The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-04-20
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This Snoted and misehievous English Abo-
~litionist, invited by the House of Representa-
tfves, spoke in the Hall of the House at the
Capitol on ssthe great issue of the times" as
he styled it, whether slavery in this country
shall live or diel In his former visits to this
country, for the purpose of agitation, and SOW
ing the seeds of discomfort and dis-union, he
was met by the scorn and contempt of all true
lovers of their country, and not unfrequently
was compelled to inhale the odors of decom-
posed eggs, driven from place to place where
appointments had been made for him to speak.
He was justly regarded as a misehief-maker
and q pest, a sower of discord and sedition-a
declared enemy of the Constitution, and a vii
to African slavery. By these visits and lee
lures he enlisted the morbid sympathies of
New Englanders--of Observation-Disclosures
and the transcendentalists generally. The
foundations for our present stupendous civil
war were laid, the public faith in our institu-
tons sapped, contempt to the enforcement of
law and the compromises of the Constitution
were taught-sectional animosities famed to
q flame, and strifes and heart-burnings engen-
dered on all sides, till our country prosperous
and happy ere his arrival, has like the garden
of Eden, on the introduction of the devil, been
converted into a region of death, of burning,
consuming hate and untamed ferocity. And
new, that fend who has done all this work Of
the devil, has come amongts US to congratu-
! cess in sapping the foundations of our republi-
| can government, and in arraying in deadly
strife thirty millions of freenen, kinsmen and
icountrymen And what ought to excite the
profound establishment of all true Americans.
the Chief Magistrate of this once great, pow
lerful and prosperous country, together with
the Vice President, the Cabinet, Speaker of
Ican members, were L PRESENT to APPROVE,
.iAPPLAUe and ENCOURAGE the VILE ASSAULTS
lof this travelling mountebank upon the Con-
lstitution, institutions and laws of the country !! !!
And not content with giving countenance to
the wicked objects of THOMPSON, by his pres
ence, the President is reported to have actu-
ally waited till THOMPSON came down from the
stand, and then took him cordially by the
hand, and congratulated him upon the success
of his great mission to America ~ Here is
what the correspondent of the Cleveland Her
aid, says
"It was one of the curious features of this
meeting that the most radical thrusts at slav-
cry met the heartiest applause, and the extract
he read from the address of Manchester meet
ing to him Just previous to his departure from
England that chad it not been for John
BRowN's immolation on the altar of liberty
and patriotism, honest LINCOLN
could not have been President of the Union"
was Justify cheered. At the close of his ad-
dress the distinguished persons present liDger-
ed to speak with him. TIL President waited
until he came down from the stand to greet
him."
Who doubts new that ABRAHAM LINCOLN
and his entire Administration have become Abb
olitionists of the most radica. stamp? We
have here the endorsement of the devilish in
interference of JOIN BROWN in Virginia and
are grayely told, if he had not been immola-
ted on the altar of liberty, CD honest ABRA-
HAM LINCOLN would never have been Presi-
dent of the Union ! Here again is another
confirmation, that the horse thief, robber and
double dyed murderer, JOHN Brown, had not
only the consent of the Republican leaders to
engage in his raid of murder and robbery in
Virginia, but that as anticipated, it resulted in
elevation one of their number to the Presi-
dency, where he could prostitute his great Of
fetal station by applauding and endorsing a
miserable scoundrel who has been all his life
engaged in trying to excite civil war in this
c1urtry, AS. far back as 1885 this British en-
envy Of our country wrote a letter to MERRELL,
in Tennessee, which reveals his true character
and objects. Here it is-read it and reflect
upon the siekening exhibition which took
place.in the Capitol:
"DEAR SIR Your favor of the 4th has
como to hand, apd its contents have been care
fully observed. 1 think you can count upon
the aid ron demand, with tolerable certainty
by the time you name. 1 approve of your ar
rangemepts, and can perceive abundant JUST
ication Of your views. Could the blacks effect
a general concert of action, and let loose the
arm of destruction upon their masters, and
their property, so that the Judgment OF God
might be felt, it would reach the finty heart.
We must reach the tyrant IN another way
We can prepare the feeling Of most OF the
Northern PEOPLE by lecturing. The dissot"-
ton nf he Union is tie object to be Kept
sfeadiIu in ricp. War ,ciU result, and sdch-
ina md piErGe and uisurrccft0i lrlU J0Iow!
Tbcir cities, with all The merchandise. may he
destrcyed. their banks plundered Of specie,
their paner discredited, SO that thousands OF
Eastera capitalists would suffer great loss, and
Houll Ecsccforth consider a slave country an