The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-05-31
TmE ASHLAND TINES.

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ashland Times is endcavoring excite the
feelings of his fellow Abolitlonists, by
publishing articles, which appeared in
our paper, with his usual comments of
"traitors," 'coppsrhCads," and "rebcls,"
attached to them. We -carc very little
what this Abolition propagandist says
we have marked out our course, and we
will adhere to it. We are dyed in the
Democratic faith, and will uphold our
sentiments as long as We live, and moth
ing Of his balderdash can interfere with
our views. He says that wo called Mr..
Lincoln a "tyrant,' &c, while ho was
living. Well, whatever we have said In
former issues during the Abolition Ad-
ministraiion, we still adhere to, and re-
tract nothing. But now, that the clods
of the valley have fallen upon all that
remains Of him earthly, we are willing 10
throw the mantle of charity over his
faults, and remember only his good deeds,
We have opposed a bloody var. and
are to-day proud of the position thus ia
ken. We were in favor Of peace and the
uhole Union, whilst this editor was op-
posed to Union. We were in favor OF
the Crittendcn Compromise, for which
ANDREW JouYsoN voted, and had it not
been rejected by tho partisan friends Of
the editor Of the Times, to-day the coun-
try would not have to mourn the loss of
hundreds Of thousands CT brave and good
i, men, and not have q national debt which
, generations yet unborn will never see
paid. And what have We gained ? Will
the editor Of the Times answer?
, But what does this Abolition editor
want? We doubt whether he knows
himself. Because we denounced the as
sassiuation of the late President, we In
CURED the displeasure of this Abolition
dupc; but he must remember that we al
ways obeycd the laws and never melted
mobs, assassinatiOns, &c which, we arc
: sorry, we can't say for him. What we said
in regard to Mr.. Lincoln, we did because
we are opposed to assassination and out,
laws, and not because we admired the ac'
ticns of Mr.. Lincoln, though during the
n last days Of his life we did approve oil
some Of his acts.
He says that we branded the soldiers
S Of our army as "hircd Hessiaus,' "rob.
i, beers" "murdercrs," "thieves," etc. Hc
has repeatedly made this charge, but WI
: thought, pcrhuPsj that he would be ieod
by the "still small voice" to cease his in
fernal classifying. In this, we were mis-
teken. He seems to be acting upon tn
belief that q lie well stuck to is 40 gooc
as the truth" At least he continues Il
sc repeat the lie in almost every issue Of hi
s. precious sheet. We now state, once AM
for all, that the charge is fdlse-false al
over, and challenge the dartard.y edito
of the Times to prove his assertion. III
only time we used the term "thieves,
70 was in regard to tho "Bummers' tha
- marched in the van Of Shcrman's army
~ We said they were a band of thieves, an
we meant it. The following account
the review Of Sherman's Army, at Wasl
" iugtOn, c~orroborates our opinion in r.
gard to "Bummers." We copy from Ii
:, Cleveland Herald of Saturday last
g Any representation of Sherman's arm
would have been far from complete whit
omitted the celebrated Bummers' brigad
nd These foragers, black and white, col
,os posed the most incopgruous; as it W
|. certainly the most comical, appendix
o ever seen with an army. After Blail
on corps had passed, came two diminuti
,uc donkeys, astrile of which we're two equi
,rv ly dininutivc but g~leeful darkies clos
e.. ly following this was a collection Of null
young horses and broken down nags, u
on which were loaded tents, baggag
ice utensils, kettles, swords, pigs, CHECKER
Da goats, dogs; raccOcns, picaDiDnies, bla
,o> women, trudging along in the dusty IA
BILE were the blacklist Of negroes and
the thousand and one appurtenances
ON camp life, In fact, it may be truly So
an. that Sherman's army presented the sal
general aspects on its way through {
Wy city as it did through the Carolinas, on
Scr with much more order. This gave a VI
led picture of the way in which Sherm
es. made war by living on the enemy. On
81 by this means could he have cut loo
from his base. and mado his admiral
my swoop down 10 the coast, The dark.
I'm whohave been picked up in the mar
his were some of them armed with huge {
mr.. pistols or captured knives They seem
to understand well the part they w
playing in the terrible drama of revo
ing, ton. and received the appearing shou
hn. aughter and jeers with soldiery unc'
au- 'ero'
be. "Thcy seemed TO understand the p
ST." they we're playing" &c., Well, W
,uas the part they had taken +? tt
robbed the inhabitants of the coun
Oy through which they passed of all the