The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-06-27
All the John Brownies, his Aiders
and Abettors support Lincoln and

and Abettors support Lincoln and
Hamlin.
1t is a fact worthy of being known, that
every man in this community, where ultra Alb
olitionism doth most abound, who aided and
abetted John Brown and his murderous raid
at Harpers Ferry and every man who defend
ed or pleaded his conduct while living, or who
mourned for him as a martyr, when he died
the felon's death on the gallows, is now the
strong supporter of Lincoln and Hamlin, being
the picked speakers OF the Abolition party at
its political meetings-the chief men in the
councils of that party. On the other hand,
we do not recollect In this city a single man
who openly and persistently denounced John
Brown and his murders that now supports
Lincoln and Hamlin.
The men who shrouded stMelodeon Halp' in
the night that Brown was hanged, who made
speeches and quoted Scripture to show paral-
lels between the Saviour of the world and a
horse-thief and murderer, are all of the class
who support Lincoln and Hamlin, and will
glory in their election.
Among all our citizens, who are entitled to
vote, who approved of the course pursued by
Gov. Dennison in refusing to deliver up, on
the demand of the Governor of Virginia, GER
tain thieves and murderers who sought safety
and amnesty for their crimes in Ohio, there Is
not a single man but is ready to throw up his
cap at the nomination of Lincoln and Hamlln,
and to carry rails on his shoulders and to shout
for their success.
In Ashtabula county, Joshua r. GiddIngs
has a band of men calling themselves "Sons
of Liberty" banded together to resist the laws
and to prevent the capture of runaway slaves,
who's emblem of power is a huge peeled club
and other arms, and whose number is fast max
ing Ashtabala county a " trogues' h1rbor" for
all the runaway slaves and men fleeing from
Justice for crimes committed in the South
Every man of these is the bold, the open, bit
ter opponent of the Democracy, and the ar.
dent friend and supporter OF Lincoln and
HamliR.
In the same county there is another band
raised for unlawful purposes, known by wear
ing a black ribbon around the neck, whose
duty it is to be a body guard for all the mis-
creants who flee to Ashtabula county, pursued
by the law, who were engaged in aiding John
Brown in melting slaves to insurrection IN
Virginia, in levying war on a sovereign State
in treason and in murder. Every man of this
black string band, without a solitary exception
is the strong and earnest supporter of Lincoln
and Hamlin.
Among the agents, officers and patrons Of
the Underground Railroad, devoted exclusively
to running off negroes, Lincoln and Ham!r
will get every vote.
Il vi these and such as these are the icauinS
supporters of Lincoln and Hanlin composed
The ultra Abolitionist takes to the nominee az
naturally as duck takes to- water, the maj
whose life is engaged in stealing negroes car
ries out his principles by supporting the Abo
litien nominees, while the holder spirits, the
men who wage war upon an unohendlng PEG
ple. and who did their utmost to desolate the
South by a servile Instruction, aud who, il
the progress of their parricidal work, commit
tied murder in cold blood, seek safety and Inn
munity in the election of Lincoln and Hamlin
F-NdtssnaE Democrat: