The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-12-07

From the n. Y. Herald.

From the N. Y. Herald.
Revolutionary Designs of the Abo1i-
tionists-New York Names Endors-
ing Treason.
We publish to-day one of the most extraor-
binary revelations of a revolutionary design
on the part of the leading Abolitionists and
Republicans that has ever BEEN brought to
light in this country since the treason of Ben
edict Arnold was detected at Tarrytown.
1t has been widely asserted by many of the
Black Republican journals that the reasonable
proceedings Of John Brown, at Harper's Ferry,
were instigated by his own mad brain; but it
now turns out that ever since the 9th day of
March last, a book, called "Compendium of
the Impending Crisis of the South" has been
secretly circulated in large numbers in the
Northern States, endorsed by a private circu-
lar, to which are appended the names of the
Governor of the State of New York, of an ex-
Judge of our Supreme Court, of the Chairman
of the New York Republican State Committee,
of a large number of our most wealthy and
respectable citizens, and of sixty-eight mem
bers of Congress. We give in another column
the circular in full, a series Of extracts from
the revolutionary pages of the book itself, and
the list of subscribers who have paid large sums
for its circulation.
The book itself claims to have been got up
by a Southern man; but it smells so strongly
Of the shop that every one who examines it is
led to the inevitable conviction that the work
ers of the Tribune have had their hands deep
ly in its preparation. In its pages the mask
of moderation is completely thrown aside, the
Republican party is declared to be completely
Abolitionized, and it's intention to hurry on a
remorseless and bloody revolution is openly pro-
claimed:-"Slavery must be throttled. X X
No man can be a true patriot without becom-
ing an Aboliticnist. = Every victim of the
vile institution, whether white or black, must
be re-invested with the sacred rights. 4 X
We believe the Northern people have too scru
pulous. y They have approached but
half way to the tine of their duty" The nom
shareholders of the South are thus exhorted:-
"Do not reserve the strength of your arms
until you have been rendere powerless to
strike;" and the shareholders are told, ait is
for you to decide whether we are to have JUS
tice peaceably or by violence, for, whatever
consequences may follow, We are determined
to have it one way or another"
This is the unblushing language of revolu-
ton, calling upon the people of the Northern
States to unite for the purpose of making a
raid upon the South even worse than that of
John Brown. In almost any otder country it's
utterance would constitute treason; here it is
limited to making war upon the State. These
sentiments, however, stimulat to treason, and
actors will soon be found, when men of wealth
and social ,position-men most prominent in
the cemmunity-are found to proclaim and
justify the proceeding. Such a revolution as
this book proclaims is a revolution against the
right of self-government, which every State in
the Union now possesses, and by its natural
reaction on the North would inhict a deadly
wound at our own liberties, by destroying the
very principle on which they are based. On
the day in which the first blow should be struck,
confidence would cease to exist in the North as
well as the South-industry and
would stop, and the value of both labor and
property decline. immensely. Yet we are told
that prudent men counsel it, pious men sane
ton it, and patriotic men sustain it.
We are loath to believe it, and we call upon
the prominent men whose names are affixed to
the endorsement of these revolutionary and
tt reasonable doctrines to come out and say if
the CARRY them in their hearts and proclaim
them to their followers. We call upon you,
Edwin D. Morgan, Governor of the State of
New York; and on you, ex-Judge Charles A.
Peabody, of the Supreme Court; and on you,
J. S., T. Stranahan, Police COMMISSIONS of
this metro politan city; and on you, James Kel-
ly, Chairman of the New York Republican
State Central Committee; and on you, Edgar
Ketcham, Chairman of the Ondyke City May
orally Convention; and on you, David Dudley
Field, member of the New York bar; and on
all the wealthy and prominent citizens whose
names are given as the promoters of a revolu-
ton which is to lathe our whole country in
blood and destroy its dearest rights, to tell the
world if this thing has been done with your
knowledge and consent, and if you have calm
ly weighed the consequences of such a conflict
as you are proclaimed as sanctioning.
That the wild fanatics whose names are
linked with yonrs in this infamous work, the
raving Abolitionists, the insane philosophers
Of Fourierite phalansteries, the penniless adj
who have nothing to lose and all to
gain in a social upheaving, and the ambitious
demagogues who would rule or ruin, should
utter such sentiments and i~nculcate such a
strife, is not surprising. But that you, men
of substance, honored citizens, and many of
you rulers in the land, who have s~olemnly sworn
to uphold the Constitution of the State and of
the United States, should be thus traitors to
your duty as citizens, false to your oaths as
rulers, and regardless of the rights of your
brethren as men, must shock those who have
hitherto conided in you, alarm those who have
obeyed you, and strengthen those who have
opposed you. Hinton Rowan Helper proclaims
you as revolutionists and traitors, and your fell
low citizens wait to hear your own plea of gull
ty or not guilty.