The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-08-22
BOTH EXTREMES EQUALLY DANGER.
0US-THE MIDDLE COURSE THE ON
II PATH oF sAFETY.

BUTA EATREMkS E9uALL4 DANGER
0US-THE MIDDLE COURSE THE ON
~ PATH OF SAFETY.
There are in this country, at. present prop,
eriy speaking, bnt three politicsl parties, with
distinctive badges or characteristics. These
are the Republicans or Disunionists of the
North the Secessionists or Disunionists of the
South, and the National Democrats of the
| Union, The first two represent the two ex-.
tremes of the slavery agitation, while the last
stands upon the middle ground of the Consti-
tuition aud the Union. -
h. The mass of those who adhere to the Repub-
Hcaq Dispnionists of the North and TO the Sec
| tional Disunionists of the South, do not intend
Disunion. But they are blinded by the lead
ers and the journals of their respective parties,
and led to the support of principles the direct
( tendency of which IL 20 keep alive the slayerys
agitation till it ends in the dissolution of the
Union. These principles are, on the one, hand,
that Congress shall intervene In the domestic
affairs of the Territories for the prohibition of
slavery; and On the other, that il shall inter
Yene for the protection of slavery. Both ex-
| tremes meet and unite in one general principle
of Congressional Intervention.
/ The repeated and persistent attempt to give
practical effect to this principle of Interven-
tion has kept Congress and the country in
perpetual agitation and alarm for the last
twenty years. The doctrine of Congressional
Intervention for the prohibition of slavery in
the Territories, under the name of the Wilmot
1 Proviso, assumed, some twelve or fourteen years
ago, formidable aspect, and threatened the
immediate disruption of the Union. It was
arrested by the Compromise measures of 1851
the ''Great Principle of which, Henry Clay
declared to be Non Intervention, Notwith-
standing the Democratic and Wing parties, in
their respective National Conventions, solemn
ly pledged themselves to abide BY these Com
| promise measures and this principle of Nom
Intervention, as 9 settlement of the controver-
sy concerning slavery ip the Territories, the
Northern agitators of Congressional pfohibi-
| tion, under the lead of Chase, Hale, Giddings,
Seward and others, in 1858, after the defeat
of the Whig party in the Presidential contest
of so, organized themselves in Ohio and other
| Northern States into band of confederates,
which was the neucleus and origin of the pre-
sent Republican party.
/ Senator Douglas, With the prophetic ken of
| clear sighted statesman, seeing the peril that
was about to overtake the country in the rise
of great sectional party in the North, which
would be resisted by corresponding sectional
effort in the Soath-pnited with other Nation
al Democrats in Congress to render permanent
the policy of fNon-Interyention inaugurated in
the Compromise measures; and to that end, in
| +,
Bill, repeating the only intervention clause in
the act of Congress which could be claimed to
have any practical effect-the Missouri Com.
promise practically applying the principle Of
Non-Interveution in the Organization Of the
Territories of the United States This was a
peace measure-it was but carrying ont what
, had been agreed upon almost unanimously by
Democrats and Wings in the Compromise Of
F 80, and subsequently, ratified by their Nation
al Conventions in SO Yet the Northern In.
, terventionists raised fearful sectional storm
they denounced Senator Douglas as traitcl
to liberty and the Constitution, and charged
him with creating the very agitation and dis
union strife which they themselves were fo
/, : menting and encouraging by every means in
their power. Out of this agitation grew the
present Republican party, which met in
Convention at Phila delphia in 1856, for the
nomination of candidate for President, and
adopted as the basis of their organization tn.
old disunion principle of Congressional Irtsr
vention. The same party met this year a
Chicago, and nominated Abraham Lincolr
, upon the same principle.
1t is this constant and determined effort OF
the part of Northern Republicans to force thi
principle of Intervention into Congress, con
trary to the viii of large majority of th,
: American people, as expressed through Con
gress in the adoption of the Compromise meas
ures in the National Conventions of the twt
great political parties in 1852, and in tn,
election of James Buchanan on the Cincinnati
platform in 1856, that he has produced all th
agitation, strife and danger of dissolution t,
! which the Union has been subjected for tn
. last six years. II gave, rise to most of tn,
troubles, raids, pillage, rapine and murders il
= Kansas; it gave such strength and efficiency t.
the supporters of the Lecompten Constitution
e that it would have been forced upon the peopl,
of Kansas, had not Senator Douglas thrown
himself into the breach, and sacrificed presen
popularity for the. sake Of sustaining grea
2 principle and it is this very effort of Northern
= Republicans to elect a President upon the doc
Z trine of Congressional Intervention for tn,
:, prohibition of slavery in the Territories, tina
: has caused the formation Of Secession an'
> Disunion party in the South; upon a simila
|. principle of Congressional Intervention. Thi
party does not hope to succeed in the pending
3 Presidential contest, but it is formed for tn,
e purpose of seeding from the Union in cas-,
: the Republicans shall succeed in electing thei
e candidate, and in establishing their favorit,
i. policy. The two extreme sectional disunior
e parties, North and South, both array them
D selves against the conservative National Demo
cratic party, and against the Non Intervention
4 and Union candidate, Stephen A. Douglas
7 Let the people judge between them, and theil
9 verdict will be rendered in November in fayol
of Douglas, Nom Intervention and the Union
- Ohio Statesman. e.
!. COMING Our FROM THE. PARyE.v7Wt
3 have never before witnessed such a stampede
!, Everywhere-in every State, County, an6
: ToYnship-men are deserving Old Lincoln BY
! scores and hundfeas, and coming out for Doug