The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-27
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| We surrender q large portion of to-day s
paper to the publication Of. the. evidence given
| on the trial OF c. L. Vala5dighana before
the co1rt martial conveyed by General Burn
| side in obedience to cyders of Abraham Lin
eeln: Every thoughfinI citizen. will peruSe
tins evidence with lively interest but all may
not think Of the importance Of laying it away
| for future reference. We, therefore, enjoin
on our readers to preserve this paper, that not
only themselves, but their children after them,
may know the fimsy pretexts on which dis
/ tiDguished American Statesman, eminent alike
for his learning and for the purity of his, .pri-
vate life, was stripped of his liberty and sent
into exile by 8 Republican, Administration,
We thank Sod, that Abraham Lipcolu and
his Administration arc net the American Gov
ernment. Ii tie contrary were the case, a
persistence in such arbitrary violations of the
constitution and law as have occurred in the
outrage on Mr.. Vanandighan,,s could not ifaii
to weaken Il at hold on the hearts of the peo,
pie which constitutes the only assurance of its
perrlanence Let none, therefore fail to re-
member the truth SO we'll expressed by Mr..
Seward to Mr.. Adams, that tn Administra-
tit n is one ching and the Government is an
other. siitI Ell =, es.''tf 7---z
{ Tie day is coming 6ard Of this let our read
ers be assnrcd.) when the people, in their own
Esel.interest. and in their own Unborn Of 10 e
lof right and jhstiec, will awake to the existing
condition of things and apply the remedy
They will not7Tthey can not, fail to think. in
silence though il may lie. Of. the liberty OF
spe ech and of I'll . press which has existed nn-
der past Administrations or the Cover, mept
as 'contfasted with the tyranny which now
seeks to deprive. the People OF, all usterance
except as IL agrees with the views Of persons
in poteeis and c.6ice. They will RENE .nber thai
in all he history of the Democratic party IL
war aud in peace, its acts and its policy, both
las to Great Britain ia 1872, and Mexico, in
1916, were ever oren to unrestraincd criticism
and denunciation, and that the public enemy
were told from the Senate ,}hambcr, that our
brave troops, marching under the starry BAN
her of the Union, should be welcomed with
blnody hands TO hospitable Graves" Under
all this license of speech, the Democratic Adj
ministratiuns never tranimeled the iii erty of
Tree discussion, but under their able manager
mcnt and wise policy the Union went forward
increasing in strength ana greatness, Never
since the foundation of the government, has
Democratic Administration used its power to
stop the fullest criticism of its acts or to
check the widest ard most defamstory denun
cations of its policy. Was this course wrong?
Ought the Democratic National Administra-
tions to have declared the cou.se of the ,Aio
litionists inconsistent with, the peace OF the
country, aud therefore stopped their speakers
by arbitrary force |? Ought President Pierce,
believing, as he did, that the course of Chase
Hale. and Others in 1852, was weakening the
peace of the country and destroying the power
OF his administration to keep tie strength of
the Union upi,npaired- sht he to have ar
rested these cultivators Of the bitterness which
has resulted in civil war and sent them into
banistAent? When Democratic President
believed that Massachusetts, "Aid Society,
IN Kansas, was kindling civil war in that ter,
rtory, and WIS MT "loyap to the Union.
should he have ordered the u. S. troops to
try members of that Society by court marital
for such acts and opinions as he chose to con-
slider disloyaP'?s These are questions which
sound thinking, well-meanng men who have
voted with the Republican party w,ll ask
themselves in silence Arbitrary power was
within ,le grasp of former Presidents as, well
as of Mr. Lincoln They abstained from its
issue because it was in 'vio,ation of the Ctn
sttution and because they trusted to the ac-
tiop of a fIes and intelligent people as furn-
ishing the trnea and only legitimate remedy
for all existing evils Did they no wrong?