Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-08
SEPTEMBER s., 1866
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How Matters Lock al Springfield
and VicintIy. .''T si 'IH

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The following Isl letter addressed by a
prlvate citizen to WILLtaM MiLLtR, Esq,'
of this city, giving his views in regard to
the prospects ofthc respective Congtessioh-
al candidates in and about Springfield. II
will be seen that at the writing OF the lets
ter everything was looking encouragingly
in that part of the District for THOMAS
MILLER, the Democratic candidate: lnf'' D0
''" !. SPRNGFIELD, ONO, Sept, 8, 1906. /,
WIN. MILLER, ESQ, CoLUMBUs, ONO
ny Dear Sir :AWhen passing through your
city on my wayto this place, i promised to
write you in relation to the state OF public
sentiment or feeling as might, in the or
| dinary pursuit OF my business, discover it
| to exist in this city and its surroundings,
on those mOmentOus questions that now
seem to MI with deep anxiety. the minds
of all the loyal people of this great Repub-
| lie.If lytlrE 5-IUu.HJ .f-ri 6tl OH rD
Your own knowledge ofmy business will
enable you to Judge of the Opportunity It
| affords me TO find out the leaning senti-
| ments and depth of feeling on those pOliti-
cal issues that have SO recently assumed a
most alarming aspect. fr. .,... ,i......... ~.
We now see a majority of the present
Congress spreading themselves over the
| whole land, and, In very anger and SEEM
ing desperation, filing the air with curses
| and denuuciations, hurled at the devoted
| head Of Andrew Johnson-(a President of
| their own choice)-until the minds of the
people have become filed with degree of
alarm and solicitude for the perpGtuity of
these United States, that prompts them to
| coDgregate in tens OF thousands round
! the person OF their Chief Magistrate and
! pledge him their devotion and support
| And here predict that he Is fast attaining
| place in the hearts of the people that will
\ cause him. who was few weeks ago Par
son Brownlow's "Dead Dog of the White
| House," to be proclaimed, ere long, the
realsayior of the cOuutry, and to be looked
| upon as the most firm, most disinteTested
/ and most fouly abused patriot, politician
or statesman that the world has produced
in the nineteenth century.
| Believe me- dear sir when assure you
that thecoming Congressional election will
| be the prOOfthat the speedy and iDdissolu-
bic Union of all The States, with full and
complete loyal representation, has a deeper
hold in the affections of the American peO-
pie than those bitter, malevolent' and im-
practicable opposers of President JOhnsOn's
Reorganization policy dream of. ....
Many, very many, of those thinking peo-
pie who have heretofore supported whatis
called the Radical wing of the late Uuion
party, now palise and think they see in the
distance either success for the National
Union party, and as a consequence, legal,
constitutional and fraternal Union of all,
the States, with just and equal representa-
tiOp and taxation, or a triumph of the So
called Radicals under the lead of Thad.
Stevens, and, in such event, impeachment
of the President, civil war anarchy, con-
fusion and finally centralized Government
under the dictatorship of some ambitious
| military chieltain whose first act of diplO-
macy would be anyalianee with the auto
Grat of all the Russias for the mutual pro-
lection of each other from the attempts of
their outraged people TO regain those lib
critics OF which they had been deprived in
the sacred name of liber6y, and under the
cruel cry for vengeance upon rebels though
repentant.
But to speak more immediately of the
opinions OF thepeople here as regards tile
result of the contest in. this Congressional
district, the Administration and COnScrva-
tive Republicans and Democrats So cor
daily uniting on Thomas MillerJta In
connection with the almost universal be-
lief that he is one of the best business,
financial and clear headed men in Central
Ohio, and one, too, who, as report goes, has
raised himself from poverty to aflluenee by
good management and untiring Industry,
preserving withal an nnsullied and'spotlcss
character in private life and olliciai posi-
tion. A character that, his friends and
supporters here claim, cannot be assaileq
BY the most intense and wreckless malice,
gives high hopes to the national UniUi men
kl,nF l., mill fl,n IL ,krsa &.
Radical competitor by handsome majori-
ty; whilst, on the other handnI notSith-
standing the large majority of Shellabar-
ger over Cox in e'B4, his supporters feel
not little alarmed byreaspn of che extra
ordinary popularity Of Miller, The many
good Union Republicans who prefer to
stand by the Administration and help TO
restore the Union, rather than. glory in a
Radical victory over the President whom
they helped to elect; and, more than all,
perhaps on account of a couple of votes
cast in Congress by their honorable friend,
which, after all, seems to have been, in one
instance, little too radical and cowardly !;
and in the other, little too ''cute" and too
selfish, to wit: First, as. he claims his vote
to give the right of suffrage to the c0lored
gentlemen in the District Of Columbid, was
cast because their uvotihg wis neees.
sary to wrest the city government OF WASH
ington from the hands, ofthose whom he
was pleased to consider white rebels, and
TO protect himself from vi0lehce! Secondly, I
bounty that they so bravely earned, while
he so coolly slips into his own pocket two
thousand dollars extra pay for casting the
aforesaid obnoxious votes, is deemed too
shrude. But as drowning men are said to,
grab at straws, you will not be surpriSedto
learn that the friends of Mr.. She1iabarger
have made a very long grab ut the Irish
American vote, through the Fenian tUroan4
izatien, dandW have missed ityta mile or
more ~ ..,s,,. ,,,iii,, fr. ,.;,d -;
Let me relate little, Incident that came
under my own observation: Happening,
on Saturday last9.t to be speaking tOoa
merchant, an oIrishmaul entered the store,
and was asked "WelL Thomas, are, you
going to support Mr.. Shellabarger? ?" 'ENo,
be me sowl." "Why appt2 You are surely
not going to vote for Miller: He is a great,
Johnson man, and, you know johnson
pouneed ON the Feniahsa when they might
haYatakeD Canada hut for, him Yin tSWalh \
sin. are you sh,pe Miller told johnson to do
that? "No; but when he is a johnson
man, you know he esupports all his p0ficy,"
'fDidy YOU vote for Johnsoh, sir ?"1l|I did.nT
'sAnh whythe blazes dOn'tyousupports sil !,
his policy P1t Because, il l. had known,he
would turn out So, i would not have voted
for him. NJ "Qh, well as yeti are such a
bad Judge Of public linen and So easily
cheated, you had lbetterY Yotafor Miller this |
time, and begoraJ III bet me life,heneyer
will cheat .yon the way Shellabarger cheat
ed the soldiers, voting against the OBouhty
bill, after aIlhis profession OF love for 'the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES hei ran avin Cox two
WEARS 400 -,