The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-03-02


IF the Union and the abandonment of the OBJ
Iectionable feature in their party platform,}
The Objectionable feature should be Abandoned,
think you that the Southern journals in the
interest Of Jackson would have said of Claws
speech, as the New York Tribune said of Sc
wards speech, that in the ayowal of willing
ness ty abandon the platform on which Jack !,
son was elected, he differed totally from the |
party and the President elect; that They re
regarded these principles as Sacred, and would
not abandon them at The bidding Of the irso-
lent Northern nali6ers; and that if the issue
were made between an abandonment Of those
principles and a consent to disruption Of the
American Usion, rather than aecede to such
an abaDdonment they would left fifiy Unions,
such as the one that had given us renown and
prosperity as nation, be shattered into at
oms? ~ 49,
No jackson would have sounded the key
note, and straightway his followers would have
declared: "Ths Government cannot be MAIN
tanned alone by the eoereive power confded
| 70 it by the Constitution of the United States;
the people must be coneiliated--they must be
made to feel secure in the assurance that the
Constitution gives them, that their persons,
their rights and their feelings are so sacred
that the Government dare not lay hands upon
either." This is what jackson aad his fol-
| lowers would have done had he been put into
/ !,
and surrounded by the circumstances such as
he was surrounded by. The nation would
have been saved from this bloody, this disas-
! trous war.
I War, however, is on our hands Never,
since God spake the world into existence out
of chaos, was there such war and let ne
one offer sach proclamation, as to say that the
blood that has been shed, that the lives that
have been offered up upon bravely contested
battle fields, that tke suffering in camp
and by the dear ones left at home, is m
acceptable sacrifice to Him who ruleth on
high. Fire aud sword and water, uader the
old dispensation, were used to purify the world
but without avail aD;i, therefore, in the ceun-
ellis of the God-head, the Son, eo-eaual with
the Father, elected to take upon himself the
| form of humanity that he might in person es.
tablish and ordain the doctrine of peace and
gssd will to man. Heavens laws lad been
violated and treated with contumely; man
was ia open revolt against the majesty OF
| Heaven; but notwithstap d;sg all this, it was
esteemed ne dishonor-Dc lowering of the
majesty of Heaven-for one of the God-head
te descend to earth to seek to conciiate and
| reclaim rebellous Eaa. Wherefore then, is
it Serogatery to the high character of Gov
ernment like ours-the offspring of concilia-
| tion and eompromise-to seek to coBciliatc
| and reclaim to the Union those who have ar
| rayed themselves in rebellion against the Gov
mont For tins avowed purpose we have
proseeated, and are now prosecuting, a war on
the most gigantic and costly scale If Ms
Union as north all this--oN this expenditure
all this loss of fkfe-aH this manning and
/ masery-is 1t not tcorth the. price of concilia
ton -pnd coniproniise? When the war Is over
admitting thar our armies have overruH the
| Sopth-can we disband our armies and bring
home to our hsart4siones and to our arms, our
fathers, our husbands, our brothers and our
soAs Z, Will net that people have to be paci-
fed, and how can you paeify' them except
throsgh consultation and compromised The
fact is as true to day as it was On the day that
Jackson invested it with language in his Fare
well Address, that the Government cannot be
maintain alone by the coercive power corf-
ded to the General Government by the Con-
stitution of the United States. 1t was designed
by the fathers of the Union thatit shoald be
! founded upon the affecto ms of the people
Let US drive OUT of power, through the agency
of the ballot bsx, the AbolitioDists and their
sympathissrs-and then "we can stand against
the world in arms"