The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-06-03

ming break out, flash and scathe. Hence we
have little or nothing direct from them-but
by way of Chicago We have the following from
Cincinnati +:
rM- There arc now confined in the military
prison here 220 political prisoners, all to be
tried by the court martial noo holding daily
sessions.
1.-TWO hundred and twenty Vallandigham
cases, among them several Editors of papers
one OF them the Editor of the Dayton En-.
pire)
M Gen. Burnside has notified sundry
weekly newspapers in Ohio to send him proof;
appears an their isaac I; the reason assigned
being the publication of articles against the
administration, Order No. 3S, &c.
Given FrenchmeD, French subjects, have
never been reduced to this. The Sbirri sys
tenn of italy alone produced it. In France
there arc warnings to the Press, 1-2-3, be.
fore -suppressicn.) 4sa
THE indications are indubitable, that Mr..
Vallandiyham will be nominated for Governor
by the Democratic State Convention of Ohio
next month";" rt
In Indiana, q little primitive Village After
ney who could not earn a living by Law-wa,
made a Brigadier General of-Hascall is his
name, and to him is given Dictatorial Power,
in the great State Of Indiana. This Hascall,
the story is, suppressed one journal because
the editor called him "a donkey" and stopped
another because the printer had commenced
his name with an R, instead of an Fl, which
the editor said was only a typographical error.
A correspondent of the World writes from
Indianapolis:
Two (other) fapers have fallen before his
royal frown within the last few days, viz: the
South Bend Forum and the Columbia City
Meacs. The first, as a newspaper, reported
the "Words and notions of Others" and was ro-
quired by the iterdrg as well as dictatorial
Hascall to publish an order retracting all this
and publish a loyal paper hereafter or to dis
continue publication until further orders. The
dictator accuses the Forum editor of doastin0
of an Intention to violate General Order No.
9; but this. is denied by the editor, while at
the same time he very gracefully throws him
self upon. the mercy of his sovereign by say
ing that as far as anything in his paper can
be- understood as b1asting he retracts. TIL,
Forum will have one more issue for the bene-
fit of advertisers, and then appear no more
perhaps forerer!
The Nevs appeared once after Hascail's or
DIR to take back everything it said, and here
after be loyal or discontinue, and fired a fare.
we'll shot which found an echo away down
deep in the thoughts of every man who dares
not speak lest some hired spy may hear and
report to tie dictator. Its temperance de
ponds upon the re-establishment of c~onstitu.
tional law in lieu of military orders.
Now the man is bl.nd,-stonc blind,-who
supposes all this can go on, long, without an
Instruction in Ohia, and Indiana, and Illinois
All such acts arc provocative, of Instruction.
and if not purposely provocative, not the less
practically provocative. If, and when, insur.
~rcctions there bogin,-who can foresee where
they will end {? It may be, that the Federal
administration can put them down by arms !;
it may be, that the People of the Great West,
from the Ohio River, and the Allegheny
Ranges, on to California can be suIjugdted,-
but the s~ubjugation of such a People is an ut
ter reversal and overthrow of the whole sum
and s.bstance o. neutrality-suspicious. form of Gov
eminent. 1t but establishes the Military, in
lieu of the Civil Law,-and the Military thus
established, soon subverts all Civil Govern
ment. as
And now, we BEG-wE IMpLo2E, such men,
here, in New York, as hold the PURSE of THIS
ADMINIsTRATI IN, to stop, to pause, to con-
slider Past History, we may remark, teaches
us but one lesson-and that lessen 8 900 years
long, viz, : hat when the Military becomes
the Goyernment,-thc Iincoln's, tbs Chases,
TIE Stewards, the Stantons, are the very first
" DC oHOPS away OFCi W OiiClA OnH IN
and that there ever spring up, from these ar
mics, smart, adroit, unprinciplel men, who
seize the helm, and this too in spite of the
civilians. Such is our English reading of til
History, of Cromwell-and such, almost in
this age, is the History of the Great Napo
leon. We know the delusive idea abroad
that American soldiers differ from French, OF
even English soldiers,-but the idea is a delu.
sion. Soldiers not only become M chimes, but
love coUps d'etat, and ever are among the very
first to accept them. The Puritans of Crom
we'll were pious, worthy, brave men, %intelIi.
gent, and earnest too,-but 5000 of them on.
ly under General Monk brought back the Ii
~centious and lascivious Charles the Second
and Gen. Monk received his pay in being
made Duke of A~lbermarle. The history oil
the little Republics of Greeoe,-(we have
twenty of them before US now on a list,) i:
exactly the History We are making, and al
ending in some Military Monarchy. Now
were the Gre ,ks inferior to us Americans in
education. The very populace of Athens
was SO intelligent that if eyenea Demosthenes
when on the Bema, tripped in but an accent
of a Greek word, they could detect, and re
buke him.. Intel igenoe is no safeguard from
a Military Monarchy; as witness the accept
apce by the people Of France of the SECOND
Napoleon, in order to be free from the anar
chical, incompetent, Red Republicans and
the transcendental Ian %artincs, and Victo
IIugos, of whom our country is now full
The Lincolns, the Stewards, the Chases, tn,
Stantons, and all enthusiasts and Erdhado
of our day, are digging their own graves a
rapidly as their spades can work. Such men
never, in History, survive the storm they raise
They may plunge the whole country into An
archy and Insurrection before they go off, a
did the bright spirited, intelligent Girondists
about all of whom expired under the Gulllo
tine. But understand us as not r%eciting thi
History to threaten. for Lincoln is the right
full, the lawful, the Constitutional Executiv
of this Government, and he alone can save u
from these Events impending, and we Civ
the history but as lessons of admonition for u
all, and if possible, to i%ncite, for to arouse
New York Republican men in power and G