The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-04-15
Who is Responsible for the Pres
emit War--An Elegant and Truth
full Picture. 9a4 o -,r- .n,

The following extract is from Mr. VOORHEES,
late speech in New York. We copy it because
it is as true as Holy Writ
"Mr. Voorhees, read from the debates ir
Congress, showing that Douglas said in thu
Thirty-sixth Congress that if his party had
~triumphed III the last election, the people OF
the Southern States would have rested in thu
security that they were safe, and the Uuion
would never have been dissolved. Washing.
ton, Jefferson, jackson, Clay and Webster pre-.
dicted that the result of a sectional party
would be disunion end civil war, and vet the
Republicans are excessively sentative about
being charged as the authors of this var. Il
am sure said the speaker, if / felt that the
blood of this war was IN any way on my hands.
or that any vote of my hand had brought into
existence thousan d mics of graves upon the
borders of the South-had caused this mourn
ing of mothers tor their first born, like Ra-
chael weeping for her children because
they are not if thought that 1 was respon-
sible by word or deed for this war, L should
feel that upon my fingers was the blood red
damned spot of murder that would incarnadine
great Ncptunes wave, and that all the waters
in the ocean would not wash out. t.EGreat an
plause, and 'tthree cheers for Voorhees,, the
patriot given heartily.1 There would be no
response for me this side or the other of the
grave. Iawould have to have a lighted can
die in my room to keep away spectators of the
murdered dead and slain in battle. I thank
God to night, and love to look in the faces of
an audience that participate in the feelinps
that no Democrat has to take the guilt of this
great crime against nature and humanity. You
know it well that if everybody had voted as
you voted, and talked as you talked, and mind
cd their own business as you minded yours,
and let the slave States alone in slavery, and
let them haze tho guarantees of the Constitu-
tion-who does not know that there would
have been peace and Union before to day.
The man who pretends he don't know
it fafsifes his own internal CONVICTIONS. Every
man knows it. He who stands before you and
says it is not true don't even represent his own
heart. It is an inactive feeling in your own
breast, and you know it. Consequently, when
you ask this question of Republicans, how
anxious how nervous, and sensitive they are /;
how they put up their hands and say "Let's
argue this question when the war is over :"
it is like Banquo's ghost threatening Macbeth.
Their eyeballs are scared by the awful sight.
They ask that the day of reckoning may be
postponed; ike some guilty wretch upon the
verge of hell itself, they say, "Fofbear a few
days / let as not discuss these questions nos,
How loving they are with Democrats that will
give them tiRa4with men who will agree to
say, Owe will speak of these things when the
war is over. All, gentlemen, short accounts
quick Settlements are hest. 7TGreat cheer
ing. I propose to settle this account all along
line. 1t is best to do SO, because they
will be asking us to trust them again. .