The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-05-26
Prospectus OF the CanPaigner.---
ELECTION Of IS46.

Prospectus OF the Campaigner.---
Election OF ls4s.
The Campaigner will be issued from
the Office of the Ohio State Journal, week
lythroughout the presidential campaign
commencing its regular issues on The re-
cepliUn of The news of the nomination of
Wing candidate for the Presidency.
In undertaking the publication of
campaign paper, The publisher has been
impeled by considerations Of the most
weighty character. A systematic at
tempt is now being made by prohigate
and aspiring men, to overthrow the sa-
cred Constitution of our STATE, aud to
substitute in the place of its sound and
wholesome provisions, government of
their own, the echo of their own radical
opinions, and begotten amid the heat of
partisan clamor and insane ambition
And that no one may mistake thetenden-
cy of the designs of the fanatics who lead
this movement, the evidence is on record.
there to be keptin perpetual memorial,
that in open assemblies of the people,
and in public addresses, these men--re-
lying upon the support of a party blind
to their uterior designs-have had the
ferocious boldness to boast of their will
ingness to shed the blood of their fellow
citizens, and for mere difference of
opinion, to turn the murderous bayonet
against their bosoms.
SuCH ARE THEIR DESIGNS! These are
to be consummated by falsehood, both
open and insinuated- by the Justification
of public records and documents-by the
organization of political missionary and
colporteurage system, at the head and
tail of which are to be found John B.
Weller and Edison B. Olds; and by the
publication of paper devoted especial
ly to the advocacy of a revolution by
force, and prescription and punish hment
for opinions sake.
THESE DESIGNS SHOULD BE COUNTER
ACTED And we should be forgetful of
our principles, and recreant to our duty,
if we should spare an effort or lemit an
exertion, at time when there are at
stake principles and interests so impor-
tant and vast. We cannot consent to do
it; and we call, not merely with hone and
confidence but with assurances of success,
upon the Wing PARTY OF THE STATE OF
OHlo, to hold up our hands, that we may
prevail against the enemies of law, peace
and good order.
Added to this, presidential election
is approaching, second in the Importance
of the questions presented. to none that
has occurred since the organization of
. the government of the United States.-
The doctrines of the ancient Wing plat
form, down,trodden by the present Exec.
utive and his mnions, are still living and
giving the lie to the spurious offsprings
of usulpation and falsehood which sit in
their seats; and are promising that resur-
reclion and rejuvenescence which has
been and even will be the birth-right of
TRUTH, even when apparently crushed
out of existance.
AND THERE ARE GRAvER QUESTIONS
sTILL.-Questions there are which in
volve the perpetuiiy of our constitution
the stability of our institutions. the peace
of our people. the responsibility of our
nation in the eyes of the world and its
innocence in the judgment of the Ruler
of Heaven. In all these things we find
ourselves antagonistical to the acts and
designs of the party now in power in
the nation.
The CAMPAIGNER is WIG first last
and ever-and will support the Wing
nominee of the Philadelphia Convention
The matter in The Campaigner will be
composed chiefly of political selections
and latest news from the Ohio Stat.
Journal.