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

OO, lcOO, % AOAAouo-
."I hope, my dear sir, that we sha
all strive to unite and combine all tn
friends of freedom-that we shall forge
each others faults and shortcomings i
the past, and all labor to secatre that CO
operation 5y a0hich alone the Slaves to
enancipated and the dominion Of III
master broken. Let US remember tia
more than three millions Of 6andn1e'l
groaning under naneless a0oes, pEMANl
that soe shall cease to reproach each 9th
er, and that labor for their deliver
ance.
The orators of this geographical par
ty preach that there is but one issue o
any importance before the country, and
that is the issue they make, the issue
of Know Nothingism and Abolition.
ism
Are the people ofthis great, free hap,
DIV country about to do what would be
SO much more than political blunder
that it would be.a political crime-com-
NIT their destinies to the guidance of a
party with such principles and purposes ?
Will they not look at what is of such
infinite moment n--the phrase is
Washington 's--both their collective and
their individual happiness ? Are those
who still see around them, and feel the
force of, the old paternal affection fer
one country, to be told by the madman
Wade that there is no AMERICAN UNION
worthy of the name ? If a foreigner
were to utter that falsehood, he would
be pronounced hbeiler; aud mono but
an alien heart, whose beatings are only
for section of his country, could utter
parricidal sentence. Is it possible
that the people of a single state in this
Union can be so lost to sense of their
own duties, of what they oxe to memo
-ies and to their prosperity5-of what
they owe to the Benefcient Crea.orswho
1as showered down upon them such un
oaralleled political blessipgs,-ean thsy
De so false to all these considerations as
% follow to such fanaticism?
Men uttering these sentiments; the
liders. and abettors of the party that
tahd by them; the whole sectional tribe.
re doing what they can and all they
an, to promote angry feelings. kindle
he passions of pride and revenge, to
simulate to fierce civil broils Look
gain at Senator e. Wade, is raving.-I
7e goes for a aeao Union and he goes
or damnin- all those lolso foster slzoe-
81. He goes for Garrison's maxim of
o union with shareholders !! What
ncans the demagogue? There are in
he slave states of this confederaey SEW
N MILLIONS OF FREzMEN and of these
e says, :" damn all those who foster
Iavery! {" that is, damn seven millions
f whites Need We say that men who
ountcnance such raving must be lost
} all sentiments of common country,
nd are unworthy of the blessings that
Washington, and the Jeffersors, Madi-
,rs, Marions, and Sumpters, united in
on them.
Again: what do these men mean when
ley proclaim that there is but one issue
look to now Have, forsooth, TWEEN
7 ONE MILLIONS of free citizens, of whites,
} other question of Importance than the
avery question What was the con-
olling want that-made the Union more
,rfect in the cons titution Was it a
,lttlaern want? !? Did the south seek
w government to enable to protect
avery? Each state-was competent to
ke care of this subject; though Wash
gton and Madison and their southern
-laborers, like true, comprehensive
triots, labored for the constitution
tn comprehensive patriotism that is
rebuke to the whole northern
nd of factionists and traitors, yet it
IS the commercial north, the mechani-
| north, that left most sensibly the
cd of a stronger national government.
lese are facts, and they will be found
I'd to rub out.
Now has there been decrease of the
portance of the considerations that
lde the Union indispensable to the
rth ? Look at the infant commerce,
ly some 100000 tonnage in 1889, and
,kagain at our onward march over the {
mains wave until we have it up to
Rec MILLION figure Does this any b
. less need united power for its pro- d
.tion nolo- than it did in 1889 Is
srs no issue here that twenty-one mil
ms of whites are interested in s? Will a
! the people look with pride on this a.
crest. and resolve with determination IL
protect it /? Is there aught that will n
,tect it but the CONSTITUTIONS and the n
HON f
Alongside of this mighty commerce o
re has sprung up its twin sister, man o.
ctures, Have twenty-one millions P
white people no issue in this ? Will Il
,e nothing to this interest to have c.
( our country enemies to each other a
ok at the vaious branches into which b
; divided and sub, divided; look at Il
real union that enables citizens of o
'ious parts of our common country to .
hange products freely, and then say : :
ether this last.interest would be pro- i,
ted by disunion whether to it no is a