The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-02-21
THE ASHLAND TIMEs--HON
MARTIN WELKER.

W
In the Union Of the 7th inst, we ask
ed the editor Of the Times to inform us
whether be endorsed the vote Of Hon.
MARTIN WELLER for the passage Of the
bill permitting Negro Suffrage in the
District Of Columbia. Fearing to an.
swer our question as an honorable
and fair.mipded editor should, he evades
it by adopting a miserable subterfuge,
as Q dernier resort, as pitiful as 1t
is contemplate, and fills a half column of
his delectable sheet with a mess of trash,
as puerile as it is devoid Of reason and
common sense. He says:
"The Union party Of the 18th Con-
gressional District, has a representative
at Washington. He was sent there by
the free unbougbt SURFACES Of the voters
Of that party, To them alone he is an
swerable and by them alone can his official
conduct he called in question. If he is
successful in representing their wishes it
is well if not successful it is their bust
ness to complain. Meddlesome iuterfer-
ence or malevolent criticism on the
part of hostile ~neighbors, besides being
utterly proftlcss is in very bad taste"
We always supposed that when a man
was sent to Congress, it would be his du-
ty to represent and guard the interests Of
the uhole people Of his District, and not
alone to carry out the dogmaa of tho par,
ty that elected him, as Gained by the ed.
itor Of tho Times.
We claim the right to know whether
negro equality and negro enfranchise-
meut are to be foisted upon Ohio. VEL.
KER, the misrepresentation Of this Dis
trict, has classed himself with the negro
equality men and we know that the un.
bought freemen of the 18th Cougression-
al District are opposed to his rcgro
schemes. Having failed to carry out the
will Of the people in that particular, we
asked the Times if it endorsed his con
duet. 1t replies, the minority have no
rights worth respecting ; and denies our
right to ask-an explanation Upon the
same principle, the people Of Ohio would
be denied an explanation in the cases OIL
the ~defaulting s~coundrels, STONE and
DORSEY, because they were elected by Q
Black Republican majority! And why
Because, in the ass.tute.ness Of LOUIS
JEFFERSON, the minority have no rigbl
to enquire into the rascalities Of the ma
jority, if that majority are disposed to
cover them upl
The people Of this District, and Of
Ohio, intend hereafter to investigate the
acts Of their public servants, and drag to
public execration and ignominy all those
who prove recreant to their duties, in
spite of the wise and learned LOUIS JET
PERSON /
After answering our question-to his
satisfaction-he p~ropounds the following
"Is the UNION in favor of the admis
sion of red-handed traitors to o part in
the National Legislature 7"
Not desiring to give III worthy cotem-
porary down street any reason to question
our 'lOyalty," or charge US with being
"sympathisors with the South" we will
reply to the above 10 the language Of
President JOHNSON. Ia bis response to
the Virginia delegation that waited upon
him, the other day, in speaking "of the
admission of red handed traitors to q part
in the National Legislature" the Presi.
dent said
"Whcn the people Of the South, in good
faith, send such men, having the quail
fcatiOns prescribed by the Constitution
of the United States, they are entitled to
representation through them"
We heartily endorse every word of the
above, aud hope it will be satisfactory to
the editor Of the Times,