The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-01-14
GOV. cHAsE,s MESSAGES.

AAAo HNOh IAO
annual Message of Gov. CHASE. We
are we'll aware that We might have furn-
ished other matter of far more interest
to the most of u readers, but as it is
an important document, and as our
Black Republican friends would have
been very likely to have charged US with
being afraid to publish it if we had moi
done so, We have concluded to give it a
place. 90
1t is as long as the moral law, and
those Of our readers who have not got
in their winters wood, had better put
off its perusal until they have got that
job off of their hands. The Message is
we'll written, and exhibits great research
and an extensive knowledge of the af-
fairs Of the State. That Gov. CHASE is
a man of talent it would be useless to
deny, bnt the same must be said for
FRED. DoUeLAs, Old Drab and the
Devil. Many of the recommendations
arc worthy of consideration, but it is
somewhat remarkable that whatever Mr.
CHASE finds most worthy of commedation
we are indebted for to the Democratic
party. The Reciprocity Treaty with
Canada, which the Governor says " has
enlarged the field and stimulated the &C.
tivity of mercantile enterprise, especial
ly in the Northern part of the State, -
was bitterly denounced by the Wing
press years ago, and he makes a hard
drive at those old protectionists when
he says that wise legislation is never
employed in arresting the development
or in cramping the activity of CONNER
cial intercourse"
However correct the Governor may
be in his recommendations touching the
new School Law, we are satisfied hi
views will not meet with the concurrence
Of a majority of the tax payers in this
part of the State. The School Law is
by no mean perfect and needs amend
ment, particularly the features defining
the powers and duties of Township
Boards, yet the Governor recommends
that the law be left to work another
year without amendment. AS to Town
ship Libraries we belive they will meet
with as little favor as the District IL
braries. Farmers ~hereabouts are de-
cidedIy opposed to Libraries in any
shape.
When Gov. CHASE was canvassing the
State for election, he visited Ashland
and gave us a "big talk" On that
day, we distinctly recollect of having.
seen a large strip of stretched
across the street, on which was inscribed
the motto in large letters, Freedom
in Kansas and a Reduction Of Taaes !"
Gov. CHASE now coufesses that Kansas
is likely to become a Free State under
the administration ofGov. GEARY, a Ma
tional Democrat, whose hatred of Black
Republican ~sectionalists is only equalled-
by his aversion for wretches infected
with the itch. And SALMON now seeks
to carry out the latter part of the motto
by the rule of reduction ascending!
We particularly recommend that portion
of the Message which favors an increase
of taxes, to the prayerful persual of those
weakened Democrats who fused for tile
pockets sakeI
From the Message it also appears that
on the 18th of December So, 423, $780, 70
of the State Debt became due. To
meet this nev bands were issued to the
amount of So, 100000, and proposals
for this new loan were advertised in
Europe and America. These bonds
were sold at a premium of three-and-a-
half per cent. only, whereas these finan.
c%ierers, who pay off one note by giving
another, expected they would command
a premium of ten per cent. This three
and-a-half per cent. premium would be
absorbed in the cost Of advertising and
negotiating the lean. Here, then, we
have the confession of the High Priest
of Black Republicanism in this State,
Ohio Black Republican politicians
are n set of huge financial asses instead
of fnaneierers. And as a climax to this
financial operation although the Cover
nor is too shrewd to mention it, JfOe hun
thousand dollars of the Sinking
Fund, set apart by the Constitution for
the liquidation of the interest on the
State Debt, has been appropriated to
other purposes in violation of the Con-
stitution ! From such fnanciering good
Lord deliver US. The exhibit Of the
Governor Of the expenses of the State
are on a par with the above, as we shall
shall show Hereafter.
The concluding portion of the Mes
in regard to Kansas affairs will he
read with regret by all good citizens,
and we trust will meet with the APPROX
al of none. To say that the Governor
of Ohio has any power over citizens of
Kansas because some of them formerly
lived in Ohio is simply absurd, and no
one knows it better than Gov. CHASE.
That a man of his ability and learning,
should publish over his own signature
sentiments SO utterly in violation of the