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


(the Government will not have accom-.
plished the great design Of its creation,
and will, therefore, in fact, be practical
dissolution, and all the States, as parties,
be released from the compact which form.
ed the Union" aaitri es
In commenting on the foregoing "ba.
sis" l said it proved that you did then
"deply sympathi=e with our sister South.
ern States !" that you. particularly alluded
to South Carolina, who's reasonable rep
rescntatives were then assembled, and
who, one day after, inauguratcd the re-
bellion; that you did then and there
freely admit y good cause for dis
satisfaction and complaint because of
the election Of your illustrious predeces.
sor and the Hon. Hannibal Hamlin,
whom the Rev. Mr.. Brownlow represent
ed as free negro. l said, also, that you
were then only conditional Unionist
that you declared yourself ''not for sece-
ding or breaking up the Union of these
States UNTIL every fair and honorable
means had been exhausted in trying to
obtain on the part of the non.slavehold.
ing States compliance with the spirit
and letter of the Constitution and all its
guarantees. And further stated, that
you, at the same time, had assured your
rebel friends, with whom you did so
'deeply sympathize," that "whcn tais
shall have been done, and the States now
in OPEN REBELLION" (meaning Vermont
and Massachusetts, against the laws of
the United States 3 4 = shall per-
sist in their present unconstitutional
course, it y = * Qho Governmcnt)
will not have accomplished the great de-
sign Of its creation, and will, therefore,
in fact, be practical dissolution of the
Union" l repeat, told the people that
this speech, 30 made as aforesaid by you
assisted by Senaror Latham, who de.
signed by you to fOment rebellion among
your constituents. selected certain pas
sagcs from that speech to prove the above
general statement. | referred TO that
part in which you said "there is no pow
or conferred upon the Congress of the
United States, by the Constitution, to co.
cree State" pointed to your ode.
mand" for additional securities" for
slavery to your statement that Vermont
was, at that time, guilty of Qualification"
of resistance to the laws Of the United
States" which you pronounced aopcu re.
bcllion." l commented upon your state,
ment that the conduct Of Vermont had
been such tina! "the Government was at
an end" Nor did l omit to tell the pco.
pie that you then and there (18th and
10Th of December, 1867 had submitted
an opinion in regard to yocr general
"complaint." l do not, like Beecher,
pronounce you drunk, nor did l, like
Wilkes. say you had been poisoned. l
permitted you to speak for yourself by
reading the following from your speech:
ave have complained that their intcn-
tion is to hem slavery in, so that, Ike the
scorpion when surrounded by fire, if it
did not die from the intense heat of the
scorching flames, it would perish from its
own poisonous sting"
You further. promised your rebel
friends what Tennessee should do, If new
guarantees for slavery were refused. You
said, "Tennessee will be found standing
as firm and unyielding in her demands
for those guarantees 4 = as any
other States in the Confederacy." I as
serted, also. that you had declared the
election OF Lincoln and Hamlin "scction
all" that you avowed your purpose to
"put down Mr.. Lincoln and drive
back his advances upon Southern institu
tions,' that you promised not to abandon
your "Northern Democratic friends aud
leave all to Lincoln's cohorts,' that you
solemnly pledged yourself not to "permit
NJ. Lincoln to, come with his cohorts, as
lce consider them, from Tie North, to car.
~ off eoe'ythmg" All the foregoing,
and much more, l charged upon you,
and proved by you speech Of the 18th
and 10Th of December, 1860
Continuing my address, 1 said that if
you were credible wine s-J beg you to
believe | SO regard you-I could prove
that every political supporter and admir-
or Of your Excellcncy, and every follower
Of the sanity Brownlow then and there
present, was lisunioa,st. In doing this,
| read from a speech made by you, at
Columbia, Tennessee, on1he I'd Of June,
1862. 1t was revised by yourself, and
published in your own organ, The Nash,
Uil2e Cnion, OF june 0, 1862, then edited
by your old friend Mercer, who is best
known as "QuininO Mercer" because Of
his sympathy with tho rebel sick, to
whom, tits alleged, he kindly smugglCd
that invaluable medicine while he sojourn.
ed within the Federal lines.
l read the following:
"Now, l will prove, very briefly, that q
scccssionist is as great an Abolitionist as
Sumner. Both the secessionist and dis.
unionist are for breaking up this Union
| will state the argument in syllogism
thus: An AbolitiOnist is a disunionist; .
disunionist is secessiouist; secessionist
is disunionist; disunionist is an Abo.
litionist. Therefore, a seccssionist is an
Abolitiouist. There is not particle Of
difference between them"
repeat, read the foregoing, after
which / was so irreyercnt as to say, in
regard to your syllogism, that could find
the silly but not the gism; but you were
distinct and positive in the allegation thai
"dn Abolitiohist is a disantonist" All
this, and much more, did Isay, may il
please your Excellcncy, for tho many pi.
Gus purposes hereinafter enumerated
! chiefly, however, with the design Of quiet