The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-01-28


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or battle ifee speech was nag olry =. .ne
risk OF 2 prison Posslpiy OF me. 1Ppos.soA
was silelcea ~ inc nerce ciamor Of "ais,oyaI-
s o,as e. 9 Tiss Su mot q ,sau,s sas s wsn. o az
immense navy, and two and hundred-6fty
million Of money were speedily granted. 1In
twenty. at most in s;xtv davss the rebellion
was to be crushed ont To doubt II was trea.
SON Ab;ect Submission was demanded. Law
down YOUR arms, sue for ueace. surrender yoar
ieaders-forfeiture death-this was the only
language heard on this floor. The galleries
responded; the corridors echoed and con
tractors and olacemen and other venal patri-
ots evervwhere snashed upon the friends of
neace as they nassed by. In Eve weeks sew
entv-eieht public and private acts and joint
resolutions. With deciaratory resolutions in the
Senate and House. units as numerous, all full.
IF SLAUGHTER. were hurried through without
dolay and almost without debcte.
Trims was cIvIrswAR inanoeraied iu Amer
Zoo Can onv man to.day seq the end of it?
And now nardon me- sir T nause here a mo-
mont tn define NV own nosition nit this time
mon this Great ouestions st's
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49, 49, IS fcIasf5TEes oesoa .nS
honor, at that period of life When honors.sas
sweetest. Ne. matter / learned early to do
right and wait. Sir. it Is but the deyelopment
of the spirit of interlneddling, whose children
are strife and murder. Cain troubled him
self about the sacrifices. of Abel, and slew him
Most. of wars. contention Litigation, and blood
shed, from the beginning of time, have been
its fruits. The spirit of noneinteryention is
the very spirit of peace and concord. l do.
not believe that if slavery had never existed
here we would have had no sectional contro-
VERSES. This very civil war might have hap
pened fifty, rerhaps q hundred years later. 9th
or and stronger causesof discontentand of dis
union, it may be, have existed between other
States n d-sections, and are now being devel-
oped every day into maturity. The spirit Of
Intervention assumed the form of abolitionism
because slavery was odious in. name and by as
soa;.t;nr - a. nor,harn m;nd and because
- Mas f.. ~ mess abr;nnsIn m.rLs tbe
d;fsrsn, c;v;i;za.;ons of the ,wa Sections The
San.b bar.aIs n bsrN aorin I'D iatsr efforts to
rid herself Of it. had exnosed the weak and
oA.nsive n.rts IF slavery 10 thu world Abo.
i;,;on tarmeddl;n tar,bt ber ~ los. 70 search
for and defend the assnmed soc;.l eeonomic
and n~ol;t;cal merit and values of the institu.
t;on Rnt there never was an hour from the
when r. did NOT seem 70 me as clear
as tho s1n At broad noon tbat the AGITATION in
onu form in The North and West Of the sla.
- onest;onN mnst sooner or Later end in dis.
union and civil war. This was the opinion
nd nrsJ;ot;on forye.,a IF Wb;g and 6emo-
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nata d;ssoInt;an &c tbs VIII 49, IN 1874
and The orcan;zat;on of he nrese1t Rennbli.
oan 1919 mon On axcIus;ve,r .n,;-s layerv and
has;s the event was Inevitable :. he
cause. in the then existing temper of the pub
lie mind, and after the education through the
press and by the pulpit, the lecture and the
canvass for twenty years, of a genera
ton taught to hate slavery and tho South, the
success of that party. possessed. as it Was. of
every engine of %nolitical business. social. and
religious influence, was certain. It was only
a question of time. and short time. Such was
believe
that the union eftksR eResHatie party in IS
gu on any candidate, even though he had bsen
supported also by the entire so,cailed conser-
vatiye OF apti Lincoln vote OF the country,
Nould have ayaiied to defeat 1t and II 1t had,
the SUCCESS 81 the aDoltion party would only
haye been postponed tour years longer. The
disease had fastened too strongly upon the
system to be healed until 1T has run Its course.
The doctrine of the 'irrePresslbie conflict"
had been taught too long and accepted too wid,
ely and earnestly to die out, until 1t should
eliminate In secession END disuplon and, II
coercion were resorted to, then IN elyii war.
l believed from the hrst that 1t was the puF-
pose OF some OF the apostles OF that doctrine
20 loIce a coinsi9n oe'Yeeh 'ne Nortn ana sne
south, either 10 pTinS apopt Q separaEi2299 OF
to hnd a vain but bloody pretext Tor abolishlng
slavery IN the States: In any eyept, l knew,
or thought l knew, that the end was certain
COLLISION, ana aeath 70 the Union.
Believing thus, / have for years past de-
nounced those who taught that doctrine with
all the vehemence, the bitterness, if you choose
II thought it a righteous, a patriotic bitter
ness-of an earnest and impassioned nature.
Thinking thus, | ~forewarned all who believed
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