The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-06-16
LOCAL COLUMN.
ASHLAND, O., JUNE le, 1858.

BRo, G1LEs REDIvIvUs.-Our guam
dunn friend, Bro. Giles, who, many years
ago, was editor of a newspaper in Upper
Sa ldusky, and whose prosecutions, by a
mob at Marseilles, who chit him upon
the breast three several times with an
immense number of brick bats, has turn
ed up in Nebraska, as editor of the Cas-
County Weekly Sentinel. The fero-
eious spirit of the i" barbarious " people
of Marseillts appears to have pursued
Bro. Giles to his Western home. We
have before us a copy of his "indepenc-
end journal dated May IA, by which it
appears that the phillistines arc In hot
,pursuit of him, but we are glad to see
that he shows pluck, and is not to be
:"prescribed." In u leader as as a lead
er. entitled Independence" Bro. Giles
says
ssIt seems as though there are some
folks in this community, who claim that
An editor of a newspaper shoul not pub
lish anything in his own defence, against
malicious attacks made by a man whose
very uostrfl stencil forth destroy aim
All yes, destroy an independent Jour-
nal. because it would not follow a cor
rupt leader or forever hold its peace
No gentlemen, as long as we hold Amer
lean blood In our veins you cannot pre-
scribe u.s."
PRESCRIBE Bro. Gilesl No, never
at least so long as we have a Revolu-
tiouary ancestry, and so long as that
American blood ~"continners" to fowl
The thing can't be did Oh, the pusil-
Qannermous citizens, whose "very nostril
stencil FORTH" &c.-would ye destroy an
independent journal ?" Perish the
Thought, and forbid it, Artemus Ward,
t. K,-"Perish the thawt"-we repeat
it the more fcarlessly, in view of the fact
that the 4th of July is a coming.
Bro. Giles thus clearly lays DOWN the
law in the case, and very fatty says what
he piX, and what he will not do:
.'If you do rot like an independent
man or journal we know that we cannot
suit YOU; because we have no other am
bition to ell in this world. Some men,
probably have a right to enjoy more free
dom than others; yes We are not a woT,
shipper Of such doctrine, hence We VIII
mot follow it."
Bro. Giles is against "strong prescrip-
tions," from which We infer that he is
more inclined to favor "thin rotations"
lie AYERS:
1We never before lived in a place
where some men would feel disposed to
force prescription so strong"
But Bro. Giles does not hesitate to
inform the tyrauts that he " cannot go
1t" He has the "weepons,' n he
threatens their use, as follows:
r We cannot go it, and if any of you
take q hysteric fit over it, we will send
our devil around to apply a mustard
boultice to the weak mental parts"
The mustard, when administered, will
probably. shave the desired effect"
Bro. Giles thus defines friendship and
tyranny, as he understands them:
"We should think for our own part,
that we would feel i'll disposed to 90 to
any. of you, and say, you must act n
do what we want you too or friendship
must cease. Such an idea is tyranical
In the extreme, and we would not expect
1 man In this community. to submit to it
Gbeetfilly; neither will We be driven in
to such measures"
Bro. Giles is game to the bitter and.
Bro. Giles is not what might be called
ga war man." He believes in peace first,
and war ~afterpard, and in self de ence
all the time. He places his belief upon
record in these words:
aWe believe in peace and good feeling
Ia society; but when war is waged upon
ial 6rst: we cannot restrain from self de-
fence to the end"
And the world will justify Bro. Giles
In the noble position he has taken
When he was "attacted by the Mar
settles ruffans, in manner and form as
set forth in ancient history, hc was d