The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-07-18
THE ISSUES OF THE CAM


form OF Government III the so-cailed ne.
publican Abolition isunion Party should
be successful 10 the approaching canvass,
we do no. hesitate to declare, that IT may
be the ultimate msars Of overthrowiug
our present form Of government, aud Of
sweeping to the winds every vestige Of
our Constitution and erecting thereon a,
centralized despctism, as exacting and
grinding 10 Tvs demauds upon the uiinori.
ty, as that Of Austria or Autocratic Rus.
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We arc lead to these reflections from
the tone Of the Radical Republican press
on the question Of what they are pleased
to call Re- construction, but which we be-
lieve to be . deliberate attempt to sweep
away the political rights Of one halt the
original Union, with a view to the en-!
Establishment Of four millions Of ignor-
ant, besotted and brutal Africans. This.
determination Is. manifest in every step
taken by the leaders Of that party Their
presses. abound in unconcealed hostility
to the Union Of u fathers, and clamorl
for its overthrow. aasi sel ;sr, s. jlt
With these facts staring that party ia
the face, it has the supreme impudence
to call itself the Union party II is,
indeed a s,upendous "Upion partyp-
During the present session Of Congress its
leaders have introduced about one hun,
dred and seventy five amendments to the
Constitution and If tbeS could succeed
in their fellipdrposes to modify change
and annul that great chart Of American
Liberty, our Government would be in the
hands Of as graceless . set Of 4seoundrels
as ever followed at the heels off ROBES.
PIERRE, or met in secret conclave with a
CATALINE, TO e~nslave q free people and
traprle upon the rights of minoritiss and
States. a5Bnw tisr a 1s 6l. 's'I
The Cincinnati Gazette, of'a recent
date, opens up the programme of that
party for the pre- sent campaign, aod makes
such Developments, it seems to us, as
should openlthe eyes and alarm the fears
Of every citizen Of Ohio, who Is DESTROYS
Of perpetuatiug the Constitution bequeath
ed US by our fathers. II remarks that
"Messrs. DooLrrrLE, DIXON & Co., assert
that the Union party are keeping eleven
States out Of the Union! This is so utterly false
that no party or section Of q party propose to
keep them out one day beyond the time when
they shall agree to come in on equal terms with
all other States .
DooLITTLE, DIXON, CowAN & Co !,
are members Of the Republican Party, and
If any body is capable Of Judging and
knowing the intent and workings Of that
party, these gentlemen certainly are
They know that all the leaders Of that
party declared during the war tina. no
State could Secede from the Union. These
gentlemen maintain their consistency, by
still declaring that the Southern States
are 10 the Uniou, and that the summer
sault Of SUMNER, STEVENS, and the 9th
err CATALINEs, R%oBEspIERREs and Ma
RATS Of that party is the result Of malice;
aud e%vipces a purpose to sap the safe
guards Of the Constitution and trample in
the dust Tho liberties Of more than ten
millions of people. r as.ls
The Gazette deliberately falsides when
it declares that its party only intends TO
keep these States out till they shall sgree
to com in on equal terms with nil the
other States. Negro suffrage and negro
equality are not maintained in the States
Of the North. The Gazette and It's, fol-
lowers intend to keep tho South out OF
the Union till her people shall be forced
to enfranchise the negroes and %entrusi
them with power to rule over her. Blink
it as they may, this is the detsru in.
alton Of the Republicans party. IF not.
Why detain the South from admission
Her people are no more in rebellion than
0hlo or Pennsylvania. 5A .T.i,aiaps
again, they say ths Union party are tryins
70 Introduce negro suffrage; Where Is the prop
osition 70 do that Read the amendmentio the
Constitution proposed, and you see there is
nothing whatever about negro suffrage. On
the contrary, the whole question ID left TO the
II States, where II belongs; and II negro outrage
u ever adopted In the South, II will be by the
1votes Of the Southern people. Nobody cau
force them, and nobody proposes 10 try Yale
Yves there ever a balder and more reck
; less falsehood uttered by any journalist
Fpretending to truthfulnsssi Why, the
very amendment alluded 70, proposes ID
, disffsbchiss the South unls.s she will en-.
franchise her four millions Of negroes =!
. II she win cot do this, she loses over two
and . half millions Of votes and thereby
! twenty representatives. In Congress ar,
ousted from their seats I! In ali Ii,