The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-06-06
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lege Of replying TO an article in the
Times, signed i" Fusion" alias free
dOmi'' for By these ~sndearing titles. and
many Others tha. / have NOT time to
mention, hassthis onee great party been
known, and u hero {" Fusion ~ seems
to be q Of its forlorn representatives,
who has such q holy horror when the
name of cOon and shanghai are men.
toned. We suppose it is for the same
reason that it would be cruel to speak of
n rope to a person whose friend had been
hung. Fusion =" wishes to forget that
under the banner of coous, log cabins,
and ha,d cider, they gained their great
est victory; aud as one of the evils a
that campaign, intemperance has fastened
upon the American people q much worse
slavery, if possible, than that of the
South.
The only trouble seems to be, with
our friend, that he is fearful the Free
sellers and Foreigners will unite with
the Sag NIGHTS; and he would have US
believe that pro-slavery is a leading fea-
ture of that order, but proof Of which he
does not wen attempt, for he is well
that even their worst enemies on
u charge that the object of the ordtr is
opposition to Know Nothings-and this,
We think, will be fully demonstrated at
the coming eIectiea. He says to the
foreigners, "come and go with us."-
I suppose he means to unite and assist
the K. Ms, and be made made slaves
of for the purpose.of freeing the negroes;
not that we love the foreigners less,
but that we love the negroes mere
And again. there is no need, he says, of
uniting with either Of the two secret 3D.
e%ieties, whilst that great Rep1biican par
~ exists Now, in the name Of common
sense, who aud Of what does this great
party consist? OF course, he does not
mean the "Locofocos )" and from his
whining exhortations he does not in
clude the foreigners nor all the Free
sellers. Then it would require the ina
gination of Don Quixott to give anything
like reality to the Republican party,
spoken of by Fusion unless he refers
to the Order of the Star Spangled Ban
uer-better known as K N's.-of which,
doubt, he is a worthy member, or at
least = warm advocate. Will he have
the kindness to inform his foreign frie. .ds
II refer to those he would trust his
life ~with-what has been the result of
his mature reflections, as to whether q
foreigner should remain here tweuty-oue
years after he is of age in order to vote;
aud should he be denied the privilege Of
Citizen as to voting and holding Office,
because he worships God according to
the dictates of his own consciencea-
Come, Mr.. Fusion" face the music
Don't do az yeu have done in former
communications-blow hot and cold with
the same breath Immediately after de-
nouncing the opposition to foreigners,
at the same time you could "fnd no
fault with the K. Ms. as a body, and
mos. of their acts had been judi
and good much better than their
professions, that is. if their principles
are wat the world suppose them to be-"
Well, what acts Of theirs have come to
light that deserves this praise? Was it
for placing in power in many places
some of "Fusion's" rartizan friends,
in order to which innocent foreigners
could not vote only at the risk of their
lives; and when they did vote, their
ballots and ballot-boxes we're destroyed
by an organized mob of would-be Re-
publicans Are these the good, judi
persons referred to above; and are
these the acts which make Know Moth
ings better than they are represented ?
Out upon such A~mericani-m. But
Z" Fusion u says that We do not defeud
slavery with arguments other than rei-
terating the terms coons, wings, and
Our reason is, first, we are
not in favor of slavery, and, Of course,
there is no issue on that question; but
as to the use of those phrases, he should
that in 1910 when he, rs we'll
as his Wing brethren in general, were
asked their views on the Tariff, United
States Bank, and other questions then
at issue, their answers mostly were coon
log cabins, and hard cider-hurS
ra for Tip and Tyler, without a why or
wherefore. It is not strange he so much
dislikes these old familiar anne How
ever, we are only paying him in his own
He thinks we see . coon in every
We would merely say that from
their nocturnal habits and odious per-
fume, thatit is the use of another
than that of seeing by which we deter
mine as to their identity; and, Nj. Edi-
Tor, you will bear me witness that in this
,ase I was not mistaken.
Now, as to seeing Whiggery in every
hing that tends to human freedom -
to favor the few at the expense of the
nany-if to take care of the rich and
trust them to take care of the poor-if
10 prescribe men on recount Of their re
Iigion or place of their birth tends 70
human freedom, then, Whiggery, thou
.rt the party. But, with all this load
IN your back, how can you be . hypo-
as 10 profess love for that /" sweet