their resistless words
of eloquence, wisdom and patriotism? Let
us review the flaming handbill, with its
list of names, printed in as many different
colors as are the politics OF those who an
swer to them-thc black largely predomi-
mating, illustrating the proclivities of the
men.
First on the list is ANDREW JOHNSON, of
Tennessee, q man who sold his principles
and his niggers at the same time, now run
ming for Vice President. This man stump
ed the State of Tennessee for BRECKINRIDGE
at a time when, as the Abolitionists say,
that man had fully made up his mind to
commit treason. Within four years this
ANDY JOHNSON stood in the United States
Senate, and proclaimed that the present war
was begun by Massachusetts, and Vermont
fanaticism; and that in consequence of
New England nullification g the Govern
ment is at an end, and the parties (the
States) are all released from the compact"
He also proclaimed himself in favor of " a
division of the Union, division OF the
navy, division of the army, a division of
the public lands" [See pages 1l9, l42, &C.,
of Congressional Globe, lSG0-61.l He also
spoke in favor of the Southern Senators re-
naming in their seats in 1S60-61, in order
that'ttey might reto all Lincoln's Cabinet sp-
pointments, and appropriation bills, and thus
revolutionize the Government and over
throw LINUuLN. All these tnmgs Mr.. JOHN
son proclaimed in the Senate: he now comes
here as candidate on the ticket with LIN
colin, to make speeches for the Union and
teach the people loyalty and patriotism.
IVha fhtc OF nfG Gho11tr
patriots and LINCOLN Union men? SALMON
p. CHAsE-the man who has devoted his
life to the work Of breaking up the Ameri-
can Union--the man who led those who de-
clared 1.-THE Union covenant with death
and league with hell "-the man who, in
the United States Senate, was one of three
who voted for petition praying for dis
solution of the Union. He is the man who
is to prate to the Shoddies tonight in favor
of the Union, which for thirty years he
hated, denounced, cursed and opposed. He
was recently kicked out of the Cabinet by
old LINCOLN, and he is now trying, by
cringing and hypocrisy, to have himself
re-instated in some Office, without which
his existence is miserable. He is the same
man who, while in the Cabinet was
charged, by Gen. FRANK BLAIR, on the
floor of Congress, with having used his po-
sition as Secretary of the Treasury to ad-
vance his own political interests at the ex-
pense of the Treasury. Mr.. CHASE is pre-
eminently fit person to address Shoddy
Union meeting.
HORACE MAYNARD, Of Tennessee, is the
next man on the list. He is in the same
boat with JoHNsoN-only he is an ADLER,
though not better or purer man. He
sympathized with the fre-eaters Of the
South until it came to fighting, when he
united his fortunes to LINCOLN, and has
held fat Office ever since. He is one of
those patriots who try to keep with the
winning side; his changes have been so
numerous that it is impossible to follow
him.
The next man on the list Is Colonel r. B.
CARPENTER, of Kentucky. All that need
be said of him Is that he is now under in
dictment in the Covington district for cor
ruption and malfeasance in Office.
The next man on the list is Mr.. SAMUEL
SHELLABARGER, a gentleman who insists
that the war shall go on until slavery is
abolished by the South, even il it requires
every man in the North, except himself to
perish in battle to accomplish this "To-
whom-it-may concern" ultimatum. SAM