The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-10-26
THE GREAT CRIMINAL CASE.

The ABOLITION PARTY term, a. II. o4
| Indictment drawn up and presented b.
the workinemen of New York, represent
ing the sstoiling millions" of the United
States of America. It is charged agains
the defendant in this case (lhe Abolition
party) that
1t has consigned to untimely deaths
500 900 human beings, the great majori
ty of whom were working men-produ
GERS, contributors to the wealth of the sa
ton.
1t has arrayed brother against brother,
and pittied the father against the son in
mortal combat. @
1t deluged the land in blood-whiten-
ed the fields Of the South with the bones
of the slain.
1t has brought grief and sadness to
nearly every freside.
1t has cpered up broad avenues for
speculation of the public finances.
1t has deranged the currency of the
country.
1t has enlarged beyond all necessity
the public debt. :, .a'.st
1t has lax ej the present generation be-
yond all precedent, and entailcd burthens
that will fall with crushing weight. upon
unborn iail!iops.
/ 1t las taken from industri i productive
pursuits over two millions of men.
1t has shielded the rich from the
clutches of repeated "drafts" by the pay
ment of sums (to them petty and ipsig-
ni6cant) to the Government while it has
compelled the toiling masses to enlist, for
the plain reason that their actual necessi-
ties required It for the immediate support
of their families.
1t has given us shinplasters. green pa
per, and petty postage stamps for the
common currency Of the country. -
1t has created fuctuating and uncer-
tain standard of value.
1t has used teh peoples money without
legal authority, in useless and vain at
tempts to better the condition of the ne
gro, at the expense of the white race.
1t hss inaugurated schemes to thwart
the plans of the Almighty in cc-mingling
the races.
1t has allowed defaulters and defraud-
ing contractors, paymssters, public Off
GERS and even private individuals, to swim
die tbe people out of millions of dollars
and has dared to send some of them on
foreign missions as reward for their ras-
cality.
It has ignored vel. establised laws of
Congress.
1t has disregarded the Constitution un-
der the pl'a of 'uilitary necessity
It has taken the edicts of the Presi-
dent as laws of the land, which laws they
coDtravened.
1t has Unidentified public officers from
suits at law for damsges on account of
outrages upon the rights of citizens.
1t has arrested good and true men and
patriotic citizens without legal authority
dragging them from their homes, friends
and families; sent them beyond the linn
its of the State in which they resided
incarcerated them in bastiles, and falsely
denounced them as traitors.
It has trampled down the great bull
warks of civil liberty the freedom of
speech and of the press.
1t has abolished the, wri: of hc6eos cor
pas. a right which no other enlightened
Government under heaven would seek
even to abridge.
It has set aside even our system of
trial by jury, and substituted arbitrary
power for the laws of the land.
1t has declared military control where
the civil tribunals were in the faithful
discharge of their Legitimate duties.
1t has ere tied unnecessary departments
in the General Government, thus, caU
ing more expenses, increased taxes, and
heavier brrthens for the people.
1t has organized new States from he
mere fragments of the original admitted
members of these so-called States to eats
as members Of Congress.
1t has sent its spies and infomers
through the principle cities and owns
to listen and report the murnurirgs of
the people touching the manner in which
the Administration is conducting he af-
fairs Of the country. ri .aa.
1t has regarded opposition to jhe Ad-
ninistration as opposition to the Consti-
tuition and Government, than ~liehI there