The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03

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friends 10 the sold government'-whom we
now call Tories, who acted as spies and inform
ers upon the acts, sayings and doings OF our
Revolutionary fathers. They were scattered
all over the country-ostensibIy the friends of
the Colonies, but in reality the aiders and
abettors of tyranny and despotism, laboring
to overthrow tho rights and liberties OF the
people. They declared that "Britain was the
only real friend of America" Every unjust
and tyrannical act of the King was justified,
upheld and sustained by them under the plea
of necessity" They claimed that the Colo
mics could be Justly taxed at the will OF the
King, for the benefit of the "best govern
ment on earth'-that he was "right in de-
claring US rebels; right in taxing us" right
in declaring his ''right to bind the Colonies
in all cases whatsoever" They were believ-
ers in a "strons government" Though the
"history of the King of Great Britain was a
history of repeated injuries and usurpations,
all having in direct object the establishment
of an absolute tyranny over these States" yet,
strange as it may seem to him who truly loves
his country and is ever watchful of her libsr-
ties, his acts of usurpation were yindicated,
he was in all things upheld and sustained,
and indeed justified, by the Tories of that
day. They denounced all persons who OPP
posed the King, or had the manliness to cues
ton the justice of the unjust mandates OF his
Loyal Highness. as foes to the country, as
Tories, traitors and rebels. These truculent
tools of King George-the provost Marshals,'
the Attorneys of the Crown" the STAMP
| Masters" Stamp Agents." &c, 60, of that
DAY, the real Tories and traitors of the Revo-
luton, who would yield up Everything for
country" the unconditional submissionists
to the powers that be-" who would yield up
everything to "crush the rebellion even to
"life, liberty and property"-these despicable
creatures, the foes of manhood, liberty and
equality, whose patriotism is only equalled by
that of the Republicans and Abolitionists of
to-day, have come down to us a stencil in the
~nostrils Of history, their memories detested
and despised by every good and every honest
man.
Much is said, at this time, about Tories and
traitors. Everybody is a Tory who does not
sustain this negro-worshipping Adlninistra-
ton, and justify, to the fullestsextent, all its
abominable acts, if we arc to believe the blat-
liant Republicans and Abolitionists. But when
we compare the acts and doiugs of the party
in power with those of the Tories of the Rev
%olutlon, it is easy to determine who are and
who are not the real Tories of to-day, The
parallel between the two is almost strictly
identical. Now, what is the history Of King
Lincoln I?
ga history of repeated injuries and usur-
pations, all having in direct object the estab-
lishment of an abolition tyranny over these
States" 'To prove this, let facts be submit
ted to a candid world"
"He has erected a multitude of new Offices,
and sent hither swarms of officers to harass
our people and eat out their substance"
"He has affected to render the military in
dependent of, and superior to the civil power"
ale has combined with others to subject
us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution,
and acknowledged by our laws, giving his as
sent to their acts of pretended legislation.
"For quartering large bodies of armed
troops among US for any murders which they
should commit on the inhabitants of these
States"
"For arresting peaceable aud unofending
citizens without warrant or due process of law.
For ~suspending the writ of habeas corpus
throughout the several States.
For depriving us of the benefits of a trial
by jury.
For transporting us beyond the Jurisdiction
of a State, to be tried for pretended efenses,
or to be imprisoned at will.
"For imposing taxes on US without our con-
sent"
For abolishing the free system of Ameri-
can laws in neighboring States establishing
therein absolute governments without the
consent of their Legislatures or of the people.
For aholishing our most valuable laws, and
taitering fundamentally the powers of our gov
eminent.
He has ravaged our coasts, burned our
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He has constrained our fellow-citizens to
become the executioners of their brethren, or
tosfall themselves by their hands.
Fl has excited domestic instruction
amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on
the Inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless
tnegro) savages, whose known rule of warfare
is an undistinguished destruction of all ages,
sexes and conditions"
We have enumerated but few, very few, of
the unwarranted, unconstitutional, and tyran-
meal acts and dangerous assumptions of pow
er exercised by thesreckless tyraut that now
fills with 'paradoxicalvacancy' the Presiden-
tial chair, once filled by Washington, Jefer-
son, Madison, Monroe and jackson. Old
King George, when compared with Abraham
Lincoln, appears an angel of light. If Geo.
LII. was a great tyrant, Abraham Lincoln is a
much greater one, for surely the chief of the
present Administration at Washington would
lmake King George blush and hang his head
with very shame. Yet wonderful to relate, all
the unwarrantable usurpations -of power on
the part of the present Executive are justified,
and every act of tyranny is upheld and sus-
tanned by the Abolition party now in power
the Tories and traitors of to-day-just as
were the tyranical acts of King George by
the Tories of the Revolution. The Tories of
to-day-the .sProvost Marshals," the "Milita-
ry Governors" the HStamp Masters !" "Stamp
Agents." "Federal Collectors "Assessors,"
and "Sub-Assessors," the law officers of King
Lincoln these hirelings of despotism tell
us eve must sustain our Government" that
l "Honest Old Abe" is the "friend of the peo-
t pie" that we must ''yield up everything to
E save the country" to put down this "wicked
rebellion" and "save the best government on
e arth," that we must ssacrifce life, liberty
and property" submit to "taxation, stamps
acts, stamp duties, high tariffs" anything and
r everything, for what purpose? To carry on
r a most wicked, unjust and unnecessary civil
war, which these fends have inaugurated, and
which they boldly declare is to liberate -four
millions of ignorant, semi-barbarous African
e slaves, to wipe out state sovereignty, to change
t fundamentally our forms and system of Gov.
eminent; in fine, to overthrow the Constitu.
: ton and destroy the rights and liberties of a