The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-06-09
An Ahnll,ian Lertnre.

ike the Centaur of Old mount not the back of
the horse, but, the backSofsthe. negro, to ridef
themselves into power. "-HrNRYNCL AY.
A gentleman by the name of McCoR-
MICK gave a lecture on Thursday evening
before an audience in tho Lutheran
Church. The lecture was a recapitula-
lion of the diatribes which nave appeared
in the Abolition jouSnals during the last
twenty years, and were not calculated to
make much of an impression upon an in
Itelligent audience.
He instanced a few cases of extreme
cruelty to Slaves-with the design of
establishing the fact that negro Slaves
were the only victims of oppression and
wrong. None of the cases be mentioned
surpassed in enormity the late murder of
Mrs. WARD, a white woman in Lucas
county, by her own husband, and the
cutting ur and burning of her ~body-the
recent murder of a white woman in
Chicago,and the enclosing her remains in
a barrel, and their shipment to New
York-and numerous other equally re.
voting crimes, and of almost daily oc-
currence, hat we might refer to, as
illustrating the fact that "man's iuhu-
mainly to man" is not confined to any
section or to any race. 1t was only the
other day, that we copied from a Repub-
licau paper a notice of the sentence of
death passed upon a white man by a
North Carolina Court for the murder of
one of his own Slaves. Revolving ia.
stances of cOnjugal infdelity-of IN
natural cruelty to children on the part
of parcnts-and of uuflial acts by sons
and daughters, are not unknown to the
criminal annals CT even our Northern
States. BY an artful parade of all the
crimes which occur in our cities, and
which increase with the increasing densi-
ty cf our population, a sect of humani-
tartan "feelosofers'' could soon be orga-
nized who would be willing to preach
that Northern Society was worse than
that of Babylon, or than that of King
LEAR time, when Vaccinations, hollow
ness treachery, and all r%uiBous disor-
ders," followed people disquietly to their
gravcs;-when Glove cooled, friendships
fell off, brothers divided in cities, mu-
%tinies;'' in Kansas, discord; in Congress,
treason; "and the bond cracked between
son and father" Aud the practical aims
and results of such an. organization would
produce quite as much as, thus far, has
been accomplished by tie Abolition So
ciety.
The lecturer admitted that, among,the
population of the South, the number of
Christians were as three to one compared
with the North. The STATISTICS COM
PEELED the admission of this faet,-and
yet he claimed that missionaries and the
Bible were more effectually excluded
from the colored population of the Slave
States of the American Union, than
they. were from the native Africans in
Africa ! Did not Mr.. McCoRM1CK know
the fact that the fund raised in Charles
ton, South Carolina, for the religious
neutrality-suspicious. f the eelered youth,
is greater than that raised in the city Of
New York, in proportion. to the popula-
ton, for the Sunday instruction Of the
white youth of that city!
The lecturer gave it as his opinion that
Elk. Gov. MED1LL did not possess a sound
back bone;-the vertebra of his sue.
~ccsser, however, Gov. CHASE, the present
incumbent, was one of oak, without a
single weak point.
And what was the of1ence of Gov. Me.
DILL? Simply, that he was faithful tc
his oath TO support the Constitution and
LawsI This was the head and front Of
his offending, Gov. MEDILL found a
provision in the Federal Constitution
and a provision without which there
neyervould have been any such Constitu.
tion nor any Union-which declares that
A person charged in any State with
!" treason, felony or other crime, who
!" shall flee from justice, and be found
I" in another State, shall, on demand of
1 F. E. A
the executive authority of the State
g from which he fed, he delivered up
i &c. Gov. MEDILL had a " weakness u
for the sanctity of his official oath. Gov.
chase, however, it was distinctly init.
mated, was strong enough to override all
oaths apd Constitutions, when hey come
in conflict with his partizan Interests
Gov. MED1LL's qceakncSS was Gov. CHAsE's
strength.
The lecturer closed Lis remarks with,
out suggesting any definite remedy for
the evil which he denounced, except to
fagitatel agitatel agitatel' and iufame
the minds of the northern people against
: their brethren of the South. He in.
timated, indeed, that a very profitable
business could be done by stealing ne.
gros and running them off to Canada
and gave some ambiguous hints that he
himself had keen engaged in that very
moral and praise worthy enterprise.
e But we have occupied more space, al
: ready, upon this subject, han is prof
table to our readers; although we be
lieve the. time is approaching when thu
Democracy of this country will have t.
meet1abolitionisrn, in its most hideoui
] and reasonable form, as their mes
formidable fee G ca sea :