The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-04-20

in the Ohio STATE Journal. Kansas adj
mitted, the American issues will again
form the basis for a party in opposition
to the Democracy. Chase saw this, and
knew that, having been opposed to
Americanism, he would have no chance
for the nomination, and he, therefore,
attempted to break up tho union be-
tween the Americans AID Republicans
against the Lecompton Constitution.
Forsooth, it was a kind, patriotic and
honest efort-an eminently Classified
idea, but it did not work; and for his
oHfcieus conduct tho crafty Governor
has angercd those who have always been
his strongest supporters"
The Ohio State Journal (Anti-Lc-
compton, and tho organ of the Cover,
nor in reply to the Times correspon-
dent says
Governor Chase, we venture to say,
has more friends among the Republican
members Of Congress than any other
prominent statesman in the country"
Curious "friends,n verify We would
suppose that he would ask to be especial
ly saved from sucA friends p 1t is
noting friends hat a politician generally
seeks-and the Republican members Of
Congressall went over tot RrrTENDEN and
DOUGLAS, and when the time for voting
came round, every mothers son of them
fell into the coalition pit dug for them
by those arch schemers. You are sold
out, Governor You are not in the
bills, and you may as well surrender
Yon areli9 aa4si1--
The Governor, however, refuses to sag
die. He yet adheres to Hthe sick man.
I-or rather to the deceased and buried
man-the Republican party. Through
one of his Anti. Lecomptbn organs, the
State Journal, he makes proclams....on
as follows, to-wit
"Governor Chase roes fos<Kenublicar
principles and the Republican organ
izatien, apa any attempt by men il
Washington or elsewhere to change
taose principles and substitute for them
the American issue, will find 10 him
We doubt not, a steady opponent, but not
more steady than will be ninety-niDe
hu~ndredths of the Republican party Of
the State.
"That there are some gentlemen in
Washington who would be glad to have
the party demoralized by the infusion
of pro slavery Americauism into Its
creed, we have no doubt; but they can
make no Roadway among the Republi-
can forces of the great Northwest. The
Republicans are for the diffusion of free
principles among the people, of making
our territories free territories; of being
just and liberal to foreign.born citizens,
and not to act illiberal and unjust
We should be glad to have a perfect
union of the opposition to overthrow the
pro slavery party of the country, but q
union can never be made upon any other
platform than the one adopted at Phila.
delphia, with such alterations as time
and a wise expediency may render ne,
cessary.n
That saving clause with which the ar.
ticle concludes will meet the whole case
"With such alterations as time and
s0ise ezpedisncy may render necessary
The Governor is as slime sercing'
and as ready to adopt any "e-pedieuts'
that will promote his ambition, as "thosc
gentlemen in Washington who haze
"demoralizedn and snuffed out the Re.
publican party. as was abundantly shown
by his coalition with these same Know
Nothings in 1855. But the great STUN.
bling-block in the way of the Governor is,
that he was not consulted in the Few ar.
rangement-his protest was treated by
his old confederates with contempt-and
no provision was made for the advance
ment of his own personal interests. He
has it in his power to make his ssprotest'
effective before about one hundred thou.
sand of the true blue Anti-Lecompton
Republicans who yet remain in Ohio,
and he viii be strongly inclined to dc
it because, next to his admiration Of
himselfa and of his single hearted devotion
to the schemes of his own ambition, is
the Governors love o~freYenge.
The very latest Constitu-
ton.
From all re can gather in reference
to the features of the recent Constitu.
ton for Kansas made by the Convention
at L~eavenworth, We infer that it embod-
les all the distempered and pestiferous
s.isms" that for the last thirty years
have been arrayed against the Constitu-
ton, against the pence of the Union, and
against social order. .
Slavery, we are told, is "extirpated
from the soil"-"cut up by the roots''
and executed without benefit of Cler.
gy. This is a step far in advance even
of Topeka. That Constitution protect
ed the rights of shareholders in the prop
erty then actually owned by them. This
Leavenworih concern, however, oyerrides
the Federal Constitution, and the respect
which the people of all the Territories