The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-10-07

them, encouraged, as they will be, by the
powerful support of the army, the navy and
the credit of France. The mission of Mr.
Stephens to Paris clearly points to this result.
Unwisely and wickedly rejected by the Court
at Washington, where, according to Southern
authority, he came with "full powers to treat
for peace and settlement" he goes now on
special embassy to the Court of Versailles
The disastrous results of the success of such
embassy, either through him or Mr.. Slidell
already there, upon the interests and future
peace of the Northwest, no man can calcu-
late. Then, indeed, along with permanent
disruption of the Union, and other numberless
| caIamnities, would tn e MISSISSIPPI
ally sealed against us, except upon such terms
as foreign nations may choose to impose; and
thus every city and town upou that great ri
yer and its tributaries, would begin. to fall in
to decay Victories in the field will not all
tend to retard or prevent this alliance and its
runious results. Now, therefore, is the ac-
cepted time, the very hour before the blow be
struck, for the people of the North and West
to rebuke the radicals and malignants who
control public affairs, and prove to the people
of the South that they can return to their al
legiance to the Constitution, and to the Union,
f'with all the dignity, equality and rights of
their several States unimpaired." l repeat
that the success of the Democratic party in
wards this result than any event which can
happen within the next twelve months. Shall
the golden moment to aid powerfully in the
restoration of the Union as it was be suffered
to pass by e-
Upon another sucject allow me now a word,
not volunteered, but called out and made ap-
propiate by those who assail me. ~
The candidate of the Administration party
is reported to have spoken recently at Colum-
bus, in public meeting, in substance as fol-
lows:
"What will be the effect of eleoting Mr. Val
andigham Governor of Ohio 1 will tel you
what the effect of it will be. 1t will inaugura te
civil war in your State. 1t will bring civil war
to your homes, upon the soil Of your own state;
for tell you there is a mighty mass of men in
this state whose nerves are strung up like STEEL
who will never permit this dishonor to be con.
sun mated in their native State. Another effect
will be that it will be an invitation to the reb-
els in arms to come up and take possession of
our soil.' r
Now have so often myself been made the
subject of false statement and misreport, that
1 Will not hold Mr.. Brough responsible for
either the sentiment above expressed, or the
presumptuous sill iness of referring to the
election by the people of his opponent.
bringing s'dishonor" upon the State. But |
know that the proposition itself is beginning
to be urged by many of his friends as men
ace to the freemen of Ohio ; and I choose to
meet it fatty.
First. The Invitation to rebels in arms
which my election will signify, will be to lay
down their arms and return to the old Union
and to obedience to and protection under the
Constitution, laws and flag, secure from Abo
lition intermeddling and agitation, as before
the war, and from conscription, confscation,
execution, emancipation, negro equality, and
all exertions of arbitrary, despotic power
since.
Second. There will be no "civil war; in
Ohio if L am elected Governor, unless Mr.
Brough and his party insusurate it in which
event we will "crush out the rebellion in a
very much shorter space of time than they
have employed in putting down the "siave-
holders rebellion" If, however, he means
that they will s.secede" from tie State by vol
untary exile to Canada, or elsewhere, there
will be no coercion" in that event. But the
threat, if intended to intimidate, is as idle as
the wind : if meant seriously, it is time that
the peop-e should know it, that they may
afhx the mark of Cain upon the foreheads of
these new conspirators against the ballot-box
In any event, he whom majority of the
"qualifed electors" of Ohio may choose for
their Governor, will be inaugurated, and the
vast mass of the people, without distinction
of party, will aid, if need be, in the work of
keeping the peace of the State, and carrying
out the fundamental maxim of popular gov
ernments, that the "majority must govern
For let Mr. Brough, and all others who would
defeat the will of the people, take notice that
"there is mighty mass of men in Ohio whose
nerves are strung up like steel - who mean
that the man who is the choice of the people
shall be the peoples Governor. Should that
choice fall upon me, all the duties of the
office shall be faithfully and fearlessly dis
charged. | would myself obey the Constitu-
tion and laws, and see to it that all others
obeyed them within ner limits and jurisdiction.
The courts should bo open, and restored once
more to their rightful authority justice ad-
without denial or delay, and the
military in strict subordination to the civil
power. Habeas corpus should be respected,
no citizen arrested except upon due process of
law, or held except for trial by the civil tri-
bunals, and none kidnapped from the State.
But while the rights of the States and the
liberties Of her citizens should be thus strictly
enforced, the constitutional and lawful author
lty and rights of the Federal Government
should be obeyed and respected with scrupu-
lous fidelity, no matter who administered it
w hatever the Administration have right un-
der the Constitution and laws to demand or
expect from the State Executive, should be
promptly and exactly rendered. In short,
would adopt and thoroughly carry out the two
naxims upon this subject laid down by Mr.
Jefferson in his inaugural, in 1901:
First. 'FThe support of the State Govern
ment in all their rights, as the most compe-
ent administration of our domestic concerns,
md the surest bulwarks against anti repubh-
IAN tendencies"
Second. 'The preservation of the General
Government in its whole constitutional vjgor,
is the sheet anchor of our peace at home and
'afetY abroad.'
And in this way would strive, by the quick
md decisive exercise of will and authority
whenever necessary and proper, and by cheer
ul and ready compliance wherever due, to re-
tore the peace, the quiet, the economy, the
,ood order and harmony which, in former
ears, marked the States both in their relation |