The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-02
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- For the Ashland Union -
THE sUPPORTENG OF THE Me-
BRAsKA BILL A TEST or DE.
MOCRACK.

MIR. EDITOR 81 had hoped that the
differences existing in the Democratic
party on that important and exciting
question@the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise-would not have led to q
severingof the party to any considerable
extent hut that we would, in a spirit Of
kindness and forbearance, mstually
award to each other the privilege to
think and let think, without undertaking
to read each other out of the party on
account of views honestly entertained on
that question. That the friends of the
bill would not arrogate to themselves
that they are the Democratic party p0r
excellence, while those who oppose the
measure are not occupying democratic
ground. But in this 1 have been mis-
taken. In our own county and those
adjoining, as well as in other portions OF
the State, there are unmistakable indi-
cations that the whipping m" process
is busily going on. Those Democrats
who refuse to proclaim this Nebraska
outrage a good Democratic measure, or
at least to quietly acquiesce in it, are be-
ing denounced as anti-D Democratic, as
Di~sorganizers, Fanatics, Fusionists, Free
Sellers and Abolitionists, aud as making
war upon the interests and prosperity of
the party; and we see many of t6IitmnRnid
and fearful, through fear that their
democracy will be suspected if they hold
on to, and speak out their honest cQnvic-
tions, quietly whipping in and submit
ting to this outrage. a
Some of the interested, 1couLd-be lead
ers of the Democratic party, will concede
that it was all wrong, and a great out
rage to repeal the Missouri Compromise !;
yet it is done, and we must quietly sub
NIT to it. Throw our morals, honesty
and conscience, to the "moles and the
bats )" swallow the dose, and cry out
" great is Diannai" For if we don't, we
will create disunion in the party, and
and give " aid and comfort +" to the
naughty Fusionists, who are going about
seeking whom they may devour. Now,
Mr.. Editor, let US see how much truth
there is in all this flourish of trumpets,
about the opponents of the Nebraska
bill being Disunionists, Fusionists, Free
Sellers, &C., sc. For myself, I claim
to be a Democrat. 1 always have been.
1 have never voted any other ticket.
Can some of those who are now denoun-
cling Democrats-and who have always
been such-as Fusionists and Disorgani-
zers, say as much I speak ad~visedly.
And now for the facts, at to whether
we who oppose this political wrong, are
justly liable to the charge of being Dis
organizers, and all that sort of thing.
The Ohio Democratic State Consen-
ton of 1s4s, declared in their resolutions
that they were opposed to agitating the
slavery question so far as the States in
which it already existed were concerned,
but they were opposed to the introduce
ton of slavery into any of the Terrific
ries of the United States. These reso-
lutions passed the Convention by avery
decided majority, and have been endors-
ed by every Democratic State Conyen-
ton held in our State from that to the
present time. So you see the anti-Ne-
braska Democrats are on the Platform,
according to the record of our State Con-
ventions for the last five or six years.
Now let US turn to the proceedings of
Congress.
In 1850, what are familiary known as
the Compromise measures were passed.
The passage of these measures was main
ly procured by the representatives of the
slaveholding States assuring the repre-
resentatives of the North, that the Com
promise should be forever regarded as a
final adjustment of the slavery question,
and of all the issues that could possibly
arise out of it. In 1851, the represen-
tatives from the Southern states deman-
ded a renewed pledge of fidelity to the
Adjustment, which was granted by the
House of Representatives in the passage
of a resolution, a part of which | will
"And that we depricate all fur
ether agitation of questions embraced in
g the acts of the last Congress, known
/" as the Compromise, and of questions
&c generally connected with the institu-
I" tion of slavery, as unnecessary, useless
/" and dangerous. r
A short time after the passage of the
above resolution in Congress, the Demo
cratic National Convention met at Bal
and adopted a Platform, in which
we find the following: Resolved, That
{ the Democratic party will resist all at
e tempts at renewing, in Congress or out
Of it, the agitation of the slavery ques-
ton, under whatever shape or color the
attempt may be made {"
Mr.. PIERCE accepted the nomination
Of the Convention for President which
the foregoing resolution, and
endorsed it, together with the balance
of the Platform. He again gave utter
ance to the same sentiments in his In
augural Address, in the following words:
al fervently hope that the question
q is at rest, ~(meaning the slavery ques-
g tion,9 and that no sectional, or ambi-
/. tious, or fanatical excitement, may