The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-04-25
The Ashland. Times--Two Gen
uine Blackguards.


We have no genius whom all should ad
mire for his transcendent abilities NOR,
than the Editor Of the Times. As q
great ~expounder of Law, he is not
particle, in our opinion, inferior to Mo
SEES or DRAco. The subject of our ar
ticle has a "whiffet" called JEFF thu
Jew, and when the two parade thu
streets together, meddling themselves
with other peoples business, it reminds
US of Burns Twa Dogs"
We made q few remarks last week
about the Projectors of the Time,
sticking their nose into our business, at
which they became exceedingly stirred
up, and bestow any amount of personal
abuEe upon US. Well, We care but lit,
tie to what extent this kind of a con,
trovcrsy goes. To justify their mean
attack on US, they claim we had no right
say any thing about them, inasmuch as
in the controversy between Mr. GATES
and themselves, they made no allusion
to US. What are the facts? Did they
not charge US in their article on Mr..
GATES, with having charged exorbitant
prices? Is this not a falsehood? 1t
certainly is. Weare willing to wager
a small amount that the Editor cannot
get together five regular printers in
Ohio, who will say we have charged ex-
orbitant prices. The charge is false,
and the Editor has lied wilfully or igno-
rantly, and for a base purpose, which
none but a political lazzaroni would do.
The Editor makes a great ado about
an expression we used about his partner,
for it's want of chastity; but the Editor
takes special pains to use the same ex-
preston about ourself. If so foul an
expression, why use it in your moral pa
per? We think it's professions of NOR
rality is in strong contract with either
of their characters. We make no great
profession of morality oursalf neither
do we crude temperance through our
columns for political purposes, and af-
forwards get as drunk as a loon. Some
mems lives are a 6urlesque upon the SEN
timents they endcavor to inculcato in
others. Stick a pin here, reader, and
wait a short time for the balance.
The Editor says in substance, that
he desires no personal controversy
Poor cewardly scullion, when he COM
mcnced personalities and sticking his
nose into our business, and making all
kind of personal filings at us-after all
this, he now wishes to refrain from por-
sonal matters. Well, since you have
received enough at your W game, we
will be generous with you.
In regard to the printing done for the
County, the amount per year is about
as We stated, although the amount
drawn last year is some 500; yet it
must be remembered that a portion of
the work was done in 1853, but we did
not present our bill until 1854. This
amount includes, we believe, all ap to
the present time, one year and five
months. But suppose it had been ff-
teen hundred dollars, what of it?--
What we said last week was from mem
ory. The printing done, was for the
Auditor, Treasurer, Clerk and Probate
Judge. By a change in the Constitu-
ton of the State, the Office of Probate
Judge was created, and the blanks for
merly used were entirely changed, and
more numerous. Had this not been
the case, we would have had no occasion
to have had but few blanks printed, as
we found hat Mr.. JENNINGS had left us
enough, with the exception of n or
two kinds, to have lasted US during u
whole term of Office. Whatever blanks
we have printed were furnished to US
by Mr.. OsBoRN, who brought US a spe-
cimen of each kind from the Clerk of
Huron County. to have them printed
Our bill against Ashland County is on
ly ninety four dollars instead of two hun
dred. Slight difference! But enough
of this We will charge the usual prices
for all the printing we shall do for
Ashland County. The only point in the
whole difficulty is, that We get the print
ing instead of the Times. Is there any
thing else at issue?
Although this Miss NANCY Editor
lives by doing other peoples business,
yet strange to say this creature presents
a fine personal appearance, within little
vanity, which is not unfrequently found
with some of the weaker sex, yet upon
close inspection his very physiognomy
shows, that his manhood is debased and
his character become s~ervile. The
height of his ambition seems to be, to
trouble himself with the affairs of his
neighbors. He has been suspected of
having a slight tinge of the Demagogue
in his looks, and rather a Fancy Gentle
man, by profession-barring the cross
bar pantaloons, this spring. His acme
of morals, through his Press, is, " Do
as I say, and not as 1 do" Great man,
indeed "All hail ! Macbeth hail
to the thane of CLAIMS All hail /! Mac
beth hail to the thane of Cawdorl All
hall" ashland Times "tAOu Shalt