The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-09-11

Auu' uuuu DuuSAoIpy ntAdyoSVliloi
Messrs. EDIToRs IL WISH to notice a
couple of points in the speech which Mr..
DoUaHERTY delivered on the evening Of
the Bird inst. at Hayesville,- not points Of
argument, but points Of ignorance or dis
honesty, and I care not which horn Of the
dilemma the gentleman takes. [,
He held up the "cris,s" SO that the
large letters in the title heading could be
seer, and said "you see that, that is the
CRISIS" COR at least it has the car marks
Of the Crisis" He said he would have
Mr.. NELSON read an article from that pa.
per- have MI. NELSON read because bis
own throat was sore -(it's no wonder that
his throat is sore, for a man who had act.
ed with the Democratic party as long as
he had, and while still protesting to be o
Democrat, swallow the Abolition platform
including negro suffrage, could expect
nothing less,) Mr.. NELSON commenced
when Mr.. DeUGHERTYtol him to, and
quit when Mr., DoUoHERTY gave him q
pluck and told him shat ~iW do.n The
extract read was part Of an extract taken
from the New York Times, q prominent
Republican paper, by the editor Of the
Crais, for the purpose Of commenting Oh
it. But the gentleman palmed it off as
a Domocratic article, not even intimating
that it was an extract from any other pa.
per until near the close of his comments,
WHICH we're lengthy, then intimated that it
was taken from the New York Clipper
which he said was a Democratic paper
The article from the New York Times
makes a little over a column in the Crisis,
but the following is the portion read -
"How shall this primal mistake Of the
rebels be repaired? We shall soon see
that question in q practical shape. The
struggle for an Independent -Confederacy
with resources almost exhausted, aud
external aid quite impossible is near an
end. At longest, a few brief months
must bring it TO a close. Will the rebel
leaders despair because Of the first blum.
der, and quietly succumb We do not
believe it. They are men, if we under.
stand them at all, who can as easily give
up life itself as their trust for power
Come what may, they will have power, if
possible; and if not by one way, then by
another. They have tried the way Of in.
d~ependently fighting out Of the Union. II
will fail. We shall, in due time, see
them fall back upon the the other way,
Of forcing their will within the Union,
The controllers Of the Chicago Oonven,
tion did their work with express refer.
enco to that. The Cessation OF hostili.
ties" and the eliminate Convention
clauses Of the platform, 10 Connection
with the most unmcssured abuse Of the
present Administration, and an absolute
abstinence from tho slightest rcpeaoh Of
the rebellion, amounted TO nothing more
or less than a direct solicitation to the
rebel leaders to strike hands with the
Copperhead leaders, and with them 70.
construct the Union and ropossess the
government.
Is 1t asked upon what basis this is to
be done2 The basis are. ready. 1t is the
Montgomery Constitution. The province
of the "ultimste Convention" would be
simply to accept and ratify that Constitu,
ton, as a substitute for the old Federal
Constitution. Is it said that the scheme
is visionary Let us look a moment.
The Montgomery Constitution is, Of
conrse, acceptable to the southern rebels.
Il was adopted in their Constitution o
imously, and satisfied all their purposes.
Its extension over the entire country, we
have a right to suppose, would, in default
OF entire independence, reconcile them to
. reunion with the North. Now what is
there in the Montgomery Constitution
that should render II unacceptable TO the
Copperheadsi Absolutely nothing. That
Constitution differs from the Federal Con.
stitutiOn only in a very few particulars Of
any importance"
Not . single word was said or read IN
reference to tho comments Of tho Cyiris
on the article read, notwithstanding the
great pains taken by the gentlemen to
-.
show the Gear marks.p
The other point Of dishonesty or il.
norance, that ! wish 10 refer to, is, that
he said that "every State in the rebel.
lion was a Democratic State" "Every
State in the rebellion gave It's electoral
vote for JAMES X. Polk, 10 lS44p Ey.
cry State 10 the rebellion cast It's e~lsctor.
al vote for Gen. CAss, in 1848, md oy.
cry State in the rebellion went Democrat
10 in 1860, not even one State voting for
BELL and EVERETT" The facts IA tho
case are that, Of the States engaged In
the rebellion, North Caroline and Ten.
nessee cast their electoral vote for HrNRY
CLAY in 1874; Florida, Georgia, Louis.
lana, North Carolina, Tennessee and Wiz.
ginia east their electoral vote for BELL
and EVERETT in 1860. So You will see
that the gentleman either lied wilfully or
was grossly ignorant on the subject as TO-
how the votes Of the States in the rebel !
imam oask a. N. 49,. Mt 7