The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-03-04

giving liberty to the negro GGreat Applause
| There is now party who assumes that the
war has failed, and urge separation of
the States. 1 abhor that party There is
another who believe that the war has failed.
and desire to try the experiment of bringing
the South back by eoncilliation and compro-
mise. am one of that party. TGreat cheer
ing.1 Seventy-five ont of every hundred of
the men OF the North west are in favor of q
cessation of hostilities and commencement of
the experiment of restoring the Union by con-
stItutlonal and peaceful measures GCheers.1
There is third party who call themselves the
Conservative party, of which William H. Sc
| ward IS to become the leader-the same * il
liam III. Seward who was the author of the
phrase 'irrepressble conflict" the man who
first signed his hand to the warrants for arbi-
/ trary arrests, tie man who signed the order
for the the arrest of James A. McMasters and
Mr. Reeve the man who has undertaken to
carry on the foreign correspondence of this
Government. William Ell. Seward to be the
leader of the Democratic party [Derisive
| iaughter,1 L claim to be counted out of such
party. Cries, $50 do we." Cheers I And
the chief engineer is to be, forsooth, man
who has aided him in all his schemes-Thur-
low Weed. [Cheers and laughter They
say I'VE will prosecute the war gently. We
will have the war hang on" TLnughter.] L
want the Union as it was-part Slave and part
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their verdict on this subject. [Cheers. The
war is the best hope of the Southern Confed-
| eracy' 1t keepsup the hate of the Southern
people 1t puts great power into the hands of
the Executive; and enables him to appeal to
Southern patronage and patriotism to main
tain the credit of the Confederate Government
1t presents resort to the very appearances
! by which alone the people of the South can
be reached [Cheers.]
1 hear quotations every day from JEFF Davis
message and the Richmond papers, upon this
subject, in opposition to these views What
confidence can be placed in these declarations
1t is the purpose of Davis to reunitc this coun-
try /; it would be supreme folly for him to
! speak in any other tone You cannot expect
the organization of a Union party in the South
until the war has ceased, [Applause until
the civil and not military faction take action
in the South. Whenever that day may ar
| rive, when the invading army no more pos
seeses the soil, the ballet-box will do its work
l do not believe they will except terms from
| this Administration. The men now in the
South In power have much human nature as
the men of the North in their composition
But expect in time to see those men who
shall stand in the way of settlement of this
question upon this basis of reunion of the
States, hurled from the seats of power by the
same potent little weapon that has began to
lot. It will Push THESE. men from their stools
"a H. sIr, the tSorsi. s.sId the Izouu
applause They have the ballot at the South ]
Just as free as it is here. There is as, much
free speech South as there is North to-day. !
IA voice, "a little more" And there was
great deal more some time since than there
was here. ["That's SO" Cheers That is
the plain truth, and l came here to speak some
truth. It is fashion that have, and Lean
not lay it aside in New Jersey.
Take away that terrible pressure of war let |
the press OF tbe South speak out !; let parties
not founded upon the prosecution of the war
be revised, and you will see the Same desire |
the North. If there is any thing that that I
class of men wish to see, it is the prevalence
Of that sentiment in tho North. And if there |
is one thing which brings to them fear and |
trembling, it is this movement in favor of peace
in the North. Shall we adopt the theory of |
continuing the prosecution of the war, no mat
ter how vigorously or not vigorously shall We
continue it I? loud cries, No, no, no." from
all parts of the hall That is my opinion,
Great and prolonged cheering. Or shll we
Immediately cease hostilities, and proceed then
to determine the question whether majority
of the people of the North and West will unite |
with q majority Of the peopls South. and re-
store the Union as it was reyes, yes" Shall
we adopt the theory of those of whom l have
spoken? ["No, no."]
How much an apprehension for their per-
sonal sa fety and of the comfort of their necks
has to do with their conviction I do net know,
but these men who have now become SO con-
servative, who have crusted themselves over
with an outside coat of conservatism, tell you
that these radical measures of Greeley and
Sumner must stop. 1 will tell him as the pro-
found conviction of my judgment, that, what
ever may have been possible in the beginning,
the day has gone by when war for the resto-
ration of the Union can, by any possibility, be
successful. (Applause. Unite with me at
least upon that platform. What is your chance
to accomplish the professed purposes of these
men, and return to the project ofa war for tho
Union and abandonment of the prosecution of
the war for the negro? Does any man see it?
[ Laughter. Not in Washington, not in the It
White House, not in the State Governments
controlled by the Republicans. There is not
one glimmer of ight-not one. Day after a
day the war is proclaimed to be for the pur-
pose of invading the South to destroy slavery,
to set loose four millions of negroes, with a 7
full knowledge that the inevitable result is ser
vile insurrection and repetition of the hor,, q
rors of St, Domingo upon a scale proportioned t
only as to the other by the immense mag a
nitude oe the territory which the South pos s
sesscs. IF Mr. VIM. IT. Seward is in earnest, a
he either cannot control the Administration a
Or he can. If he cannot, let him be honest o
enough to resign. GCheers,] IF he can, let t
him give to us and the whole world evidence \
IF his sincerity by changing the policy of the {
GCheers, We have had a
rom the first series of unchecked Abolition b
measures. Why has his influence not been d
made manifest? Shall the Democratic party IL
be reduced for one moment to strike hands @
With those who desire to change the purposes G.
If the Administration, and bring it back again W
o war for the Union, when the whole peo- a
lie united cannot accomplish any thing before l.
ho 4th of March, 1865? IPW the aoar con- Il
inue during that time? TssNeoer! never! b.
rom all parts of the room. EiW you send tV
ut .your sons again 10 the battle .te7de TOver. ia
cries, "No neuer!1 Shall they be ID
onscripted to carry on this acar 70, tsco gears l