The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-06

1 leading papers and statesmen speak of thei
: Democratic friends of the North and Yves
with contempt that is hard to bear, and re
] ject with insulting scorn and contumey al
propositions for restoration of the Union
come whence they will aud however strongl,
supported or humiliatingly advanced UIdel
i these circumstances, chat is the Democrat,
party to do Its policy is cut from bcneatl
! its feet, and it must either join the Republi
cans in the prosecution of the war, for tn:
dictation of peace that the South will no
otherwise accept, or it must change its course
ind come out boldly in favor of the indepen
dence of the South, as the best solution Of ths
difhculty-that may pei haps be good for tht
South, but that will certainly be good for the
North. If they have The courage to declare
themselves boldly in all the States upon thi:
point-if their leaders Will brave the terrors
of the new laws which Congress has just sane
toned, if they will not only confront the hor-
rors of dungeons aDd the bastiles, but the
martyrdom of military executions, to prove
the faith that is in them-they will rally the
country 10 their side and make themselves the
sayiours of its liberties. They have a great
part to play. There are men of the highest
order of intellect among them. There are
real heroes and true patriots in their ranks
To them is confined the sacred duty of keep
ing alight the vestal bame of liberty in this
republic. If they prove unequal to the
emergency the cause is lost, and Federal
America will either become military despo-
tism under the iron heel of some stronger
man than has yet come uppermost, or the
mournful prophecy. of Daniel Webster will
be fulfilled, and these fair and fruitful re:
gions W III become the prey of dread
full anarchy than has ever afflicted the Anglo
Saxon race. Revolution will follow revolu-
tion, and the hands of the clock of liberty in
the Western world, now standing still at the
bright hours of dawn, will be put back to
midnight
New YORK, March /.
The legal term of Congress expires to-mor-
row, at II o'clock. 1t dies quiet death-a
fate that at one tine seemed improbable, hav-
ing done its best or it's worst to destroy the
liberties of the people by whom it was elected
and to leave to its successor a legacy of doubt,
peIplexity and danger. The President, need
ing the assistance of the Senate to confirm
some of the DEGREES which he may think it
necessary to issue, and some of the appoint
ments of 'Brigadier Generals and Foreign Mil
listers which he may deem it expedient to make
during the next few weeks, has called an extra
session of that body,-to assemble Immediately
on the expiration of its present term. In other
words, its ordinary session is to end at II o.
clock to morrow, and its extraordinary session
is to commence the moment afterwards. A
fragrant act ef tyranny and snstitutionality
has siGnalized its last moments. On the Bill
granting an indemnity to the President and
his Ministers for all the arbitrary acts
of the last year having been brought for
ward, Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, one of the
ablest and least passionate members of the
House, spoke earnestly against it. The dis
cussion lasted till half-past four in the morn
ing, when the motion was made to adjourn
The motion was not carried, and Mr.. Bayard
attempted to resume his speech. The Chair
man, Mr.. Pomeroy, of Kansas, called him to
order, declaring that the Bill was no longer
before the House, and had been carried. The
shameful attempt to ertort a party triumph
the Democratic journals Of this evening d.
clares the republic to be virtually at an end
in consequence.
called together, and in consequence the coun-
try will witness the unusual, though not, it
appears, the unconstitutional, spectacle, of the
sitting of one House of the Legislature with
out the other. sfe4 kt*s5
The agitation. of the Republican Senators at
Washington to eject Mr.. Seward from Office,
and to install Mr: Charles Sumner in his place,
continues, though without decided success
The President has faith in the Secretary Of
State, and thinks, to use his own words, that
Mr.. Seward is s'the bottom OF the tub" Mr..
Lincoln's particular friend Major General Cas-
sus NJ. Clay, is of opinion that he is whole
tub, and that he ought to be thrown into the
sea to feed the abolition whale; but, as Mr..
Seward objects to Major General Clay for the
post of Ambassador to st. Petersburg, in sue
cession to Mr. Simon Cameron, this fact may
serve to explain the ill-feeling On the part of
the amateur soldier and diplomatist, whose
sole aims and ends In life, beyond his own
personal Advancement, appear to be the liberia
tion of the slaves of the South--evcn at the
cost of servile war, and the severance of the
between Great Britain and Ireland.
But, though the Republican :cauens against
Mr. Seward and come other members OF the
Cabinet has not yet shaken the Presidents
to keep his happy family to-
gether, the leading members know their pow
er too we'll to be discouraged and will renew
their efforts to surround Mr.. Lincoln with
Ministers who share the opinions of AIR. Sum
ner and Mr.. Greeley, and to expel the last
lingering remnants of Conservatism from the
Cabinet. r eSs $50 tse
Gold vibrates between II and II per cent.
premium, and is far more likely to reach so
during the next few weeks than to recede sen
IDLY from its present rates. But New York
takes this, as it takes'every thing else fexeept
tho capture of New York ships by those de-
tcstabie Floridas aud Alabamas), with exceed
ing quiet and serenity. It is making much
money. Its balloon is filed with gas, and
scars majestically aloft, with joyous crew of
seronauts who never dream of the day when
they must desceEd once more and creep like
meaner people upon the earth. But the day
will come, nevertheless, and then there will
be crash of bones aud waiing and lamen
tation such as have seldom occurred in the
history of commercial people.
, A Mothers Grave. -}ss.i s.
Earth has some sacred spots where we feel
like loosening the shoes from our feet, and
treading with holy reverence-wheIe common
words Of pleasure are unftting; places wher,
friendships hands have fingered on each 9TH
er where vows have been plighied, prayers
. froro3 ond teors Of nartinO shed, Oh how