The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-03

ana WDen her citizenB asked\
Where are you going?" his reply
was, sGoing where We. please-to
take Philadelphia, New York,
Washington, whichever we want. !"
4 With that spirit they had crossed
our lines, in June, 1868. Where
were they on the 10Th of July,
lS632 They concluded chat they
4 would not take Philadelphia. or
Baltimore or Washington. They
thought It military policy first to
take Gettysburg, with tho Army of
the Potomac, but did not get it,
and when he Was writing that letter
on the same morning, if be had
Tread the papers he had heard that
Lee had struggled and struggled to
ito the Potomac with his shosts
lin order to escape, with at least
thirty thousand dof his brayest and
test dead, wounded, or prisoners,
and in such condition that that
proud army was never again res
stored.
''Botter prepared than ever
said Vallandigham, 'fo make good
their inexorable purpose" How
they road facts. You would think
that would be a lesson to the peo.1
lple, but twas not. | understood
that Thurman was wise when here.
! | hopo it will hold out. / heard
that at the end ofthe Yallandigham
campaign, when speaking, the last
night before the election, in front
of the State-house, after making
forty speeches over tho State, he 4
was as wise. Oh, vain creduIity
The wires carried the news that
Vallandigham was buried under.
one hundred Thousand majority for
3rough. He kept along in the
same path, abusing his country.
In 1864, he was elected delegate
from Ohio at large, and goes to
Chicago and says that the war was
a failure, and that failure was rath-
er good reading. Laughter.
Two campaigns had been going /
on up to that time.--lho campaign
of Thurman in 1862, and the cam. |
paign Of Grant in 1863 G4. Val. /
landigham had come home to en-
Tighten us on these topics, and
when be saw McClellun's letter
which did not tally with the plat
form we talk about, he proceeded
TO say that the platform was right,
not dwelling much upon the fact
that Mcclellan was wrong, because
he was voting for McCleIlan.-
GCheers
What has happened again this
campaign? Up to this time in
1861, he said more lives have been
lost, more hard fighting has been
done, more courage shown by the
Federal as well as Southern sol
diers, than in any former campaign.
What is accomplished? General
Grant'is nearer Richmond, occupy.
lug a territory of perhaps eleven
which was not in the posses. |
sion of the United States when Che
campaign began. That was the
way he saw it-though We had
driven Lees army into their on.
trenchments, under such circum. !
stances, that itnever dared 90 out /,
again, and stayed there, until fiEal-
" Grantput his hand upon them. !
How about the Southern cam.
palgn2 He said, "General Sher 4
man, through the courage of his :
powerful army, has taken Atlanta, =
We thought it a good capture.
What does he say9 IA town somc- =
what larger than Sidney, and it
cost him sixty thousand men and i
four or fivo months of the most
!erriple campaigning ever done on u
his continent or any other" 1fls
my soldiers of Sherman's army is :
Zero, want him to know what o
hey thought of him. He says
Sherman gets strip of from two g,
% five miles, and one hundred and
hirty eight miles long. He has 81
got that far into Georgia, but to
got il, he surrendered up all of
Texas, nearly all of Louisiana, Ar. n
'ansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and ct
'art OF Tennessee, which were in u u
possession of the Federals in MAY, nj
nd had now been gained by the W
armies; all this has ca
'een given up to gain a barren
trip of country on the line of
abroad. The war, then, is prop.
rly pronounced, in a military u
'oint of view failure. re
That is the style of record these " "
Gentlemen seek to cover up. Do II
ou blame them? 1t shows good t.
ense. l would want to hide il too. tn
hat istho point2 Trust no man .a .a
D garner up the fruits of victory, o. q,
'ho did not hclp gain it. Trust fpt
o man with power, until recon. an an
Lruction is complete, who was uu bl
lithful to the country during the sd
'ar.
Why, he says General Hayes en- :
rely mistakes the issue. The is.
ne was the personal liberty of Val.
lndigham, who had been impris 4
ned under Order No 3S, tried and e
anished from his country, and his y
Individual rights disrogardcd; and, ssts
cling a Demo tcrat, Thurman says
c supported these rights. Well,
nen, washe justified in going a. .
ainst his comtry2 Does that fol :
'w2 The idea is, that when the !
Ights otalf the people Of this land =
re at stake, tho Constitution at :
-ake, the Union in danger, thou.
lnds of lives beng sacrificed, the c@ %
lace of every man is on The side 81