The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-02-04

vote. a tn ousand millions have been cxpen
ded since the 18th of April, 1861 and a pub
lie debt or liability of 81 500, 900, 900 alread
incurred And to support all this stupendou
! di.cct and indirect, has been naugurated, th
most onerous and unjust ever imposed user
| any but conquered people.
Money and credit, then, you have had il
prodigal profusion. And were men wanted
More than million rushed to armsL Sesse.-t5r
! iayc- riTousanu nrsf. and the county stoo'
aghast at the multitude then elghty-thre
Thousand more were demanded ;andthree hun
dred and ten thousand responded to the call
The President next aekcd for four hundree
thou and, and Congress, in its generous conf
dence, gave him five hundred thousand and
not to be outdone, he took six hundred ant
thirty seven -t1ousuud. fuif of These meltec
away in their first campaign and the Pres;
dent demanded three hundred thousand NOR
for the war, and then drafted yet another thre,
hundred thousand for nine months. The fa
bled hosts of Xerxes have been outnumbered
And yet victory strangely follows tho stan
dards of.the foe. From Great Bethel tc
Vicksburg, the battle has not been to the
strong. Yet every disaster, except the last
has been followed by call for more troops
and every time SO fur they have been prompt
ly furnished. From the beginning the wal
and it has been the folly of the party in pow
er that they have assumed that number alone
would win the field in n contest not with bal
lots but with musket end sword. But num-
bers you have had almost without number
the largest, best appointed, best armed, fed
and clad host of brave men, well organized
and we'll diciplined, ever marshaled A Ma
w, too, not the most formidable perhaps, but
tho most numerous and gallant, and the cost.
liest in the world, and against foe almos,
without Eavy at all. Thus with twenty
millions of people, and every element OF
strength and force at command-power, pat
ronage, influence, unanimity, ethusiasm, conf
dencc, credit, money, men, an Army and a
Navy the largest and the nob!est ever set in
the field or afoat upon the sea with the sup
port almost servile, of every State, equity,
and municipality in the North and West with
Congress swift TO do tho bidding of the
Executive without opposition anywhere at
home, and with an arbitrary power which
neither the Czar of Russia nor the Emperor
OF Austria dare exercise yet after nearly two
years of more vigorous prosecution of war than
ever recorded in history after more skirmish-
es, combats and battles than Alexander, Cae-
sar, or the first Napoleon ever fought in any
FIVE years of their military career, you have
utterly, signslly, disastrcusly-I will not say
gnominiously-failedt torsubdue ten millions
of i'rebels," whom you had taught -lle-p -pooplc
OF fhe North and West not only to hate but
despise. Rebels, did 1 sayg Yes, your faith
ers were rebels, or your grandfathers. He who
now before men on canvas looks down so sad
ly upon us, the false, degenerate, aud imbeclle
guardians of the great Republic which he
founded, was rebel. And yet We, Graded
ourselves in rebellion, and who have fostercd
and fraternizcd with ever insnrFaetien in the
= a
globe, would now, forsooth, make the word
t-rebel" reproaeh. Rebels certainly they are;
but all these persistent and stupendous efforts
of the most gigantic warfare of modern times
have, through your inccmptten6y aad folly,
ayailcd nothing IS crush. them out cut off
though thcy have been by your blockade
from all the world, and dependent only upon
their own courage and resources. And yet
they were to be utterly conquered ard sub
dued in six weeks, or three months Sir, my
judgment was made up and expressed from
the first l learned it from Chatam: "My
lords, you cannot conquer America" And
you have not conquered the South. You new
er will. It is not in the nature of things pos
sible much less under your auspices. But
money you have expended without limit, and
blood poured out like water. Defeat, debt,
taxation, sepulchres, these are your trophies
soldier yielded up his life. aFight, tax, enlan-
cipaie, let these" said the gentleman from
Maine, IMr. PIKE, at the last session, ebe the
trinity of our salvation" Sir, they have be-
come the trinity Of your deep damuatiop. The
war for the Union is, in your hands, most
bloody and costly failure. The President con-
fessed it on the 22d of September, solemnly,
officially, and under the broad seal of the u
nited States And he has low repeated the
confession. The priests and rabbis of aboli-
tion Taught him that God would not prosper
such . cause. War for the Union was nban.
doned war for the negro openly begun, and
with stronger battalions than before. With
what success Let the dead At Frcdericks-
burg and Vicksburg answer.
And now, sir, can this war coptinue z
" hence the money to carry it on Where the
men? Can you borrow? From whom Can
you tax more VIII tho people bear it
Wait till you have callepted what is already
levied. How many millions moro of 'Icgal
day fnrty-seven per CT mt. below
the par of gold-ean you Auat2 Will men en-
list now at any pricel All, sir, it is easier to
die at home. / teg pardon but l trust / am
not "discouraging enlistmeuts." IF I am,
then FIRST arrest Lincoln, Stanton, and Hallcck,
and some of your other generals and I will
retract yes, 1 will recant. But can you draft
again Ask New England-New York.
Ask MASSACHUSETTS. Where are the nine hun
dred Thousand Ask not Ohio--the North
west She thought you were in earnest, and
gave you all, all-more than you demanded.
ssThe wife whose babe first rmiled that day,
The fair, fond bride of yester eve,
And aged sire and matron gray,
Saw the lorcd warriors haste away,
- - And deemed it sin to gricye,"
Sir in blood she has atoped for her cred
ulity and now there is mourning in every
house, and distress and sadness in every heart
Shall she give you any more? &
But ought this war to continue2 + answer
no--not day, rot an hour What then |?
Shall Me3separate2 Again answer, no, no,
no l. What then And now, sir, come to
the grandest and most solemn problem of
from the beginingof time and
to the God of Heaven, Illuminer of hearts and
minds, / would humbly appeal for some meas
ure, at least, of light and wisdom and strength