Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-17
,,e 1,amn.;en in Knox County.

:. he Campaign i'm KnOx Comfy
The political campaign in Knox county,
, hio, is an illustration OF the .amentaole
epravity to which American politics nave
cen reduced by Abolitionisni ;and OF the
production into the political arena OF tliat
leail, vulgar and unscrupulous spirit which
the legitimate fruit of that fatal ism. Nlr'
'oLUMBUs DELANo was the Abclition can
'idate for Congress in that District, ana Is
lready counted among the selected by SOL
ier votes" although there is majority OF
,welve hundred against him among the
,eople he is to represent. DELANo, while
Il notorious Abolitionist, who, when he was
IN Congress, bitterly opposed the Mexi-
IAN war, and voted against supply
ing our army in Mexico, affects the eccen-
Sricity of a judicial character, pretends to
be profound student OF law, ana
a man who makes up his opinions after
carefully weighing the evidence on ooth
sides. Assuming great reverence Tor the
Constitution, precedent, the decision OF
Courts and the conservative balance OF
power in our institutions, DELANo, with
much dignity and gorgeous display Of
knowledge of the lowest tricks Of
sophistry and the vilest arts of the dema-
gogue, will show you how patriotic it
is to support the present war, while at
the same time he will show you how
manifestly improper it would be for him
or any of his family to descend to the vul-
gar reality of engaging in it or exposing
their precious and perfumed persons to its
perils. OF course, he will notconvince any
body of common sense that his reasoning is
sound or his argument good, but he has the
audacity to assume to think that you are
convinced by his absurd and inconsistent
nonsense and that answers all his purposes
Well, DELANo ran for Congress in the
knox, Licking, Coshocton and Musking-
um District, and expects to be elect
ed by the return of the soldiers
votes. The soldiers, he assumes, will
vote for him as matter of course, be-
cause he is in favor of the war and willing
to sacrifice them and everybody but his own
family in prosecuting it. This he thinks is
ANAL sufficient reason why every soldier
should vote for him. DELANo has several
able-bodied sons, who would make excel
lent soldiers, and from their size would be.
awarded the front rank in. battle; but DEL
ANo said that he would sacrifice every
cents worth of property he had in the
world before he would allow one OF his
sons to be drafted or to go into the army
where villainous saltpetre, digged from the
filthy bowels of the earth, was used to
slay men. This manifest inconsistency of
insisting on the prosecution of the
war, and at the same time opposing his
own family going into the war, was used
against Mr.. DELANo in the political can
vass which has just closed in the Knox dis
trict. One of Mr.. DELANo's sons was draft
ed, but Mr.. DELANo bought him substi-
tute, while, at the same time. he was max
ing speeches in favor of everybody going
into the army. DELANO had an intuitive
judicial notion that his position was an
absurd and despicable one, and he found it
necessary to make some excuse for 1t. We
might safely defy the least respectable man
in this country unacquainted with the facts,
to guess what Mr.. DELANo did under these
circumstances. Violating the cOmmonest
rule of decency, setting aside every consid-
Grafton of honor and manhood, DELANo
had the unheard of meanness to obtrude
the sacred and inviolable secrets of married
life into his defense, and shield himself from
the charge of inconsistency by barbarous-
ly dragging into public discussion the pc
culiar condition of his sons wife,
announcing it in broader terms than
we choose to use, as reason why his
son should not 60 into the army
This excuse was made for DELANo through
the instrumentality of The Mount Vernon
Republican. q newspaper edited by one
WIN. Il. BAsCoM. To make the matter
worse, if such an exhibition of .barbarous
indelicacy could be made worse, it was
easily established that the statement OF
DELANo and The Republican was false, and
that DELANo and BAscoM invented it to
save the candidate from defeat which he
clearly deserved on personal, if no other
grounds.
This is the complexion to which politics
and the canvass of national interests have
been brought by COLUMBUS DELANo, and
the Aboltionists of the XIIIth Congress
sional District, in the year of our Lord
A. d. 1864. There is scarcely man in Mt
Vernon who would not make a better
and certainly amore worthy Representative
in Congress than DELANo-and we know
there are dozen in the village who would
give credit and responsibility to Congress
by their presence-but DELANo is selected
as the Representative of loyalty, patriot
ism, respectability and judicial dignity by
the party which is peculiarly the advocate
of "high moral ideas" If there is lower
degree of depravity and meanness in
American politics than that which CoLUM-
BUS DELANo has reached, we have no Curl
osity to see it; but without questioning, we
would refer it to the discriminating investi-
CATION of the Choctaw Indians, or the re-
ligious imitation of the wise men Of Congo.
GEN. BANKS, writing of the negroes of
Louisiana, says: " Of 33l, ,726 slaves in 1861,
only $4,000 have died." This is a pretty