The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-08-03
s.WAR IN

Under the above heading the Cleveland
Leader,-an internal organ of the Infer
nals,-in it's issue of July goth, 1864,
has tho following:
at is evident by the late call for vol
unteers that s0dr in all ats bitter earnest
ness IS about to begin. Heretofore the
aoar has been inciden tai only"
IF anything could be written showing
the utter want of confidence that ever
should have been had in the assertions
of the leaders Of the party in power, it is
contained in this brief paragraph. The
war is but begun, says the Leader. What
did it say more than three years ago p
When the Washington Autocrat called
for $4,000 men, the abolition journals, the
Leader among them, said that this num-
Der of men would "squelch" the rebellion
in less than three months, and the mad
believers in their opinions giggled, slob.
bered and shouted over the maniac feast
that was to be so magnificent and so
sweet. Before these three months had
expired their prophecy upon the war for
the first time proved them to be false
prophets. 500, 900 men were called and
over 100000 responded, for the Capital
was beleagured and the C~onfederates pre-
scented a strong and bold front along the
entire border. This immense number, it
was then said, would crush at once the
last vestige of rebellion, and full many a
fool believed it. Again was their prophe-
cy proved false, and again and again, hun
dreds of thousands after hundreds CT
thousands, State militia, home guards,
squirrel hunters, other three months men
hundred day men, and finally National
guards have been drawn by order into the
ranks, and with each and all came the
stereotyped cry from Abolition leaders to
the people, t.noD the rebellion will be
put down" They have proved themselves
false in every particular instance, while a
credulous public have all the time placed,
or pretended to place confidence in their
statements. Only last winter 500 900
men were called out and then it was as
serted that the rebellion for the tortieh
time was on its last legs, for the hun
dredh time its back bone was broken, for
the MonsandM time it was starred out,
and its armies depleted and demoralized,
and this immense force beyond possibility
ofdoubt would finish tie work. Ills army,
only equalled in numbers by the hosts of
Xexes swept down the entire border from
Washington to Kansas expecting to over
whelm everything before them. But a
phalanx of warriors, daring and desperate
as those that confronted the Persian ty-
rant and his hosts, of old, have ba tiled
every inch of the ground and defeat and
have met US at every step. In
campaign hundreds of thousands
more of valuable lives have been sacri-
feed to the greed for power and gain, but
in the meantime the tyrant at Washing
ton has been forging the chains of despo-
tism upon the people, and now, after a
call for still $1,000 more to be dragged
from peaceful homes and industrial pur-
the Leader and kindred prints, in
stead of repeating, parrot-like, the cid
promise "this is enough" coolly inform
the people "that war in all its earnestness
is about to begin )" "that thus far it has
been only Incidental"
Incidental II! Pray then, what will it
be when in "earnest." As incidental to
q wal which is about to commence in
near one million of men have
been murdered. The nation has been
bankrupted, our currency is e. to worth
less, our commerce has been driven from
the oceans, untold millions of dollars of
of property has been destroyed,
mourning and desolation are in all the
and, and scores of bloody battles scarce
by any that history records are
upon the pages of the last three
years of American History. IF these be
what must be the struggle yet
come? Let every man answer for
The Confederate armies confront us
upon every hand, and even now we find
hem where they have risked going but
since the war commenced, in force
lpon the soil of a Northern State.
Let every reasoning man look upon the
picture and say whether ~subjugation in
rev of these facts is possible, and wheth-
r they will permit 5000 more of their
aud neighbors to be forced into
he bootless effort that has SO long been
ried and which has SO signally failed at
ucE an immense sacrifice of treasure and
'lood.
What Lin coin is Doing.
The man who ia most consistently uro