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

1'0fvfJ pAAt3 tho war UobhuS h-4 tAsss
baen 50 much confusion and diversity o.
opinion. The peace rumors that have
been 50 current for the few weeks past
have been regarded by some as the iudi
cation Of the close Of the war, and that in
reality the long expected peace was about
to dawn upon US once more. BLAIR's
second mission TO Richmond was consid-
cred as indicative Of q speedy peace
Others have regarded all these missions
and commissioners as nothing more than
another freak Of this battling administra.
ton, and that the old joker was again
trying to b.iudfold the masses until the
chains couldTbe riveted firmly. BLAIR
has returned d second time from the reh.
Ell Capital and peace is not yet. The
mission has been just as successful as
LINCOLN & Co. wished it should be, for
IL evidently wus not tho design Of the ad
ministratlon that peace should be the re,
suit Of these missions TO Richmond
The impending draft was tho cause of
all these rumors, for tho President being
fearful lest the people who are tired Of
CONSUMPTION and blood shed, should re.
fuse to respond to the call of him who
has called so often, assuring them that il
should be the last, and quite sufficient
for all purposes, has only made preten-
lions toward trying to bring about q peace.
and now tells the people that the South
nrc unwilling to accept peace on reasona.
BILE and honorable terms, and that he is
compelled 10 draft ngaip that he may be
able to continue the war successfully
Then, to crafty the whim of tho old
clown and the blOOd-thirsty policy of his
abolition miniOns, must three hundred
thousand more of American citizens be
torn from their homes and friends and
compelled to go and fight in this up-
righteous crusade against the Southern
portion of our once free America. The
people may "cry peace, PEACE, but there
is no peace" 80 long as u LINCOLN aud
his minions are in power.
Notwithstanding the threatened recog.
milton by European powers, the admins.
tration are taking no steps to secure
peace before the South obtain ~ind,pend-
enee. But why expect it when it has
been their purpose from the beginning
to destroy the old Union, and if possible
to erect upon its ruins an abolition des.
potism. Their every act has been based
upon principles Of the total abolition of
slavery or the destruction Of the Union
and liberty. What then are "The signs
Of the Times!" The manner in which
the authorities have avoided peace prop
o%sitions, the plan upon which the war
has been prosecuted aud the purpose for
which it has been carried on, the con-
scriptions that have been made, the treas.
ure that has been wasted, and the rob.
berries that have been committed, all 90
to show that it is the purpose Of the par
ty in power to have the last man and The
last dollar to murder oil their fellow.
citizens, to bankrupt the country and to
destroy the last hope Of the people,
Then will the wishes of these fiends be
fully gra.idcd. Then, and not till then,
can they have the negro where they wish,
liberty and independence destroyed aud
the American Republic annihilated and
recorded with those Of tho past, which,
like her have lived, fourished and died.