The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-05-02
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ASHLAND. WEDNESDAY,, NAY ., 1850,

ASHLAND. WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1850:
zns Horror. Of .xerle.y,. soeset5s e.'
Illustrated by Republicans and .ab-
OStttOs sHescSp0pers.
We occupied an hour, a few weeksasinee, in
clipping from Republican exchanges, anpm-,
Der of@articles, which We had designed to
= group together as showing the condition "of
Northern Society" The matter which we had
thus collated, would constitute q record illus
Etfxting the state of aNorthernp or free So
II oisty, which you'd make counties millions
mourn" 1t is not our custom, as all our rea-
r. ders know, to crowd our columns with details
-zsa Of crime. Such matter does not accord with
~eur ideas Of taste, morals, or Of duty as a
q journalist We prefer to minister to a genial
temper, and to look upon the best side of hu-
g- mainly. We would rather see our friends
4 ealaugh than weep. Hence we claim no sympa-
ssessthy with that taste which delights itself in the
- monstrosities of our race; and hence,it is that
Ne abjure bulLfghts, cock-fghts, and man.
ms 6gAts,-Eexcept to a confession of some weak
aoisshess in faver of Heenan So far as our read
- "a may judge by what we publish, they would
80 eonclude. that there was very little crime in
d.bs lie world-at home or abroad. It is only
snifrRhsn thrust upon ournotiee by occurrences in
iz145ur Immediate town or neighborhood, that we
HgsElmake record of sueh Greats. sz5f a. b.
Republican newspapers, however, gather up
.zoee1aggerated and unfrequent instances of cru
-sy city TO slaves, and parade before their readers
those instances as Illustrating the @condition of
.Africsn Slavery" Without this array of apo
% seryphaI Lagrees which rise up as gorgons
ed before the diseased brains of Brown, Republi.
6sss cans, s1OtheIIo's occupation" would be gone
The Republican party would become bankrupt
% Tin an hour, and the country would have inter-
-sie.nal peace; and quiet. sdf res
-sss we would be compelled to issue a triple
ga sheet, to embrace the clippings forming the
4 dark catalogue of crime which our brief labor
ksltseathered We zcan only find space now fer
81 zone of the sickening details, as given by a
- BfownsRepubliean Journal, and as occurring
in the Republican city of Cleveland.
-. The moral of sush narratives suggests that
-2zs there is no necessity for our going far away
our jurisdiction to find work for our hands
10 de-that when re have plucked the beams
s from our own eyes, and eradicated the disor.
rs sders from our own social system, we can with
= more propriety engage ia a crusade against the
. Ds real and fanciei sins of onr neighbors:
srs-Hcr1ible cTuelty-A Ma Starving
80 Sc a5s his. Mother to Death
So, 1fs.. Iron the Cleveland Leader d
~ Within the past few weeks the neiehbors
- ~of Willis Graves who resides at No. 81 Pross
pect street. in, this city, have had suspicious
that his treatment of his aged mother who
- lives with him was far from being what it.
be, and those suspicious have so far
81 zstleRsthened into reality, and the grounds for
- nat be justified in Withholding longer from the
world all the narticulafsa of the. horrible and