The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-03-04
Volume l0-No. Al.

has made question of veracity with
him 10y positive denial of the allcg-
ed conversation published in the Gin
cmnuti Enquirer.
Mr. Garfield No virtuous deuials
in the Cincinnati Enquirer can alter
the facts this conversation, which
was heard by dozen officers.
] asked him further, "llow would
it affect your party five SHOULD crush
the rebels in this battle, and utterly
destroy themY' "We would proba.
bly, lose votes by it."--"lIow would
ii affect your party il we should lie
bcaten?' 1t would probably help us
in votes"
That, gentlemen, Is the kind of
support the Army is receiving in
what should be the house ofits friends
This, gentlemen, is the kind Of sup.
port these men---somc Of thom-are
inclined TO oivc this country aud ite
Army in this terrible struggle. /
hasten to make honorable exceptions.
l know there are honorable gentlemen
Oh the other side who do not belong
to that category, and / am proud to
acknowledge them rs my friends
But / say that the effect of what the
majority of them is doing will tend to
pull down the fabric of our Govern.
ment hy aiding their friends over the
border to do it. Their friends, I say
for when the Ohio election was about
coming off, in the army at Chattanoo-
ga there was more anxiety in the reb-
el camp than in our own. The pick
cts had talked face TO face and made
daily inquiry how the election in Oh.
10 was going, And ut midnight of
the 18Th Of October, when the tclc.
graphic news was flashed down 10 us
and announced TO the army that the
Union had sixty thousand majority
III Ohio, there arose n shout oll along
the line on that rainy midnight from
every tent which rent the skies with
iubilccs, and sent despair TO the
hearts of those men beyond our lines
who wee "waitiug and watching
across the border 1t told them
their colleagues, their svmpathizersI
their friends, had almost sal their
cmissaries, had failed to sustain
themselves in turning the tide against
our friends in the contest And from
that honr, the army had felt safe from
the enemy behind it,
L dcprccntc these apparently parti
san remarks; it hurts me 10 make
them: but it hurts me more to know
they are true. | would not make
them, but that | wish to unmask the
protcXt that we are working along all
in body for the vigorous prosccu.
ton of the war and and ;he mainten-
ancc of the Government. l ,annot
easily forgot the treatment the con
---'I 80 ...', ...--.-....;ne. Eu
en- the few men in the army who voted
for Nallandi.ham wrote on the back
OF their tickets Draft, draft" That
was the voice of the Army I con
cludc by returning once more to the
resolution before us. Let no weak
sentiments ofmisplaccd sympathy de-
r us from inaugurating u measure
which will cleanse our nation and
make it the fit home of freedom and
glorious manhood. Let us not dies
pise the severe wisdom of our rcvo
lutionary fathers, when they served
their generation in a similar way
Let the Republic drive from its soil
tie traitors that have conspircd
against it's life rs God and His an
gels GROVE Satan and his host from
heaven lie was not too mcrcil'ul to
he just, and TO hurl down in chains
md everlasting darkness the ''traitor
angel who rebclled against Him.