The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-09-14

URBANA, o., Sept. 8 the Copper
heads of this county, together with
few bread and butter nuts, taking
advantage of what they supposed to
be feeling OF dissatisfaction among
few of our soldier boys at not be.
ing able to secure in the county I'M
ion Convention the nomination Of
soldiers for all the offices, conceived
the idea OF issuing a call to the sol
diers and sailors OF Champaign coun.
ty to meet in mass convention at Or
bona, at 2 O'Clock to day, for the pur-
pose of putting in nomination q sol.
dicrs' county ticket. The Copper.
heads generously agreed with their
A. johnson friends that, il ticket
composed entirely of soldiers could
be nominated, they would support it,
hoping by that means to defeat the
Union candidates for Probate Judge
and Auditor, their associates on the
same ticket for Clerk of Court, Sher
i'll, Recorder and Coroner, being sol
diers. They hoped by this means,
above all things, to so distract our
forces rs to endangcr the success OF
Hon. VIM. Lawrence.
The call was circulated by inter
estcd parties through the county, and
the innocent statement made that it
was for Soldiers Convention, and
thus a number of names was obtain
ed. The soldier boys, finding out
the ruse which their old enemies were
attempting to play upon them, quick
Iy passed the word along the line to
turn out in force.
When the hour arrived, the Court
House was filed to oveYilowine.--
Capt G. +. McMorrau was chosen
President, and Major NJ. b. C.
Wright elected Secretary.
On taking the Chair. Capt. McMor.
ran made brief but effective speech,
in which he had occasion to indorse
Congress and to say that unrcpentant
rebels are not fit to assist in making
laws Tor loyal men. The Union par
ty is our only hope. 1t has saved
the country and we will not give it
up. He cautioned the meeting to
act prudently and consistently and
all would be well.
On motion of Lieut.. W. a. Brand,
six delegates and six altcrnates were
appointed To represent Champaign
county in the Soldiers National Con
vention and Reunion, to be held at
! PittsburT on the 25th inst. as fol.
lows: Col. j. Is. Armstrong, Major
Thomas Mcconnell, Major NJ. b. C..
Wright, Capts. Geo. II, McCrea,
Fcrsalius llorr and Robt Lamb.
Alternates--Col W. II. Warrick.
Col. G.. II. Hedges, Major II. n.
Benjamin, Major A. L. Sheppard,
Capt. I. a. Coggill and Scrgt Frank
McAdams.
A committee on resolutions was
appointed, and during its retirement,
Col. Carr, Of Tenn, who had drop.
ped in on his return from the Con.
yention OF Southern Loyalists at Phil.
adelphia, was called upon, and ad
dressed the Convention ut consider
able length. He spoke of the trials
and hardships suffered by the loyal
men OF Penncssee in trying to reach
the boys in blvc; how they were
hunted down In The mountains and
hundreds of them shot down like
dogs, for no crime except refusing to
tight against their couutry's flag. He
said before the firing on Sumter, he
heard Andrew Johnson, in public
address, ask eQnestion, ''Is there a
man under the sound OF my voice
who will submit to the election Of
Abraham Lincoln?' After Johnson
became President, and "my policy
was announced, Union men were con.
tinually displaced and traitors to cur
Government, traitors to every thing
that is honest. and good, and true,
put in their places. / hold him re
sponsible for the murder of Union
men at New Orleans He knew that
loyal Convention would be broken
up, and the murderers had his sane
tion. There is no internal bush
whacker or murderer of Union men
in the South who is not johnson
man, h
The Committee on Resolutions,
through Lieut. w. A. Brand, the
Chairman, reported the following
preamble and resolutions, which were
adopted unanimously, and with much
enthusiasm. Some of them, on their
reading, were greeted with rounds OF
applause.
WHEREAs. The self styled Dem
ocrats, through their papers, and by
the mouths Of their noisy orators du-
ring the past five years, have heaped
every manner of abuse upon the loyal
portion Of the people, and did, for a
long time in the darkest hours of our
troubles, manifest their appreciation
OF the services of our gallant soldiers
and sailors by using the epithets of
'Lincoln hirelings, ,""Lincoln dogs"
"nigger theives," and other oppro-
brious words, too vulgar to be heard
or read, save in Democratic assem-
blies or sheets; and --.-------.---.- 4
WHEREAS, They did also manifest
the loyalty of their hearts in organ
izing reasonable conspiracies thro'
the loyal States of the North, in dis
couragiDg enlistmcnts, in devising
every possible way to preventive
raising and sending of sanitary sup
plies to our soldiers in the field, in
voting against men and money to
prosecute the war, in strengthening
the arms and nerving the hearts OF