The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-10-03


as every one of our readers can testify, pub,
-Ished one word against the personal reputa.
ton Of any Of the candidates on the Repabii.
can ticket. We say candidiy that we do moi
lie shat kiihd(o Of tafswarfare. I'VE beliefein
carrying on a campaign upon principle and af.
ter a fair discussion Of the political issues IN.
volved in the contest, Of leaving men to vote
for those candidates that represent the princi
pie they believe to be correct. FAD KaVa
But we are called upon now, purely in sell
defence, afterthe mostinfamous, outrageous and
MISUNDERSTANDING are hurled against q portion
of our candidates BY not only, a set of hired
DOGS IN the pay of the Black Republicans,
but, getting still lower, by the imbeciles and
foul mouthed press Of the Republican party
in this county, 70 state some FACTS, that we
haye known for months but would In have
left rest had not this dirty guerrilla attack
been made upon Ng own men, But in the
~Iabuheanee Of. their ai5sng md blhekguardism
they have made and circulated from one end
of the county to the other, the most outrageous
and unfounded flsehopds that ever we're coin
ed out of whole cloth for the purpose of de-
l ceDCOn ana IfduQ. N1tA@A Etl4fEEN -.AA
From a statement in the Times of this week,
made by one Seibeft, il seems that about TWEEN.
ty years ago he had some "business transac-
tions in the way Of partnership" with one
johnson Oidroyd hat Hseveraz years ago a
settlement of said partnership was consumi
mated and that aMr. Oldroyd holds his
receipt for $500, in full of all demands /"
Now this statement is as clear as mud. 1t is
very definite. Every one will immediately no.
tice that Mr.. Seiberty-who if Oldroyds by his
frauds and ~falsehoods should succeed in being
elected may be able to pay some of his indebt-
edness to Seibert,Gh has stated exactly the
amount of Oldroyds Indebtedness to him, has
stated very accurately hog Mr.. Oldroydspaid
it, has stated very accurately how much he
paid, and the time and place. Clear, is it not
II only proves beyond = doubt that the. receipt
referred to and the statement both, are gotten
up, smoothed over and fixed in generalities SO
you can not catch them on any particular point.
But q little oversight, a little discrepancy
occurs in the thing, that the Editor Of the
Times, unfortunately for himself, overlooked
when he was cooking this thing up in his Of
fee, although he did his best to gloss the mat
ter over. In. that Editors statement, signed
|by Mr sSibert, it, IS asserted that this matter
was fixed up several years since, and tnet the
receipt is for SIX hundred dollars. - NoWhenest
men, whether Democrats or Republicans, read
the following, which is q correct copy of the
receipt that sOidroyd, the Englishman, has
been peddling round the county to get out of
the effects of this dishonest transaction.
: In considerations Of a receipt in full of johnson
oldroyd (Exs fzthes Estate of Charles Oldroyd,
deed, agaias. z }sSS costs and ia,srss,
Charles Oldroyd, obtained at the February Term
A. d. 1851. in the Court OF Common Pleas, hereby;
give to johnson 01droYd q receipt in full of all de-
mands, either by note, bosk-aceeunt gor otherwise
SAMUEL sEIBERT.
Oct, Is. 1859. 70
Now this receipt it will be noticed is dated
less than a year ago. and jet Mr.. Seiberts'
statement says it was consupew atea severak
years ago. This alone shogs the falsity, the
cooking uP" of the affair. - -.
I Again, to show the general terms, upon
which the thing was based and that it. was
fixed up only for . genera, purpose of decep-.
ton the above receipt says nsonae 5000" Now
the facts are these. Johnson Oldroyd was the
Administrator of one Charles Oldroyd, said
Charles Ofdroyd in Feb. 1851, recovered judg-
ment against Setberts for 1898 II. The in
terest upon that from the date of the judg-
lment until the date of the receipt S166 46,
making an aggregate at the date of the receipt
of $685. IL instead of $500. The $500 which
Mr.. Sieberts himself has stated to Sheriff
HOFFMAN and others, to be the sum owing to
him by Oidroyd, vas fixed up by this $500
receipt, mark you, not given for a debt due
from Seibcrts to tAis Oidroyd, but a debt due
to the man for whom he. was Executor
They fail to state whether johnson Oldroyd
ever paid the estate eny portion of this $500,
SO that the matter stands in just this way, that
johnson Oldroyd, by this gain upon Seiberts
and perhaps upon the estate paid this debt of
$500 without itscosting him one cent, and this
debt of $500 with the interest up to the date
of TIE receipt, amounted to about $4,000.
johnson Ollroyd, then, the Republican candi-
date for Auditor paid Seiberts out of three
four hundred and thirty odd dollars,
with little or nothing, and the Republicans
have attempted to get q statement of him to
w~hite-wash. the affair over and have not sue
ceeded in getting one strong enough for their
VIZ make this statement e1 only because
they have hired emisaries all over the
county circulating falsehoods about Mr.. Year.
lex. One is that he is deeply indebted to
business men In this town We know this
statement to be false. It is true, that about
two years since Mr.. Yearick bad all his tools
and material burned, q loss to him
of about $780, and at that time this was his
all: But. he bore up manfully under the mis-
fortune, bought new tools and material, and
ever since, no man in Ashland County has
worked harder or more faithfully than has he,
when, the Editor Of the Times intimates
Nj. Yearick, like Mr.. Oldroyd, ever re.
pudiated one cent Of honest indebtedness he
All these vile ISLANDERS upon Mr..
Yearick are gotten up by an unprincipfed
to gain a few dollars worth of public
g, and to injufe the reputation ofas hon
est and upright d man as lives In Ashland
Comfy. 'e9M '2A2a'.ssssS3 80
Da- The Ashland Times, andtheM Mansfield
Herald are in terrible tribulationA over the vote
of their candidate for Vice President on the
Homestead Bill. Each Of them wades rthro'
. column article of personal abuse and slang
the matterZThe TImes makes the fol-