The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-10-05
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principles, ard no shadow of argument
to go upon IN their present attempt to
carry out their unholy crusade against
the liberties Of the American people, un-
dertake to foo their. hearers and secure
their abb esioa to the party by personal
abuse of those who have heretofore been
op posed to them politically. Conspicu-
GUS among these is one David Sylvester
Sampsel, who nee claimed to be a De-.
mocrat. We have for a long time failed
to notice this man, mainly because he
has no influence whatever, and partly
because we know that he delights to have
his name in the paper, even if it is TO
recount his rascalities. But, as he has
taken to thess personalities, it may be
we'll to refer I'd him, though we fear it is
time and labor poorly spent.
Well, what claim has this Sampsel to
the consideration of the people of Ash
land COUNT? While pretending to be
a Democrat, hi was continually running
for nomination for office. He invariably
failed. The democracy couldn't appre-
ciate him; Try couldn't. They knew
the man too vel. They knew he was
! rotten and worthless. and unfit to hold
any position of honor or trust.
When the war first commenced, he
was one of the loudest and most bitter
opponents of it How do you like that,
Abolitionsts But the results of the
war played out his little bit of medical
practice, aud finding no other chance to
make a living, he went into it, with the
remark at the time-as can be proved by
twenty goud men of Ashland county
that " the whole thing was nothing but a
big game of ateal and, if he could get an
office, he might as we'll have a hand in as
anybody" He went as Captain with the
sd Regiment, into Virginia. On the
9th of March, 1862, he wrote a letter
to Mr.. Jacobs-then Editor of the I'm
ion, for publication, and which was pub
lished in the Union of April Goth, 1862
from which we make the following ex-
tracts. After stating that he found as a
result of the war thus far, tina. there was
an intense feeling Of Hatred by the South
ern people against the North, be says:
RAfer this rebellion is crushed out in
its most active parts, the Government, in
order to- command respect and obedience,
viii, be. compelled to keep a standing ar
my Of, at, least tive hun lred thousand
men. q
H. then says
casa large standing army is very dan
gerousin a free Government, all past his
tory proves that the army, sooner or la
ter, becomes controlled by united influ-
ence,e and runs frse Government into
monarchy or despoti.u.."
He therefore CALI upon labo;ing men
Of all classes. to vote the abolitionists out
of power. or the re.ult will be such a
III onareby or despefsm. Shortly after
this, the same individual, the Hero of the
big rock at McDowtl, and-the Hero of
the big oak tree at Cross Keys, the man
that .sskedadled" fol Ashland at the rate
of thirty miless-ai hour, at the very mo-
mept ihaNthe sound of canpon was boom
4ngsihshisf ears, thu enhancement of the
disastrous battles urder Pope, wrote an
other letter, in which he told some very
plain facts about hn present, particular,
political friends, J.f and Osborn. 1t is
as follows, in full, gerbdttm ct Hteratim,
and strictly "SamFsilly-en:"
~ Headers s2d Reg ramp Durfee, near
Moor6eld, Va, April %. 1852.
FRIEND JAcoBi:-A copy of that tory
sheet, the Ashlant Times, of April 10th,
strayed into our camp this afternoon,
coutainingga loni article headed, 1.-The
Secret Organization of Traitors at the
North" A very natural and ingenious
way every traitorand political scoundrel
has to throw suspicion and. responsibility
from where it egtimately belongs, and 1
don't know why hose numerous editors
of the 7snles shoild be an exception to
all other political knaves of their dirty
abolition party. ga secret organization
at the North TO ,verthrow h constitu-
tional Union mei and Government!"-
What an astounding eVelopment Right
in Ashland COMFY, aud some in the army
too! Just where Jefferson Sprengle aud
his co-editors dae not risk their lying,
cowardly carcasss. But they can re-
main at home, FIRE from danger, preach.
ing Republicanbm, and traducing the
characser and patriotism of honest men.
But that those ait scholars of old Beel
zebub should wok diligently in the vine
yard of the Dew, their father, is not to
be cwondered at. For if Satan ever had a
cultivated field OF earth, it is this section
al, disunion abolition party, of which JEFF.
& Co. are at the head and front in. ASH
land'connty. And as. their father, upon
a time, offered all the kingdom of the
earth as q bride, when he did not own o
foot of it, SO this abolition set of ,scoun
drels have offered everything to the peo,
pie in order to get into power, when they
knew they could not perform any part of
their promises. They promised first to
make us all sober men in 1858, and they
themselves never drew a sober breath
Secretly they agreed to restore the Mis-
souri, Compromise, and never did it.
They promised to eradicate polygamy and
slavery in 1856, neither of which they
rave aver accomplished, and in 1860
they promised retrerchment and reform
and a restoration ofthe government to its
original purity, and the result of their
sectional, heretical, negro equality teach
Jugs are here before US. Let an intelli-
gent community pass their verdict on the
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