The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-10-05
FOr Tue JtIforsOnlHn.
"THE UNION MUST AND SHALL DE
PRLSEHvED r'

Mr.. WIN. MUNGEN - The above
is now the motto you and the party
that nominated you for Congress
have recently adopted. A "great
change seems to have come DER the
spirit of your dreams" since the
close of the war. would like to
ask you few questions;
Did not you and many members of
your party declare right here that
you would be willing to turn the New
England States out in the cold and
unitc'with the Southp
Was it not common teaching of
yours with the people that "if the
South secured their Independence"
the Northwest should unite with
them and repudiate the Federal debt?
Did not you, on the streets of
Findlay, swear, when the old Demo
cratic flag was hoisted to encourage
volunteers for the 2lst Regt., that it
shonld not be so disgraccd-that you
would tear it down-but did so no
more than you did the printing Of
nce which you threatened TO demol
ishp
Did you not swear that you would
not take any part in tho Abolition
war?
Do the above facts look as though
you really believed that through your
exertions "the Union must be pre-.
served?"
But when in due course Of time q
way was opened for you to make
money out of the war, did you not
accept q commission and run at al
most the first intimation of danger,
at the battle of Shiloh.
Did you not after descrting your
regiment, returning home and re
signing, leaving your men struggling
for their lives and for the life of your
country which you had so cowardly
and basely betrayed, l ask, did you
not go to Chicago as delegate to
that Infamous convention and cast
your vote in favor of that section oI
the platform which declared the
"war of four years a failures" and
also for the resolution insisting tha
the North should make the bes
terms of peace they could9 Ant
now have you the bare. faced impu
dence and effrontery to ask those
soldiers whom you lett to 60 through
the miasmatic swamps OF the Soutl
with Sherman, while you wer,
rendering aid and comfort to thci
foes, l inquire again, can you asl
them to vote for you ?
Did not you, on the streets o
Findlay, on the occasion of a Fire
mems parade, while laLoring unde
some kind Of e1cuemeat, draw you
revolver and d--n the Lincoln Gov
ernment, saying that it owed 20,
some few hundred dollars and tha
you would have it?
Did not you again, ON the streets
: and in the saloons OF Findlay, threat
en- under certain ontingencies, tha
you would go to Washington anC
assassinate Mr.. Lincoln?
Did you not also make yourself 81
notorious by similar expression
while in attendance at the Chicago
Convention that you were overhear,
by the correspondent of a Cincinnati
paper, who published the samep
Did not you join with the "Knight
OF the Golden Circle" or "Sons O
Liberty" knoWing al Tie time that i
was the intention of that treasonabl,
and damnable organization to releas,
all the rebel prisoners and assis
them in inaugurating civil war in tn,
Northwest for the purpose of uniting
with the South?
Do you consider yourself suitabl,
person to represent the loyal people
OF Ohio in Congress?
As you will hardly have time tc
answer the above questions before
the election, we will take the verdic
of the people.
Yours truly,
One WHO Knows You.