The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-09-26
Lincoln,s supporters.

Among those who are most enthusiastic In
the support of Abraham Lincoln for President,
are to be found.
JOSHUA R. .eIppINas.
Who, in a letter to Corwin, spoke as follows !:
81 do not object to your giving utterance to
your sentiments. I only object to your rep
resenting them as the sentiments of the Be
publican party. / as one of that party, de-
test the Fugitive Slave Law. tcould stay
any slave catcher who shonld pellute my resi-
dence to capture a fugitive.
RUFUS P. ~sPALDING,
Who, in reply to a letter which had been pub
1ished by Mr.. Weston, editor of the Repub-
lie, at Washington City, said; The writer
is deceived if he supPoses that Judge Swan
was left off the Republican ticket on account
of his residence in Columbus. He was drop
ped for the reason that he, as a judicial officer,
recognized the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850,
to be of binding force in Ohio; and the other
two Judges, who were with him in opinion,
aciN be dropped in the same way as soon as
they are reached in the order of time. We
do not recognize men to be Republicans, here
in Northern Ohio, who will, for a moment,
sustain that miserable enactment tnnaof7i
He also declared that ain the alternative
being presented Of the continuance of slavery
or a dissolution of the Union, ace are for a
u eoSIlhetoH1 anu VIC CdIC -uUG uOH Qulck IL
comes" "a FH
SALMON P. CHASE,
Who said, upon being presented with a silver
pitcher by the negroes of Cincinnati, 81 en-
brace with pleasure this opportunity of de-
claring my disapprobatien with that clause of
the constitution which denies to a portion of
the eolored people the right of suffrage"
HORACE GREELEY,
Who stated in the Tribune, "I have no doubt
that the free and slave States ought to be sep
arated. X x X
The Union is not acorth supporting in connec-
ton with the South" st l-'T
CHARLES SUMNER,
Who said, "The Fugitive Slave Law is filed
with horror; we are bound co disobey this act"
ANsoN BURLINGAME,
Who declares, s'The times demand, and we
must have an anti-slavery Constitution, an
anti-slavery Bible, and an anti,slavery God"
W. H. SEWARD,
Who states that "there is a Higher Law than
the Constitution which regulates our authority
over the domain. Slavery must be abolished
and we must do it"
HI NEW York TRIBUNE,
Says, "the time is fast approaching when the
cry will be too egerpoweTiHg to resist. Rather
than tolerate National slavey as it now exists,
let the Union be dissolved at enee''
@ HARRISON g. BLAKE, Ell
At present a representative in Congress from
the Medina district in this State, who said du-
ring his canvass, 'away with your negro slips
in churches; away with your negro cars. 1
know that these fellows in the Southern part
of the State will say that Blake is a negro
man, but what care !, so long is 1 ann conscious
Of being right"
BENZ f. WADE
Used the following language: "I loathe from
the bottom of my soul any mar who refuses to
anything in human shape all the rights and
privileges he claims for himself 1 know no
high, no low, no black, no ,ehtte-all are Gre
ated by one God, and oil are entitled to the
same privileges"
Mr..
a. Republican member of the present Con-
gress, at a ratification meeting in Logan coun
ty, said-"If because I stand up for the cquali-
ty of the negro, socially and politically with
the white man, they call me a negro worshiper
let them go it. I shall persecerc to the end."