The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-01-25
Gov. Dennison's Inaugural.

TIL Inauguration of Gov. Dennison, the
nabob Banker, was attended with great pomp
and military display. 1t was a sickly aping
after royalty, aud not at all in keeping with
our democratic ideas of a Republican govern
mcnt. 1t was an aristocratic attempt to make
up in glitter what he lacked in brains. Both
the "fuss and feathers display, and the long
drawn out empty Inaugural, are made the sub
jects OF ridicule in all quarters. The Cleve-
land National Democrat says: The queerest
document that ever emanated from an execu-
tive head, is the Inaugural Address of Gov.
DENNIsoN, which we lay before our readers
to day. 1t is not hifalutin and silly after the
fashion of a similar document from Gov. BEBB,
in lS45, for that was disgraceful to the veriest
slmpleton IN a Sophomore class at a half-fedg-
cd College, but in its arguments it is equally
weak and vain, and is silly in the extreme.
1t abounds, in the portion dedicated to Ma
tl3nal affairs, with AN attempt at the most ex-
allied patriotism, and deepest devotion to the
Union and the Constitution, with uni
dations which, if carried out, wo'd render it
impossible for the Union of the States of the
American Republic to remain one instant Ion
ger than they could be separated, and would
violate the Constitution by rendering nugatery
and as a dead letter, that portion of the sacred
instrument which, at the time of its formation,
was the subject of compromise and of conces-
sion without which the Union would never
have been formed. Strike down the Supreme
Court, in which the Constitution has vested
the judicial power of the United States-allow
the majority in a State to deny the binding
authority CT its DEGREES, and to give to the in
ferior courts of a State, as passion or prejudice
or base pandering to the majority may dictate,
the power to override its decisions, and in
Ohio to decide that slavery in Kentucky or
Virginia is wrong, and without the support of
the Constitutional law, and the Union would
be but as a rope of sand, liable to be kicked
apart by the first man who chose to put his
foot upon it; and yet Gov. DENNIsoN-the
man that Ohio has intrusted with the power
as Governor and COMMANDMENT chief, Sravely
proposes TO do this thing, and that, too, while
sounding words of lofty patriotism are scarce
dry from his pen.
The Governor, we fear, has not read the his
tory of his native State, or else he but remem-
bers to forget it. He praises the ordinance of
1887, and recites the fact with great triumph,
that it made Ohio free-that it gave Ohio an
impetus in education-that it made it what
she now is, the third State in the Confederacy.
If, in stating these facts, the Governor had
known, or if he knew had recollected that the
Ordinance of 1889 was the gift of Virginia to
the North West-that with it she gave the land
including within the bounds of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, to the gen
eral Government to enable it to wipe off the
debt of the Revolution, and that to make the
gift the more acceptable, and that the land
thus donated might the sooner be sold and set
tied, she dedicated the Northwest to freedom,
and nobly provided for the education of the
children, settled upon its hill sides. and on
its rich and ~alluvial bottoms and broad prairies,
the new Governor would not have dedicated so
large a portion of his message to abuse of the
South, by charging it with disloyalty to the
Union, and of caring but little for its benefits
when put in competition with the increase of
slavery. The Governor, in his watchful care
over the State, has nude a wonderful discovery.
He has been told, and like a true "confdence
man." he believes, that a portion of the South
intends to secede from the Union, leaving the
the frontier States of Virgins, Maryland, Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Missouri in the Union
for a time to cover their retreat. and to form a
breakwater protecting the other Slave States
while they can Africanize them all by means
of tie slave trade, and to conquer Cuba, Mex
leo and the other Territory on the South and
set up a Republic of their own, whose south
ern limits, we suppose, will be the southern
extremity of the continent, embracing the ad-
jacent islands of the sea. Then the South
will be powerful, and then the break watcr
will be torn down by the admission of the Slave
nduleu INTO the pOuGCern confederation, Il
md the waves of proslaveryism will break over
he Free States and cngulf them in the vortex
# slavery, by casting upon them an 'infux of
negroes, working like an OK under the
road" and forcing every white man in the
North to "become slaves themselves to escape
tarving." What the Governor intends to do
bout it we are unable to say.
The Governor then comes with words of
counsel and encouragement to the insurrec-
ionary Abolition spirit of the North. At
err a hypocritical and therefore an ahortive at
empt to signify his willingness to allow the
'outh to manage their own institutions in their
way, he insidiously points outways and
neans, long since passed upon as Utopian, by
Ihieh slave property is to become disenthrall-
and to be borne off, en- naasse, to some island
the sea or Central American State, known
My to exist in the Imagination of the Cover
or of Ohio, there to be planted into a colony
black people and black rulers. F,
Here we have the true bearings of this !
lack Republican party, too boldly set forth c
conceal its ears, and too shallowly expressed q
hide it's puerile philanthropy.
Taken as a whole, it is a great Message .
reat in style-greater still in its discoveries.
Id transcendently greater in its discussion of
ational affairs. It will add much to the fame
Gov. DEENIsoN but it will not be the fame
lat a sensible man would covet.-Ohi Eagle.
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