The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-10-31
JOHN SHERMAN. AND THE REV. MR..
{ GURLEY-THEIR CONNECTION WITH
THE HELPER BOOK.

In the summer OF lOOS, d ciTcular was ID
sued by the leading Republicans of the nation, !
indorsing the sentiment Of and recommend.
ing for general circulation among the people, |
political work written by one Helper. This
circular was indorsed by sixty-six Republican
members of Congress, and among the rest, by
John Sherman, of, Ohio, who addressed the
Republican meeting here last week. They
say: ". z.a-r- - .l-.zf.i :; f.,i..-.,aa 4
House of Representatives OF the National
Congress, do cordidIy in1orsef the opinions set
forth in tho foregoing circular. lISigned by]
s. Colfax, J. R. Giddings, E. B. Washburne
of Illinois, VIM. Kellogg of Illinois, Owen
Lovejoy of Illinois, and Anson Burlingame,
John Sherman. o. B. Matteson, y. Farnsworth
of Illinois, and ffty-nine others" z9aavt
The character of the work. may be judged
of from the following extracts from it,, ,zr
"Slaveholders are nuisance.
as'It is our imperative business to abate nu-
isances." '--e i1iet19riHii 5'-if 3'i ehf 4
awe propose to exterminate this catalogue
from beginning to end"
"We believe that THIEVES are, as gen
eral rule, less amenable to the moral law than
SLAVEH OLDERS.@ .,
SHAREHOLDERS ARE MORE GRIM
INAL THAN COMMON MURDERERS.'
"Slavehelders and slave-traders are, as
general thing, unfit to occupy any honorable
station in life"
SIT is our honest conviction that all the Pro
slavery Shareholders, who are alone responsible
| for the continuance Of the baneful institution
among US, deserve to be AT ONCE RE-
| DUCED TO A PARALLEL WITH BAS-
EST CRIMINALS THAT LIE FETTER-
ED IN OUR PUBLIC PRISONSl 24'
| Were it possible that the whole number( a. e.
of the slaveholders) could be gathered togeth-
er and transferred into four equal gangs OF II
censed Ba- ROBBERS, THIEVES AND
| MURDERERS, ga society, we feel assured,
would suffer less from their atrocities thanilt
does now. t u o-G H5i iil'gzie.3 II
1"But we are welded to one purpose, from
which no earthly power can ever divorce us
SLAVERY AT ALL HAZARDS-INH DE
FIANCE OF ALL OPPOSITION. fOF
WHATEVER NATURE WHICH IT IS
| POSSIBLE FOR SLAVEOCRATS. TO
BRING AGAINST US. OF this they may
take due notice, and govern themselves accor-
dinghy" fft =. F2i '..--. @i.1 -
The Rev MI .Gurley indorsed John eSher-
man, who approves of the above sentiments,
by voting for him for Speaker some sixty or
seventy times. In this connection read the
following from Joshua r. Giddlngs:
"WAsn1NGToN Cry, Feb. 5, 1861
esTo the Editor of the Ashtabula Sentinel:
"Our friends at home should be slow to GEN.
: sure their representatives for deserting Mr..
Sherman. x x They felt the humilia-
, ton of discarding candidate because he had
indorsed the doctrine of Helpers book, every
sentence of which finds a'lresponse lin the
hearts of all true Republicans. J..iR. GID
DINGS. ..r.--t III. a.-s srsif, a.s..f
E pa- A Southener Whites to friend in New
: = York thus: 1t7 81 9s@i!'1 .ii5s7 .'ss
+ "Already," he says, "has the alarm com,
4 upon our commercial circle, and even if Mr.
l. Lincoln should be defeated, I fear that anothe
mome entary crisis INST sweep over the land
n The banks refuse to extend accommodation
It and are curtailing their loans. Il No sale can b
e made of real estate, and adistrust now pervade
: our community, since Tuesdays elections ar
= known, which may culminate. in a short tim
+ in general suspension and bankruptcy o
e course we do all in our power to lull such
/ feeling, but it cannot be quieted. Every bod
IS seem to think alike. I had given orders
of sell out my property, but cannot get pu
al chaser uutI 1t is ascertatnea that Etncotn
D. defeated. =
Ig 81 believe, as seriously and earnestly as
}, ever did in anything, in my life, that h
he election will naugurate the most fearful strl
n between the North and Sotith, unequalled b
es ANYTHING in the annals of history. In ott
r. event of his election shall inim ediateiy sen
ed nv family to England, where they cannot
e, exposed to the horrors of, civil or seryile wa
! The Oldest and wisest Of our citizens shall
d. their heads despondIng, and grasp eagerly
cy the last hope of succor and safety, which yo'
OF State affords them" Eed edf .GiiHrEd -
= HON. ALEX. H. STEPHENS IN III
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