Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-12

ously, and unless the people can De dlyert-
ed from them, every thing is lost to the Re-,
publicans. In one county, the Democrats
will claim that the tax for new court houses,
is owing to Republican legislation
the Republicans having a two-thirds ma
jority in both branches of the Legislature.
In other counties the Democrats will
contend that the weevil and rust in the
wheat is owing to the fact that the Repub-
licans had atwo-thirds majority in Com
gress and In the Legislature Ei1 G{sA &
In other counties, the Democrats will ar
que that if the Republicans had not had
two thirds majority in Congress and the
Legislature, the potatoes would be of bet
ter quality than they are.
In other counties, the Democrats will
put up a claim that the dampness of the
ground, operating against early corn-plant-l
ing and its successful growing, was all ow-
ing to the fact that the Republicans had in
both Congress and the Ohio Legislature the
all-powerful two-thirds majority.
1t is these side issues the Journal is agon-
izingly troubled over, and wishes the pub
lie mind to be diverted from. asAs-sAN a'Af
1t therefore calls upon the public to rec
ollect, that VALLANDIGHAM was convicted
of, and sent out of the country for eating
forty-three Union men, fricaseed, without
so much as even using salt, pepper and
mustard, This is a straight issue. Should
the Democrats succeed, VALLANDIGHA8I
will straightway commence on the forty
fourth Union man, and depopulation of the
Union ranks will follow inevitably. de : %
1t is to be charged home upon the DEM
ocrats, and this is enjoined as pious duty,
that 'sthe Democratic party of Ohio,
during hewar, gave encouragement, aid
and comfort to the armed enemies of the,
nation,n by sending into the Rebel armies
seventeen million, three hundred thousand
six hudred and torty-two recruits; .''
That the Democrats when they heard of
Rebel defeats and Union victories, put
on sack cloth, rolled themselves in ashes,
and went through the streets crying ''wo
is me; wo is me;" tp-e , uoit,f s..
That the Democrats did their utmost to
demoralize and break up our armies by in
ducing soldiers to desert, to this end sell
ling the Government shoddy, peculating
on tin cups, selling to the Government
maggoty meat for the soldiers, and refusing
to advance money on Government securi-
ties until the Government was compelled
to sell them at discount of fifty and sixty
per cent, and with an understanding that
all the investments they should make
therein should be exempted from taxation;
That chat great Democratic Governor
ANDREW, of Massachusetts,, told the Gov
ernment it should not have another man
from Massachusetts, unless it pronounced
in favor of Emancipation; s7s iHcas.. ~
That it was the Democratic preachers of
Chicago that helped prolong and throw OBJ
stacles in the way of the war by going to
President Lincoln, and demanding in the
name of the Lord that the negroes should
be made free or the Union should be per-
mitted to become by-word and reproach
among the nations of the earth;
That the Democrats tore down and mob
bed presses, for insisting that the Constitu-
ton should be respected;
That the Democrats maltreated, bruised,
battered and killed citizens, because they
had the hardihood to say that the War
should be fought for the Union and not for
Abolition; 'iils- IS.-, ID. (
That the Democrats in the dark hours of
the mig hit stole upon their Union neighbors,
and without warrant of law, for the pur-'
pose of wreakipg vengeance upon them,
carried them off into bastiles, where many
died, and others contracted disease, from
the bad effects of which they have not yet
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That the Democrats love Constitution
al Government more than Military Gov
ernment;
That the Democrats are such barbarians
as to believe White men superior to the
That the Democrats believe the expendi-
lures of the respective Governments, Fed
eral, State, county, city and town, should
be reduced to the lowest point possible; 5s
That the Democrats want to diminish the
tax gatherers;
That the Democrats want to reduce the
taxes aoie,is'g ri e.a ~.
: That the Democrats want no privileged
class in this country;
That the Democrats want equal taxation
to prevail. e7 a1 ..,i.
q Don't let the Democrats evade these is
sues. They are committed to them. Don't
let them take refuge in any Of their side is
sues.
Shall they say they are in favor of Negro
Suffrage, don't believe them. r ~ .-st
Shall they say they are in favor of dis
solved Union, don't believe them.
Shall they say they are in favor of a Mil
itary Government, don't believe them. =
-. Shall they say they are in favor of con-
solidation, don't believe them.
Shall they say they are in favor of waste
tulness and improvidence and rascality in
the appropriation of money wrung from
the taxpayers, don't believe them.
For they will lie outrageously if they
shall saw any such things.