The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-06-14
ICorresPondence of the Ashland Union.l
FROM WASHING TON.
WAsHIraron. D. @. june 6. 1854.

EDrToR ASHLAND UNION -Yester-
terday was an exciting day in this City.
The good people here, deprived of the
ordinary incidents of suffrage, have moth
ing of that nature to fall back upon but
their municipal elections, and there are
doubly exciting,znot SO much from the
value of the Offices, as from the rareness
of elections here. The Wings elected
their candidate for Mayor, by 436 ma
jority, over MAURY, Democrat, who sue
ceeded two years ago by over 500 ma
jority. This result is not owing to Wing
votes, but has been produced by a null
titude of causes. In the first place,
MAURY belongs to the aristocraey,-a
sort of select diletanti, made up of the
principal ofice-holders, bankers and ar
my officers, and has one of the sympa-
thy of the masses. In the second place,
military SUPPLEMENTARY, directly en-
ployed by the President oyer the me-
chanics on the Public w6gEs, dfsgusted
that large and reputable body of voters,
and they voted against MAURY, who was
a favorite of the Presidents, to con-
denim the military system; and 3dly,
the Know Nothings," that growing
organization based upon Native Ameri-
can principles, went for TOWERS, the
Wing candidate. Added to this, reli-
gious tests were dragged in, and alto
gether, I do not see how any other re-
suit could be produced.
The Cuban question, is yet an open
question. The "Star," a sort of Cabi-
net scullion, it's full adjustment,
on authority, but the Union, the Or
gan, preserves a silence as to any settle
ment, and still teens with two column
articles about Spanish aggressions.-
Perhaps the Black Warrior difficulty
has been settled, but the Union says
the casats 6eHi," was long since made
out without that last act of aggression,
and that a revolution is in progress, in
Cuba, which it behooves our Govern
ment to notice. This is understood
here to mean, that our Government
must interfere to prevent the Africani-
cation of Cuba, and that in no case
must she be allowed to emancipate her
slaves. Let me state a point here. We
have just passed the Nebraska Bill. We
passed it because the President and the
Union said, a repeal of the Missouri
Compromise was necessary, to return to
the government of the Constitution
that the Government had no right to an
tertere IN the domestic regulations Of a
State o. Territory, and hence the Ms
Souri restriction qOas unconstitutional
Yet the organ of the President, in the
face of all this, which it has so1emnly
urged for months, now contends, that
our Government, not possessing any
such right of interference, has the poaoe1
of intering as to the local concerns of
a foreign government, and that it is our
right and our duty to prevent Spain
from abolishing slavery in her dominions,
if she deems it best for humanity, and
her own interests to do so.
Now, sir, 1 submit to you,. whether
that isn't cool.
But I gave you the true state Of this
Cuban question in my last, and ! say
that the settled policy of the new
southern party formed on the Nebraska
question, is to acquire Cuba-honestly
if we can, and to this I have no objections;
but if that won't do, to get it any how,
and to this last alternative, permit me to
say, 1 have serious objections.
The Sentinel of this City, which by
the way, is the Douglass organ, is out
with an appeal to the Southern Wings
to fall into line, with the Nebraska men,
and says that they must do so, as they
sympathize more nearly with the Ne
braska Democrats, than the Nebraska
Democrats do with those of their own
party who voted against the Bill. This
is virtually saying that the National
Democratic party is at an end,-that the
new Douglass party is to be made up of
Southern men, and not Northern men On
ly such as go for Nebraska and Douglass.
In fact, when closing the debate, on that
question, RICHARDSON, distinctly stated
this as the alternative. ] think there is
but one thing to be done-to place
Douglass and his test on one side, and
the honest voters of the country on the
other, and this will be done,-rest as
sured of it, for Douglass, though made
use of in this Nebraska swindle, will
find the fate of Judas, Haman, and all
the illustrious men, who have been his
peculiar types.
Congress sat but three days last week,
and nothing was done, but to get the de-
fciency bill through. Some Of the
got through with it,-among
other items, ne to pay twice for the
printing of Congress. This was done
for the benefit of the Sentinel Office
Some speeches were made on the Pacific
Rail Road Bill. Yesterday there was
no quorum. Yours,
YELLOW CREEK.
CHOLERA IN New YoRK.-One hun