Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-03
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A Voice from the Ranks.
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- NEWARK, LICKING Co.. OHIo.l
September %, 1867.
feel it my duty in behalf of near two
hundred of the White Boys in Blue, of
Newark, to notice and reply to dirty.
contemplate insult in the Journal of the
9th ult., written by some soreheaded Rad
ical, who is alarmed at the signs of the
times. This exceedingly disinterested pa
triot, after expressing his surprise, or as
he says, modification, vomits forth his dis
gusting TRADE in the old sing-song, Radi-
cal style, warning us White Boys in Blue
from giving aid and eountenanee to sach
meu as Vallandigham and Voorhees, in
their noble endeavors to regenerate our
distracted and unreconstructed Union.
Now, it seems to me that Mr. Soldier, Cor,
as he should have signed himself, Solo
mon 2d,) would find good food for refec-
ton in studying the past record of some of
his own party leaders, such as Sir B. But
T ler, the Knight of the Silver Spoons; Ben.
: Wade, the secessionist of 1901, and John
q ny Logan, who would have been a rebel,
but found it would not pay. These three
will suffice for the present. Then, when
"Soldier" finds subjects scarce in his own
party, it will be time enough for him to
spit forth his dirty slanders upon!
such sterling patriots as Clement L..
Vallandigham and Daniel W.. Voorhees,.
Soldier says he is mortified. Mortified at
what? Is it because he sees SO many thou
sand of our gallant boys leaving the rotten
and rapidly decreasing Radical Disunion-
lists party, and standing forth proudly and
nobly now in peace as in wan for the I'm
ion, North and South? He seems surprised
to think we have sense and Judgment suffi-
cient to discriminate between right and
wrong, Union and Disunion, and mortified
to discover that we are now free American
citizens, and dare to vote, as we fought, for
the Union, the Constitution and the en-
forcement of the Laws, uninflueDced by
the bayonet or official displeasure, as we
were used to during the late war.
We enlisted to sustain the Government
of the United States against armed rebels
: in the Southern States. We fought for
and maintained the supremacy Of our
glorious Stars and Stripes. Johnny Reb
fought us long and manfully, and when he
was whipped laid down his arms and own
ed up he was vanquished. Then after we
returned home to enjoy our homes in the
blessings of peace, we are told the war IS
not over, that ten States did succeed in
doing what we proved was impossible-se-
,ceded from the Union. After proving by
the force of arms that the Southern States
could not, did not get out of the Union, and
after the rebs. acknowledged that stern,
undeniable fact, we are told by the Radi-
, cal tinkers at Washington that they did get
out of the Union, and the Union is dissolv-
ed, and they are the only men who can
reconstruct our country. WE'LL, we wait
and see, and after tinkering and mending
our glorious old Constitution SO that Il the
original trainers OF it would not know IT,
they, suddenly drop their mask and come
forth from two years treasonous plotting
and scheming, and present us with the
Union as they would have it. The South
ern States Africanized, and the White
Americans enslayed, and liberty kept