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

manufactures read it let the man of leisure,
who relies on the general prosperity of those
around him, read it; and above all, Jet the
great lsboring classes, who literally earn their
bread by the sweat of their brow, read it,
Nay, let theScanting fanatic read and ponder,
and let political emagogues blush with shame
when they reflect how many honest and we'll
meaning persons have been led astray by their
''cunningly devised fables" III regard to 5thc
"poor slave
But one word to those who, by false alarm,
have been frightened from the democratic par
ty, and have taken refuge in the armso of black
~rcpublicanism. You, once good and true dem
ocrats of Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut,
New York-what have you gained, or are like
ly to gain, by joining the republican party p
What would you gain were that party to ac-
complish what some of its ablsst and most in
fuential leaders really seek to accomplishing
abolition of slavery in the South !? or, in the
event of failing in this, the dissolution of the
Union? Why take alarm at this ~demagogical
cry about slavery? Why meddle with the sub
ject? But, say you, the democratic party, sup
ported by the power of the Administration are
the p~ropagandists of slavery, and are endeavor-
ing or have sought to extend it. This is a mis-
take. The democratic party and the Admins
t~ration arc for leaveing the subject alone ; or,
rather, they are for leaving it where tie Gin
cinnati Convention solemnly and acithout a dds
senting uoicc agreed it should be lcft-with the
States whers it exists, and in the Territories
with the people "acting through the legally
and fairly-expressed will of a majority of actual
residents" thereof, which Territories, "tchenec-
err the number IF their Inhabitants justJfes it."
are to be allowed "to form a constitution, with
or without domestic slavery, and be admitted
into the Union upon terms of perfect equality
with the other States" This is where the
democratic party has placed the subject. 1t is
by a faithful adherence to the principle thus
laid down that the agitation in Kansas has
been subdued and on this broad and firm plat
form, based upon justice, equality, and right,
the democratic party will continue to stand.
Let all democrats, then, be united and when
we speak of democrats, we appeal not only to
the great body of the party Who have always
remained firmly together, but to those who from
honest convictions, but without sufficient refec-
ton, have been temporarily separated from their
old friends. There are many such in the
States above mentioned, as we'll as in other sec
tons Of the Union, whose sympathies, we are
assured, are with the democratic party, and
who now see that in listening to the represent
atoms of the o: position they have been deceived,
and have no alternative but to turn back, or be-
come thoroughly affiliated with an unscrupu-
lous party. to which they have been NEARLY
their whole lives opposed They now see that
the Adm nistration is faithfully and ably ad-
ministered, and that all this abuse of the Pres
ident is but a repetition ofwhat his democratic
predecessors have all had to suffer, in whose
defence they were ever proud to bear a part
Washington Constitution.