The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-06-07
GcoMMuNICArED.]
TO WILLIAM OSBORN, Esq.

An article appears from you in the last
Ashland Times over a signature which
properly belongs to an honest young sol.
der, lately returned from an arduOus and
distant service, to his old aud comfOrta'
Bile home in Miflin township, Ashland
County. 10 your article you are pleased
to make a very unculled- for attack upon
a private citizen, not an Office holder, nor,
in these %distemrered times, q seeker of
official favor, and who is not conscious Of
having given just cause for this remarka.
bic exhibition Of p%artizan raucor. About
all that the object Of your assault asks,
is, to be "permitted," in his now declin.
ing years, to breathe the same pure air
Of heaven, and to enjoy the same beauti-
full sky, which is v~ouchsafed to all Gods
creatures in the riches of his kind Provi.
dence. VIII your p%artizan animosities,
generated in other days, and when other
issues prevailed, never DO satiated this
side Of the grave, without the application
Of all the refined tortures Of the Spanish
Inquisition to every ooe who ever differ.
ed from youth opinion! Do you expect
to carry this unforgiviug, acrimonious
spirit before that great and final Judge,
in whose presence you and him whom
you seek to make the victim of your ven.
geance, must soon arpeari Did i, ever
occur 10 you that the exhibition of a diff.
fereut temper on your part would have
no detrimental influence upon the excel.
lent institution Of which you are the Su.
p%eriniendenti
The head and front Of the whole Of
fence appears to have been that one
among Others Of our Democratic citizens
exhibited what heTegarded as some little
kindness and sympathy due a young sol.
der. who had suffered a tedious impris.
Onment, and the effects of a long and un.
pleasant journey, and who had, upon bis
arrival in Ashland, nearly reached his
old home.
Mr.. OSBORN charges upon the neigh.
Dor he so unwarrantably drags before the
public, that he has expressed unkind
sentiments towards the soldiers. The as.
sailed and defensive party would simply
reply to this, that, although he pleads
guilty to the high crime Of being a peace
man, and Of lever having been connect.
ed with the bounty business, except as a
paying member Of that organization, yet
that he never, by publication, by speech
or by thought, cast any term of reproacb
or harsh reflection upon any soldier in
the Federal army. Upon this point he
fearlessly challenges those loyal patriots
who remained at home during the late
civil war, as we'll as the whole word Of
mankind, to make issue. And as to the
fblOOdy hand and hospi,able grave" bust.
ness, is not the memory Of Mr.. 0. some.
what at fault as to its origin? Did not
that sentiment originate with one Of the
gentlemaD's own partizan leaders, (Hon
THOMAS CoRwIN,) and was it not utter.
ed on the floor Of the Senate of the Uni.
ted States, and we're not the "bloody in.
Struciions" given to a foreign enemy, at
war with this country, to welcome AmeH
icdn soldiers, engaged in q struggle to
vindicafe the national honor, with bloody
hands to hcspitable graves"
But why should Mr.. OSBORN select,
from fifteen or twenty persons, 10 whose
presence this young soldier made the dec.
laraiiOns he did, the particular name
which he delights to bruit before the pub.
lie?
Democrats must, it appear,, understand,
that any civility offered by them to a sol.
der is s%acruligious, and will meet the
direst %maledictions Of the charitable gen.
tleman whose production has thus been
briefly noticed.
"THE DISOWNED."