The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-08-17
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become better acquainted.Y
What a peculiar blessing L Strange
way of becoming acquainted 1t would
appear from this buffoons theory that the
best way to become acquainted with our
friends is by q pitched battle. "Men Of
the North" he exclaims, will go South,
and men of the South will come North
Men of the North have gone South, bui
they will return net again. They com
pose one vast grave yard, bounded only
by the limits of the Southern States
Their bones are bleaching on a hundred
battle fields, and still this man from his
assumed high stand point, urges more
victims to the CORY field. aysG mo.
"The war will .subyert and destroy sla-
very" We have no disposition to, follow
this deluded railer in his wild:ravings on
the Rpmber, of his blessings. The filth
of the blackguard was only equaled by
the pitiablo ignorance he displayed on
the subject. The wisdom of tho fathers
whose labors and sufferings wrested Inde-
pendence from the mother country, and
established a government on the broad
basis OF. popular representation, was SILL
ness, compared with the overshadowing
knowledge of this Pharisaical egotist who
"was mulin5 and puking in his nurses
arms, when the Madisons and Monroes
and Jacksons and Clays and Websters
stood at the helm of state, and implored
the people to stand by the ancient land
marks and let the people Of each State
take care of their own domestic concerns,
But in tie estimation of HARTLEY, all
other considerations must yield to the alb
clifton of slavery and for this purpose the
war must be carried on till svery wife in
the land. is made a widow, and every child
an orphan" ''Slavery must be ground to
powder" ere a note of peace. shall be
heard above the storm, and bigoted cler-
eymen ~pre-eminent in their zeal to taste
the carnival of blood are only to be salts
fed, when the last throes Of expiring lib
erty in the new world, shall proclaim the
ruination of the American Union and the
humiliation of her children. Just such
doctrine as preached by HARTLEY has
filed the land with confusion and bood-
shed ; has led to scenes of horrible ri
baldry at which al. Pandemonium iejoiced.
"When the Priest turns Atheist as did
Ellis sons, who flied with lust and vio-
lence the house of God" es.zEngs&
"The war will destroy State Sovereign
ty.".
According to the Rev. gentleman. we
now have a centralized government, as
absolute in its control as any of the des-
potic governments of Europe. Those
who have suffered the loss of friends in
this war, can have the consolation that
they are now diyested of their sovereign
ty, and one man enthroned at Washing
ton, can dispose Of their lives and liberty
at his pleasure. Glorious result !! The
chains a Lincoln dynasty has forged, are
to be riveed by $500, 600 inore."
"The war will establish the authority
of the ballot" How it has established
it, let the record Of the last three years
Wherever a pretext has been of
ferred, martial law has been proclaimed
test oaths has beer required, and with a
sweep of the pen al freedom of the bal
lot has been pros:itated, to subserye the
of n designing administration.
"The war win purify the national pa.
1t has llessed us with a Navy" !
at has advanced the interests of chris
We Civ the BLESSINGS" with
out comment for vant of space. The ar
cument brought u elucidats these propo.
we have MT attempted to give
Suffice it to say that. the whole tenor of
The discourse, tened with p~artizap NAL
zee, and disgustee even his own political :
His peIoration consisted in a
low, mean attack upon all favoring a re-
urn of peace, and announced the as
founding fact that he could go down to
saw Midland make a better chris t
ian out OF a saw log with a dull ak than !
Peace Democratcould possibly become" =
do not doubt this mans mechanical
skill in constructing a christian that would
compare favorably with himself, for no
skunk perfume was ever. more disgusting
o man than HARTLEY's treason 10 chris
ianity must be in the sight Of God. And :
While he may be able to accomplish the \
lind of task proposed, according to his
'wn opinion of what should constitute a
we are assuredd of another fact; a
lypocrite, a bufoon, a mountebank,
'lackguard, a white sepulcher full of
ottenness, ga busy body''a seif-conceited
Inflated egotist he is better calculated for :
lrothel bully than a preacher. !
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