The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-03-18
A SPECIAL WORD no ALL
PAT RIOTS.
Let It be Known and Understood.

determination never before exhibited by the
American patriots IL means sor1ething.-
Some deep and portentous idea has taken hold
Of the minds of the people. That, upon a
mere newspaper call for a meeting to organize
aDenocratic club, hundreds and hundreds of
men should turn out, has something signif.
can't IN it. That such q clubiin this township,
which never before numbered over fifty mem
bels, should this time number t,co hundred
has, beside its intended purpose, had a strange
and powerful fleet upon the pack of thieving
Contractors, Provost Marshals, and the officers
of al kinds that haze heen-and are making
money ont Of the calamities of the country
This hasiscared the swindlers, and, instead of
holding meetings, having speeches and discus
sing the issues. of the day candidly before the
peop1es they seek to misrepresent and mis-lead
bysas infamoua a trick and he as q pack of
<fseurvy politicians ever attempted to foist
upon American Citizens. For this purpose of
deception an ~ssexfraD has been issued from a
number of the Abolition papers in the State,-
amsng them the Cleveland Leader and Ash
land Tymes,1headed ga DEMOCRATIC
D0GUMENT.o This Democratic document
contains a letter from Daniel s. Dickinson to a
small Abolition meeting that assembled at
Cleveland some time last month, and a social
ed aaddress Of the Ohio Soldiers" The fact
that this extra Is issued by men that have
aozseoss been opposed to the Democracy, that
it's the work of men who have done every.
thing ia their power, not caring whether it
were. honorable or dishonorabIe, to give the
Aboiitionists the ascendency and to uphold
Abraham Lincoln IN his attempt to establish
n despotism upon the ruin of American Lib
ertg, and that it emanates from the same men
who have been untiring and unrelenting in
their persecution of every man who did not
agree with their revolutionary sentiments,
who today call all such CoppeTheads, Butter
n1ts, Secessionists, traitors, SO: these facts
alone, We say, are enoughto condemn the doc
ument itself and prove that its heading is an
attempted deception and a ke. When did the
Cleveland Leader ever issue and scatter broad,
east among the people Democratic document
When didsever the Ashlasd Times publish
Democratic truths !? We might add here, by
way Of parenthasis, when did JEFF. ever pub
lish anything without pay and we inquire
se5who,pays him for this publication? Has
it beenth custom m times past for Abolition
Editors, to print and circulate Democratic doc
The publication of this Abolition
letter of Dickinson,s and the address of thet
thieVingr contractors and t~Wo-hundred dollars
a-month officers as a a.aoldiers address under
the title of Democratic document is. ike
the a-aGopperhead,p-crawln
sneaking into the garden of Eden, for
purposes of destruction and unknown and un-
told evil.
But let US look for a moment at these doc
uments and their authors. Who is Daniel s..
Dickinson? What are his antecedents ? Who
are the authors of the address falsely called
he asoldiers address 2"
Daniel S. Dickinson, ike the beast Butler,
was, or once claimed to be, a democrat. The
Prince o. Darkness was once IN Angel of
men that would claim tha: Dam
Dickinson is noU a Democrat would as
readily claim that his Satanic Majesty was still
y Angelof Light and should be at once re-
the realms of bliss. This Dickin-
o~usopposed Douglas in Convention at Charles
On and Baltimore and spoke and voted for
.3reckinfidge in the campaign of 1860. The
neaking hypeeritical beast even procured
lipselfto bespoken of at that tine as a COM
candidate, but his political and moral
nfamy weresso we'll known that he could re- I
eve no support. In 1860 this Dickinson )
apported Breckenridge and up to the COM $
nencement of hostilities denounced the doc {
rine of coercion and proclaimed with the Ia I
Douglas that war would result in Dis l
nionn final and irreyocable. But a change
ame Suddenly over the spirit of his dreams. !
Farswas proclaimed. It became, for the time .
eng, popular. Fat contracts were flying {
round and the treasury of The. United States :
nd,p f the State of New York stood gaping
pei5sasking suck men as g.. Dickinson
nd his co~-sWindlers to relieve it of its bur
ems. They have done this with a, vengeance,
nd Dickinson has received the reward of his
,eaehery to his OWN opinions and the Demo- !
attic party ia the shape OF fat state offices 3
I'd still fatter government contracts. He has S
OF his millions and is still adding to them, T
ence it is not strange that he should favor a :
of The war. He does it fer the =
of enriching himself, caring naught '
the precious lives that go out in agony nm 4
Id upon the red battle field, and in the hos t
tails where peetilence holds sway and death q
: highest carnival caring naught that hun a
reds of thousands of widows and orphans go a
and wailing through the land; car s
g naught that the millions of people of the E E
0rth West must toll and sweat for the pur- :
l~dtasAs been beaped upon them mainly by !,
istzncA thieying contractors as himself, and +
naqghs for the desolation of tens of !
of homes and the fairest fields in +
! the broad land. OhiINo! All this is well :
lough in the eyes of Daniel s. Dickinson so
~ b. sl;yes IN 1axurv and ease und Ia ra 2