The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-03-09

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I1k s. 1870, sha Treasury of the United
atates - fstch old eontrabands to read the
New EnaIsnd Pr;mer7 Is IL the last Proela-
natiop. to make petenth of the people of q
State the ybolet State. the same to be counted
bv Ills own Generals md Provost Mar:hals Z
Which one of Mr.. .Lincoln,s measures do these
plant Democrats believe to be constirutionall
Can they name one Will they. dare attempt
an argument to show the war itself is not nm
Constitutional. from any motive whatever r.
Do they talk of secession I" But ls war
| the remedy for secession Is it either con-
stitutional or q possible remedy Do they
talk of "treason I" Is war the penalty OF
treason Treason must be punished, but
punished aceording to, law Murder Is hor.
rible crime but the murder can De phnisnea
only according to law. The penalty OF urea
SON is not war upon State, any more than
the penalty of murder IS the burning alive OF
the culprit and all his family. The "War
Democrat knows all this. lie knows tnat
State cannot commit treason II Is oVer-
| eign body and not sutect. ~ never deiega-
| ted to the Federal Government the rlgLt TO
make war upon itself, from any yensideratIon
whatever. Its not SO nominated 10 the bond.
Every single measure of DIR Lincoins ad.
mi1istration is part Of general system OF
revolution; to support him in one IS to sup
| port him in all Douglas declared that war
1
crat, every man who has not lost his reason,
| feels that to be true. Hence there can be no
constitutional, no honorable motive to lead
! any man to support this war. The FIRST and
the highest ground of opposition s, that it Is
4 wrong; it exists in violation of the Constitu.
ton and of the fundamental principles on
which the Federal Union was founded. The
4 second is, that, as policy, it il not recon-
structiUe but destructive and ruinoas to every
L IL H. ols 10 tto md he
patriotism of the citizen. - -.
1t is easy to see why Mr.. Lincoln and his
party wish the war to continue. Every days
report of defalcations and swindling shows
that they have gos "good thing" of it: To
the war they are indebted Tor the posse ssion
of Their places, to the enjoyment of immense
profits, and to pc werful influence for which
nature or natures God meyer designed them
! Peace wonid overwhelm them with their ma
tural insigni6cancy Il would strip them of
! all their gorgeous morning glorlss. It would
! filled to tie ruin OF their country and the dis
! grace of mankind. This is the ground of
| their hatred OF peace. 1t Is the struggle of
the cnlprit against the approaching hour OF
/ Justice and OF doom. What sight II would
be to see SO many Colonels and Generals re-
turning to their old business OF bartenders
horse jockeys and street-sweepeIs! Itappalls
the Imagination to think Of the thousands of
tract distributors, mesmerisers and spirltnal
mediums which peace would send back to the
hapnts OF lngiorious obscurity And, saddest
sight of all, to see dismayed and worn ont
rail-splitter descending again to the oblivion
! from which faction ahd faratlslsm rescued
him for brief but fatal hour! what reck.
oRing will Time cast ap agalcst this man y
1 The whole course OF his administration has
been one unresisting deviation from rectitude
Where he dared not tyrannize over the will,
he has tried to delude the understanding
The picture sheridan drew OF Hastings, re:
duced in the mental scale, Is good Likeness
of Mr.. Lincoln. by turns he has given rB
hufoon limitations OF Dlenysius and .s Sea
pin. His path marks the writhing obliquity
of the serpent with the dup!icity OF the foy.i
With mind shutting, ambiguous, dark, in
siduons and little. he has affected magnanimi-
ty and plaipness, when aifwas cruelty and dis
emulation. He has pretended simplicity
] when every thing was mixed and double-faeed.
/ Under the preteDse OF saving the Union he
has destroyed 1t. In the name OF liberty he
has established despotism Under claim
of enforcing the laws he has broken all the
laws that eorcern the rights OF property and
protection OF the citizen. And he has wound
up at last With proclamation that one-tenth
OF State according to the court OF his own
Provost Marshals, shall exercise all the fune-.
tlons OF otate-elect congressman, senators
and Presidential electors. This uncertain
number to be called ''one.tenth," may be made
up by attaches and followers OF the army,
transplanted from the Abolition sinks of New
England to any, convenient locality in the
South, where Stale is to be extempsrized,
for the purpose of obtaining full set of
electors Tor the next Presldency. Will the
State submit to this! Wlii New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, lllinois-Eill any
OF the States submit to have President made
sya few desperate e. adyehtarers transplanted
to the fHsmps OF FLORIDA, or the lagoons o.
Louisiana! W nave seen WI. Lincoln carry