The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-08-23


cession to another. But tb bose declara-
tions of tho State Central Committee
are certainly not so abhorrent or IN.
just in themselves that they should be
allowed to frighten true Union man
into turning his back on an organiza-
tion which held up your hands, Col.
Oonnell, while on the field of bloody,
conflict against internal rebels in arms
striking at the nations. ife-or,t to i'm
pei such true Union man into adopting
an attitude of virtual subseryiency to
the same rebels, most of whom are this
day as determined as ever to send this
nation down to ruin if they are not al
lowed to rule it. These declarations
are not half SO severe on rebels and
traitors, nor half SO energetically ex-
pressed, as ANDREW JOHNSON, in his
patriotic days, was in the habit Of tier.
ating and reiterating on every occa-
sion in which he spoke in public.
But we have something further
The editor of the Sandusky Register,
vino was Also we are informed, mem
Der of the State Convection, makes
the following statement in a recent is
sue of his paper: ""ai istF5
"Col, John M. Connell OF Fairfield
county was q delegate to the Union
State Convention held at Columbus in
June last. lie was placed on the COM
mittec on resolutions, and as member
of that committee was moro urgent and.
persistent than any 3oother = member in
his advocacy offthe a'Coii gressional
'plan'hias embraced in the constitution
al amendment. That amendment was
adopted as the platform of tho Onion
party Of Ohio and Col ConnelI gave as
sacred a pledge as is ever given in pol
itics TO stand on that platform and
support the nominees of the 'Conven-
tion. Li77gi-t
7 The editor ofthc Register ascribos
the Colonol's change Of political base
to the fact that ten days after that
Convention he received lucrative
appointment from the President. We
are making no charge. that this ap,
pointment, either when in prospect or
since its reception, has been the infu-
encing cause of Col. Connell's "much
to bo regretted" political tergiversa-
tion-but as he takes occasion to cool
" and complacently class US among
those "wbo wear party shackles and
are driven by the party LASH" we
would bc perfec ly justified in re-
torting that he wears the collar
of the man who tossed him that SOP
from the Treasury, and is driven by
tho official lash Of the dispenser of
crumbs from the public table.
The assumption by Col. Connoll that
by the State Central Committees ad :
dress of the 18th of July "the old Un
ion party organized by the patriots of
tho war, was made to give place to a
new radical organization" is q stu
pendous piece of balderdash to come
from an infnitesimal fraction OF that
"old Union party" which has been
sloughed off as a diseased portion ofits
body, in the tide of progressing events
which impels all unsound political ex-
crescences to detach themselves from
it and hic to the several positions for
which they are fitted by their innate
proclivitics and affinities.
Says Col. Connell, further - the
majority who have drifted or been
driven into the support of radicalism
are either unrcfecting partizans or
timid men who would be driven from
the path to Heaven if told that they
were treading it in company with Val
landigham."
Probably the most OF us ''timid men"
are not quite so ignorant in relation to
tho point toward which we are journey
ing as the Colonel would persuade
himself Should any one have the as.
surance to make the preposterous as
sertion that we were treading the path
to Heaven in company with Vallandig-
ham, our timidity might not prevent
our calling him very great liar, on
the ground that by no possibility could
Vat,, or any unregenerate traitor like
him be found walking in the path to
Heaven. Buff Col. Connell thinks he
can find some celestial dwelling place
by going along with Vallandgham on
the way to his pre- ordained dcstina-
tion, why, as he seems in fair way
to find tho road in which tho "Great
Abject" walks, let him strap his KNAPP
sack on his back, take his staff in his
hand, and, with that interesting spe-
cimcn of an Ohio Coppcrhead for a
companion-trduel.
A few words more, only. On the
questions of loyalty and disloyalty, pe
stand where We have ever stood since
they were raised in the land. We