The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-12-05
Ihe Charge that yTorfhcrn Demo-
crafts are Responsible for the Pres
emf Troubles ian the COeGllfrM.

The Charge tina .T0rfhCr9I Demo-
crafts are Responsible for fhe Pres
ent Troubles in the Country.
As the Ashland Times of Nov. 22d, adopt
ed an editorial from the Cincinnati Gazette, Of
similar purport to the one referred to in the
following article from the New York Dag
Book, we give this complete and unanswerable
article as a reply.
Of all the cool, barefaced impudence that
ever Horace Greeley inflicted upon the public,
that in the Tribune of Friday, the 18th inst.
under the head of ''The Cause and the Rene
dy," out brazens all. He calls upon the De-
mocracy of the North to depute its leading
men to go to the South and take back all. the
"lies" that have been uttered against the Re-
publicans during the late canvass. This would
indeed, be a very pretty job. Let us for a
moment examine how they begin.
Now, as the name of "National' was, by a
resolution of the Convention in Chicago, taken
away from their title, leaving them clearly a
sectional party by their own act, there is moth
ing in that to take back.
AS William Fl Seward repeated all through
the canvass, that "the election of Lincoln
would be the end of sslavery.'" there is moth
ing in that to take back.
As it was a favorite declaration of u. s. Sc
nator Wilson, all through the canvass, "that
the John Brown raid was but the early pick
ed fruit from the Republican tree, which gave
promise of a golden harvest on the election of
Lincoln" there is nothing in that to take back.
As VIM. NJ. Evarts, (who is half way into
the senatorial shoes of Mr.. Seward4 said, at a
ratification meeting of Gov. Morgan, at the
Cooper Institute, two years ago, and reiterated
it all through the late canvass, "that it was
the mission of the Republican party to make
war against slavery SO long as its foot print
polluted the soil of the United States" there
is nothing in that to take back.
VIM. Curtis N,yes, one of tie ablest Re-
publicans Of this State, said at the Ratification
meeting on Broadway, of Abm. Wakeman, for
Congress, "that the fruits of Mr.. Lincoln's
administration would be the immediate Abo
lition ofs'slavery' in the District of Columbia,
the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law. and the
reorganization of tie U. S. Court" There
is nothing in that to take back
Gerret Smith Speaking from the book
said a few weeks before the election, in answer
to an inquiry from a man in Massachusetts, as
to what the Abolitionists would gain by voting
for Mr.. Lincoln, that "they would have in the
Cabinet a Postmaster eneral, who would see
that all letters containing the prayers for free.
(was not Greeley in his eye y There is GER
tainly nothing in that to take back.
And, to call all, and all, has not every Re-
publican journal throughout every town in
the whole North carried on the canvass from
the text ''That slavery is sinful, and tie rela-
ton between master and slave a sinful relation;
and that its destruction was the aim and
bounden duty of every true Republican p
Certainly there is nothing in that to take back.
Should not Mr.. Horace Greeley tell US what
there is for the Democrats to take back