The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-03-17
'IULH lHe hdHsd HtIdIu OF
Croakers Again.


The New York Tribune and presses o.
that character, as has been their charac
ter in the past, are now discouraging
emigration to Kansas by mistaken rep
Presentations in regard to the late elcc.
ton. They state positively that Cal
houn will give certificates of. election 10
the pro slavery State officers under the
Lecompton constitution, and to q ma
iority of the members of the Legisla-
ture and then they are continually sta.
ting that the Lecompton constitution
will be endorsed by Congress. From
these facts they argue that the demo
cratic PARTY has made Kansas a slave
State, and by this cry they hope to hurl
that party from power. At the same
time they must be conscious that if the
democratic party was sure to be swept
from existence three years hence, that
event could not save Kansas to freedom,
as the question would have been per-
manently settled long previous to that
time.
The aoAole tendencyof these croaking
papers, from FIRST to last, has been to
make Kansas sohat those journals hare
protested desire to avogd. Our only
hope of saving Kansas to freedom lay
through emigration. Their croakings,
instead of encouraging emigration, as
has been u policy by presenting a
gilded future, such as we have full con-
idence to expect, has only discouraged
it by thousands and these means are
invariably resorted to-whether pur-
posely or otherwise we leave the reader
to determine for himself, after carefully
considering all the faets-at the time
when We are preparing for, and most in
need of, the heaviest emigration. 1t
has been suggested that this was the
only subterfuge of those editors to pre-
vent the East from being depopulated
by the enormous emigration which would
otherwise follow.
There is net a man, in his sober SEN
sses, WHO does not know that Kansas
Territory, at this time, would boast of
a population of from fifty to one bun
dred thousand more persons than it has
at present had the eastern press, instead
of constantly predicting the defeat Of
the free-State cause, given ample as
suranee that its triumph was inevitable
luEOuRu VC0CJ tt mSduc. 4dln cc nuCu
as We may of tho bravery of the Ameri
can people, it is not true that any of
them desire to take their families to a
country overrun with civil war and
cursed with anarchy.
Bat the assertion of the Tribune is
not true that the pro-slavery party tri-
umphed, eveR by fraud, in the late cleo
tions. On the contrary, ace assert most
positively that the free State party hare
elected the entire State ticket and near
IN, ~ not quite, a taoo thirds majority
IF both branches of the Leglslature.-
We take pleasure, in addition to this, in
stating that We do not believe John Cal.
houn will issue certificates of election to
the pro slavery candidates; but that a
majority of the free-State men will be
allowed, without opposition to take their
seats in the first legislature convened
under that Instrument, if admitted into
the Union. And We know that if an at
tempt is made to prevent the PEOPLE
from ruling in this matter they will not
be foiled; but, by peaceful means,
through legal forms, aud without the
shedding Of a drop of blood, they will
take possession of the government, and
immediately proceed to institute meas
nres for supplanting it with another