The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-08-22
ANOTHER CHAPTER IN aTHR TRRE.
PREssiBLE ooEFLIGT"

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Various reports have been prevalent for :
couple Of weeks past, relative to negro insur-
rection in Texas. Notyithstandine e was as
serted that the insurrection was instieated bv
abolitionists from the Northern States-that
it was the result 2f regular plot--vs refrain..
ed from commenting upon il nntil in our opins
ion, We had EVIDENCE sufficient, 70 justify us il,
making the charge: That evidence is now aa
hand. There is no longer any doubt ethat the
recent confagrations in Texas were sure
enough the results of 4 plot lookingfo 10 servile
insurreetion, /" ipstigated and aided by awhits
meA." The evidence to which We refer will ha
found IN another column; In, the shape of a les
ter to the Cincinnati, LowuyeeSaz.--a paper
veil skneHn hereabouts TO Do rspphlican =
politics. The writer of the letter IS endorsed
by the CPmmereiak, in the following IanSuaes;
=. ne letter from 2 correspondent ia Texas,
when we PRINT IN ah9ther PLACE, cqntaips ip.
tanee. We knoao.the seriter socH. and kno,s
that he sorites that WAich he belsenes to 5e dls
truth. He asserts, gosittipesy, tkqs. de recent
confadgrotions IN Terds soere sure e,,o,oh n.
the results Of plot looking to a sevyszs insur.
rection.
Thus we have the second chapter ia tie
seirrepressible conflict" preached by Lincoln
and Seward. The scenes of blocdshed a
Hafper's Ferry, less than one year ago, ase
being Fe-enacted ip Texas, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
the late pretended denHReiation, of them,by
the Chicago conyentien, and they XIII sentipqe
70 be re-enaetea Jpst a. lpFg a. We find eny
y adyacating them-jnst So long as re find :
portion OF the Newspaper press defending, the
insHfreetio istsEipst 50 long as We find men
occupying official positions lauding the traitors
| as "good men" engaged in agood cause, ~ ~
| just so long as we find meetings held to de-
nounce.t the law which consigns the instigators
to richly merited doom-just 80 long as We
find political party which labors to place i1
power men whose only recommendation cons
sists in their hostility to Southern institutions,
1 It is the legitimate fruit of the doctrines
taught BY large class Of the Republican PR
ty. 1t is the legitimate fruit derived from the
| circulation and endorsement by members of
| Congress, of such incendiary documents as the
"Helper book" We know. that there are .
class of men who endeavor to make trifinE
matter Of the Harper,s Ferry raid--who speak
of it as of mo- oimportance-who profess to re-
gard it as merely Che act iof sa, crazy fanatic.
| They refuse to look into the causes which, less
| than year ago, induced John Brown to make
his attack upon HaEpeFs Ferry. and which z
movement in Texas, Instead of performing
their! duty as patriotic citizens, and denouno-
ing the men engaged in these insGfrectionary
moyements-i instead ofexposing and condemnA
ing all who, either directly or Indirectly, aided
\ IN their conception OF exeeptien-rthey. seek,
by ridicute and bPrlesqHes 10. lessen the- mag
nitude of the crime, and relieve ,thetipartici-
pants therein of the just blame which their
misdeeds entitle them to. Is this Hgh2 Is
it acting as good and loyal citizens should actf
We do not believe that tout of.fhe{ four Those
a0T1 CIV hmm ro1A n
in this county, there are fifty Who endorse
these insurrectionary movements. or who
would act with that party for q single day, II
they thought BY 80 doing they would be aid-
ing in continuing them. Nor do, we charge
the great mass of that party with being Re,
sponsible for them, directly; but Ne do charge
that all the sympathy, all the encouragement.
which those concerned in these insurrectionE
have received. has come from members tef that
party, and papers which advocate les doctrine,
we do charge that such scenes are but fhS
natural results which must .fow from the ulfre
doctrines taught by the leaders in In the Repub-
lican party,-we do charge that by aiding 20
, place in power and position men who utter
sentiments of npathy or encouragement for
the 1nsurrectionists, the voters Of the Republi-
) cap party became responsible to great de,
!, gree, lqnintentionally, perhaps, but nsverthe;
less responsible, for the commission Of such
acts of insurrection. ,. ''H :. <e'>'s
We appeal to the candid, conservative ,nsss leS
OF that party, to calmly, thoroughly and scis
emnly reflect upon the result to which con-
tinuation of these things must inevitably lead.
Throw aside aa party feeling, cast off Ill youf
political prejndices, and IS true lovers Of our
Union, investigate this matter, and if you flnd
that prominent leaders or any portion of your
party encourage such acts, ,promplgate doc
trines leading to their commission,--if YOU
find your party presses either directly or indi,
rectly sustaining or upholding therh--lsaxe
them them alone lone in their shame, and .Aniss your,
stands by the Union as it is, and opposes 81. 8.
testine treason as strongly as it opposes for.
eign aggression Dayton Empire. -