43rd Ohio Infantry

Item DOC-11175

Description

Original Civil War document, 2 pages written in period ink.



Whereas the President of the United States is the Constitutional head of the nation and its legitimate defender and;

Whereas whatever destroys the public confidence in him, is the national guardian, also to the extent of its influence, endangers on the national safety, and

Whereas we have witnessed with unaffected regret that the efforts of certain demagogues have been but too successful in the promotion of discord and disunion among the people of our native state and feeling that we are entitled as citizens of Ohio to speak for our fellow citizens, and to declare to them the principles which govern us as soldiers of the United States; therefore, we the members of Company F, 43^rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry do most heartily endorse and approve the following resolutions:
 
1^st. That though the present chief magistrate came into power contrary to the votes of many of us, nevertheless; in addition to our sworn obligation to support him, we desire to declare our unfaltering confidence in him, as an honest, able and patriotic public servant and that any error he may commit in the trying circumstances which surround him shall always be viewed in the light of these great trials and shall never drive us from the support of our government.
 
2^nd.  That knowing as we do from personal experience that the untemperate “criticisms” of the Administration of our Government, which have for some time been indulged in by certain politicians, are hailed with delight by, and give aid and comfort to, our known enemies, and are cast into our faces by those we meet in armed rebellion; we do declare our earnest condemnation of all persons and parties that are habitually finding fault with the well-meant endeavors of our Government to vindicate its authority, and are thus furnishing our foes with arguments to justify and motives to continue their rebellion.
 
3^rd. That chief among the politicians above referred to, we have noted the career of Clement L. Vallandigham both as a member of Congress and as a private citizen. In Congress we remember how he stood at the beginning of the war with such men as Breckinridge and Burnett, refusing in defiance of the wishes of his constituents to vote a man or a dollar to avenge our insulted flag, endeavoring to tie the hands of our Government in its efforts at self-defense, and we recollect how he then received the execrations of all good Democrats.  Since then there has been no change in his conduct, but as a private citizen he has been indefatigable in his efforts to sow the seeds of discontent, disloyalty and open revolt among the people of Ohio. We have witnessed his arrest and banishment with approval. We know with what favor our bitterest enemies regard him and having seen him passed through and out of their country by “Confederate” conveyance to a point on foreign soil where he has resumed his treasonable employment; we are prepared to denounce the nomination of a man with such antecedents for Governor of Ohio as one of the most unpatriotic proceedings that has transpired during the war.
 
Company F
2^nd Lieutenant John Lindsey, Commanding Company
Newell E. Carpenter, Orderly Sergeant
John C. Steinbrecher, Sergeant
Wm. Higgins, Sergeant
A. A. Wells, Sergeant
Peter Linn, Sergeant
Robert B. Barcus, Corporal
Thomas E. Taylor, Corporal
Titus J. Buckbee, Corporal
Ellis Patterson, Corporal
Horace G. Hildebrand, Corporal
Alfred T. Janes, Corporal
E. Birmingham
 
William Haber
Irvin Richardson
Conrad Trusheim
Henry Rockey
Samuel Packer
John Willoughby
Lewis Shaffer
George Westinghousen
William Baldwin
David Kistner
William C. Latham
Harlow Aldrich
Herbert Smith
Jacob Stull
William Baker
 
Peter Mulberry
James H. Dewey
Havily Brush
Franklin Park
John M. Smith
M. M. Murphy
Alsaphine Buswell
Andrew J. Hasford
William Houck
James Collins
John Spearman
Elbert James
Joshua Cannon
Charles H. Babcock
M. A. Wells
Phillip Shoup
Charles H. Taylor
George Bennett