The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-01-25

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tionssand soil, climate and productions vii
peaceabl5 and squietlyi settle the slavery an
all other questions: :. s34 On sa.aiais
R-ezesSdcfsisessf or fhe. Black LGsrs de
or IA Brot5ft Republicans
The following remarkable petition, from tn
Blown RcpsIii.arsef Gre 9ounty, has bee
presented to- the lower branch of the Obi
Legislature .7ia H4Eo sas ri ?,
To the HsaoraBE General Assembly of tn
State Of Ohio. -
Many citizens of Greene county respectful.
present this, their petition:
Believing, as we do, that there is an "irre
pressible conflict" between the white and tn
black race-between the Anglo-Saxon ant
those. who have a tfdistinct and visible admir-
ture of African blood" believing that tn,
policy Of the South is to rid themselves of thei,
free negro population, and thereby strengthen
the chains of slavery believing that the policy
of tho Southern STAKEHOLDER is degrading tc
the white laborer, and that the settlere nt Of
the emaneipated slaves and free negroes of the
South In the State Of Ohio, will conflict with
and degrade the white laborer believing that
the laws already in force, thoes and about tc
be enacted in some of the Southern States, ex.
pelling the free and cmancipated negroes from
lbC1I-ulQSIy Will AOOus OQI LdL II d iO1 NC
of suup5eranHnated, worthless, mixed people, I'M
fit to take care of themselves-unft for citizen
ship-unft to exercise the right of suffrage
but only TO furnish subjects for our prisons
and poor houses at the public expense.
BSfsaying that while one white citizen, ma
tive or foreign born, viii cause q thousand
spears of grass to grow, the Southern negro or
mixed, viii trample acres into dust and as we
do not want our State to be made the common
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cred by Southern laws dangerous to a Southern
community nor to be taxed to educate the H.
legitimate offspring of the STAKEHOLDER, and
build poor houses TO shelter and support their
paupers We therefore ask you to protect us
from this growing evil, by passing a law for
5idding absolutely their admission within the
State Of Ohio A-If9Ia} 20
'TKhat a pseofplesr p what jargon is embodied
in this creed of the Republicans! Here they
send Old BRowN,. onthis throat-cufting expe-
diticnto Virginia for the purpose of releasing
the .slaVes, and running them over into Ohio
and now they ask a law ':sJiorbd1aing absolutely
the admission. of this people within our State!
What an incomprehensible, aimless and mean
ingtess thing this Republican organization is
Fran 1904. until 1915, it had been the poll
cy of Ohio to exclude from our State this class
of people The reversal of this policy by the
repeaiof those laws, was one Of the conditions
of tie sdisgraceful bargain by which SALMON
P. CHAs was first elected to the United States
Senate AS one of the results of this new pol
icy, fheseeunty of Greer e has obtain ed a surfeit
of Authorization; and they are now unwilling .
that these poor creatures, who they say are
only fit for "Our prisons and poor houses shall
breathe the same air and look upon the same
sky with themselves! From ardent negro
they are in a twinkling transform
ed iutothe most or Iel aud savage negro-haters!
CHAsE himself informed the Tennessee
cleGyman,,z who applied to him for information
regarding, TIE best location for several families
of orderly and moral Africans, that they
should not, with his appreciation, have a home
in 4Ohio-that we did not want negros among
he hated and desprsed the whole race,
&c!
Republicanism in Ohio, just now, has an
awful squint in a pro-slavery direction. They
are not erecting as many nun to JOHN
BRoyN as they were a few days ago-and
HELRxR's. endorsers are falling off. See last
Ashland z ipres-and note particularly its
extravagant endorsement of Mr.. O'CoNoR's
speech and letter.
HOeU fhe Money Is gOiaS.-