The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-03-28
CONSOLIDATION.

The Republican Party is based upon
the idea that one section of the country
shall govern the other, and that minori.
ties have no rights that the majority
shall respect in other words, in the Ian.
guage Of JOHN SHERMAN, ~ look upon
the common declaration either of q Pres
ident or member Of Congress that he is
the representative Of the whole people,
and not under any obligation to the men
who elected him, as false in honor, and
false in principle" So that, the highest
ambition Of the Abolition Party is to per.
petuate its usurped %ascendency, by not
only trampling down the rights Of the
minority in the North, but by using its
power to prevent any restoration of the
Union, If that restoration should endan-
ger the life Of a Party that has already
rendered itself odious by its usurpatiens.
A theory in such manifest and direct an
tagonism to the peace and integrity of
the Union as that avowed by tho leaders
OF the Republican Abolition party at this
day, discloses rather than conceals, q prac-
teal development most mischievous and
psrnieious. The basis Of the Republican
Abolition Party is its ez elusive sectional.
ism, and nothing can more surely defeat
tho re-urion Of the States and render for.
ever impossible the restoration Of peace
and harmony. The very thing upon
which that Party relies for its success
will most undoubtedly render abortive
every effort to bring the South back into
the C~O9federacy. The South must come
back with all the rights conceded to the
other States in the Union, " the days Of
the great American Republic are forever
numbered. The leaders Of the Republi.
Can Party claim that the South is con,
quered territory, and must be governed
BY Congress and the minions sent out to
tax and eat up the substance Of the South.
ern people. They insist that the South
must be Inundated that all her leading
men u be either executed, disfranch.
ised, or expatriated ; and that her ne:
groes are her only loyal people, aud that
they must vote and make her laws Had
these hounds of perdition lived in the
days of GEORGE III they would have aid
ed him with equal zeal in hanging our
Revolutionary fathers The whole ten.
dency Of the doctrines and acts of the SO
called Republican Party is to consolidate
the General Government, and place with
in the hands of its chief magistrate pow.
ers only equalled by the Au,ocrat of ali
the Russias. The reserved rights Of the
States, the limitations Of the Constitution,
the liberty of speech, the habeas corpus,
and the like, are spurned and spit upon
as II they belonged to an age Of old 70
gies. The Republican Party is a dis-un-
ion party: If it can not accomplish its
schemes Of centralism, it is bound never
to allow the South to come back into the
Union upon terms such as apply to the
Northern States. We believe this to be
true /; and we believe the leaders Of Re-
publisanism know it to be true ; and we
have serious cause to apprebend that
there are at this day, in both Houses of
Congress, a number Of men who are not
only willing that tho Union should re.
main dissolved, but who are doing all
they can to render its restoration forever
impossible. Among the number who are
aiming to subvert the Constitution, and
create an AutOcratic Despotism, to be
welded and controlled in all time to come
by the so.called Republican Party, are
Charles Sumner, Thad. Stevens, John
Sherman, Ben. Wade, Salmon P. Chase,
Horace Greeley and Henry Wilson, with
a host Of others, with less talent, but
more vehement in their desire to have a
new order Of things. If Jefferson Davis
and his associates are traitors for oppos.
ing the Constitution and Government of
their fathers, then most assuredly all the
leaders Of the Republican Party are trail
tors Of the blacklist character. More
than seventy amendments have been in.
troduced during the present session Of
Congress BY these intriguing creatures to
overthrow and patch and render null
the Constitution Of the United States !
There is nothing too sacred to be over.
thrown and trampled under foot by these
revolutionists !. For more than thirty
years the leading agitators of the present,
under the p~retenso Of q hatred to South.
ern slavery, continued an incs.sant, sys-
temaaic, indispensable sectional plotting
against the South, in territory and out of
territory, in the hope Of compelling her
to commit some overt aot Of rssistsnss
that the disunionists Of New England