The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-10-06
The Points for Soldiers.
The Record Of the Opposition.

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John Cessna, Chairman of the
Union Executive Committee of Penn
sylvania, has issued an address in
which he makes the following points
for the consideration of soldiers =
They are as good for the Buckeye as
for the Keystone State. Let them he
pondered. Let them be read to sol
diers, and let soldiers who vet adhere
to the opposition to the Union Far
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THE SOLDIERS.
Extraordinary efforts are being
made by oui opponents to obtain the
votes of our fellow citizens, recently
returned from the service of the
country in the army of the nation
In these efforts they should, and ii
is confidently believed, that they will
fail:
l. Because vigorous prosecution
of the war for the suppression OF the
rebellion has ever been urged by tho
Union party of the country.
2. Because the war has never been
sustained or advocated by the lead
ers of the party opposed to the AID
ministration.
3. Because the friends of the Union
cause have always sustained and sup
ported the soldiers in the field, and
the leaders of pretended Democracy
have ridiculed and derided the sol
diers of the Union, calling them
"Lincoln's hirelings," "robbcrs," p"
"plunderers," and other epithets I'M,
fit for repetition.
4 Because when volunteers were
called for, they demanded draft.
5. Because when the draft came,
they opposed the Communication clause,
and declared it was discrimination
against the p or man.
6 Because when that clause was
repealed they complained that the
only hope OF the poor man was gone.
Becaused they, denounced the
war as a negro war, and did nothing
to aid or assist in carrying it on.
s. Because they became highly in
dignant when negro troops were call
ed for, and threw the benefit OF all
their sympathies with the South.
8. Because they opposed every
measure the Government found it
necessary to adopt for the suppress
ion OF the rebellion.
10 Because they masniied every
rebel success, and depreciated every
Union victory.
IL. Because, in 1864, they declared
the war n failure.
II. Because, in 1865, they declare
that the fruits OF the war aye "drbt,
Disgrace, and slaughter.
49, Because they tried 10 prevent
the extension Of the right OF saa'age
to soldiers in service. r...r
ID Their leaders almost invsr,. IDLY
opposed giving bouuties to voluu-
teers, while the friends 0f the Union
party always sustained and supported
these measures.
Is. Even since the war is over,
they employed their sblest lawyers in
an effort to declare the bounty laws
unconstitutional
l6 When men were greatly needed
to fill up the ranks, and the Govern
ment ordered = draft, they resisted.
Men weLe obtained, and the nation
saved, because their party was lie
feated at the polls in 1868.
II. Because they have tried to in
jure the credit and dispsrsgc the
currency of the country, by means
of which the pay, bounties, and
pensions of the soldier can alone be
paid.
Is. Because the platform Of the
Union party recognizes the services
of the soldier; declares that the war
was commenced by rebels; that peace
was the result OF the courage and
heroism of the Union army; that the
cause in which he fought was holy
and sacred, and that honor, glory,
and prosperity to the country, and
not "debt, disgrace; and slaughter"
are the legitimate fruit of mis- toll,
10. Because, when Union men cx-
pressed the hope that our troops
might soon be able to conquer the
South, even by their exhaustion and
want of food, those leaders Of the
new Democracy declared that "~e.
COULD never conquer the South and
that "they hal more to eat IN the
South than We had ia the North"
20. Because, when rebels were
starving our brave soldiers by the
hundred at Libby, Belle Island, An.
dersonyiile, and elsewhere, these same
leaders excused or mitigated the
crime by declaring that "they fed our
prisoners as well as they did their
own men," that towing to the unoon-
stitutional blockade of the tyrant
Lincoln, they could not obtain a suit
fciency Of food" .a.aa naa
OHIO DEMOCRACY.