The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-10-07
.GOD, OUR COUNTRY, s.
OUR SOLDIERS.o


The above motto was strung across the
street on the day of the Republican meeting
in Ashland. Let Us see whether the past his
tory or present practice of the leaders OF that
party accord with the above sentiment. Bur
lingamc said that the God that is usually wor-
shipped, and the Bible that Christians use are
not right, and he demanded can anti-slavery
Bible and an anti. slavery God" 1t is a noto-
rious fact that Wendell Phillips, Garrison,
Wade, Gerrit Smith. and many others OF the
party are open aud avowed infdels. So it is
but blashphemy for these infdel scoundrels to
thus use the name of the GOD they and their
party repudiate.
The next part Of the motto is "our country"
What have they done for it? They found it
peaceful, prosperous and its people happy IN
the enjoyment of blessings greater than were
ever vouchsafed to any other people upon
earth. What is it now ? In the language of
the immortal Webster "rent with civil feuds
and drenched in f~raternal BLOOD" The Union
divided already hundreds of thousands Of
American citizens laid in unknown graves in
the Sunny South ; hundreds of thousands of
widows and orphans mourning the
loss of their loved ones, and whole states de-
populated and d~esolated by the march of rmies
and the work of the bayonet, the bullet and the
sword They elaif4- to be for heUaien-When
it is well known they have destroyed it. Yhey
put upon their banners tour country" while
thew admit that they want to change its form
of government and while we hnouo that they
want to entirely destroy the government our
fathers formed. Thus do they revere our
country. The infamous and bloody Robes
pierre, under the garb of a pretended desire
to insure the reign of reason and liberty !;
committed crimes that make humanity, shud-
der at the recital, and drenched a nation in
blood. This is one of the experiences OF his
tory and now following this, with a reign of
terror that surpasses in its enormity in de-
s~tructior of life and property the worst of the
French revelation, we find Abraham Lincoln
pursuing the same course and fools willing to
follow after him In brief, what they have
done for our country, has been to change its
freedom into a despotism, to o%yerturn its con-
~stitution and set aside its laws, to dissolve it
into sections and fragments and TO drench it
with the blood of hundreds of thousands of
its bravest and noblest men.
But the last part of the inscription pretends
to be a compliment for our soldiers. What
are they doing for their benefit or their peace
and safety ? By means of the Emancipation,
Confscation and other acts and proclamations,
they succeeded in arousing the entire people
of the South to a frenzy that induced them 20
fght with a bravery and desperation that has
scarce peen equalled in the history of the
world. They demand perpetual war, They
desire more battles like that at Chickamaqgaj
where thirty or forty thousand OF our brave
bows in bootless conflict were sent in agony to
unknown graves. Lad they not desired to
have Burnside, the Fredericksburg butcher,
in reach of Ohio to control its elections, he
would have been with Rosecrans, saved him
from being overwhelmed by numbers, and
saved the lives OF the thirty or forty thousand
Northern white men who persisted upon that
bloody battle held. In that way they are in
favor of the soldiers. They want all Of them
to remain exposed 10 the dangers OF the battle
field and the still greater dangers of the pes
thence breeding camps for years and years,
an intersainable war. They want to
try more abolition generals. Through the
of the administration and the bio
viate Pope near thirty th~ousandSmen were
slaughtered and our forces were driven to the
capitol. The same men that gave Pope the
command, placed at the head OF the army OF
the Potomac the Butcher burnside. He led
to bootless slaughter at Fredericksburg some
thirty thousand more brave men. Thus has
the administration trified Tith the lives of our
and alter al! this slaughter and the
for its continuance Tor an intermina-
BILE time they pretend to be the soldiers friend.
Democracy upon the contrary, desire this
cruel war ended they want peace SO that the
brave men in the tented field may return to
their friends and loved ones at home saved
from danger and forever content with the well
earned ,laurels they have won.
So then. the. abolition motto at the head Of
this article but shows the desperate lying Of
the party. 'God" they repudiate ''our
they have destroyed, and sour SOL
diers' they have murdered. Choose. we. be-
tween Peace and good will among men or for
war aud eternal hate.