Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-10
SEE THAT YOUR NEIGHBoRs
VOTE!

Sixteen Reasons Why Every Citizen
and Particularly Every Soldier,
should Vote for General Cox.
The following is commended to the con-
sideration of all voters in Ohio,
as conclusive of their duty to support Gen.
Cox, instead. of the Copperhead nominee.
1t is an appeal to the Union voters OF
Pennsylvania, and is as good for Ohio as
for the Keystone State:
Extraordinary efforts are being madeby
our opponents to obtain the votes of our
feIlow-citizens recently returned from the
service of the country in the army of the
nation. In these efforts they should, and
it is confidently believed that they will,
fail:
l. Because a vigorous prosecution Of the
war for the suppression of the rebellion
has ever been urged by the Union party
of the country.
2. Because the war has never been sus-
tanned or advocated by the leaders of the
party opposed to the Administration.
3. Because the friends of the Union
cause have always sustained and support
ed the soldiers in the field. and the leaders
of pretended Democracy have ridiculed
oDd-d soldiers of the Union;
calling them q Lincoln's hirelings," "rob-
bers," .'plunderers," and other epithets
unfit for repetition.
l. Because the Democrats denounced
the war as a negro war, and did nothing
to aid or assist in carrying it on.
8. Because they became highly indig-
nant when negro troops were called for,
and threw the benefit of all their sympa-
thies with the South.
6. Because they opposed every measure
the Government found it necessary to
adopt for the suppression of the rebellion.
Z. Because they magnifed every rebel
success and deprecated every Union vic
tory.
s. Because, in 1864, they declared the
u failure.
9. Because, in 1865, they declare that
the fruits of the war are debt, disgrace,
and slaughter
10. Because they tried to prevent the
extension of the right of suffrage to sol
dicrs in service.
II. Their leaders almost invariably OPP
pose giving bounties to volunteers, while
the friends of the Union party always
sustained and supported these measures.
u When men were greatly needed to
fill up the ranks, and the Government or
dered Il daft, they resisted. Men were
only obtained and the nation saved, be-
their party was defeated at the polls
in 1863.
Is. Because they have tried to injure
the credit and disparage the currency of
the country, by means Of which the pay,
bounties. and pensions of the soldier can
be paid.
IA. Because the platform of the Union
party recognizes the services ofthe 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 when he fought was ho-
ly and sacred, and that honor, glory, and
prosperity to the country, and not "debt,
and slaughter" are the legiti-
mate fruit of his tell.
10. Because, when Union men express
ed the hope that our troops might soon be
to conquer the South, eve by their
and want of food, those lead
ers of the new Democracy declared that
could never conquer the South, y and
that 'they had more to eat in the South
than we had in the North"
l6. Because when rebels are starving
our brave soldiers by the hundred at Lib
by, Belle Island, Andersonville, and else
where, these same leaders excused or nit
igated the crime by declaring that "they
fed our prisoners well as they did their
own men; that sowing to the u%nconstitu-
,ional blockade of the tyrant Lincoln, they
Gould not obtain a suficiency of food"