The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-02-25
Plot pfscovered---The De-

signs ofthe Abolition Party.
The most hsartless and danniag plot er.r
concocted in a free government has been dis
covered in this county, Its place is ina sc.
cret political Organization. of the Republican
party. Nor Dc We by any means suppose it is
cozined within the limits of Crawford ,Coun.
ty. We are well assured that it extends oyor
the entire length and breadth of the State
that Its numbers, ties and bands unite every
county therein. Its avowsd object, as given
by one of the leading members at Cresti;ne,
in this county, is the s~ubjugation of the But.
ternuts of the North; that they must be CO.
creed into the support of the Abolition policy
of this Administration, or be exterminated-
To enforce this hellish scheme they expect
the Government to furnish them with arms
and munitions of war, under the plea of me-
cessity to protect the SO called Union men of
the North in executing the unlawful edicts
and behests of this blood-thirsty Administra-
ton. 1t remains to be seen whether the OBJ
%ject9ef this organization is to be backed up by
the State and national authorities; whether
revolution is 10 be forced upon the only party
of the North, which dares to avow its un-
ceasing love and fidelity for the old Constitu-
ton as it is and the Union as it was upon
the only party which has dared to raise its
waraing voice against the lawless usufpations
of pcwer-agaiast the theft, robbery and plum.
der--against the fragrant missteps, blanders
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the illegal ar
rest and Imprisonment of loyal citizens with
out legal process or warrant of law-against
an unconstitutional emancipation edict, which
invites the slaves of the South to re-enact the
horrors of st. Domingo, by numbering de-
fenceless women and innocent children
against all these wrongs, with an endless cata-
ogn of others, which have been perpetrated
ly the officers and imps of this peace destroy,
By, constitutions iolating, w-breaking Ad-
minIstraticn. tela1 a. 20 5sifeas 2ffr
We have long been satisfied that a. secret
political organization was being perfected in
the Republican party of this country, for the
sole object of subjeating and destroying, if
need be by force of arms, the5only true con
siitutional Union men in the North. The pol
icy which has finally been adopted by the
power that be, in the further. prosecution Of
this unnatural war, requires that eli men who
still love and revere the old Constitution aof
ourifathers-that all who are in favor of pre-
serving inyiolate the guarantees of the Con-
situation to the people and the States-thata all
who are in favor of restoring the Union as it
was, under tho Constitution as it is-must he
as traitors, without jury and without
trial This is the Lass hope of party whose
wicked and base acts of infamy and oppression
uafS uiArcu Us HoulDerS To QeSperatiOn. ~j
If this is the programme, and We do not
doubt it, then VIC say to the Democracy Of the
North, watch and be ~vigilant; plant yourselves
upon the old Constitution, and resolve that
you will make the same sacrifices, if necessary,
to sustain and defend it that the fathers of
the Republic endured in order to secure it.
as you always have stood, the advocates
of constitutional rights and the enforcement
of the laws. You know your rights, and
knowing them resolve that you will maintain
them. at whichever cost-if Abolit;onists and
lawless miscreants are bound to force the issue
upon Northern freemen-if it must be war
for our conditional liberty, or peace in slavery
we say, be ready, and let duty find
you at your posts.-grdpford Forum.
We invite the especial attention of ouI
readArs- TO srv ~bv-- -F+v-t IS NOW mo-
question that such an organization has been
secretly established throughout the North
west, and has been done all the more sue cess
fully under the cry that it was the Democracy
who were organizing secret societies. 1t be-
hooves every democrat to be upon the alert,
and above ali TO BE PREPARED for the
ASSAULT that is about to be made upon them
If the Northern States are to be deluged in
blood in an attempt to take away the liberties
of the people, we warn the powers that be,
that it viii be the blood Of the aboIitionists
and their tools, and the watchword of the PEG
pie will be, "let not q traitor i've"