The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-01-27
denomination of President Lin.
coin.

Amid the murmurs of indignation arising
up on all sides, at the universal revelation of
fraud and crime on the part of Government
officials, we hear n concerted cry on the part
OF the most corrupt of these, to renominate
Lincoln. Forney and Cameron, Weed and.Se-
ward, have unde: taken the task of perpetual
ting the present dynasty, and the price of
their zeal is the privilege of controlling the
vast patronage and speculation that result from
power dnring another four years.
The Washington Chronicle, the organ of
the Contractors, makes the nomination, and
the N. I. Times, the oracle of the Stock
Jobbers seconds it. Cameron secures a presen-
tation from a corrupt Legislative caucus i'm
Pennsylvania, and the Abolition Committee
In New Hampshire, under the manipulations
OF its unexpected Senator Hale, unites in the
designation of the candidate.
Why should they net ? When Cameron
was pillaging the Treasury of millions in the
beginning of the war, Lincoln came forward
and avowed that che took the responsibility
OF this mal-administration upon his own shout
ders. 1t is Lincoln that gives to Hale the
right to extnps a $4,000 fee for the liberation
81 a Contractor, illegally imprisoned. Penn.
sylvania and New Hamps hire owe their Chief
this denomination
We have never doubted that Lincoln would
force a re nomination from the Abolitionised
Republicans. Though each day growing wea-
kcr in public confidence, and entaneled in a
destructive policy that must ultimately bring
ruin upon the count y and disgrace upon him
'elf, President Lincoln is yet stronger than
any of the men in his Administration. He is
at the head of the greatest patronage ever
welded by a public man, and is mo;e unscru-
pulous in using it for his own purpose.
He will be re-nominated, we hope and be-
lieEe, for the defeat to which his party is fated
would not be complete if it did not embrace
him as the chief. 1t is the President, and
not the subordinates of the Cabinet, that is
responsible for the duplieity of his public pol
icy, the violation of his pledges, and the dark
career upon which he is now entering. It was
his political jealousy that set aside Fremont,
forced Banks into comparative obscurity, and
derosed Mcclellan from the command of the
Army in the hour of victory. It is he that is
the tolerant head of the corruption that is rife
IL all the departments of the Administrator.
But, without reference to the past, it is
enough to know that he is identified with
the measure that indefinitely protracts the
war, exposes us to all it. hazards and uncer-
t~ainties, and involves public credit and private
enterprise in an inextricable web. The Proc
lamation, which ingeniously repels the sub
hitting States of the South, and offers imprac-
ticable conditions to the Southern people,
which punished the loyal with the isloyal, is
now beginning to be understood in its true
import. 1t is intended TO prolong the war,
and it is intended to aid the scheme for the
reelection ofMr. Lincoln by a series of grand
electoral frauds.
The day has come when every bond-holder,
very stakeholder in a government bank, every
e nearly or remotely interested in Fe leral
ecu. rites, begins to realize that every day
hat { nc war is prolonged weakens the fnan-
ial DOS. ton of the Government, adds to the
asst debt and diminishes the ability of the
soyernme, It to meet it. There is a point be-
which public credit cannot be trained.
he how too much bent will break. As it
tanls now. eve. " holder of Governme nt stocks
5 interested i'm n eservfug the public credit
nd the .conseryati re policy that would insure
return of the Stat, S, and resumption of their
Id relations ard a +, ward of industry and
,roductien.
But a policy that would push the country
nto an indefinite war, to be pursued through
!. airs. with accommodating tebt and d,mln-
b. ing power of taxation, Cor the millions
non millions of stocks issued are declared
&c /. -om taxation) must find, i'll every man
ter.,s. ted in these 20 s~urities, an e. aemy- The
resid,,u,t may thus find, in time, that his own
wish ear enditures. by which he ha sought
buy Dol; sical Import, have raised against
m his most formidable opponents. 1t is well
at he sboul. ! be thus nominated,a sand hus
.feated Tho. re are tens of thousands who
,ve ever bel;ev, ID that the Chief Magistr. ate
bo meanlv enter. ed the Capitol in q coward. 2
sou;se' will leave it in shame and humilia-
On. And sol will be.
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