Year: 1863

Sept. 18th, 1868.


Dear Oh Ga-ette: As you are the
soldiers friend and the Unions adyo-
cate, allow me once more TO address
my Union friends through your col
umns, for l feel it is my duty to in
form the friends of the 18th L. s. In
fantry how the Lancaster boys are
getting along, and where we are We
are now in the Empire City, and the
boys are all well and are enjoying
themselves as well as can be expected
under present circumstances, as We
have any pay for four months Our
pleasures are limited at present, but l
understand that we are going to re-
ceive mess CT green's in few days.
and anticipate a good time while we
remain in the city. No doubt but
that some of our most curious friends
will ask why we are here. Twill tell
them. You are all no doubt aware of
the riotous proceedings Of he citizens
here last month, and we are here to
prevent a renewal of the bloody scenes.
Someof you may say we had better
be at the front, but will ask You, are
not these enemies far more dangerous
to our glorious cause than the rebels
are, and deserve to be more closely
watched, for the rebels will come out
and fight US in the field, while those
dastardly towards have adopted d
mode Of warfare far more dishonorable
for they do not only viiify our glorious
country with their serpent tongues,
but they have tried, through incendi-
arism and robbery, to destroy that
which for nearly century has been
the envy Of all European cities, for fear
thatit should become the chief metrop-
oils of the world. Thank kind for
tune, the conscription is'about over in
the city, and everything has gone of
quietly since We have been here If
we had been here in the first place
those villains would not have had the
chance they had TO prosecute their
hellish designs. Thank kind heaven,
our glorious cid State has too much
patriotism in her yet to have to be
draftel to raise her quota Of men,
though there are plenty of traitors in
her for all that for see in one Of our
Western papers that the Butternuts
are ut work in a damnable scheme to
seat that arch tiend, Vallandigham, in
the gubcrnatoral chair in place of the
honorable John Brough by hiring
border ruffians to come from other
States and seize your ballot boxes rs
they did in Kansas. Let me ask you,
freemen of Ohio, are you. or at least
are the citizens Of Old Fairfield, going
to allow this damnable business to con-
tinue until it is too late ? In thename
of God, will you allow the blood Of
your fathers, sons and brothers, which
has flowed like water on the bloody
fields of Murfrccsboro, Antictam, Get
tysburg, and hundreds of other bloody
fields, to be villifed in this way; ifyou
should, it would certainly raise its
voice to heaven to bring its vengeance
upon your heads. Let me, as one Of
Ohio's sons, implore you to turn out as
you did when the rebel Morgan was
prowling through your State; and il
you have not already done so, organic
a military company for every place o
holding elections, and station then
there upon that day with loaded mus
,llets and fixed bayonets, andlet thosl
traitors SEQ that if thousands of Ohio
brave sons are in the field there still
remains patriotic men enough at HON,
to protect her rights from being tar
nished by the hand of those traitors
| SEQ it also stated that this lyin!
horde are trying TO make the poopl
believe that the soldiers will not vot
for Brough. Do. they think that alte
their taking the oath to protect thoi
y beloved country against all her enc
miles, thatthey woult vote for Vallan
Ldigham God forbid that freeman
! should disgrace himself in that way
Just let the soldiers have the chanc,
TO vote and the copperbeads will SCI