The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-09-19

teri all the Wh1le tue promise being hell
> out that Judge Mclean; or some Other
: moderate Wing, would yet DO brough
outsas o. Free Soil candidate. for tn,
Presidency; for at that time, as now
there was but one opinion among tn,
4 Wings on this question.-The Wings o.
Ohio we're then, are now, and Itrus
ever viii be opposed to the extension Of
slavery over one acre of new territory
:, But the Buffalo convention came
and what did they give us2 Martin
4 Van Buren: and without control, head
long, northern Ohio ran after him. This
not only gave the state of Ohio to the
Democratic candidate; but it did what
was worse for us. It .occasioned blck-
erings and bad feeling between those
who had worked together as u band oi
brothers. It tended to stir up the same
feeling between northern Ohio and
southern Ohio, which unprincipled DEM
agogues had SO long labored to stir up
5 between the nor them and southernsec-
The second act to which 1 refer was
the corrupt bargain, by which Mr. Chase
and his two friends sold the political
power of the state to the Locofocos for
a seat In the Senate.
At the session of 1s47-S, the Legis-
lature of Ohio, the Wigs being in the
majority, passed an apportionment act,
by which Hamilton county was divided
into two districts. Under this act, in
the fall of l643; Judge Spencer and Mr.
Rdnyan, two Wings, were elected in
the city district. The seats were con-
tested by Messrs P5gh and Pierce,
who had been voted for as if no new ap-
portionment had been made, and ques-
tion of constitutional law arose, wheth-
er this apportfonment act was, constitu-
tional or unconstitutional. If the act
was CONSTITUTIONAL, and the county of
Hamilton lawfully divided, Spencer and
Runyan had an undoubted right to the
disputed seats This would have give IL
the Wings, on join; ballot, a clear major
ity over the Democrats of four, and of
two over the Democrats and Free SOIL
ers put together. So. the parties stood
before the House of representatives. was
organized.
At this nick of time, Mr.. Chase, who
had made so many speeches against the
sin of buying and selling men, came into
market with two men to drive bargains
for a scat in the United States Senate.
La speaking of these jobs, do not mean
to indulge in the bitterness of denuncia-
tion to be found in the Ohio State Jour
nal, the Cincinnati Gazette, the Cleve-
land Herald, aud other respectable
Whig papers of that day.-But 1 may
be allowed single comment. If What
they then said of Mr.. Chase and his bar
gain was false, they ought to have been
indicted for publishing libels If what
they said was true, they ought now to
be ashamed to advocate his election
emocratic politicians, hard as. their
cheek was, were asiancd of these bar
gains in every partof the state; and the
people at large condemned them, as out
rageously corrupt. Nothing but the
segerest outside pressure could have
forced the Democrats into them. There
was the influence of Hamilton county,
clamoring for the 'isputed seats, and
demanding the repeal of the apportion-
ment act. There were the numerous
candidates for the Judgeships aud As
sociate Judgeships, and there were the
candidates for the Board of Public
Works, and other profitable employ
ments-all anxious for place and power.
And above all, and more than ALL there
was Mr.. Medary, candidate for the
State Printing, making his party be-
lieve, first, that they could not do with
out him-and, second, that he could not
do without the printing. Thus, the
kingdoms of the earth and the glory of
them were tended to the Locofocos on
a single condition, that they should fall
down and worship the tempter. They
did fall dol0n-and now old stiff-kneed
Wings are asked to fall do0n also.
twill be remembered that these mat
ters were settled by one large job, or a
number of small jobs, I neither know
nor care which. This winter of Is4a-9
was pregnant with jobs; and whether
they came in single births, twins, or lit
ters, makes but little difference They
had the same common origin and end
tie transfer of all the political power Of
the state to the Locofocos, aud the cleo
tions of Mr.. Chase to the Senate.
The repeal of the Black laws was one
of the conditions of this huge job This
was handful of salt; but it did not
and could not keep the mass from stink
ing. s,s
H. The remaining objects accomplished
were, 6rst: disqualification of the ap-
Eportiopment act of I847-8, by which
Messrs. Pugh and Pierce took the dis
spnted seats, the city district of Hamil-
ton county was defrauded of her Rep
resentatives, aHd the Wings of Ohio
swindled out of the political predom l.
nance in the Legislature Second: The
repeal of the apportioument act ef.ls47-
| g., by which alone the manufacturing
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