The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-11-17
The Cleveland Plain Dealer.

The editor of the Plain Dealer 10 be
coming either knavish or childish-he j
either burning Black Republican or fool
In his issue Of the 9Th inst. so anxiouI
is he to show that the NATURALIZATION
has been repudiated in Ohio, that be put,
down the election of such men as Spiuk
Helmick, Bingham &c as Douglas tri
umph. John p Jeffries was the Demo
cratic nominee for Congress in the i4ti
district, but it seems the sympathies o.
j. w. Gray were with his opponent Gen
ESpink! Perhaps anti Lecompton Demo
Graf Sphinx got his large majority through
the influence of the Plain DeaIer2 1
such men as Spinka are good enough Dem
~ocrats for Gray, We do not wonder at hit
(Grays') receiving four or Eve hundred
Black Republican votes in the city ol
Cleveland, at the late election.
We clip the following from the Plain
Dealer of the 5th inst.
Douglas Sustained by Gen Jefferson
Davis.
In q late speech at Bangor, State OF
Maine, Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi,
gave utterance to the following, which
derives additional importance and force,
from the fact that he was already aware
of the position taken by Senator Douglas
at Freeport, and must have deliberately,
and after mature consideration, arrived
at the conclusions which he uttered, and
which consequently may be taken as a
fearless endorsement of the position of
Senator Douglas.
Senator Davis said:
If tie inhabitants of any territory
should refuse to enact such laws and
police regulations as wouldgiv security
to their property or to his. it would be
rendered more or less valueless, in pro-
portion to the difficulties of holding it
without such protection. In the case of
property in tue labor of man or what is
usually called slave property, the insecu-
rity would be so great that the owner
could not ordinarily retain it. There
fore, though the right would remain, the
remedy being withheld, it would follow
that the owner would be practically de-
barred by the circumstances of the case,
from taking slave property into a terri.
tory where the sense of the inhabitants
was opposed to its introduction. So
much for TIE oft repeated faIlacy of fore
ing slavery upon any community
The Plain Dealer might as a Douglas
organ do we'll enough, if people would
read nothing else; but in a community
like ours, the every day forgeries, mis-
interpretations, aud preversioDs of Gray
only injure the Democratic party, James
Stephen A. Douglas and every
body else. Now in our humble opinion,
of it's being a fearless endorse
ment of the position of Senator Douglas
the above is a fearless endorsement of
bred Scott decision. Douglas says
the people ola territory may by legisla-
lion exclude or admit slavery as they
1t is but a short time since tie Plain
Dealer. so perverted a speech of Vice
Breckinridge, as to convey the
.dea that he (the Vice Presidency sym
with Douglas, and recommend
ID the removal of all Administration
men from Office. 1t will not surprise US
% see the Plain Dealer next claiming
hat President Buchanan and Vice Pres
dent Breckenridge intend resiniDg their
.espective Offices IN favor. of Stephen A.
and Joseph w. Gray.
The Plain Dealer man seems to have
great contempt for ersons holding
Offices. He ought to be
good authority, perhaps, as it
5 but a short time since he was kicked
of the Cleveland Post Office, and of
purse judges by himself as to their CON-
emptibleness. This hurrah about cor
upt office holders, comes with exceeding
ad grace from a man who has all his
fe fed at the public crib.-Stark Co.
Democrat. Eks Il