The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-04-16

our Columbus correspondent it is need
less to say that. although three-quafters
of the Legislature are Black Republi.
cans, the leaders dared not to leave the
members free to follow the dictates of
their own judgment and conscience, but
considered and decided upon every
thing in party Caucus. What transpir.
ed in the Legislature day by day was
but the formal carrying out of what had
been "tin.panned," as our correspondent
called it, the night before. Argument
and eloquencs were thrown away upon
a body thus tied down to party drill.
In this, as in everything else, the ihsin-
certify of the opposition was demonstra-
ted. Declaimipg against the tyranny of
caucus on the stump and before the
people, no set of partizans practice it
so perfectly and remorsely as these same
Black Republicans.
Much of the time Of the session has
been taken up with resolutions of inoui.
~ into the manner in which late Demo
cratic officials and public servants had
discharged their duty. Several Smell
ing committees" (Uirc Ia HissD were
appointed. Although, with q fairness
and honesty characteristic OF the lead
ers in the Legislature, the committees
were composed of men who had express
ed themselves decidedly as to the guilt
of those into whose conduct they are to
inquire, we predict that those who Ego
out to shear will come back shorn," and
that the political capital the Fusiohists
expect to make out of these investiga.
tions will vanish into "thin air."
The small Democratic minority of the
Legislature, whose conduct has been
wise and sagacious throughout, deserve
credit for obliging. the Black Republi.
cans to "show their hands, upon the
question of the restoration of the "Mis
souri, Compromise" After e~xhausting
language in Indignation at its repeal,
and declaring upon the stump that ii
was q sacred compact" that must be
restored" yet, when the QUESTION Of
restoration" was brought directly up,
they almost unanimously voted it down,
They thus virtually confessed that theil
cheating of the air" had been all for pc
htical effect, and that its repeal was /.
wise effort of craftsmanship, for, other.
wise, they would demand its "~restora-
ton"
The most noticeable measures of the
session were: The passage of a bank
bill so framed that it is doubtful whether
any capitalists will ever organize under
if; the election of a man who had ex.
pressed disunion sentiments to the Uni
ted States Senate, and the passage OF
az act to "ameud the habeas corpus
but really designed to nullify the Fugi-
rive-slave Law in Ohio; the reception of
Governor CHAsE's WAR; Kansas Mes
sage, and the absurd resolutions of in
struction to our Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress upon the negro
question. These and many other miner
obnoxious acts will constitute a fruitful
field of discussion in the political a
vass that is coming on. Where are the
reforms the people were promised, il
they would inaugurate Black Repub-
licanism in power in Ohio? Echo an.
swers "Wherel" They will 60 into the
same category with the "two-dollars-n'
day-and-roast,beef' promises of 1910
that are SO celebrated in our political
annals. The members Of the Legisla.
ture themselves, we understand, separa-
ted in no good humor with themselves
or any body else, as they looked over the
results of the session, and considered
The expectation of the people, and the
belief was very generally expressed tina,
it would lead to a political revolution
of the State.-Cfn. Enquirer.