The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-01-25

Extremes .Meet--The organ Of Ash
1Nssd county Republication essdOrs-
sax Zee Speech ana letter Of Charles
Who would have supposed, a few weeks
since, when the Ashland Times was symrpathi-
sing with the misfortunes and 'martyrdoms OF
Old john BRowN, that its editor would SO
soon become a convert to the pro-slavery teach
ings of CHARLES O'CoNoR?, True, in one
place the editor gives his readers to understand
that somebody else, rather than himself, en-
dorses the doctrines of O'CoNoR, lut he pub
fishes the letter of;Mr. &C. and gives to its
positions this unequivocal endorsement
"Herein We admire scribe clearness-Da of
Mr.. OConor's view, and the BG-inmaculdte
soundness Of has reasoning. 1t is true, every
E,cord true; ~aa and Mr.. O'Conor's testimony,
as an opponent of ARti-Slavery doctrine, Res-is
impartial, candid, and must be deemed con-
ckusice. ga
Now, had ace ever given an endorsement like
this of a pro slavery speech and letter, it would
at once have been charged against us that we
considered the institution of slavery ejust, be-
nign and proper"-but although not as hostile
to African slavery in the States and Territories
where it exists, as we are te the white slavery
~
which the Republican party are seeking to i'm
not give to the positions of Mr.. O'CoNoR the
unreseryed and wholesale endorsement of the
ashland Times. e-
John Sherman and hss Helper Com
f~ezerGSes.
II The p~ettifogging of Mr.. SHERMAN, in his
efforts to explain and break the force of his en-
dorsement of the Helper Book is contemplate
to the last degree, azd would disgrace the "At-
torneys" who practice at the bar of the Gus
tice" Court in Oberlin Township, Lorain Ceun-
ty, Ohio.
Mr.. SHERMAN would neither "deny nor az
He had endorsed the Helper infamy-
and from that charge he could not escape-be-
cause there was his own sign-manual. But
there were some technicaland nice claw points
in the Book-as, for instance, whether the
Threats of the wives and children of slave
holders should be cut from the right ear to the
left, or rice uersa-or whether their heads
should be severed from their bodies and para
ded through the Southern country upon the
points of Old Browns pixies, as during the
kiS VI GSIIOT L L dTlS. ln6Tc were certain
points involvinglaws and morals of this sort up.
IN which JOHN SHERMAN could not define his
unless Mr.. CLARK, of Missouri would
Withdraw his Offensive resolution. That res
button being withdrawn, the dignifed Mr..
SHERMAN would permit the volume to be rea.
1t the Clerks desk, and at the close of eve
'enteuce he would enter a plea of guilty or n,
guilty, Gas the case might be-"
P~ettifogging like this has characterized the
John SHERMAN throa bout the
ontess f position which is one of the
nost p:;tant and digni1ed u.der our Gov
rnmcnt.
In the mea ime, the Republican mon: ers
f Congress have cords of the Helper Book,
for by somebody. which are freely distri-
uted on the sole condition that the parties re-
eiving them Will circulate and not burn or
therwise destroy them. The printing of
nese Books are doubtless paid for by Repub-
cans, and it is not unreasonable to conclude
bat Mr.. SHERMAN contributes his money as
&C did his name to aid in circulating this in
lmous Book.