The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-20
Side Issues.

l. hC OORPQAnttA0e hef - NNONssANSss
ed none OF theiE principles. Val
landigham, a convicted traitor and
conspirator, is yet the controlling
spirit Of the party. They pass res
olations attheir State Conventions
publish them once, and and then
bury them out ofsight. They dare
not make a square stand.up fight
ontheir principles. Defeat follows
every such effort. They are get.
ting tired of this thing. They
want Offices. >They have been mar.
tyrs to principle long enough
Vallandigham is still allowed Ia
move the wires, but he must be
kept behind the curtain.
Henceforth their principles are
70 be masked, evaded or deuied--
They hope to win in the present
campaign by raising. side issues
Something to suit each locality
will be brought up.
In one place the republicans will
be represented as puritanic advo
Gates of u temperance law in an
other as the enemies Of temperance,
In such counties as Fairfield the
Republican party will be held re-
sponsible for the tax levy to build
a new court house, though the law
authorizing the levy was passed al
the earnest solicitation of theia'
Democratic Representative, backed
by the leading Democrats Of the
county.
There will be as many issues as
there are counties in the State
Democratic principles in one coun-
ty will be diametrically opposite
to Democratic principles in an
other.
We trust that our friends of the
Republican press throughout the
State, while prepared to meet them
on all local and side issues, will
charge home upon them
That the Democratic party of
Ohio, during the war, gave encour-
agement, aid and comfort to the
armed enemies of the nation.
That Democrats expressed feel
ings of regret when our armies
were successful, and rejoiced over
rebel victories;
That they would have given
more substantial aid to the rebell-
ion, by taking up arms in its be-
half, if they had not lacked the
physical courage to do so;
That Democrats did their utmost
to demoralize aud break up our
armies by inducing soldiers to
desert;
That they organized secret soci
cites, and laid in supplies of arms
and ammunition, to resist tho draft,
and would have carried their de-
signs into execution had it not been
for the presence of the loyal mi
litia;
That they approve the murder
of Union soldiers by shielding the
murderers from punishment, and
by putting them in nomination for
high and responsible Offices;
That thousands of democrats left
their places of residence in Ohio
and took up their abode in Canada
in order to evade their duty to
their country;
That every rebel soldier who has
soitled in Ohio, every dcserter,
bounty jumper, and draft sneak,
votes the straight Democratic tick.
et
That the Democratic party pro-
posesy by indircction, TO rcpudiate
the National debt, and to destroy
the ability of the Government to
pay pensions to the disabled Ulicn
soldiers, and the widows and or
phans of those who fell in battle;
That Vallandigham, and every
representative Democrat in the
State, holds that it should be re-
garded as disgrace and not as an
honor, to have served in the vol.
unteer army during the late war;
That it is a fundamental idea in
the Democratic crced, that the
States in this Union are sovereign
powers, and that each State may
nullify the laws of the United
States at its pleasuroj
That the Northern Democracy
are the natural allies of the South.
ern rebels, each wing of tho party
holding that the late. war waged on
the part Of the Government for the
maintenance of tho territorial in
tegrity of the Union, was barbar-
ous crusade against an innocent
and unoffcnding people, and
That tho Union armies were
composed of the "offscourings" Of
the country-assas murderers,
thieves and scoundrels.
Friends of Justice, Liberty, and
Free Government; Veterans of the
Armies of Virginia and the Poto-
mac; of tho Cumberland, the Ohio
and the Tennessee-your deeds in
arms have conferred immortal hon,
ors upon Ohio, and have saved your
country from ruin! But your
work is not yet done. Close up
your ranks, and let us make one
more charge. and put to final rout
and shame the enemies of Liboity
and Union.- .--[Col. Journal.