The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-08-06
General ROsecrans as a Californian.

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e General ROSecrans as a Californian.
The Democracy of Ohio have two
sources OF uneasiness. They are moi
: certain that General Rosecrans will
: accept the nomination for Governor
on the Columbus platform, and are
troubled by doubts of his eligibility
The facts that he was born in Ohio
and as an Ohioan was named for the
Mexican mission, amount to nothing
if it is shown that lie has taken dom
icIl in California and voted as a citi-
zen of that State,
j We remember to have heard ru-
mOrs that it was his intention TO re-
move TO California and permanently
locate there, whenever his career as
Minister to Mexico should expire !;
and the fact that he should have
undertaken aperilous overland route
to the Pacific Coast, with his family,
rather than return by Vera Cruz and
tie Atlantic steamers, gives color to
the reports.
That he is regarded in California
az a resident and citizen of that
State, may be inferred from the cir
cumstances that there has been a
good deal of talk in political circles
in San Francisco of nominating him
for Governor there, which, of course,
would not have been thought OF had
it not been understood that he look
ed upon California as his home.
There is, indeed, considerable
probability, in the absence of posi-
tive evidence, that General Rose
Grams had fully decided, before leay-
ing for Mexico, that he would make
California his home. He has always
been popular there as an officer and
a citizen. 1t is a young, prosperous
and growing State, and, by virtue of
It's position, calculated to WELD q |
tremendous influence ON all the States !
west oil the Rocky Mountains. 1t is,
of all other States, the one calculated |
to allure man ambitious of fortune !
and fame, and General ROsecrans
could reasonably predict for himself
a brilliant future there.
BY no possible foresight could he
have calculated upon the chances of
being taken up in the arms of the
Democracy of Ohio, and carried
into the Executive Chamber at Co
lumbus. He had unhesitatingly
classified every man of them who |
had been for peace at all hazards in
1863, as traitor to his country; and
men usually do not either forget or
forgive such a truth-teller. He had |
been not unwilling instrument in
the exile Of the party idol in Ohio,
and felt no nOcOmpunctions as he thrust
him through the lines into what lac
presumed would be cOngenlal sOcie-
Ly TO the victim of Burnside's order. |
All these circumstances must have |
been weighed in his mind, and oper-
ated to influence his decision To re |
nOunce Ohio and take up his abode
in State whele the opportunities
Tor reaching commanding social
and political position were so mHch
better then here. He could hardly |
hope for much favor from the Re
publieans. While there vas indi
vidual admiration and sympathy for
him, there never were any party |
symtoms OF thrusting him into high |
places and especially after his in
terwiew with Massa Lee, and the
letter which he gave to the public, he
could not have expected TO ride into
office on Republican shoulders which
were already bending to carry Grant
into the White House.
An earnest Catholic, too, Califor-
MIA commended herself to his regard
as State whose discovery and set
tlement had been effected through
the instrunentalities which the
church employs to propagate her
doctrines and establish her societies
throughout the world. The very
names which the Jesuit missionaries
left as legacy to the State were
dear to his ears, and the walls of the
crumbling converts and manasteries
as sacred in his eyes as the little
church in Chattanooga, which was
not occupied by the wounded sol
diers of Chiekamauga.
These are among the considerations
that persuade us TO the opinion that
General Rosecrans has become Cal
ifornian and surrendered citizenship
in Ohio, and incline us to belief in
the correctness of the statement of a
a gentleman recently from San Fran
cisco, who has no doubt in his own
mind that the General has there ex-
ercised the franchises to which only
actual citizenship would entitle him.
Gin. Commercial. ..-. ------
An ignorant fellow, who was about
to get married, resolved to make him.
self perfect in the responses of the
marriage service, but by mistake he
learned the Office of baptism for those
of ripper years. So when the clergy
man asked him in the church "Wilt
thou have this woman to be thy wed
ded wife 2" the bridegroom replied in
a solemn tone;
81 renounce them all.
The astonished minister said II
think you are fool'' to which he re-
Piled:
'All this l steadfastly believe"
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