The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-02-13
WAR MESSAGE FROM GOV. CHASE
s-POWDER ON THE RISE.


Among our legislative reports this
week will be found another Message from
Gov. CHASE. Its no use trying to keep
our Abolition Governor still. He's
bound to blaze, be the expenses what
they may. He has been in Office but
little over a month, and yet he has issu-
ed taco Abolition Presidential Messages,
and subscribed FIFTY DOLLARS to
s. knock the noise " out of the Kansas
border rufians.
But seriously, is not this proceeding
on the part of Gov. CHASE unparalleled
in the history of tae State ? What
right have the citizens of Ohio to inter
fere with the affairs of the people of
Kansas ? AS we'll might Gov. CHASE
call out volunteers to invade the State
of Kentucky. 1t is to just such meas
ures as the Governor recommends that
nearly all the troubles of she people of
Kansas are to be attributed. Had
there been no Abolition Emigrant Aid
Societies formed-if the people of the
| Northern States had not literally run
mad OH the subject of Slavery-had
| there been no such Abolition aaitators
as CHASE, SEWARD, GEELEY s. Co., to
create false sympathy for the slave in
the breasts of the people of the North,
or to excite the fears of the people of the
South-in short, if the Abolitionists of
the North had not attempted to take
Kansas By storm, there would have been
lone of those scenes of bloodshed and
intestine strife, which have taken place
on the soil of Kansas. Gov. CHASE
knows we'll that u Legislature can af-
ford 10 " aid to crush a rebellion in
any other State or Territory, unless the
President calls upon us for volunteers.
The effect of the Legislature of Ohio
making our State a party to the troubles
in Kansas would inevitably be to draw
us into a bloody civil war, not only with
other States, but also with the Federal
Government. Gov. CHASE counsels
downright treason, and in this Message
writes himself down a traitor alike to the
Constitution and the Union. The peo-
pie of Ohio can now see the dangerous
character of the man whom they have
elevated to the highest Office within
their gift. He is not content with look
ing after the interests of the people of
Ohio, which is all his Office requires him
to do. His philanthropy takes a wider
range, and includes the entire South
and our Western Territories, which he
seems to forget are the common property
of the whole Union. If the public
tranquility is not jeopardized, and our
State and Federal authorities brought
into an armed collision, the people of
Ohio will not have to thank their Gov
ernor.
That there are reckless, hot-headed
partizans in the Territory of Kansas,
both Pro-Slavery and Anti-Slavery, who
desire to involve the whole Union in a
bloody war on ac count of their local af-
fairs, there can be no doubt. But it
beho7es all good citizens, who love
law and, order and who wish to preserve
the Constitution and the Union, to
move with caution and d~eliberation.
Let strict nou-intervention be the policy.
Kansas is the common property of the
whole Union and not of any particular
section. Let the actual residents of
the Territory determine what its i%nstitu-
tions shall be, without interference from
any quarter. If the local authorities
have not sufficient force to protect the
of the Territory from armed in
v~asions, the President stands ready to
the necessary aid. VIZ have no
sympathy with Missouri border rufian-
nor do we approve of the course of
those who, with the aid of "Sharp's ri
les." attempt to settle political ques-
lions to their own liking. We are for
in Kansas now and always have
been, and we are firmly of the belief
hat it can never be anything else but a
free State. Certain we are, also, that
Ill efforts of Northern Abolitionists to
force it into the Union as a free State,
will retard rather than favor such a re-
suit.