The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-10-26
A WAR OF sUBJUGATION.
Horrors upon Horrors Heaped.


AZ as EeKE SOS 49,
liz The wsrld is already familiar with the
infamous sentence passed and executed
by SHERMAN upon the defenceless women
and children of the City of Atlanta, GA.
By this several thousand white persons
have been driven from their homes, to
seek q resting place and biding place in
woods and caves, and endeavor to exc out
an existance by what they may find or
may be bestowed upon them in charity, or
else to suffer the lingering pangs and hor-
rors of starvation. Almost at the same
time comes an order from Gen. GRANT
to Gen. SHERIDAN,-an order unprece-
denied for barbarity and demoniac cruelty
in modern times,-that he should lay
waste and make a desert of the heretofore
,prosperonsTand fertile valley of the Shan
,andoah.si This order, too, has been as re-
.lentlessly executed as SHERMAN's SEN
.tence that drove in herds, upon the very
,vergeyof winters storms, the thousands
of aged, sick andinfrm, and the thousands
more of w%ailing women and children from
the. shelter of their humble homes and
from all their natural means of obtaining
.whereWith to buy their bread Could
more heart rending scenes than these be
imagined by the romancer, or does the
history Of barbaric warfare present an in.
stance of more demoniac cruelty? SHER-
iDAN burned houses, barns and everything
tenable, withou. a moments notice turned
sick men and women into the fields with
out sufficient clothing to protect them
from the cold night Winds, there to behold
the deselation of their homes and the wan
ton destruction of their property by his
drunken aud maddened soldiery. Is there
no euengiag God to teach these twin muir
dering~fends some lesson of humanity, or
must the work of incarnate deVilishness
still go on?
The Congress Of the United States,
with the endorsement of ABRAHAM LIN
COLIN, at the ommencemep of the war,
passed the famous CRITTENDEN resolution
which especially and distinctly declared
that this should aotzbe a war of subjuga-
ton. That resolution was long since vio-
lated by the Emancip 'tion proclamation,
Confscation act AMI others equally outra-
geous. But the plan or policy of subju-
CATION In the full sense of the term has
just begun to be developed. Fearfulo OF
its effect they commence it in its mildest
form. SHERMAN only drives the women
and babes from home and shelter and
sacks their cities. SHERIDAN only burns
their barns and houses on the way, while
his cowardly heels are carrying him away
from the vengeance of a justly ~maddened
foe. The next thing in this heilish pro-
eramme of wholesale crime will be the in
discriminate murder of the population of
captured: cities and of all persons found in
the country overrun by the Northern in
vaders. Barbsric warfare never could
and never did 60 further. And this is
the war prosecuted for the Union This
is to restore the eld=timed peace and pros
perity This is what We are called upon
70 give our money for, or our lives. Aie
the American people SO crazed and blind
ed as to prefer such crimes against oivDi-
zati6n and humanity as these, instead Of
the peaceful plans of compromise always
advocated by the great Statesmen of our
land th.oughout its entire history? u.s..
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