The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-09-17
BLACK REPUBLICAN MEETING
AT PERRYSVILLE.

not only with a sight of one of the re-
nowned heroes of the war of two cam
paigns-one of those chivalrous cham
pions who survived a seige in Congress
and a foray in Rhinestone of that dis
tinguishcd trio of warriors who perform
ed the wonderful feat Of running the
guantlct through one session of Con-
!, gress without being struck down with
d" bludgeons," and served a campaign In
Kansas without being murdered by
border rufians,"-but heard him speak,
also, of the tale of his wrongs and suffer
ings and hair breadth escapes. We re-
fer to that distinguished member OF the
Kansas Committee whom GREELY fitted
for his reasonable purpose by Shining
him over with the adulation of being the
"best looking member in Congress "
and a Legitimate scion of the old Roc
Err SHERMAN stock" By-thc-way, GREE.
LY's ideal of natural personal beauty is,
a cherub set in q black ground, with
thick lips, fiat nose and Uranium envel-
oped in a cloud of curly wool. But
without further questioningah his claims
as a judge of natural beauty; or c%ritici-
zing the merits of his pet as to personal
feminine prettiness, or the legitimate
and aristecrdtic purity of his blood, we
must all admit his tact, in this case, to
discover at a glance the controlling prin-
ciple of the instrument he was about to
adapt and convert to his own base use.
The old mariner, after the survey of a
craft, knows where and how to lay his
hand on the rudder>to direct her course,
and so did GREELY know, the moment
he cast his eyes on this political seow,
where TO place his hand to control his
movements. And that, too, without any
claim for discernment, for vanity sticks
out of his character like the handle on a
jug, as much as to say take hold Of
me hero! :" The fable Of the Fox aud
the Crow has been over-done in this
case. The young political jackdaw, hav-
ing stolen and being about to fly away
with a nice morsel of political capital,
is approached by the old sly fox, GREE
LY, who congrstulates him upon his
good luck and begins initiating his vanity
by praising the beauty of his plumage
and the glossy blackness Of his ances-
tors-the young minny struts and turns
aud turns and struts, and not t. be over
lone and to show how grateful the fiat
tering JUNCTION is to his soul, he flies
away and deposits the precious morsel
inthe old Fox's hole. HORACE got the
cheese and left the party-man-the de-
generate illegitimate bantliug Of a fcti-
tious aud spurious pedigree-to 60 about
the country hawking his good looks and
royal blood, in search of a market. IIo-
RACE fattered and wheedled the tn
Sophisticated d~pe- to turn his Uncle's
grindstorc while HORACE gsouud his
axe to chop his Uncle's house dom, AID
chased him off, when done, to rob his
Uncle for pay and support.
But, to the meeting. A week in ad-
vance, bills were posted up all over the
country, announcing that the Hon. JonN
SHERMAN, aud several other distinguish
ed speakers, would address the meeting
Private runners were sent all over the
country, to give special and pressing iu-
vitatious to Democrats to attend and
hear the kansas iniquity" exposed.
Sly deputations were sent to all the sur
sounding towns, soliciting delegations to
attend to give Importance to the meet
ing. The day, bright and beautiful,
came, and the speakers, too, good
looking, royal blood" and his "pimp"
came also but the vast ~ass-emblage
did not. About 500, upon count, col
in the grove, nearly one-half Of
whom were women and minor children,
(God bless them, we with there had
been ten times as many of the Innocent
oreatures.) Nearly, or quite half of the
voters present, were Democrats.
Hon. JOHN began by hoping the peo-
pie would let by-goues be ~by-gones, and
bury all recollectiOus. Spoke of the
California Wig lance Committee-BRooKs
Assault-the HERBERT casc-of the
that was driven out of the
South-the Virginian who was driven
rom the State-and that the existence
slavery in Is States Of this Union
vas the cause of all these disturbances.
Said the Republican party did not in
end to interfere with slavery where it is,
claimed the right to pass laws to
its going into any more terrific
y, and to prevent any more slave States {
into this Union. Said every |
'ody believed slavery was settled forev- q
r by the Compromise of 1850, but l
PIERCE violated his oath by refusing to
etc the Nebraska bill. Said the re- v
.orts in the papers about Kansas mat
ers were not all believed in Congress, b
o they sent him put there to see about a
{. Told a good many anecdotes about
that fine fellows he saw, what a nice .
he had and how well he was treat A
d. Then told how bad the Border Ruff.
ans were and how blood-thirsty they s.
cted, and what peaceable, orderly, in k
creatures the Free State men e.
ere--only killed five pro-slaycry mon II