Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-08-15

In the Chronicle of August LIST, we
said "The State Ticket nominated by
the Democratic parry at Columbus, is a
Simon-Pure, Pro-Slavery, Tax Ticket.
Slavery Doughfaceism, and Taxation, is
written all over it. There is nothing else
there"
The Democrat says, in reply:
1.-THE charge of being plo- slavery is
false, and cannot be sustained. We dare
them to the proof. The Democracy Of
Ohio stand upon the Constitution, and if
occupying that position, lays the party
open to the charge of being p~ro-slavery,
ii is pro-slavery, and we would not have
it trample that great Bill of Rights IN
der foot, 10 escape the sneers of Disunion
Abolitionists."
Ha party, whose members in Con-
gress, north and south, voted almost to ?
man for the fugitive law whose members
in the last Congress, in solid ~phalanx,
backed up by the whole influence of a
democratic administration, passed the
iniquiious Kansas and Nebraska Bill /;
whose executive has just removed from
Office, as Governor of the territory of
Kansas, a mar whose only fault was
that he refused to bedicrated toby String
fellows mob-a party whose judge, at
Philadelphia, has imprisoned a man be-
cause he told a slave, brought into a free
stale by his master, that be was no Ion.
ger a slaye-a party whose whole infu-
ence has been and still is -exerted to the
utmost to limit freedom, and extend
slavery /; if the Democrat denies that
such q party is pro-slavery, expecting
any one to believe it, it has lost its sen
ses.
If any further proof were needed of
the pro-slavery spirit, not merely of the
party, but of the TrumJuN Democrat
itself, its very last number furnishes it.
The rescue of slaves from Wheeler in
Philadelphia, it calls kidnapping" and
charges that offense upon the persons
who simply told the woman that she was
free By the lars Of Phuade iphia! What
more could S~tringfellow or Douglas say?
To call that act kidnapping, is TO say that
Wheeler had a right to hold slaves in
Pennsylvania, in spite of her laws, and
therefore, he must have the same right
in Ohio! The whole of the claim of the
most ultra Southern fre-eaters is yielded
in that single expression, and we need
nothing further to brand upon the Demo
erat the character of a ~doughfaee of the
Petit Douglas breed. Further than
that, our truthful neighbor declares the
rescue was a foreible one. This pretense
was not ever lisped by Wheeler himself,
nor was it pretended in the proceedings
before Judge Kane, as the official report
shows. Whee!er's only complaint mas
that he was hindered from catching her.
The woman made her own way to free
dom, as she has since testified under oath.
The pretense thatshe was unwillingly and
and forcibly dragged from her beloved
master, is an addition of the Democrats
imagination. acting under the stimulus
of its intense hatred of freedom, and it is
a mis-statement of the facts, such as the
Charleston Mercury would scorn.
The Democrat further says:
"'Tax Ticket indeed. Where is the
evidence? Give it, or make no mole
such reckless assertions. Specify where
in the Democracy are open to the charge.
You cannot do IT,"
That task is an easy one. The proof
is in the enormous taxes which every cit
izen of this State has been compelled to
pay under this corrupt State administra-
ton. The people of Ohio, for the last
two years, have known that it had a State
government at all, only by the weight of
its burthen of taxation. Every depart
ment of business feels its weight. If
items are wanted, they are quite too
plenty. Take the condition Of the Ohio
Canals, taken from the Democratic Aud