The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-09-13
Frm the Missouri Democrat.
OHIO,

OHIO.
The Ohio campaign has commenced il
earnest Both parties are working as i
both had hopes of success, The hope o
| the Cupporheads is in Republican discords
The hope of the Republicans is in the ius
tice of their cause, and in hard work. The
live mon OF both parties are in the from
! rank, and the trimmers aud twadder,
arc pushed to the rear with the baggage
| Therefore the victory, whoever may vii
it, will mean something. II is Just one
those fights that the huckster politicians
dread, aud that honest mon of all parties
welcome Instead OF a nero wrangle foi
the Spoils, il is battle of ideas.
The live men OF the opposition party
whether called Democratic, Conservative
or by any other name, matters lttle--arC
the Copperheads. They are the real life
aud soul of the party. Thoy have ideas
and they Slick to them, while other Con
servatives palter and trucklo and cheat to
get office. Capperheadism is tho life and
soul Of Democracy or Conservatism at the
North just as rebelism is tho life Of the
opposition at tho South. Men like Thur.
man, Vallandgham and Pendleton are
leaders in the Democratic hest because
they are more bold than Others more logical
and consistent in avowing purposes and
advocating ideas privately held by the
great majority of Democratic or Couserva-
tive voters. Thoy opposed the war, sym
pnthized with the robels, did what they
could to defeat the government refuse to
accept the results of the war, resist all re
construction not based upon rebel suprema-
cy at tho South, and are fighting for such a
reaction as will put out of power those who
opposed the rebellion, and bring back to
power those who rebeled or sympathised
with rebellion. However much we may
detest the cause in which those men are
engaged; however intensely we may hate
that treachcry to the country which had
neither loyalty to a State" as its excuse,
nor tho merit of bravery in the field as
its pallation; however keenly we may re.
member that the stabs in tho back dealt by
these men did more than open rebellion to
prolong the war, aud cost us the lives of
many thousands of our bravest and best !;
it must yet he admitted that the Copper
head haS the merit of franknoss and con.
sisteucy, and, finding in the lowest depths
n deeper still, he can point with just scorn
to the trucking towards who became Union
men or war Democrats merely for offices
or contracts, and who having pretended to
support the war while it lasted are now as
noisy as he in trying to cheat the country
OF its legitimate results. For these men,
tho peace Democrat has a perfect right to
feel unmeasured contempt, and, now that
the war is over and the mass of the Demo.
cratic voters feel more free 10 express tho
sentiments. which they have oil the time
cherished, they honor as their true repre-.
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but the open and thorough paced Copper
heads. Accordingly, hoping to carry the
State, the Ohio Democrats nominated Allen
G. Thurman for Governor, and call Vallan.
digham and Pondleton to the front as his
chief supporters, while the dodgers who
have been passing themselves for war
Democrats or johnson Conservatives have
been sent back with the baggage and the
suffers wagons where they belong. The
Ohio Coppeiheads have no idea of fighting
for barren victory in the election of men
who believe in nothing and caro- FOR moth
ing but the spells. They fight to reverse
the verdict of the war. Their victory, if
they win one, will be victory of those who
have worn the gray Uniform ever since
1851.
With the Republican party the contes
ideas. For long tine the party in Ohio
has been smothered under tho counsels of
those politicians who worship success, and
care moro for bilicbs than for principles.
Ohio is SO prolific in great men; aud her
great men are SO prolific in ambition, that
the party has suffered aud atill suffers
greatly from their struggles to control it,
Questions of principle have been avoided
by the managing politicians, and it was
therefore with some surprise that we learn.
ed that Ohio had at length cut loose from
these. counsels of questionable policy, and
planted herself upon the dOctrhe of equal
rights. The last State Legislature adopted
All amendment granting impartial suffrage,
which has now to be submitted 10 the peo
pie. and tho Republicans at their State Con-
vention not only adopted it III principle.
but selected candidates who are now max.
lug the contest squarely upon that issue
No doubt this manly ayowal of ideas which
Ohio Republicans have privately accepted
in a tlnid and cet.footed fashion for some
years may cost them some votes. Ii al
ways does cost votes when party foil ows
public opinion instead oi leading it. Ohio
has host OF people who were born, or
whose ancestors were horn, in the belief
that their manhood would he compromised
by admitting the manhood Of nigger'
To emphasize the distinction between them
selves and the brute creation, tits class OF
people always feel the need of something
that they can tramplo upon as an inferior
race. The tiIni2ity of Ohio politicians has
prevented these people from being en-
lightened by argument, or shamed out of
their coptemptible prejudices by iidicule
the discussion Of the dsngerous subject
has been greatly deprecated, and the con
sequence is that the Ohio Republicans
have now a work to accomplish within two
monthsi in educating aud informing public