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

AsHLAND1FEBRUARE 2s,r18es-
FOR GOVERNOR,
@. L. VALLANDIGHAM,
Subject to the decision of the Democrats
Convention of June 18th, 1868.
THE DEsPOTS STILL AT
~ WORK.. hsqel
ANOTHER TURN of THE SCREW.
We stated in last weeks paper, that a labored
effort is being made by the tools and Employ
ees of the Lincoln dynasty to get up an i'm
preston throughout the North, that the SOL
diers are becoming abolitionizcd and are as
willing to lay Town their lives for the benefit
of a few negroes, as they were a short time
since for what they belieped to be the cause of
their country. In proof of this we referred
to the unusual activity of the Abolition press.
in publishing, rcpublishing and copying from
each other, every statement CT this kind that
they can obtain from some officer who is the
recipient of a good salary, or some thieving
contractor or quartermaster, who desires the
war continued that he may amass wealth at
the expense of a tax ridden and oppressed
people. -
Butethis is only a part Of a plan, which,
when fully developed, will strike the country.
with amazement as the longest stride yet taken
by the Administrator in. its heretofore slow
but certain approach to an assumption of abb
%solute, arbitrary, ~despotic, power. The army
is to be 46olitionized, if possible, through out
side influences, and then is to be used as the
instrument for crushinJ out what little of lib.
erty is left the people of the Northern and
border States. This demanded the removal
Of all who held high position in the army and
who d fered in any manner with the policy of
President Lincoln, or the high priests of Abo
litionisma that shape that policy For this
every officer in high command must swear
fealty, not to his country, but to Abolition
For this General Rosecrans must needs write
an Abolition letter to the Abolition Governor
of Ohio, intended for publication throughout
the Northwest. For this Mcclellan, Porter,
Sumner, Franklin and a host of others must
be removed. For this officers of lower grade
must get up Abolition meetings in their camps,
and write Abolition letters to Abolition pa
pers in the North.
But they are now going still further. The
Chicago Times, a Democratic newspaper, has
BY order, been excluded from a large portion
of the army of the West, and numerous or
ders have been promulgated at different times
to prevent the circulation of the Crisis among
the soldiers. Of course the places heretofore
occupied by these 1apers will be supplied with
Abolition papers full of abuse of the Democ-
racy and misrepresentation of their position,
ia order to engender a feeling of hatred against
them with the ultimate design of inducing
the soldier in duo time to turn their bayonets
upon their brothers, their fathers and friends
IN the North.
let this is not all. The Abolition papers
arc exultiDg over the fact that a democratic
convention which met at Franfort, Kentucky,
last week, was dispersed by a picked band of
Abolition soldiers that a democratic meeting
was broken up and q democratic press destroy
ed by the same agencies in Kansas; that the
democracy are prevented by Federal bayonets
from peaceably assembling in Missouri /; and
that another democratic press was destroyed
in Keokuk, Iowa. 1t is true, these papers
say, that the men met at Frankfort, Leaven-
worth, &c, were traitors. Do they not say
the same of the Democracy of Ohio and the
other Northern States I? q And if they are per-
mi:tcd upon this pretence to break up demo
cratic meetings in Kentucky, Kansas and Mis-,
souri,, may they notsdo. the same in Ohio, In
diana and Illinois ? Have We, with, these
facts IN view, any assurance that a Democratic
Convention will be permitted to assemble at
Columbus on the 18th day of June next, il
this dynasty has the means to prevent it 80.
These are questions that every man must
answer for himself, and they afford food for
deep reflection. Unless the people arouse
from their apathy they will soon be bound
hand and foot, and will only find out their
great mistake when it is too late to remedy it,
already zee have indubiia6e evidence thai
arms are 6ein9 placed IN the hands of the 40
ohtionists Of the North for the purpose of over
awning and putting in subsection their Demo-
cratic %neighbors. How shall we meet these
men when the time comes for their attempt
to carry out their purposes. By supinenrss
noW; by supplication and submission then p
ain time Of peace prepare for nar." You
must prepare, and now, or American liberty
is a by-word of the past that sool dare not be
whispered, and you must submit to a despotism
whose horrors can only be imagined, and from
whose shackles you may never escape.
Treasury Notes.
The Government, as yet, has no notice that
any of the Treasury notes have been counter