The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-09-27
WAY sH0ULDANr DEmocaATs A-
CRITICIZE Hi PARITY

POnNSAO0 W OfOiJ OOAH
ocrat, ere he deserts his party and vote
the Fusion ticket at the October cleo
ton. Is the success of the Fusion par
ty to be the paDaeea for all the ills o
the country? Has the Wing party sud
denly got to be all right. and the Demo
cratic party all wrong? Times without
number, in by-gone days, have the Wing
declared that theirs was the only party
that could save the country, and yet We
need only point to tie present proud
and prosperous condition of the country
to ~repudiate their e~xtravagant preten.
sions. The history of the country ID
proof positive hat the Democratic par.
ty is equal to any and every emergency.
The principles of our party are such as
must be applicable SO long as this gov
eminent shall exist. The principles pro.
mulgated by JEFFERSON and JACKSON
were not of a day. They will be just as
applicable and meet the necessities OF
the government just as well fifty years
hence, as they are now Or have been in
the past. A tariff for revenue purposes
must continue to be the true policy of
the government, SO long as we have a
commerce to protect or a people to sup
ply with the necessaries of life. Inter
nal improvements for national objects
and not for the benefit of particular To-
c~alities, will meet the necessities of the
country even if il should expand to twice
its present size. "The greatest good to
the greatest number }" must remain a
trueism in government for all time. If
these things are true-and what Demo
crat will gainsay them-why should any
Democrat now sacrifice his allegiance to
his party? Why should he now take as
the men of his counsel, and choose for his
rulers, men whom he has all his life long
d~istrusted ? There is and can be no rea-
son given
The present position of the Wing par
ty is not a new one. As we have said
before, this is not the first time they
have put themselves forward as the only
party that could save the country. Now,
heretofore, Democrats are urged to
sacrifice their party and assist in elect
ing Wings to Office, as the only thing
that will ave the country from plunging
headlong to ruin. In times past the De-
mocracy have rejected these political
soothsayers, and the wisdom of their
course may now be seen in the present
prosperous condition of the country,
which is mainly to be attributed to the
success of Democratic men and measures.
The Wing party now presents itself as
the party of freedom, par excellence, and
yet the past history of that party shows
it to have been the most ultra pro-slaye-
~ party hat ever held the reins of gov
eminent in this country After the
passage of the Nebraska bill, Northern
Wings, under the lead of HORACE GREE
LEY, proclaimed the restoration of the
Missouri Compromise to be the great
and only question before the American
people. Democrats were every where
called upon to leave their party and put
Wings into Office, Is the only means of
accomplishing that end. How well this
game succeeded, the returns of the re-
lent elections show. And 10y mark the
No sooner was the result of
these elections known, than they were
every where claimed as WING victories
instead of victories for Freedom. And
we find this same GREELEY, after his
game of duplicity and deception has uc-
ceeded and the elections over, proclaim
ing, in his last weeks paper, that the
q Missouri Compromise Is the most ir-
recoverable Of all things lost to earth :"
This declaration of GREELEY's must take
some of his former admirers all aback.
We are not surprised at it, however.
When we hear a man who has grown gray
in political warfare, talking about sacri-
icing all his former principles for n
idea, we set it down as morally certain
that he is playing the part of a knave
This game of duplicity has not yet
ceased. It viii be kept up here in Ohio
till the October election. They know
that the Missouri restriction cannot be
restored, as there is an overwhelming
majority in the Senate against it, and
before that majority can be reversed-if
it could ever be reyersed-Kansas will
be knocking at the doors of the Union
for admission as a State. They know,
too, that there are at least 10000 Abo-
~litionists in Kansas which will be GER
tain to secure the territory to freedom.
They know that there is no more danger
of slavery being introduced into Nebras-
ka, than there is of its being introduced
into Ohio. They know that the chances
for freedom in all the territories of the
United States, are at least six to one.
They know all these things, and yet they
call upon Democrats to sacrifice their
principles and their party, and help put
Wings into Office, to " the country
from slavery They call upon Demo
Gratis to sacrifice every principle which
they have formerly held sacred, and en-
gage in a wal of aggression upon the
South-a war of brothers against broth