M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1865-02-23

ldispbsing OF the rebellion, would be
frisbed. Is il tue dictate Of wisdom
then, to ADOPT the crioion that the
rcbelion isnow pOweIless, aud ) that
I'VE may enforce any notions we may
see ,ruper-=lhat at. .this stage it
would be unbecomiug the Federal
lGovefnRtntsto De in tic least mag
.Inaujme usl We very lpuch tear that
IIflhis opinion is acted on, we shall
suiltr greyou6ly for it.- Spokesman
fChargcs and Specifications ugains 81 FIan-
ngnn, Editor of Ihe Mason. Go. %. }
| Democrat
1st Charge Disc9uraging voldn-
teer chlistmcnts, ,. I...- ..
The following from the first speci.
fcation is an extract from his tpaper
OF January II, 1868: f
""ANoTHER DRAFT-TnE SLAUGu-
TER Pens ALMOST DEPLErED.--Sincc
the suspension OF our paper, Inc Oid
Draft Horse, at Washington, has Is
su, d am ther calf three hundred
Fhousand more men--the three mill.
ious which have been furnished for
his ieudish work not!being sufficient,
land hc-says he wants three liTndied
Thousand more to go into his slaugh.
ter pens; the pens becoming almost
Idepletod.
Hear this, 'yo mothers, wives, and
Sisters! three hundred thousand more
OF your SONS and husbands and broth
ers must leave their homes ard BE-
dragged from tlrUtn, to satisfy the in.
Isatiable NAV Of The interruptions
lnoustcr who dissraces the Presidcn.
tal chair, with Iis obscene jokes,
while the best blood ofthe nation is
being poured oft Ike water " =
h = There never Tas despotism
more despotic and cruel, aud never
was tyranny more tyraInicol. = = =
-" Still we are told the end is not
yet, and that it lies beyond such seas
Of blood, in the distant future, that
even the most desperate fend must
sludder at its contemplation.
"Tho mind stands appalled, at the
painful sacrifice Of life with which
the abolition war for the emancipation
and elevation Of the negro and the
ensIaYelnent of the white man has
been carried on. And yet with a
feallous Indifference to the sniferings
and calamities dI'the'people, with a
brutal recklessness that astounds and
Shock christendom, another call is
made upon the life blood of the coun.
TRY to prosecute a war that orr rulers
| tell US is to end with the entire sub.
mission or exterminati0n of the bon.
thern people. We truet
that the Washington despot will
never witness its acc Jmplishlncnt."
Also the following: .'' FL.
with the year 1864 has passed
hwSy the grandeur and honor Of this
once happy, prosperous and proud
nation, all for to satisfy the ambitions
end hellish designs of the bad men
| who hold the'reim OF Government III
/ their hands. They, and they alone
are responsible for the destruction Of
u
this fair fabric, and the Wholesale
slaughter Of it's purest aud most de.
voted citizens, and history will SO
record it. .., ... u........ u.
T. Charge 27-Counseling resistance
Ito the draft.
In the first specification occurs tho
following;
THE DRAFT. Only a few weeks
more relnain 'tofll up the slaughter
pens, according to the proclamation
OF the butcher at Washington, aud
still the quotas ofthe different coun-
ties have not been assigned to them:
COnscquentlythe people have to 60 it
blind folded" = .
This. at MasoncOunty, Ohio, at a
time ofinsdrrectiou and armed re-
bellon against the authority Of the
limited States, within the military
Hines of tie ermies Of the United
States and the theater of Military op
orationS, and on or about the 10Th
!. dag Of January, 1865. ..
! [Signedl II. L. BURNETT,
.....ta Judge Advocate
Dept Of the Ohio. and North n Dept.