The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-03-03
For the Ashland Union.
ORANGE Feb. 24. /


The Ashland Times of February 18th,
contains a very remarkable article APP
pearing therein as editorial, though 1 have
some doubt as to Mr.. Sprengle's being
the author. Whether he is or not, he
claims, and no doubt feels proud of, the
miserable, bunch back, cloven-footed eff
spring of somebody's brain.
: As she W olives. hounds. hyenas. tc.rs and demi
Best love the progeny that shows their own vii.
Should have had no occasion to ne.
tice his article had he not SO entirely mis-
represented, and misconstrued my report
and remarks concerning the trial of T. J..
Bull, | had ne thought of getting up a
controversy with the Ashland Times, and
had no other object in view than to give
a fair report of the trial and its incidents.
But hear the Editor of the Times.
Speaking of. that report, he says:
1--WE should ave no occasion to notice
the article, had not the author undertaken
to dragon the Ashland Times into the
case, and soughtsto even charge the cdi-
tor of this paper with improper motives
and political feelings in not commenting
on the trial and its result, and IN not
condeannsng Judge, Jury and all con
ceyned IN the cause."
He then quotes my paragraph, upon
which he makes the charge that 1 wanted
him to condemn Judge, Jury and all con-
cerned. 1t was as follows:
"The Editor of our Republican paper
in Ashland may feel "a delicacy in pub
fishing facts that might condemn one of
OUR leaders as a member of an Infamous
band of thieves, burglars, and perhaps
murderers, but you have NO such excuse.
Still, l think OUR sympathy for him as a
BROTHER i'll politics should not blind and
blunt our regard for justice and for the
right"
He then goes off into a regular frenzy,
q madness without method, attributes
base purposes !" to the Editor of the
Union and myself, and heaps upon me
such gentle explosives as %"liar," ~"sooun-
drel" "pick-pocket" ''devoid of all homes
ty and integrity" &c. Now, 1 would
say to those who may read any part of
this controversy, that I claim to be a
Christian, aud to have some moral decen.
ey and that I could not if I would, and
acould not if l could, answer this fellow
of the Times in his "Bowery- boy" style,
or with his "CROSSMAN," crack slang.
I do not, it is true, ostentatiously take
my hymn book under my arm and walk,
spread eagle style, up street to church
every Sabbath, take a front seat, sing
loud and pray long, as, 1 am informed, is
the custom of this fellow who so beauti-
fully illustrates the doctrine we both pro-
fess, +" peace and good will to all men"
by calling me liar, pick-pocket and scoun-
drel, and who the louder he has Jung and
the longer he has prayed on Sunday, the
worse cheats his neighbors the rest of the
week. No, sirs / do not practice that
kind of Christianity, and hence can not
pay the fellow back in his own coin. But,
to the point.
Some clauses in my former article
showed that / claimed to be a Republican.
Whether I am or not, is a matter of very
little Importance in the course of this
controversy, but no one can fail to see
through the contemplate trick of the
Isnses, to kick up a dust about this mat
ter, in order to screen himself from the
charge, that he feared to publish facts, to
give the mere local news, in regard to a
matter in which every one of his subscri-
bers felt an interest, lest it might offend
a leading member of our party, yes, n
party, in the south part of the county
In my comments upon the two presses in
Ashland for their silence in regard to the
matter / MAS most severe upon the Union,
and put it in az easy a light as possible
for the Times, by merely saying he might
feel a dszicacy in publishing facts con-
demning one Of our leaders. l hsve no