The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-03-09
ANTI-ABoLiTioN ANTI.wAR DEMON
- - - sTRATION. "a s.i -, 81. /; :
The Workingmen Of New
York on Negro Equality
THE REPUBLTC.sN. P.sRTf IN
LEAGUE WITH H.MON.aRCHE.
MR.. BUaR's SPEECH.

Z MR.. BUBR sPEECd.
Mn PRKsIDENr-0n being called upon to
nd dress this Association of Workfngmen,
call to mind passage in Edmund Burkes
celebrated Thoughts on Scarcity, IN which
that great observer of the relative position and
dpties of the rich and the laboring classes, con-
fesses that Mot only States and statesmen, ,obut
ALI classes and descriptions of the rioh, are Pom
sioners of the working class, and are maintain
ed by the superAuity. They are under an ap-
solufe hereditary and indefeasible dependence
on those who labor, and are mscalled the poor.
and Who. in reality. feed both the pensioners
and themselves" 1t is pleasing to read these
compendious admissions of so great man as
Burke, in these times, when the non- wealthy
class is being treated as cypher in all the
plans that politicians and legislators are adj
iusting for the future government OF this coun-
iry-when the newspaper organs of the Ad-
ministration are seriously discussing the me-
cessity of restricting the franchise by prop
erty Qualification when Congress is passing
laws % throw taxation off Of bank Ks ana capital,
that the whole weight may be rolled upon the
shoulders of labor and industry-and when
the whole machinery of revenue is being so
constructed as to make capital the master OF
labor foreyermore in this co9ntrY-it 10 pleas
ing to summon such witness as Burke against
the newborn despotism, And, sir, know
not where else We can look but to the men
and the teachings of other days for comfort
now. What is there in the present hour that
does not mortify, and alarm, and make des-
perate the friend of the people and the we'll
wishcr of his country What in the future
tbas does not brighten the Imagination of the
patriot? l know that Nr. Lincoln and MIR.
Seward tell you that the country was never so
prosperous before. You. workingmen, know
how TO answer that shallow sophistry. Il is
true that " hat is called money, that IL, green
paper, is plenty enough, but what is 1t worth
They print it by the yard, or by the rod, but
how far will ten rods OF it go towards supper
ting a mans family /? The policy of this par
ty has sent every thing you hare to buy with
the wages of your labor up from fifty TO four
hundred per cent. Then the money you re-
ceiyie for your labor is depreciated forty per-
cent from the good old fashioned Democr tic
dollar. But YOUR wages have not gone up
four hundred per cent. Your real income
from labor does mol keep in sight of your in
creased necessary expenditures 4 hat IS the
way they have made the working classes pros
porous. .Partizan contractors may be prosper
Gus. Those who have the handling of the
public funds may be prosperous. A good
chance to steal may render those prosperous
who are within the ring, according to Mr..
Lincolns and Mr.. Sewards comprehension of
prosperity. But their prosperity is the ruin
of the masses. The boundless avrice which
this war feeds IS the eternal foe of the work
ine mar, and it will crush labor hero into the
same dependent and helpless condition of la
Dor in the Old World, unless the working elas-
ses, the masses of the people, throw off the
yoke whchti is now being laced upon their
necks. One of the Offices of war is to enrich
the few at the everlasting expense of the
many. This is why the plundering few al
ways rave as if possessed of the devil at the
bare mention of peace. a Roman citizen, Of
vast wealth, Marcus Crassus, obtained COM
mission to make war upon the Parthisqs for
the sole purpose of increasing his immense
wealth by pillaging Jerusalem on his route.
He not only robbed the temple of the sacred
vessels but carried away the treasure of the
widows apdorphans. amounting to five millioLe .
of crowns, with which he marched. into Par
thia. at last The eyer circulating hand Of
Justice and retribution overlook him for he
was attacked and defeated by Sprena, and
dragged before Heredes. who, in mockery of
his bloody avar ce poured melted gold down his
throat. This was the end of the avaricious
monster Marcus Crassus. We haye Just such
monsters now wretches who are enfiching
then selves out of war that is despoilng the
sacred vessels in the Temple Of Liberty. and
robbing the land of the portion of the widow
and the orphan. Perhaps they Eill not share
the fate of the bloody Classns, but if they
were to be choked to death with their own
skinplasters, history would record it as a most
dsgraceful but not altogether an6ttingr exit
to thei: final doom. -
As remedy for their wrongs, the working
classes have been .resorting to strikes for high
er wages. But they should understand that
this remedy Is only temporary. It may be a
momentary palliation, but not a cure for the
disease. The disease is political one It is
the unavoidable attendants of the Republican
paper system, and of the whole theory of gov
ern .nent, which, through the instrumentality7
of the war, they are endeavorng to fix on the
ruins of the cover, ment that was established
by our fathers. Before the people can find q
real remedy tor the miseries which are sure /
overwhelm them, they must fully understand
the nature OF our theory of sell go, ernnent,
and be able to see tie difference between that
and the consolidated system of despotism,
which is the madness of the present hour
The crowd xbich follows after LINCOLN Gems
to be in total ignorance OF these things 1t
seems as though they could not throw down
their liberties fast enough. The policy which
they are supporting in the admins ration nfust
at last devour then. ALL either as soldiers, or as
the victims of its fnacial theory IL is an ap-
paliing fact that all of Mr. Lincoln $ calls fer
soldiers amount to 2,036,74S men already q
Two million, thirty six thousand seven hun
ired and forty-eight men, independent of the
demands of the Navy, have been called npon.
% give their lives as a sacrifice to the Mofoch
IF Aboli,ionism In the cheating language
,f the day, it is called .crushing the rebel
ion." But, in the language of truth. it is a
var upon sovereign States, war upon the 4
principles of the Declaration Of American In
q war upon the Constitution, of !
he United States, a war upon tho government |
u illzatnn of the nineteenth century, snch
War shocks even the blunt ed sensibilities of |
IN Aus trian or Turk, and has caused US to !
DC regarded with just detestation by all the |
powers of Europe. Not that these powers
ympathizeSw with the cause. libessy and self