Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-09-05
HON. GEORGE L. CONVERSE.
A Scrap from HIS Political and war
Record.
Special Correspondence Cincinnati Gazette.


COLUMBUS, AUG. %.
As George L. Converse, the Democratic
nominee for Congress in this district, is
now going about addressing himself to
soldiers of the late war, and the colored
men, begging for their votes, scrap or
two from that gentleman's record may be
in order, as showing the kind of Union
man and lover of the eolored citizen he
was during the darkest days of the rebel
lion. Mr.. Converse never shed much of
his blood, or expended farthing of his
treasure willingly, in the suppression of
the rebellion, or to enhance the interests
of the colored man, and now he has the
cheek to ask them to vote for him, that
he may take a seat in the councils of the
nation, to make laws to govern them.-
No words of encouragement ever fell
from his lips to be borne to the boys in
the field. When the country was under
going almost the agonies of death, when
every muscle was being stretched to its
utmost tension, when the pail of dread
war hung over nearly every household,
when every patriotic soul in the land was
stirred to its utmost depths, and everv
spark of patriotism was kindled; that the
Union might live, George L. Converse
went about the country shouting that the
war was failure, and crying for peace
at any price. 1t was in the darkest and
most trying hours of the republic that
that man found himself useful at gather
ings like the one the proceedings of which
are given below. He had no council to
give the administration, but used his ut
most endeavOrs against it. He had no
words of encouragement, but found plen-
ty of time to coin phrases that might lead
the weak to be distrustful. This is no
fancied picture. George L.. Converse is
on the record. He played a dangerous
and desperate part, and let him take his
own medicine. The peace meeting at
Gahanna, this county, has gone into his
tory. Its proceedings were written upon
by Democratic hands; the type was set
up by Democratic cOmpOsitors, the proof
was read by Democratic foreman; the
paper was edited and published by one of
the most rabid Democrats in all the land.
It is Democratic record. There is no
fiction about it. Any one can turn to the
Columbus Crisis of July 27th, 1864, and
see for himself. There is no chicanery
about it. Here is the article, headlines
and all, and with it and of it and in it Mr..
COrnverse's record: --s....
reported for the Crisis.l
'FPEACE MASS MEETING-THE PEOPLE OF
FRANKLIN, LICKING AND DELAWARE IN
COUNCIL = LARGE AND ENTHUSIASTIC
PEACE MEETING-BoLD AND ABLE Res
oLUTIoNS-AN ADDRESS TO president
LINCOLN - SPEECHES BY SMITH, Ed
WARDS AND CONVERSE.
''On Saturday last, the 23d of July, one
of the largest and most enthusiastic meet
ings ever held in this county assembled il
Bingham's woods, near Gahanna, and al
most OH the line of the three counties
Franklin, Licking and Delaware. The
meeting was without previously publish
ed notice, it being a spontaneous assem-
blage of the people of the neighborhood
, at point agreed upon between them, 70
the purpose of consulting together upol
the condition of public affairs, expressin;
and exchanging opinions, devising SOM
. means to avoid further calamities, ant
Hudllys IOr Gue purpose OF fSnOuSlTdIlilS
n against the lawless, violent, oppressiv
and destructive course of the administers
+ ton, in determining to call out the las
q man and spend the last dollar in prose
: cutting this unholy and devastating wal
: The meeting was called without respeC
. to party, and there were in the concours
a fair representation of the most substaI
q tiaI and influential Republicans of the v
Il cinity.
"The procession of wagons must ha,
e numbered several hundred, and the crow
n assembled under the magnificent old Oal
n of the forest numbered from one to tv
e thousand, including large number of
g dies. All manifested the most earnest e
l. thusiasm in behalf of peace, and a dete
e mination to be satisfied with nOthiI
less"
,r The meeting was organized by electil
IN Victor Arnold, of Galena, Delaware q
S. Chairman.
m The first speaker was A. Smith, OF ID
ut aware, who is reported as follows:
AZ: ''Mr. Smith briefly and pointedly
d-n viewed the course of the administrati
since it first called out the $4,000 me