The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-07-23
The Nomination of Rosecrans.

"Rhy was General lIOSecrans
nominated p is the vexing question
which the nOn-managing portion o.
the Democracy are prOpounding ovei
and over to themselves. The mana
gers know what it was done for, but
they observe mysterious reticence
The Democratic masses can under
stand why Fulton, the malignant
Crawford county copperhead, was
slaughtered, and Buhrer, of Cleye-
land, put in his place, and they can
without trouble iathom the policy
that placed Godfrey and Churchill
upon the ticket, but why Rosecrans ?
What had they to make, and how was
anything TO be made, by nominating
| Rosecrans
So far as catching the votes of
soldiers, by nominating soldier was
concerned, that game has been tried
so often and with such wretchedly
poor success that it is but natural to
suppose that the managers of the
party would tine OF it. The soldiers
who aided in putting down the Re
bellion are, as Il rule, men of as much
acumen az any men in the country.
They fought rebels on principle, and
they had as clear an understanding
as TO what made up the rebel
strength as other men. They knew,
when they were in service, that ,hey
wnFa fiyhfips, an .n.p,,r a, front an,t
another IA the rear, and they knew
exactly who that enemy in the rear
was. They knew Nailandigham as
thoroughly then "a they know him
now, they knew him so well and
detested him so heartily, they would
not vote for him when he was can
didate, and have since steadlastly
refused tovOte for any man nominal
Ell by him or recognized as q believer
in, or follower OF INN. The fact
that Vallandigham's candidate had
been 4 soldier made no difference
They looked upon such a man as 4
deserter; as one who had torn OF
his uniform, deserted his colOrs and
gone over to the enemy. That class
of Democratic candidates have al
ways Jared worse at the hands of the
sOldiery than any other. And besides
all this, the Republican candidate is
a soldier, with quite as good repu
tatiOn as Roseerans, and as a matter
Of course the soldiers will vote for
the comrade who represents their
views rather than the one who does
not.
The Democracy can gain nothing
from the soldiers by the nomination
of Rosecrans, and certainly he has
no strength with any other class OF
Republicans. Besides, he must lose
largely, in fervor and enthusiasm, il
not in actual votes cast against him,
among the members OF the copper
head wing of the Democracy. Mr..
Vallandi9ham may fish up from the
depths some excuse for cOnsenting
to the nomination of the General
who so Indignantly renounced and
denounced him as unworthy the sup
port of a loyal peOple-he may pOck-
ct the condemnatIons which Rose
Grams once poured upon his head
but the hard-handed yeomanry OF
Crawford, Holmes, Hancock, Au-
glaize, Monroe, Butler, and Fairfield
counties, whose Democracy is of the
firmest butternut color, will be slow
TO perceive why old Rosey was ap-
pointed to receive their suffrage
This wing of the Democracy believed
and acted on the teachings of Val
landigham, that to resist drafts, to
stone and rotten-egg enrolling off
GERS, to burn negro orphan asylums,
to hang negroes to lamp-posts for
being black, to vituperate the ofli-
GERS of the Union Army as "Lincoln
hirelings,'' was the highest order of
political virtue and personal heroism.
The lessons these people once learn
they do not soon forget. OF all the
"Lincoln Hirelings,' none were more
cordially detested than Rosecrans,
and they do not see why they should
now exalt him to the Chief post OF
honor while the "Great Exiien is
still in political banishment as abso-
lutely as if lac were still "watching
and waiting over the border" fearing
to set foot under the flag he had
insulted and betrayed. The men
who so implicitly followed Vallandig-
gham's cOunsels as to throw up in
trenchments behind which they might
aim at United States officers and
soldiers in the line of their duty :;
who sharpened their knives and load
ed their revolvers and rifles to slay
draft and enrolling officers, do not
see why they should now throw up
their hats in eestatic rapture over the
nomination of a "bloodly- thirsty
Lincoln hireling,' who came on them
with such force when the ''martyr"
Vallandigham bore their banner in
1868. The masses, accustomed to
the drill of the party, may vote as
commanded, but there will be no
cheering in the ranks, as they are
led to slaughter and defeat in the
coming Toledo Blade.
Some one blamed DIR. Marsh for
changing his mind. SWELL" said