The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-08-02
GEN. SHERMAN.


The Ohio Statesman, Of the 9th ult.,
contained ON elaborate article in regard
to Gen. SHERMAN, from which VIC take
the following:
"Ever since General Sherman first en-
tered the State, the Abolitionists have
been assiduous in their attentions to him.
With care have they excluded Democrats
from his immediate presence. These
poor political sinners have been compell-
ed to ''stand afar off," while the Adolf
tionists have poured into his ears the
story Of their superfne patriotism and the
ungodliness Of the Democrats. From
their own lips and from the columns Of
their own organs, he has learned what
their purposes are politically. Evident.
ly, those purposes lie holds in adherence.
The Democrats, he knows, don't mediate
interference with the local governments
Of any Of the States. He knows, fur
Their, that the Democrats don't intend any
thing else than that this Government
shall be administered by White men. 1t
was not, then, for the purpose of exciting
the people and his soldiers against the
Democratic party that at Lancaster he
stood up and told his hearers that it was
their duty to conciliato the people Of the
South, and to abstain from the advocacy
of a policy that would take from the re.
spective States the functions Of local leg
isiation and vest them in the Federal
Government, II was not for the pur-
pose of putting tho Democratic party
under ban chat a few nights ago, at In
.dianapolis, he told the officers and ex-ofi.
GERS of the army, that evidently it was
the design of the Almighty that White
men should exercise tho governing inAu.
ence in this country, and. that suffrage
should not be given to the Negroes. Why
did he SO speak Undoubtedly, he spoke
with an object in view. He spoke to
condemn and put under ban certain polit.
ical ideas ; and the idea that he thus
sought to render obnoxious to the disap-
probation Of the public are consolidation
of the powers of tho State Governments
in the Federal Government and the elc-
walton of. the Negro to a political equali-
ty with White men. Were it not that
these ideas find their support in a formid-
able party--in a party that claims for it.
self tho whole patriotism Of the country
would no have taken occasion to speak
in this manner !? Can it be supposed that
a General who has given to the country
such Invaluable service as he has given
to it, would take this occasion to hold
consolidation and Negro Suffrage up to
%reprobation, did he not feel that his duty
to the country--to the White man and
the brave White soldiers that he led to
such q glorious and triumphant victory
impellcd him thereto? What else can
White men and White soldiers, who be-
lieve in him, do than to follow his teach
ings in this matter, oven though thereby
they are arrayed in their political action
against the 0berlin State Ticket? Htd
he pronounced in favor Of consolidation
and in favor of Negro Suffrage, the press
in the interest Of tho Oberlin candidates
would have emphasized it as enjoining a
duty on White men and White soldiers
to vote that Ticket! Does not his avow-
ed opposition to these views make it
equally as imperative that White men
and White soldiers should vote against
the Ticket that is the representative Of
these Objectionable views2