The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-10-05
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Extracts From the Articles of Faith
"H'Tiie1 HES s sSFGssons OF THE
Below will be found a few choice extracts
from the writings and speeches of tie leading
men and organs OF the Republican party.
THE SUPERIOR TO FOREIGNERS AND
DEMOCRATS.
owe unhesitatingly aver that seven-tenths
of the foreigners in our land, who bow in ODE
dience to the will of the Pope of Rome, ARE
NOT AS INTELLIGENT as the full blooded
AFRICANS of our State-we will not include
the part bloods. Yet, should a move be made
to curtail the naturalization laws, even to ex-
tending the residence of the most i~lliterate, ig-
norant foreigner that lands on our shores, such
a din would be raised by the Democrats as
would deafen the Cleveland Herald.
at is not at all pertinent to instance the con-
dition of the black man in a condition to per.
mitthe testing of the question. Because Wis
eonsin is mean and morrow minded enough to
refuse to allow a negro, however intelligent, to
vote, it does not prove that the negro does not
deserve the rivilege, nor, because Wisconsin at
the same time, permits a raw lrishman and an
ignorant Dutchman to vote, when he neither
knows his own politics nor that Of his candi-
date, does it prove that Wisconsin is either just
or wise in making this arbitrary distinction
Let us be just and sensible as we'll as critical
and patriotic, Mr.. Doolittle. The only fair test
of the capacity and disposition of the black
man to dwell, side by side, on terms of equality
with, the white, is to take him where he does
enjoy that equality. Unfortunately there is no
place where this is the ease to the full extent,
for prejudice does much, even in the most ia
vored localities, to Cypress the colored man.
Boston Bee, Eiito-, VIM. SchouIer, Governor
Chose's rtghtA md man, for whom Gibson ad-
RANGED the zaon'yto bay the OhiollState Journal.
"Why, we vesture the assertion without fear
of successful contradiction, that you may take
the five thousand negroes as they come, and a
thousand frishmen as thagenrne.a and you will
find the negroes surpass the lrishmen OF Bus
ton in intelligence, morality and industry, and
good citizenship; they are more thrifty, more
orderly and every way superior; it is the same
in the city of Philadelphia, as facts will abun-
dainty prove."-Boston Bee.
eIf you viii come here we will show you,
any day, our colored fellow-citizens riding in
the cars on the same seat with the aristocrats
of Beacon street and Chester Square, and nei--
ther the negro nor the white man appears in
the least disturbed or harmed by the proximity.
And as for political franchises, we will just in
form our friend that, in Massachusetts,, a black
mans vote is just as good and counts as much
as Mr.. Winthrop's or Edward Everett's and
there are now no political disabilities imposed
upon any man on account of the color of his
skin."-Boston Bee.
"Some niggers are far superior to some Dem.
ocrats. Indeed they are superior to the great
mass Of the Democratic party; while some Dem
ocrats are superior to some niggers, and per-
haps to the greater portion of the African race.
Yet all Democrats, however intellectually infe-
rior they may be to the Triggers are entitled to
live, and to enjoy their liberty, and the fruits
of tier labor. And while we are endeavoring
to sustain those equal and universal rights we
ought not to be drawn into any discussion of
the moral or social superiority of the niggers
over the Democrats. Joshua r.. Giddings
IN tile Ashtabula Sentinel.
THE UNITED sTATEs OFFICERS TO BE HUNG
FOR ATTEMPTING oExECUTELEGAL PROCESS.
"~Republicans would hang the slave hunter,
if found in Africa or Ohio"
II do not object to your giving utterance to
your sentiments. 1 only object to your repre-
s%enting them as the sentiments of the republic
can party. I as one of that party, detest the
fugitive slave law. I would STAY any slave
catcher who should pollute my residence to re-
capture a fugitive.-J. r. Giddings to Tom.
CorWin.
"The popular mind was for a time dissuaded
from executing r~etribut:ve justice; but 1 give it
as my opinion that if the prosecution had con-
tinued in the spirit previously manifested, those
officers would have. been hanged before their
own doors. to CorWin on the Res
cue trials at Clereldad.
Had these officers been hanged in the man
ner intimated, Judge Mclean would not have
tried them. United States laws would have
had no application to the case. They would
have been tried under State law, and by State
judges, by a judge Of the county who would
have determined both law and fact."-Gid-
dingsto Coraoin.
"In disregarding this law, the prisoners did
] right. Their error consisted in sparing the
lives of the slave catchers. Those Pirates sho'd
have been delivered over to the colorcd men
and consigned to the doom of pirates which
should have been speedily executed. Ii
dings to Plumb, the Rescuer.
THE GOVERNMENT TO BE DESTROYED.
"The people finding this government to have
become destructive to the lives, the liberties
and the happiness of its citizens, will alter OF
abolish it; and organize its powers in such a
form as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their safety and happiness.'"- Giddin9s to
Plumb.
AThe recent attempt to enforce the most obi
GUS and debasirg of all Federal enactments in
Ohio, and the oppressive and prosecuting con-
duct of Federal officers under that ~piratical
law, are fast educating the public mind up to
the full Giddings standard. This truth is pat
ent as the noon-day." Cleveland Leader.
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