The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-05-16
fFrom the Ohio State Journal]
Judge of the Supreme Court
Gen. Moses B. Walker.

0She 4'AopN1tS AS' W a"AAASAs
ED. JotRN AG:-The friends Of
Gen. Moses B. w Walker, of Hancock
county, will bring his name before
the approaching Republican Conven-
ton as candidate for Judge Of the
Supreme Court AS one ofhis very
numerous friends, | ask the pfivil-
ege, through your solumns, to spread
thefore the people of the State some
of the reasons that will beurged in
favor of his nomination. Tsl ',ffs.
| Gen. Walker is eminently quail
fled for the position. AS iuris-
and scholar he has but few superb
ors in Ohio He has been in the
practice of the law, and at the head
of his profession in the localities
where he resided for the last twenty
two years, except from 1861 to 1865
during which time he held com
mission in the army.
He served with distinction in the
Ohio Senate in 1S50-51, at which
time he took advanced ground on
the great question of human liberty,
and has steadfastly maintained that
ground from that day to this. He
was at that time a Wing, and the
pro slavery or the "Silver Grey" ell
ement of his party became so dis
gusted and enraged at his opposition
to the Fugitive Slave Law, as to pre-
vent his return to the Senate.
In the summer of 1861, he was
appointed Captain in the regular
army, and, about the same time, was
commissioned by Gov. Dennison as
Colonel Of the 31st Ohio Volunteers
He went to the front with his regi-
ment carly in the fall of 1861, and
remained on active duty with the
army from that time until the close
of the war, except when disabled by
wounds received in battle.
He commanded a brigade during
the greater portion of the war; and
was present at, and participated in,
every battle in which the Army of
the Cumberland was engaged, except
Mission Ridge, and was absent from
his command at the time of that bat
tie by reason of wounds received ut
Chicamauga.
The judgement and gallantrv dis
played by Col. Walker in rallyine
his troops at Chicamauga, after oul
lines were broken on Sunday morn
ing, called forth the encomiums OF
his superior officers and it was ad
mitted that the stubborn defense
mde by his brigade, which held the
key to Thomas position, did muck
to- save the day, and prevent the ut
ter defeat Of our army.
The battle Of Hoover's Gap was
one Of the most brilliant actions O
the war. General Walker command
ed our forces in that action, and re
: ceived great and well deserved praist
for the intrepid and skillful name
, in which be handled his brigade, b1
which a rebel division was dislogeC
from a strong position in a rugged
mountain pass, and compelled to re
tire
The 31st Ohio constituted a par
of Walkers command during nearl'
the whole war. The bullet-riddlet
flags of that gallant regiment, nov
to the flag room 1.-THE Capitol, at
test the fiery storms through whicl
t it passed.
Gen Walker is, and ever since th
organization Of the Republican,
ways up with, and generally in ad
vance Of his party on all the LEADING
questions Of the day.
He is an accomplished debatel
and a powerful, fluent, and well il
, formed public speaker. He ha
5 twice been the Republican candidat
> for Congress in the hopelessly Coz
perhead 5th District, and made.
gallant run each time. On that az
count he is entitled to considers
: ton.
: No one has forgotten the stirrin
s address Of the Army ofthe Cumbel
q land to the people of the North
the early part of the year 1868, du
J. ing the darkest hours of the rebe
lion. That address, of which Gel
Walker was one Of the principal O.
a iginators, was the key note to I'll
: political campaign in 1868, whe
IL Brough received over 100000 majo
IS ity.
e It is true that many Of Gen. Wall
;. er's friends are soldiers, but they d
r not press his claims as a soldi'
. merely. If he had never been in Il
IL army his claims would be, at leas
/ equal to any man proposed for Il
W position; and and, surely, his m
g itary serv1ces,in addition to his 9th
= claims and qualifications, shou
count something ia his favor.
A SOLDIER.
-h Gis~y,fz, O. the Piled On.