The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-10-19
Pearls Before swine.

y uOtUIt O4oiy hthy c
ed in Cleveland, in their daily of Oct,
I4th, devote about a column in taking ex-
ceptions to the UNION of the 9Th inst
These very eentlemanly editors (for such
they must be) charge us with Misquota-
ton, Lying, Abuse of Soldiers, Blasphe-
my and Obscenity. Heavy charges, all
of them, and made by heavy dogs. We
are charged with m%isquotiug DANIEL
WEBSTER. wherein he foretells what the
result of Abolitionism will be if it should
ever get the power in the United States.
Not having the text before US at this wri-
ting, we are not ready to say that the ex-
tract is ver6atins ct kteratim, and shall
not take issue on that immaterial point,
although we believe it to be correct, and
ask our miscegen neighbors of the Leader
to produce and publish the genuine and
send us a married copy. OF n thing
we are certain, and that is that the 'quo-
tation at least, only conveys the idea of
Mr.. WEBSTER in reference to the des-
peradoes and pirates who are now in pow
err in our land. But it matters not to US
l0hether WEBSTER or any other man.. in
years gShne by, said what we credited to
hih. "sound Democratic principles" as
the Leader would say, don't require US to
care. The extract or "quotation" en9bod-
les facts Which the co~wardly, cringing,
tIt,sfaug editors of the Leader can't
sNafbw, apd because it hurts them, they
try u dodge ths dose by eharging US with
"misqaetatRh.H The extract, in sub
stance, charges that tie Abo.itionrsts and
internal faHatics, If they ever get the pow
er, will over ride fh$ Constitution, set the
Supreme Court at defiance, change and
make laws to suit themselves, llJ violent
hands on those who differ with the n in
ooirion, bankrupt the country and deluge
it with blood. There are six seperate-
and distinct charges from the quotation
and all fulfilled in the last three and
a half years, as every idiot inside and ont
side of the Lunatic Asylum well knows.
except perhaps the editors of that rebel
and tory sheet, the Cleveland Leader,
who appear to be ignorant on those points
as well as all others. The argument of
these ours in their charge of MISC notation
is, eve brand it, now, "a it has been
branded over and over again, as s base
forgery" How powerful! How con-
vincing! How uuanswerable y
But We are charged with "abusing the
soldiers" by saying that BEER and Hoop
had no right TO claim the SURFACES of the
people 10 prolong murder, robbery and
bankruptcy. Our sympathy for Messrs
BEER and Hoop is doubted by these dogs
of war, and by them sneeringly compared
TO our sympathy for the soldier as ex-
pressed in the Chicago platform. The
of abuse which these traitor dogs
made upon us, is a wholesale falsehood of
unmitigared ~criminality, as every san
man knows who read our article in refer
ence to HOOP and BEER; and the ques
lion of sympathy for the soldier, as b :
tween these white livered Judases and
rurselve, is a one sided one, and easily ur-
dcrstood by all, and especially the soldiers,
as these "sympathizing" gentlemen will
find out after the 9Th of November. The
harp of sympathy which the Leader has
on fer three long years, is now
and squarely played out. These
are the gentlemen who are continually
more blood, prosecute the war Wig
until the last man is murdered
and the last dollar is exhausted Dy the vi
olent hand of the merciless robber. These
IRE the political tricksters who would run
across the street to shake hands with the
and tapping him on the shoulder
ask him to vote Cor Abolition and treason,
and if he refused they would brand him
as a traitor and copperhead, and would, as
like as not, advise mobocracy and a com
of tar and feathers as the best
remedy in his case. Their sympathy for
the soldier is of a political character, and
lasts just long enough to try to deceive
hem and get their votes, and then it is
dead thunder or worthless capital until
the next campaign comes around. They
are the soldier loving. sympathetic van
dals who. if they have not publicly al
ready, will privately, in their own hearts,
the movement at Tod Barracks,
on the 11th inst. to keep 1900 Dem ocrat-
ic soldiers from exercising the elective
franchise by refusing to let them procure
The tic kets they wish to vote. and after
,hat,;rsquiring them to show their tickets
before voting, and finally through the in
of shoddy contractors to secure
~ dastruct;on nf tine ballot hog at Camp