The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-02-13
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The Cincinnati Gazette, a bitter parti-
'an abolition journal gives uttcrance to its I
wrath against the President aud Mr.. Sew. I
ARD forthe rem ,valOfMr. MOTLEY, Minis I
Ter at Vienna, IN consequence of disrespcct I
full language used by him towards the J
Presidentcf the United Stotes, as follows: !
"Mr. Seward has invented q method Of {
rid Of the incumbents of our for /,
eign legations, to make room for John.
son men. 1t is to institute a system of
of caves. choppers, spies and ly.
ing detectives, and thereby make the Ad-
.inistration SO mean that no man of self
respect can hold position under it. 1t is
like the trick Of the dirty fellow who
his hand into the dish in order to
it all by disgusting the rest.
He has tried the system on Mr.. Motley,
the Minister of Vienna, and he has main
tanned his self respect by resignipg an
Office subject to such personal meanness.
alike master, like man" is an old adage.
Mr.. Seward adapts himself as readily to
the manners Of his master as If he had
never associated with gentlemen, One Of
his eavesdropping charges against Mr..
Motley was that he said that Mr.. Seward
is "hopelessly degraded" Mr.. Motley
pronounces the report a "wild calumny,"
but in the operation Mr.. Seward has es.
tablishcd the fact, for no President or Sec.
rotary of State could enter into SO mean a
business who were not hopelessly de.
graded"
When the man with the mi lille bell'
was beheading Democrats, it vas all right,
but to touch an Abolition slanderer is all
wrong!
When Mr.. LINCOLN entered upon his
Administration, the foreign appointments
the departments, and all other positions
were filed by his political friends.
At first when the times porten1ed war;
it was asserted that all those Democrats
who were willing to subscribe to an extra
oath Of fcalty to the government, (mean.
ing the Administration of LINCOLN
should be retained. But, as soon as the
army was filed with recruits, and 1t be-
came safe for him to unmask his purpo
ses, that miserable political mountebaDk
JNo. +. POTTER, Of Wisconsin, moved
the appointment Of a committee in the
House to enquire into the loyalty Of al
officers holding positions under the gov
eminent. He was appointed chairman
and under the espionage of that commit.
tee, every Democrat was expelled from
office or compelled to resign ; and none
were allowed a place, except such as were
in favor of all the revolutionary schemes
of the government. Every department
hotel, boarding house. saloon aud stree
throughout the City literally swarmed
with hired spies and perjured detectives
to hound down every person that differed
in opinion with the spies Of the tyrant Of
the White house; and if a word or sylla
Bile escaped, that squinted in the direction
OF what was construed to DO disloyalty
against the administrative policy of LIN
COLIN, of went the head of tho info rtu.
nate, or he found a Judgment in prison
This system of corrupt and wicked sur.
v%eillancc was not confined alone 10 the
Federal Capital ii extended throughout
the land, and reached almost every house
where men had the honesty and courage
to demonstrate against the monstrositie,
Of LINcoLN's administration. Editors
public speakers, women, and persons in
every position of life, were seized by the
remorsclcss minions Of official power, and
dragged from their homes, and thrust in.
to prison, without charge or specification
and all this, the Gazeaa, and other abo
lition journals, justified and hcralded tc
the world, as the very essence of patri OF
ism Now, when it and its politica
friends have fallen into the gin set by it
own party, to en'nare democrats, it raises
a piteous howl, and calls down deeJ
damnation upon the bead Of the mai
it helped to put iu power, to carry gu
the Infamous DEGREES Of its junta il
) Washington City. 1t helped to feed ant
pamper a political hyena, in the hope o
seeing democrats %mangled beneath its fe
> %rocious tceth, but alas it has turned up
on its keepers, and is devouring them will
, savage greed Thank God-the lon
deferred penalty is coming. Thes
wretchcs will yet expiate every crime
and hear ringing in their terrified ears
: the groans and cries they have cause
b throughout the land. AL the huma
e carcasses and blood upon which thes
fendS have fed and Toasted will yet rs
D before their astonished vision to plagu
and torment them in all time. We advil
thu Eozeife In or;n and heor II cor bor