The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-01-21
the army. No wonder more troops die in tht
hospitals than perish on the field of battle.
[Frsn tAsNsv-Y o-k Freeman's journal

the army. No wonder more troops die IN the
hospitals tff1 perish on the feld of battle
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Genea-nI and ImportanF Com
si1erations-
The New Year Is drawing upon as, and.
whit, new duties, .and-thank Godlnew
hopes. The past is gone, and will return nc
more. But its lessons live still, and lis an
cicnt traditions. In the neglect of our ira
dational IN stifations-in the attempt Of socialists
to substitute heterogeneous devices for the
Etime-honorcd customs of representative end
irresponsible governmepts VI have been drilled
away from the administrative conditions Of q
free people, The material prosperity of the
country, offering tempting prizes to the lew
intrignes of the lobby, managed by men d
whom fhuriow Weed is tho type, has ~acceler.
ated and preeipitatcd the ruin that has over.
taken US. The masses have found In legiti.
mate industry facilities for amassing ,tedlh-
In the absence of any fixed social conditions
the country being so young; soeahh, mere
wealth, has seemed to measure the degree of
social consideration. It has, at least, seemed
70 offer one accepted method of attaining that
distinction that is the vulgar ambition. While
the masses have thus been occupied, the polit-
ical administration has, with rare exceptions,
been abandoned to knaves and fools. This is
not philipic, it is recitatiYe, in its simplest
form.
Arc our democratic Republican institutions,
then, a failure? So far from it, that it re-
mains most certain that, for as, they are the
only institutions ndtura5 and therefore the
only ones possible. We wishFwe could arrest
upon this the attention of q large class Of
gentlemen who no Doubt, think, themselves
wiser and more farFseeing than we, because
they have MAGE money, while, We have been
4 otherwise employed The breakdown in the
the government: Of the United States has hap
opened, not on dccount of the democratic re-
publican character of our institutions, but
despite of that character. bse =, N rs 81
Imagine, now, that the popular mind of the
United States, impatient to pastil i'll, and form
ing an, imaginary idea of what q monarchy is,
should seek such q political 5t-ransformatiensr
The ideal theory is that one of the most cultir
yateJ and able would be accepted as prince or
form is that the people will always advance
Their Jest men TO highest places, irrespective
OF birthaor sadyentitiouss advantages Every
twhere, the ideal is one thing, the practcalex-
pertinent something vastly different. Those
IWho sigh for q strong government, for q mon
[archy, must he prepared to take it as it may
Ihappen-some baboon, accidentally in1sthe
highest place, with q fox for his prime minis
terAlow snimal instincts, and low animal cum
Such a regimemust rely on bratc force
to sustain. it. Its satraps-miltary governors
and groyeilipg contractors-wil find means to
advance ,Memsehyes in wealth at the. expense of
The moneyed fools who have hoped, by such a
government, to perpetuase their moneE-ipfu-
[ence- Their p~retentious airs, which they mis-
take for aristocratic, will go for nothing, and
they will be plundered pitilessly by the rude
Instruments of uncultiyated and unscruppleus
power. is this not certain Look at the
Yankee brood who have amassed wealth in
this Massachusetts war. + = Look at the beast
" Buffers, &C., DC. &c.-the military satraps
and ct the shoddy-Morgans from New En-
gland, domiciled in New York, who have
heaped mp fortunes while the widows and Or
:phans of the soldiers who have fought their
battles are shiyering in garrets, and begging
food on the streets &c.. ~ xa#rs
Not in monarchic NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
alien to our traditionary customs, is our reme-
dy to be found. It must be in; a retgras and
in a wise and prudent restoration and perfect
ing OF. the traditionafy installations that We
have inherited, that formed our prosperous
us. Here, apdsin this, it must be. Sought
elsewhere, it will be sought in vain, .asiaiy IS
s@fn the infancy of the. American States, on
achieving seEerally their Independence, q Fed
eraZ system was accessory, to secure internal
peace and Development, and to guard against
foreign encroachments To accomplish what,
as American States, we should accomplish,
some federative system is still required, and A
general and common American policy, In,
the v~axiops parts of the country, di fferen
habits and sentiments existed from the first.
With the progress of time the Emergencies
became more marked, A broad and generous
craftsmanship would have understood and pro,
Eided for this. We could have done it, had
it not been for the narrow spirit, the ,persecu-
ting fanaticism, and the thirst for dominion,
i'm that New England Paritanism that hanged
Q1akers, burned witches, and banished Bap-
fists. The. children of the Puritans have the
Gurus in. their blood. They are the a"peculiar
people, q They insist on dwelling alone
would to God they might be accommodated,
ON their own bleak hills, and, that their prog.
their hopptnessl These PMitans have no
the ,rqhts opposed to their own notions The
earth belongs, by title, to the saints and they,
are the saints. Our public, schools, ara SLED
with the.primcrs and books the, peddle among
us. Our youth re infected with their narroy
a~ndscaprieious ~notiohsss which they insist, and
very probably believe, arc the Aighest results
Of Christian civilization Jmperieusly, rigorr
ously, we must get nd of shese pernlcIous
dogmas-dogmas that are ~cemmecded to the
people as certain and plain, because Iney are
shallow. - sie.b 5..s .nas,s l.aEsas.s ssoza {
1--WE must return to taesystem Of q Coined
Federacy,o of States Ne'o En-
gldhdism must be extermin2ted from our polrz
CIV, if, to. do,it, we must thrust out New En-
gland itself. Our exist ns Federal Unien has
broken down. because an Administration Tued
by Ne.o England has thrust itself int place.
The Federal functions, as devised by the fore
fathers, aud as prescribed and limited By the
Federal Con~stitatisn, aneia sabGyanee-teE say
the least. Federal action is IN a state. of syss-
cope, as the physicians term It's It is paral-
specifically inactive. Some .imbaciles, con-
sulting what Puritanism calls chs. spirit of
the Lord,D are playing fautastie tricks before
high heayen-in the abused name of the Fed
eral Gevernment-bpt they are not admins
terms that benifceat government which Our
fathers handed ,dosn 10 Us to be preserved as
a sacred trust. Fisagoaa sdt .fass sl8epds1
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