Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-02

Forrest, Wade Hampton, and Southern
soldiers, who were the favorites, and who
controlled the action Of the convention.
Now, let me suppose that the Democratic
party Is placed In power, and that there
are rebels In the Senate, House of Rep
/ resentatives, the Cabinet, and so on,
and suppose that II is then pro-
posed 10 levy tax, or make an
appropriation TO pay the pensions
of wounded, MANNED soldiers or TO the
widows and orphans Of those who have
died would the rebels ever consent to
pay the pensions Of Northern soldiers un-
less theirs are provided for alsoY That
would be contrary TO nature They would
insist that the rebel soldiers should stand
upon the same platform with the Union
soldiers, or no appropriation would be
made. II would be contrary TO the first
principles Of human nature that those men
should consent to tax themselves, and the
whole country, TO pay the pensions Of
Union soldiers, while their own comrades
in arms, manned for life, and the widows
and orphans of those who have fallen In
the Confederate service were living In pov.
erty and unprovided for. Consequently,
the necessary result OF the triumph Of the
Democratic party will be to place the reb.
ell soldier upon the same platform with the
Union soldier, and when he gets there he
will not be an equal simply, he will be-
come the superior under the dominion of
the Democratic party. do not under
stand how Union soldier can consent to
become the associate in politics with the
mass of rebel soldiers. / do not under
stand how he can consent to rally under
the same banner of that party which was
sustained by the rebels of the South, and by
those men in the North who did not sym.
pathize with them during the war, but
who sympathized with those against whom
he was lighting. The Union soldier is,
therefore, out of place In the ranks of the
Democratic party And tell you an
other thing that these men don't love
him, and they will flatter him for the sake
of his vote, and they may even for the time
being consent to let him have an office, as
they do for Frank Blair, because he has
promised, if he Is elected, TO give them all
they want; but they do not love the sol
dier nor respect him, and they will respect
him far less If he goes on with them, and
votes the Democratic ticket, than If he
stands up boldly In defence of the princi-
pies for which he fought
We are now realizing the great mistake
we made in failing to punish the leading
rebels at the close of the war. The very
men who are now stirring up rebellion in
the South and would bring back upon us
all the horrors and atrocities of another
war, are the very men who were chiefly
instrumental in bringing about the rebel.
lion, and these are the men who, at the end
of the war, ought to have been tried and
punished and If we had President who
was friend to the country, and would
carry out the will of the people, | for one
would be extremely anxious that Congress
should meet some time in September, and
take such measures as that the writ of
habeds corpus could be again suspended
| and those men arrested and brought to
judgment. But as we have not one, shall
have TO bide our time, and walt un-
til General Grant is elected, and then II
these men continue TO be revolutionary,
and shall try to bring upon us civil war
again, to begin the shedding of blood,
hope that such measures will be taken by
which these men will either be brought to
punishment, or be compelled to leave the
| country.