The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-11-27
The Southern Democratic Rebellion

called the "Southern Rebellion" the
"Great Rebellion" &c. The truth Of
history demands that the rebellion should
be called by its proper name, which is
the "Southern Democratic Rebellion" p
The Southern Democrats, aided by the
sympathies Of the Thurmans-the Val.
landighams - the Voorhees, = the Sey.
mours, and the rest Of the pro, rebel por.
ton of the Democratic party North, star.
ted and inaugurated the rebellion, which
resulted in $4,000 Union prisoners being
starved to death, the loss Of about one
million Of lives, the destruction of sever,
al hundred millions Of property and the
establishment Of our present national
debt. Not a solitary Republican ever
fred upon the flag which was fred at by
over q million Of Southern Democrats
The Rebellion was exclusively a Demo,
cratic affair. Hereafter we shall speak
of it as the great "Southern Democratic
Rebellion"
Suppose you do, Mr.. Leader! A lie
well stuck to will do as we'll as the truth
for a Radical thief and highway.man.-
For more than thirty years your party had
been stealing niggers, and trying to incite
those that remained with their masters
to insurrection, murder and incendiarism
aud because the Southern people resent
ed those insults and thefts, you assume
that it was a Democratic Rebellion u
When a Fugitive Slave law was passed,
your party repudiated and nullifed it by
passing personal liberty bills in nearly all
the Northern States, defying the United
States authorities, and making it a Grim.
inal offense to enforce a National law -
At that period, State rights was the cry
from ten thousand Radical threats, and
defiance was the watchword from every
Abolition leader! Now, there can be nc
greater Offense against common sense and
"loyalty" than to talk Of State rights and
State laws. When the South had borne
these insults and defiances as long as for.
bearance would permit, and when they
asked a redress of their grievances, OF
they would defend their liberties at all
hazards, we find your GREELEYs and
BANKS exclainlng, let the hayward sis
tiers go; let the Union slide and the
Leader followed in the wake. Thus en-.
couraged, the South did make the at
tempt to go. Then it was, that the en-.
tire Republican party denied that the war
was for freeing the slaves, or for subju.
CATION ; but asserted, by CongressionL
resolution, that the wal was to enforce
the laws ; and, also, declared that, when
the rebellious States laid down thsil
arms and submitted, they should resume
their places inthe Union, with all their
rights u~nimpaired, Every feature of thai
resolution has been shamefully and per.
fdiously violated. You converted the
war into a 'nigger war;" after deceiving
the Northern people as to its intent
You now tell the country that the South
is subjugated, and that Congress holds
the lives of her people and their proper.
ty at its mercy,-that Congress has the
right to confscato every dollar of Their
property, and take the life Of every per.
son who engaged in the rebellion, if they
choose to do so. Was there ever perfdy
more damning in the history Of man p
And yet, you have the impudence t
charge upon the Democratic party the
horrors of AndersOnville, when you know
that STANTON would not exchange pris.
oners when informed that ours we're star.
wing in q country destitute of food, caus.
ed by the raids of our own soldiers The
death of every soldier at An~dersonville
rests upon the perjured souls Of your
STANToNs and BEAST Buffers
And after six years Of the most stu.
pendous stealing and e~xtravagance tina,
ever cursed any people upon the face Of
the earth, you propose to charge the De
mOcracy with all your stealing and muir.
der! The four thousand millions of debt
that is now grinding the vitality out Of
the American people, is a Democratic
debt, is it? We hurl the lie into your
teeth We hold your thieving party re.
sponsible for the debt. The American
people are already keeping curses upon
your false and %perfdiOus party. Its very
name begins to stink in the u~ostrils Of al
decent men. The people are convinced
that you never intend to restore the I'm
ion. They know that you intend to keer
the National debt hanging over theil
heads for the next FIVE hundred years
They know that If you are continued il
power, they will be eaten up with limit
less taxation; aud they are resolved /,
send you bowling to your own plaoo.
ry ..ai--- .eso
What it Costs. '''
The report Of General GRANT, as Sec