The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-09-10
PREACHING.

For he was of that stubborn crew
Of arrant saints, whom all men grant
To be the true church militant
Such as do build their faith upon
The holy text of pike and gun;
Decide all incoherenGies by
Infallible artillery;
And prove their doctrines orthodox,
By apostolic blows and knocks;
Call fire and sword and desolation
A godly, thorough reformation,
Which always must be carried on,
And still be doing, never done !"
The Democratic Party in the present
campaign, are compelled TO fight not on
ly all the combined isms in the country,
but have also prrayed against them a
lare number of Political Priests, whose
honesty and piety are on a par with the
sermons they preach-men who have
" stolen the livery of heaven to serve the
devil ip." We DO not despair nevertbe-
less. We lad them to fight during the
War of l9l2-in the days of the Hart
ford Conventional the time Of the
Mexican War in the Main Law fight
and to-day they preach open and
downright treason with as much brass
as though the people had never set the
seal of condemnation upon them, and
branded them as traitors to their coun-
ty, to religion and to humanity. 1t LAS
been one of the impuGent assumptions
of the opposition to the Democratic
party, ever since its organization, to
aim for themselves all the morality,
the dcccncy, and all the Intelligence,
and, like the Pharisee of old, to thank
God they are not as other men are.
Now these acouH be Men of God know,
they know anything about the polit-
cal history of the country, that these
pretentious TO morality and decency on
the part of the opposition are wholly
gratuitous. Their elevation to power,
in every instance has been followed by
their speedy expulsion, simply on ac-
of their corruption. Why. have
these men forgotten the struggle for the
Law in this State, when the op-
position leaders joined them ia dcnoun-
cling the members Of the Democratic
party as r~Hulnics, aud with favoring in
temperance! Where now are those
boas'cd friends of Temperance One
defeat has suffced to seal their
lips on the Temperance question, and al
prof, ssi0ns have vanished into thin
air. Aud Row the opposition, following
in their old beaten track, are charging
al the supporters Of FUCnAHAN and
ECzIYRInGE with favor.ug the cxfen-
sion of slavery, and sanctio"iag all the
evils that must result from tae coatinu-
ed existence OF tho institution in this
country. The 81 -.alltd Republican par
y is per crccUsncc the party of Ff g.
la"1, aud the Democratic party is the
pre- @Atr+ry party! Now, it will not be
denied that this Black Republican par
ty is largely composed of Old Line
Wings, who heartily supported the
WIsis nominees in 1852 ana the Plat
on which they stood. W. Invite
attention to the following clause IN shat
Platform:
"TuE sERIEs T ACr or TIE Tii!RTY-
CoSGREss, Commonly KNoVN As
THE COMPROMISE OR ADJUST
MENT, (rHE ACT FOR THE RE
COVEEX OF FUGITIYES FROM
LABOR INCLUDED) ARE RECEIVED
AND AcQu.EsCED IN BY THE VINES OF TIL
UNITED STATES AS n FINAL SET
ELEMENT, IN PRINCIPLE AND
SUBSTANCE. OF THE SUBJECTS
TO WHICH THEY RELATE, and.
so fur as these acts are concerned, WE
WILL MAINTAIN THEN AND
INSIST ON THEIR STRICT EN-
FORCEMENT, unfiI time an crpeTg-
shah demOnStrate the necessity Of
l~egiSdation to guard against thc
.Uasion Of the Easos on The M hand
ana the abuse Of their p0i0erS on lite 9TH
IMPATRING THEIR PRESENT EFF
CIENcY to carry out the requirements of
the Constitution; and WE DEPRECATE
FURTHER AGITATION OF THE oUEs-
rIoNs THUS SETTLED AS DANGEROUSLY OUR
PEACE, AND WILL. DIsCoUNTENANCE ALI
EFFORTS TO CONTINUE OR RENEW SUCH
AGITATION, WHENEVER, WHER-
OR HOWEVER MADE,
1nd re aciU maintain This settlement
AS ESSENTIAL TO THE Ma
rIONALITY OF THE W HIG
ARTY and the integrity Of the
Gen. ScoTr accepted the nomination
{ with the Platform annexed" and every
nan who voted for him endorsed this
solution. Mark the words Of the
Resolution-all the compromise meas
Tres of 1850 "are received and &C.
IN By the Wigs Of the United
States AS A FINAL SETTLEMENT, IN
PRINCIPLE AND SUBSTANCE, Of
lie subjects to qcAich they relate" &c,
u of the principles established
" that Compromise, as will be seen by
n examination of the acts organizing
Utah and New Mexico, was that the
of those Territories should be
llowed to settle the SlaUery question far
and the clause in reference
o slavery in the Nebraska-Kansas bin
Ias copied, word for word, from the acts
rganizing Utah and New Mexico. This
precisely the position occupied by the