The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-09-23
ADDRESS OF THE
Democratic State Central Com
raittee to the People of Ohio.
CoLUMRUs. S.pt. I0.IS57.

euuErSS LuelT lellOW CLLlzeuS uPou
issues involved in the present political
canvass. CompreheDding, as they think
they do the Importance of the questions
now to be resolved by the people, and
fully impressed with the conviction, that
tie popular will is about to recall the
Democratic party to administer the af-
fairs of State, the Committee believe,
that they ought not to neglect to confer
with their fellow citizens in this man
per.
The perpetuity of the Union is now,
as heretofore, an object upon which the
Democracy is ~iuiexibly resolved. The
party in this State, one of the largest
integers in the National Democracy,
have always made it cardinal princi
pie of their faith. The preservation of
the liberties of the people is the chief
end of the Democracy, ana the mainten-
anee OF the Union is indispensable to its
attainment. The bulk of our opponents
do rot intend to destroy that inestima-
Bile legacy of our wise and patriotic
forefathers, but, considering the blind
fsnaticism of many of their readers, the
reckless and interruptions ambition
which animates another large portion of
them, and the success which has hither-
to attended their efforts in lighting up
the baleful fires eff sectional animosity
and distrust, we are compelled to regret,
that SO many of our fellow citizers should
have suffered themselves to be drawn
into their pernicious and dangerous or
ganization, Support given that party
creates a seemingly well-founded susp'-
cion in the minds of your brethren of
the South that a large portion of our
people are prepared to renounco the COM
promises of the Constitution, and to in
terfere with the domestic institutions of
the several States. The inevitable re-
suit of the established success of the
Republican party must be the destruc-
ton of all fraternal confidence among
the people of the States, AID the final
disruption of the c~onfederacy. The
country, SO grand and majestic in the
eyes of the world, not less f, ON the sym
plicity and wisdom of its political sys-
tenn, than from the 5plendor of its
achievements, the vast extent of its do
mains, and the marvellous rapidity of
its moral and physical progress, is threat
sned With danger where, alone, it is not
impregnsble. Impervious to all attacks
from without, and able to contend with
the whole world in arms in defence of
our homes and liberties, internal dissen-
sion meDaces the safety oil the ReI hblic.
The fortress which cannot be carried by
assault succumbs at last to sap and mine;
and This Empire of the West, which de-
fes with impuuity the combined efforts
of all the despots in the world to over
come or restrain it, may fall by the per-
severing wiekeduess of a few teacherous
~sgitafors. The Goths are not at. the
gates, but in the heart Of the Capital.
When the great body of the people
North and South shall have become
estranged, and hostile to each other, ii
will require a question of real magni-
tude to hasten the development of the
frightful consequences. In au exacer-
bated state of the public mind, such as
must follow the success of our opponents
some matter of trifiug import, like the
reported suet on the cartridges of The
Sepoys, may be sufficient to lrecipitate
the destruction of the august fabric our
fathers raised, aud to sever the Confed
Grey they constructed, into numerous
petty and hostile communities. When
such a feeling prevails, the peace and
we'll being of the body polite. are no
longer within the control of the just
and prudent, of any party; but at the
mercy of the first knave or madman who
may be found to rush upon destruction
Tor the sake of anarchy. The fires Of
hate, so insidiously kindled by the cue
mics of the Uuion, burn low at first; but
if lot extinguished by youriefforts in due
in a general confagration, The Commit
tee earnestly cal upon you to stop
that in the green tree, which may not
be stayed IN the dry.
The Committee believe that upon the
success of the Democratic party the pre-
servation of our race pure aud intact, in
Ohio, mainly depends. They proclaim,
once and for all, their uualterable con-
in the graduation of races. The
race of people in the United
like the ancient Romans and the
the offspring of the most intel
.ivctual, energetic, perseVeribg and warlike
of the Cuucasiou people, is be
to be the highest type of man yet
developed on the g ODE. The crafty
md savage tribes of this continent with
,red at It's near approach, by reason Of
Iome mysterious agency never explained,
put never by any long withstood. Ic
the French in all their vast
possessions below the Great Laxes 1t
elected the former occupants of the
and Western shores of the Gulf
IT Mexico 1t appropriated the coast
If the Pacific from the tRirty-second to
he fort7-ninth degrees of North latitude.
It has reduced to its dominion all the
Intermediate territory between the first
Early settlements at Plymouth, and on
lie banks of james River, aud the dis
ant regions where the waters of the
ming!e with the sea; and beat
ng back, all over the continent, the
nongref descendants of the degenerate
SpauIard, the Iudian and the Negro, it
90 the broad path of Empire,
eaching from shore to shore both Oceans,
sith laundering tread. To keep this
,reat superior race unmixed with the
African, in Ohio, Is an imperative duty
GU owe to mankind at large, a. well as
ourselves aud your immediate desce1-
Ohio. in the centre of the confederacy,
nd upon the borders of the two slave
states, cannot trife with this grave
Iuestion, as the States of the remote
North and East may do. The negro
Is aud must be larger in our
tate than in Maine or. Massachusetts,.