The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-06-17
HONESTY.

REPUBLICAN HONESTY.
A Black Republican paper in an ad
joining county, at the close of an articl
clarifying the greatness of Gov. Chase
administration, declares with delight
that tsalready the State Debt has bee
reduced to about fifteen millions of dol
lars"
The nub of the joke which the abov
Affords is in the fact that the Stat
Debt had been reduced to within a shad
nofJourteen millions before tho Blacl
Republican administration hegun--Ne6
ark Advocate.
The above shows up a specimen o
the honesty of the Black Republican
press. 1t tells its own tale. The
would have go forth to the world tn
false inference, that the State debt, whel
they obtained the reins of power, wa
more than fifteen millions of dollars ant
that they had reduced it, when the fac
is, upon the contrary, that they have onl.
increased it. Itrequires desperate RENE
dies to bolster up a totteriDg cause
Here is another, which for bare-faced
infamous dishonesty, can not be surpass
ed. .as
sa Some time since the abolitionists II
Kansas proposed to the then acting
governor, Stanton, a plan for taking the
census in Kansas, different from thai
which the law had laid down. The
Bucyvus Journal Republican) after
publishing that proposition, also pub
fishes the following pretended extract
from Stanton's reply.
HAs I take a different view of the laws
of the Territory from that which you
express, it will be impossible for me to
consent to any new proceeding in opposi.
5tion to that which has been sanctioned
by the Legislative authorities.
6eLleUed-1s I do 6eLIeUe-
Ayonr assertion that the laws of Kansas
were aenaeted by a Legislature elected
by the people of an adjoining State q
1t would still be impossible for me to set
them aside-the attempt TODD SO would
be an act of gross usurpation. I must,
therefore, say to you in the most ex-
-plioit language, that I can do nothing
which denies the authority and validity
of the lawsenacted within this territory
The Journal then makes the follow
ing comment au II
There it is. Alth ough it is freely
admitted, even by the acting Governor,
that the Kansas laws were enacted by the
Missouri invaders, still their authority
and validity must not be denied"
emitting the word not in that
opart of the extract that is italicised he
changes the entire meaning of the SEN
5tence. Stanton's words were, "If l
believed, as I do not believe &c." The
Journal no doubt thought it could lie
this matter through as he had commen-
iced. Well knowingt that his Republican
brethren were equally dishonest, he
supposed they would publish it the same
way and then live up to, their maxim,
ga lie, we'll stuck to, is as good as the
truth" He was too ignorant to know
that the sentence will not bear that
construction, and that no man of the
acknowledged intelligence of Stanton
would write such an one. But thus it
has been ever since they started the Grip
pied hobby Of Bleeding Kansas Every
thing in regard to that territory they
can lie about with impunity and by OBJ
serving the maxim above--a part of their
creed-can get those who read but their
own papers, to believe it. It is a part
of their capital stock in the political
trade.
Another instance Of their outrageous
dishonesty has been more recently expos
ed. Their papers all over the country
have published a piece written by some
irresponsible correspondent of the Neao
York Tribune, in which it is asserted
that in a certain county of Kansas on
the Missouri line, three thousand Border
RufHans had got their names placed up
on the registry lists as voters. At this
they hoaczea. This was why they would
not vote. They talked of sending the
three thousand political clergymen there
E
to exterminate the three thousand Mis-
sourians. But 10 just as they were
about contracting for three thousand
Eharp's rifles, three thousand bowie
knives, three thousand red coats, and
three thousand Hessian caps for the three
thousand clergy, who were to bleed the
three thousand M~issourians, the registy
lists were posted up, in accordance with
the law, aud but four byndred and ninety
four names svere on them all told, pro-
slavery men and free-state men included.
-Fhe truth falls as far short of their
statement as many of these three thou
sand clergymen fall short of grace; that
is, there is no truth in the one, and no
grace in the other. There is no evil
dence whatever that a single name has
been placed upon the lists except those
Of bona Jde residents1 of the territory.
Upon the other hand there is evidence
tbas some of the three thousand clergy