The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-24
MORNING. FEBRUARY s24, 1864.

turcs. once contented and happy, thrown upon
| their own resources, or in ,licentious ldieness,
| like SO many wild Arabs, turned loose upon
society After nearly fifty years labor by the
| American churches in the foreign field, they
can count but about forty four thousand fire
! hundred members among the free negroes,
, while the churches at the South can number
more than half,s million a,nong their slores!
/ The Methodist Missions in Liberia have Ia
4 bored forty years, expended more than fire
| btsnareE tAeusdHd dollars, and in 1862, their
| Report gave as the grand result, sirtys5tce
! native members Yet, with these stubborn
facts, confirmed by careful research and mis-
sionary history, the bishops and clergy OF the
Methodist church, nov enter upon a field bap7
| tised in blood and FIRE, and which promises nc
other trophies than those which are won by
an invading armyi
| This great campaign, rich in all the fruits
of sacrilege and coniscation, rapine and muir
der, will impart an unenviable fame to the
men engaged in it. We commend to their
special attention the remarks of Mr.. Canning,
clear sighted and prophetic, in one OF his
most eloquent speeches in the English Parll-
ament as far back as 1922. They are of great
! significance at this hour, and are earnestly
con mended to the attention of those SO loud
| " laudatory of the Presidents Emancipation
Proclamation. To the ant-slavery dogma of
/
Canning replied:
ssWe must remember that we are dealing
with being possessing the form and strength
/ of man, but the intellect only of child
! To turn him loose iE the manhood of his
physical strength in the maturity of his phys
| ical passions. but in the infancy of his unin-
| str1c.ed reason, would be to raise up crea-
ture resembling the splendid picture of ro-
nance; the hero of which can sketch hui
man form, with all the corPoreal capabilities
of man, and with the thews and sinews OF a
! giant but being unable to impart to the work
of his hands perception of right ard wrong,
he finds too late that he, has only created a
more than mortal power of doing mischief,
and himself recoils from the menster of his
| own creation.
! ave are experiencing at this very moment
the beginnings of the work of this power of
mischief, this monster copjured up and sedu
| lously nurtured, and now, while l write, arm
ing for his frightful work; preparing, under
the influence of blind councils, for scenes of
horror, which will call forth tears of blood
| from another and sobered generation. Deplo-
rable as this course marked out by short-sight-
ed politicians, it is still more mournful to see
some Of the professed disciples of the Prince
of Peace, under the spell of this horrible de-
! lusion, sustaining and encouraging it With all
| their zeal and eloquence as christian cause
| " hat will vain regrets avail for the best
! blood poured forth like water and the millions
of treasure worse than wasted in fraterpal
strife Awaking from the delusiye dream of
a hollow freedom, the fgment of iufdelity
you will find the boosted liberty and equality
which Abolition fanaticism had forced upon
| the stand, turned into disastrus license aud
! hopeless debasement, you own freedom gilt
| terirg shadow Of the past, and your necks in
the dust under the iron heel of military rule.
This is the dark programme for a day of fast
ing and prayer when Abolitionism has done
Its work, and God shall write the doom of the
nation in letters of blood for the warning of
the world ''Thou art weighed in the balance
and art found wanting"