The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-11-17
Working Dissension.

ave consider Douglas in the field foi
1860; nomination or no nomination.
The outlines Of a magnificent program
me, which will in due time wake up the
administration, are already preparedlp
The foregoing is copied from the Ma.
con fGa.l Journal and Messenger, int
the Cleveland Plaindealer, and endorsed
by the latter as "plain but to the point
A part of the magnificent programme
we are TO infer from such iDtimatious as
this, is that q certain class of men are de
termiDed on carrying out the doctrine Of
rule OF ruin They will either succeed
at the Charleston National Convention,
or refuse to endorse its nominees. To
be forewarned is to be forearmed.' Lit
the true democracy take coguizance OF
these threats of those who are thus rash
ly and prematurely engaged in pushing
the claims of aspirants to the Presiden-
tial chair, thr~eatning schism if defeated
in heir choice, and working disaffection
and dissension in our party ranks.
The indecenthaste shown by some ed
itors to push forward their favorites, al
though nearly two years are to elapse
before the Convention shall meet, augurs
no good for the harmony of the party in
the interval preceding the Convection of
1860. Men who thus deliberately boast
of their intentions to disregard the long
established and fondly cherished usages
of the Demccratin party, and involve it
in certain defeat 10 a national contest, are
unworthy of party fellowship, and will
sooner or later be numbered among the
renegade wing of the mongrel opposition.
No one can read the Cleveland Piaindeal-
err without seeing that it is drifting as
fast in that direction as time caDbeari it.
It has already entered the rapids and
ere long it will go over the edge of the
falls and be lost in the whirlpool of
fusion aud confusion that is ths fual re-
ccptaele of tb sc who cut loose from their
m~oorings in safe harbor of Democracy.
We would not stop it if We could, but
rather say God speed the current for
when it goes, as it some day will, and
hence the sooner the better, ; the De-
mocracy of the Reserve i'll have an in
cubus taken off from their organization
that has more than once helped demon
alize its sentiment and paralyze6 its eff
forts. Such articles as appeared in that
paper of Oct. 29, would be considered
as violent abuse Of President Buchanan, |
even If published in an Opposition paper,
but their publication, backed with an
endorsement, in a paper professiog allie
glance to the Demicraic party. is moth
ing short ofoutrage upon the forbearsnce
aud integrity of true Democrats The
is but little more than an
echo of the Phiiadel phia Press, aud is
redolent of the scandal and vim
dicitiye vituperaticn of Forney, who is,
and has months been, in close collision
and CO operation with the Opposition.
The plain truth is that these papers
are carrying out a part of the program
me laid down last winter, when the
of rebellion was raised by prom
members of Congress. The exam
pie set in sihe Douglas rebellion as the
papers we're wont to charac
.erise it, at the last session of Congress,
If ignoring party obligations and party
issges, and breaking down the long
lrawn lines of party identity and obli-
taking issue with the President
md his united Cabinet on his iuterpre-
of q principle to which he
ave its most natural construction, was
be opening of Pandora's bog, emitting !
food of evils that threatened to hope
essly oEerwhelm the party. That ex-
NIPPLE not only invoked q spirit of severe ,
~etaliation, but has found a multitude of !
mitators, who in their admiration for the {
'oldness aud recklessness of the stroke,
verlook the evils that such an example
as sure to entail upon the compactness I
nd Efficiency of party organization. /,
TIE invention has comeback to plague
be inventor. There is a lesson in the
act.-Trnm6uH Democrat. s