The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-05-23
The Proposed Fusion in Ohio
The Advice of a Distinguished
Ereesoiler.

The Proposed Fusion in Ohio
The Advice of a Distinguished
Freesoiler.
The editor of the National Era,
DR.. Bailey, in the last number Of that
able and influential Freesol sheet, gives
the following advice to his political
friends in Ohio, in relation to the course
they ought to pursue at the fall election.
The argument which the Era makes
against any partnership between the
Freesoilers aud Know-Nothings is so CO.
gent that it will be convincing to all the
real men of principle in the Freesoil
ranks. DIR. Bailey is known as . saga
cious and experienced politician, and
his counsel will sustain the reputation
he has required in that respect. The
National Era says: &
"The Know Nothing party proposes
to make degraded caste of foreign. born
settlers in this country, and of a certain
class of r~eligionists. whether native or
foreign-born. The Anti Slavery party
rejects all distinctions in political or
civil rights, founded on birth, color, or
religious creed or connection. The
former does not in any State embrace
the question of slavery, and is seeking
national power by ignoring It and sup.
pressing its agitation. The latter en-
braces the question as the paramount
one in all the States, and seeks national
power by ~agitating it, with a view to its
proper settlement. One resorts to mya-
terry, and aims to exempt itself from
public responsibility by rigid secrecy in
all its proceedings, and at the same time
letters the freedom of its members by
extra-judicial oaths; the other is open
in all cts aims and proceedings, invites
public scrutiny, subjects itself to the
wholesome restraints of public accounts
bility, rejects all ceercive measures as
to its members, leaving to the untram-
meled Judgment every Individual to act
with or against it.
$50 utterly antagonists are their
principles, aims, methods of action, and
obligations, that the success of one must,
soon or late, prove the subversion of the
other. On what honest OF honorable
compromise they can be brought togeth-
or is to use unintelligible. If the mem
bers of the Anti Slavery party under.
stand the nature, policy and aims of their
own party, they cannot vote for q Know.
Nothing candidate, if they are honest,
unlsss they misunderstood the nature,
policy and aims of the order to which
he belongs. And vice UeEsd.
Cooperation, Is explained by the
Columbian will be a Partnership
giye-and-taks bargain. If each party
3. - I.-o Ill Kho candidate. - a al
to talk of cooperation. This san be Sc
cured only by ~conceding something tc
each-to one the G~overnorship, to IT,.
other the whole of a part of the rest oi
the ticket. The Know-N Nothing partJ
agrees to vote for An Anti-Know-Noth
ing, Anti Slavery candidate for Cover
uer, the A~nti-Slavery party for Know
Nothing, Anti-Alien candidate Judge
and so on. And the nominees, with moi
a single principle in common, will b,
bound, as honorable men, to sustain ana
vote for one another. The bargain Is t.
be arranged by the managers, and thu
people will then be expected to ratif it
This is the meaning of co-opera
tion with the Known othing as a party
Is there an old Liberty man in Ohi
that is willing to see our cause crushed
in the coils of a crooked policy such a
this /?
Suppose it succeed in p~rostratinl
the Administration party. What then
The victory, like all the recent victories
over the Administration, will be elaine,
by the new order, go to swell Its sell
confidence and its influence, keep up tn
miserahle delusioD cOncerniuD ita intrin
sic power, and embolden it hereafter t
do in the West what it hasdone in Con
necticut and Rhode Island-haughtil.
reject all cooperation, and dictate al
the nominations. Aud where would b
your Anti Slavery party or Independsn
Democracy? Rejected by the whol'
body of n~aturalized voters "a large por
ton of whom last year 30 nobly stoo'
with you on the anti sbraska issu
without moral power-avoided by th
liberal Democrats as tainted with native
ism-looked down upon by the nation
allied Known Othing order-ridicule
for its blunder, despised for its incor
s;stsncy, and q perpetual stigna faster
ed upon the name Of every man on th
partnership ticket. 1900.
But should this partnership after a
prove q failure. with what face could tn
Independent Democracy, bankrupt i
character and influence, 60 before tn
people, and claim popular support in tn
attempt to reorganize on its old ground
1Were zoe an OHIO, oar motto shoHl
be, !" honorable defeat, rather tkGa sax
cess through such an aXiduce.n go