The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-05-11
ASHLAD UNOlN. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY H.
A Sensible Article.

From the Cincinnati Commercial, March 1861. 1
"War for tie subjusation of the seceders
would be unwise and deplorable. There is no
province in the world conquered and held by
Military force, that is not a weakness to its
master. Many of the Engliah colonies have
drained England of her wealth. The English
people are now eaten UP with taxation to hold
distant possessions in military subsection, and
carry on a worldwide system of fllibustering,
which has for centuries been a national pas
sion. The wars, which are visited upon her
in her monstrous national debt, we're occasion
ed by the pride other aristocracy and the in
trigues of her politicians, and were not, with
an exception or two, in the interest of her
peeple. India upon which she has lavished
her strength, and which is the most magnif-
cent trophy of wars, of conquest held by any
nation, is an incumbrancc to her to-day. AL
giers is a costly and Improbable appendage
of France. Venetia is the weak spot of Aus
tria, and the life's blood of the empire is
drained to hold that territory, which is abso-
lutely worthless to the Austrians, and letters
her armies in the Quadrilateral. The history
of the world certainly proves that it is not
profitable to govern a people without their
consent.
s.The logical lesson of this fact in this
country is that if there are two nations here
who have been living in an unnatural union,
they should, for the benefit of one or both, be
separated. We do not entertain the opinion
.hat a forced alliance between antagonistic
nationalities has existed in the Union which
our fathers made. We believe, whatever the
difference in DOMESTIC institutions, in temper
ament, in soil and climate, and in ideal of
local government, to be found within the
limits of the land, that each interest was Sc
cure within the Union, and that all sections
were more prosperous and happy within than
they can be without the Union.
ssThe dream Of an ocean bound Republic,
which has been so grateful to Young Ameri-
ca, we yet hope to see realized; but in the
mean time there is room for several flourish
ing nations on this continent; and the su8
will shine as brightly and the rivers run as
clear-the cotton fields be as white and the
wheat fields as golden-when we acknowledge
the Southern Confederacy as before. We
would not undervalue. the Union. 1t has
ministcred to our national pride az we'll as to
the prosperity CT the whole country. But
when it is gone, we. still have our fruitful and
inviting soil and cline, our seats and channels
of and the unequalled capacity OF
the people for productive labor"
ng-Ben. Butler, the Bully, thinks he is
not well used by the Administration. He
thinks it a shame that a man of his transcen-
dant military genius, who has bullied more
subordinates, insulted more women, and vio-
lated more laws than any General in the ser.
vice, should be reduced to the condition of
civil Mayor of Old Point Comfort. This is
one of the symptoms showing that Ben. has
had his day, done most of the dirty work re-
quired of him, and that he is now about to be
whis.led down the wind by the administration
which he has served with sycophantio devo-
ton. 1t is time this monster approached his
fate. The man who voted sixty times for j eff.
Davis for President, and then turned in a sin
gle night from being a violent Secessionist to
an equally rabid Abolitionist, is marked for a
bad end. Nature, in the nice adjustment OF
her rewards an Eunishments, eventually
overslaughs such an individual with a dread
full and inexOrable iustice.-StQtesman.