The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-03-23

GOnKFeS8-NGAE
the UniOn-Specch of the Hon.
Chiffon A. White, of Brown COun.
fy. Ohio. i'm the House of Repre-
scutasfyes of the United States :
EXTRACTS FROM THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE.
Among the true Democrats i, Congress is
the Hon. Chiffon A, White, Of Brown county.
We make the following extracts from his late
speech:
The Union can not be restored either in
semblace or form by war II we should sue
c, ed in overunning the South with our nims,
and reducing them to n state OF subsection by
fsrce NE xculd he.farzrery far. fran -Teste-
ra ion Of The Union That would be Union
founded In force, and without consent, the
very opposite at that established by the wis
dun Of uur fathers IL would be the union of
EIela, ~ith Irlsnd, of Poland with Rus
sia, of Hungary Eith Austria, Union to be
execreted aud despised by eeery true Ameri-
can Eho breai hes that spirit Of patriotic piety
that animated the bosons Of our fathers. 1t
would he Union of hate pinned together by
bayonets, u Union vhira it would r' It our lib
erri, s TO msin,air, which can OILY b. preserved
by ihe unholy trinity Of p,rpetuai war, ferpet-
nal iaxation and perpetual conscription. 1t
noy in the estimate IF some be disloyal in
me to say il. but 1 think it. aBd will therefore
saw it ] have no heart for such Union as
thai; reject it, and should regard its estab-
iisl mc mt as the greatest calamity that ever
befel my country except the war which pro
duced it. 1t has alr,ady C st twenty million
pecpl, 1T the North their liberties in the ef-
tort to establish it. ard if it should be estab-
lished they viii never regain <hem while it
endures.
The President. in his recent message and
proclamation sent to Congress, rroclaims that
whenever onc-tenth of the number of person.
who voted at The Presidential election in
1860 in any of the revolving States shall con-
cur in the organization of u State government,
and swear to support the p-oclamations he
has issued and such as he may hereafter issue
the Federal Government will recognizes such
State movement. ard ofscourse employ It's
bayonets to enforce the decrcss and edicts of
one-tenth of the people npon the remain ng
Dine-tenths, the, ene-tenth to be com posed
of freed negroes ard pluBdering spectators.
who may be indnced 10 go there for the pur
pose ol makiDg their fortunes out of eob6sca-
ted property, and working freed negroes upon
abandoncd plant; tions in the cultivation of
sugar and cotton. = How long does The Pres
don't exIect these plnnder gorged satrars
would remain in the South after the army was
withdrawn? My sopinion is that they would
ahdieate their seats of power the very momeD,
the protection of the amy was withheld, and
lorg will it take the people of the South to
become reconciled to a Government placed
over them under such circumstances! Ger
tainly notzwhile the grass grows or the water
runs; nor until the laws that govern luman-
(which are as pervading as the laws OF ma
ture are all reversed, aud man becomes degIa-
ded 70 the condition of the brute.
How long does Mr.. Lincoln think that his
swn great State of Illinois would submit to
such government as he proposes to set ur
ever tie Southern Sfatrs? Just as long and
no longer than they could throw it eff Just
SO il is in the South. Human nature North
I'D South is the same. Hence Mr.. Lincoln
theory involves the nc ccssty of keeping con-
ftsntly ir Tie feld large stanaing army to
kup up aud erfoFse he aai horify of thepov-
,ri fheitx he Proposes 10 set p9 over the pee
PIE in The seFofsfig Stsfes After their al
nj es are Gis, ersod and their military pov
brokeB if such -Euuld ever lie tie case. il
v ould take 70, fsss tEau Eve 1ualred tho Z aid
men te sutoIce II eanthoriiy oi a eovernmeit
set nr over ten million PEOPLE against their
consent. @heh vas rerugUant ia all feelings,
septisle nts, ard principles They would like
Poland and Fl Hnlgary, whsnerer any great
tional emergency occurred. rise up in revolt
aid sssert their freedom and Independence.
And yet with all the ingenuity of the men in
power tlnse wi o cortra} the destinies of the
nation, they cannot ten ris Of any better frr'ts
This war is to lear to US. Tn the usme Of hu.'
nanity, Of justice. and God Al1his hiy. oueh,
il not to cease? In all that ] have heard OF
war for the last three years-and it has be- n
much, scarcely any thing elsc-my mind has
T ct beer enlightened by The dtlibcatien OF
any J.lan where by the Union cur fatbets
made il can lie restored 'hr nigh its agency.
ard confess my utter inability to perceive
such possibility
Tie ariy in power now declare the impes-
sibilify OF restoring tte Union as it was and
the Constitution as it is through the agency
of war. Then can the supremacy of the Con-
stifution and he laws be asserted and enforced
IN The insurrec,ienary States by ii? We have
alasl for three long, sad bleady years been trv-
ing to work cut this problem. IL the effort
at least three hundred thousand of our brave
aud eallant soldiers have gone prematurely to
ill untimely graves; widowed and bcreave2
RaeheIs are weeping around almest every
Rearthstonc in the land. and refuse to be CON-
forted beeanse their husbands, and sons ana
brothers are not. thousands OF millions of dol
lars have teen expe- ded, and Ike country
brought to the very verge Of bankruptcy, to
use the language Of the distinguished, gem
1leman from Ohio (M,, SJaui1ing,) and yet
not single law has been enforced in a sin
gle revolving State, while the supremacy of
the NoEstitutfoB ana the majesty OF the law
have been set at nanqht in every loyal State;
drunl-head court Iaartails, and leather head
judge advocates have become the arbiters of
life, liberty and the property ofcitize1s and
yet aftor al these sacrifices We have.F ade no
piogress in the enforcement Of. the Cor itu-
tion and laws. On thc'contrsry we are further
fri m it ihan when We began. The entire
population of the South, men. women and
children, are united in one solid mass in their
resistance to Us. Such have been the results
of your policy in the prosecution of the war.
The supremacy OF the Confederate Constitu-
ton within the Confederate States is just as
complete that of the United States is in
the loyal States. While the war continues,
il n impossible in the very nature Of things
tnr us . enforce III laws in the revolving
States We are without Courts, Jurios, Mar
thals. and all tie ordinary processes of law
ctsiructed. Will it be hetfer if govern
=. H. l. r.