The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-07-09

col. j. c. fremont, son-in-law of
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"Of worldwide reputation"
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
L WILLIAM L. DAYTON,
OF NEW JERSEY.
The day was ushered in with a Nation
al Salute By the Ashland Gunners, sta
toned at New London, Huron Co, Ohio
their patriotism preventing them from
coming any nearer the scene Of opera
tons. The first d" procession " that ap-
peared in the morning was the Jerome
vile Brass Band, on their way to the
National Celebration at Orange. The
secoud-an OK team-came from the
neighborhood Of shutdown. This pro-
cession =" carried a large flag of home
spun linen, with the motto of NATHAN
lei P. BANks-" let the Union slide"
1t was headed by a full G "gentle-
man of color" mounted on a blind colt.
The last came from Bayesville, and, we
suppose, WAS about as large and respect
able a crowd, as one place could turn
out on 50 poor an occasion.
The Rzeeting>
About IL o'clock the crowd repaired
to the grove West Ct town, and sat down
to a free dinner (?)-shades of smoked
ham and garlic, what a dinner l-afteI
which they gathered around tho stand
At least ore-half Of the audience were
ladies,-ope-fcurth half grown children
and " babes at the breast" and the bal
lance consisted Of men Of every shade
of opinion Under- Ground Rail Road
men, old-line Abolitionists, Come-our-
crs, Free Sellers, old Wigs, bogus DEM
ocrats, Political Priests, and q few hon
est Democrats who were present, with
US, to look in on the revolving scene
which was there enacted. y. L. Gun
It's, a renegade Democrat, was called to
the Chair. Rev. JOHN ROBINSON, Pas
tor of the Ist Presbyterian Church, Ash
land, was called upon to open the meet
ing with prayer, which request he 20
litely declined by Introducing the Rev.
Somebody, of Loraiu County. Then
from the lips of that pious q man of
God went up-yes, away up among the
overhanging branches of the trees, hut
farther-an earnest prayer for the
success of Black Repubiicauism, while
his sanity face was imprinted Par
adise lost" in ineffaceable characters.
Freemeu of Ashland County, think of
it! a Black Republican, conclave-an
assemblage of hungry aspirants for pO-
litical honors-gathered together for
the most uaholy purposes, on the day of
our National Anniversary, opened with
prayer by 4 man claiming to be a Minis
ter of the Gospel
ooh Shame where is thy foulest blush,
When deeds of such dark fame,
are boldly done in this free land
In Freedoms ill-used name
After this iinPious farce had been
gone through with, another, scarcely less
revolving, followed. VIM. B. ALLISON,
ESQ, a Charter member of the first
Know Nothing lodge ever organized in
County, had the hardihood to
read the Declaration Of Independence.
We suppose mother earth never few up
ind struck WILLIAM a harder lick in
The face, while in any of his mellow "
than did the following passage
rom this same Declaration, which was
,ne of tie grarest charges preferred
King George the Third, the faith
IT of Know Nothingism in America ;
: Tie has cAdearorcd to prevent tue pop
Of these States; for that pur-
pose o~bStructing tile lars for naturali-
Of foreigners; refusing to pass
to encourage their migration hith-
sr, and raising the conditions of new ap-
preparations of lands" A live Know
Nothing, reading the Declaration of In
dependence to a crowd Of Black Repub-
lican ~Scctionalists, on the 4th of July /!
q Oh, Liberty, how many crimes are
in thy namer' Aud then,
to complete the foul work, and render
the dcsecra,ion of tue day perfect, a rem
egade Democrat read the Black Repub-
lican Sectional Platform, adopted at
Philadelphia by Convention in which
but oue-half of the Uuion was or could
be represented "a Platform on which
national man can stand-a Platform
which virtually s%ilences the voice OF the
people of fifteen Sovereign States of this
Union in u national affairs. Here the
Band very appropriately played a Flu
neral D;rge for the Union--AIR,
s Thou art gone to the grave but we win not
deplore thee"
The Speeches.
Next in order came the speeches. Or
ator No. /, was 10 less a parsonage than
Rev. Fl. E. PECK, a Professor in the
College OF Oberlin, where the equality
of the races is taught as a part of the
Theological course. Prot. PECK is an
Abolitionist Of the most approved stamp,
but he was quietly informed that he
must shape his speech according to the
Black Republican programme in this
County, which he did. The Professor
has talent, and so has the Deyil--he