The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-03-30
LoUDoNYILIE, March "a, 1864.

sence of the burly editor of the Times, Bill
OsBoRN alias Miss NANCY, having recovered
somewhat from a severe attack of dysentery
and being plethoric of bile, seized his pen and
devoted two columns to the ventilation of ono
of his favorite Authorizations. Having ressnt-
ly returned from a bloody campaign in Dixie
in which greenbacks were chiefly the object Of
attack-his brain all fevered with hate towards
those who do not get down and cry great
is Diana, with his usual Righteousness and dis
position to chatter, he must needs pitch into
something; SO in a grandiloquent effort he
declaims against the doings of the late Demo
cratic County Convention. He is not satis-
fed What a pity. He imagines that some
hoE the Democracy are in favor of separating
the States and breaking up the Union, and
of ignoring che Constitution and the enforce
ment of the ~alors." Poor thing, what a state
of mind he must be inI Sees nothing but
rain-pistols-fre and desolatior in our at
tempts to rescue our bleeding country from
civil war by Cancellation and compromise =
He exclaims in a ft of frenzy, "cursed are the
peace-makers for they shall be called the chill
dren of the devil" Nothing but blood
oceans Of human gore-will satisfy tAis san
culinary, lean, lank, idiotic mercinary. He
wants blood-he toiU have blood He wants
the South, men, women, children, property
in fact everything exterminated, save the pre-
/ Union as understood by "Old Abe" and his
forty thousand official thieves reeking in fiscal
rottenness. He is even willing to sacrifice,
like honest JEFF, the Jew, every young man
in the North for A PRIcE-to take the proper.
ty of Democrats, all of whom he styles traitors,
and then gibbet them in order to bring about
his new millenium,-and all to save his IN
washed, lean, contemplate, cowardly carcass
from exposure to the dangers he invokes for
others. He can clerk in the rear for S125
Per month, out of danger, but can't fight, be-
ing too deli cate in the region of the stomach
He denies utterly that the States have any
rights under the Constitution worthy of a mo-
ment's concern by the powers that be. He is
in favor of a consolidated government like that
of Russia with a chief magistrate welding die
torial or unlimited powers-who can set aside
constitutional guarantees and State lines, and
overthrow their laws, and, if necessary, con-
vert their capitols into negro quarters, and
arrest every prominent citizen who may pro-
test against these dcspotic DEGREES, as a viru-
lent copperhead and incarcerate him in a
loathesome dungeon, there to pine and rot,
without trial or inyestigation-to overaw the
Judiciary and place at naught their decisions
all to be done under the plausible and spa
cious pre;ext of saving the Union It were
well if this second MARAT could have lived
in the days of his master, RoBEsPrERRE, to
have Joined hin ia his internal orgies over
the fall of French liberty. He has inst brain
and party malice enough to have smiled a
CHASTITY grin over the horrors inflicted by
the fends and miscreants Of that period. And
this creature, like that other Jew, stands BEL
fore the youth of his town every Sabbath and
says, 81 thank thee God, thaffam not as
other men, a murderer, an extortioner, cruel,
and unjust to the widow and the orphan."-
Ye Godsl what a mockery and q sacrhoge ]
He is as innocent of blood and revenge as a
nursing dovel He wishes well to all nenl
He says from the number of cases of SOL
diers being shot down by .pPerheads which
have occurred in this and other States, it is
quite apparent that a 6endish disposition has
been extensively cultivated by the latter to-
wards the soldier. Mr.. OsBoR knows that
the foregoing statement is not only erroneous,
but wantonly and wickedly false in every par
~ticular. 1t is a bold and malicious attempt on
his part to foment and iacite a feu1 between
the people and the soldier, with a view to
control his vote and excite a fendish hate to-
wards citizens at home, who are not only the
friends of the true soldier, but have been and
are at all times disposed to treat him kindly
when conducting properly and the miserable
miscreant who could thus, attempt, after hav-
aided ia rainiug one half the UEion, to
turn the vengeance of the soldiery against his
neighbors and fellow citizens, has a heart as
back as he'll, and a malice and recklessness as
inexcusible as a aighwayman and an assassin.
Why have soldiers been shot down? Because
they followed the wicked advice of scoundrels
of bis kith aud kin, who urged them to violate
the laws, to tear down Democratic presses, to
deinolish the property of Democrats, to assault
and beat citizens in the streets, to menace
them on all sides and on all occasions, to call
them copperhcads aud traitors, to shoot them
if they resented the insult; this and this alone,
has been the cause of resistance and we blame
Just such coRardly villains and scoundrels
more for these acts of blood, than the poor
deceived, misled and deluded soldier, who
has been thus exasperated by the systematic
and perseve:ing .falsehoods of ~fanatieal tools
like Mr.. OSBORN and his master, the Jew.
affirm it, and challenge contradiction, that no
soldier has been mistreated by any Democrat
in Ohio when conducting himself like a gen.
tleman on the contrary, I kno,o, as he kno,os,
on all occasions, every Democrat, has
shown deserved courtesy to the true soldier of
the country.
But he says people go armed, and are pur-
chasing arms to defend themselves IF such
is the case, I presume he knows why it is
Every good citizen must depiore such a me-
csssity ; but while he and those like him are
encouraging soldiers, under the influence of
intoxication, to go about the streets flourish
ing and brandishing their revolvers, in the
face of old and esteemed citizens under the
threat Of shooting them like dogs, because Of
being Democrats, he must, not blame men for
defending themselves. When the soldier,
thus crazcd by intsxication, msnaces society
old men-what is to be done ?. Are men to
be slaughtered like cattle while the sanity
OSBORN clsps his bloody hands in fanatic glee
and says, swell done, go and do SO again-kill
the cunnerheads thew don't believe in ANAL