The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-02-08
subjqgation ana Recenstfus.'


[Frsm ths Richmond Sentinel, Davis Organ.
No wilder hallucination could take pos- !
session Of the human mind than the be-
lief that We could ever again live with
The tYaokses on terms Of equality, or
come under the same, Government with
them slxcept as a conquered people, The
differences OF habit, sentiment and feel
ing, and the diyersities Of interest which
wise Legislation and conservative s,atss-
manship might have reooncilsd, base un-
der the counsel Of mad men Ct to disturb
the peace Of all the world hardened into
an enduring sntasonisp. Violent and
exclusive opinions at the North have
borne their legitimate fruits. s4
Force has been substituted for reason;
aud all the healing arts of craftsmanship,
War has torn the two people asunder
and placed between them an ocean Of
blood that will remain forever; for never
can true reconcilemept grow wherc
wounds or mortal hate have pierced so
deep. Let us not deceive ourselves in
this matter. Let no weak dreamer drug
himself with the anodyUe Of roconsiruc.
tion, nor lay TO his soul tie datteriDe
hope that life would be tolerable without
our Independence.
Mr.. Lincoln has, indeed. vouchsafed
10 tell us that the war will cease when
we lay down our arms. So war CEASED
after the battle of Hastings, but the uni
versal spoliation of property, deprivation
Of all personal privileges, and the telling
! Of eurirew bells, illustrated the object
for which the war WINS undertaken, and
/; kept lopg, in memory the bitterness of
: that peace by which it was followed, and
b so the war ceased when the followers Of
Q Monmouth laid down their arms. a,.
/, . 1t was in the peace which followed sub.
u jugation that jeffrey rode his bloody cir
r cult and left name OF infaDy which hu
n manity bushes to own, Aud so, too
IF war ceased when the Poles, after thei,
:, memorable struggle for independence, a
u last yielded the contest; but conquerei
e PEACE, thus secured, meant spoliation
e murder, torture, exile and living deatt
6 in the dreary mines Of Siberia. " -t-
'e = But worse than all this, worse tha, an.
9, thing to be found on the darkest and sad
t. dest page of human history, would be tha
,e peac0 that we should gain by abandonin
a. our struggle for independence, and bow
re ing the neck to our enemies. Then Nj
It. Lincoln, in his own elegant phrase, woul
,g summon his courts, aud through thei
IN instrumentality complete the work Of rol
n berry, spoliation, and ruin. Not only wi
es alliour property be swept from us in th
as public Golfers of the Yankees, and div
he ded ont in portions and rewards to hir'
he ling soldiery, but judicial murder will /
as the order Of the day.
nd AL the dark and malignant passions
I'M a vindictive people, drunk with blood an
in vomiting crime, will be unloosed upO
IN. US, like bloodhourds upon their prey
tie Times will return again like those spoke
III, of by Tacitus, whea he says:-"Men in
90 PEELED by personal hate aud armed vii
.e) terror carried rapine and plunder in ev
is ry direction, Virtue was source Of &C
tain ruin. The guilty acts of iuforme
ra- and their wages were alike detestab'
,al Slaves we're practised upon against the
masters and freedmen betrayed their T
irons. The ceremonies Of religion we
\ violated. The sea was crowded with Q
\ lies aud the rocks were stained with t
IN blood of murdered citizens"
fulN Ifany one should think this fancii
nst Illustration of what would be your &C
, in dition if subufated, let him rememt
ind that our enemies have already declar
in their murderous intentions in advan
BY and disgraccd their statute books by Ia
can which not only authorize but requ
ind what would result in scenes darker, 81
. n der, moro terrible and appalling, if p
, IN sible, even than those described in
m. moFrnful page of Roman history.
The They have done these things in
,,st nineteenth century Of the Christian 9
and and so from blush or shame, they gl'
- in their iriamy, aDd'impatiently long
mil the day when the premedItuted cri
,be may take the form Of rapacious 1
sion bloody fruition. Men are seldom bel
con. than they paint themselves, and if Il
and evidence such purposes, when pol
tbe would counsel moderation and sugg
, he concealment, what may we expect vi
ave there is no longer motive for reserve
nas. restraint upon rapacity aud revenge.
Iavs tween reconstruction bnd subjugat
Mia thero is no reason why we should dra
,iil distinction. IL would be a distinct
m. without difference, i'H '
IEi Lincoln has taken anxious pains to
cir. sure us Of this: the only reconstruct
five the only peace he will allow is BY s
not mission. This is subjugation. The
cir construction of Southern dreamers is
lres. conceived Of at the North, but even &C
by we submit upon terms which would
lrainr be allowed us, such reconstruction w
/, ut be only snbjngat,on in aform scar
lours respectable enough 10 be called a'ch
i1it Both Pean slavory to the North. q
I, two without honor and, . futurs viii
s OF hope. ,r'de' 3 81 ''ol f' i3tH' .
the There woald be no political diifer'
were between Il aud unqualified submits
wing How vain the eifortl how foolish,th !
land 70 reconstruct upon any terms, 1 U
umn which periahed through the bad fait
Hons those whom we would have to u
arth, again. sThe world ksovs how the
ldbs datious Or thespld lUhiou ~ete'sal
'Ssh aud destroyed blythe moral and poll
q hetssy Of fhoskigber law creed, v
ou'h divided the. solensnn obligations o. I