The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-03-25
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ASHLAND.
Wednesday, March IS. 1857.
WILLIAM mEDsLL, COmPTR0LL.
EH OF THE U. s. TRESURK.

EH OF THE U. ). TRESURK.
No appointment of Mr.. BUCHANAN
could have besu more acceptable to the
people Of Ohio than that Of our late
popular Executive, Governor MEDrLL-
With two or three exceptions, even the
Republican press havo freely endorsed
the fitness Of the appointments. Among
these exceptions, is the SaDiusky Reg
lister, sjeurnal which, though generally
candid in its statements, has suffered its
rar.izan zeal, in its notice of Gov. Me
DILL, to violate all propriety and de-
ccDcy. Referring to his contest with
Gov. CHASE, in 1855, that paper says
that he lMEDIL1) was
"IgnominiousIy dismissed from a post
he had disgraced BY the People of ,he
State"
We do NOT understand what meaning
the Rseistex Notwithstanding
'a~onaiaious; but if a reduction of the
Fusion majority an one gear, flora
EIGHTY THOUSAND ia 1854, to
FIFTEEN THOUSAND in 1865, was
anything like an 'siguomiuious re-
hake By the People of Ohio, then Gov.
MEDILL stands convicted If this IN
initiating process had continued one year
longer, how and where would fremont
have appeared in Ohio in 1856?
Again we are informed by this vera
cious Journal. that
"He (Gov. MED1LL) made his laehry-
nose appeal to an intensified loeofoco
District, and was there rejected again !;
and these we're his passports to demo
cratic farori"
Now the truth is, that Gov. MFDrLL
did not seek the nomination. It vas
literally thrust upon him, and he yield
ed from a sense of duty to his party.
As to his District being an intensi-
fed locofoco . one, it was quite the re-
vsrss. Two years prior, it had gene for
tho poor colored mans party" By a
majority Of several thousand and the
Jear immediately preceding, it had Civ
e0 CHAsE q majority of l4I6! Gov
MEDiLL did not, therefore, accept the
Democratic nomination last fall with
any strong hopes Of baing elected. The
resnlt. however, has convinced every
candid man, that he would havo been
elected, bad notsho opposition combined
Iksir " black spirits and white, blue
sp{Fits and gray" in q sslid mass
sgEnss him. Hs made a better race,
under the circumstances, than any 9TH
er candidate in the Statc-ehanged back
his own county from 500 against US two
Years before, to over 1000 IN u taror
ia 1856 If fusioaism is satisfied with
such q E~inistration Of ignominy !" at
the hands of the people, Democrats are,
sureiyt
Il is eminently ct that agentlemsn Of
the experience, ability and well-estab-
lished integrity of WIELr4x MEDlLL,
shouid take the place of the onlypu6lic
ran for whom che opposition claim hon.
esty, within their ranks. ELISHA WHrr-
7IRsEv was appointed, wo believe, by
Gen. TAYLOR, aud his chief merit con-
sisss in having survived the Galphinisun
OF The unfortunate administration of Mr..
FiLLNoRE without haYipgbeen convicted
of theft. President PIERCE retained
the old gentleman as a monument of oil
the integrity that survived of the an
cient regime. As far as qualifications
for the COMPREHENSIVE arc concerned,
Gov. MEDlLL is infinitely the superior Of
Dir. W~H1TTLEsEy, and so far as uueor-
rupted and ~ineorruptible HONESTY are
involved. tho public service has certainly
lost nothing. The only loss in the case
is sustained by Mr. WnrrrLEsEY.-and
his less is precisely that Of his salary.
rnN. SAMnEL, MEDaRV.