The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-07-24
Ivan Vert Bulletin.l
Gen. A. V. Rice.

| Wan Vert Bulletin.
Gen. A. V. Rice.
During the year 1864 the editor OF
the Bulletin edited the Putnam Coun-
| 5y Telegraph, paper published at OF
5awa, Putnam county, and has the
files of that paper from which to
make history of the remarkable po-
lltical campaign of that year. The
statements published in the Telegraph
were not denied by Gen. Rice or his
friends at the time, but on the other
hand, they made every effort to streng-
then him in the estimation of the par
ty with which he associated political
ly. Gen. Rice was at his home in Ka-
Ida, during the canvass, suffering
from the amputation of his leg, and
was nominated bv the Vallandigham
Democrats for Congress, in opposition
to Hon. J. M. Ashley. Many patriot
ic men in the Union party were dis
satisfied with Mr. Ashley, and deter
mined, in event Gen. Rice would agree
to support President Lincoln in all
war measures, for the suppression of
the rebellion, to vote for him. A
committee was appointed to wait on
Gen. R., inform him of their determi-
nation and get his pledge to stand by
the party that stood by the army. The
committee performed the duty as
signed it and left the bedside of the
brave soldier with the information
that he would vote in Congress and
at the polls with the Vallandigham
Democracy. The result was that all
true Union men in the district voted
that year for Mr. Ashley, and he was
triumphantly elected.
His regiment, the 57th Ohio, COM
manded by him, was the only one be-
longing to the State which gave Val
landigham a majority.
An incident which exhibited the
character of Gen. Rice during the
war is as follows: In the fall of 1868
George E. Pugh and Judge Metcalf
spoke at Kalida in favor of Vallandig-
ham and the Copperhead State ticket.
The speakers ran over the whole cate
CORY of Copperhead logic and abuse
of Government, army, and everything
else that was not Democratic, but
never uttered a word of censure con-
cerning the traitors of the South.
Gen. Rice listened to the whole of
this tirade, and had not the manhood
to utter one word Of censure, and at
the close permitted himself to be in
troduced by the Judge as ''the fight
ing Democratic General al-born DEM
ocrat, sucked as a Democrat, and al
ways voted the Democratic ticket"
The General responded to this by
thanking the speaker and the meeting |
for the compliment. Later in the
when the heroic Anderson,
Union candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, and the gallant Gibson of the
10th Ohio, addressed a meeting at OF
tawa, Gen. Rice was present and re-
fused, on being invited, to take a
place on the stand with the speakers.
He wrote letters to various persons
during the campaign of 1864, which
were published, urging the election of
and Pendleton, and was
often heard to say the war must stop.
Some of the ultra Copperheads, who
lid not know Gen. Rice, refused to
vote for him, but to attest the sound
ness of their candidate, the Kalida
Sentinel, of September s, 1864, said:
He is brave soldier and true
Democrat, never having voted any
1ther than Democratic ticket. His
is rampant Abolitionist,
Doasting, as he does, of taking an act
We part in all ultra measures Of the
administration"
The Defiance Democrat said:
Gen. Rice has always been a Dem
ocrat, voted for Vallandigham, as also
lid his regiment-the 57th Ohio, be-
ng the only one which gave Demo-
cratic majority last fall. He
IS sound ON sound Democratic princi-
pies. y ...
Sound on sound Democratic prin-
,iples" at that time, meant bitter op-
position to and denunciation of the
war.
When Mcclellan and Pendleton
were nominated ratification meeting
was held at Ottawa Among the
speakers was J. R. Linn, Democratic
candidate for Prosecuting Attorney
Of Putnam county, on the same tick
ct with Gen. Rice, and an intimate
friend and associate of the Generals.
The following is an extract from the
Telegraph's account of Linn's speech:
Linn drew himself into a fighting
and warned Lincoln that he
stood on a volcano that would one day |
burst forth and overwhelm him-that |
not another man would be dragged to
his slaughter pens, and wound up III
an encomium on Col. Rice"
Since the war the course of Gen.
Rice has been the same as during the
war. He has always voted the most |
ultra partisan Democratic ticket. In
Congress the gallant Union General,
James w. Shields, hero of two wars,
was candidate for Doorkeper, but |
Gen. Rice voted against him and for
the Confederate General, Charles w.
Field. Such is the record of the man
whom the Democrats have nominated
as a decoy to catch soldier votes in
Ohio.
SedaIia iNTON Eagle