Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-09-08
To Returned Soldiers.

XO Returned Soldiers.
The Copperheads of Sandusky county
will meet in convention at this place, to
morrow to nominate ticket with which
they hope to .wheedle the Returned Sol
diers of this county to vote. While the
war lasted they opposed by every means
in their power to give men or money to
put down the rebellion. They withheld,
to their utmost all aid to the soldier while
at the front, and from his wife and child
rem at home; saying you were "Lincoln's
Hirelings," and they did not care for you,
your wives, or your children.
They interposed and tried to prevent the
right of VOTING granted to you while
you were in the army. When they failed
in that they commenced proceedings in the
Courts to KEEP OUT OF OFFICE THE
MEN YOU ELECTED.
The war being over, they declare them
selves as good union men as they who by
their works and acts proved their profess
ion by their deeds. These same Copper
heads who now seek your favor and votes,
denounced the war as "myust, uaaholy and
tyrannicdl." They repeatedly denounced,
and in their conventions Resotved, That
President Lincoln was a MURDERER" I"
"WIDOW-MAKER," ''TYRANT," and
''HELLS OUT-RIDER,n and that YOU
"WERE HIS MINIONS." Now they are
seeking to get your votes.
In the speeches of these same Copper
heads of Sandusky county, you faithful and
true men who went into the army, were
denounced as "Lincoln Dogs" "Lincoln
GhOuls, and '4hey hoped to God every
SandaIsky County soldier Would be shot!r'
Now these same Copperheads say they
are Union men, and ask soldiers who they
have spurned and despised these four years,
to vote the ticket they shall make
We do not believe there is true soldier
in Sandusky county who can be fooled by
such hypocritical professions They are
the same DiSupioniStS andtreacherOus Cop
perhe0ds that they have been through all
the country's struggle and the soldiers te-
dious marches. They came not to visit or
comfort you while you were wounded, sick,
or in prison. Your vote is all they care for
now; and ifthey get that and thereby get
power, they will bring ruin on the country
and the flag you fought for, that its insti-
tutions and honor might be preserved for
your children and your children's children.
Got them where their Hair was Short.
The nomination of Major McCOrd for Audit
or by the Union Convention was death-deal-
ing blow to the Copperheads. They feel that
it is big nail drove into their coffin
''In their despair,
They rave and tear,
And pull their hair
And make base maligners and calumniators
of themselves generally. The MESSENGER raves
as follows:
Their candidate for Auditor has been mis-
cradle office seeker ever since he made his ad-
vent into this county. First Know Nothing
by initiation and by nature, then pretended
Democrat, and now q ranting, rip roaring
woody, curly, kinky negro suffrage man, he
sweeps the Abolition track. McCord
the renegade Know Nothing the bogus Dem
ocrat, Hank McCOrd the negro suffrage Alb"
Now isn't that t-r-e-m-e-n-d-u We
beg the Messenger to have mercy. Don't an
nihilate Mr.. McCord at one ponderous blow.
Permit him to live along at least until election.
A "know nothing by initiation and by nature.
If he was ever "know nothing by initiation
he has undoubtedly long since repented of his
folly, and if one by nature it is not his fault.
But the Democratic party has since thought
him good enough to run for Auditor on their
ticket, and we don't know that he has since
become worse man.
Next he was ''bogus Democrat" says the
Messenger. We do not know about that, but
that he belonged to the bogus Democratic par
ty up to the time it turned traitor and tried to
break up the Union, we do know, and that since
that time he has given his services and his votes
to the party OF the Union, we also know. He
claims to have not changed his Democracy at
all, but that the party abandoned. Democracy
as taught by Jefferson and Douglas.
The Messenger says further: he is 'snow |
ranting, rip roaring, wooly, curly, kinky negro
suffrage man. If this is the kind of stuff that |
pleases the readers of that sheet, we are salts
fed that they shall be INDUCED. @Ifignorance |
is bliss, tbs folly to be WISE
The reason why the Messenger goes it blind"
against Mr.. McCord, it knows that if he is |
elected it may bid farewell to all its longings |
after the county patronage. 1t now drags along
between life and death, and if it fails in getting
the county printing it will be compelled to give
up the ghost. "And that's what's the matter"
THE UNION TICKET.