The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-10-03

The Republican orators, like Schenck and
Corwin, pretend, to be very indignant at the
Democrats for (as said Republicans say sneer-
ing at Abe Lincoln as unit for President be-
cause he split rails and steered q fat-boat once
on a time, and because he ssrose from the
ranks and they therefore charge the Democ-
racy with being aristocrats and opposed to la
boring men and their interests, and all that
sort Of thing Now these statements of sand
Republican orators lack the essential element
of truth, being totally false and unfounded.-
Democrats do not sneer at Lincoln because he
split a few rails, and worked (only one voyage)
on a fat-boat-not at all but they sneer Mt
thriftless, worthless, hypocriticaL political Re-
publican d~emagogues who try to humbHg hon
est, diligent working men into voting fora ta-
coin for President of the United States, sims
ply because he happened to do a littIe-rcry
laae-manual labor before he became law.
yer and politician; for he is destitute of ali
proper qualifications to ell the highest Office
in the work.. AS to his srising' sfrom the
ranks" the extent of his rising is this, all
told; he was once elected to the Illinois legis-
~lature, many years ago, in which body he &C,
quired no enviable distinction, either for talent
or industry; he was elected to Congress for one
term, in 1916, and his constituents were so
pleased with his services therein that they re-
pudiated him, and would not do him the usual
honor of a reelection; he was a candidate for
u s. Senator. from Illinois in 1854, but his
own rarity, which then had a majority in the
preferred and elected LYMAN Trum-
bull; he was a candidate for u. s. Senator from
Illinois in 1855, against Mr.. Douglas, and was
defeated, although he had unusual cir
cumstances in his favor, and Mr., Douglas had
extraordinary, opposition and disadvantages to
against; he is now by a hocus pocus
arrangement Of political wire-workers, a see
tional, unpatrioric, reasonable candidate for
President, and will be worse defeated, ccm-
paratiyely, than ever he was before for any office
that he asked for by the suf1ragcs of the peo-
pie. -. s1e
With regard to the charge that Democrats
are aristocrats and opposed to the interests of
men, it is so preposterously untrue
weak that it is unworthy Of special atten-
and refutation. It is notorious that the
opposition to the Democratic party has always
been opposed to the true interests of working
men, and in favor of Eanks, corporations, and
monopolies Of all kinds, for the benefit of CAPT.
talists and financial schemers. a19i' osn -
We would remind Republicans who express
such intense admiration for, and look mp to the
laboring classes, just before important elections, |
and upon whom they afterward look docn
with disdain, that the Democracy are the
'bone and sinew" Of the nation; that the De-
party has ever been, is and always
win be, the firm defender and protector Of the
rights and interests of the white men 'whot
.earn their bread by the sweat Of their brows;"
hat it will not put negroes and their labor
upon an equality with white men and their Ia
DOT, but viii extend to the former such privil
only as are compatible with the predomi-
nance of the latter-thus keeping each class
n its proper relative position for the benefit
nd happiness of both; that Democracy tends
% and favors the advancement of working mem
lccording TO their talents; and, to crown ALL
the candidate of the Democratic party
or President is the best, greatest, most re-
narkable and successful instance of an able
man "rising from the ranks that our
or the whole world has yet produced.