Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-19
REBOUND FOR CALICO CHARLEY.

Constitution and its life, aud treat war
that sent slaughteriug armies into the feld
and teemed the land with massacres und
blood as n slight misunderstanding. That
| is rich. The man without memory is an
idiot; the man who will not exercise it is q
fool What would any Of you know about
past events or incidents OF your life except
by reccollection2 What would you know
Of great men Alexander, Julious Cesar,
Napoleon, George Washington, Daniel
Webster, General Jackson or me, except
through memory. In il we all stand forth
boldly. They treat the late war as II mere
dance in which the girl with the check
apron on goes down the middle" and the
"heroine with the short petticoat "balan-
ces to her partner" A huge joke. Two
things, however, they distinctly remember
as they take survey of the fearful war
through the barrel of q goose quill to con
| fine their vision. They sec Charley Foster
selling calico at seveity.fve cents yard
and do not see him in the field, aud their
patriotic eyes pop out like mushrooms
with horror and their hearts grow faint
within them. They think, talk, dream OF
this Outrageous behavior until it fattens
| them, and compared with it all other CON
siderations dwndle into insignifcancc.
| Tell them that the slave States had the
control in the Supreme Court OF the United
| States, the majority OF our foreign ministry,
the ruling OF every Cabinet from the be-
| ginning Of the Administration OF Wash
| ington until the election Of Lincoln, al
d.@.-.t. It, Ar--Si- ''"a s"POiio- =, ,'S"i,i,,
| intelligence, population and power, and
they reply, What does that amount to when
/ Charley Foster sold calico at sevsnty-five
cents yard? Tell them that Lincoln
was fairly and honestly elected President,
and that the Senate of the United States
was Democratic to pass on all his appoint
ments, aud they reply, Who cares about
that, when Charley Foster sold calico for
seventy five cents n yard? Tell them that
old dotard, James Buchanan, declared that
the Government had not power enough to
preserve its life from destruction, and they
| will reply, What's that to do with Charley
! Foster selling calico for seventy cents
yard? Tell them that the traitors seized
our custom houses and postofFces, robbed
our Treasury, fired on our flags, battered
| down our forts, menaced our Capital,
threatened our archives, murdered our
president, and they murmur, Who the
| thunder cares for that when Charley Fos-
| u
Tell them OF the widows and orphans, of
| the imprisonment, punishment and suffer
ing of our men at Libby; of their languish-
| ing and dying under famine, torture and
poison, wi hout food, water or shelter at
Audersonville, and they reply, What the
deuce do we care for that, when Charley
| Foster sold calico for seventy-fve cents
| yard J.? Tell them OF the thousands and
millions and billions of dollars expended
to sustain the Government of our fathers,
and they respond, Who cares for expenses
when Charley Foster sold calico for seven
| ty-fve cents II yard? Tell them that the
intense Democracy of Kentucky nominated
and elected az their Governor, with a full
! knowledge OF his character and conduct,
| Luke p. Blackburn, scullion and bar
barian, who had impregnated calico, blank
cts and clothing with the small pox and
yellow fever to introduce those diseases
not only in our army but among the wo-
men and children, to bear into premature
graves the innocent and unoffending, and
| they reioin, Who cares what Blackburn
| dill when Charley Foster sold calico for
seventy-fve cents yard? Ask them why
! Dixon was so fouly murdered by midnight
miraudels, why Ewing and Rice voted
| against proposition that no one should
carry deadly weapons at the polls, and
their reply is, Didn't Charley Foster sell
calico for seventy five cents yard
| Shame, perpetual shame, upon Northern
men who can thus ignore manhood servii-
ty to party. Charley Foster did not sell
calico or any other article in his line Of
trade for any higher price than an" other
prudent nerchant. | will bet one hundred
dollars that Charley Foster gave more
! I
and the families OF the soldiers and sailors
that were in The army and navy than all
the men you have in your city who voted
Tor Vallandigham. Democratic towards
who, hike jobs war horse, "smelt the battle
afar off," and prayed to God that it might
stay there, are now loud in their screech-
ings, Where was Charley Foster during
the WARP" lie was at home taking care
of the families Of those who were in the
fight, encouraging enls.ments and doing
all he could tor the country. just prior
to the war Charles Foster could number
among the loved and living five brothers
and sisters. All were carried to their
graves by typhoid fever, and he, the very
youngest in the family, was borne to the
very gates OF death by the destroyer, but
luckily survived to be Governor of Ohio.
! lie was the only child spared, in their
| fearful aiilicIion, to the nged parents.
! They besought him to remain with them
and his fidelity TO them, with n large and
complicated business which no other per
son could either close or carry on, compel
! lod hinl 10 re,'Iin IN IOntUIid. II was not
time either for all the loyal men to be
away from Ohio, or the Buckeye State
would have been transferred to the Con-
federacy'in less than thirty days after the
Copperheads had ascertained their pre-
ponderauce. His record during the strug-
gle is all right. | challenge any man to
show nae an application from the family of
any one who was in the army for anything
that Charles Foster could honurably give
that was not freely given, and there are
lhousaDds of dollars now uncollecled on his
books against soldiers and he rejoices that
he was able to help those who were fighting
for him. Ele never presented bill to any
man on his return from serving his country
and he never will. Many of the soldiers
paid and some were unable to pay, but
never by direct request or intimation was
any man in the Army or Navy asked by
Charles Foster to pay cent OF his in
debtedness.
Was il treachery to the country or dis
graceful to manhood to not be in the war
Ii 80 permit me to ask few simple ques-
tons. Where was Governor Bishop, Lieu.
tenant Governor Fitch and every other
Democratic State officer? Where was Al
len q. Thurman during the war? Where
was George ii. Pendleton, the United States
Democratic Senators, during the war?
Under which King, BenEonip % Where
were their yoices2 where were their votes?
where was their influence? 4? And these gem
tlemen who in National Convention voted
the war n failure and did all they could to
make il saeh have the impUdenee to ar
raigu Charles Foster When Tod aud
Brough took ground at the beginning of
the strife with Douglas, who declared that
there were but two parties in the country,
Patriots and traiturs," they are even now
hated in their graves because they loved
their country more than the party that con-
niyed a. its destruction. But to 60 farther.
| Where was the present entire representation