The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03
Some Of the Antecedents of
Treason.

tHa Treason.
We are indebted, to the Albany atlas fol
recalling to public recollection tho fact thai
several years ago when Seward and Chase
were members of the United States Senate
! Senator Hale, of New Hampshire, introduced
| petition in favor of dissolution of the Union
between the Free and Slave States. Three
Senators only voted to receive the petition
! Two of these were Messrs Chase and Seward
both noS members of Lincoln's Cabinet The
prayer of the petition WAS as follows:
They believe that the Federal constitution
in giving its support to slavery, violated the
Divine (higher) law, and makes war upon
human rights, and is inconsistent with Re.
publican principles; and that the attempt to
unite slavery and freedom in ono body polite
! has already brought npnn the country great
and manifold evils, and has fully proved that
no such Union can exist but by the sacrifice
of freedom to the supremacy of slavery. They
respectfully ask Congress to propose, withou,
delay, some plan for the immediate aud peace
full dissolution of the American Union"
When this reasonable resolution was pre-
sented, spirited debate followed, during the
course of which Gen. Cass said
seThis petition asks us to dissolve this
Union. I shall vote for rejecting it and il
there we're any other mode by which our in.
dignation at such wicked and foolish prop.
ositign could be more powerfully expressed
should adopt it with pleasure.
The constitutional object of the right of pc
tition is declared to be the@redress of griev-
ances. Instead of valuable right, an ap.
plication to Congress to do That it cannot do,
reduces it to farce, and is calculated to bring
the rightof itself into contempt. IF we have
no power to grant the prayer of the petition,
why should such petition be received z"
After concurring with Sen. c., the great
expounder, Daniel Webster, said:
'I think the substance of this petition is
such that, to be appropriate, it ahould have
had a preamble in these words
"Gentlemen, Members of Congress -
Whereas at the commencement of this ses-
sion, you and each of you took your solemn
oath, in the presence of God, and on the Holy
Evangelists, that you would support the Con-
stitution Of the United States now, there
fore, we pray you to take immediate steps to
break up the United States as soon. as you
can And, as it is duty bound, We will ever
p-ayp
Farther in the course of the debate, Gen.
Cass Indignantly remarked !,
"Would you receive petition asking Con-
gress to declare that there is no God, and
to pass law prohibiting the people of the
United States from assembling for purposes
of religious worship? Would yon refer such
a petition-as Mr.. Seward proposes to report
the existence of God, and to add their feeble
evidence TO the testimony upon that subject
which is found equally in the book of Nature
and in the book of Revelation, and which is
with US and around US from the cradle to the
grave z"
The scheme then begun by these men has
at last ripened into civil war, and the spirit
which then proclaimed itself for disunion is
still rife and active as ever.
bE The ". r Post says frozen flesh should
never be rubbed. The juices of the feshy
tissues, when frozen in their minute sacs or
cells, at once become in each of these enclo-
sures, crystals, having large number of
giles and sharp points and hence rubbing
the flesh causes them TO cut or tear their way
through the tissues, so that when it is thaw-
ed the structure of the muscle is more or less
destroyed. The proper mode of treatment is
this !:
When any part of the body is frozen it
should be kept perfectly quiet till it is thawed
out, which should be done a. promptly as pos
sble. AS freezing takes place from the sur
face inwardly, SO thawing should be in the
inverse order, from the inside outwardly.-
The thawing out of portion OF flesh, with
out, at the same time, putting the blood from
the heart into circulation through it, pro-
duees modification but by keeping the more
external parts still CONCEALED till the internal
heat and the external blood gradually soften
the more interior parts, and produce circula-
tion of the~blood as fast as the thawing takes
places, most of these dangers are obyiated.-
If the snow which is applied be colder than
the frozen flesh it will still abstract the heat
and freeze it worse than before IF snow is
of the same temperature it will keep the flesh
from thawing till the heat from the rest of
the body shall have effected it,. thus preyen-
ting gangrene. Water, in which snow or ice
has been placed, so as to keep its temperature
at thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit is probably
better than snow.