The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-09-28
H For the Lancaster Gazette,
To the Voters Of IIOclkinE County.

For the Lancaster Gazette,
To the Voters Of IIOclking County.
You will be visited ere long by
Oakley Case and two young attorneys
who have lately come into your coun-
ty. Their object will be to tell you
howyou should vote at thecoming elcc-
tion, ia order to retain in place and
power such men as the said Oakley Case
When these men come along and make
their calls on you, ask the said Case
the following questions:
1st. Whether he considers himself a
loyal man, and whether his course
through the progress Of the war, has
been that ofIoyalty or otherwise.
Sd. Whether he didn't encourage in
the first stage Of tho war, men to vol
unteor and FIJI up tho ranks. and af-
ter thus succeeding in getting many of
his neigbbors and thoir sons to volun.
teer, and whether, after their ranks had
been broken by disease and the casual
ties of war, and when the lives Of the
remainder as well as the safety of his
government was in imminentdan ON
account of their weakness, be and the
party to which he belongs, did not vote
and act with the Vallandingham party
against the war, and against the FUR.
nishing ofanother man or another dol
lar for that purpose.
Sd. Ask the said Case whether he
was not one Of the prime movers in q
peace meeting held in Logan, & wheth-
or the object of said meeting was not
the embarrassment of the Government
in the putting down Of the rebellion,
and further, that had they been sue
cessful, whether the Union would not
now have been destroyed instead Of
having been saved and strengthened
by the means adopted by Govern
ment. ..
4th. Ask him whether he and his
party did not in 1862, advocate Wig
orous prosecution of the war, and
whether those fourteen members OF
Congress belonging to his party, and
elected by virtue ofthe foregoing prom.
ises to tho people, did not vote on all
occasions to embarrass and weaken the
Government and thereby strengthen
the rebellion. 4. '' }. ~ ''' " e
5th. Ask Case whether he, did not
advise the honest masses of Hooking
county to resist the draft which was
made by virtuo of an act Of Congress,
to fill up tho ranks Ct the Union army;
and further, whether the taking ofhis
advice and those who acted with him,
did moi make il necessary to make fro.,
ono to two supplemental drafts in near
ly evcry township of Hooking county;
and further, ask him how much il cost
the people and his Government to act
from such advice, as also the amount
of unnecessary labor and III will that
it gave to Government officers over
this entire country, in many instances
causing them to lose their lives and
producing iminent danger to all,
9Th. Ask the said Case whether ho
did not belong to rccrct order, the OBJ.
ject Of which was to arm and array the
masses Of his party not only against
his government but against his neigh
Dor, and whether he did not teach that
it would not be a crime for one Of his
followers to murder his Union neigh.
Dor. II ho denies the foregoing, ask
him what he and his party wanted
with those arms which wero consigned
to him as high officer in said organi.
zation, and what their object was in
having regular drill in order that they
might become familiar with their use,
Ask him whether they intended togo
South and fight rebels in arms, OF
whether they meant TO attack helpless
women and children at homo while
their husbands, fathers and sons were
in the Union army, fighting the battles
OF their country. .....
9Th, Ask, Case what (if any) differ
enco there was between tho orgapiza,
ton in Hooking county and that Of In,
diana, which received a fair trial and
was pronounced treason and tho par,
tics thereto were made to suffer dcalh
or Imprisonment for life. If there is
any difference as TO the guilt Of conspir
atoTs in Ohio and Indiana, if there i,
any justifcationfor the acts Of him and
tho leaders ofhis party. let them show
il; but don't let them toll you they are
aud have been loyal. On the contra
ry, charge them with having gone oyel
to the enemy-voted for Vallanding
ham, q convicted traitor to his cohn
try. 1t is no crime to bo Democrat
It is an honor. But to belong TO any
party and be disloyal is a crime,
Voters Of Hooking county, in con
clusion, lot me ask you, can You votO
for the class Of men who pronounced
your war a failure-who pronounced
your Govern mcht q failure-who call
ed your currency worthless who don,
all in their power to destroy confidenc,
in the success OF your Government il
putting down the rebellion who con
tinued to hold out encouragement Il
reDcls, both by their speeches and pa
pers through the entire time OF the
war. How often have that class Of pol
iticians told the people that the Gov
ernment was nearly exhausted and th