The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-04-11

the first issue with the House on a most important
point He argued that the House had power to
make INQUIRY in any way it thought proper. The
doctrine enunciated by the President, is the same as
that which cost Charles 1, his head, viz that The
king can do no wrong
We say a good deal when we assert that
there is not in the Lower House of Congress,
a more despicable creature than JOHN SHER-
MAN. We should blush if we said this for no
better reason than that he is a political oppo-
nent. We will not disparage the intellectual
or moral attributes of a man because he disa-
grees with us in politics. 1t would be base to
do. so. But when we point to John Sherman,
we direct the peoples attention to one who has
attained a high place, and a large degree of
notoriety, without the possession of a single
one of the qualities which we are wont to asso-
ciate with the attainment and enjoyment Of
high position. This Sherman, we suppose, is
a routine Common Pleas lawyer. He doubt
less knows the jargon of the pleader. And,
like others of his class, he has assumed, upon
qualifications so very slender, to discharge the
duties incumbent on the statesman.
The caliber of this touter from the Mansfield
District, is indicated with much precision by
the synopsis above given of his remarks in de-
bate.
The execution of CHARLES l., is an exhaust
less mine-the common placer-for every COM
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food of weak. washy oratory, and be sure you
will bring up Charles L. at every haul from
the spumous depths.
The value of the unhappy monarch, as a
fund of historical illustration, is enhanced by
the consideration that few question the truth
of anything that is said about him. It is not
essential, therefore, that the orator should
know more of the hapless STUART than that
his name was Charles, and that he lost his head
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edge hath this extent-no more
Mr.. Sherman thinks that the doctrine
which CHARLES maintained, at the extrava-
CANT cost of his head was the familiar one
that Che King can do no wrong IF accuracy
were at all desirable, we should assert that this
doctrine is a maxim of the British Constitu-
ton, insisted upon, not by Charles only, but
By all the English soyereigns, and that it is a
thing in its way.
But for the sake of those who know the his
tory Of Charles, and know those acts of his
which ultimately led to his death on the scat
fold, and to ~torestall king Charles whiffets' in
the future, we enter this protest to be sustain
ed by every man of honesty and sense, against
the lying parallel between Mr.. Buchanan, and
the murdered King of England.
If Mr.. buchanan has erred at all in his adj
ministration, it has been on the safe side of i'd
herence, too rigid and infeeible, to the letter
of the constitution and the laws. That prop
osition we are prepared to maintain against
ali corners. History will write of Mr.. b.
cHANAN, that the obligations of friendship,
the ties of party, the union and harmony of
the great political organization which conferred
his place upon him, were as dust in the bal
ance when weighed against the high and sa-
cred obligation which he had taken to main
tain the constitution and laws of his country.
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