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

forth the seven devils Of clerical meddling
and monopolizing aggrandizement from this
political Maglalen. ELaue hter. From the
social and political baniwhi h will be issued
against this pestflent section, will issue anoth-
Eer and a better order of things, under the
Constitution. ''---'l A. 80 @'i-.
entreat the Democratic young men of
New York not to countenance any of these
schemes of dismembcrment, which we of the
? West will strive to suppress but never cease
day nor night, to warn the people of the new
rocks and fresh breakers which threaten He
who is most faithful in pointing them out in
time, though he may be1riviled, gives the best
ppsoof of siRglesbeartsd Loyalty and Kill be apo
] ing an sympathy with any scheme which
would in any way mutilate the Republic. I
boldly declare'to you these rew and growing
dangers. Jefferson Davis is aware of these
things; and counts largely upon the weakness,
sincertit1de and division eneendered by the "a
! tai errors of his Administration Already
the Democratic organ of Cincinnati and the
Republican organ of Chicago, arc issuing
their warnings in season. The latter advises
its friends in Con gross, that the farmer who is
/ selling his corn for ten cents per bushel, if he
does not use it for frewood, is not easily salts
| fed that there does not exist, somewhere, a
way through which those who act for him at
Washington may afford him relief At least,
he will, if the relief carnot be instant want
to know Why it should not be prospective
He is perfectly aware that while New En-
gland is getting the benefits the West is suf-
I fering the burdens of this war. In New En-.
gland, the merchants and manufacturers have
accumulated fortunes with Aladdin like rapid
! ity. There, wages are high and contracts
! abundant; while the West, with the Missis-
sippi sealed; is charged extortionate rates in
transportation of its produce, and in the nrice
j of its Purchases Its people are robbed by
tariff, end robbed ON what they sell and what
they buy. Mr.. Bcecher has boasted that God
has given the Yankee that intelligence that
knows how ito turn to- gold all it touches.-
II Ladt. hter lTfItis hisihsatiate cupidity, MIN
gled with his Puritanism W hieh is, now MAJ
kin men study The new Census (Which makes
/ New York wonder why with a less popula-
tom New England hasftwelpe Seustors to her
| two Ohio, too ponders the fact that her
population is grea ter, by l435, ,294, than five
New Eng land Suites, yet they have ten ;Senal
tors while she has two !H The West is begin-
ming to ask whether this political equality
among the States, made for wise reason, is
to be used for her oppression whether to that
source is attributable the partial Legislation
which fosters mGnufacture ard burdens the
consumer; which hampers the free inter-
change and enterprise of the great emporium:
which shuts off the competition of the world.
and gives to New En- zland fabrics the monop-
oily among ten millions of western farmers =
Why we to pay fifty percent more for
goods, and lose fftyper cant on wheat, and
corn and pork ? Fifty per cent! 1 should
say ninety per cent, adding the cost of gold,
in which the tariff is paid, to the custom du-
ties, which the consumer at last pays To
gratify one favored class and section, are the
laws of economy suspended with the Consti
tuition? daughter and cheers Is free trade
good, when it takes off the duty and stons the
revenue on maddc..and- -eelUrins; matter, but
bad iEft-tcfs In free COTTON and WOODEN fabrics?
1t IS right to tax Illinois whisky until the
ganufacture is stopped, to crafty the men,
bers from Maine, and let the tariff remain on
woodscrews, TO enrich Rhode Island cumpa-
ny One is made in the West and the other
ia New England but is that reason why
the one should be burdened by an internal tax
to destroy, while the other bears an external
tax to foster? Do you wonder that, at public
m. etings " est, it is resolved that the Mlssis-
sipp Valley shall no longer be tributary to
Yankee cupidity and folly, and that Hlen mad
ly cry out 'New England fanaticism and
speculation have made Disunion! New En-
gland stands in the way of Re- Union! Per-
ish New England, that the Union may live !"
(Great cheerr, and voice, "We've had
enough of hers There is legend related
of St. Lawrence. As he lay on the gridiron,
conscious that he was sufficiently done on one
side, he requested the cooks, if not too incon-
venient. to turn him over and do him Oh the
other. Laughter.1 l. fear the West will
never be canonized, if it requires such double
sacrifices to reach the sanity calendar.-
lLaugbter.] f..- .-.
But these economic abuses can be righted
II n
Try. They wonid be borne, but unhappiiy they
seemed to be accompanied by an element
harder to master-the PURITANIsM of New
England Hisses.] This is bred in the bone.
1t is the same now, that it was hundreds of
years ago.. Like begets like. Generation
succeeds generation, with the same stamp of
Puritan character taking success for justice,
egotisn. for, greatness, cunning for wisdom, Gu,
pidity for enterprise. sedition for liberty, and
cant for piety EAppiause. The West do
not complain merely that their interest are
sacrificed BY New England capitalists, for their
aggrandizement;y but they detest The idea of
Puritan politics, that sias should be reformed
by the State, and that the State should unite
its functions practically with the nehurch, for
the propagation of moral and religious dog
mas. For these objects the laws of economy
and the dictates of public opinion which ever
looks to the interest of sections and men are
disreearded He who fails to observe these
laws understands little Of the science of gov
ernment. New England may be accounted
smart in intellect, cunning in invention and
energetic in industry She may boast of her
libraries, schools, churches and press She
may understand the science which subsidies
the lever, the pulley, the cylinder and wheel.
She may study, the worm does, how to
draw a thread fine, and, like the spider, how
to make the web. She may understand the
mechanism of matter, and may boast of an
Archimedes and jacquard in every factory;
but such smartness may be unable to comprc-
hend the machinery of State. 1t may bring
may, il has already brought-crash and CON
fusion where better minds evolved beauty and
harmony GAppiause ] It's not true that
New England is smart i'll the sense Of wisdom.
1t is not smart to he Informed on one side of
a question One-sided information is the
blankcst ignorance. A man who reads the