The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-03-02
IFrom the Hamilton True Telegraph.l


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1T hassofteh been the proud privilege of the
Democracy Of Butler county to send messages
l Of hope an3comfeetto their brethreR through
out the State, and until now, no word Of men,
ace has ever escaped our lips To time ser
vers we have been complacent, and for the
1 thieves ind public pl6ndefers who Ike bar
nacles, have fastened themselves to the hull
tofsour good old shipuMe have1spokeu words
of charity. Bot the time has come when a
few plain wordsof warning win not, We trust,
be considered arrogant, coming as they do
from the. Democracy of a county against which
the waves Of q wild and embittered opposition
have snrged with asyiolepce u~nequaled in the
history of civil political strife. -
II Is our desire that the things following be
distinctly understood : (
L. lst. For q war wased against the rights CT
the States, and in violation of the Federal
Constitution, ICE are not. "a asastzs-
-2d-For a war Waeed in violation of-every
precept of justice and humanity, zoe are not.
3D. For q war waged to obliteratoi State
lines, to destroy State sovereignty, and to
erect an imperial central power upon the iru-
ms of Constitutional Liberty, zoe are NOT
Thus much we would have understood, and
If the se-eaIleds"W ar Democratsp are to die
tate the future policy of the Democratic par.
ty, then win we, consider it to, be our solemn
duty to shake tho dust from the soles of our
Political feet and go out from among those
npon whom we have never yet brought dis
honor. To the men within our ranks who
pitch their voices ,@stiil for war; we say, in
the name of reason. why not unite with the
Abolition party?z It is az9twar party" inT The
fullest sense of the expressiony and iseiuzs the
high tide of success-within that organization
gathers every glory that can attach to wanton
war. 1t is a party possessing every quality
Ia a reconstruction of the Democratic party on
a war basis can, by no possibility, ford
Ponder a moment its gigantic proportions
An army whose tread shakes the earth-ap-
pointed for the destruction of human life as
no other army of ancient or modern times was
ever a pointed aud commanded by daring,
sambitioh and ,upscrupnlcus men. For deeds
it presents us the Christian spectacle Of
cities sack'd, fields ranged, hearths profaned
Men butchered. From rank showers of BLOOD
And the red light of blazing roofs build
The Rainbow Glory. and to shuddering conscience
Cries-Eos the Bridge to Heaven. Eas
What brighter picture could that g strange
political paradox, that hybrid production of a
nations frenzy,-aa War Democrat"-asks
than this? Or is it, after all, the attractive
f'poBer of public plumber" that lures these
would be Democrats to their own, and their
country's ruin? If this the basis In the ma
tional-the Mecca of their hopes, pardon us
if we express our preference for the swarms of
~vultures attracted by the decaying values of
public credit that now hover over the public
treasures.
To these Mcclellan "war men," or any 9TH
al war men, we would have it distinctly I'M
derstood, that We believe this warto be wrong
that the Onion can never be restored by
the exercise of force and that persistence,
on the part of the Fedeaal Government, in the
present unconstitutioDal effort, will end in the
subversion of our present form of government
andihs destruction of our liberties as a peo-
pie
If they, on the other hand, believe that the
war is right, a factious opposition to its prose
cu.iun is not only criminal, but traitorous I;
and lie man WHO can Sc far stultify himself
S IT. Jose the ADMINISTRATION through mere
~par.izan rancor, deserves the denunciations of
the Abei ion press. \
Now, We assert, with full knowled ge we
think, that the following expresses the earnest
wishes of the Democracy of this county.
Put in nomination Vallaudigham, Ex Pres
ident Pierce, Weller, Seymour, of Connecti
cut, or any 1fAer true1ndn, upon a platform of
JrFcrsouian Democratic PRINCIPLES, and we
will enter the coming contest for the Presided
ey with strong arms and stout hearts, ready to
FAC: any da, ger that may be presented by the
minions of usBped power but, on the other
hand. irscribe upol the folds of our time-hon-
ored banner as our, standard-bearer, the name
of any man whose hands are made red with
the blood of his eountrymcr, in a war wazed
without authority fou..a in the national COM
pact, and against communities possessed Of re-
served Sovereign attributes, and we will be
forced to bccoHIc passive spectators of a strug-
gle in which victory IF Ge'rat will be alike ia
tai to us, and disastrous TO the reunion of the
States and the liberties of the people. If the
Democracy would be true to the past. and to
the best interests of their country, if that coun
try, is not already lost, they must forever hush
the time-scrver'a cry of Policy! Policy II
Our path of duty is as plain as the MONDAY
glare of justice can make it, and when the
Mercennry's cry of s~spolicy" is heard, let an
enlightened political sentiment says.
Away with him
Impale him in the desert, and watch him
Until his dim protruding eye
Beholds the vulture-that shall pluck it out,