The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-10-03

presented TO uS W0etH6r bne lnsLltutlOu
of this country shall be maintained an
let mo say, although I am not one c
that class of men who cry for the perpet
nation of the Union though I am a0illi,a
tn certain state Of circumstances {
let 1t slide," 1 have no fear for its per
petuation. But let me say, if th
chief object of the people of this coun
try be to maintain, perpetuate and prop
agate chattle property in man, in othel
/. words, human slavery-this Union can
not stand, and it ought not to stand
prolonged applause.)
no doubt speak to some gentlemen
who have heretofore belonged to associ
ations with which have not been con.
nected. My friend who has just left the
stand has had experience different from
mine; and doubtless many of you now
have different views upon past events
but upon this point We can all agree
that II the object Of this Governnent be
the perpetuation Of human slavery and
cltattze bondage, Mis cannot long b.
maintained"
Mr.. Banks was succeeded at the same
Convention by Senator Wade, of Ohio.
He said
"I was glad to hear my friend from
Massachusetts Banks this morning.
arguing the position and urging it upon
you, that the Union could only be pre-
served by bringing the north back tore
gard and respect her own rights. Sir, /
am here conservative man, knowing as
l do that the only salvation to your
Union is that you diyest it entirely from
all the taints of slavery"
Senator Wade also said:
!" say you have no Union to-day
worthy of the name. What go for is
that we should have. Union based on
justice and equal rights to all; or sweep
away at once this remnant which we
now call Uniou. I go for Union
whose blessing shall be enjoyed impair
TALLY BY all scctions-for Union that
will take care of the interests of ala
Union that shall be for tho good Of al
and if we cannot have that, then go for
no Union at all, but l go for fight
(Great applause.)
Again
If the condition en- which this Union
is to be permanent can consist alone in |
trampling down nearly four millions of
our inhabitants, l ask honest aud hon.
orable men dare yeu wish that the
Union should be continued upon even
these nefarious conditions No, sir;
nor l !; for it would be the most misera-
bic selfshness that ought to damn any
man wishing to benefit himself from
such sacrifice of all the rights belong
ng to human nature as this. { Ap.
olause,) Bot in all this am no enc
ny of your Union, provided you drive
lavery back to her o.0,. dari; dominions,
ind there let h:r rot, and damn all those
cho foster 1t but stand here to de-
end our free soil that tho Almighty
las conferred upon US from being cursed
nth this curse that they are attempting
o fasten upon it. fApplause.
William Lloyd Garrison, August |,
855. spoke as follows of the Union =
There is no Union. Union is equal
is reciprocacy bat there is
o Union about. We have no rights
ven as white men. Why continue
hese experiments It is all madness
-all delusion. Let that Unionsgo, aud
hen it goes slavery will go with it, and
be slaves will raise up,Saud believe,
$ Judge Culver told US, that the south
i'll be soon coming back at the point
the bayonet held by the slaves. 1
ant the slaves to be set free, and what +
yer may stand in the way of their free
ow am for its overthrow. If it is :
lie church, then pronouncing the church,
, be of satan aud not of Christ, am for
$ overthrow. If it is the clergy, then
am for pronouncing them to be sheep !.
wolves clothing, and putting the :,
rand deep on their foreheads wherever
lere is any countenance giveneto slave
:. Our business hvre is with ourselves. II
Ie hold in our hands the key whereby n
le dungeons may be unlocked aud the n
ayes set free. l do not speak to the 0
aveholders; they are insane men, in K
lpable Of hearing or sof making an ar II
lment. But to those who are the pill T
rs of the system, the people of the t
,rth, educated and refined, the people t.
ho constitute this Ameriucal republic Il
my appeal is to them, in the name II
God and liberty. And.I say to them q
t US give to the. winds the rallying II
y, " No Union with shareholders. - q
p with the flag of disunion, that we p
ay havesa free and glorious republic Y
our own, and when that hour shall
me the hour will have arrived that Il
all witness the over throw of slavery, u
d God will have made it possible for oil
to be one people, from the Atlantic it
the Pacific, aud like the billoxs of h,
e ocean we shall mingle together. L
le way to do this is to make no conf it
omise with shareholders or their abet- th
RS. and thus we shall have the bless. VI
2 Of those who are eready'to perish, and e1
. benediotion of Almighty God. W
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