The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-10-03
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A Word 10 Soldiers.
JACKSON COUNTY, ONO, !
September &c, 1867. {

Editor StanoGTd:
There has been, (and is at present,
great talking rs to how the soldiers will
vote. Let the Democracy of Jackson
County ask every intelligent soldier how
are you going to vote this tall7 The
reply viii be in straightforward man
ner, Glow did ! shoot in the Army
sir;7 II don't know, says he. Eve.
ry iatelligcnt soldier will answer, II do,
aud am going to vote for the same
principles, and | hope that there are nc
soldiers i'll jackson County but what
will say Gmsji to that
Soldiers of jackson County, how
many times did you, on the battle field
say: "Oh had Only the power to an
initiate the rebels and their adheronts,
l would gladly do so. Now, fellow
soldiers, this coming election gives you
an opportunity to pay them portion of
the vast debt you owe them for the
numbering of your comrades, yea tho
numbering of your fathers and brothers.
Fellow soldiers have you forgotten who
those were that poured upon us their
vilest epithets, by terming us "Lincoln
hirelings, thieves, murderers, &C. have
you forgotten that they were the Dem
ocracy of the North that did that while
We were fighting the Democrats of the
South? You soldiers that have been at
Bell Isle, Salisbury and Andersonville, e,
recall those dark days of your captivity
to your memory. Think over what you
suffered there from the hands of the
Democracy, mediate on it before you
cast your vote in the coming election.
Pause for moment, and think who
were our best friends while we were
escaping from the prison pens at the
South Who was it that fed and guided
us safe to our lines, while the Democrats
were with their bloodhounds on our
track, endeavoring to recapture us.
You soldiers that were so fortunate as
not to be taken prisoners, imagine four
teen thousand woe-begone soldiers, un-
named heroes, who had battled for our
sacred cause on twenty blood-drenched
fields, in an enclosure of five or six
acres, half of them without other shell
ter than the holes they had dug in the
earth, or under the small buildings used
as hospitals Go into the hospitals and
see the wasted forms of our brave COM
rades. o God, what sight. Among
that vast number, not single face re-
laxed into smiles every eye was dull
with dependency every cheek sunken
with want; every lip Trembling with
unuttered pain. Think Of it soldiers (;
on the 25th Of November, 1854, some
City or a hundred prisoners made an
attempt to escape. In this they failed,
and when put back inside Of the en-
closure, the rebels, or Southern Demo-
Gratis, discharged two Of their field
pieces bearing on the pen, and for half
an hour did they continue shooting into
the shattered tents and holes, upon the
poor helpless soldiers who were trying
to screen themselves from tho murder
ous missiles. That day, soldiers, sew
enty.ive of our brave patriots and
noble comrades were murdered, and
buried ia nm enemies soil, and their
blood calls onus who are living to avenge
their murders and | hope there is not a
q soldier in Jackson County, or the
State of Ohio, that will vote with the
rebel Democracy this fall, when the
voice of our fallen braves echoes and
re-echoes TO US, "Remembsr the principles
w died for, and who iOere our eneniss."
Respectfully yours, etc,
ASoLDIER WHO WAS A PRsoNER.