The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-08-03
THAT CALL.

Men of Ashland County, you have al
ready heard the direfuI sound from our
chief despot, calling on you for your pro-
portion of an other installment of 100000
victims for his Southern slaughter-pens.
You rave been told time and again with
every previous call that it would be the
last ; but each pledge was made only to
be broken. There is no bend to the slaugh-
ter, and the past which might teach US
wisdom, is but little noticed. You have
been called on already for your proper
ton, previous to this call, of 2,4s6,s64
men. You are now asked for your pro-
portion of 100000 more, with the addi-
tional 100 per cent. which makes one mil
lion of men, This call her with the ad-
ditional percentage will make 3,4S6,s 1854
men who have been required as a sacri-
fee to the foul fend of Abolition. But
no one appears to be startled. The peo-
PIE have been driven to that degree of
recklessness which ignores all emotion OF
feeling. LINCOLN at Washington issues
his mandates and you as his slaves nave
only to perform. You are now wanted to
follow the ffe and drum ; to march to the
battle field, there to be moved down by
shot and shell, and tumbled into graves
or crowded into hospitals. You are to as.
sist in playing the next scene of this new
er ending, fepdish tragedy. The herd Of
"bullocks" demanded in the present cal
exceeds in numbers all those heretofore
spotted for the shambles. Five hundred
thousand more innocent victims wanted,
and that too in the fourth year ofthe war,
when our valleys and hills are one extern
sive graveyard, when our hospitals are
crowded with the sick, wounded and dy-
ing, and when our cities and towns are
crowded with limbless men-crippls for
life. The thought is revolving, and we
must be hard ened to calamity and out
rage, or human nature would revolt
Five hundred thousand more to be taken
from the farms, and workshops of the
country. Five hundred thousand more
to be drained from the producing classes
who supply food for millions. Five hun
dred thousand more fathers, husbands and
sons to be torn from their peaceable homes,
from the arms of their wives and children,
who will be left without protectors or sup
po-ters, to beg and starve while the pets
and favorite ones of the administration e.
pose on beds of ease and swell with clam.
orous meriment on the wealth obtained
by. the slaughter of their fellow citizens.
Five hundred thousand more to So tisfy
the Unsuitable nav of the demon, abolition.
and swell the list of orphans and widows
whose lamentationsLal
heaven and reno the earth with voices o.
woe. Many a heart will shrink with
forebodings as the eye glances over the
cold and pi%ttiless demand of that despotic
proclaim alton. Many a father and hus-
band will look ~anxiously around him at
the dear aud inquiring faces of his loved
ones when he is called to respond to this
call and march to an almost certain grave,
perhaps never to meet them again. Mean
while the sound of revelry at Washington
miDgles with the roar of cannon, the
shrieks of the dying and the sobs of the
bereaved. Are you prepared to respond ?
IF so, then weep on mothers and wives
and daughters of our land march on and
perish, fathers and sons and brothers /;
count your hordes, you trafickers in hui
man gore , but the balance of justice is
in the hands of God and it must at last
find its level.