The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-05-16

Ftsn the Ohio Statesman.
The Entertainment to which
Know Nothingfsm invites Free
Sellers.
The american Oxgan. published al
Washington, unveils the future designs
Of the Know. N othings, when the Free
Soilsrsin Ohio, Massachusetts, andseme
other States shall be completely fused
their distinct organization abandoned
and the direction of events fully COM
mittedBo the cabals of the midnight or
der. The Washington Organ assumes
no mask to suit localities-it speaks the
language prompted by the Know Moth
ing National Council which met some
months since in Cincinnati; but it's frank.
ness increase the value of its testimony
for our use. Two numbers of the paper
arc before us-April 1s and 2e-and
we propose to make some extracts for
she considerations of Ohio Free Sellers,
who are and will be cajoled, for months
tocome5 to put their heads within the
out-stretehd Jaws of Know Nothingisn.
q In the FIRST place, let us hear the Or
gan upon the general mission of Nativ-
ism for the suppression of anti-Slavery.
The italics are by the editor, not our
own, -a 80
fssaIt is our firm belief, that the Amer
lean party will, when full formed and
perfect; be a national, conservative par
", onsthe slavery question, whilst it will
carry on with tyiger, the greatetAmeri-
can Reformation which it was more es-
psciaIly formed to accomplish. To say
tie keast, IL cannot Be less conservative,
than either one of the old parties. and
there is ground for AOpe that will be far
more conSsrCatfVe than either of them.
There is, therefor, every motive and
indueement for a fair trial of this party,
on b equestion thus presented. IL cuns-
not do acOrse. than fail, as both the old
parties have done, to keep down the sec
tional agitation, against which OF
Washington SO eloquently warned us,
and is may do far more than they have
done, in furtherance of those views,
which bis farewell legacy to his country
men SO earnestly advocates.
In another column, the Organ thus
meets the allegation Of Washington
paperstaat the sAbolition party merged
in and incorporated with the KaoW
Nothing party" ~
-hs"Now,s we believe that wise andkon
est men do often change opinions as veil
as parties. Dishonest men may change
parties without azchange of opinion. In
the case before Us, honest opponents of
slavery have been found that such oppo-
sition is useless, as we'll as productive
of sectional disseDsions' aud they have
also found that "a necessity exists for q
thorough reformation OF our laws ofnat-
nfalizafion, aud for the adoption of
measures to prevent the importation of
foreign paupers and criminals, aud there
fore Ihey-haye abandoned their former
opinions aud party, and determined
hereafter to advocate the cause of Amer
icanism. We're the Sentinel as much
alarmed, as it processes to be, for the
institutions of the South, it would re-
joice in the fact, that aati-SlGcery men
gre rapidly abandoning their crusade
atpon tie South, and l1IItaHg qclh the
only national, conservative, Union lor
aud U2zS0n-PreserUing party an
TIE countxy."
Thcseciosing italics are or own, moro
distinctly to indicate the position as
to Free SoiIers BY their numer-
associates, the Know N~othings,
As a set off to Kansas the paragraphs
Of the State Journal, VIC shall quote
from our article in the Organ de-
nouncing Presidents Pierce and Gov
srnor Reeder, because their influence .
has not been cxerted to make Kansas a
Slave State: !
] sWhen Mr.. Reeder, of Pennsylvania, {,
the friend, eulogist, and satellite of Co {
lionel John w. Forney, was appointed s
of Kansas, 1.-THE more southern ]
the two Territories organizid by an !
act of Congress some months ago. ]
whilst Mr.. Burt, of South Carolina, was
appointed Governor of Nebraska, the
more northern Territory of the two, net
] few men l0ondereG why a southern man
not been selected for Kansas, and a
aorthern mil for Nebraska I? )
The secret of Mr.. Reeder's appoint.
nent to Kansas, was suspected at the !
line, by q few politicians, and if we re- I
member rightly, the Washington SEMI 1
sk openly condemned the appointment
fMr. Reederr as unfair and unjust to .
he South. But We are not aware that
The Richmond Enquirer, or any other a
administration press, at the South, rails +
ID its warning voice or made any selec- 6
.ion of a man for Governor of Kansas, is
sho would not use his power and iufu- c
nee to thWart the South, in the effort to Z
political power between the j,
South, by making a slave G
State Of. Kansas. Colonel Forney was D
permitted, by-such assumed guardians of 9
Southern institutions as the Richmond a
Enquirer aud Washington Union, to fl
,aSefhe way, for the introduction of a "
rec State, on the western border of Mis- q
our, thus eneompassing her on three t.
ides, and not only rendering slave prop o
rty in Missouri insecure, but giving the t.
North a more decided preponderanee of
power, in the Union.
sit does not dimiuis- the responsible :
~ of these assumed guardians of the
'outb, for such an appointment, that
ioysruor Reeder was himself thwarted
D his efforts to carry out the views Of
he administration, by the efforts of
General Atcbisen, and the other south
m men, to make Kansas a slave Terri l