Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-07-18

earned pay, is maliciously and unquali
fedly faIse.,
The Democrats did nothing but what
,hey had perfect right to do. II they
were traitors, giving aid and comfort to
the enemy. their opponents were towards
for not charging them with the crime of
treason aud having them tried according
TO law.
They supported for the Presidency Cen
eral Mcclellan, who became unpopular
with the Abolitionists the moment he de-
clared that he regarded the restoration Of
the Union as paramount to the abolition
OF slavery. ~ eF El-.
They spplSuded General Sherman when
Stanton assailed him for treachery, and
the Journal Bulletin Board repeated the
Infamous slanGer, because he had entered
into convention, TO give peace to the
country from the Potomac to the Rio
Grande, upoL principles which at that
time were ridiculod and repudiated by ihe
Journal and its friends, but which have
been substantially adopted since, by the
administration of President johnson.
The closing paragraph Of the Journals
article explains the whole affair-banquet
and all. 1t says "the Democrats want the
votes OF the soldiers, and to secure them,
hypocrisy and falsebood have no depths
TO which they will not descend" This
is intended no doubt to be severe, but it
is an unfortunate disclosure of the tactics
ofthe opposition. A-
We do rot feel much concerned about
the votes of the soldiers, now that they
are at home, and can mingle with the
men who have been 80 infamously mis-
represented to them, and may read pa
pers that many Of their superior officers
were so base as to deny them access to.
They have sense enough to determine in
short time who have been their friends,
and, with whom their interests ought to be
confided in the future. When they come
to understand that abolitionism protracted
their term of service, and caused their
sufferings in the prison pens Of the South,
and that now their success is to be used
rather to make the negro their equal al
the ballot box, than to restore the South.
ern States to their former position in
the Union when they come to see that
they, have been bearing the heat and
burthen of the contest at sixteen doilari
a month, whilst the patriotic stay t.home
gentlemen, who have been so vigorously
i patting them on the back, have beet
counting their gains by thousands and
tens Of thousands, and are investing theil
surplus profits in non-tax paying govern
ment bonds; whilst the labor of the
country, to which all these returned sol.
diers must contribute, is taxed to pay the
enormous debt incurred by an unneces
sarily protracted war; when all these thing'
and a great many more, come to bt
understood and comprehended, as they
soon will be, we will have nothing es
pecial to fear from the votes of!hs so!d'ers
The lives of the common soldiers il
{ this war have been sacrificed with
, heartlessness and prodigality as bruta
. as It was unnecessary. The butcbery a
f Fredericksburg is an illustration of tn
e sacrifices that were made to appease tn
clanor of the cowardly tay-at-home pa
: triots for the more vigorous prosecution
a of the war. Virginia to-day holds tn
=, bones of no less than fifty thousan'
g brave private soldiers, whose lives wer
r ruthlessly sacrificed to the importantly o
il. abolition and newspaper politicians, VIII
e were constantly exerting control owe
a the operations of our armies in the field
= The slaughter of some sixteen hundre
brave men, by the explosion of the Sui
y tana, who, after surviving the thcusan
n dangers and hardships of the battle field
r had to fall victims to the grovelline
o heattless avarice of some specializing abe
lition quartermaster, is unstoned fol
IS We hear of no military commission
), try the murderers Of these thousands {
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