The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-11-19
!. ALL HAILtNEw ENGLAND -,

This is the heading of a glorifcation
article in the Times of yes terday, laud-
ing that section Of the Union to the
skies for her support of the Black Re-
publican candidate, to which we re-
spond:
GAIL Hail New England!
But MOI that New England that began
its career by burning and hanging Bap-
lists and Quskers, and all who differed
from its p~uritanical notions o freligion.
Not that New England which in its
tyranny drove ROGER WILLIAMS into
exile, in its hour of danger sought and
won his protection, and in its gratitude
repaid him with the vilest baseness.
Not that New England that burned
or hung innocent men and women for
witchcraft.
Not that New England which grew
rich by importing slaves from Africa;
and which is living now in luxury on
the blood and bones of the human beings
it thus traficked in.
Not hat New England that attempt.
ed to make this government of ours q
"hereditary aristocracy."
Not that New England that endeavor,
ed to fasten upon this country the Alien
and Sedition Laws, and heaped upon
the Author Of the Declaration of indie,
pendence the vilest ISLANDERS.
Not that New England that met in
conventian at Hartford, during the war
of 1912, to plot treason against the
United States, and to give aid and COM
fort to the enemies of the nation.
Not that New England which refused
to man or arm a single regiment of vol
u%nteers to go to Mexico, and that offer
ed indignities to those who did volun-
teer. when parading through the streets
of Boston.
Not that New England which arms
her "paupers" to go to Kansas to incite
civil and servile war, and murder citi
zens of the United States.
Not that New England that ever
since the Revolution, has been opposed
to every war, to every acquisition OF
Territory, to all the important meas
| ures of the Government that have added
to the greatness and glory of u coun.
try.
Not that New England whose relig.
ion is its politics and whose politics is
its religion, and whose pulpits are flied
with traitors to their country and their
God.
Not that New England which shrieks
for "free speech" when an Abolitionist
desires to undermine the institutions OF
their country, and which denied Faneuil
Hall to her ablest son to speak in theil
defence.
Not that New England which de
lights in imposing upon her citizens the
double crime of perjury and treason.
and while they swear to support tho
Constitution of the United States passe.
laws compelling them to violate its pro
visions and to set at defiance the fuada
mental law of the land.
Not that New England which hatche:
out all the vile isms of the times and
sends them forth through the land. likt
so many serpcnts, to poison its peace anc
prosperity.
Not that New England, which hal
made an idol of the Mariposa specula
tor, worshipped the woolly horse, ant
given the reius to fanatacism.
The New England of the Revolution
we would hail ! But that New England
has been overrun by the Goths and Van
dals of Black Republicanism, the HALEs
the PARKERs, the BURLINGAMEs, the
Wilson's, the PHrLLIPs',-the represen-
t~atives and successors of the men of tn,
" bag and Ratchet" of the revolution
not of those who fought its battles, but
Of those who hung in the rear of it
armies to murder the wounded and rol
the dead.
The New England we hail is that glo
rious New England-Democratic New
England,-which 'still lives" in thu
hearts of that minority who have re
solved to keep step to the music Of
the Union" who have refused &c bow
the knee to its traitors in war or foes o
the Constitution in peace, to its Adolf
tionists, its Atheists, or its Disanion
ists.-PennsylUamian.