The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-12-07

because | sometimes say half 10 Cosely
that can be elected without the votes
OF roen who are hostile 10 such principles,
many seem to think or fear that others
may think that | will be understood a.
saying "thdt cannot be deie1ted." This
Is mistake. expect to be defeated,
and prefer to be defeated, II 3 majority
do not approve my principles. If they
approve thin [ expect TO be elected,
not because Of any power may have, or
because am the candidate, but because
! for the timc being am representing these
ideas, that Is ALI
Any unscrupulous man can play the
demagogue with ease The smallest or
medness OF men are the only ones who
do II. In my opinion no man can be
more Infamous than he who by fraud or
falsehood deceives an honest eleotor
| You know the men, who, during our late
Congressional canvass have deliberately
and with cool calculation and premedita.
tion deceived many honest voters In this
District. Let every one, whether as pr,n.
cipdls or dccsssories, guilty of this great
crime, receive from every honorable man
tkat condemnation which his baseness
deserves.
A ballot once cast cannot be recalled,
| and no man can over estimate In advance
I the importance and moral power of a
single vote. Yet men who know this.
permit themselves to be deceived 80 often
that sometimes think electors offer
premium 10 demagogues. SO alarm
inglysuccessful have demsgogues become
that men claiming to be Christian gentle.
men not only laugh at frauds committed
at cducussss and on electors, but permit
themselves 70 become parties to these
frauds
A aCArurNo LuvYrVv nv ruu uotrtxn
CLIQUE.
Under the lead of such demagogues as
have described, q candidate may write
a letter to deceive and obtain the votes
of q faction, which would lose him the
support of q majority OF his own party, if
they could believe ke was Its author, and
the gentleman to whom the letter Is ad-
dressed may, with their approval, go be-
tore a caucus of the candidates friends
and pledge his honor, as q man, that the
candida e never wrote the letter--that 1t
Is q forgery, gotten up on the eve OF cleo
ton to deceive and secure votes which
! otherwise could not be obtained, and i'm
mediately after the election acknowledge
himself q liar and knave, and that he was
only attempting to secure votes by fraud
This Is the kind of morality we have
been taught in the late Congressional
canvass 10 this District by men claiming
to be Christian gentlemen. What would
every honorable man before me have
said, II, during the late canvass, l had
written letter to one of your citizens
here for publication on the eve of the cleo
tion, repudiating the Union National Plat
form, because advised that 1t would se-
cure me votes from the opposition, with
out slienating any voter of my own partyH
know what you would have said, and
Justly. You would have said that 1 was un-
worthy the confidence of honorable men.
But what would you say of the gentle
man to whom the letter was addressed, Il
on learning that the letter was certain to
lose me larger number of votes In my
own party than 1t could possibly gain for
me from the opposition, he should go be-
fore caucus Of my party friends, called
specially to take action on the letter, and
pledge his honor as man, and for fear
, his word OF honor would be doubted,
should briug witness with him, who
would also declare that the letter was a
} forgery, never written or authorized by
me, but was gotten up expressly for pub
licatiOn on the eve of She election, to de-
2 ceive and obtain vetes, by fraud, for me
from the opposition
: But why ask such q question. There
Is NO doubt how every honorable man
cry prudent man would tnvoluntarily
), feel like keeping his hand upon his pock-
! et-book when In the presence of such a
! wretch. know, gentlemen, that to hon.
i orable men such acts seem scarcely pos
sible, but assure you that what have
n so imperfectly related was done In the
= late canvass by the managers OF the bolt
: ing clique In Toledo, who supported my
opponent, and yet, these men and their
associates all over the District, are the
men who slander and assail me behind
my back with their wholesale falsehoodsi
TIE oHARGE OF BRINaING COL. PaELPs
INTO THE FIELD.
With regard to the charge made
= against me of bringing Colonel Phelps
into the field in 1862, as the Democratic
2 candidate for Congress, and keeping him
i there by paying him large sum Of
! money, / desire to say that q more
= groundless and false charge was never
made. was in New York at the time
the Convention met which nominated
Colonel Phelps. 1 had no agency, direct
, or indirect, in making him a candidate
and he was never asked by me, or so far
as know, by single friend of mine, to
remain In the field. Certainly neither
q Colonel Phelps nor any friend of his ever
Ieceived single dollar from me, or any
! friend Of mine with my knowledge, for re
naming in the 1eld or to aid in his can
vass. Ibid not suppose 1t would ever be
> necessary for me to refer to and contra
dict so silly q falsehood as this, but
: found in my late canvass that this absurd
? story had been repeated 30 often and 30
cunniugly, that many of both parties were
, disposed to believe 1t. What wonder
that demagogues and political charlatans
| Vuh hoaa fala
7 pass current, and when almost any sensa
tion story, concocted and published on
the eve OF an election Is swallowed with
; such avidity by so many.
SALszHooDs CIRCULATED AhoNa rsr soLsssGs
The demagcgue understands that a
, falsehood started at the right time &C.
r complishes its mission with the electoI
before 1t can be Contradicted. OF course
this class OF men will stop at nothing.
r A friend OF mine In the army writes 70
' know whether had ever said that "the
) l4th and Ssh regiments were towards, 4"
) and told me that that story was reported,
, and although he did his best to counter
q act its effects, 1T lost me q number OF
: votes IN each of these regiments. SO In
' the army before Richmond, some one re-
ported me as saying in q speech to the
! one hundred dey men, when down there
l last summer, that they (the one hundred
day men) made better soldiers than the
veterans and with this falsehood some
r votes were secured against me- Thus it
, was all over the district. Disappointed
/ applicants for office were hunted up, and
their grievances declared to be beyond
/ all endurance petty squabbles about the
| location of Postofice, the appointment
of Postmaster, the change of mail
1 rOute-were all magnifled and charged to
me; and every trick known to the dema-
gogue was resorted to, TO disgrace and
) defeat me and, to cap all, came the able
statesmanlike and manly letter OF Gen,