The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-08-31

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Whoever did settle anything BY fighting?
/ peace while at blows With each other p
[yoices, @No," Never Did any man
ever make his wife love him by beating
her? Laughter, and cries of "Ne." ]
Suppose. he says: "My wife don't love,
and sm going to beat her till she does
love me- will he ever: eucceed? No
The more he beats, her the more she don t
/ love him. .5rsi oaa6 ,.7z 2
WAR DEMOCRATS Ne BETTER THAN LIN.
sa.o sgiz - GO COLIN. 1aa
| Il think we will put forward. a peace
candidate. Why rot Suppose we were
! to nominate War Democrat, pledged to
! prosecute the war, in what rcs pect would
such ticket be better than the Lincoln
ticket {? You would have all the evils of
the var still to press you down, increased
taxes, drafts, and the slaughter of your
sons. What would you gain by his cleo
tion over that of Lincoln You say that
he would not interfere with the negroes
South, Well that is no consideration
with me-. What do We care for the me-
eroes down South, when our own Ebcr-
ties and lives are at stake? We want
man who will try compromise in the set
tlement of our national difficulties, and
such a man hundreds and thousands of
Republicans are looking for. IF they
want war man, they have as coed one
as they could get in the person of Lin
coin. | would as soon be drafted under
him as under War Democrat And 1
would agree with Abraham, that it is no
time to. swap horses while swimming
river. < go
What we want IS man that will go
back to tho policy of Washington, adm
Jefferson, and Madison and Clay, men
whom you used to swear by, and 'who set
itlcd pational difficulties by compromise.
Such man the Democratic party will
bring forward for the sffrages of the peo-
ple. When his name has been announced,
will lie ready to discuss tho relative
merits of tho several parties with the
same freedom that I did thirty years ago.
That right l have maintained, though
prosecuted, arrested, having my house
broken open, my body seized, subjected
to military control, banisheds. Through the
Southern lines, thence after an absence OF
a year and forty days, I came to this work
with the same love of liberty, the same
devotion to principles as in former years.
And 1 come with the same resolution,
that whether come for life or death, i'm
prisonment or exile, evil or good fortune,
l will proclaim to the last hour of my
life my convictions of truth and right,
and remain forever Goods noblest work,
an honest man"
L would not have appeared here o-day,
but to express the immense satisfaction [
fnal ha aIo
going on in the entire country. Every
neighborhocd can bear testimony to the
fact that scores Of men who voted for
Lincoln four years ago, will no: vote for
him in November next. Whereas, lit
tie while ago the clamor was all for war,
the cry now is, let US stop fighting and
see what we can do to settle this question
as reasonable men. If we cannot do it |
in four years, without spending any mon
ey! without increasing the public debt, |
without calling for further drafts on the
able-bodied men of your household, then
it will be time enough to try war again, |
and you can elect. some other man to re-
new the conflict. But, for Gods sake,
give us four years Of breathing SPELL
Let our youths of sixteen years grow up |
to men of twenty before they are taken
from us. Let US have more men in the
harvest field and workshop. Let our cur
rency regain its proper value. Let us re-
store the observance of the Constitution.
Then if, in The language of Chandler, of
Michigan, the interests of the country
demand little more blood letting, go
and take the responsibility.
1 know the power of prejudice, the
in the way-of man who has
long been Wing or Republican turn
ing around and voting the Democratic
ticket. But had. not you better rcave
your party than ruin your country We
propose through this instrumentality to
put an end to this war. We expect to
elect the Democrat or the conservative
don't care by what name
you call those who elect him. If you
IF and put on the names of the electors :
,nly-the names of such men as will vote
or sound peace candidate.
1t is by the peaceable assembling of the {
people together, to consult upon the com
non interests, that gives hope of the COM
IN change. This meeting, and others like
t, are signal indications that summer is
indeed nigh, that mems preiudices are
giving way, and they are seeing that war
5 no remedy for the evils that afflct US.
nG- The True Presbyterian says Of +
larson Brownlow, DR.. r. J. Breckenridge
md Henry Ward Beecher: "They are /
representatives. of the ioathsome feature :
f the present revolution, its thorough :
restitution of the religion and ordinances .
f Jesus Christ to the hellish purposes Ct
artisan politicians, beyond all precedent .
n church history" :
aaA- The Washington Constitutional @
1nion Is shocked that the Presidents :
ro,,oJ orornd tho White Houea ara mead