Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-17

Tnls gentleman Is the Republican NOM
inee for Congress in the Second Congress
sional District against Hon. SAMUEL F.
CARY, who is the Workingmen's nominee,
which nomination Is acquiesced in by the
Democratic party. IT living in the Second
Distrist we should vote tor and work for
the election of Mr.. CARY. We should
do this because he is right on three i'm
portant questions--Bond Taxation, the
Greenback question and Southern Recon-
struction. 'yJ'
r. We may be mistaken, but we do think
that entirely too much attention Is bestow-
ed upon Hon. JOB e. STEVENSON, as he was
politically in 1901, and particularly to his
connection with certain alleged dispatch
giving instructions to Representative OGLE
not to vote man nor dollar for the war.
We see that this alleged dispatch has been
reproduced from the columns OF the Scioto
Gazette of October 1, 1861, wherein it was
published at the instance of S. F. HURST,
then Probate judge. That dispatch
was originally published for o,sr bene-
fit and not for Mr.. STEvENsoN's. In
1851, we were the Democratic nominee of
Ross for the Legislature, nomination
unanimously rendered on the motion of
Mr.. STEVENSON. and that dispatch was
published by Mr.. HURST to injure our cleo
ton. ii! !.ssss-fa $50 s1s,isSD
In form and words and spirit, the dis
patch as reproduced from the Scioto Gazette
of October 1, 1851, and which was used
against us during the political canvass of
that year. soas not sent to Hon. DENNIS
OGLE. We speak knowingly. Pending
the passage of the Army bill in the Ohio
House of Representatives in April, 1851,
appropriating $3.50, 1000 for arms to equip
the militia and the further sum of $500, 900
to be expended by the Governor. and the
sum of $50, 900 for a Contingent Fund for
the Governor Mr.. OaLE telegraphed the
writer of this twice to ascertain how the
Democrats desired him to vote.
That bill had been passed through
the Senate on the 18th Of April under
a suspension of the rules. The bill went
Immediately to the House, aud the attempt
was made to pass it through that body in
like manner; but for the purpose of allow
ing the members to telegraph home and as
certain the wishes of their constituents in
relation thereto, the bill did not pass until
the 18th. 1t then passed that body unani-
naously--Mr. NEWMAN, of Scioto, who had
voted against it., changing his vote and
voting for it under protest. EDWARD ADJ
ANS, E. B. EsHELMAN,. JoB E. STEVENSON.
and JOHN 81. KEITH volunteered no advice
TO Mr.. OGLE in the matter; nor did they
either by telegraph or through letter seek
to influence his vote. He voted for the bill.
The alleged dispatch under consideration
may have lost us q few votes in 1861. 1t
did not lose us many, though, and the
year following EDWARD ADAMS, Esq, was
elected Sheriff OF Ross county, by nearly
one thousand majority, he receiving q
larger majority than any man on the ticket,
excepting, perhaps, CHARLES w. GILMORE,
ESQ., who was the Democratic candidate
for Prosecuting Attorney. 81 10 Us
So much for the dispatch. Now, a few
words in regard to Mr.. STEVENSON.
Originally, Mr.. STEVENSON was Whig.
In 1856, he ,espoused the election of JAMES |
and made speeches in his be-
half at several school house meetings.
he was known as an active |
worker in the Democratic party-always |
ready and willing to go wherever wanted
to speak-and he continued so until 1862. /
In 1860 he favored the election of BREcK-
INR1DGE; but was no Elector. The pres
ent Sheriff of Ross county was the BREcK-
INRIDGE Elector for that District. The |
wing of the party jealous
Iy sup ported the County, Congressional
and State nominees of the party, and in
this among the most active was Mr.; STEW |
ENsoN.
As did the most of Democrats, he op-
posed the Inauguration of War. What
sver may be his sins of omission and COM
mission, it cannot be charged that he with
act or word helped set the War afoot. ~
1t may have been q crime not to have
shouted, for war as SOON as the President
issued his call for 5000 men,, If so.i there
were a great many Democrats in Chilli
cothe who were guilty of that crime. Con-
eohas been said that Mr.. STEVEN
SON was so extreme in his anti-war views
In 1861, thatthe Democrats refused to be-
come responsible for his meetings and adj
vised him to call them in his own name.
Doubtless, they who say SO, believe in the
of their statement. This is news to
us. He stumped with US throughout that
He was the only Democratic
speaker who seemed willing to help stump
the county and thereby hold the party Or.
ganization intact. The trouble was not
that his utterances were too anti-warlike,
but that they became too aoarlike long before
bis street alteration with B. F. STONE.
Objections were made that be was injnring
our election by his war speeches and it was
suggested to us that it would be better that
he should refrain from making speeches.
Our reply was, that there was danger that
If he then withdrew from the canvass the
injury would be greater than if he continue
ed speaking. 81 Hs'sh sse..37 o. e.'-5 ~. l.ls
In the spring of 1862, at the DEM
ocratic City Convention that nominated
officers. he moved a set of
resolutions pledging the Democracy of
Chillicothe to avigorous prosecution of the
war. We think these resolutions were
adopted. AT any rate, they begot for him
the denunciation of some Democrats, to /
whose censure he seemed to attach more
Importance than was warranted; and for
the last time, in April, 1862, he voted the
Democratic ticket. --;..,e-' a., ,7--Nssrl
We have deemed the foregoing statement |
necessary, because we have again been
dragged before the public in connection
with an untruth. We have spoken that
which we do know, and which is true.
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COLUMBUS, Aug. Is, 1868.
The meeting Of Col. Geo. w. McCook and
others, at London, on the sth of Septem-
her is withd "a Wn.. and the sneakers an.