The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-10-03
CIVIL war.

" inc rePuphe unquestionably hangs up.
on the resulto Of the approaching elections.
III the present radical Jacobin majority
should be maintained in Congress, aud in
the Legislatures Of three fourths Of the
twenty-six States, the Constitution. of
the United States will DO deliberately over
thrown, and a clause favoring negro suf-
frsge throughout the land, and q total
Acknowledgement Of the white popula.
tionsOf the Southern States, b inserted
at ihe pOinio Of the bayonst, II need be, by
the Stevens Sumner party In that event,
It will be claimed that the ratification of
the @ Constitutional amendment, passed By
the last Congress, to SECURE negro voting
and oltiSsOship, by three foarths sof the
tWenty.six loyal % States, all northern
except Tennessee, viii be sufficient TO
make that clause a part Of, the Constitu.
tion u Here then is the first dangerous
innovation nineteen States assume to be
! three f9urths Of the Union, and insist on
tramplipg down the rights of the balance
Of the States It is further intended if
that party should be successful TO impose
new and more exacting conditions upon
the recreant State,-to exasperate their
Populations rouse their people to re-
sisiance, that another excuse may be had
for new armies to put down pretended
Instructions, aud carry out the inhumar
threat of that Robesperian Priest, Parson
BrownlOw, to overrui the South with
small armies to do the k%illing-with pine
knots to do the burning-with surveyors
compass and chain, to resurvey the lands
thus desolated, and when this is done,
to settle them with Yankees and 10y
al niggers! The Jacobin party are reso.
lutely determined never to permit a re.
Cancellation and admission of the Southern
States into the Union again. They are
opposed to a man, to the admission Of her
Senators and Representatives, however
oyal, upon any terms, into the Halls Of
Congress. In TACT, they are DESTROYS Of
completing the separation began by JEFF.
Davis, and are to day, disuniopists, more
dangerous to the liberty of the States,
than Davis ever was in the darkest hour
Of the war. This party Of. per6dy, has
violated every pledge it ever made to in.
duce the South to lay down her arms and
return to the Union. Congress solemnly
pledgeditself thattbe war was. not madei6
any spirito Of oppression or for any purpose
OF conquest or subjugation,l or purpose Of
oVerthroyins orinterfering with the rights
or established institutions Of those States.
but to defend and maintain the suprema-
cy of the Constitution and preserve the
Union, dignity and equality ofthe States;
and When this Object was attained the
war was to cease. Every word Of the
foregoing has been corrup.ly and perfd.
eously disregarded by the present Jacobin
Congress, How long will a people jeal.
Gus Of their rights endure.these thines.from
their oppressors! When will we have a re.
stored Union under tho rule Of such cut.
Threats and political scoundrels /? How
long will the conservative and Just people
Of the North look on and permit these
o~utragesl The radical leaders openly
proclaim that the South never shall be
represented again in Congress until her
negroes vote, and her white people shall
be disfranchised II In order to carry out
this internal scheme Of disunion and an.
arcby, and to secure perpetual power to
Themselves, they propose to impeach the
President. Why2 Because he is ad.
herring strictly to the pledges made The
South as conditions precedent TO the ad.
mission Of her Senators and ReaprresentaE
tives in Congress! The President de.
clares that the South has complied with
all the conditions imposed and should be-
admitted and further, that each State has
the exclusive right to tx the status Of her
citizsns-while the Jacobin Congress bro.
PoSss y seRlise .ne Ilases Of the manage
to usurp that power andfx it in Congress.
They have assaulted and mobbsd the Pres.
Iident, denounced him asa traitor, yilIifed
MN as u orunkea perJarer, and all, be.
cause ne refuses 70 yieid to their schemes
q preaking up me Union, aud cpnsolida
ung me government under the control Of
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