The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-07-22
- Tho Washington National Era,

o leading DiacK republican paper, oeuneS
correctly the relation existing between
its " organization and the early abo-
litionists. It says:
awe do not intend that these facts
shall be lost sight of. The early aboli
lists, so far as our influence can 20,
shall not be d~iscredited through iguor-
RANGE and prejudice. There are reput.
~licans, so called, who would separate
their movements entirely from that
which those much abused men ~origina-
ted. They cannot do it; THE MOVEMENTS
R ONE; THE EARLY A-BoLrrIoNIsTs WERE
ONLY HI They were stigma
tized as incendiaries, fanatics, amalga-
mationists traitors, so are republicans,
now-What is the difference? They
counted only by thousands republica ns
count by hundred, of thousands: their
voices were overwhelmed by the univer-
sal uproar against them republicans
commanding a majority of the leading
journals of the Union. in possession Of
nearly all the free States, and with more
than a million of voters, can hurl back
the charges, and make themselves not
ouly heard but felt. And yet some of
them are pusillanimous enough to dis
claim any connection or sympathy with
those brave pioneers, whose self. sacrif-
cling labors tave enabled them to pro-
claim, without fear of prescription,
doctrines whose PRONUNCIATION in 1886
imposed political and social degradation
and the pains and penalties of lynch
law"
Here We have boldly heralded and by
n of the most conservative Black Re-
publican papers in the land, the true
doctrine of the party. Now look at that
ye "pusillanimous" ones who "disclaim
any connection or sympathy with those
brave pioneers" "the early abolition
ists," and tell us now if the charges
made by the Democracy that the move
ments are one, and that the Republicans
are in the same ring, working for the
same end and grasping and unfolding
the same principles as the d~isunionists,
are not true. One of the principal or
gans of your party, n that has gener-
ally shown itself conservative in its
views aHd tendencies, one which is rs
ably edited as the N. Y. Tribune and
far more honestly, q which, all through
the close and exciting campaign of last
fall, yor quoted and endorsed one which
has lately given some indications that it
was working with an honest purpose, by
advising the free State settlers in Kan
sas to vote and make it free, in the face
of the orders of the Tribune and the
bevy of little dogs that barked to the
same June in it's wake, this paper tells
you t..at 1.-THE MOVEMENTS ARE
ONE; THE EARLY ABOLITION
lists WERE ONLY THE Pho
NEERS" Aud it says that some "are
~pusillanimeus enough" to deny their
origin. Why do they do it They
know full well that if they admit this at
once, that if they openly uphold the
doctrines which they are secretly endeav
oriug to inculcatr, doctrines whose
PRONUNCIATION in 1886 imposed political
and social degradation" doctrines whose
necessary consequence is to impose 'fpt-
litical and social degradation" by plac-
ing the negro and whiteman upon an
equality, making no distinction between
the intelligent An Clio Saxon and the
thick Tipped, aat-nosed, long-heeled,
woolly- headed, bow-legged, monkey-vis-
aged black African, doctrines, the ad-
vocates of which, the most of them, once
as "iucendiaries, fanatics,
amalgamationists aud traitors,n that, if
they let their followers know that their
desire in the end is the triumph Of these
they will be as generally and
as deeply damned as were these carly
pioneers" Come, ye "pusillanimoush
ones, keep step to the music. Your
pioneers are in the van with their ban
ners of disunion, down with the Consti-
tuition and up with negro equality, war,
merciless fratricidal war with the
Walk up after them "bold and
erect" and don't go skulking in the
rear, sneaking through bush and brake,
afraid to be seen or known, ashamed of
the light. Your masters don't want
their servile tools to be ashamed of their