The Manitowoc Pilot

The Ohio Election.

The election in Ohio will take place on next Tuesday. In another column we give a letter promising great hope for the success of the Democratic ticket in that State if Mr. Lincoln's bayonets will not prevent or deter the masses of the people from voting. Should he attempt to do this, he will find a harder war on his hands than he has in any of the Southern States. Enough of Rosecrans's army was detached and sent into Ohio to electioneer and vote against Vallandigham to have insured us a victory over Bragg had they remained in the field and participated in the Chickamauga fight. Ten thousand killed and wounded, millions of stores and scores of guns lost, a disastrous retreat, new inspiration to the rebels, are the price which the administration pays for the political advantage of the defeat of Vallandigham in Ohio.

There are those who will think that the business of the army is in the field, and that the less Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Stanton mix in politics and strive to influence state elections the better for their present success and future welfare. But it is plain that the President and the Secretary of War estimate different political advantages, and think a shameful defeat to our armies and the loss of hundreds of lives a cheap price to pay for winning a state election. That this is their view of the case no one will deny who considers that not one soldier has been sent out of Ohio, in spite of the pressing danger of Rosecrans. His reinforcements will be drawn from other quarters till the Ohio election is over, in spite of the increased distance, time, expense, and peril.