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

ours. All attempts, like tic Times extra, to
induce the people to peaeeably submit to illc-
gal and forcible interference at the ballot
box will be unavaiing.
But what means this Sandusky Register ar
ticle and Times extraY Is it inteaded to in
terfere with the polls. Hear what they say
I" Did Bruce and Tell, did Hampden and
Sidney, Henry, Washington and jackson, re-
sist 'tyrants,' "despots,' - educators" by any
appeals to laws, the courts, and by preserving
the peace? Who such a fool. They resisted
tyrants by revolution, " by "war," by "civil
connection"
Is violence TO be used and this laborad eff
fort put forth to induce the people to quietly
submit while the last link of the chain of des-
potlsm and tyranny is being forged and fas-
tened upon their persons? , 1t can have no
other meaning Washington and Bruce, Tell,
Hampden, Sidney and the other patriots,
whose names are now and will forever be re-
vered, resisted tyranny by force of arms
These papers counsel us, like poltroons, to SUBJ
init. They evidently mean to make the at
tempt, and. in conclusion, We say to the free
men of Ashland county, go to the polls pre-
pared TO eaEorce yoxr right to cote If question
ed, If you hare to uade through the blood and
climb orcr tie dead bodies Of all the minions
Of tyranny that may be placed IN your path
ar0y.
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Democrats, BE on
You

We would caution our frie nds in the sever
al townships to be on their guard against
fraudulent votes. 1t is a part of the policy of
the Abolition leaders of this country to defeat
she Democratic ticket by the importation OF
voters from Huron, Lorain and Medina coun'
ties. We have it from undoubted authority
that large numbers of young men from the
above named counties, have been employed by
leading Republicans of this county until after
the election. Democrats, watch closely this
device of the enemy. Let each township be
carefully polled aud duplicate lists of the bona
fde voters made out and placed In the
hands of true and tried Democrats whose du-
ty it shall be to station themselves at the polls
and challange every voter whose name is not
on their lists. Be active! Be vigilant! and
a glorious victory will crown your exertions.
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What will you have?

IF you want the country restored 70 what it
was when governed by the Democratic party,
you must vote the Democratic ticket. If you
do not wish to have yourself and your sons
drafted and carried away to fight for the free
dom of the negroes, you should vote the Dem
cratic ticket. IF you want the Constitution
and the Union as our Fathers made them, Sc
curing personal liberty and domestic happi-
ness TO all, you must vote the Democratic tick
ct. But if you are in favor of continuing the
war until slavery is abolished and the old I'm
ion is destroyed if you are in favor of still
increasing taxation; if you are in favor ofbeing
drafted and having your friends drafted; if
you are in favor of more widows and orphans,
then, you will, of course, vote the Abolition
ticket. These are the issues to be decided at
the ballot box next Tuesday, October 18th.
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Give one day for
Peace and Re-
Union

The people of Ashland county, and espe-
cially those who have fathers, brothers and
sons in the army exposed to the deadly mis-
siles of War and the miasmatic influence of
the Southern swamps, have a sacred duty to
perform On the 18th of October duty which
every sentiment of love and affection calls up
on them to discharge, and that duty is to give
their vote and influence to the success of that
party pledged to restore Peace to our country
and the return of our brave soldiers to their
loved ones at home. Father, son, brother,
would you preserve the life of your friends,
the bitter tears of widowhood from their wives
and their children from dependant orphanage
upon the cold charities of a heartless world,
give your vote, your energies, your time, to
the success of the Democratic Peace and I'm
ion cause. If that party is successful, it is
pledged to the Reunion of the country aud
the protection of its people. If Abolitionism
is successful, the red car of War, already clog.
ged and clotted with human gore, will roll on
amid interminable slaughter and devastation.
Friends, the cause we invite you to sustain is
the cause of humanity, of peace, of %fratcrnal
union. Your duty is plain. Follow it, and
the mothers blessinga the childrens prayers
and a peaceful and prosperous future for our
beloved country, will be your reward.
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Prophetic !

Said DANIEL WEBSTER, eff these Internal.
fanatics and A6ohtionists e0er get the ponef
into their hands, they piW override the Consti-
tuition, set the supreme Court at defiance,
change and make laaos to suit themselves ;
LAY VIOLENT HANDS ON THOSE
WHO DIFFER WITH THEM IN OPIN-
ION, or dare question their fidelity, and il
naHy bankrupt The country and deluse it in
10Th blood"
They did, in an evil hour. get into power,
they have stricken down the Constitution, set
the supreme Court at defiance, changed and
made laws to suit themselves, laid violent
hands on those who differed with them in
opinion, and dcluged the country with frater-
nal blood. Is it not high time that the pco-
pie arrest them in. their mad schemes of crime
and bloodshed. Voters, think of this as you
go to the polls on Tuesday next.
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Fabrication

In the Ashland Times of this week under the
caption of "Remember," the dirty scoundrel
who testified before a jury of his county that he
was a malignant and wilful liar, attempts to
sink himself still deeper in infamy, if possible,
by publishing the most unsnitigrted falsehoods
upon the Democratic candidate for Governor
of Ohio. Among other gross fabrications we
find the following:
"You shall not have another man to rein.
force you or another dollar to pay you for your
services"
This is falsed
ale also declares to the soldiers if you die,
you die like a dog in a bad cause"
We pronounce this a wiIfuI and malicious
lie, and challenge the cowardly maligner who
penned it, to produce one shred of testimony to
sustain his. foul charge.
eff elected Governor he is pledged to array
Ohio in conflict with national arms"
We will pay ten dollars to any one who will
produce, from VALLANDIGHAM's speeches, or
letters any such language. Dare the money
worshiping editor ef the Times accept our of
fer?
"Call back your army, give up all you now
possess in the South"
This is a fabrication. There is not one
word of truth in it, and the man that penned
it knew that it was false, and that he was ly-
ing in his heart when he said so.
Voters of Ashland county, it is by such
falsehoods and ISLANDERS that the Abolition
leaders hope to succeed. They do not. believe
that you are acquainted with the history OF
the men who are before you for your votes
and hence believe that you are FIT tools to be
gulled and guided in your action by such lies
and SANDERS as they can fabrieate upon their
political opponents. Do not let these sianderer:
be longer deceived in your intelligence. Re
buke them as they deserve on next Tuesday
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Democrats, Exam
inc Your Tickets.

Demo Gratis should carefully examine their
tickets before dcpositing them in the ballot
box. 1t is one Of the favorite games ofthe Alb
olitionists when they are in the minority to
have tickets printed like the Democratic tick
cts, containing the names of all the Democrat
ic candidates, except SOM ~favorite candidate
of theirs, whom they insert in place of the
Democratic nominee. We would advise every
Democrat to closely scan his ballot before de-
posting it, and do not permit these unscrupu,
lous tricksters to accomplish by fraud what
they cannot by honorable mears. And let it
be the special duty of one man at each poll to
see that no such imposition be praoicod upon
our German friends who may be unable to
read our language. Let this be attended to,
friends.
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Remember,

That ihe only maxim which can over preserve
sho libsrtios Of a people is to nip the shoots OF
arbitrary power 10 the bud. Let the people
Or AsHiand county remember this maxim on
Tuesday ucxt, aad do their duty When the
psepIszgive way, their deceivers, betrayers and
dsstro9srs press upon them SO fas. that there
Is no Iesisfing them afterwards. The nature
If encroachment is to grow every day moro en-
uoaohing; and if the people fail to rebuke
de Administration on Tuesday next, it will,
IN IN human probability, be the last timot they
xili ever have of vindicating their rights
peaseably through the..medium of the ballot
box. Esreuarned is forearmed. Let them
vote for dc Constitution, for the Union, for
Liberty, for Law, by depositing their ballot
for CLEsrENV L. VALLANDIGHAM, and all
win yetsbe web:
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Ashland Co. Dem. Ticket
Last Appeal !

Fellow Democrats, this is the last appeal we
shall be able to make to you in behalf of our
stricken country, bleeding humanity, and out
tsSsd liberty. As the sur goes down on the
18lh Of October it will set upon q night of
gloom, of carnage, of desolation and extinction
zb, fke American Union, or it will set to rise
With Il to now hope, new splendor, dispelling the
tesxy mists Of error, passion and war which
have 50 long enveloped it, and shed forth with
fnsrsassd lusfre the beams of Light and .Rcaoe
which viii enveloped it in buds and blossoms of
hone to the sons Of anarchy and despotism-
With the people of Ohio rests tie fearful re-
sponsibilify Of Peace or War, Union or Disso-
1i0fion;-Peace that will restore the Unicn We
revere, the Constitution we cherish and the
ffinds we love, or War that will devastate
our own fair State, giving her homes to the
famesa and her soss to slaughter. In what
strain shall we next address you2 OF tri-
unph or defeat Shall. wo have the proud
satisfaction of announcing that Ohio is saved
from the tolls of the spoilcr, that her sons
have vindicated their manhood, and that the
1fst step has been taken toward Peace and
Reunion, or shall it be a groan of anguish
velI;ng up from a stricken heart for betrayed
.Eberty, desolated homes and slaughtered kind
ssdf
Friends, this is no fancy sketch we are PRE-
rsnting to you it is the words of truth and
eeberness. Upon your OWE judgment rests
the life or death of your country ; upon your
vote hangs Peace, Union and National pro-
gress, or War, devastation and National ruin.
Your mission is a high and holy one. Let no
selfish motives seduce you from its perform
anes. You are not deciding for yourselves,
you are not deciding for a year or two years;
Ii is for those who shall come after you, it is
for time. Then, in view of your responsible
" to those who bequeathed this great birth
right to you, In view of your responsibility to
your country, your children, to time and to
God, NE adjure you to do your duty well To
do Il ike men.
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]! People
Of ASHLAND!
READ !!

For the especial benefit Of those who claim
that the nominee of the Democracy for Gov
-eTner of Ohio, Clement L. Vallandigham, is
the advocate of revolution and civil war and
coanseh his friends to re sist the enforcement
of law, we transfer the following article, pub
lished in the Sandushy Register, ose of the
ablcst Abolition papers in Nolthern Ohio, and
copied into the editorial columns of the Ash
land Times CT this week. Let overy voter in
Ashland county read it. Let them procure a
copy Of the Ashland TIMES of this week and
look at the head of the third column on the
third page and you will find the article, with
o great flourish of headlines and capitals just
as we publish it
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Remember.

On the day of election who was responsible
for the civil war that is now desolating our
country and engulphing hundreds of thousands
of our friends and kindred into the vortex of
slaughter. Attach the fearful responsibility
where it belongs, with the abolition party
They it was rejected the Crittenden Compro-
mise which plunged the country in war they
it was changed the war for the maintenance of
law and the preservation of the Union into a
crusade against the institutions of the South
ern States and for the elevation of the negro to
freedom and equality with the white man; they
it was rejected the propositions of an amicable
settlement of our troubles, through A. H. Ste
phens, Vice President of the Confederate States /;
and the abolition President of the United
States has declared that this Union cannot
exist half free and half slave Mr.. Sc
ward, the Secretary of State, has declared that
there is an irrepressible conflict between the in
situations of the North and South their
members of Congress, orators and miniens de-
clare that the Union as it was shall never be
restored and that the war must continue I'M
til slavery is abolished, rooted out, if it it costs
the lif, of every white man in the North to
accomplish it.. Voters of Ohio ! remember
these things on the 18th of October, and as
you would secure the blessings ofpeace, the res
~toration of the Upien your fathers bequeathed
you, and the return of your fathers, brothers.
and sons from the perils and horrors of civil
war, vote for CLEMENT L.. VALLANDIGHAM
and tbs Democratic ticket.
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Whyisjt?

We should ike to have our ass-tute neigh
Dor of the Times, or in the event of bis liza
bility to do so, some ore of the Abolition can
dates for Office in this coanty, inform us why
it is that Tennessee, which has been for some
time within the Federal lines, has MT been
permitted her old rights in the Union,-why
the people of Louisiana were not permitted to
hold a convention and return to the Union of
their fathers. These are questions the peo-
pie are anxious to have answered. You have
promised that the war was prosecuted for the
restoration of the Union, why do you now re-
fuse to fulfil those promises to the people when
Tennessee and Louisiana propose to resume
their places in the Union
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Reameznlb e n

That the Administration of Mr. LINCOLN is
committed to the Emancipation of Slave.y at
any cost of men, money or territory. In proof
this We would point TO the embassy sent
by the administration TO Europe to propose
separation and recognition of the Confederate
States. After over two gears of bloodshed
and carnage u~nexampledi in ancient or modern
warfare, and despairins to aecomplish the lib
Grafton IF the negr es by war, Mr.. LIN
coLN had recourse to diplomacy and sent Mr..
Conway 20 England to offer to the Confeder-
ate States, through Mr.. MASON their accredi-
ted aScut, the recognition OF their indepen-
dence, if they would agree to abolish slavery.
We challenge a successful contradiction of
this statement. 1t cannot be done. Imme-
diately after the failure Of their embassy, af-
ter their envoy was snubbed by the Confeder-
ate agent and their Infamous proposition had
been treated with merited scorn, a howl of
rage went up from the Administration and its
adhercnts, and JOHN BRoUGu, the Abolition
candidate far Governor, takes up the cry and
says that the war must be Prosecuted until
slavery is abolished, rooted out, if every white
wife i mado q widow, and every ehi!d is left
an orphan.
Then Remember that Mr.. VALLANDIGHAM
is opposed to a settlement of our difficulty on
any other terms than the old Union of our
fathers, and to prevent he dissolution of the
Union and the recognition of the Confederate
States, which the Administration attempted
to accomplish through the CONWAY embassy
Mr.. VALLANDIaHAM introduced the following
resolutions in Congress and which the Adolf
ton majority voted down
"Resolsed, That if any person in the civil
or military service of the United States shall
propose peace, or accept or advise the accep-
lance of any such TERMS, on any other than
the integrity entirely of the Federal Union,
as at the beginning of the civil war, he shall
be guilty of a high crime"
"ResoEsed, That the Union as it was must be
restored and maintained, one and indivisible
forever, under the Constitution as it is, the
fifth article, providing for amendments, in
Guided"
In his argument in support of these rcsolu-
tions he used this noble language:
"I am for the Union. It was good enough
for our fathers it is good enough for us, and
our children after u.s."
Then as you would vote for the restoration
of the Union as it was, and of your rights I'm.
der the Constitution as it is, cast your ballot
for VALLANDIGHAM and PUGH.
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FafSehOOdS
Refuted +!

For a long tire the Abolitior
Press and stump speakers have
been ~uttering the most gross false
hoods against Mr.. VALLANDIGHAM !;
and among other things charge
him with having voted in Com
gress against raising and paying
soldiers to enable the Government
to put down an armed rebellion
against ITS authority. This is a
base calumny and its authors knew
it to be such when they gave it
utteranoe, and to show to the peo-
pie to what depths of infamy and
falsehood the Abolition leaders will
descend in tie prosecution of their
schemes for power and plumber, we
make the following extract from
the Congressional Globe and APP
pendix, 1st Session 37th Congress,
page 81;
PAY OF VOLUNTEERS
Mr.. STEVENS, from the Committee of
Ways and Means, reported a bill to provide
for the payment of the militia and volunteers
called into service of the United States by proc
lamation of the President, dated April, 1861,
from the time they were called into service
until the Both day of June 1861; which was
read a first and second time.
The bill appropiates for the purpose desig-
mated the sum of $4,000, 900, or as much
thereof as may be necessary.
Mr. STEVENS. Mr.. Speaker, I ask the
House by-unauinous consent to-put this bill on
its passage. 1t merely provides the money nee
essary to pay the soldiers the amount now due
them. 1 understandable there is great suffering
among thom for the want of Immediate payment
of the few months pay due them. This is the
only means by which that pay can be given to
them. L knowenlyself that some of the volun-
teers are suffering because they have not been
paid.
Mr.. VALLANDIGHAM. I presume that
there is no objection to the bill at all.
We deem 1T unnecessary to make
one word of comment. MI. Val
landigham's own record nails this
charge against him rs a base fabri=
cation.
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Notice.
DanielW ertman
and Lao Wertman
T0hn Worf~0n

John Wertman 81.
John Keller and Abby Maria KEEL Court 81 Conf
Ter his wife, G.. w. Ford and Mary mon Fieas Oh
E.. Ford his wife, Isaac Emmons Ashland
and Susan Emmons his wife, BENZ county Ohio.
Emmons and Sarah NJ. E Unions his Petition for
wife, and Abigail Wentman widow Partition Z
of Simon Wentmon decd sH1
The above named defendants will take NOTICE
that the above named plaintiffs on the 9th day OF
August, A. D. 1868, fed a petition in the Court
of Common Please of Ashland county Ohio, where
the same is now pending, demanding partition 81
the following premises situate in said county OF
Ashland to-wit The north west qna,ter of seq
tioH Nc. fye l5) township No. twenty-five (22)
range sixteen (16) beginning at the north east COR
ner of said quarter section, thence running south
one hundred and fifty EIGHT (15s) perches, thence
west one hundred and ~sixty-two perches (lozJ
thence north one hHK bred and fifty eight perches'
thence east one hundred and sixty tBo perches 70
the place of beginning =
The plaintiffs demand that partition is made OF
said premises as follows to plaintifa, each the one
seventh part of said premises, and to Abby Maria
Keller, John Wertmen, Susan H. Emmons. Sarah
NJ. Emmons and to Mary E. Ford, each the one
seventh part ofssid premises and to Abigail Vert
man widow of said Simon Wentman decd dover IN
the whole
At the next term of said Court an application
will be made by said plaintiffs for an order tnas
partition may be made of said premises or that the
same be sold as provided by statute
tt ]. KENNY ATTY FOR PLea
Auoust eth. 1863. CIV n9.
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TIL DESIGNS OF THE
ABOLITIONISTS
A Loathesome Plot Developing Ttseif.

AS the war progresses and the will of thu
people grow weaker and weaker under the
steady acquisition of power by, an encroach.
ments of, the Administrations, it develops new
schemes of corruption and yillaipy~ That the
purposes of the Administration were to eman-
cipate the African population Of the United
States has been patent to every close ohser-
yer of events in our lamentable civil war
But the most uncharitable view did not ex-
tend beyond the consummatio of that event.
It was too loathsome to contemplate. ANAL
gamation was a bug-bear which was some
times used as a means of intinidating the
weak minded into the party shafts, but the
widest fancy never conoei1ed it possible
that the idea would ever be entertained by .
sane mind and but for this nnnatwral and
causeless war, it meyer would have been en-
tertained. But Mr.. LINCOLN thinks thai the
exigencies of the times requires it, and it ID
now one of the settled policies of his admin
i~stration. And as the white male population Of
the Northern States is becoming rapidly de-
pleted by the sangpinary character of the
war, he has conceived the idea Of supplying
their place by the importation of male Africans,
and using all the power and influence at his
command to promote intermarFiage between
those imported negroes and the a~afortunatp
widows and daughters of slaughtered white
men.
A Commission has been appointed BY he
President to enquire into and report the NAM
Der and ondition Of the free negroes; Hop
many pure hacks hor many mulattoes he
adaptation Of the cross breed to the northern
part Of the Temperate Zone, and the effects of
amalqaaaahon Upon tAs aohite Tdce; ia cross
6etseeen the aohite and black race haze as much
uital force to resist disease and destrxettyp
agencies as die pare aohite IT an admirture 81
the races you'd produce more or less children;
and if he cffspring Woutd be as healthy and SET
Sustaining as Mepure Caucasian or schite race,
&C., &c. We have 9 circular from that COM
mission in our possession IT,. a
This is the banquet to which the Adminis-
tration is inviting the white mothers and
daughters of the North. Its purpose is plain.
It is a desperate effort of a despotism to curb
the sturdy unconquerable will Of the Anglo
Saxon and tame his fierce love of liberty, b
the infusion of the torpid blood of the ratiegt
and cowardly African, and thus render the
change in our institutions easy and the pow
err of the tyrants permanent.