The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-07-19
COPPERHEADs and SOLDIERS.

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for fear that the soldiers will be neg
lected by the Union party. They have
put one LIE Fever, Brevet General,
upon their ticket for Secretary of
of State, and claim that he ought to be
supported by the soldiers and their
friends. How true soldier can run
upon copperhead ticket, has always
been mystery to us. A man could
not understand the doctrines of the
Democratic party during and since the
war, and act with that party politically,
aud at the same time be an honest SOL
der, without being guilty of great
inconsistency. AT the commencement
of the rebellion, the Ohio Democracy
promised, in State convention at Co.
lumbus, that the 100000 Democrats of
Ohio would stand by the rebels. And
they carried it out in every thing save
fighting. They resisted the draft to
fill up the army; they ran off to Cana
da sooner than go into the Union army;
they called the soldiers hirelings, thieves
and robbers, and said they were en-
gagged in an old John Brown raid upon
the people of the South they resisted
the law permitting soldiers to vote in
the army, both on its passage, and then
in the courts, not only in Ohio, but in
every other State where such law was
passed, or an attempt made to pass it;
they organized secret societies, the OBJ
ject of which was to get up a revolu.
ton in the North, and attack the soldiers
in the rear; they got up bloody riot
in the City of New York, in aid of the
rebellion, and it required thirty thou
sand Union soldiers to keep them down,
and this at period when every soldier
was needed at the front. These, and a
hundred other things were done by
Democrats during the time that bloody
treason was throtlting the nation. And
now these men ask that their record,
made within the past FIVE years, be all
forgotten, and that Union soldiers vote
for these, their implacable foes, and Bit
ter, malignant enemies.
The soldiers, and all other loyal
citizens cannot forget that ten cent
Vallandigham is the patron saint of the
Ohio Democracy. They cannot forget
that this man proposed, in Congress, on
the 9TH day Of February, 1861, and
after secession had progressed for two
months, to divide the Union into four
sections, putting all the slave States into
one section, to be called the South /;
and this plan provided to make secess-
ion legal. Article l4th of this plan con-
tanned the following remarkable plan, to
legalize and secure the secession of the
Slave States:
"ARrrcLE II. No State shall sccede without
the consent Of the Legislatures of oil the States
of the section to which the State proposing to
secede belongs The President shall have power
to adjust with seeding States oil questions arising
by reason of their secession but the terms of ad-
justment shall be submitted to the Congress for
their approval before the same shall be valid"
There you have it. All the slave
States are put into one section. BY the
consent of the Legislatures of the
States Of this section, secession is legal,
and the questions arising out of this
secession, must be submitted to Con-
gress; but Congress no where has the
right, under this plan of Vallandigham
and the Democracy, to prevent Sc
cession. The soldiers and the people
will not forget all these things.
This plan of Vallandigham can be
found in the Congressional Globe, Part
1st, I'd Session, seth Congress, pages
794 and 795.