The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-02-07
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 20, 1S4S.
Comprehensive and illustrated Revieto OF the re-
cent Ohio JYhig State Convention.


Comprehensive and Illustrated Revieto Of the re-
cent Ohio Whig State Convention.
From time immemorisl, as the saying is, have
the leaders and managers of the so-called wing
party aimed to embark in all important cleo
ton campaigns, under the excitement of
money panic. Congenial to this inherent pro-
pensity, the editor Of the Ohio State Journal
greeted the assembled masses of the wing party,
on the eccasion of their coming up to this city,
on the 10Th inst. with leader, under the caption
of Prospects ahead-The War and Its Conse-
ouences;'' in which the following was admins
tered, evidently by way of stimulus to the ardor
of whIg action
eve are no aarmsts but the signs Of the times warn
taught the humstiDg lesson that there appeal
to reach the of the people, as that which
thence for that period to arrive and 1t has Every
paper from the east the south and the west aude to
s.s I On 'he from ON. and half 70
two per cent. per mouth-government SIX per oent
stocks are below per- south and west the banks are pre-
pairing to meet the stormthsy must protect themselves
aud they will do It, Between southern tarin and .
war for sgsrsndizsment exchange on Engand-ths b.
of Wall street-which fsw months ago was %
low six per cent showing large balance Of trade In
our favor has now run up to eleven!
tainty that continuance of this Of aggression will
draw down upon the country the inevitable consequent
ornamental bankruptcy tho President, with silly psrt-
naoity Of the brute psrzan st demands fresh troops
to follow such leader who even affects to cali himself
with hypocritical humility, their very obedsnt SER
vantr
Under these "last Words of the leading wing
organ of the State generally, and organ of the
Corwin division particularly, the great ,whig
State convention commenced its first days labor.
There was very great turn out Indeed, the
centre to the extremes of the State, indicated at
once the great interest felt In what was to
be done on this occasion am this, not alone In
regard to defeating their common political an
the other in their scheming and intriguing"
to gaia control and ascendancy within the wing
party proper.
Fortunately for the speedy despatch of bust
ness, there had been already on Monday prece-
ding the day fixed for the convention, as many
delegates in the city, that-with the wings in the
branch in the lobby and the lawyers and their
clients In attendance on the Supreme Court In
bank-nearly every county in the State was more
or less strongly, represented in primary meet
ing called by the State central committee, tor
the purpose of agreeing on rules, &c., to guide
the action of the mass convention.
The plan of organization recommended by a
committee of one from each county. of said pri,
the recent democratic convention to proceed
with so much despatch in business, and is SIM
ply as follows TO designate one person from
each congressional district to BE- committee on
permanent officers;" also, one person from
each district to serve on a committee " on reso-
lutions - to decide that " each county which
gave vote of 500 or less wing votes for governor
IN lS44, be entitled to one vote in said conven-
ton and for every additional 500 votes thus gil
ven, and every fraction of over 250 an additional
vote; and to recommend, further, that lst, In
may have the right to demand vote thereon by
counties according to the above ratio and End,
When vote shall be so demanded, the counties
shall be called, and the vote be announced by the
Orp w NAV hou hoQn 90 cot cd
for that purpose. ss-efts
This apportionment gave an aggregate delegate
vote of 3l2, to all the counties.
The State central committee had also taken
the necessary step to provide and make known a
place of meeting, separately, of the wings in at
tendance from each district to select from their
own number the ratio of delegates allotted to
their respective counties, previous to the open
Ing of the mass convention.
Accordingly, when the appointed hour arrived,
. the masses convened In the State House yard,
Gin the rear of the captol,) and took their stands
around and upon sundry ranks of cord wood, and
the small buildings there situate.
Mr.. Sap, of Knox, Informed the crowd of the
preparatory steps already taken, and proposed
temporary organization for the purpose of recelv-
ing the report OF the committee on permanent
officers, when Col. John johnson, OF Miami CO.,
was called to the chair.
The committee, through their chairman, John
Reeves, merchant of Cincinnati and brother-in-
law of Judge McLean,) reported Hon. Allen
Trlmble, of Highland, for President. Also, one
Vice President from each congressional district,
(2l, } and five persons as secretaries.
Eek Gov. Trimble, Che was Governor previous
to 1880, since which time he has lived in private
life and in competency forthwith took his seat,
and in a brief speech of thanks tor this honor
conferred upon him, also added his earnest ap-
peal that each whig might aim to Guido the other
in his efforts to harmonse the action of the con-
vention-:hat II was characteristic OF all true
wings to agree in action, whatever difference OF
sentiments they my entertain on some ques-
lions, for the sake of defeating the political enc
my, with whom they all alike differed and on all
points. ......
The several counties were then called over by
congressional districts, and as each was announc-
In the primary meetings to cast the delegate
votes OF their respective counties, were read out,
and recorded by the secretaries. The delegates
thus selected, nominated and confirmed, then
retired from the mass convention, and repaired
TO the theatre rooms, in the Neil House, and
organized by appointing the Hon. Jeremiah
Morrow, Chairman; +. F. Drake, of Greene, as
Wee President; and j. Mclaughlin, E.. Burke
Fisher d. Ii. Lyman, and p. r. X. Brotherton,
as Secretaries.
Much confusion now ensued, in consequence
OF many others than duly designated delegates,
having entered the theatre Next a noisy
and dlsorderly discussion, on various motives,
suggesting the best mode of procedure, resulted
in settling nothing definitely. A manly, digni-
fed, common sense appeal by the chairman,
showed that in this noisy effort to restore order,
they were but lighting man of straw no
one in the house, not delegate, being disposed
to take any part, or to make any disturbance.
This discovery being made, and the delegates
themselves having come to order, the nomina
lion of candidate for governor was proceed
ed In, with the following result-the vote being
taken by counties, and given in by one Of the
delegates from each; r,ra poce
~ c S D.iauo, So 81 % 100 % 81
seabury Ford, o. u So 90 ila 100
w. z. Cutler, - & -