The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-24
q tie E,1itor of TIE Nation =
RicHMoND, Va, Sept 80, 1868.


'.Yeur readers may be pleased to hear
voice issuing directly out of this champ clos
OF slaughter. Outside mankind knows little
of it, save hat comes through the report oI
the Yankee nation which hems Us in every
side The arena of this mortal struggle is
closed and curtained; you only know thatsa
nation here is fg hting for lite, in darkness.
and in silence aud from afar off you see
but the steam of carnage ascending tolleaven;
while our enemies dance and laugh al around :,
ard grmace like satyrs-screaming out to all
the ends of the earth the delight they feel in
the storm of human passion and carnival of
murder that roars and raves within.
Nobody believes & Yankee now and per-
haps the Confederacy has rather gained than
lost in its repute with foreign nations (though.
to be cardid, that signifies little to us,) from
the fact that the telling of the whole story
has been a privilege Of our enemies; the
Yankees have the of the world, and we
wish the ear OF the world much joy. 1t must
be sick and weary of the incredible braggado-
clio and atrocious but impotcnt threats which
form the staple oe all the u,terances Of that
people about this war The rogues have ta-
ken full advantage of the privilege they en-
joyed, of unblockaded intercourse with
other people, and they Lave filled the wcrld
with heir lies. but that business is probably
overdoEe; and now, when they even say what
is true, nobody believes them.
may tell you in general that there is n9w
in this COME eracy much moro unanimity
and determination to resist the pretensiops of
the Federal Government than eversthere was
in the American colonies to resist George the
I'll and his Parliament. There were more
Tories during that war of the Revolution
than there are in the Confcderacy to-day All
the stories which the enemy tell of returning
"Uniop' sentiment, and disafec,ion ayainst
our Government, are either p1re iabrications
or gross exageration. OF course there are
some cowariiy wretched her,-as there are
where-who would accept peace, even
with reconstruction of the Union hut they
dare not say so openly. Even the word peace
has become unpopular throughout the coun
try and We are fast settling into the convic
ton that society must be placed, and kept on
permanent war footiDg--that every faculty
and energy of the country must be highly or
ganized. brought to its utmost development,
and bent to the one single purpose of long
and desperate battle
We all know here that peace there can be
nome Our enemies cannot afford to make
peace at all. True, war is expensive to them
but peace would be utter and sudden ruin. t
is only the e, pectation of such complete
sutjugation of the Confederacy as would Mace
the whole land aud goods of the Confederates
for one day the credit OF their q eenback cur
reDcy. Let the war stop and that currency
stops. and drsp-, and goes to the devil The
sreenbacks maintain the war, and the war
maintains the greenbacks. Besides, very
large proportion of he people in the Yank ee
States-aDd far the most influential and ruling
portion-the capitalists-have their all inves-
ted in, and depending upon continuance of
the war; they are the con ractors, the ship
builders, the manufacturers cf all sorts of
military material and ordinance stores the
banks have lent Cor as they choose to say
here, loaned) all their N sney TO Mr.. Chase
the railroad stock-ho'ders-an immense inter
est in that country. are making immense pro-
fits by the war ali which profits, howarcr,
would, on the first day of peace, turn into
fairy money. II peace be made on the terms
of our independence then comes for the Yan-
kee country instant bankruptcy, reputation
and universal perdition. L. short their fund
for redressing their balance sheet has been in
the Confederares lands These lands with all
their woods and waters, mills and fishes, must
go into the hands of Yankee coDquerors, and
belong to them and their heirs forever, Gas
their coDfscation law enacts), or. there is an
end of the great Yankee nation and you
know ae. .ss5
- OF the mighty nations
81 In the East and in the West,
The glorious Yankee nation 'sh =
. Il the glsxiouest and the best.