The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-07-30

The Fusion gathering last Wednesday
evening at the Court House, was a sorry
affair indeed. No effort was spared to
get up a crowd. Bills were got put an
nouncing in flaming capitals that Hon.
WIN. STANBEnRY and Judge STEWART
would address the meeting, but it was
10 go. Night came and so did the speak
ers, but the people very prudently staid
at home. After waiting until a late
hour and the Court room not being over
half full, Mr.. STANBEnEY proceeded to
deliver what at least half of the honest
Fusionists in town are willing to swear
was a Democratic speech. Indeed, had
he not denounced JAMES BUCHANAN in
unmeasured terms, and called him any,
thing else but a Statesman and an hon.
est man, we should have taken him for
an agent of some Southern Company,
sent up North to look out for a site on
which to erect a Cotton Factory. He
proved conclusively that two-thirds of
the exports from this country were the
products of Southern Slave labor; and,
furthermore, that specializing in South
ern productions and supplying the South
ern markets with the necessaries of life,
constituted one half of the business of
the North. And wound up his remarks
on this point by emphatieally declaring
that the Southern Shareholders were on
ly so many overseers for the business
men of the North. He also made anoth-
declaration equally as disagreeable to
the Black Republicans ~hereabouts, and
which we desire to put on record. He
expressed his undoubted belief that if
the people of Kansas had a fair opportu-
nifty of deciding the Slavery question at
the ballot box, Kansas would unques-
tionably be q Free State. Now, as this
is precisely what Mr.. DOUGLAS new bill
proposes to give to the people of KANSAS
pray tell US, Mr.. S%TANBEnRY, what is the
meaning of all this Black Republican
bowling about Slauery IN Kansas? The
speaker also announced that he had
served six years in Congress with JAMES
BUCHANAN-that he always considered
him a two-faced politician-that he was
no Democrat and never was-that he
had never done anything for the country
that he had cheated HENRY CLAY out
of the Presidency-and finally, that he
(Mr. SrAEBERRY) would vote for FIRE.
MONT because he did not like Mr.. BU-
cHANAN. At the conclusion of his speech,
Mr.. STRAWBERRY called upon Jul excel
lent Brass Band in the gallery to give
him "the Star Spanglcd Banner" but
the boys made q mistake in the number,
and " blowed him up with
Commence ye Darkies all
AS loud as you can bawl," &c,
Judge STEWART next took the stand,
and proceeded to address the audience
at length in opposition to the principle
of allowing the people to go0cr7a them
seEues. He labored hard to show that
the doctrine of Popular Sovereignty was
first advanced by JOHN G. CALHOUN, and
that Mr.. DOUGLAS had only been steal
ing Nh. CALHoUN's thunder" As the
Black Republicans hereabouts have been
charging for the last two years that Mr..
DOUGLAS was the originator of the doc
trine, we shall expect all of them now
to swallow their own declarations. All
a mistake, gentlemen. Neither Mr..
DOUGLAS nor Mr.. CALHOUN were the au-
thors of the doctrine of Popular Sover-
eighty. 1t was first asserted by JAMES
OTIs in the Massachusetts, Colonial AS
sembly previous TO the breaking out Of
the Revolution, when he declared that
=" taxation a0ithout representation IS tyr
onmy!" And the Black Republican
doctrine hat Congress has unlimited
power over inchoate States, was first as.
serted by Lord North and the British
Parliament under King George the
| Third, when they declared that hi
Majesty in PA-lamuuU or right had Tho
power to bind the people of those Col
onies by statutes in all cases whatsoev
err" Judge STEWART made DO attemp
in his speech to explain his Nebrask;
letter, nor did he deny its existence, Of
that the contents were not just as w
have charged them to be. Our Arts
has furnished US with a cut, represent
ing his Honor in n of his loftiest at
titudes, with each particular hair of hi
head standing on end, like quilts upo'
the fretful "porkopine The mul
team in the back ground was used as
conveyance for the speakers.
e" Young America Breckinridg
Division of the old Hickory Buchaa