The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-08-31

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! structure which our fathers reared and
placed in our keeping. Then will begin
the work of reducing taxes, of stopping
drafts, or arresting the fearful destruction
of war, of staunching the flow of blood,
of re-estabiishing that state of things in
; the land which is described in sacred his
{ tory, which our fathers enjoyed, and
which we hope our CHI dren, may yet see,
: when "eyery man shall sit down under his
! own vine and fig tree, aeiLs zone 20 make
d afrafd.D, ii AS it is. now whose eheek is
not blaunched; whose heart is not broken
!; with fear by day and terror by night.
when he rememb beos that every safeguard
of constitutional iberiyfis broken down,
and every mans castle liable to be -inva-
ded, his doors broken down. his person
violated and driven from home, because
he dares to assert the principles which in
youth we're taught him by the purest, the
best and wisest of men, and which in
manhood he has the courage to practice !?
If you want more taxation larger
public 6cbt, vote for Lincoln. IF you
want renewed drafts of men to carry on
the war, vote for Lincoln. If you want
him to take your first, second and third
born sons, to carry on the war, vote for
Lincoln. If you want to find your cur
rency in a ruined condition, your green
backs worth thirty cents on the dollar
IF you want the price of everything you
buy to go up, and everything you sell to
go down---for' tho day is not far distant
when your merchants will be obliged TO
demand gold and silver for what you buy,
and they will pay you for your produce
in illegal tendersn-if this is hat you
want, vote for the Republican party.
WHICH IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
The speaker here .queried as to where
the Republican party could be found
which of the hydraheads was the simon
pure organization. Then there was old
Ben Wade and Henry Winter -Davis,an
last not least, his old friend Lew d Camp
bell. Laughter and cl GERS. Il do not
4now that l am right, continued Val,
but he seems to be getting up combi-
nation. suppose the fellow out at St
Louis would prom ounce it a conspiracy
Whether it has five hundred thousand l.,
it or not do not know. I hope it has.
They have issued a call for another Re
publican -Gonvention. to be held at 1}uffa-
10. Which is to be the true Republican
ticket. and which the false, it will be
hard TO .ell.
Our time has come, aud we will put
forward a man that can be elected. ''The
coming man" will be found, and discord
in the Chicago Convention will not exist
He who thinks otherwise, does not know
the heads and hearts of those who will be
there.
FEDERAL TAX GATHEKERs, iRovosT
MARsHALs. t.f.ft
I see men of former Republican pro-
livi;ies here, and l would ask them
what was the condition of things four
years ago to day? How was it when you
were shouting for Lincoln, when your
"Widc-awakes" wcro tossing high their
cloth caps? We had a nation of thirty |
four States, all peaceful and happy; no
public debt, except what might have been
wiped out by the expenditures Of two |
weeks cow. Aud, by the way, sup |
porter of Lincoln told me To-Day that we |
were going to have plenty of money soon,
as wealthy man cf New York was 90
ing to give to the Government a million
of dollars our Of his own pocket How
long would this last Just five hours
Why, when get on the harness, after
the Chicago nomination, can spe,k long
er than million dollars will last Pres-
dent Lincoln. [Cheers and laughter
My friends, none but the oldest among
you ever, before the pre-; ent war, saw a
Fed eral tax. gatherer; but they swarm
now like aunts on a mole hill. Previous
to the present war, but few Of you ever
saw Provost Marshal; but now they are
as thick as frogs that come up out of
Egypt, and you, the f.rmers and labor
ers are required to pay their salaries.-
You have 100000 more officers to sup
port now than you had four yeas ago.
And that's the way the money goes
l do not address you thus because I
would say We were wiser thau you, but 1
would appeal to you to say whether it
would not have been better to have elect
ed Democratic candidate four years
ago, and have avoided these things We s
then had no Federal tax gatherers, low
tarlff, which a man paid if he is pleased,
md not if he chose We had currency
which was either gold aud silver or paper S
convertible into one or the other at pleas.
Ire. What is now? IA voice.. ."Pos- I
.al eurrency."1 Yes, postal currency and
sreenbacks. And can take thirty-three
cents in the old currency of four years I
lgo, and go into any of these stores and q
'uy more of anything that you can with t
| dollar of greenbacks 1t will be still i
worse hereafter. Two months ago green Z
packs were worth one hundred per cent.
more than now, and two months hence 1
hey will be worth one hundred per cent t
ess thrn now They repe at the old story S
# the continental currency, growing from ?
,ad to- worse
Is it not better for one and all to stop d
his war and begin where we never f
hould have left off,? And try to get d
'ack the Union, if it is possible do it c
y constitutional means, with peace and a
n the land :. with no more armies, no |
N ora drafts No moro h1oody bottI,s ~ A.