The Ashland Union

ASHLAND:
Wednesday, --- March 25, 1857.

WILLIAM MEDILL, COMPTROLLER
OF THE U. S. TREASURY.

No appointment of Mr. Buchanan
could have been more acceptable to the
people of Ohio than that of our late
popular Executive, Governor Medill.
With two or three exceptions, even the
Republican press have freely endorsed
the fitness of the appointment. Among
these exceptions, is the Sandusky Register,
a journal which, though generally
candid in its statements, has suffered its
partizan zeal, in its notice of Gov. Medill,
to violate all propriety and decency. Referring to his contest with
Gov. Chase, in 1855, that paper says
that he (Medill) was
"Ignominiously dismissed from a post
he had disgraced by the People of the
State."

We do not understand what meaning
the Register attaches to the word "ignominious;"
but if a reduction of the
Fusion majority in one year, from
EIGHTY THOUSAND in 1854, to
FIFTEEN THOUSAND in 1855, was
anything like an "ignominious" rebuke
by the People of Ohio, then Gov.
Medill stands convicted! If this annihilating process had continued one year
longer, how and where would Fremont
have appeared in Ohio in 1856?

Again we are informed by this veracious journal, that
"He (Gov. Medill) made his lachrymose appeal to an intensified locofoco
District, and was there rejected again;
and these were his passports to democratic favor."

Now, the truth is, that Gov. Medill
did not seek the nomination. It was
literally thrust upon him, and he yielded
from a sense of duty to his party.
As to his District being "an intensified locofoco " one, it was quite the reverse. Two years prior, it had gone for
the "poor colored man's party" by a
majority of several thousand; and the
year immediately preceding, it had given Chase a majority of 1416! Gov.
Medill did not, therefore, accept the
Democratic nomination last fall with
any strong hopes of being elected. The
result, however, has convinced every
candid man, that he would have been
elected, had not the opposition combined their "black spirits and white, blue spirits and gray," in one solid mass
against him. He made a better race,
under the circumstances, than any other candidate in the State--changed back his own county from 800 against us two
years before, to over 1000 in our favor
in 1856! If fusionism is satisfied with
such a ministration of "ignominy" at
the hands of the people, Democrats are, surely.

It is eminently fit that a gentleman of
the experience, ability and well-established integrity of William Medill,
should take the place of the only public man for whom the opposition claim honesty, within their ranks. Elisha Whittlesey was appointed, we believe, by
Gen. Taylor, and his chief merit consists in having survived the Galphinism
of the unfortunate administration of Mr.
Fillmore without having been convicted
of theft. President Pierce retained
the old gentleman as a monument of all
the integrity that survived of the ancient regime. As far as qualifications
for the Comptrollership are concerned,
Gov. Medill is infinitely the superior of
Mr. Whittlesey, and so far as uncorrupted and incorruptible honesty are
involved, the public service has certainly lost nothing. The only loss in the case
is sustained by Mr. Whittlesey,--and
his loss is precisely that of his salary.