The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-07-05
The Union Nomination for Secretary OF
state--DemoeratIc "sOrrow."
Communication from con. wllae..

The subjoined communication from
Gen. Thomas +. Wildes, late a candi-
date before the Union State Conven-
ton for nomination to the Office of Sec,
rotary of State, is extracted from the
Athens Messenger of the 2Sth ult. 1t
is most manly and gratifying expires.
sion of sentiment, and should insure
The General a telling remembrance by
the Union party when future favors
areto be dispensed:
\ ATHENS, o., June 25, 1866.
EDIToR MEssENGER;-I notice many
Of the Democratic papers are very .:sor.
ry" indeed our Convention did not
nominate a soldier" for Secretary oil
State. Now, | presume, L have as
good reasons to be 'sorry" the Con-
vention did not nominate soldier
for that Office as any Democratic edi
tor in Ohio. But as ! feel no sorrow
because it did not, | protest against
Democratic editors feeling sorry" a.
6outit.s No sympathy from that quar-
ter is desirable. Every soldier" very
well remembers how "sorry" these
seltsame Democratic editors used to
feel whenever the fortunes of war
went against US on tho field of battle,
and with whom their sympaLhies were
on such occasions, No Ohio soldier
has ever had the courage to contem-
plato the state of things that would
necessarily have followed the election
OF Vallandigbam as Governor, or Nc
ClelIan as President. No soldier
has forgotten the dark days of '62,
'63, and the early months of '64 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 enemies then in our
rear? No other than these self same
Democratic editors, and their coadju.
tors, who are now expressing so much
sorrow because our Convention did not
nominate a soldier for Secretary of
State; How apropos, to this, is tho
old rhyme:
"Alttlc nonsense, now and then,
Is rclished by the best Of men,"
Of all classes of voters the soldier
is, and should be, the most careful for
whom he casts his votc. He requires
no Democratic editor to teach him the
principles for which ho fought. In.
stead of General Ben. LeFevre get
ting the votes Of soldiers as the nom.
.inee of the Copperhead party because
be was a soldier, every true soldier
will scorn and contemn him as rene
gade, and as false to tho cause for which
he fought, Witness the fate of Nc
Clellan, Morgan, Slocum, Mccall anc
others who attempted to drag into The
meshes of the Democracy, the vote O.
the soldier. Defeat, disgraceful defeat
has always been their portion. No
only this, but the cry Of Shamel is sur,
to follow all soldiers who repudiat,
and give the lie to their profession, b,
uniting themselves with party of men
who while they were in the field, wer,
aiding and abetting their enemies
through the agency Of secret Societies
and Il press tceming with the rankes
treason.
But the trick is too transparent
What began with Mcclellan will doubt
less end with LeFovre. And what al
end | am inclined to think, upor
the whole, however, that if Ben lie
Fevre had boon at tho front through
all tho terrible fighting OF 81, inslcat
of in the rear, at his own procurement
he would now bo q Union man ant
acting with the Union party. "Bum
ming" is hard on loyalty. "Bum
mers" were pretty sure to be for Val
landigham, or some other equally vi
cious thing, and opposed to this ID
abolition war on general principles
They were apt to have too much tim
TO devote to y"ung ladies of secession
lproclivitics, and in such case as Lc
Fever's, where yourg man hadn't ia
TO go any how, the result was general
| iy fatal, and good deal of "independ
ent" talk about tho "outrages'' OF th
government, the "unholness" of tn
war, &c &C., might be heard in tn
presence Of private soldiers and 9th
ers of lower rank than themselves, bu
Of equal "bumming" propensities :
Soldiers are like communities: Their
are always some black sheep anon
them-a few who will do disgracefu
things, such, for instance, rs "bum
and vote tho Democratic tickot Blu
the mass of them know very we
lwhat they are about, and in tho hon
esty of their hearts will sustain wit
their ballots what they have 80 uobl
achieved by their bayonets and bullet
Notwithstanding the fact that a soldit
can be found so forgetful OF tho prir
|ciples for which he went out to battl
as to allow himself TO be placed on tn
ticket of that party, which, byits syn
Ipathy, and by every means in its pow
or, endeavored to ronder nugatory il
and every other soldiers efforts to pv
down treason and save the nation,
i Respectfully,
/ TH0s, +, WILDEs.