Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-11-23
[From The Dayton Empire.l
A Washington View of the RE.
election of LimcOIm.

Agate, the well known correspondent of
The Cincinnati Gazette, writing from Wash
inqton, under date OF November llth, COM
placently sums up the results of the re-
election of Old Abe, in couple of very
satisfactory propositions, to wit: lst.
"What the defeat of Winfield Scott was to
the Wbig party. the defeat of Geo. B. Nc
Clellan is to the Democratic" I'd. slavery
went practically under as the last light
ballots, mortal beyond bayoncts and chain
shot, fell upon it in the shades of Tuesday
evening"" So far SO good; but we learn
that the death of Slavery and Democracy,
are not the sole fruits of the recent tri-
umph of Lincolnism, for the writer con-
tinues:
'The election decides another thing. This
people, with weeping in every household,
with empty places in every family circle,
with the land full of cripples, and the hos
pitals full of dying, and rigorous draft
enforced, and a call for more men staring them
in the face, and taxes weighing them to the
earth, this people, thus struggling and suf-
fering. have decreed that at whatever fur
ther cost, the republic shall be undivided
and indivisiblel If the American people
were ever going to consent that the terri
tory betwiXt the oceans, from lakes to gulf,
should be divided between two or more
Governments, they would have consented
last Tuesday. They were asked the ques-
tion; they answered it two hundred and ten
electoral votes to twenty-one."
There is good deal of truth in the above:
| the description of the 'situation" is strik-
| ingly accurate; but the line in italics chal-
| lenges word of comment. That "a call
| for more men" was ''staring the people in
| the face" while they were casting their bal
lots tor Lincoln, is good deal truer than
modern preaching; but that every possible
effort was made to deceive them III regard
| to the matter, and to make them believe
| that no more calls would be made on them,
| Is equally true. If draft was really STAR
| ing the people in the face, as the correspon-
dent AYERS, why weIe they betrayed by the
assurance of Solicitor Whiting, telegraphed
| to them by the abolition authorities from one
end of the country 10 the other, that the last
cOnscription had furnished men enough to
complete the work of suppressing the re-
bellion, and that no further draft lcOuld be
made? And under these circumstances,
why were the Democratic warnings to the
people, prior to the election, that another
draft would be made upon them if Lincoln
was reelected, why were these warnings,
we ask, denounced by the Abolition press
and leaders as cOpperhead lies? In con-
clusion, we will take this occasion to in
quire of the honest Republicans of Mont
gomery county, and of the State, if they
enjoy these frauds upon them, in matters
| which SO closely involve their lives and
their happiness And whether if a draft
was staring them in the face" when they
voted for Lincoln, ii it was not the foulest
and basest imposition that could possibly
have been practiced upon them,- to receive
assurances to the contrary, from one who,
like Solicitor Whiting, was entitled, from
position, to their confidence?