The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-03-25
The People vs.. Despotism.

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The Jaxrnd!, of this city, and other Repub-
lican free negro papers are trying snto aproys
| that the people of the South are ndyoceting
Monarchy They produce extracts from oer-
tain writer's there to sustain that idea, and
/ they give this as reason why no union of the
! States can ever take place again, aAd that ali
that is left.the North Is to hold the Southern
States in subjection as conqrersd territory,
with the negroes set free. -. sa.tf
We must not overlook the fact, that the
papers Of the South charge upon the Wash
ington Government. the same purposes, that
is, Of establishing Despotism aAzsthf Both
the Richmond and Washington aGoycrnments
are, therefore, charged with having the same
objects In view and facts are produced by
each party against the other as evidence 70
sustain; their assertions. rGose b9xa'a eea
That both she Washington and RiSRmond
Geyernmens are jealoas Of tht1cpeopie who
make up the great Mississippi Valley from its
mouth to its source, and suspect their Legally
to The projects they may have in view, Is not
new or surprising to us. And we assure both
these G Gopernnlents, that if they look to ending
this WARM q single CT double despotism,
they will find opposition from the Great Falley
of the Father of Waters. a Z ssstt =
The two armies along The banks of the Mis-
sissipri are not fighting for two N, narchies,
the one at Richmond and the other at Wash
ington, but are fighting, as they suppose, for
ty. They caH have on other object in view,
for they have no interest in anything else.
If they hare been deceived by those who
ordered them into the field of bloody strife,
Tat fact will be brought TO- light. In
fact, if the special organs Of the two govern
ments arc telling the truth on eacha other, we
have no small amount. of light. now before the
public to convince Us of the fact. Everybody
is not yet m the army, North or South, and
though by military and other machinery, they
may succeed in keeping therank and sic in
the camps in ignorance, those at haraelwiH not
be placed in sueh an awkward pzedieament>
Talk to the soldiers in the; North OF. 10 the
soldiers in the South, and not oae Of than viii
tell you that they are lighting for two military
despotisms-not bit oft, but for their rightss
and liberties, as two sections pitted against
each other, and on the. foundation laid by Gee.
tional and geographical politicians, to prevent
one getting the mastery over the other.
Could there be q cessation Of hostilities long
enough for these manufactured hostilities to-
be fairly and properly understood, there Would
be no war on the subject, and convention of
all the States demanded bysall the people, NOT
given over to the idea of monarchials govern
ments North and South, would arrange pers
petllal faaaA
II is tho most natural thing in the w0Fld
for both the Richmond ard Washington gov.
ernments, as they grow weaker BY exhaustion
and weaker by the loss o. public confidence,
to Mi'ah, and think strongly of ptrpetuatine
their dynasties and their weakened power, BY
seizing the liberties ef their people, through
that it would come to this in q greater or less
ieoree. That both secfians contain men trbo