The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-02-22
For The Ashland Union.

lssuesef the "Ashiaad Times" written by the
Editor who presides over the legal department
of that Christian anti-Slayery sheet, referring
to an article of mine published in your paper
two weeks since, in which I showed up to some
%tcxtent hid hypocrisy of thezieaders of the
Brown;R Republican Party in their vain attempt
to cover up their rascally political schemes
with the broad mantle of Christianity.
= How wen I succeeded in doing this is best
evidenced by the iuttering of this band of
political desperadoes. They see that them
selves, and their political schemes, are we'll
understood by the people, and that it is vain
for them to attempt to gull the intelligent vo
tiers of Ashland county into the beliefthat they
are actuated by other than the corrupt an
~couteutptible desire that the people should
look upon them, this John Brown Disunioh
Party, as a Christian organization; and they
are mad. But no one of the fifteen would-be
Christian Anti-Slayery saints of this county
takes this exposure so much to heart as "Miss
Nancy" the assistant Editor of the Chimes"
judging from the reading of his article it
would seem that he is simple enough to believe
that by his attempted abuse of yourself he
NAV divert the attention of the honest voters oil
Ashland county from the acts of these unscru-
pulous Christian n ti-Slavery Political gam
blers. Miss Nancy has found that the dear
people will not send him to Congress for the
reason as was claimed by his admiring friends
"he didn't look like a Congressman" His
cial District could see nothing in the appear
ance of this Cassius looking Individual suitable
for common pleas Judge of said District; yet
Junius Jr. thought otherwise, and Insisted that
he be Judge; but his political friends finally
prevailed, and by a very decided vote in con-
%vention, said to him, William thou art not the
mani He can truly say, 81 have v%entured
like little wanton boys that swim on bladders.
this many summers in a sea of glory, but far
beyond my Depth Nov if this pure disin-l
terested "Christian Ant Slavery assistant
Editor of the aTimes7 would allow me to ad-
wise him 1 would say in all kindness, Junius
Jr., @I charge thee fling away ambition?' for
in your case. it may be truly said ''vain am
bition overleaps itself" / think it would be in
much better taste and I know more satisfac-
tory to the citizens of this county if 'Junius
Jr." had, instead of pouring out tn, yials of his
wrath upon your devoted head, explained to
the uninitiated the object of the Wooster
Christian Anti-Slavery convention, and would
satisfy them that the Republican party did
not endorse the raid of John, Bruwn-that
they we're not converts to the disunion senti-
meuts advocated by the obcrlin school of
whose doctrines It's well understood
the Brown Republican party have adopted
No intelligent man viii require a better evil
dence of this than the fact that the Oberlin
Professors are now perambulating our state the
acknowledged leaders and advocates of the
principles of this self styled Republican party,
preaching treason, disunion and discord wheroa
ever they go It would be highly interesting
to the people if Junius Jr. would explain to
them why he and his party endorsed the Flu
gitive slave law in 1852, and why they look
with so much horror upon the same law in
1860. Has time made that wrong which he
and his party then claimed to be right? Also
why it is that tbs Republican Supreme Court
of Ohio decided in one case that negro chill
dren or children of one fourth or one eighth
negro blood cannot have the privilege of at
tending our common schools, and in another
that the fathers of these same children are
citizens of and entitled to vote In this State
Junius Jr. is a lawyer, and l trust will explain
this strange and inconsistent action of this
Republican Court. Was one decision made be-
cause such is the law, ard the other to satisfy
the demands of the negro worshippers of the
Reserve? How is this? l would also have
you explain to the people why the Republican
Court of franklin county, after Gibson, the
defaulting Treasurer of State, had been fairly
tried and convicted by an impartial jury of his
for stealing tie peoples money, and
the Penitentiary was staring him in the face,
granted him a new trial, thereby defeating the
ends of jnstice2 Does. your party desire Glib
SON. aid in addressing Christian Anti Slavery
conventions in the coming campaign? I would
have Junius Jr. tell US why the Repub-
lican Legislature of Ohio, elected by the
people under the cry of 'retrenchment and
REFORM appropriated 5000 dollars Of their
money to defray the expenses of a grand spree
at the Capital devoting the money and time
of said legislature, all of which belonged to
the State, to treating themselves and two or
three hundred slave holders from Kentucky
and Tennessee, to costly wines, oysters, &c. =
Is this a specimen of Republican retrench-
if so, give us your opinion as a lawyer
they find the constitutional authority
for appropriating the peoples money to defray
the expenses of their bachanalian re, %elries?
and if slave holders are so obnoxious to the
MEMBERS of this Brown Republican Teoisla- (
ture, why invite them to eat oysters, and drink
costly wines at the expense of the State2 "Con-
sistency thou art JEWELL 1 trust Junius, Jr,,
shall hear from you in regard to these
Kings. You cannot eyade them or attract the
of the people from them by your low {
nd scurrilous attacks upon Mr.. Knapp. He
ares nothing about your slang; he looks up