The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-09-28
Your Destiny.

As the months roll on, there seems less
and less prospect of relief for the poor Ia
borer, the nottingham. The debt grows
fearfully; the taxes increase fearfully; the
cost of living is enhanced fearfully; but
| who shall care for tho toiling member of
that class which feeds the war with VIC
Tins; men of brain and sinew who alone
can restore the lost wealth of this now
miserable, dcspot-ridden, debt-cursed
country: The poor man is dragged into
this horrible strife by the rulers he has
placed in power, aud naught on earth can
save him. The rich can escape. Money
is power. God alone can help him who
has it not when the bloody Moloch calls
"give me moro victims"
The leaders of the great political party
now in power are determined, if possible,
to r~e-elect the present Administration, and
continue the present desolating strife as
long asthe masses furnish material enough
to carry a gun. The national sacrifices
now foot 100000 human beings, and
i,500,O0o,0O0 the lying Administra-
ton papers to the contrary notwithstand-
ing; and the tyrant of the White House
il not yet gorged with his feast. The hui
man sacrifice is made up of 1000, 900
killed outright by battles or camp fevers;
a portion of the balance SO mutilated as to
be almost or quite unable to support life
by their own excrticns; the remainder are
morally ruined. Full three quarters of the
great American army, second only in
point of numbers to that of Xerxes of old,
who may live through this terri
BILE period, will be unsafe members of So
ciety, for the principles inculcated by a
of their infamous leaders, who
them to rob women and children,
aud burn private property, will
completely debauch them, and this war
over, they will take to the highway for a
living rather than return to their o riginal
honest pursuits. Such is the moral sacri-
Zee which our poor country has been call
ed upon to make by the wretches who
have obtained power and place; and the
of her almost exterminated la
boring classes, who have been SO fortu-
nate as to escape the war, camp life and
is immoral results, are now to shoulder
he great debt and carry it on, they and
heir children, and their cbildrens' chill
lren, forever sbackled like galley slaves
the car of eternal taxation, forced to
endure the p~inchings of grim poverty and
eternal. Voters! workingmen! re-
who has wrought all this! Bear
in mind the men who have caused you to
be torn from your families by the MEX
,rable craft; who have, by a single stroke
the pen, arrested you at midnight and
you from your weeping wives
md little ones and iucarcerated you in
who have "tinkied the little BELL"
md 10! a body of armed soldiers have in
7aded your dwelling, clapped the mana
lies upon your wrists, and hurried you to
filthy jail because you have dared to
the constitutionality of their
.ttrocions and despotic acts; who break
open your letters SIS they pass through the
nails; who cheat you at the wheel which
ills the army with conscripts; who, BY
and speculations, growing out
# this infamous war are getting rich,
at home in safety, and rioting up
the spoils, while you and 1, my toiiing
are to do the fighting, and if we
i've through that finally, work out all the
axes which the big debt entails. Re-
all this in November next.