The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-06-30
Gbe Astlan6 Nniort.
ASHLAND:
Wednesday, 49, June 80, 1858.
Is the Republican party in favor OF
Negro EquaIitys

U~OuhCSldl june OO, lOCO
Is the Republican party in favor OF
Negro EqunIitys
The Ashland TINES denies, with a
show of much virtuous indignation, thai
the Republican party is in favor Of
Negro Equality. The Editor regard:
Us as guilty of an especial and high.
handed offence against truth for having
asserted that the Republicans held to
the doctrine that the Negro, being the
. equal, intellectually, and morally, of thu
white maa, is therefore entitled to equal
social and political privileges.
-.HlIf we have misstated the position 0i
the Republicans, we should like to be
corrected by some accredited oracle OF
party and Informed as to what, in
II all truth and soberness, their position
sgreally is?a Is their iucessant clam or
8 about the poor African an aimless and
idle one ? {.
We fully appreciate the difficulty, in
ia party like the Republican, made up
cas- il is, of malcontents and negatives
of a mass of heterogeneous and discor5-
ant elements, having no bond of union
except love of power, and hatred of the
Democratic party,-we fully appreciate,
e We say, the difficulty of assigning them
any positive position upon any question
that Interests the public mind. AS their
brief aud inconsistent history shows,
they rave no principles that they cannot
put off and put on at pleasure. If,
however, Negro Equality; even at the
cost of a dissolution of the Union, be not
among the chief purposes which the
leaders of that party are seeking to at
tain, then is all their clamor about the
oppressed coloIed man and about the
burdens of the Union and Southern ag-
e gression, without method or aim.
aeZ Will the Times take the converse Of
the proposition, and maintain that the
Negro is not the equal of the white, and
that therefore, he is nat entitled to equal
7sfsocial and political privileges
As we have been arraigned for having
- falsely stated the position of the Repub
l:can party upon the Negro Question,
let us, for the sake of truth and for pub
lie information, be instructed as to what
IS their position really is-or whether that
respectable and virtuous old party really
have ANY position !
7of We have heard it claimed in certain
quarters that the Republican party was
a party of principle. How is this?
Now why do we infer that the Rerub-
licars are in favor of Negro Equality
nd We infer it from the tendency of their
whole demagoguery about the poor AT
rican and his oppressed condition. Look
at any Republican newspaper Listen
to any Republican orator. There are
saoza volume of words about the oppression
81 of tbe poor African, AID the aggre ssions
of the Slave Power, and not a syllable
= of sympathy for the wrongs of the white
man Millions for the Negro, but moth
saii ing for the white man
Thus much by way of Inference
Now for the PROOF. We did not
base our charges against the Republi-
cans, upon more conjecture or inteTcn-
elevces, irresistible as they are. We have
something more substantial. We have
THE PROOF, so clear and undeniable, so
far as the ashland Times is concerned
that, admitting that Journal to be a true
- exponent of the Republican faith, we
can convict and condemn before any hon.
est jury in the county, that party of be.
ing in favor of Negro Equality, and OF
all we nave alleged against it, BY
LANGUAGE OUT OF ITS OWN
~ MOUTH 5
We now, therefore, call upon tie Ash
land Times as a witness to prove oul
charge against the Republican party
In hat paper of Thursday, March IL
1857, is a long Speech of Mr.. Monroe
: Of Lorain, occupying the whole of the
is4g reading matter of two pages, in favor o
al the bill proposing to strike the wore
galrhite'' from the first section fifth article
of the Constitution of Ohiol
ioig The Speech of Mr.. Monroe, which
has two points-frstly a hatred of the
Union, and secondly an intense love o
the Negro-was thus introduced to the
public in the leading editorial of th'
Ashland Times of that date:
aMR. MoNRoE's SPEEcu.-As prom
ised last week, We to-day present on,
: readers with Mr.. Monroe's able speed
9s's on the negro suffrage question. 1
has been said of Mr.. NJ. that he i
OIL the most eloquent man in Ohio, ant
fully equal in general ability to our mos
distinguished statesmen. Notwithstand
ing Mr.. NJ. may entertain opinions quit
opposite to our way Of thinking, as advo
Gates of free speech We can but accor'
geV him a heariDg-there are many thing
in this speech which will be aeknowl
edged as making it worthy a p%ersual, al
,ew though the reader may differ %entirel.
- nth Mr., Ms conclusions"
md g This man of one idea, and that al
eism"-is endorsed by the Times, o.