Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-07-31
A Dirty Slander.


sandusky Register.
The following is going the rounds of
the Democratic press:
Fosters love for the soldiers widow is
set forth by the =. 1t SAYS:
''We have a small pice of calico in our
possession that Calico Charley sold to
a war widow in 1862 for five shilling a
yard. It can now be bought for three
cents. We can produce the widow and
the rest of the dress if necessary
This is the sort of stuff Democratic pa
pers are retailing to their readers as points
against Charles Foster. Every man and
woman in Seneca and Wood counties
knows that no two men in that section of
country gave as much to the soldiers,
their wives, widows and orphans, as did
Charles Foster and his father. A prom
inent lady now residing in this city was a
resident of Seneca county during the war.
Her husband gave his life for the Union,
and her ministratiOns for the soldier, in
the hospital, on the field of battle and at
home, made her name household word
in all this section of the State, and her
devotion to the dead soldiers memory,
his suffering widow and orphans is to-day
as fresh and green as the sod that covers
his grave, She has known Charles Foster
from boyhOod, is thoroughly familiar with
his record as patriot during the war,
and she says that no gentleman in all her
acquaintance was SO liberal a giVer for
the cause of the Union, nor gave so much
for the support of the families of poor
men in the army and for soldiers wild
oWs and orphans as he. The annual con-
tributiOns of Charles Foster and the firm
of which he was member, for this cause
amounted to thousands of dollars. The
numerous families of soldiers who were
needy were supplied from Mr.. Fosters
store, whether they had money to pay for
the goods or not. The firm dealt out
thousands of dollars worth of goods to
such families, simply on the agreement
that if the husband returned from the
war they were to be paid for. Many other
| families of soldiers, their widows and or
phans were supplied with clothing and
| food without a dollar of charge. None
were ever turned away empty-handed.--
| In every movement undertaken for the
soldier, or his family, Charles Foster was
one of its most active and largest contrib
utors. His liberality in this direction
was known all over Seneca and Wood
counties. 1t is to-day remembered by
many an old soldier; it is to-day grateful
ly recalled by the widow in her tears over
| the past.
The soldiers of Seneca and Wood coun-
ties have never forgotten the large-heart-
ed. open-handed friend they found in
Charles Foster ,and at the polls in October
they will hurl back in their teeth the dir
tV SANDER of set of men, whose party,
time and again, declared the war these
soldiers fought a failure, whose party
was the excuser and suppo rterOf Treason
at the North in the darkest hour of the
war, and whose party is to-day the cham
pion and servant of the men who fought
to destroy the Union these soldiers de
Tended.
The Democratic press will find they hav
undertaken a job they cannot carry ou
when they attempt to belittle Chas. FOs'
f ter's record during the war. There wer
as earnest supporters of the Union anon!
those who remained as home as amOni
those who went into the army. Their
were as true friends of the soldiers VIII
at home supported his cause with thei
loyalty and their means, who cared 70
the sick and wounded and for his famil
when in need, as the men who led him
battle, and all the hue and cry the Den
ocratic party can make against Charlie
Foster, simply because he did not go int
the army, will not blind the soldiers
these facts.