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

bv imported y Judges, ana enforced Dy itnPors-
cd marshals and backed up by an imported
the Constitution and laws Of the United
States upon the Confederate States, by ma
king war upon then, must ever prove una
yailipg and abortiye. 1t ought therefore, to
be abandoned.
We are dealing With proud and stubborn
neople. Americans. all of them, proud ct their
h; tory. their traditions and their race - they
NAV well be-; devoted IN The last degree TO
that sn;rit OF Independence which cur institu
t,ons are so we'll calculated to inspire. they
NAV be our fellow citizens, but our subjec's--
neSer never No neyerl You may tury
in blcody graves her brave and gallant sons
nntil fesjs.aIce shall prove unavailing, you
may drive the balance Of her people into BAN
;sbmept. coufscate their estates, and send
them. men, women and children. all ages, CON.
d,tions and sexes, strangers in a strange iand'
houseless and homeless wanderers; all tais you
may do and more if possible, but yen can
n.y.r make them a subject race. I say this
not for the pecple South alone but for my
countrynen. for my blood and my race. with
these remarks put the question OF subJuga-
tion aside as not only impolitic but lmpossi
BILE, and repeat that we are impaled upon
dielemma that has but two horns, and We must
choose uron which we will throw ourselves,
peace by q compromise of conflicting interests,
principles and opininns, or an extermlnating
war of The North against the South. We had
inst as well prepare our minds TO meet fhls
issue. the sooner the better. Twenty millions
people possessed of all The physical and mate
rial resources with which it hath pleased God
10 bless us may possibly destroy. sweep from
the face f the earth the six millions of our
race and blood iphabjting the Confederate
States say such thing may be possible.
but before entering upon such work would
it not be wise for US TO make some little cal
cuation of the profit and loss which We mast
necessarily incur I? A ~ar prosecuted to such
extremities as thar can not be terminated IN
five, ten, or eTen twenty years. The constant
draft upon the energies of the Government
would necessarily compel it to make cores
pouding acquisitions upon the life, blood and
treasure OF the people, who would have moth
IN. that it was d,sloyal to call their own un-
der this process the Government would, like
an athlete man, grow stronger hy the contin-
aal exerfion of its strength, the people grow
weak Just in proportion as the Government
grows stronger, fer the Government derives
all OF its powers from the people until they
when the fulness of time had come, Ike SamP
SON shorn of his locks and bereft of their pow
err wou ID become the mere sport and plaything
of this new QeLlah.
Nor would the necessities of the Governnent
cease with the war the burdens OF an untold
other causes, which will not stop here to
enumerate, will create necessity for a strong
centralized government, that its exorbitant
de .nands upon the traits of labor may be en-
f reed. The great conflict between capital
and labor is Just now being inaasurated The
Government bonds. VIII ch represent the IN
debtedness of the country. are being purchased
up W the capitalists of the East at thirty fve
aud forty per cent. below the par OF he con-
stiiutional currency, and they are receiving s'x
per cent. interest thereon in gold. Our ln-
dcb'cd cdness is pow popularity stated at S3,OOO.-
900 ,OCo and IL increa ing at the rate Of more
than two millions pc day A this indebted |
ness will go into tie ha d. OF capitalists sx-
enpt from State, Federal or munie,pil taxa
tio. Th,. result of all this is that the product
# Iabor Of the laborine and producing masse.
of the country, viii owe to the capiialis's-
non Ir .Gucing class-an amount cqnal to one
fourth the value of the entire taxable proper-
ty in the United States. The principal Office.
then, Which your government will bave to per-
form after this war is at an eLd will be to
provide for and enforce payment of these ex-
orfitant demands of the rich upon the poor,
acting simply the part of trustee receiver
wrenchinw the money from tie fists of one
class and emptying ii into tie Golfers of the
other The PEOPLE in the newer .nd western
Statcs have no money 70 purchase Government
bonds with. Cur poI,llaticn is composed OF
men of moderate means rs a general thing
ey have expended all their available capital
in tie purchase and improvement Of their
lands az d ar, now just begipniRg to acquire
any easy competency. In the Stnte of Con-
nectcnt having only four hundred and sixty
thousand population. thev have more capital
tn the great State which have the honor
IN part TO represent having a population of
two million three hundred and forty thors
sand.
What will be the result of this new state
of things thrust upon us by the war The
establishment Of classes, a Peasantry and an
a'istocracy The sare causes that produced
these results in The Old World will in the
New the causes now exist among us, and
the resnlt must sooner liter follow. The
nut uai jealousness ofthese classes will for a
time, it is 10 Re feared. prUve to be fruitful
source of eommotion among us, and require q
strong and vigorous Government to preserve
order and Iforce the public peace. The vast
area oil cur territory. ar d our rapidly increas-
ing poi ulation will do much to Bilitate against
the results The ruin impending our system
may be retrieved and avcrted by speedy
peace but if he war is to be prosecuted to
the extremity of determination. can for tn e
life of me see nothing in it but the utter
week and overthrow of our praud fabric of
flee government, and the erection up'n its
ruins Of an absolute imperial despotism that
nsy " ed its barren scepter over the waste
and desoiate fields of the South, the PROSTATE
liberties and bleeding forms Of freedom at the
North.
They are prosecuting the var, IS believe,
nor for the purpose of restoring the Union,
maintaining the supremacy of the Constitu
tion, nor for any purpose of subjugation or ex-
termination. unless sukjugation and exterm'-'
nation become necessary to the accom- plish-
ment of the real purposes and objects they
have in view, for which the war was inaugur-
ated. and has ever since been Conducted
] hat object end purpose in she abolition of
slavery in every STATE where it exists. This
never has been war for the Constitution and
the Union, as the popular phrase goes, but it /
was inaucnrated and has been conducted sole
~ and exclusively for the purpose of abolish