The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-05-20

| FoGNEY, has the following Settling
comments upon this correspondence:
Eansas-What is Right and What
is Wrong.
We published another letter from
Acting Governor STANTON 10 qaadom
Governor boEINsoN and others, Oh the
subject of the approaching e~iectIon Ill
Kansas. It will not fail TO strike the
reader, In looking at Affairs III krnsas,
hat the Free State party there are ref
ming folly aud ~ahstrdity somewhat be
yoni the roiut thy Lave been heretofore
known TO nave reached. The object
when the Free State men had III view,
IL addressing Dir. STANTON, was this to
procure his assent 10 a plau of Conduct.
log tue registration of voters and oiec-
items, which should slightly charge the
mere process of action, without, IL fact,
changing the resuits-that is to draw
of Mr.. STANTON from existing territorial
Jaws, and TO MAKE BIN. for the sake of
peace, assent to the practical nu,iIi;atiou
ii these laws. 70 tee proposition, fer
instance, chat there shall be four lnspec-
tors OF Elections appointed. TIVE by the
government: aud two b. the Free Siaee
men, Mr.. STANTON replies ~ith admira-
bic point and !aIrncss, that the laws
authorize only three, but if hey did, the
Acting Governor says:
" I qoo9M, IN eUcry Instance, app0int
IS Jufges Of Election, O1e Rep Ghicum
If u0uy putty, one National DcHzocrai,
ln fav2r Of a(ree State, ant Oic Ma
tio3f0L Democrat, IN tuUor Of making
q stare State"
Tners is a world Of commentary in this
short sentence; there is in it-cnning
from Mr.. STANroN, a Soathern gahtle
man, a border ruff a ot .c9urse, aetiog
Governor "a few burning Goals Of f,e,
which, il they do not fail u ma tlie-he,ds
Of Dir. GREELaY aud cite Kansas agi
%fators, it shall not be the fault of the
PcnHSy ,Cahalan.
-Fnr marrL than twenty-five years tbs
j paper mas never ceased To be engaged ia
The political reviews Of tie country,
and in al that tune, in or out OF the
range of mere parties, il finance, IL erin
iual records and III social life, greater
crime and fraud, q more pregnant vii
liauy, a deeper laid scheme 20 misiead
the people, TO impair their love and con
fidence in the Union and to produce
widespread disaster without 4 hope OF
compensation to any save the agi;ators
themselves, thar t1is Kansas embroslio,
has never appeared 20 degrade tue Re, PIE
of the United States.
We do not mean to say that all par
ties who have ssscreeched for Kansas
are guilty of wilfal deception. The
great masses have been, in fact, the
most and the worst deceived. Their
very benevolence has been the stock on
which the political gamblers have played
the game" Heads you lose, tails via"
1t was the Presidency, not Freedom /;
Offices, not Justice, That brought intU
the field in the late eie tons, that con-
glomcrate mass of political remnants Of
old and new fashions, al d tex: ures, which
ought to make the great struggle Of 1856
a national warning and advertisement
against all political ~coufdenee men III
the future. In the whole country there
is not q Congressional district i'll which
their candidate for the Presidency could
have been returned to the National
Legislature; and we are clear that there
are Lot ten such districts which could
furnish much better men. He was then
the Kansas canuldale-a mere poiltlchl
vicis situde; AID We point now to the Ter
ritory in question, rapidly growing into
political manhood, and destined, at an
early day, to repudiate its managers, Ia
proof Of the justice Of these observa,
tions.
That full and fair vote, without
fraud or violence" as the principle en-
dorse1, first by Congress, secondly by
the Supreme Court of the UnitedStates,
thirdly by Mr. BUCHANAN and his cabi-
net, fourthly by Mr.. WALKER, and fifth
ly by al! honest meu in and out OF Kan
sas, by which a constitution is to be
adopted as the organized law of the new
State, is the key which will unlock and
TX pose the secret machinery set in mo
fion to sacrifice the peace If the country
to crafty au insane ambiti H..
IT Is JUsr-Judge Keep is holding
Court in Racine. Last Friday in the
course of a trial a witness was cailed or
to testify as to the character of a young
lady. When he took the stand, the
! Afrocate says, Judge Keep told hin
that if he (witness) had taken part il
: u criminal matter, he would be held
: responsible for what he might testify to,
but at the same time he should not b;
compelled 10 answer questions that ~ouiC
= crlminate himself. Notwithstanding this
caution and advice the witness took