The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-11-02
Nd, ASHLAND COUNTY. OHIO. WEDNESDAY MORNING. NC
TO THE CITIZENS OF ASH
LAND COUNTY,,


The perilous copdi ion. of our country
demands that we should counsel and act
together. The public good and safety
demand it, The Democratic party has
had the power for more than sixty years,
and our country has developed itself and
fourished as it never did before. Our pol
icy is consistent with Our principles, and
may be summed up, from the beginning
as follows: WA.suppori liberty against
power; we support the people as against
their agents and public servants we favor,
State rights as against consolidation and
central despotistn; we are in favor Of a sim
4 pie government We are in favor of no
I no public debt low taxes no drafts no
1 protection tariff by which the North
West is compelled to bear the burden of
the government /; no National Banks;
hard money for the transaction of all
| kinds of business the absolute compati
bility of the union of States, as they
have BEEN for eighty years past, non-in-
reference by the Federal Government
with slavery in the States, the Territories
or the District of Columbia. and finally
an absolute and eternal repudiation of all
sectional parties and platforms, concern
ing negro slavery, which seek to embroil
the States and incite treason and armed
rebellion in our midst. During the period
which Democracy ruled wealth increased
business of all kinds multiplied, prosperi
ty smiled on every side; taxes were low
wages were high; the North and South
furnished market for each others pro-
ducts at good pr.ces; public liberty was
secure private rights were undistdrbed
| every mans house was his castle i; the
courts were open to all no passports were
required to travel through "the land of
tie free and The home of the brave = no
secret police or bastard spy was required
to watch your movements no cowardly
ihformers followed inyour footsteps to re-
port your thoughts bastiles, dark, gloomy
and infested with creeping vermin, were
not required to murder and punish free
American white men for being such free
speech, free ballot aud free press, were
I untrammelled, aud men could vote and
speak as fTeensen and not as slaves These
have been the fruits of Democratic prin-
pies and policy during the whole period
which Democracy ruled and administered
the Fedora! Government. 1t preserved the
Union by peace, wisdom and compromise
for more than fifty years without murder
ing millions of men, producing hundreds of
thousands oforpbans, and taxing the peo-
pie to nine.tenths oil what they produced.
Next Tuesday you are called upon to de-
eide whether you are in favor of the Dem.
ocratic system of ruling our Government,
or whether you are in favor of Abolition,
ism, high taxes, murder, orphans, widows
and anarchy in our land.
All are invited, without distiH ction of
party, to rally to the rescue snd preserve
the Constitution as it is and the Union
as it was, and to unite with us in this
great work upon terms of perfect equality
To preserve the Union we must mainta' n
the Constitution. liberty, and free Demo-
cratic government. We must restore
sound system of internal policy, economy
aid honesty in the public expenditures
| The heavy taxation, direct and indirect,
State and Federal, which is eating out
our substance, and augmenting every
year, demand that we should unite in one
effort on next Tuesday to overthrow the
tyranny which is now exercised over us.
Reduced wages, low prices, depression of
trade, decay of business, scarcity of work,
high living, and impending ruin on every
side, de ma nd that we should look TO our
interests and rescue ourselves from degra-
ded slavery ana wicked tyranny. And f
nally, the prosperity and hope Of future
years demand that all should unite with us
in rester ng peace and prosperity in our
land and rescuing free government from
the hands of the vandals and cormorants
who new have possession of it. |
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+ Very True. |