Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-10-14

some 'ssOund Democratic Principles"
9he Plain Dealer of Wednesday eve
ming says:
'NIr. John J. Jacobs having retired from
eo1ducting the Ashland Union, it viii
hereafter be under the management OF
Messrs. J. W. McCord, B. F. Nelson and
J. lM Lands, gentlemen of well-knoWln
and tried ability and sound Democratic
principles. We wish them every success
and brilliant career"
We desire to lay before our readers some
.'elsgant extracts from paper OF sound
Democratic principles The flemen
who receive the enthusiastic Ell ,rsement
of the Plain Dealer which we have quoted
above, assumed charge Of the Ashland
J5tion on Wednesday, October 5th-their
names being inserted as editors at the head
of the paper of that date. The Union has
long had the bad eminence Of being the
most outspoken advocate Of treason, and
the most violent, abusive and obscene in Po-
litical discussion, among the papers Of
Northern Ohio. We had hoped that
change of administration might result in
an improvement in these respects. How
our expectations we're met may be judged
from the following quotations, all of which
are from the issue of the Ashland Union OF
October 5th, the first pumber published
under the auspices of these gentlemen of
sound Democratic principles"
l. msoUOTATIoN.
...If these i,gter7lql fanatics and A5oli-
tionists eUer get the pol7sr into the1r hands
tLey i0iU override the Constitution, set tie
SapreD1e Court at defiance, change and
make La0cS to satit Themselves, lag hands on
those soho differ from them IN opinion, or
dare question their FACILITY, and 157'atLy
5aakruDt the country and deLUge Il a0ath
JLood"-DAEIEL WEBSTER
The above appears, italicised and credit
ed as aboveJamoug number of miscellane-
Gus extracts. We brand it now, as it
has been branded over and over again, as
base forgery. Daniel Webster never
said anything of the sort.
2.FALsERooD.
Soldiers of the Republic Remember
that while you receive your paltry pay
in miserable GREENBACKS, which are
worth only about thirty-eight cents on
the dollar, ABRAHAM LINCOLN draws
his twenty-five thousand dollars year
IN GOLD! Is Lincoln any better than
our brave soldier boys, that be should pay
them in trash, which he refuses TO take
himself? Let all our brave and gallant
soldiers in the field remember this when
they come to vote this fall
The aboveis false, and our Sound Demo
cratic" editors of the Union, if they are half
as well informed as the majority of SC hool-
boys, know it to be false. 1t has been
denied a score of times, and recently has
received official denial from the Registrar
Of the Treasury, Mr. Chittenden.
3. ATTACK ON THE SOLDIERS.
1.-TWO of the candidates on the Union
county ticket in Ashland County are dis
abled soldiers. In reference. to them the
| Union remarks as follows:
Recollect that although Mr.. Beer and
Mr. Hood have been so lucky as to get
through Abe Lincoln's flint mill, that don't
give them the right to claim your suffrages
20 pTolong murder, robbery and bankruptcy.
If they have been so unlucky as to lose
limbs and carry leaden balls inside their
skins, from their experience in this mur-
derous contest, they are entitled to the
| sympathy of community, but your first
duty is to support men who you know en-
terrain correct principles with regard to
that in which you are most interested"
The asgnspatly' Of the Ashland Union foS
the, soldiers is precisely that of the Chicago
platform.
4. BLAsPHESIY AND oBsCEEITT.
The Union inserts an article headed
abolition prayer" the Blasphemy and
obscenity of which can hardly be quoted.
It begins thus;
"Abraham Lincoln, who art in the White
House at Washington, glorifed be thy
name, thy Presidency has come, thy will
must be done, as set forth in thy Chicago
Platform"
It continues through half column of
similar blasphemy, with which we refuse
to sully our columns, and concludes as
follows
"May the blessings ofemancipation'ex of extend
throug ghout our unhappy land, and the il
lustriOus, sweet-scented Sambo nestle in the
bosom of every abolition woman, that she
may be quickened Dy the pure blood of the
Majestic African, and the spirit amalga-
nation shine forth in all its splendor and
glory that we may become a regenerated
nation of half breeds and mongrels, and the
distinction of color to be forever consigned
to oblivion, and that we may live in bonds
of fraternal love, union and equality with
the Almighty Negro, henceforward-now
and forever Amen"
These are but samples, which, if our
space would permit, might be multiplied.
We have q dozen more clippings from the
same paper on our table, but the above
will suffice for the present
A week after the issue oftheabove-men-
toned paper, the Plain Dealer oommends
its editors as men of "sound Democratic
principles" Lying, misquotation, abuse
OF soldiers, blasphemy and obscenIty are
then the "sound Democratic principles
of the PLAIN Dealer.
Union Men. 10 Work.