Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-10-05
Circular from the Abolition EN-
eCutive Committee TO the SOl-
GterS.

The Abolition State Executive Commit
tee under date of September 2l, 1865 has
issued Circular calling upon the soldiers
to organize and prepare to vote for the Shod-
dy Ticket on the 10th of October Judg-
ing from the tone of the Circular, this Com
mittee thinks it otcns the soldies, and that
the 'boys in blue" are obligated to obey
their mandates The soldiers are out of
the army now, and we believe they propose
to vote as they please, without dictation
from this Committee. The Circular says
General Cox is to lead the column, and the
Committee says ''he will neither tremble nor
falter." Oh, no! He is anxious to secure
a fat civil position as he was Brigadiership
when the war broke out! He never talters
when fat oSicc is in view. He never en-
tered the army as a prtcdte. lie went in as
Brigadier, and no one believes that he ev-
er would have shouldered a musket and
gone into the ranks! OF course, lie will not
falter now, being candidate for one while
hanging on to the pay Of another. The
Committee says she never retreated or left
his soldiers to encounter dangers or endure
hardships he was not ready or willing to
share with them" What clap-trapl Who
ever heard OF any particularly conduct of
General Cox? Where are his wounds?-
Have not his great military qualities been
recently discovered?
The Committee tell the soldiers not to be
deceived 10y the miserable and senseless
cry Of Negro .SuGrage." The circular evil
IDENTIFY was printed with special reference to
the soldiers, for the Union party on the Re-
serve are committed by all manner of reso-
lutions to the policy of striking the word
white out OF the Constitution of Ohio.
The circular Indicates the intention and will
of the Union party to deceive the soldiers
as to its position on Negro Suffrage The
returned soldiers are not to be caught this
way. They know well what General Cox
said to the Oberlin negro, and like Gov.
Tod, at Warren, they eXclaim too much
niger and willrefuse their support to Cox
aud Culfee.
The circular says 'each and every candi-
date" on the ticket is ''honest, faithful and
capable. y We hope this is true. The I'm
ion party has been rather unfortunate -
While some Of its 'honest" office holders
were abusing Democrats as rebel sympa-
thizers' they were manipulating the funds
sent by the soldiers to their families at home,
for their ewn benefit. See Odlin report
Of Dorsey specuations.
1t seems to us that the Union party has
a very poor opinion Of the soldiers, if it
thinks it can turn them into voting ma
chine for its benGt. The soldiers know that
the Democracy Of Ohio have in the distrib-
ution Of nominations given them an equal
proportion Of all the offices, and have nont-
mated more private soldiers for Offices of
profit than have their political opponents.
| The Abolitionists have been more wordy
in the complimentary resolutions they pass
ed at their County Coventions, yet in most
counties they perpetuated the clique by
nominating for the most important offices
those in the ring" There are thousands
of offices in the gift of the Union party in
! Ohio, yet how many of the offices are filed
| by returned soldiers who fought for the In
ion, and who were promised everything by
the Union leaders? On our streets, in eve
ry village, in every township in the State,
can be seen crippled and war-worn veterans
who might fill the offices now occupied by
fat and sleek office holders. Why do they
not resign and manifest their devotion to
the soldiers? TO the circular to which we
refer are attached the names of half a dozen
persistent and determined office holders-
They have drawn their substance and sup
port from the State year in and year out;
they hang on to the State house Treasury
as rats hang around the well-iilled cribs of
, our western farmers. The clothes they
wear, the cigars they smoke, and the bread
they cat, the liquor they drink, is paid for
j by the people Of OhiOl Yet these gentle
men who are urging the soldiers to vote to
perpetuato them in office, never intimate
their willingness to resign aud give their po-
aitions to the equally competent and gallant
boys who performed their duty nobly on the
battle etield! PLAIN Dedler.
pely"If you have not conversed with your
neighbors and stirred them up to the i'm