The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-02-20

HNSSNOm III Sut HOrJ0 can ask more !
Again, does not the following paragraph
from the Proclamation commend itself
to our readers as ~eminently wise and
judicious?
" I call on the citizens, both of adj
joing and of distant States, to abstain
from unauthorized intermeddling in the
local concerns of the Territory, admon-
ishing them that its organic Law is to be
executed with impartial justice that
all individual acts Of illegal interference
will incur condign punishment; and that
any endeavor to intervene by organized
force will be firmly withstood."
We have been opposed alike to the
interference of the Missouri rufians,
and the movements of eastern Emigrant
Aid Societies. We do not wish to be
understood for a moment as favoring
the acts of the bogus, bo~rder-rufian,
Kansas Legislature, but We ask whether
their validity had not better be tested by
legally constituted Courts, rather than
resist their..execution BY force of armsP
First try peaceable means, and if they
fail it is time enough then to talk about
forcible resistance. The truth is, the
Free State party have never sought the
aid of the Territorial Courts to test the
validity of the laws passed by the bogus
Legislature. The Missourians COM
menced the war, but the Free State
leaders have continued to keep it up by
their own indiscreet acts, until the
whole Union bids fair to become in
volved in the strife. We ask that calm,
sober-minded, honest men, give this
subject that consideration which it de-
serves, and remember that there really
is two sides to this troublesome ques-
ton. We desire to see the good people
of Ashland County Indignantly frown
down these fanatical attempts to dis
member the Union, or involve the diff
ferent sections of the country in a bloody
civil war, on account Of the local affairs
of the people of a Territory in which
lucy HS0 FL w nlSC COuCSEiOu. 4hO PSO-
pie may expect the leaders Of the Fusion
party to keep up the excitement on the
subject of Slavery until after the Presi-
Dental election. Outrages of the most
revolving and outrageous character will
be heralded forth as having been commit
ted in Kansas, that never occurred. Ev-
cry prominent leader of the Abolition
faction will be called into the field, to
harrangue and excite the people with
tales of the horrors of Slavery. We
hope Democrats will everywhere take a
bold stand in opposition to tie Abolition
leaders, who will attempt to excite the
passions of the people. Let every Union
loving, faction-hating, national Demo
crat, boldly proclaim his devotion to the
Constitution and the Union. In conclu-
sion, we ask those Democrats who have
foolishly strayed into the ranks of the
fusion party, to calmly peruse the fol-
lowing remarks from q man whom they
once delighted to honor. SLAs WRIeHr,
in delivering an Grafton on the 4th day
of July, 1889, gave utteranoe to the fol-
lowing noble and patriotic sentiments !:
If there be those among us who,
misled by a mistaken sympathy or by
sudden excitement, upon any subject,
are forgetting their obligations to the
whole country, to the Constitution and
the Union, let Us use every effort of
persuasion and example to awaken them
to a sense of their dangerous error. In
respect to all those s0ho, for the sake Of
1rivdte interest, personal ambition, or
m1onaentary political success, p wiL-
ling to experiment upon the public pas
sion, to treat lightly their constitution
al obligations, to fonzent sectional jeaL-
ousies, and raise mp geographical dis-
tlnctlonS acithin the Union, let the abb
sence of all countenance and support
convince such hat the personal gratifi-
cation OF public service of any living
man are not objects of sufficient magni-
tude to be gained at the expense of the
harmony of the country, the peace of
the Union, or a single letter in the list
of our constitutional duties.
If there be any among Us (Which
Heaven forbid) who are prepared, for
any earthly object, to dismember our
Confederacy, and destroy that Constitu-
ton which. binds US together, let the
fate Of Arnold be theirs, and let the de-
teStation and scorn Of every american
be their constant companion until, IKE
him, they shall abandon a country
schose rich blessings they are no longer
tc0rthy to enjoy"