The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1864-08-17
Ohio Cheated Out of Eighteen
Thousand Men.

not to vote for political bushwhackers,
who change their politics for Office. Nine
cut of ten of them are corrupt, and not to
be trusted, and Todd and Brough are not
exceptions. More than eighteen thous-
and men from Ohio are to be unrighteous-
ly dragged from their homes by the draft
on account of the imbeoility or knavish-
ness of Tod and Brough
Old Brough went to Washington, and
begged of old Abe to allow him to send
thrifty six thousand hundrsd-day men
from their fields and shops to Abe's Vir-
ginia graveyard. So anxious was old
Brough to rid the State of these men,
that he made special agreement with old
Abe that Ohio should receive no credit
fer them, and that they should be subject
to draft during their absence. These
thirty six thousand hundred-day men,
if credited on the present draft, would
be equivalent to ten thousand men. Thus
old Brough has dextrously managed to
compel Ohio to send ten thousand more
than her quota.
How old Tod manages to cheat the
State, or suffer it to be cheated, out of
eight thousand men does not appear
quite SO clearly, but the fact that be has
done so is thus frankly confessed by his
Adjutant General, in his Annual Report
for the year 1868:
"tfhe 18TH o. " T., colored re-
giment with this designation upon the
books Of the Office, to rendezvous at Camp
Delaware, was commenced june 13, 1868,
and had organized nine companies No
vember 18th, when it was ordered to For
tress Monroe for service, with the expeo-
tation of adding the tenth company there.
1t was an Ohio regiment in officers and
men, but when it received its final desig-
nation it was described as the 9th u. S.
Colored Infantry and by the records that
is its legal desie nation. The officers were
all commissioned by the President Why
it was not permitted to receive State de-
signation. am notadvised, any more than
L am why the State of Massachusetts
should be permitted to, recruit colored
men in Ohio, mere than enough for full
regiment, and have them applied on her
quota She recruiting coored men in the
spring and early summer for Infantry, and
| in the fall and early winter has been re-
cruitiBg eolored men in Ohio for Cavalry.
| The former went into regiment recog-
nized by State designation as Masse-
ehusetts troops Whether the latter did
or did not can't say; but Ohio gets no
credit for any of them.
x x x X X
| I" In this eonnexion it semes proper to
allude to the appropriation of Ohio men
( in other State organizations. They are to
| be found in the troops credited to Mich
igan, Indiana. Illinois, Kentucky, West
Virginia, New York and Mass; chusetts.
More than eight thousand Ohio men have
doubtless been so appropriated and cred
lited to other States y .AJutant Generals
Report for 1863, P"ges Is and 16.
The political bushwhackers, Tod and
Brough have thus cheated our State out
of eighteen thousand recruits, eight thous-
land of them furnished to Abolition Mas
sachusetts and other States to save the
skins of she shoddyites. 1t may be that
you, reader, or your son or brother will
fill bloody grave solely in consequence
of this knavishness OF inbeeility of Tod
and Brough.