The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-05-31
"0LD FANATIC"

.uelI own lOTn6I tIditOIVuS etutihiSu'0J
,y professions Of ext'eme devotion to the
country, are clamorin5 for the muder of
DAVIS.
There appeared 10 the Times Of last
week, q communication from Sullivan, in
this County, over the signature of "Old
Fanatic J" from which we make the fol-
extracts:
ave were taking some Of our pay for
the jibcs and %jeers, insults and abuses,
hat, for the last ten or fifteen years have
been heaped upon us by the Egyptians
Of Ashland County, as being enthusiastic
fanatics, lousy-headed followers of Garri-
son and Gerret Smith. * So
on Monday evening while the bell was
ringing, lnot tolline) guns were firing,
and the people shouting, the poor misera-
BILE wretch was brought to the center on
a cart ard suspended from a gallows, un'
der the inscription, JET. Davis, the
Traitor"
Who is this Old Fanatie-t this "lousy.
headed follower of Garrison and Smith,
that he should prato about hanging "trai-
tors?" Let us briefly refer to The teach.
iags Of Garrison, Phillips, Greeley, ct i'd
omne genus, and see if their garments are
not tainted with "treason"-if they are
not the original traitorJ-the cause of all
the murder and desolatiOn of tho last
four years3 We will first introduce Will.
liam Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the
Boston LiJerator, who used the following
"EatriOtic" language;
"This Union is a lie Tho American
Union is an i'm posture, q covenant with
Death and an agreement with He'll |
am for its overthrow Up with the flag
of Disuuion "
Old Fanatic endorsed the above infa
nous sentiment, and sings anthems in
the praise of its author!
Wendell Phillips, in a public speech
thus gave expression to his %"loye" fol
the Union {:
"For twenty years I have labored tc
break up the Union, and thank God it il
DONE"
John A. Bingham, an Abolition ora
tor, in a speech which he delivered il
1865, said:
"Who in the namc of God wants thu
Cotton States, or any other States thil
side Of perdition, to remain in the Union
if slavery is to continue"
The Chicago Tribune. a leading Re
publican paper, put on record its detesta
ton of the old Union, 1t says:
"The Union as it was will never bles
the vision OF any pro,slavery fanatic o
secession sympathizer, and it ncuer ou7h
TO. 1t is a thing of the rast, hated b.
euery patriot, and destined never to ours
an honest people or blot The page Of his
tory again J"
We might gil columns of such extract
from speeches Of leading men and paper
OF the party to which Old Fanatic b.
longs, to show that they have Away
J cursed the Union Of our father5--alway
been traitors to their country An
yet, with such a record staring him j
the face ; with such sentiments promu
. gated by prominent leaders Of bis part,
this blood-thirsty Fanatic Of Sulliva
, urges that Mr.. DAVIS be hanged for tire
son. Great God! An old English A
olitionist-a disciple of the horse thi,
d traitor and murderer, John Brown
: supporter Of Garrison, Thompson, al
e other noted disunionists-a man who h
a hereditary hatred to this cOuntry-w
e endorsed the Sentiment that "the Uni
was a covenant with death and a leag
with hell" now has the brnzen %effronte
@ to insist that Mr.. Davis be executed
O treason. o. consistency!
The attempt of this par excellen
n Union man to cast contempt on Mr.. /
Wis for his being captured Gift be tru
d in his wife's clothing, is too vulgar to
q ceivo any but fools. He was flying FRI
d bis enemies and was, as is every ma
{. perfectly jus,i6ablo in rcsortinG to a
disguise which he thought would ansv
70 his purpose. Mr.. Davis is not the OF
i. great mar who resortcd to disguise to
be cape capture. He is now q prisoner
war, and should not be executed on a
n. pretcnse whatever, and If President Jol
III son. and his party wish to damn t
Of country to eternal iufamy, let them m
Mt der President Davis.
ia "secessionist" deserves hansi
ID SO do the AbOlitionisis. President Jol
It's son says-and he ought to be good
10 thority-that "there is no difference
Il. treen an aboli,oaist and a secessioni,
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