Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1864-10-26

old father Demooraoy-bus he died four
years agol
Who is the successor? Ask the winds
of foreign lands that wait the sighs of
our e1iles; ask the violated Constitution
and broken Union. Like any spendthrift
here has mOrtgaged the Fatrimony and
wasted the wealth. Let us look at a few
figures. What treasure has this abolition
war cost us? The State of Ohio, which
had debt of s19.OOO.OO0, now has from
200 to s4OO.OO0.OOO. And a mortgage
worse than that on the sweat Of every
mans brow.
Are you for an endless war with doubt
full gain a lost Union with blighted
peace; you must answer next Tuesday.
mean you and you; I mean the dwell
ers of the old granite State, the tillers of
the wild praries, and the delivers among
the golden sands of California. It will
be hard work for you to account to your
children when you die and hard to ac-
count to God for what exertions you made
for them.
We can even adopt the policy of Eng
land with one eighth of her population
in the poor house My God, what will
we do when at a stroke of minister's
bell, ourliberties are at an end? Ifthere
be any Democrats who are SO still; if
there be any Republicans who are Re-
publicans still, don't vote one way be-
cause you are a Democrat or another way
because you are Republican, but exert
your brains, act for yourselves, act indie
pendently, act in the fear of God I do
not intend to say word of euIogy, but
when History shall have given records to
the world, there will be no blacker page
than the injustice of the administration
to that illustrious patriot and statesman
George B. Mcclellan, than whom no more
genial gentleman, upright christian and
courageous soldier lives on American
soil.
There is no reason why Abraham lin
coin should be preferred2 He don't look
better, he is not smarter, and his filthy
jokes although well enough:in an Illinois
bar-room. come with i'll grace from
chair wherein sat Washing ton, Jeffer-
son and jackson. It remains for you,
the working men to say howmuch farth-
or this shall proceed. THANK God there
is such unity of action. We will be op-
posed by such forces as were never before
banded together. Lincoln is wasting
OOOO0OOOO annually and the most of
it goes to the offce.holders. We must
encounter it all. do believe there is
enough left in the country Of honor, re-
spect and patriotism, to wrest from the
spoiler the ship Of State, and guideitwith
safety into the port of Union and peace
Do you ask me how Mcclellan will get
along with the rebels ? I answer, by
craftsmanship, without fighting unless
necessary, for he knows how to fight and
has strength enough to stop when fight
ing is no longer useful. I have the firm
conviction that if Gen. Mcclellan we're
President many of the rebellious States
would speedily detach themselves from
the Confederacy, and join the good old
Union.
The old North State would have return
ed long ago, but for the proclamation Of
Lincoln. Let one single State secede
from the Confed9racy aud her prestige is
gone forever. But SO long as Lincoln Is
in power, and uphold negro superiority
and subjugation of the Southern people,
just so long will every Southern man
nerve his arm to conquer or die. Ana
while the blood of our fellows is crimson
ing the Southern plains, and their bones
whitening the hills, my only prayer to
you, my countrymen, is, that you will de-
eide and act that your conscience may ap-
prove, and when you return to your fami-
lies and friends you can say "Children
I may have done wrong; but God knows
my heart, tells me I have done right"