Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-08-24
CAMPAIGN JOURNAL.
SOME PLAIN FACTS.

During the war and SINCE T. P. Finefrock
has had a great deal to say about the doctrines
of '7e and 81, "State Sovereignty the "uncon-
stitutionality of coercion" DC. He has repeat
edly argued to his fellow members of the bar at
this place the correctness of these Calhoun here
sizes of secession. He has openly proclaim
ed that be believed in the doctrines of Calhoun;
that State had the right to secede, and the
General Government had no right to prevent
secession. That these positions were maintain
ed by Mr.. F. during the war is well known,
and We make the statement without fear of con-
tradiction. With such theories, il was not
strange that he should have sympathized with
our enemies. Indeed, at the very breaking out
of the war, he declared unequaliiedly that his
heart was with the rebellion and if it were in
his power, he would help the South.
On the occasion of the defeat of our army un-
der Mcclellan in front of Richmond, while
thirty thousand of our brave boys lay weltering
in their own blood, Mr. Finefrock and some of
his confreres in this place got up little cele-
bration and oyster-supper in honor of the rebel
victory. We have this through a democrat
who was invited to participate in the festivities
and was SO disguised at such an exhibition of
disloyslty that he never afterwards acted with
the party. These facts cannot be denied. They
are too well and too generally known. Now
does any one think Mr. Finefrock is any differ.
cit at heart from what he was during he war
If So let such be undeceived. If the war had
anIo1 in tho friumnh of of
would have made different exhibition of his
sentiments from what he does now; but still
they are in fact unchanged.
In New York City is published farcous
democratic magazine entitled "The Old Guard"
which is Devoted to the Political PRINCIPLES
of '76 and '87," and argues in favor of ''State
Sovereignty and Calhounism in general, II
calls the late war for the Union 'tan unholy ab-
clifton crusade against the rights of the South.
1t publishes eulogistic biographies of rebel
generals, with their portraits, including Lee,
Beauregard, Wade Hampton, Price and HILL
1t defends JEFF. Davis, approves President John
sor, abuses Congress, and heaps maledictions
upon Union officers and soldiers. Here is a
specimen:
"A Republican paper says, The editor of
The Old Guard has not yet stopped his ding
dong about the thefts committed by the Union
army in the South No, sir, and he never will
stop it. You who have earned the title of
thieves and the sbettors of thieves, shall wear
the title that belongs to you. Your children
and your children's children, shall know that
you were hieUeS. Never, in honorable and
civilized warfare, were such plunderings COM
mitted before. The march of Grants and
Sherman's armies was simply the stalking
abroad of pl11adeT, arson and rape! On this
account, they have earned an immortality of
infamy, and those who attempt to defend them.
we hold as not much better than the infamous
originals"
The number in which the above extract oc-
ours was published the present month"; Ofthis
magazine, 7. P. FNEFRocK is a regular Sabscri-
Der, patron and reader, at the present time. We
do not guess at this. We know it, and it will
not be denied by any competent authority
Thus we see that what Mr.. F. has been, he still
is. viii Union soldiers vote for such man
Impossible. Dare they trust him ? Never
Will patriotic men, however conservative" al
low their influence to favor, directly or indi-
rectly, the election of such a Representative
They cannot. And the election in October will |
teach the Democracy that the principles of Sc
cession are not endorsed by the Ninth District |