The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-11-23
1.-THE REBELLION ON ITS
! t LAST PEGS.s

How often has the above met our eyes
while perusing Abolition journals How
often have the people tried to believe such
statements, and yet how often have they
been deceived |! Exaggerated reports have
always followed every battle between the
North and South, and the enemy have
always been repulsed with heavy losses,
and the people made to believe that every
onset is a victory achieved by the FEEDER
al army.
Let us view the facts as they present
| themselves and see if such IS the case
Let us canvass tie proceedings and say
ings of the Administration and see if
those proceedings are jndicious and those
sayings are true ones.
A little less than four years ago civil
war was inaugurated in our land, and, as
all will remember, seventy-fve thousand
men were called for three months "to put
down the rebellion" Three months roll.
ed away and the rebellion vas not put
down, and three hundred thousand more
were called, "the rebellion being on its
last pegs" Those three hundred thou
sand were followed by five hundred thou.
sand more, and those also, by five ham
dred thousand more, and yet the war did
not cease but more men were called, "the
rebellion being On its last pegs" Thus
eyer TWO millions of men have gone at
the call of Father ABRAHAM and still
the war is raging like a tempest and ap-
parently no nearer to a close than it was
three years ago.
What has been accomplished by all the
army that has been in the field for the
last three years and more? Hundreds of
thousands of lives have been sacrificed,
hundreds of millions of money have been
squandered, the blood Of brothers and
sons has mingled together on the battle
field, the wealth of the people has been
wasted, the most fertile fields of the
American Eden have been laid waste, her
towns and cities have been sacked and
burned, her most valuable bridges and
railways have been destroyed the coun-
try that was once the garden of the world,
the home of the oppressed, the throne of
liberty, happiness and peace, the pride
of her people and the honored among ma.
tions, has been turned into a field of
slaughter, drenched with the blood of her
own inhabitants. Her thrones of liberty
have been destroyed, the rights of her
people have been taken away, and the
streams of peace that once flowed SO pro-
fusely In our land have been turned to
tides of carnage. Consumption and i'm
prisonment have taken the place of free
speech and freedom.
Last spring opened and with it "the
active campaign" and what has been ac-
complished by it? GRANT has lain before
Richmond, with immense forces, during
the whole summer. He has suffered So
verely and what has he done? Reports
say he has gone into winter quarters, and
the cry of GRANT in Richmond is heard
no more, and to-day finds it yet in the
possession of Confederate forces. SHER-
MAN has lost immense numbers of his
men in the siege of Atlanta, succeeded,
after many efforts, in taking it, and has
now burned and abandoned it, pronoun-
cling it e military point of no.importance.
Thus all the blood that flooded the plains
and vallies surrounding Atlanta was wrung
from the hearts of our fellow-citizens
just for a military experiment and for the
glory of the stimmcrtal SHERMAN"
SHERRIDEN's great victories will rank
with those of SHERMAN and GRANT, and
we find ourselves at the close of another
summer. and, as before, "the rebellion
on its last pegs" Our Abolition journals
say that the Federal forces are in the
heart of enemy's country. True, Sher-
man and Sherriden are now IN the rebel
States, but where is the protection of
Missouri and Kentucky, States that are
yet "loyal?" They are continually over,
run by guerrillas, their inhabitants left at
the mercy Of these robbers, and the gov
eminent to which they are loyal affords
them no succor but send its forces into
"the heart of the enemy's country"