Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-09-12
SOLDIERS!
Read What the Organ of the DemOc-
racy of Ohio has to say about the
War aud your Wives and
Daughters! .-.- Er4t

The Ohio Statesman, published at Colum-
bus, is the organ of the Democratic party
of the State of Ohio, and has been its Or
gan for at least forty years. During the
war it was celebrated for its reasonable
utterances; but since the close of the war
its policy has been to keep comparatively
quiet for the purpose of deceiving the
loyal men of the State as to the true char
acter of the leaders of its party. Now,
however, it has become so much elated at
the mere prospect of a Solid South, with
its Northern synpathizers, getting full
possession of the Government, that it is
again giving utterance to the true senti-
ments of the Democratic leaders. In an
issue of this Democratic organ, of August,
1873, the editor says: ss ~. @s
FFThe war of the rebellion was a worse
than useless war, and it was prolonged to
three times its necessary length ...
'EGood and true men, in the patriotic
enthusiasm of the moment. entered the
ranks to fight the rebellion only to find
that they had volunteered into a slavery
that was more CALLING than that of a
PLANTATION NEGRO. They were
treated like dogs-made to submit to in
dignities that would produce a rebellion
in a State prison.. < \ And
all this, while they knew that their fami-
lies at home were suffering for common
necessaries of life, AND WERE BEING
| DEBAUCHED- BY THE STAY-AT-
HOME THIEVES, WHO MADE THE
LOUDEST PROFESSIONS OF 10y
ALTY.''
In the Statesman of the 31st of August,
1873, the editor makes an argument in
| Justification of the above outrageous and
slanderous declarations, in the course of
which he uses the following language:
"During such times as 1928 and 4 the
generous and self-sacrifcing will be found
at the front, while the cool, calculating,
self-indulgent will be found at home I'M
scrupuously taking advantage of the situ-
alton. And to increase their Opportuni-
ties these men are uniformity the loudest
in their professions of loyalty. THE
WIVES AND DAUGHTERS OF THE
| GENEROUS MEN WHO GO TO THE
'FRONT.', ARE LIKE THE WIVES AND
DAUGHTERS OF OHTER MEN. KEEN
NECESSITY AND CONSUMATE
SCOUNDRELISM NAY WORK THEIR
RUIN JUST THE SAME AS IT HA S
THE RUIN OF OTHERS -..
In reply to the Columbus Dispatch the
editor says that the Saxon epithets that he
had made use of were intended to apply
FEto the men who, during the war, re.
mained at home to speculate in bonds ant
bounties, and to TAKE ADVANTAGE
OF THE NECESSITIES OF WIVES
AND DAUGHTERS, TO INSULT. OR
i DEBAUCH THEM, while their natural
protectors were in the field.''
These are the sentiments of that same
old Copperhead party that is now asking
your support, veterans, and endeavoring g
to deceive you by the hypocritical cry OF
REFORM! They say the war is IA dead
issue, and yet they SANDER and vilify
those who were engaged in it, and basely
insult the wives and daughters of the
brave men who saved the nation from
! the fratrieidal hands of their Southern
brethren. See that you give these in
famous slanderers the grand bounce OF
? the second Tuesday of October.