The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-20
s1ElFren Times, April 1871
srDesp0ffsxfi at SvYashfngtons


1The I'D c1rssiSfoA mefisear Is once more iuufp -
9th r spirits to his old Hlfauht.S Mr.. Lincoln
has held the Presidency 6fsttc United States
for two miserable and disastrous years It IS
7 Unnecessary 10 d1ate Upon the result Of his
administration. It has destroyed a vast mass
of Frosperityaand n~happiHsss,} and scattered to
1.-THE winds the hest hopes % the American peo-
tpleI Of how many states may itsbe said With
truth that Mr.. Lincolnshasa foundsthem a gar
den, and left othem a deser. ;ofs ihowfsmany
feurishing 2 institutions that he found them q
reality, and has made themn1but "a name ;tof
how many families; that he's found united and
prosperous, while they nre now odecimated by
war and divided by faction I The excheqner
of America was full, and is empty her credit
was high, and it is all4butzextinct and the
evil of to day is regarded by those who can
fersee and calculate the future as altogether
light and endurable, as compared with'the dis
asters thatlane looked for from tomorrow. In
little more than eighteen months from this
time the peonleaof fheE North, or OF whatever
portion OF. the United States; may still be un
der tho federal will be called up
on to elect another President IT issa long
while to look forward tor especialiycain the,
present state of thinesF but sthe stake. to be
played for is vast, and nor means rof securing
~ l4uSITUS SJIeSfGGIeQ. Ia nee IecDUDifeNn Hfa-
Ajority. in Congress have before separating done
everything in ,heires powerlto SECURE tostheir
IownIparty another quadrennial'period of off &C.
These reckless menideserve a foremost place
among those Representatives of the people,
who, from time to time have made themselves
notorious inythel history of the world by sur
rendering the liberties of their country into
the hands of a dictator or a.tyrants There is
hardly q right secured blythe Constitution to
states OF TO individuals which the . late Con-
gress of United States has not invaded, o
princ iple of freedom which they. have not.
overthrow, q franchise which they have not
trampled Jpader foot The ofies of President,
plain and republican as it camesfromI the hands
of the. founder ofthe federation is hardly recoa-,
niEable beneath the mass of powers with which
it is oyerlaid. The first citizen of the ,repub-
lie, the servant OF the people, the head of an
executive, exercising certain few and clearly,
defined powers, has become, by the treason Of
a legislature exercising functions which Law,
lad limited with equal care to etfat with.
which it limited ehis' own, the most absolute,
ausocratt on arth.sarTnJ ~ s2his9T NJ
q aHet5itis feared that all power and all this
gviolencesmay be :unable to perpetuate' itself,
and time has been found, in q tlie midst of a
civil war,nto getupI an organization evidently.
created fart elcctioneefing purposes The word
been passed to say little about. fhcrabor-
tive 81 proclamation of theaPresident for the
emancipation Of the negroes, and to get up
neitii-g D everywhere n favor of loyalty aud
of the preservation of the Union. This move
ment dose not appear tie hagea been crowned
Wit b tany rpartieularlyn brilliant success, aud
now tits succeeded BY meaure SO desperates
aud sos dan4ereus that we,whoe have never
expected much from Mr. incoln;s comics s
I'VE stand aghast at his Tecklcssness and
The 'lastTeseure: of Mr.. Lincoln
has b%eenIto, urn the Iiiessroodn of eve ~ req
iment intosa debating SO 5ietY,5 an1eits' soldiers
into miniature constituencies. The papers
from America are full ofs addresses agreed to
b Ereetiess of 5sgimentsI presided Lover BY,
tbeir cotonel, with n eaptai u and q. chaplain
Fol, secretaries. The regiments, from Penn
SyltaniasNe& jersey. and Connecticut lave
taken the lead in these political, manifestations
Their addresses have a Suspicious likeness to-
otsert They're all, mani e-stationsi Of
v:oieiit Repntlicaa a2inios They assert
views g favorable TO the contiuuance of tbs war.
and d%enounce, not as mistaken friends, bat as
enemies much more detosted than the south
er1nersl Themselves, those among / their fellow
citizens who presumed to think or. talk
ate no difference Of opinion. lie that Is not.
with them is against them, and he that is
against them is, Is use their own language.
hellish, diabolical, and worthy of death. Such
deserves attention when it is held
by men who may at, any moment become the
exeeutianers of their own sentence. Hence
forth there is to b5 but one opinion in Amer.
the man who counse's peace and the man
who actively carlos On. war. The dungeons
Of theastate and the sword Of the ARMY are
ready for both. as9AF n9i'1r