The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-04-29
DRaIOuRATIC cIuB.

sPdrsnant to adjournment the Club met at the
Conn House on Thursday evening April %,
1858. The house wasflled to its utmost capaci-
tyalarge number ofl41ies being present. Hon
JOHN MySwEENEY c. ooster being present,
" sIoadeiy ca forward and precee.
ded 10 address the adts1ce- He ~arraigned
the Democratic party at the bar ofbublic opin-
ion upon the pretended indictment Of the black.
republican-abolition party, on the charge of
disloyalty. He canvassed the accusation in al
its bearings, and demonstrated most conclu-
EiFeiy1 that the democratic party had no mo-
tive fer sdeh a course, taking the utterances
OF the Observation-Disclosures party for the
grounds of the conclusion. He showed
that the abolition party had always affirmed
formedin the south and granting for arma-
meht to be true, It would be utter fooly and
madness to destroy such a political Preponder-
ancs- Indoing so the democratic party would
cast off their only chance for political prefer
,nent by refusing to receive the South in the
Union. The whole charge from beginning to
end was a deliberate calumny and they know
it. But he could easily conceive that there
was = great. motive and. desire on the part of
n certain othor party to repell any reconstruc-
tisnF efthe unioa that would guaranty the rights
of The South under the Constitution ; and that
party was the present black republiean -aboli-
aiqnydjsunion party, that was now claiming
with Ben Butler, the beast, that the anion
nc0er should be restored as 1t ,oas, but should
i1dp. al the modern improvements incorpora-
ted IN as NEW CONSTITUTION Tho proudest
efforts of the orators of that party chiefly cul'
mi8atedain the chaste and classic cpitEets, by
way of casting odium upon the democratic
paFty,of acknowledgements '-"sympa,
thizeTs 1t4raitors, and the ike. By driving
expected to control legislation hold all the
lucrative ofsces-and place the iron heel of
ccntraiism pom the states, and have it ali
thsT y way, Hence the aiippant gabblc
abeAs secession, sympathizers and butternut.
uttefedibys the addle-brained tools of the Lin
coHs despetisn; from the corner of the nest
and the bSck Stairs Of their dens, and union (S
leaguesI In 1860 these same creatures were
follds4ing sixteen starred banners, with a stick,
h3singta1amp at one end, and a fool at the
other4.all Of which, meant disunion-terned
separation The democratic party had sup
popedishaawar .aslong as ii Swa8 conducted
withiDthaaimits and in accordance with the
constitution but since every principle Of that
instrument rqyered by all true men and Low
ers Of tLei9 country had been thrust aside, the
Neutrality-suspicious. now the right to enter
apIetsetaagairst these ~usurpations. He n5ben
disposed of the military necessity question, and
The ARREST Of scitizens, and the suspension of
thsnkrf Of 2NaJea5 eorpus,-and commended
that thai great right was intended for just such
aipss as now haye-to prevent despotic
rulers from trampliug down the rights of Free
men. sIn times of peace, the civil tribunals
had full scope tdIotthen closed by ~reci.ipg
thesco1best between the rods of Aaron and the
Egyptian mmaagioizns. y hile the rods of the
Egyptians being caston The ground become
Shiny iaqksHskesr4nron held up his rod and
it budded, and being east upon the ground
Immediately swallowed the Egyptian black
snakes, thus showing its superiority. We fol-
low Aafoa s.great eopperheadzwhs do you
.ngId tSneE 1g0ae ID o. Won 5f.s q