The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-07-09
: CoLUMpus, ONO, July /, 1913.

COLUMBUS, ONO, July j, ISIS.
Abstract from the Wig Party Ledger of Ohio
State Of accounts Anteyjor to the PhHadclphia
Contention, &C., 81.
twill be recollected that the wing State conven-
tlon IN January last referred the subject of presi
Dental candidates to committee of twenty one ;
that, after protracted animated, and somewhat
embittered discussion, the committee reported
general resolution of submission to the decision
of the national convention without naming a
preference. In this discussion, the claims and
merits of General Taylor received but meagre
support. Corwin, Clay and Mclean, absorbed the
attention of the delegates. Clay received the
strongest support. The no-preference position was
adopted, through the management of the Corwin
men, who considered 1t great victory merely to
prevent an expression favoring Mr.. Clay. The
Clay men, IN submitting to this course, committed
great error, and still greater. by subsequently
agreeing to an endorsing resolution of Mr. Cor
WINS course IN the Senate. This resolution was
as follows -
"oho has reason be proud OF her Senator in Con-
gress Thomas Corwin Her people have watched his
progress with jealous affection They recognise in him
the gifted orator and the reliable statesman To him
they have entrusted their interests and their honor
ana they ,mphatcay accord to him, in all his rela.
TONS but more especially in the fearless stand which
the Mexican war, their heartfelt approval"
! In my exposition of the 60 doDgs " open and CO.
vert OF that convention, communicated TO the
Hral9, at the time, gave the full details which
show, hat though majority of the delegates
came up TO Columbus as the friends of Mr.. Clay,
yet, that most of the whig members Of The Gene
raj Assembly then in sessl on here, had been gain
ed into the support of Mr.. Corwin, through the in
iUenoc OF Judge Trial, editor of the State Jour
nal, and other active wings of the capital These
men controlled the convention They opposed
MIR. Clay In the hope that his overthrow would be
on grounds which could not fail TO present Mr..
Corwin as the most prominent candidate. They
expected another letter from Mr.. Clay on the ter
rtory question, on which they could hinge rea-
son for his defeat, and that the same reason would
point TO Mr. Corwin, as the man for the times. In
This they havc been disappointed. The causes
which laId Mr. Clay the shell, or Indefinitely post
poned him, pointed, not TO the man, whose fear
less stand (hc has) taken in the Senate OF the
United States on the Mexican war, met with their
heartfelt approval but, to the man TO whose skill
and bravery The milton is indebted for the success
and glory OF that war.
Cen we wonder that these party intnguers are
now, many OF them, in sackcloth and ashes over
The result of their own labor But having been
oled IN their efforts 10 secure an extreme and ul-
party candidate, they have no alternative but TO
give their support 10 one who has told them that
his position was above all parties and especially
beyond the influence or control Of the whig party
How hard II was for Judge Thrsll 10 fall '',pto