The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-01-20
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AsHLAND:



Wednesday, 1880 January 20. 1858.
aEhs Erush N always E~xpediens.n
The issue between Judge DoUeLAs and
The Democratic party upon the Kansas
question, IL Of such . character as TO sd-
nit Of no compromise. When the Judge
nads up his mind to take the position he
has recently assumed, he intended, We
have no doubt, to make the iseue 20 broad
20 10 cut off al idea Of reconciliation or
retreat. He announced, indeed, at the
very thrsshhold, that the e1ror" Of the
President. in adheripg to the old and
we'll. established principles Of the Demo.
cratic Party, as more recently re-afirmed
and defined in the Kansas Nebraska act,
Ia the resolutions of the Cincinnati Con-
v~sntion, and "a elucidated in the former
reports and speeches. Of himself, was .
"~JsndansentaL error.
II Mi. BUcHANAN, in recommending
the admission Of Kansas, under the Con.
stitution framed by the people of that
Territory, through . Convention of dele
gates legally chosen by themselves, COM
nitted the " fundamental error" az alle-
esd in she bill Of indictment drawn by
Judge DoueLAs. then it follows that the
latter must be right, and the former
wrong.
Taking this view Of the subject, We
can do no otherwise than express our "to-
tai dissent'' from the conflicting positions
assumed in the resolutions recently
adopted By the Caucus Of the Democratic
msmbers Of the Ohio Legislature. We
have the highest respect for the Demo
Gratis who compose Che majority Of the
General Asssmbly-we know how utterly
rspugnant to the sense Of = large number
must hare been these % saddle-bags" re-
solutions-and therefore our regret is the
deeper that they have suffered themselves,
from motives Of sxpediency, to attempt
che construction of a halfway house,
which, If ever completed, will only prove
II best an asylum fer political invalids.
It i . singular attitude, truly express
ing thsir {" entire s~onfdence in the disin-
tsrestednsss, the integrity and the ability.
Of che present Chief Magistrate Of the
United States, md that his Administra-
tion commands our lsheir] cordial and
utdivided snppeyt"-and almost in the
following sentence ~instructing our Sena-
tors and requesting our Representatives
70 maks issus With this same Chief Ma
eistrats upon one of the most important
measures Of his Administration. What
more than the adoption Of the two last
resslutions could . Republican Legisla-
ture have dones A Banking establish
ment may do = successful business on
" eonhdence;"-a Democratic Admins
t~ration, earnestly employed in the great
duty Of warding of the perils that threat
IN the peace and progress of the country,
requires something more i-it requires
Acrs-rsquirss practice as we'll as pro-
fsssion. Confidence in the integrity and
ability Of the administration amounts to
iittle, unless that confidence can extend
10 and embrace its most important and
critical measures measure, too, which
il vas compelled to adopt, or prove faith.
less to the principles upon which it was
brought into power.
srsmarked at the outset that the L.
sue made by Judge DoUeLAs with the
President and the Democratic Party was
not intended by him to admit of any
oonpromise. As We happen to knoD this
from testimony which we cannot resist.
and which Was furnished III several weeks
anterior to the meeting of Congress, we
deem il proper to here frankly repeat the
fact. Had Judge DouoLAs not made the
issue he did on this Kansas business, be
would have sought some other p~retext fol
revolt. We know very we'll that there
are Democratic members Of the Legisla.
ture, and Democrstis editors, who, had
they have happened to receive the infer
nation ne did. and at the time We did
would have been foreWarned@HouldhaYl
INTERPRETED men and motives as We did
consequently, would have remained
stsadfsss in the support of their princi
ples and Of the Administration. As it is
such movements a. this at Columbus viii
for che time do much harm, by smbar
raising the Administration in it's effort
20 adjust the Kansas difficulties upon tn
only true basis of the principles establish
ed by The party, and approved by tb
country.
Black Republicans now pretend to b
particular friends Of popular sovereignty
About eighteen months ago they put tn
following plank in their Phil adslphi
nfntform