The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-09-27
Abolition Meeting.

the Town Hall on last Saturday evening,
and heard the speech Of a very windy
fellow, whose name We have forgotten,
and must say that we never before saw
such an exhibition Of a total want Of po-
%litical knowledge, and a wauton desire to
misreprcsent the motives of others
v have neither the time nor space, if
we had the inclination, to notice his
speech at length, but will only briefly re.
fer TO one or two points.
On the question Of allowing the negro
to vote, he said
~ would rather meet the untutored
Negro at the ballot box, than those who
have been in rebellion, or their sympa-
thizers-the Democrats"
This sentiment was ~applauded TO the
echo by all present, save a few Office seek
crs, who, although they heartily endorsed
it did not deem it "policy" to proclaim
it. We really pitied STERLING BUSH.
NELL, the abolition candidate for Treas
urer. He looked disconsolate ard for
lOrn-as if the last hope had passed be-
yond his reach. He had been laboring
~zealously to convince the honest Repub-
licaus that their party was not in favor Of
negro suffrage, and after his efforts, hat
one Of their speakers, in o public
meeting, should declare in favor Of Black
Suffrage, was objectionable, not that he
opposed it himself, but, by evading the
issue for the present, he expected to sc.
cure the soldier vote, which he knew he
would not receive if it were known that
he was in favor Of universal suffrage
Poor STERLING. He sat there with his
head down, like a bulrush, wishing in
his very heart that he was out of the
scrape. We sat near him and heard him
sOliloquising thus:
II thought SMITH had told hat fel
low not to say anything about Negro
Equality. He might have known that
our conservative Republicans and the SOL
diers are opposed to it, and won't vote
our ticket if we declare that to be the
principal aim of our party. How can 7
go among the people and say we are OPP
posed to that doctrine, when our public
speakers assert that negro suffrage is the
main issue to be decided at the coming
election. Well, If l am defeated again,
by the time there is to be another Treas
urer elected, / hope that the Negroes will
DO eDiranchiEed, and then We will import
a sufficient number into this county to
secure the election Of our ticket. II Ne
gro Equality is the issue, | will fight it
out on that line.'"
AT this moment, the speaker said some
thing about "coppcrheads" and "traitors,'
which aroused STERLINe's dropping
spirits.
The speaker was greatly exercised
about the Democratic Platform, especially
the fourth Resolution, which he said,
maintained the right Of sccessio on and
notification. To rofute this foul charge,
We subjoin the resolution referred to:
4. Resolved, That the Democracy Of
Ohio will maintain and defend, as they
have always heretofore done, as essential
to the existence Of our Federal system Of
government, the true doctrine of Statc
Righn-not notification, not secession
but the theory Of that system as laid
down in tho Virginia and Kentucky res.
olutions Of 1898, as Interpreted by their
authors ; the one by Madison in bis
Report in 1899. and the other by JET.
ferson, in his solemn, official Inaugural
Of 1901.
To lot the gentleman know the position
be and his party occupied upon the CUES
tone Of State Rights, a few years ago, We
give a Resolution Of bis party, taken
from the Chicago Platform, upon which
Mr.. LINCOLN was elected in 1860:
DID TIL. IT. --a .....