The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-01-21
Judge Bar.tleyss Indictment
Against the Republican Party

Republican party, with which Judge BARrLEY
closed his speech at the Eighth of January
j Festival, at the Ameriean in this city :.-,s 7
THE FRUITS OF ENTRUsTINa THE REPUBLI-
/ CAN PARTY WITH THE ADMINIsTRA-
i TON OF YEIl GOVERNMENT.
1st. Tho dissolution Of the Union Of the
I'd. a biosdy, desassting, ruinous civil war.
4 Sd. Moret than three hundred thousand pen
lsalready sacrificed, and sent prsmaturely to
! their final account. y is.
4th. Suffering, mourning, death and DESC
! latisp carried into families in every heighbor-
j hood throughout the broad expanse of this
country. 4ss..
9th. More than three millions of men ta-
ken from the industrial pursuits of life North
and South, for the deadly eonfict. -
9th. a national debt, including circulating
bills of credit of over two thousand millisns
Of dollars, already created, and poth:ng bene.
| fetal to show for it. - s''ss,s
7th. More than Eve thousand millions of
dollars worth Of property already destroyed by
restoration of the Union far darker than when
the war commenced. e'sl.g1 = -. islsf 8.
/ 9Th. The annual expenses of the Govern
ment increased already from about $50, 900, :
900 to abort $1,000, ,000, ,ee0, and the burden
still more rapidly increasihg, - ; g
9th. A grinding, oppressive, endless burden
of direct taxation, to support the Federal
Government
10th. Millions of dollars expended to feed,
qlothe, support and educate the negro slaves,
and to purchase thcir freedom and PROPOSE
1 tion pending for an expenditure for the pur-
chase of negro slaves, sufficient to bankrupt
the Federal GoyernmE!ent, ifeF ffty or q hun
l1th. Frauds upon the treasury, and swim
ding in Government cohtracts,s to an extent
unheare Of in any other age or country and
to cut loose from all moral and legal Festrainta,
the most prominent offender, Simon Cameron,
/ after his dismissal from Office, not only shell
fered, but highly honosed Ri a and the operation
the treasury actually suspended by an act of
/ Congress
1zfhssThe constitutional currency of the
country virtually suppressed; and rags, ship-
plasters, pasteboard and postage stamps sub
stibpted !; and an' un 6crtain, variable standard
of value created, which must inevitably event
late in widespread disastsE4 asaias TMSip. M to the
great Industrial intsfestg of the people.
18th. The abolit Of negro slavery in the
4 District Of Columbia, wholly unnecessary, and,
to say the least iof it,iis palpable breach of
| good filth, simply to appehse the rapacity Of
Nerthern fannticisna. at the expense of driving
OF hundreds of thousands of Union men, I'm
4 the slave States, ipto the Southern army.
18th. The unceasing negro slayery agita-
tioni; the confiscation and emancipation meas
ures atthe late session;of Congress and the
proclamations tof. en- aneipation by the Gener-
ais in the field, and by the President of the
/ United States, confirming 4he. predictions of
| the Southern disunionists as to the supremacy
and rapaci,y of Northern Abolitionism and,
| by these means, crushing the Union gfeH. of
the Slave States, and thereby producing una
nimity in the South in the cause of the re-
| bellion. ~, Al, a. ss,i;ss ss'
18TH The prosecution of the war, not in
that redeeming spirit and coheiiiatory disposi.
tion required by the nature of the Federal
compact, but with menaccsi Of subjugaticn and
determination, besides aiding and efacilitatlrg
the escape of fugitive slaves; and encoura-
ging servile instructions. 80
18th. The attempted emancipation of from
three to four millions of slaves-slaves is 10y
oil Union men, as we'll as those of the rebels
by the SIMPLE saict of the President :.
17th:a An atfe.hpti to turn loose hordcs of
negro slaves upoh the free States, to ccmpete
with the white laborar, and to wranglo for So
cial and political equality With the white race
/ 18th. Thousands of good and Loyal, citizens
arrested without legal warrant, dragged from
their homes, taken beyond the lfmitp of their
States, and confined in political bastiles, With
out the opportunity of atrial, and even with
out being permitted to know the name of the
sssass s g yhas charge if any has has 9 been gEs
18th. Loyal and. patriotic citizens, who are
really ana willing to- sacrifice all they hold
post dear, to maintain s.the Constitution as is
is, and restore tho Union as it Vas r denounced
as traitors and disloyal persons, by d political
party whose motto is, ga Union without sla-
very, or no Union CT ut all -
10th. The freedom and sovereignty of the
States grossly ifcToached upon, and their total
subversion boldly threatened. ga
2lst. The freedom of speech aud the Free
dom Of the press two of the essential bull
warks of eivi. libesty, hinegtimakls TO freemeh
and formidable t6I .tyrants only, trampled
d3GD ana crushed to the earth. ~
ed. The writ Of habeds corpus and the
right of trial by Jury, tyo gFeati ESSENTIAL safe
igaardasef frcsdoffi, and which have cost man
kina SO many centuries of toll, bloodshcd by
the mere edict of the President.
2Sd. The edict and DEGREES of arbitrary
power substituted for the Constitution and
IJass' of Ehe land, ,-anafth cfeatfon of a new
criminal code by an executive proclamation.
24th. Martial law declared thyou ghont the
United States not limited to the sphere of
the operations of the armies in the field, but
extending all over the loyal States, where the
civil tribunals are in the unquestloned loyal
execution, ,of their powers. = - SO
18th. A new and extensive department. of
the Government, consisting ola Provost Mar
shal General, and special or subordinate Pro.
vost Marslials and military committees in ail
the cities and counties Throughout the several
States with Duties powers and salaries Of :df-
fee--a all created; instituted and prescribed, not
by iaw, but BY. the mefe edicts Of theF Presi'
dent and Republican State Governors. 7af.
26th. Leading and influential organs Of the
elective franchise, and postponement Of eieo-
ti6ds' and q pgahibition Of political meetings
among the people = ies -
27th. The military made supreme oyer the
civil lower, eyea, in the loyal States, entirely
removed from tie 6psratians of the armies IN
the field. Il. Ii. ~ s
| 18th. The President interposing the Feder-
! al power to aid in revolutioniEing State Gov
+ tarnments. and even assnfhihg to appoint Gov