The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-03-04

"a soar for the Union? TNo, mol
The people of America must choose now
the alternative. The term of large portion
OF the army expires in May or June 1 am
told by those who ought to know, that the
army then will not number over three hun
dred thousand The Southern army will not
be SO reduced. What is the result of protract-
ing hostilitiesH [Cheers.] II with an over
bearing and overwhelming forco numerically,
we have been unable to make any sensible pro
gress, any palpable progress into their torrito-
ry, to overcome their armies, to crush out this
rebellion-when they have two soldiers 10 our
'oEsc, what is going to be the issue of this WARP
| laughter 1 suspect that among the other
miserable dreams--dsappoint inted nightmare
VISIONS that hang in vapory fumes around the
Imagination of the Secretary of State-it has
occurred to him that if he could only invite the
Southern army in force into PENNSYLVANIA.
and New Jersey, and Indiana, and Illinois. he
'conA1 be d6le to gdlranizc the dead carcass of
M's 'sdr. Laugter Well, if they invade
us, we will write for them precisely the histo-
~ they have been writing ior us the last few
months. The Miami Valley will have two
or three Bull Runs with which to adorn their
history, the State of New Jersey wi also
have several battles which it is not necessary
to allude to-only the picture will be reversed.
But think there is wisdom enough in the
men who control the Southern Government
not to accommodate the Secretary of State
1t has been proclaimed that. it never was their
purpose to invade the Northern States "
1t is very true, that if this war is kept UP,
battles fought, no relenting spirit, no prospect
or peace, no sound of concord to reach their
ears, they ought to be induced to maka that
invasion. But it seems to me that, taking
this project or plan in its best aspect. it
amounts only to this-thesc men of the Re.
publican party who have implicated us in this
war, the leaders of 1.-THE men in power who
invoked the grim spectre of war, and brought
1t on, not as terrible scourge, but as great
national holiday-haue not the manhood no,u,
aohe,' they see at fail, to stop the soar, but an
tend that a shall stop itself Laughter
That is the craftsmanship of tie men who con
troll the destinies of this once greatest nation
on earth IF it be not stopped upon some
fair and reasonable terms not Implying sepa-
Will not consent to-Tapplause1
bat if it be not, by the common consent of
these two Governments, stopped there, then
Will be realized in our case what Greeley and
Sumner will do by invoking the interposition
of foreign powers. There was a time when
peace might have been obtained by foreign
mediation. The proposition of mediation has
been made by power that believe to be
friendly to the United States-if she IS not
false to all her history. But our wonderful
Secretary of State still maintains, with most
marvellous pertinacity, that these people of the
South are belligerents. In his corresnondenca
--.-rP.ers srIII profound1y Y in pressed
With the Conviction that after all jeff Davis is
a myth and there is no Confederate Govern
ment. He says there is no South and no
North; he is going to reverse all geography.
have new editions printed, set aside all histo-
ry, establish now nomenclature for the coun-
try-no Southern States, no Northern States,
no Davis, no Lee, no "StoDewar" Jackson
Applause. Sir, this Government is made a
mockery in the eyes of foreign Governm ents
oy this miserable twaddle of man who calls
himself Secretary of State, and who holds the
place VIM. L. Marcy once honored. ZAP
clause
The war must stop OF sc on for the negro,
or the abolition of slavery, for the destruction
IT State rights, and to kindle up the flames of
! scrvile insurreetian. (Cries of "Never.')-
That is the alternative. 1 am ready to trust
he people of the United States. I believe
hey are for the Union as our fathers made it;
believe they are satisfied that this is mis-
rable crusade against African slavery, with
which you of New jersey have no more to do
han with rpolygamy in Turkey. Why, sir,
New jersey was the last of all the free States
o repeal the law that allowed the right of
he South and their Servants (Ssveral voices
and exclaimed at is not repealed
'et, and never will be.") am rejoieed to
ear II, and to know that one State yielded /
ot to the black torrent of Abolitionism that
wept over the land. (Applause.) I have |
aid that upon the basis that existed between |
he sections of this country fifty years ago, |
he reunion of these States is a practicable |
hing, and in time an ineviteble result One
ear ago to-day the hopes of revival and re-or-
anization of the Democratic party were as
ark and gloomy as to-day arc the hopes of re-
MON. L hat party was publicly and formally /
rganized on the Sth of May, 1862. When
e were striving in Washington City for an
rganizatlon of that party our enemies-yes,
nd men who had been in our party-looking
our efforts very much in the spirit with
hlch the antediluvians watched the opera
ons OF the venerable patriarch, Noah, when /
Q was building the ark, and whom they con
dered, no doubt, the greater fool of his age;
lat was supposed to be the character of the
an who undertook to develop that powerful
ut unorganizcd sentiment in the Northern
I'd Western States, and which finally gained
signal triumph. iSlL
Where lie your Bastiles now Your arbi-
ary arrests, your trampling under foot, the d
eedom of speech and of press, the violation /
ING soiSmn IiShtS secureu py the COnSlltu-
On to the people? God grant, what God
one can grant, good sense enough to. under
and the temper Of this people sufficiently not
,ais to inaugurato reign of terror. (Grcat
,plause) We have submitted as no people
lght ever to have submitted for an hour-to
6 taking away of our rights-not for a mo- E
ent. Why did the people do SO? Not that
ey loved liberty less, but the Union more
d they were willing to surrender into the
pds of men who betrayed every trust conf
d to them those precious legacies which were
herited from our fathers, for three months,
the pledge that the rebellion would then lie
ushed out. We never intended that We Il
re to be crushed out ourselves. Laughter Il
applause.) But the people can be no Ii
,ger deceived the scales have fallen from v
cir eyes, and they are correctly appreciated
the people as they never were before. For \
0 hundred years no Minister of Great Brit !.
n has dared to tamper with the body of any A
lglishman without being punished, When in :
63, one hundred years ago, the Minister of
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