The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-06-29

that death at once were preferable to the
doom that anti-slayeryism5 would force ON
the people of the South. In the fourteen
so-called slave States there are eight nil
lions of white people, or citizens, and four
millions of negroes, or socalled slaves.
These negroes are in domestic subordina-
ton, and no part or portion of the legal
or political society, and guided and cared
for by their masters, they are in their
normal condition and natural relation to
the white citizenship, the absolute proof
of which is seen in their1rapid increase,
for all creatures, human or animal, de-
cline, and finally become extinct, when in
conflict with the laws ordained by the
Almighty Creator. Thus, slaves never
propagated-thus lions and tigers IN our
menageries pine and die-thus, in short,
all OF Gods creatures, plants as well a.
animals perish, if surrounded by abnor-
NAL conditions, and the simple Iacs that
negroes increase and multiply more rapid
ly in the South than elsewhere, is, we re-
peat, absolute proof of tho Justice, natu.
ralness and beneicence of the social con-
dition. But theory is set up in Europe
that these negroes are entitled to the con-
dition or status of white men, and there
fore the eight millions of white citizens
and four millions of SO called negro slaves
should all be in the same condition, or
forced to a common legal level. This
monstrous "idea" is adopted in the North,
and having but a handful of negroes, its
supporters have practically applied it in
all the Northern States. OF course it
kills the negro most rapidly, as in Massa-
chusetts, where it is most rigidly applied,
for it is forcing the subordinate creature
into position that God has forbidden,
just as it would destroy woman If forced
into the status of man, or children in that
of adults, &c. Here, then, is the mon
strous and terrible fact; Eighteen States
force the few negroes among them to
legal equality with the whites, and de-
stroy them; society murders them; Chris
tians exterminate them; but the injury
done to the whites themselves is not seen.
But not content with this, with carrying
out their belief and forcing negroes to q
legal equality in Massachusetts,, that
State forms great anti southern and an
ti-social party to get possession of the
common government, which it perverts
into an instrument for forcing its ssideas"
on the South! The latter resist, resist
destruction, resist these northern mad
men, who propose to force them or their
children into Impartial freedom and
consequent amalgimationl with their own
negroes! They are, therefore, invaded,
and a war of determination has been wa.
ged against them for three years. We
say extermination advisedly, for before
Mr.. Lincoln can carry out the "principle"
he represents, he must exterminate the
fighting population Of tho South, and oif
the supporters of the war were to honest
ly avow this frightful truth, it would sim.
| plify the matter. but In no sense whatever
change its character This is one sideaof
the question. On the other side, it is as
sumed that the Confederates are not
| fighting to defend the social order, nor
even State rights, but for separate ma
tionality, and to establish another Re-
public. 50 4s soAsaIa
Such is the t'situation." Abraham
Lincoln cannot aorush the rebels,"'. or ex-
terminate the fighting population Of eight
millions of people, and therefore cannot
establish "impartial freedom" or amalga-
maticn with the negroes of the South
and failing in this sublime object of mon
grelizing American society, every life
| ioss 10 mau II hnuIue1eu, anu every Qoiiar
expended is a dollar wastedi j effersen
Davis, on the contrary cannot separate
or set up new nationality unless the
Abolition lunacy becomes permanent at
the North, and therefore, if We explode
this lunacy, every life lost at the South is
sacrificed unnecessarily. Now, in giewof
this fIightful mistake of both North. and
South, why. shall we not have an armis.
tice, and givea chance to both sections
| to understand each other? Why. will not
some brave Christian member of Congress
move in this matter at once, and stop the
horrible. and bottles slaughter of orr
brothers and ruin of our country7-Ddy-
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