The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-08-20
D1sUN1oN AND TREASON
Black Republican Sentiments.

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Let rs remember that more thai
three millions of bondmen, grooming un
der nameless woes, demand that we shal
reprove each other, and that we labo'
for their deliverance.
I tell YOU here tonight, that the agi
tation Of this question of human slave
nv will continue while the foot of
slave nresses the soil of the American
Republic." Ex-senator Wilson, Of Mass
achmsettS.
"Iu conclusion, 1 have only to add
that such is my solemn and abiding con
~viction of the character of slavery, that
under a full sense of my responsibility
to my country and my God, 1 deliber
ately say, better disurion-better civil
or a %servile war-better anything that
God in mis- Providence shall send-thau
an extension of the bounds of slavery
lion. Horace Mann.
The good citizen as he reads the re.
quirements of this act-the Fugitive
Slave-is filled with horror.
Here the path of my duty is clear.
l AM BOUND To nIsoBEY THIS ACT. "
Hon. Charles Samner.
"If peaceful m cans fail us, and we
are driven to the last extremity where
ballots arc useless, then we'll make bull
lets effective" Tremendous applause. ]
Hon. Erast4s Hopkins.
al detes. slavery, and say unhesita-
tingly that l am in favor of its aboli-
tion by some means, if it sends all the
party organizations in the Union and the
Union itself to the deUI. If it can only
exist by holding millions of human be-
ings in the most abject and cruel system
of slavery that ever cursed the earth, it
was a great pity that it was ever formed,
and the sooner it is dissolved the bet
ter."-A N. addison.
Was it not hat the only hope of the
slave was over ruins of this government,
and of the American church-the dis.
solution of the Union was the abolition
of slavery ?"-Stephen C. Foster.
"a great many people raise a cry
about the Union and Constitution, as if
the two were identical, but the truth is,
the fountain and father of our troubles"
-Rev. Capt. Henry Ward HdHcm
Beecher, Pastor Of the Church Of The
Holy Rites.
Remembering he was a STAKEHOLDER
be could spit upon Washington, (hisses
and a~pplause.) The hissers, he said,
were shareholders in spirit, and every
one of them would e~nslave him if they
had the courage to do it. So near to
Faneuil Hall and Bunker Hill, was he
not permitted to say that scoUNDREL,
George Washington, had enslaved his
fellow men &c. L. Remand, Black
Republican Orator ut FancuI Hail.
Men of Ohio, rush to the rescue
Leave candidate making to those who
have time for such things: your duty is
to fght-to fight as your fathers fought
for freedom.-OAio Paper.
Resolved, That God helping US, we
will live and labor-not ouly for the pre-
%vention of slavery upon the soil of Kan
length ard breadth of the land"
ReS0ivcd, That the Union was est.b-
lisLed to sccuTe the Liberties of Ameri-
can citizens When :. fails TO do that,
our only voice can b.. let the Union be
diSsois Resolutions.
We are northerr men, aId sc lave a
Senator in Congreas / am for having
every man go al /, ard Il As is as
shoot down 49, opDnaent.-lIr.
BrerSter'S speech n Fancuti LiaW.
The events of the last few years aad
and days nave taught US lessons
IF centuries. l do not see how d bar
barous community and il civilized com
can constitute one state. l
,hibk we must get rid Of slavery or we
get rid of frcedom.-R ". En-
e1Son 1T C0u.0rd.
The following resolution was adopted
at a meeting of Black Republicans at
Monroe. Green Co., Wisconsin, on the
> list ult:
"RcSozUed, That it is the duty of the
in case they fail in electing a
President, and a Congress that will re-
store freedom to Kansas, to reUOlutiOa-
ize tile GOvernmeHt.
l have said, and take this occasion to
that rather than consent that the
curse of human chattledom should be
taken into Kansas aid Nebraska, l would
to see the political elements
crumble iuto CIereland
Leader.
al have no doubt but hat the free
and slave States ought to be separated"
York Tri5une.
"There is 4 higher law than the Con-
which regulates our authority
over the domain. 1t (slavery)
can and must be abolished, and you and
| must do it. Correct Your own
error that slavery has constitutional
guarantees which may not be released,
and ought not to be relinquished.
You will soon bring the parties of the
country into an affective aggression up
on slavery."-W Nm. III. Se,card.
"I have great hopes of the overthrow
CT the Union."-Rev. T. Foss.
The North must separate from the
South and organize her own Institutions
on a sure basis.-W I'm. Lloyd Garrison.
ResozUed, That the time has come
when it becomes the north to stand a
unit, and to the question, Freemen or
return the emphatic answer of
Patric Henry, "Give me liberty or give
me death."-Reading Mass ResOlves-
The Union is not worth supporting
in connection with the South. "-H0race
Greeley.
In the Pittsburg Convention, a few
ago, after prayer by the Rev.
Mr.. Lovejoy-
"The Rev. Mr.. Brewer, of Connecti-
cut, said he was in favor Of using fire