The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-06-14
Il BoUNTY THIEF.

Southern Confederacy had come to grief,
in order to purge itself Of the rebel slime
with which it is begrimed, denies tho
charges we madeagainst it in the follow
ing language:
He says that we branded the soldiers
Of our army as 'hired HcssianS,' robbers,
ahievss,' etc. He has repeatedly made
this charge, but we thought, perhaps,
that he would be led by the "stiil small
voice" to cease his internal falsifying.-
In this we were mistaken. He seems to
be acting upon the belief that "a lie well
stuck to, is as good 40 the truth At
least no continues to repeat the he in al
most every issue Of his precious sheet
We now state, once and for all, that the
charge is false-fafse all over, aud chal-
lenge the dastardly editor Of the Times
to prove his assertion
awe now present the to sustain
u charges. p Times cflast ,Oee5.
Well, what is the "pteof' which the
"loyap editor down street, adduces "to
sustain his charges I" II is unnecessary
for us to review his article at length, but
would simply state that not one sentence
efhis nproct" evsr appeared in u pa
per. The article bears the lie upon the
very face Of it. The extracts which he
publishes to exculpate himself, bear date
as far back as 1861, and the latest 1868
Whether they were published in the
UNION at the times stated, it matters not
to us, for we had no connection with the
paper until October, 1854, and, therefore,
are not accountable for anything that
may have been published prior to that
time,
The truth is, JEFF. cannot prove his
charge, simply because it is false. He
has lied himself into close quarters, and
now seeks to extrica:e himself BY sndaav-
oring to condemn US by the u%tteranees Of
Others. Whit dishonesty |
We make the following extract from
his article
ut is perhaps true" says the Union,
in 1868, that we made these assertions,
but in tho Spring Of 1865, the editor Of
the Times is a liar and afalsiyer, when
he says zoe said these things"
Will JEFF. be so kind as to furn
ish us with the DATE 81 the paper in
which the above paragraph occurred p
Publish It in your neat issue without fail I;
and for this purpose, ifJou have not got
a complete file of the UNION since we
took charge of it, We tender you the uso
of ours.
l. We again defy himL4 point us to the
articles in which we applied to the sol.
diers the epithets above quoted. Until
he does this, he must stand branded, as
ice now brand him, a wILLFUL, DELIBER.
ATE, and PERJURED LIAR.
So far from heaping ~opprobriOus cpl
thets upon the soldiers in the field, wo
have always had the greatest respect for
them. Although the purpose Of the war
was changed from what was avowed at
first, and only prolonged for the last two
or three years to free the negroes, we
were far from blaming the soldiers for
any completely in the matter.
They went into the army in good faith,
believing the avowals 0f the President
and Congress, that it vqs the sole object
to restore the Union, aud ropossess the
forts and other property of the United
States, and that when tlia was done the
war should cease. The Secretary Of Wal
in his recent hasty condemnation of Gen
Sherman, Inadvertently let the cat ouI
the bag, when he said that Sherman, il
his negotiation with johnson, offered thu
rebels better terms than they ever asked
Sherman's proposition granted the rebell
privilege 10 resume their places in ttt
Union upon laying down their arms and
yielding ODE diencs to The laws and Con
stitutiOn of the United States. If thu
rebels, then, were willing to lay down
their arms, even upOt less favorable
terms than those granted them by Sher.
man, as has been asserted by Stanton, it
is evident that tho war been prelong,
cd and thousands, yea, hapdreds Of thous.
ands Of innocent soldiers slaughtered 10,
a different purpose than he restoration 0,
he Union The soldiers wero fighting
in good faith for their country. They
were Ignorant of the fact revealed from
such a high source, that the Union coult
have been restored years ago, and they
[the soldiers] permitted 70 return to thei
families and friends, instead Of having I,
suffer and die in battles and prisons, 70
the sake Of the negroes who are to be al
lowed to compete with them in bushes
in the North, being fed, clothed and edu
Gated at the expense Of white labor AM
capital, Of which the poor soldier vii
have to furnish more than q due proper