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The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-09-27
TO QUIZ

Last week we alluded to the extraor.
binary means made use of to defeat US,
as a candidate for Clerk. Certain per-
sons protesting to be Democrats-but
whose antecedents strongly belle their
present professions, have visited all parts
of the County, and retailed all manner
of scurrilous things about us, TO poison
the minds of voters and accomplish our
defeat. As to these reports, We will not
even deny them. All We ask of Demo
Gratis is to trace these reports to their
author, and if they do not find them to
emanate from a bitter and interruptions
personal enemy of ours-a renegade from
the Wing party, and unworthy of the
confidence Of intelligent voters, We viii
acknowledge the truthfulness of the re-
ports. Ofd-line Democrats, we appeal
20 you, and would ask how often have
you known reports, put in circulation
against aeandidate just on the eEeof an
election, afterwards turn out to be true?
Have they not, in nine cases out of ten,
proved to be false? Did we not feel
that our moral and official conduct since
we have filled the Office Of Clerk has been
such as every honest voter will approve
of, we would not now ask to be re-elect-
ed. We regret the necessity which COM
pels US to speak again in our own behalf,
but justice to o%urself, to our family and
our friends, seemed to demand of us a
passing notice, at least, of our defamers.
When a mans private character is ira
dueed and his official course belied, it il
not human nature to suffer the r~evileri
to go unrebuked. We hope we shall moi
be under the necessity of again intrudine
upon the attention of our readers.
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WATSON & STUBBs.-Perhaps there is
no season of the year more pleasan4 than
Autumn. The wind whistles-the rains
pour down-the days are shorter aud the
nights longer and cooler-the leaves of
the trees turn yellow and the flowers
wither-and the finale of the whole is
MUD-mmd in the highways, mud in the
byways, mud everywhere. AT this juno
ture, there is always great demand for
Boots and Shoes, and we have observed
that the people always flock to WAssoN
& STUBBs' to get them. We dropped
into their establishment the other day,
and found it filed from cellar to garnet.
Another item worth mentioning is, that
Boots and Shoes are cheaper this year,
especially the SrUBBs-toed kind. We
understand they have quit charging for
showing their goods. Read their adver-
tisement in another column, and don't
fail to call in.
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H1r SMITH ON CUBA.


It is well known to every person of
either political party, that Gerrit Smith,
of New York, is one of the teaching abb
olitionists in the United States. The
following is from his pen, concerning his
views of Cuba.
"Again, as an Abolitionist, I desire
the annexation of Cuba to our country,
because that would end the connection
of Cuba with the African slave trade, and
would also go so far to end that trade
everywhere. / do not forget the charge
that the American shareholders are in
favor of re-opening that trade with this
country. But 1 know that the charge
is n-onsensical. Not only does their in
terest forbid it, but 1 do them nc more
than justice when I say that their ciyili-
zation forbids it. They have o%utgrown
the barbarism of the African slave trade.
May they speedily outgrow other bar
barisms which fall but little short oft"
This man certainly must be regarded
by the Fusionists as a doughsface, and
been brought up by the administration.
Read him out? This is too much for
Fusion, we fear. The attention of our
citizens is especially called to this
item.
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THE TIMES MANUFACTURING
SYMPATHY Fob BLISS.

The Editor of the Times seems in
much trouble about the proclivities of
PH1LEMoN Bliss towards Catholicism.
No person in the Democratic party seeks
"to injure the political character of Mr..
Bliss his character, politically, n
not be injured at this time. It has re-
ceived too many plastic touches from all
the isms of the day, to leave much yet
undone. His political character is COM
plete, if being n thing one day and an
other at another time, makes such a po-
litical character. In reference to Mr..
BL1ss' Catholicism, it is a question that
none but the friends of MI. Bliss ever
thought of, and would not have been
raised now if it was not necessary to Gre
ate a little sympathy. No Democrat
cares whether Mr.. Bliss is a Protestant
or a Jew. We claim to belong to a par
ty which proscribes no man for difference
of opinion on religious subjects. The
American people, as a general thing, do
not care any thing about the religion
of any candidate, 50 that he is a moral
man. Some other game must be resort
ed to, if it is sympathy they are endeay-
oring to create for PHILEMON. It is a
small game for any party to start up
buncombe for political effect, and then
"deny the fact" What miserable tao
ties, to be compelled to resort to this
species of warfare.
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Look out for Breakers-A Wild Cat
Bank.

The Detroit Free Press thus warns
the people, under the head of I" Another
Wild Cat Unearthed," against o new f.
naneial institution recently started in
Michigan :
The Ann Arbor Argus states that
the "Bank of Washtenaw has OPEN
ed an Office and commenced business in
that city. In the FIRST place, We warn
the people of this State and of all other
States against the emissions of this
u bank" for there is no doubt that it is
an illegal concern. In the next place,
we take it for granted that the Attorney
General will proceed to abate the nu-
isance, and we suggest that it will be
well TO put the Erie and Kalamazoo
Bank in the same mill, and grind both
I" banks " out together.
We have no knowledge as to who are
the owners of this " Bank of Washten-
avn They are said to be non-residents
and it is also said that the bills are in
tended for a certain market. Whether
these things be SO or not, the people of
Michigan want no such Instructions
This same bank once swindled the pub
lie out of thousands of dollars, and tits a
pretty impudent thing for it to ask for
generous confidence now.
Let the people show their displeasure
at the unearthing of the concern, by re-
fusing to take its notes, and let the At
torney General show his d~ispleasure by
promptly proceeding ~againstsit.
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cholera at pittsburgh.

The Gazette of this morning says:
This fearful disease, it pains us to
state, still continues to ravage our city
The. deaths on Thursday were very nu-
merous, and there was but little, If any
abatement in the mortality yesterday.
The feeling of eheerfulness, of which
we spoke on Thursday morning, WAS
again changed to that of sadness, upon
the announcement In the evening that
there had been some seventy deaths from
cholera during the day. so
The deaths on Thursday were SO, and
on Friday yesterday were SO. SO
The Journal of this morning says
Our comfortable anticipations, based
upon the appearance of things on Wednes-
day night, were not realized. After
midnight many new cases manifested
themselves, and all through Thursday
they rapidly multiplied. The suspen-
sion of business wal universal, and the
indications of increased mortality found
crowds of impossible witnesses in the
idle multitude. New alarms were deep
ened into panic by q constant and inde-
feasible toIling Of the bells of FIRE en-
gines. These gave new wingsto terror,
and of course swelled the mortality,
which, without this wanton aid, was
frightful already. Thursday night filed
a record of deaths greater far than that
of any preceding day since the Cholera
made its appearance.
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slavery could not exist there without
q positive law admitting it."
If slavery can not exist there without
apositive law, why this foolish agitation,
this pitiful howl for votes and repeal p
He betrays a wan of confidence in his
position or is dishonest. But why not
let the people decide that question ? Are
they not honest ? are they not compe-
tent ? What then becomes of your school
boy exordium? Alas oh, Yorrick! what
a departure from your great war of prin-
ciple ; you are even unwilling to let the
good people decide for themselves /;
where then, is aristocracy and money,
against freedom of person and speech?
But, who proposes to let few hun
dred persons decide the question? Does
not Mr.. Bliss, and every other honest
man know that no vote can be had con-
corning the matter till a population of
10000 vote for a State Constitution !?
Here then is an other sophism-Why
then raise this false alarm and take a
stand against that which does not exist ?
Mr.. B. further proceeded to "pitch in
to 1.-THE administration, and in verifca-
tion of his statements concerning GER
tain fugitive slave decisions, showed him
self conversant in " Uncle Tom " litera-
ture. He quoted with much sang tfoid
Adhesion of Judge Sharkey, of Mis-
sissippi, in which great violence was
done certain "quadroons." The learn
ed Judge was Willard Filmore's official
in the Isle of Cuba when the unfortunate
Lopez and his fllibusteroes were coolly
shot down like beeves in the shambles,
and yet this pink of whiggery had never
a word to say. A whig decisio n that
He (Mr. b. was in favor Of an indis-
criminate disbursement of the public
revenues for River and Harbor improve
ments /; and in his opinion the admins
tration was highly censurable for ma
king any distinction between false and
real projects; and for vetoing the Riv-
er and Harbor bill. In his opinion the
administration would have shown a great
amount of wisdom by rejecting the ten
million bill, for that barren waste which
it had purchased of Mexico, and applied
it to the improvement of Harbors.-
just SO whiggery talked at the close of
the Mexican wal about " barren acastes :"
which I" fusion" people noW sag are the
finest soils IN the aoordl In fact, if ne
(Mr. Bliss,) were elected to Congress,
he would use his influence with the Pres
ident to have a Harbor built at the
mouth of every little creek along our
northern lakes?
He wound up, by reminding his audi
ence of what ? Not of the foolish mill
ions squandered by the Taylor and Fill
more dynasty, by Galphins and Gard
ners-but of the Importance of electing
him to Congress in order to saw this
great nation from being destroyed by To-
cofocos.
In conclusion a voice, which we, reeog-
nized as "Uncle Ben's," exclaimed
I" that's ALL" JAKE"
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0 OTIS -

Our old friend "Uncle Ben }" under
the signature of "Otis," gives US an
other friendly dig in the last Times.
He shows satisfactorily to our mind, that
the Constitution of the United States
permits US to vote as we please, and,
therefore, because of this privilege, he
expects Democrats and all others to go
the Fusion ticket. A good reason, GER
tainly, to a Democrat.
In speaking of our Primary Meetings,
he says "they are convenient for those
who make politics a trade" It should
be borne in mind hat this old Wing,
who is constitutionally constituted for a
Wing, and who has never been anything
else and never will be, has spent his
whole life learning how to "make poll
tics a trade Just now he is engaged
on a new job at this same u trade the
Fusion-and notwithstanding his long
apprenticeship, he is still a very awk-
ward hand at the business. The Free
Soil harness don't suit the old boss !"
at all. He is as little at home in it, as
a fish is out of water.
Again: "Mr. GRAIL, nor no other
man on the Republican ticket, has asked
for a nomination. The people being
sick of ofiee-hunters, have asked the
privilege of these gentlemen to offer their
names.n And the disinterested patri-
OTIS on the Fusion ticket have kindly con-
scented to the arrangement ! Nonsense
If there is a man on either ticket hwat-
ing for Office more than another, that
man is Mr.. Grail. Not one of all the
other candidates personally s%olicits the
people to vote for him more than Mr..
GRAIL. Weldon not wish to be understood
as complaining of Mr.. C.'s course; on
the contrary, he has a perfect right SO
to do. But in the name of all that is
sacred, don't claim that he isn't hunting
for odfceI Such talk would have done
years ago, but it won't win now.-Then,
again, MIR. CRALL's circumstance in life
are such, that it would be an act of char
Iy, in our opinion, to give him this of.
fee which he is not hunting for. Fill
the Golfers of the rich to excess, seems to
be the cry of Nh. CRALL's friends. That's
good Wing doctrine. Let the Govern
ment take care of the rich and the rich
viii take care of the poor, is n Of the
cardinal principles of the Wing party.
Such weak twaddle as this, we opine, is
not even good bait to catch votes. The
Democratic party will judge for them
selves without the dictation of any Wing
Fusionist, as the ides of October will
more fully demonstrate.
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The fDeisn.ivs Association q

a gentleman Just from Weston, re-
lated to US the following incident. He
I~states--that while he was in Weston, he
went into the store of a ~wellknown mer-
chant of that place, who was engaged at
the moment in selling to one of his GUS
toners who was a Kansas settler, and
said to be a Free Soiler. While thus
gagged, q person entered the store and
wafked up to the customer of our friend
the merchant, and said to him, "God
d-n your soul, didn't I tell you never
to show your face in Weston again /; clear
yourself, and never show yourself here
again-unless you want a coat of tar and
feathers The person who pronouneed
this feroeious harangue was one of the
g Self Defensive Association of weston,'T
and he had hardly finished before the
merchant jumped over the counter, yard
stick in hand, and Commenced nse1sH--
tSng him with it as If he had been a.bolt
of domestic, and with as much facility.
The measured individual forgot that he
belonged to the Self defensive Associa-
ton, and took to his heels.
The Weston merchant, however, in
administering the castigation which he
did to the impudent "campn who was
~endeavoring to frighten off a good Gus
toner, was acting in self-defense-in de-
tense of the intercourse and commerce
by which he lived, and which it was his
interest to encourage. He acted too,
in defense of the interestso of Weston, fox
it is quite probable that the Yankee
:" Free Soiler," by his thrift, industry
and enterprise, will add much more.tO
the wealth of the country than the lazy
fanatic who spends his time in trying to
save it by keeping away the most ener-
getic class of people in tho Union. The
merchants and other business men of
Weston who recently assembled in mass
meeting and Denounced the falsely call
ed +" Self Defensive Association and its
conduct, understood this, and did but
unitein a self-defensiYe measure on their
part. The slave bully was too ignorant.
and too much blinded by his fanaticism
to comprehend the true interests of his
own community. It is tobe hoped that
the wholesome thrashing he received en-
lightened him on this points,. L0Bis
Dem.
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E The name of Mr.. SMURR, for
Treasurer, wa accidentally left out of
the ticket placed at the head of our pa
per, for the past two weeks. 1t was
caused by one of the hands in the Office
knocking the whole ticket into spa" and
in fixing it up his name, by accident was
left cut This week we place it in its
proper place, until after the election,
when the Democratic party will elect
Mr.. SMURR by a triumphant majority,
despite the d~ishonorable means made use
of to defeat him, by defaming his pri-
vate character.
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Gen. HousroN said" There was no
more probability of slavery being intro
duccd into these territories, than into
Illinois"
Nh. sEwaRD, who was astute on this
subject, said: at feel quite sure, that
slavery cannot get q foot-hold in these
territories . y
MI. Bliss forgot to read the whole OF
the truth. Men should be careful lest
the mania of a wild and ungovernable
fanaticism should possess them, as it al
ready has many others. Let all good
men discard the doctrine of the Adolf
ton and Fanatics, and look upon the
opinions they have promulgated and are
now promulgating as the false lights
thrown out by the ancient Federa1ists
during the Missouri controversy, to mys-
tify the people and regain lost power.
I had almost forgotten Father RISER.
He had FIVE German auditors, who en-
terrain the same opinions they did be-
fore-RIssER Notwithstanding.
Yours, JULIUS.
LouDoNvntE, Sept. 22nd, 1854:
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For the Ashland Union.l
ABOLITION MEETING IN LOUDON.
WILLIE.


DIR. SHERIDAN At an Abolition
| Convention held in New York lately,
WENDELL PHILLIPS said =" The Union
sentiment is the great vortex which swal-
lows up the great minds, and they have
power enough, for the time being. to in
auence the people. The only remedy for
the slave is the destruction of the gov
eminent. I challenge any man to tell
me what the Union has done for us ~
The Hon. EDMUND QUINCY said, that
" the Constitution displayed the ingenu-
ity of the very Devil, and that the Union
ought to be dissolved
WILLIAM L. GARRISON proposed the
following resolution -" Resolced, That
the one grand, vital issue, to be made
with the Slave power is, the dissolution
of the existing American Union :" He
said: al like hat resolution very
much.-This country denies God, or if
it believes in God, 1 do moi. The mass
of people venerate the Constitution. We
should endeavor to do away with this.
I thank God that I am a traitor to that
Constitution. I thank God that I am
an inidel to the popular religion of this
country, and of all christendom.
Afterwards, at Pennington, Mass, he
burned the Constitution of the United
States, amid the applause of men of as
little patriotism as BENEDICT ARNOLD
or himself.
Well, Sir, on yesterday We were ad-
dressed by one who upholds the doc
trines of GREEDY, QUINCY, PHLLIps,
GARRISON, and many more of the wild
fanatics.
According to arrangements, Mr.. Bliss,
the Fusion nominee, met in our place
with sixty-one men and boys. After be-
ing introduced by a Wing, (who, by the
way, felt sheepish,) the honorable gen.
tlemen proceeded to " pipe }" rendering
the Nebraska bill odious, and demon
strating that he was right on the goose
question ;" He was in favor of the Har-
Dor bill, and was disappointed to hear
that nothing had done for the i'm
provement of Black river
There not being much enthusiasm
displayed by the audience, it was discov-
cred that he tagged. This reminded me
of the meat merchant. "Sir, )" says the
buyer, "did'nt this animal die? 2" "No,"
replied the butcher, "it didn't die; it
just kinder gin eout !"
Mr.. BLISS forgot to state what were
the thoughts of the ablest men in
the nation, those who voted for the Ne
braska bill as well as those who voted
against it.
Nj. BENTON said in his first speech
against the bill, "the question of slave
~ in these territories, if thrown open to
territorial action, will be a question of
numbers question of the majority for
or against slavery; and what chance
would the slave holders have in such a
contest? No chance at ALL"
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More Wing Thunder from the Logan
County Gazette.

The Gazette, the organ of the Wings
in Logan county, in this State, continues
to keep up a heavy fire upon the fusion
lists. 1t does not relish at all the sale
of its party to the Abolitionists- Inthe
last number issued of this able and ster-
ling Wing sheet, we find the following, to
which we invite the attention of Wings
in this locality. 1t says:
But sohy opposition to the Nebraska
Law should be made the basis of State
organization for the election of a Su-
preme Judge and member of the Board
of Public Works, a1e cannot see. The
duty of neither ofthese functionaries in
wolves anything connected even IN the
remotest degree with this Nebraska
Kansas Law. It seems to us, in point
of good sense and propriety, precisely on
a level with the proceedings in a town
ship of Stark county, where the election
of a Justice of the Peace was made to
turn upon this issue. We may want per-
ception-we may be very obtuse; but
we give our sentiments as we entertain
them.
1t may be said that the present or
ganization is destined to be permanent.
For what? Long before there is any
possibility of effecting a change in the
Senate, (if such a change is ever posi-
Bile, which we don't believe) the charac-
ter of this territory will be irreyocably
fixed, if by soil and climate it be not al
ready fixed. The emigration of theter-
sritories will be freemen from free States /;
and slavery will no more be tolerated
there than in Ohio or Michigan. Ne
braska and Kansas will be free States;
God and man alike decree it.
For what, then, is this organization to
be permanent? For the frrtherance of
Abolitionism ? For renewed assaults
on the Constitution and laws !? For sys-
tematic warfare on the South? IF so,
and its leaders calculate on the cooper
alton of Clay and Webster Wings, they
have counted without their host.
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WING and Fec Soil ru.ion.

The present is a favorable season for
refreshing extracts like the following;
IF the Wing party is to be merged
into a contemplate Abolition party,
and if A~bolitionism is to be engrafted
upon the Wing creed, from that mo-
ment I renounce the party and cease to
bea Wing. I go yet a step further: if
/ am alive, I will give my humble sup
port for that man for the Presidency
who, to whatever party he may belong,
is not contaminated by fanaticism, rath-
er than to one who, crying out all the
time that he is a Wing, maintains doc
trines that are utterly subversive of the
Constitution and the Union.n1Hemyy
Clay.
The organ Of Ohio Whiggery gave its
opinion of Free Soilism about two years
ago, as follows:
What would the Wings of this coun-
try gain by an amalgamation Of the
Wings and Free Sellers? Certainly no
desirable object could be achieved by
such an alliance. No party in the State
is more at variance with Wing princi-
pies than the Free Soil party. The
platform published and adopted by this
party at their late State Convention,
Contains more wztraisn and absurd dog.
mas than any paper Of political char.
acter eUer published an the Union."-O.
s.. Journal.
The present fusion in Ohio between
what is left of the old Wing party and
the Free Sellers, is not me based upon
principle. It is the desire to get into
Office, that induced both the contracting
parties to enter into the arrangements
The extracts above show plainly enough
that between the two there is no sort of
a&nitu- Dezlzocrm