The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-10-12
is opposcdto it.-Hencs we find in the Portage
County Democrat, e leading Republican, sheet)

is opposed to it, Hence we find in the Portage
County Democrat, e. leading Republcansheet)
the following announeemept:2i s.
Mr.. GIDDINas IN RAvRNNAABy notice
among the list of speaking appointments, 1T
will be seen that the veteran Statesman and
patriot, Joshua r. Gliding, will speak in Ra-
VIENNA on Friday evening of next week@We
need not ask the people to come out-as q mat
ter eff course there will be a great rally of Ia
dies and gentlemen to hear the words aad les
sons Of wisdom and experience, which none
can utter and give so well as this brave. true,
and iong-tried defender of Freedom and Free
principles. The Meeting will be held in the
Town Hail." As[ 3 II "a E.ftfi
In the Ashtabulay Seminal, the organ of Mr..
Giddings, we find, in largetype, the following
"Hon. WILLIAM DENN1SON and Hon.
j. r. GIDDINGS will address the people of
Lake. Geauga and Ashtabula Counties at
Madison, on Monday, September 26, 1859"
Mr.. Giddings has defined his position on the
Fugitive Slave Law, In a letter to Mr.. Plumb,
then confined in the Jail of this county, for for
chilly resisting its execution, in words so strong
that he who runs may read. We reproduce a
portion of that letter, where, in speaking of
The law breakers, then about to be tried, Mr..
Giddines says:
"In disregarding this Lao the prisoners did
Right. THEIR ERROR CONSISTED IN
SPARING THE LIVES OF THE SLAVE
CATCHERS. THOSE PIRATESSHOULD
HAVE. BEEN DELIVERED OVER TO
THE COLORED MEN AND CONSIGNED
TO THE DOOM OF PIRATES WHICH
SHOULD HAVE BEEN SPEEDILY Exc
tCUTED. You are aware that this the doctrine
which I proclaimed in Congress. l adhere to
it. HAD THE PRISONERS EXECUTED
the SLAVE CATCHERS PROMPTLY, 1T
WOULD AVETAUGHTTIIE ADMINS
TRATION A LESSON NOT SOON TO BE
FORGOTTEN. Re should hare been no
more troubled toih that class of miscrednts.-
They ,could haze knolcn better than to haze
sholcn themselves among an intelligent people
acho knou their rights and dare maintain them.
But in rescuing their fellow-man from the
fangs of these blood hounds, the prisoners did
right. Present and coming generations will
bless them for it. 1t was a high moral dIty,
the exercise of a virtue which sheds a halo of
glory around the memory of our republican
fathers. When arrested for such an act they
did well in refusing to give bail. When
brought into Court they did right in refusing
to give bail; and my opinion they cannot now
recede from the manly position which they
have assumed. By these noble acts they have
inscribed their names upon a most important
pfSC Vi our llSGOIJ. AhCJ nv OhCOh ~ "a
themselves in this business, but for justice, for
liberty, for the cause of freedom. The eyes of
the nation are upon them. They should bear
in mind the character of the people in this por-
ton of our gallent State. They should re-
member the pilgrim fathers from whom they
have descended. Cleveland is now the Boston
of ITS, and I trust her sons will meet the re-
sp~onsibilities thrown upon them with becom-
ing 6rmness."
In stamping with Giddings in Northern
Ohio-in asking him to accompany him on
his Northern tour, Mr.. Dennison endorses his
principles, so far as the Reserve is concerned.
In stumping with Corwin in Southern Ohio,
and neither by act, word or deed dissenting
from a single sentence of Corwin's declarations,
ar. Dennison, so far as Southern Ohio is con-
cerncd, is taken as endorsing them.
Mr.. Dennison then, in Southern Ohio, held.
with Gov. Corwin, that all who oppose the Flu
gitive Slave Law are CREATORS" and
should BE ELEVATEDT TO Il PURER AT
UP"
In Northern Ohio, he adopts the Giddings
creed, that all who attempt to catch a slave,
under the law, should be treated as Pirates,
and be "Rc2ioered oUer to the COLORED MEN
and consigned to the DOOM OF PIRATES,
which should hare been specify erecatcd.'
Thus does Mr.. Dennison seek the votes OF
the conservative and law abiding portion of his
party in Southern Ohio, by appearing to go
with Corwin, and treating all law-defying Fa-
natics with a rope and a ~gallows, as traitors
should, while in Northern Ohio, where fanati-
cism has its strongest hold, he seeks the votes
of The law-defycrs by stumping side by side
with Giddings, who hold that all who attempt
to execute the law should be treated as Pirates
and be delivered over to the negroes to be by
them speedily executed.-NutionaI Democrat