The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-03-18
81 From the Dayton Empire.
A DasfardIv Outrage. 81 -

The telegraph brings the announcement
that the editorial rooms of Governor Medary's
Tile Crisis-werc destroyed las. night by a
mob. This dastardly and cowardly- act was
nstigated, planned, and carried out by the
members of an Noath beund" secret political
society in Columbus. In The Crisis of the
4th inst, Governor Medary published full
and complete expose of this sfoath-bound" So.
ciety, and because of this expose, they organi-
zed mob and destroyed his Office. They,
planned the movement, and hired afew drunk
ea soldiers who have for months been laying
around Columbus at Government expense, to
put it in operation. All the leading men Of
the Republican party in Colualbus, from Gov.
Tod up, or, Governor Tod down, as you choose,
are members of this infamous Hcath- bound"
organization, and of course were concerned in
the mob, on the Crisis Office If they did not
assist in person, they were parties to the plans
for its destruction, and would be in the eyes
of the law-if we had any-equally guilty
with the actual perpetrators. But there being
no law for punishment of Abolitionists, the
men engaged in this outrage, will go unwhipt
of justice Thus it will be evident to every
one that the liberty, lives, and property of
Democrats are at the mercy of q corrupt set of
unmitigatcd scoundrels. ass fs,'t .I44e ~ -.
We have always stood up for the Constitu-
ton, and plead for the liberty of the citizen
under the laws Of the land. But if there is
no protection for Democrats under the Con-
stitution; if the minions and hirelings of the
men in power are to have free license to rob,
kill, and destroy Democrats and their proper
ty, then we are free to say that our protection
our only hope of liberty-rests in our own
brave hearts and strong arms If we would
be free, We must be worthy of freemsn. IF
We have no protection under the Constitution
and laws, then we must protect ourselves by
every natural power and right vested in us as
freemen. We must make the property of our
opponents security for the safety of our own.
For every Democratic printing Office destroy
ed by mob, let an Abolition one be destroy
ed in turn. For every drop of Democratic
blood spilled by Abolition mobites, let theirs
flow in retaliation. Iteis, indeed, a most la,
mentable and sorrowful contemplation TO be
forced to such conclusions. But we see no
other alternative, if We would preserve our
lives, our property, and our freedom. IF the
Abolitionists are determined to force a revolu-
ton, let us meet it as becomes men knowing
our rights, and knowing dare maintain.
If we are brave Noteworthy sons of noble
sires-we cannot be enslaved. FIVE areicow-
ards, unworthy the freedom our forefathers
wrested from tyrants' hands, then will we
meekly wear, and deserYedly, too, the chains
which Abolition dospots are forging for our
hands. We are willing, aye, determined, to
stand by the Constitution as long as there is a
remnant of it left; but if the Administration
md its tools determine that it shall be bullets
hinstead of ballots, then bullets let it be. IF
we are forced to the stern necessity of wrest-
ing our blood bought liberties from the hands
of tyrants, let us emulate the spirit, the endu-
rance, the iron will and indomitable courage
of our revolutionary fathers, and go into the
struggle determined to Conquer or die ~aa5