The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-10
ASHLAND, February 8, rsef.

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ASHLAND, February 8, rSef.
Mr.. EDITOR Happening to pickup {
copy of the Ashland Times of last week1 no
tieed an article referring to=the New Church
organization end closing with the following
contemplate remarks, only worthy Of theil
cont,mptible author:
"When viii tho Ashland Church be organs
lied ? Saint sK~olb0ndi1han, is receiving 1C
cent. subscriptions, in this 1county at pres
ent, from the ladies. 70 We hope the ONION
will publish the names, so that a record 9oi
the contributions to tho TraitorS fund, may
be preserved" iiz M @ ~ f
So far as the new church movement is cen.
cerned 1 do not wish to reply, although 1 be
lieve, with a very large proportion of the wo-
men of this community, that our pulpits have
too long been idesecruted by men, who, In
stead of preaching the gospel of our Savior,
have only sent out their messages of hate,
war, bloodshed, ruin and revenge; who, in
stead of following the1Digine rrceept "Peace
on earth and good will to men" are urging
trampling hosts to meet in the bloody fray;
numberlsss happy families to grieve
with an agony that knows no comforting over
broken family circles, brothers, sons, hus-
demanding that more and still more of inval-
liable victims shall be Placed upon the bloody
shrine of their w.ekedness and departure
from the teachings of the all-seeing God.
Bat I wish to refer more particularly4to his
remark in regard to the VALLAND1GHAM
furd. In the first place quito a large mum.
Der of ladies have already contributed to this
fund, any enc of whom is fully as honest and
respectable as the Editor of the Times or any
of his Jdmily. know it has been part of
the teaching he has been receiving ever since
this horrible war commenced to make a fight
upon women and children. His soldiers are
doing it in the South and they leave such
corards as him to do the same thing in an
other manner at home. Nothing but abuse of
the ,Uo,nen of the country could be looked for
from a person brought up in the school of
morals and decency that shed their benign %
influence upon him. We do not fear to lave
our names published, but, unlike him, we are
not in the habit of blazouing abroad our
deeds of chqlity, though, to be sure, it does
not take much time to ''blazon'' his for they
are go few.
We contributing to a traitors fund, forsooth!
1t is a traitors fund, is it, that is raised to
support the wife and child of the patriot Fal-
Idndigham who are left to suffr in poverty in
the lonely home from which the husband and
father is banished; from which he was torn
in the midst of the night by a ruthless SOL
diery, carried before a mock tribunal and at a
mock trial convicted only of loving his coun-
better than his pretended judges? Had
Mr.. VA~LLANDIGHAM been the base, ignobles
parasite of power or the yenal politician he
to-day along with the whole army of
vultures, be, with them reselling and feasting
upon the ruins Of our distracted and bleeding
But he preferred Punishment at the
hands Of these men to contamination By asso-
citation with them. a lonely exils ssover the
border he watches and waiis"efor the time
when no longer the despot with his almost
minions can prevents him from re-
turning to the bosom of the family he loves
and the home he cherishes. He may "watch
and wait for a while until he can get to his
home and support and protect his family /; but
in the meantime tre say she and her wronged
child shall not rcant. Funds are to be raised
and Utilize raised, and the Democratic women
of OhioNdre the ecomea to do ii.
And pray, what has male Mr.. sPRENGLE
SO great that he should presume to say who
are traitors and who are patriots? Where are
any evidences of his patriotism lie is a
strong, healthy man and about as good a thing
TO stop a retel bullet as any other stock or
stone or senseless thing. IF his claim
be true, that none but those who demand a
vigorous prosecution of the war are patriots,
and that the war must be vigorously prosecu-
ted why does rot he enlist? There is a splen-
did chance no10. I notice by your paper Of
last week that the President wants 500, 900
more men. Spring into the ranks Mr.. SPREN-,
GLE. Don't let our township suffer the dis
grace of a draft while it has among its citi-
zens such strong able men as you. Go down
and fight the rebels in arms instead of re-
naming here to call defeneeless women
hard names. We may be defenceless bat we
believe that some of US are smart enough, and
have spunk enough too, to slap such a pol
troon as Mr.. L.. JEFFERSON SPRENGLE.
SUBSCRIBER TIC THE VALLANDIGHAM FUND.
ASHLAND COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SoeIE
TY.-At the Annual Meeting of the Ashland