The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-04-01
,rhe Inmlng Cnmntign.


The coming campaign will be til
most important in the history of tn
country. last Fall tho preliminar
skirmish took placc---this Fail th
grand bottle that decides tho fate o
the country, is to be fought.
We have precisely the samo groun'
TO 20 over, the aamc issucs are befoi
us 40 last Fall. On the one hand th
Union party is for o prosecution o
che war until tile authority of tn
Government is re:estiblished owe
every foot Of territory belonging e
it--in favor, in shor., OF preserving
our government and maintaining itaI
our fathers handed 1t down to us, o
no matter what cost.
On the other hand. the opposition
made up Of the odds and ends Of th'
old Democratic party, the stif.neckct
aristocracy, old fogy proslavery por
tion Of the Whig party, and the refuse
of the Know.Ncthing lodges, enter
the field as they did last Fall, under
the Nallaudigham doctrine OF with
drawing our victorious armies from
tho South, Of abandoning to the ten
der mercies Of the rebels all the coun.
try We have wrested from them, oi
bringing Jour living soldiers back,
leaving the honored dead in the land
Of an enemy; OF submitting to the reb
ella aud rending in twain the nation
whose founders intended forever tc
be one.
Stripped Of all pretenee, these arc
the iasues:
Shall the war for tho Union go on
untilthe Federal Government is again
established in the seeded states, or
shall we surrender to the rebels and
acknowledge their independence.
We know the Coppefliea,ls do not
ss.s *ia- .,,aAs.i~-- --..--sis s-- .i.:- -i.~r.,
hut itamoHnts to that Tho. maicri.
ty Of them insist that they desire the
SUCCESS Of the Government hut the
party have never failed to oppose cv-
cry measure that made it possible for
the Government to succeed. This
cannot he denied. Every call for
troops has been vehomently opposed,
every measure Of finance has been de.
nounced;. every measure, no matter
how much the good of the service de-
maudsd 1t, has met the same relent-
less opposition. 1t will not do for
them to claim that any peculiar line
OF policy has brought this opposition
about, for the opposition was as bit
Ter at the beginning as it is now -
Neither can they plead that they only
disapproved Of the manner of doing
IT, Tor they always votel against
every proposition without Offering a
substitute that would bring about the
same result. Thus, they opposed
volunteering, then opposed drafting,
committing themselves clearly against
ALL the modes Of raising men. They
opposed treasury notes and clamored
for specie, when they knew that spe-
Gle could not be procured.
No matter what shape they assumc,
one thing is certain, the friends OF the
Government will have, this Fall, the
old vallandigham party and the old
Valandigham spirit to fight. Olpo-
sition to tho war in favor OF . recos-
milton of tho Confederacy-these are
the main springs that move them
Thank God, the Union men know their
enemies and are prepared for the con-
Dict. They know and feel the impor.
tspes Of the issue; know what mighty
consequences hang upon the result,
and they 80 into the campaign SO de.
tsrmined to be victorious that success
Is . certaiuty. "Once more to the
breaob." |