The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-02-22
THE I~NFERNAIa.

resistance to the draft and discour,ging
en.istments. The charge is founded on
several articles, abominable alike in gram
mar and doctrine, which the aforesaid
bad given publication TO-. When the
commission gets through with Flanagan
We hope it will turn its attention to the
editors Of the Ashland onion, whose ut
~terances are even more foully traitorous
and revolutionary than his"
The principal Editor Of the Cleveland
Leader belongs to that class Of infsrnals,
who, having los. all sense Of shame and
all the feelings Of deceney and humanity
that are usually supposed to have been
originally planted in the breasts Of men,
has urged on, through the writings of his
hired scribblers,-fer the fellow himself
ia but a stammering idiot,-the horrible
destruction and slaughter that has del.
uged our Once fair land with blood, rent
in twain our once glorious Union, and
desolated its fairest and,most fertile fields.
To our last weeks issue we referred to
the scoundrel in proper terms in reply to
a malignant article he had published q
short time before. But Ills infernalism
has no bounds. An infamous tribunal,
whose only counterpart in the history Of
time, can be found in the orgies of the
French Revolution or the horrors Of the
Spanish Iuquisition, seems TO have eelf-
constituted itself Judge, witness, prose-
cutor and Jury, in the city Of Cincinnati.
A lucklsss Editor, disliked by some
sueaking SPY and dirty infOrmer of the
Washington thieves, traitors and revolu.
t%ionists, under the command Of that old
m~ountebank, called president Of the
United States" has been arrested despite
the civil law and taken before this thing,
"a thing unknown to Americans hereto
fore, aud a thing that in all time in the
pages Of history has received not only the
~anathenas Of the historian but the con
domination Of all readers of the record Of
the past. What this farcical tribunal
may undertake to do with Mr.. FLAME.
GAN, no one knows. It is responsible to
nobody, aud thus far, 10 itself, has been
but a repetition in its acts of those mid
night conspiracies that made the people
of Spain pale with fear and her land run
red with blood. But this suffering idiot
Of the Leader, CowLEs by name, a
blood hound of low degree, that at his
masters bidding, with the g~reenbacks he
steals through the Post Office at Clevs.
land, publishes a dirty sheet, full Of tFea.
sonable, revolutionary slang, asks that
zee may be arrested and taken before this
mock tribunal. Why? Because our
publications arc "foully lraitorous and
revolutionary" he asserts. He lies in his
teeth when he says it. We have always
been in favor of our government and
prosperous Union. We were born and
nurtured under its glorious privileges
Love for it was instilled into us from the
very beginning Of our existence. 1t wss
done amid the free and freedom. loving
people of the great West. 1t had mixed
with it none OF the Puritanical, witch
burning, self-conceited isms Of the insig-
nifcant State that produced that libel
upon humanity, y'clept Ed. CowLEs.-
1t was a love for q vhOl country, such al
our grand sires made it, and as they be-
queathcd it unto US. We always revered
it. We never did aught to DESTROY it
and we pray from our Utmost hearts for it
speedy restoration to primal greatness
and grandeur.
But what has this wooden nutmeg Yam
kee done that he should demand our ar
rest. The very small modicum Of brainl
that Providence voucnsafed him, wal
turned to AT effort to destroy our institu'
tions. For this he became q blatant Alb
olitionist. Although our country hat
lived and prospered beyond parallel for
over eighty years with the form Of gov
eminent given US, he and bis ~co-con'pir
ators worked day and night for long year
to destroy 10. They succeeded. The,
elected an old New England Abolition
Mountebank to the Presidency and thei
plan was near its fulfllment. The,
have deluged the land in blood, destroy
cd its old time greatness and prosperity
murdered hundreds of thousands Of it
best people, burned its cities and ravage'
its fields, and nor, the s~coundrels tina
urged and brought about this ruin, invit
The arm Of an irresponsible military dei
potism to arrest and imprisou men VII
qipeys loved their0country and who onl
resisted he hand Of tie isnd tlat woul
stab il 10 the heart.
NJ "a war for the Union,n %coercin
the people Of the North into an army
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