The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-11-18
THE ARTISTIC C1
Ssh O WINK THEIR
HANDS.
The Designs OF the Abeliiionists
Fully Announced.

Fully Announced.
We find the following sweet morsel of very
Important news in the Cleveland Leader Of
Friday, November 18th, 1868. We call the
attention Of the @people who could not enter a
decent drawing room in the country and who
are not "distinguished," to this ukase against
their being permitted to enter the sacred pre-
eincts Of the White House, as just issued by
the powers that be. Read it carefully:
@-sMr. Lincoln has brought his family into
Washington for the winter. Mrs. Lincoln will
Keep house in a very hospitable style the com
ling season. Dinner-parties, levees, &C., will a.
sssbDund after New Year. Washington will be
xcteEded will strangers, some of them distin-
sfpished. The President's house will be open
TO such people, though It is limited in some
quarters that some kind Of . check will be put
upon the mob, Heretofore, people who could
eater q decent drawing-room In the coun-l
ty have wiped their dirty boots on the carpet
of the magnificent East Room at their pleasure.
IL i is proposed that in the future nnly clean,
WelEbchaFed men shall be let into the Presi-I
dents levee al sensible people will bo delight
ed in the improvement.
NoW, in all candor, what is the meaning of
the foregoing announcement Heretofore
the President of the United States has not
been deemed SO exclusive and SO high in So
cal position but that respectable people could
on proper occasions tread the rooms of the
White House, the house tie people oson. Un-
der Democratic Administrations, in time of
peace and prosperity, levees were occasionally
held, at which the guests numbered thousands,
and because a man had not daintily wiped his
boots with his handkerchief was not consider
ed q reason why he should be excluded from
the festive, halls. But We have fallen upon
strange times. Instead of the old free, equal
md Democratic government, there has been
proof within the last two years that we ale to
have an--Aristoeracy or .Despotism. This has
teen strenuously denied, but we now have the
statement from high authority that the mud.
sills, the men whose feet might leave a shadow
ofsdnst upon the magnificent carpets of the
prncely mansion of ABRAHAM, the commoner,
the man that is not "distin suished," can not
pc admitted within. the circle Of the f~avorites
sd HE despot,-the aristocratic fe,S,-that are
there hereafter to assemble. And, "dinner
psrties,- tevees, &C., will abound after New
Year to which none brit ~Hclear, welLbehaved
men" viii be admitted. Who will be these
1clean, welf4behaved" gentry who will alone
be permitted TO attend these to Be numerous
DRINKS and debaucheries z Prominent Ahai-
~tionists, the cabinet, men IKE CHASE, who,
but . few years since was Diet, ,sted by the peo-I
pie and ;mobbed by his super iers,-the COM
monality-the white hated syeoundrel called
.GREELY, GERRIT SMITH and other negueas,
and a pack of brass .buttoned shoulderstrappedl
r~ascals, and thieving shoddy contractors.
quiartermasters, commissaries, suffers, &C., who
z-aa~ ~ mn anI hova M t6o;, 49,
to wealth and infamy by stealing from the
country, and still worse, by stealing, by picay-
unes, from the soldiers. This will be the class
Of paupers upon the public treasury that as
distinguished" persons will be permitted to
placetheir dainty feet upon the gorgeous floors
-offhe exclusive and aristocratic palace whose
recent furnishing cost our bleeding, impover-
ished and distracted people tens of thousands
of dollars. But there farmers, mud-sslis,
clodhoppers, laboring men who have acquired
a little property not the SO called hclean and
vellbehaved" who have stolen by millions
from them, are excluded on account of their
-sfdirty feet" How do you like this, men of
the West? How do ycu lEe this, men of the
country, who are sometimes permitted to enter
acountry drawing rooms ~ :.
Pub TINS Is nOt All. Ine season Is TO be an
unusually lively and festive one. Bellshazzers
feast, the seTigies and debauchery of the des-
pot, Who gave his passions full play while the
enemy was laundering at the supposed i'm
pregIable gates of his walled city, is this
winter to be repeated at Washington. In that
city, beleaguered by the forces of the Confed.
crate government, ~riotness. drunkenness, de-
bauchery, &c, &C., underline name of aristo-
cratic lcvees and dinner parties, from which
the common popnace, the edirty footed" men
are to be excluded are to be the order of the
winter. IF Lee should throw into the city
during some night Of their bacchanalian rev.
elrysa ball or shell again W will see the same
denoument that followed Belshazzar's FEAST
While tie Capital OF the nation is being bonn
barded this worse than a Nero or Domitian, like
the former Hddlipg while Rome was burning,
will be cracking his jokes and joining with
his ~aclean, welLbehaved" gentry in the bac-
chanalian reyelry and song. But all is not
yet told, and we hope the matter will be well
considered by a people that are honest and
.pnce caimed to be free. "Mrs. Lincoln will
keep house in a very hospitable style the COM
ing season.. Have you thought, countrymen,
what this will cost. Al single party a year
ago cost twenty thousand dollars. But this
kind Of dinner-parties and lcYees "are to
abound this season" And under what circum-
stances? AS We said before; the Capital be-
ieaguercd, beside this the nation involved in a
mountain Of indebtedness for the payment of
which every article ofpersonal property and
every foot Of real estate Isl .mortgaged, with
whole States desolated and the bosom Of de.
struction. sweeping over them like the blast of
lie deadly Simeon. with hundreds of thou