The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-15

HubDafd, or tie Marion DemOcrdi
is about to send the Fool Kille
round, first TO kill Of, some (" specia
half dozsh ndiSidual foolsr and Al
her thatail thed unn,itigatetl fools !
"poor fools" and y" "damphools." -
Now, Hubbard should haze a. care
for upderthls -kwesping 5eondcshha
ton the author of the article heade,
Grand Army Of. the Republic" an,
lpublished in the Courier of the dat
referred to, must be killed, and h
is a friend of Hubbard, and lik
Hal1osrd himsel,wiil probably com
under The lead Of q " daniphool.
Buta word in reply to the notice o
the Grand Army. 1t would be yer,
difficult to utter or imply greater
FIumberof faischoods in SO smalll
space as that occupied by this article
1t is like all others written by out
siders concerning said organization
and, in the mature of things, car
only rest on guess work. The au.
thor Of the article knows not SC
much of what he speaks as Balaam,s
ass, ana or wharke propiresied. OHt
lhasn@et bSep inside out lines and
probably could not come in for want
of the onorahle passport, that we
require OF every soldier who enters
or receives our countersign, That
we are a secret organization is true
but that we are "secret, political
organization, ,yis false All we re.
quire for membership, of a political
nature, is that the candidate should
.be able to show that he .iss and has
,beenioyal TO our Netional Govern.
Imeht. ! TIE writer , Of Grand
Army" says we are q secret, politi-
cal organization. How does he know
this, il t,ueR Has the been yins the
camp, or has some one, sworn to sc
cresy, broken his oath, and told liiE
what our objects and purposes are,
and how we are bound together P
This tdIiveling falsi6er calls as nan
out lawed, secret conelave"i and says
we are armed-we have six muskets,
&c. will soon have more. II mus.
kets were iourY arms, this would he
a very inadequate for our body, for1
can tell this poor, miserable, lying
Copperhead, il / did not think it
would scare him. to. death, that our
name M leei9a " But We lsaxe
arms and what this writer-bad as he
is safd to dread the smeli>of -Nf-is
still il possible, more afraid Olive
arc bound instlle strong panop!y oi
thruth, honor and loyalty to our gov
ernment. We have tolerated the like
of this dastardly slanderer so long
thatEwe shall-notl feel called onto
molSst him soon ,nprdo we much care
what he says; but he gives an opp6r.
tunity for us to invite all those sol,
ders who left the army in good
standing, who have HONORABLE Tdis-
aiargst, hasc been guilty Of oflneither
cowardice or desertion, TO come in
side our ,linesian We are, cpdeayoring
by our association, and by present
volanlasy-contribulion tepromeie e the
mcsns.that wili enablaus to help III
n pecuniary and social manner the
widows and orphans of our fallon
comrades, and to meet such calls or
present need amongst our, comrades
as can lie met by such benevolent
and well deserved systems, as the
Masons, Odd Fellows and others
have elinstitutcd.4 aa1 Ill Tgnsi lnl hi
We have nothing to do with Radio
Gals, Republicans, Copperheads,
Johnson men, Democrats or any 9th.
cr poli tical partiesEor people, - T
oWetsyste ut,ho ptlfe-fiehtsl OF dlse
soldier, OF no matter what party,
when there is titness- ad-mevit, and.
this we can and will do, We nun.
her half the souls Of the country, and
witli our ballots We can and expect
to do our fighting in the future. Our
country men need not fear us. They
tLnsted US once aud they can do, so
agMbH Wspiac$l pr bodies IS a
walf or fire between them and the r
rebel enemies; if need be, we will do
so again.
We have no objection TO Mr.. Hel
ler's resolution, nor do we suppose
Gov. Cox would have Weure 'saitt'
to have, butlsix musketss and those
we certainly got from the'gov,,
ernment.
Now the truth is, the Courier is
doing us a good deal OF advertising
Tor which we feel thankful, but do not
Mr.. pos,SssIa& Pdff .is ibo3e our
merits.
But the "Grand Army" writer
says, in-a grand eloquent appeal. 10.
those much-abused country people
the loyers ~ Jthe CONSTITUTION: t'pnd
il ,oe t'nSt dsrin fghtlJpr NE aheg
rty Of Tie Union, strike home" Now
the very strong probability is that.
y lou will strike home; it is against you
t9 90 any ghele else TO strike no sy
When did youSfgLt z Wefesyou at
Ildensbnfg, idr -.Bdl Run " Youl
poor God torsaken lion, you would
not fight a SICK negro baby. Strike
home, "yipdeedy Diu't -Betsey and 4
whip the bear You fight, you
whippcr snapper, when and where die,
you fight ? You talk about "out.
laws? Who are e,psr ! out,laws,f
The men who deserted the army
The traitor to his Government. The
royaSSalY y yi'S ISe4fasfsa TbeRssr are I out.