Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-09-23
EXAMINE HIS RECORD.


noted wire workers, however, met
at Columbus and selected George
Pendleton as their candidate, and
thrust him upon the Democracy
as the candidate Of the party. No
convention was called, no dele
gates elected, and no opportunity
afforded the masses Of the party to
express their preference. They
we're not consulted in any sensc
whatever. Pendleton was nonliha-
ted by the politicians composing
| the Democratic State Executive
Committee. Nevertheless he !s the
candidate Of that party, and it re-
mains to be seen whether these po-
litical traders can rally the masses
Of their voters, many of whom are
honest and intelligent men, to the
support Of a candidate with whose
nomination they had nothing to do,
and IN whose creed they have no
faith; whether the independent
thinking men of the party will &C,
knowledge that they are owned and
controlled by the demagogues, who,
in their own interests, manage and
manipulate party conventions, or
deny their ownership, and repadi-
ate their action.
Meantime let us glance at the
record of Mr.. Pendleton while q
Democratic member of Congress,
during the first three years Of the
Shareholders rebellion.
In 1861 Vallandigham introduc-
ed resolution in Congress, which,
if adopted, would have provided
for the division of our great coun-
try into four confederacies, thus
practically legalizing secession
Pendleton supported the resolution.
In 1862 he opposed with all his
power, a bill to increase the army
and voted against the bill. He also
voted agaihst a resolution proyid-
ing for the enlistment of colored
troops to aid in suppressing them
surrcction.
In July, 1861, he voted against a
bill to provide for the collection Of
duties on imports and for 9th.
er purposes, and on the 29th
of the same month he opposed with
all his force a bill providing addi
tionaI revenue to carry on the war,
and without which an army could
not have been kept in the Geld,nor
could the soldiers hate been paid
for their services, or the credit of
the Government maintained, at
home or abroad, for a single
month
April 8, 1868, he voted against a
provision to pay the interest on the
public debt.
June 24Ih, 1862, he opposed the
issue Of demand treasury notes.
August Sd, he voted sqlarely
against a bill to confscate proper
ty used for insurrectionary purpos-
es, after having opposed it at every
stage of its passage, voting on the
previous day to lay it on the ia
bic.
June 4, 1862, he voted against
bill which provided substantially
that the avowed enemies Of the
country should not be entrusted
with official power. in the Govern
ment they were laboring to destroy.
June 8, 1862, he opposed the fol
lowing resolution:
Re8olved, "That in the judgment
Of this House, the Comtiiahder-in-
Chief of the Army and Navy Of the
United States should instruct all
officers holding comniahd in dis
tricts of country in rebellion
against the Government, to make
proclamation that henceforth the
armies Of the Republic shall be
subsisted, so far as practicable, up
on the property of those who are
in rebellion or are giving aid or
comfort to the enemies Of the Uni
ted States" !"
January 10Th he voted against a
bill giving to each soldier one hun
dred and sixty acres of land, to be
confscated from open, active enc
mics Of the Government, in the re-
golted States.
January II, 1862, he bitterly and
pcrsistently opposed the following
resolution:
Resolued, "That from and after
the passage of this act, there shall
be neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude in any Of the Territories
of the United States now existing,
or that may at any time hereafter
be formed or adquir, d by the Uni-
ted States, otherwise than for the
punishment Of crimes whereof the
party shall have been duly convict
ed"
Let it not be forgotten that Pen
dleton always supported the pecu-
liar institution of the South, with
might and main, all along through
the palmy days of slavery up to the
very hour when the fetters fell from
the limbs of over four millions of
men enslsvel in this Gland of the
free" This grand ard noble
achievement-the emancipation OF
an abused and friendscss race, en-
chained for ages, ignorant and help
less, has been approved of earth
and applauded in heaven. In his
long struggle for liberty and man
hood, the degraded slave in all his