The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-09-14

The Opposition papers-persIst- In saying that
party, has rcpented of his auction sale of "Da-
Wy" sRas," 'Ned," and his other-saves.-
This may be true, but we have no faith me
p~entance without works.
s.Between the stirup and the ground
Grace is sought and sometimes found"
but that is because the repenting sinner has no
chance to undo his error by his restitution
when in his power so to do.
The Judge sold his slaves-his men, momen
and children averaged some S500-Ned and
Davy sold for 500. He sold them into eter-
nal slavery-warranted them as "slaves for
life" and to show that this term "life" was a
long lease to the purchaser of his chattels, he
warrented them "sound," just as the horse
dealer does the horse he sells.
The Judge now repents-he thinks he did
wrongl The Republican papers say this
the Judge does not, but, for the sake of the
argument, we admit the piopositson to be true.
He repents and is sorry,-he sinned in selling
his slave at a low price, (for slave property
then was low and he regrets it,-regrets the
price, we think, more than the sale. The
'price of the blood" was paid him-the money
received and receipted for, and it was brought
to Ohio, and, we understand, invested in
other property, while the slaves sold into per-
petual bondage are still, if living, toiling in
the cotton fields of Mississippi. Now if Judge
GHoLsoN is sincere, why not buy back Ned
and Ras and Davy and the other men, and the
women and children thus sold? He has never
made the attempt to do so-he has never, so
far as we know, even instituted and enquiry
into their conditio l, or as to their Whereabouts.
He has not shown his repentance by his works.
He still has the "blood money"-he still lives
upon it and feeds himself with it. He belives,
if the professions of his supporters be true,
that it was money wrongly obtained. Judas
got 'sthirty pieces of silver" for selling his
Master, and Judas, finding that he could not
make restitution, event out and hanged him
self" Judge GHoLsoN sold men, and like
Judas, he "repents," but not too late, in some
measure, to undo the evil, but he will neither
part with his ill-gotten gains, nor will he hang
himself. He Keeps the more -tfrn twenty
three times "thirty pieces of silver" for which
he sold "Davy," "Ras" and "Ned," but no
overt act of repentance is seen or heard of.
We often hear of men whose lives have been
hwless-who, during a long term of years,
have been guilty of crimes, in age repenting
of women, whose lives have been past amid
scenes of debauchery, who, when their charms
have faded and their career of vice has ended,
because youth and passion have passed away,
turn d~evotees, after being in the service of the
Evil Cine through life, thinking they can cheat
him of his just dues by protesting a death-bed
repentance, put SUCH Repentance, III our oPIu-
ion, is of but little avail, and so we think ofthe
repentance which the friends Of Judge GHoL-
SON say he entertains.
TIE man who steals the purse of another,
and while squandering its contents, processes
great repentance, is a double distilled hypo-
critic, and greatly adds to his crime, and those
who say that Judge GHoLsoN is sorry for the
sale of his negroes-that he now thinks it was
wrong, knowing, as they do, that he has never
attempted to right the wrong, makes him a
hypocrite of the first water-hypocrisy..being a
crime ten times greater than the selling of his
slaves.-NdtionaZ Democrat.