The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-07-12
Nomination for Secretary of State
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Democratic .sSOrrOW."
The subjoined communication from
Gen. Thomas r. Wildes, late candi-
date before the Union Sta Convention
for nomination to the Office of Secre-
tary of State, is extracted from the
Athens Messenger of the 2Sth ult 1t
is a most manly and gratifying express
sion of sentiment and should insure
the General a telling remembrance by
the Union party when future fayors are
to be dispensed:
ATHENS, o., June 25, 1866.
EDITOR MESSENGER II notice many
of the Democratic papers are very 'ssor-
nominate a soldier for Secretary
of State. Now, / presume, I have
as good reasons to be 'tsorry'' the
Convention did not nominate ssol-
dier''' for that office as any Democrat
ic editor in Ohio. But as feel no sor-
row because it did not, protest against
Democratic editors feeling "sorry' a
bout it. No sympathy from that quar-
ter is desirable. Every soldier very
well remembers how s'sorry" these self
same Democratic editors used to feel
whenever the fortunes of war went
against us on the field of battle, and
with whom their sympathies were on
such occasions No Ohio soldier has
ever had the courage to contemplate
the state of things that would necessa-
rily have followed the election of Val
landigham as Governor, or Mcclellan
as President. No soldier has forgot
ten the dark days of '62, '63', and the
early months of "a, and no soldier has
forgotten, or ever will forget that the
enemies then in our rear gave us far
more concern than the enemy in arms
in our front. And who were these en-
emies then in our rear? No other than
these self same Democratic editors, and
their coadjutors, who are now express
ing so much sorrow because our Con-
vention did not nominate a "soldier"
for Secretary of State. How .apropos,
to this, is the old rhyme:
"a little nonsense, now and then.
Is relished by the best Of men,"
OF all classes of voters the soldier is,
and should be, the most careful for
whom he casts his vote He requires
no Democratic editor to teach him the
principles for which he fought. In
stead of General Ben. LeFevre getting
the votes of soldiers as the nominee of
the Copperhead party because he was
soldier, every true soldier will scorn
and contemn him as arenegade, and as
false to the cause for which he fought.
Witness the fate of Mcclellan, Morgan,
Slocum, Mccall and others who at
tempted to drag into the meshes ofthe
Democracy, the vote Of the soldier
Defeat, disgraceful defeat, has always
been their portion. Not only this, but
the cry of shame! is sure to follow all
soldiers who repudiate and give the lie
to their profession, by uniting them
selves with party of men, who while
they were in the field, were aiding and
abetting their enemies through the a.
gencv of secret Societies and a press
teeming with tic rankest treason.
! But the trick is too Transparent
What began with Mcclellan will aGnbt-
less end with LeFevre. And what an
end! I am inclined to think, upon the
whole, however, that if Ben LeFevre
had been at the front through all the
tesrible fighting of '64, instead of in the
rear, at his own procurement he would
now be Union man and acting with
the Union party. Cumming" is hard
on ones loyalty "Bummers' were
pretty sure to be for Valandigham, or
some other equally vicious thing, and
opposed to this cd abolition war;
on general principles. They were apt
to have to much time to devote to
young ladies of secession proclivities,
and I'm such case as LeFevre's, where
a young man hadn't far to go anyhow,
the result was generally fatal, and a
, good deal of independent talk about
the seutrages" of the government, the
"unhofIness" of the war, &c, DC, might
be heard in the presence of private
soldiers and others of lower rank thar
l themselves, but of equal ''bummfng'
propensities. are like com
munities There are always SOME
black sheep among them-a sfev
who will do disgracefuI things, such
y for instance, as ''bum'' and vote th'
, Democratic ticket. But the mass o
them know very well what they are a
4 bout, and in the honesty oftheir heart
e will sustain with their ballots what the,
s have so nobly achieved by their bayo
: nets and bullets, Notwithstanding tn
fact that soldier can be found so for
getful of the principles for which h
TO <0 oil a
e to be placed on the ticket of that party
J. which, by it's sympathy, and by ever
:, means in it's power, endeavored to rer
- der nugatory his and every other so
d dier's efforts to put down treason an
If and save the nation.
d Respectfully,
: THOS. F. WILDES.
Hon. Frederick Hassaurek,
j. Tho o1couopf Gorn9n orator in n