The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-08-15

ELM ESDAY MURl
this has been done against Stephen A. Doug
las, at the i~nstigation of other Presidential
aspirants and ~panderers to power and place
It is NOT strange that some men have been led
away byit. Good, firm, honest and respecta
bic men who have always prided themselves
upon their adherence to Democratic usages
have been thus misled. Against these men
we have nothing to say. We have an abiding
confidence that they will see their wrong, and
confding thus in their honesty of purpose we
know that they will, when they have fairly
examined the matter, right themselves and
throwing aside the unfounded and falsely
manufactured prejudice that has been raised
against the regular Democratic nominee, will
give him their hearty support. With the
consistency in principk which we have proved
he has always shown, and his claims thus es-
tablished, not only as an honest and patriotic
man but as the regular nominee of the party
they can not do otherwise.
Already we see evidences of this opinion or
hope being realized. Since the immense NEE
ting on the 18th, and the able and eloquent
speeches of Tod, insolvency, Burns and May,
we have heard, directly and indirectly, ofquite
a number of those who had expressed a pre-
ference for Breckenridge in this county, com
ing out bodily, acknowledging their mistake
and sxpre6Bg their determination to support
the Democratic nominees, DOUGLAS & JOHN
SON. eH1 a-. ra q
n
B@- We asked the the editor of Times last
the Republican party. He replies as follows !:
LIST. The great object of the Republican
party is to rescue the Government from the
hands of the Spoilers, who profess Democra-
cy but have belied the name and to bring it
back to the principles of Washington and
Do you see that, gentlemen? Is not that
definite ?. To bring the government back to
the principles of Washington and Jefferson.
Yes, the Republican party, with which is
identified the only men that opposed Jefferson
during his life and administration and oppo-
ed him with all the spleen and vindictiveness
that their dishonesty and malice could bring
to bear. OH Yes. They are pretty subjects
to bring bach the government to the principles
of Washington and Jefferson, when the coun-
try now is under the control principally of the
very men who advocated and still advocate
the very same principles.
And then the Editor of the Times talks about
spoilers. A pretty party, surely, to preach
political purity a party that in the State of
Ohio appropriates thousands of dollars of the
peoples money to pay for a large spree with
the legislatures of two sister States, upon the
ground of keeping up friendly relations, and
then turns Immediately and refuses the peo-
pie of those very States rights guaranteed to
them by the Constitution of the Country and
by Congressional laws. A party which pays
$4,000 dollars for a picture to feast their eyes
upon. A party which it has been abundantly
proved is mainly responsible for the immense
defalcation in our State Treasury. A party
which VIGOROUSLY but two or three years ago
had the most corrupt and venal legislature in
Congress that ever disgraced the Country. A
party that is now held together by the advoca-
of no great principle of government, but by
a mere desire fer spoils. Oh yes! They are
terribly opposed to spoilers. They work from
patriotic feeling alone. They never want
office. Oh, no! Not them. They have
only 20 of their most patriotic men that want
a little taste of the loaves and fishes. But
Gl0 GCEy WuuG W Idh0 GuC country IrOW the
hands of the spoilers and bring it back to the
principles of Washington and Jefferson.
The only other object the gentleman states
as an object of the Republican party, is to pre-
vent the South from having an equal chance
with us of the North in the settlement of those
territories of the United States that were
bought by the common blood and common
treasure" They say to the South we are
better than you. We will go into the terrific
ries and take our property with us of whatever
kind we have, but we demand that our repre-
in Congress shall pass laws to pre-
vent you from going there with your property.
Is this right? We do not ask you Mr.. Editor
of the Times, but We do ask those that follow
your teachings, is this right? We doubt not
three fourths of them will answer, ono it is
not right" The descendants of Southern men
aided in the battles of the Revolution,
shed their blood and left their bones to mould
der upon Northern soil, as we'll as of those
that beneath the burning suns of Mexico,
the deadly miasmas of her cline, and
the fury of her treacherous- soldiery, and who
side by side with Northern men planted the
stars and stripes above the city of the Monte
sumas, have at least an equal claim with US to
The enjoyment Of the land thus dearly bought.
will grant them no more rights than we
ourselves enjoy but it IS wrong, base and in
luJuSbce t0LuOSe Zen, not TO grant bHSm
equal rights with US. The Democratic party
will never give them more than this, and the
people of this country will always grant them
Ill of this.
But as we said in our article Of last week
% which the Times makes the reply we have
quoted, that question has been settled by the
and by the Courts, and the leaders of
he Black Republican party know, as well as
hey know they exist, that it is out of the pow
sr of their party or any party to carry out such
principle, or change what has already been
July and fairly passed upon by the Courts and
The people.
The answers of the Editor of the Times are
,nly additional proof of the fact that the Re-
party, or that remainder of it that
still stands by the organization, have no other
in view but the spoizs, fighting for no
and manufacturing all their capital
from humbuggery and falsehood. %