The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-06

they have loved to wander at eyentide to med
itate and weep. But among all the charne
houses of the dead, if there is spot more sa
8 cred than all the rest, it is the mothers grave
There sleeps the mother of our infancy-th
guide of our youth, the counsellor of our ri
per years, our friend when others deserted us
s, she whose heart was stranger to every ethe
(, feeling but love, and who could alway
finds excuses for us when va could find non
j for ourselves. There she sleeps, and we Low
the very earth for her sake ~
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The Three stages of Oppo.
i Sition to the Adnlinistratfo
" hen the war first broke out, the opposi
| tion to Mr. Lincoln's administration was con
/ fined to few squads here and there whos'
/ principal objection to him was the fact that ht
:. was elected on sectional principles, and was
in fact, sectional President. The majority
of the Democratic party were willing to post
pone all party divisions and all party action
till peace should again smile on our. divided
aud distracted country. There was, conse
quently, great unanimity of feeling and join,
| ing of hands, entirely sincere as far as the
| Democratic party was concerned, in support
of the Constitution and the Union. The
Democrats naturelly supposed thatih laying
aside of all political feelings on their part
would be followed by similar act of self de-
NAL on the part of the President and his Re-
| publican followers but in this they we're dis
appointed. s.5,5s 5df 3nsif
As soon es Mr.. Lincoln felt himself strong
by the absence of an organized opposition, he
and his Radical friends began to draw party
lines between those who supporfa6l bin before
his election to the Presidency, hase who
came to his aid after his electfd reserve
our institutions and laws. The 1Sher only
were selected for important military p stions,
and the support of the Administration with
held from them, when it was believed that
their political convictions did not square with
those of the Radicals The Democrats, and
the Conservatives from all parties, did not ap-
prove of this mode of proceeding which they
looked upon as a breach of faith, and began,
Gas yet without distinct organzation,) to op-
pose those who sought to divide the people,
and to control the President. This was the
first stage of opposition to Mr.. 5Lincoln's Ad
ministration. e 5sa5
The early disasters of the campaign of
1861, occasioned principally by the intermed-
ding of violent Radical politicians with the
operations of the army, seemed to produce a
certain effect on the mind of Mr.. Lincoln
He seemed to hesitate as to the course it was
his duty to pursue, and his inability to act
6ding people, credited to his conservative ser-
timents. This delusion, however, was soon.
disrelled. Mr.. Lincoln either from weakness,
or fear OF being abandoned by his Abolition
supporters, yielded to the pressure of the Rad
leak, and, instead OF carrying on the war for
the restoration of the Union, begun regular
campaign against the Constitution, the re-
served rights of the States, and against indi-
'yidual citizens who had incurred the displea-
sure of his friends. A series of Abolition
me assures were adopted. Slavery was abol
ished in the District oe Columbia, an emanci-
patton scheme perfected for the border States,
and at last, in the midst of .he financial and
military embarrassments produced by an i'll
conducted war, the emancipation Of all the
negroes proclaimed throug hout the length and
breadth of the land. As valuable adsei:s
dans to all this, it was resolved to- raise negro
6~igades, and to carry death and destruction,
murder and rapinc, to every mans door in the
revolted States Then the Democratic oppo-
sition began to organize, and the elections in
New York, Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois proved that DIR. Lincoln,s policy was
condemned by majority of the people of the
free States. This was the second stage of the
opposition to Mr. Lincoln "A administration.
One would suppose that Dir. Lincoln and
his Abolition friends had received sufficient
warning from the result. of the October elec-
tions but in this, too, the people were mista
ken. Instead of dismissing his advisers and
taking adyice from those who, at The begir-
ming of his administration, had given him
disinterested support, he took council from
his fears, and allowed himself to be invested
with dictatorical power by fanatical Congress.
Of course every citizen and every State now
feels alarmed at this arbitrary suspension of all
laws and personal security of the citizen
The people feel that if all these things are me-.
cessary to carry on this war, period may ar
rive when the war will swallow up whatever
may be left of the Republic. They have nov
entered upon the third stage of the opposition
to the Administration They desire a restora-
tion of the Union as it was, as az honorable
peace-of sring, In preference TO an uncertain
and hitherto lngiorious war, which threatened
to enguR property, liberty, law, the Constltu-
tion and the lives of the citizens. Wkyf are
no such terms proposcdH = "a fu
1t Was on the square issue between such "a
peace and war that the battle In Connecticut
was fought, and what do we behold !? Nearly
one-half of the voters Of that heretofore en-
tirely Abolitionized State declares for peace;
and this in spite of the extraordinary efforts
of the Administration, the intimidation re-
sorted to by alfthe Government officials, the
threats held out by tae manufacturers to their
employees, and the presence of one or two
.brigades of soldiers! IF the friends and sup
portcrs of the Administration take comfort
from such result, all we can say to them is,
cone or two more such victories aud yon are
undone." ~
A Chap lain Dismissed for Speaking
$50 Well of Gen Mcclellan.
The Falmouth correspondent of the Provi-
dence Journal inforus the good people of
Rhode Island, the Rev. p. H. rrkhardt,
chaplain to the first regiment United States
Dragons, has been dismissed from the SER.
vice by the President. The cause of this un-
cersmonious treatment, was a speech which
the Reverend gentleman made to his former
congregation, at Schenectady, New York, in
which he depicted the dangers he.had passed,
and incidentally alluded to General McCleli