The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-02-25


that the government of the Union should give
them their fshisg bounty. 1t is one among
the privileges enjoyed by New England for her
eodly and apostolic mode of life. Laughter
When they catch cod out comes tax from a
western fnrInerl But when we catch catfish
or sucker. out West, We do not get any boun-
ty. Laughter.7 fiizs r te.s, -(5 gz3l.sl5I
The Puritan historian Elliott remarks upon
the Iseeopd ship load of Pilgrims, called Wes-
ton 3 men, that they were utterly demoraiized;f
SO much so, that one of their numbers, sJro'n
a lack Of principle, while gathering claims,
stuck in the mud and died there !" Laugh
ter. I The carly annalists do not forget to re-
cord the TACT, that as ealy asal626, Capt VOL,
lastins company arrived and that one Morton
sedueed the into quafhng pad drinking, dane
in G aud isking and thai therefore they were
no better than atheists. 4 One OF the moral trl-
umphs OF The Purirans consists in ther having
cut down the May pole of these reyelers and
captured their junketing captain si
This tendency to make government moral
reform association appears all through their
history. 1t the especial curse of this nation
at the present time. This anti-slavery Propa-
gandism springs from IL Read the barbarous
and silly codes of laws in Massachusetts, and
EConnectcnt, furnishing Quakers with death
| and finding persons twelve pence for smoking
tobacco within two miles Of o nesting house:
(laughter) or the penal laws against Dissen-
tiers voting and against walking in the gardens
on Sabbath or the horrid cruelties against
Witchcraft and the puerile enactments against
making mince pies on Sunday, laughter)-
which obtained in these colonies, where the
foundations of Democratic liberty are said to
have been established. Is not the same spirit
yet rife which mingles morals and politics, to
the detriment of both (Cheers) The Maine
liquor law and the revenue tax law on liquors
spring from the same source. Regardless OF
the rights of property in the one case, or the
spirit of revenue act in the other, New Eng
| land bigotry ever strives to curs mems morals
| by legal penalties. ; From this same fountain,
the bitter waters of civil strife have flowed
In stliisemeral sense, the Constitution is now
scughtto be,eonstrued, administered or nplh-
! fed.RiTho counsel of the War, Departm ent,
Mr.. Whiting, "a Boston attorney, in an elaborate
discussion 1.-The war powers and legis satlye
powers, follows the Puritan doctrine, BY; up
! holding the fright of the government tu inter
| fere with slavery, Mormonisms or any other 10 IN
stitution, condition or social status, into which
the subjects of the United States, can enterl
whenever such interference becomes essentia-
as a means of common defense or public vel,
fare" II is always understood, of course, that
what is for the common defense aud public
welfare, if to be decided by the Brahmns of
Boston !! It being also further understood that
We Sootcrs of the West being of another and
inferior caste-are obliged to confess the infal-
lbility of the Brahaminical decision. 1t Is under
| lust such doctrines that proclamations of anti
slavery issue. A voice "That's so Other
5, ctions are not to be consulted. Had the
G:utral Western and Border States been con-
suited. the proclamation never would have been
issued and by their help, it never can ss.sall
| be belexecuted.f (Checrs.) Giving to the rebel
1 lion more Yigor and unity and to the North
discouragenent and liyision--ir will only be
potent for mischief, by rendering the war
failure and the Union hopeless. This ist the
| drefli result of these intcrmeddling purists OF
/ New Eagland. But the proclamation was to
\ end the war how? BY the paper and ink
] used in its printing BY the language writ
( ten, or the sound thereof? No--but as m,ll-
! tary measure !! How? By stirring up the
! blacks to mutiny, and thus stopping the supply
of rebel labor Well-two weeks are gone
| We see no sign yet. Over three months are
gone since the threat of its issue ; but waere
| arc, the results 1t has made every southern
man and woman police force to guard against
an uprising OF the blacks but the great re
| bellion lives. The war goes on. GeV- An
| drews and the negroes may coatinue to dance
their jubilccs with their head, and, as usual
to contemplate its results with their heels
! Wnst idle and criminal nonsense to cxpec
rebp,,ion like this to he put down by words
Legislative or proclamative-words drawn
/ from the passionate aud Wild utterances OF New
England Puritanism, III press snd puipt !sg
Rather than yield this censorship over the
morals oftEese States, New England was ready
| to welcome this bloody strife of brothers. MOI
is this the first time she has eoayulsed the Re.
public, to propagate her dogmas. In 1898, the
| same oyerbearing selfshness was exhibited.
| In letter of June 1st, 1913, from Mr.. John
sou to John Taylor of Roanoke, it is said :lae
n"Is is true, that we are completely under
the saddle of Massaehuse aud Connecticut ;
and that they ride US very hard, cruelty insult
ting our feelings. as well as cxhausting our
streng h and subsistence. Their natural friends.
the three other Eastern States. join them from
sort Of family pride, and they have the art
to divide certain other parts of thea Union, so
as to max G use of them to- govern the whole.
This is not new it is the old practice of des-
pots, to use part of tie people to keep the
rest In order And those who have once got
an ascendancy and possess themselves of all the
resources ofIhe nation, cir revenues aud off
ces, have immense means for retaining their
advantage. iae,s5'ie -5lIj eflzF 3ii. ore
Could there bea truer description of our
present condition, under the lash and spur
of this fanaticism2 Speaking of this condi-
ton and its causes, an eminent New England
divine and scholar, DIR. Lord, we'll remarks,
that we were safe in the Union, till the moral
balance was deranged and the church and State
fell out of their true relations to each other
and to moral government. He says further:
eve were tempted almost unconsciously,
into that snare by oducinS moral element
-slavery-into the reckoning Of politics, and
thereby brought Church and State together
down to that lower level From that time our
glory has departed. Our Christianity has be-
come secular, and our secular glory has been
dimmed in having lost the reflection OF more
spiritual light. We have substituted specula-
tion for faith, and our speculative discussions
have been degraded into angry wranglinss
We have made Goa and man to exchange pla-
cess His institutes and His constitutions we
have interpreted by the '.higher Law" of our
own conceits We have converted the Sover-
eign Law Giver into a politician. We have
discussed by our cwu standards, and determin-
cd BY vote how it is best for Him to carry on