The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-10-21
CITY OF LANCASTER,
wednesday Evening, Oct go, 1925
TO THE WINGS OF OHIO.
WHIG STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE RooM,)
COLUMBUS, ONO, Oct, lS 1852.

WING STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE RooM,)
COLUMBUS, OHIO, Oct. l8 1852. 1
Since the Presidential election of 1874
you have had no State organization which
could be relied upon, and no full vote has
been cast in Ohio. Your State policy se-
cured your ascendency until lS4S. Such
was the character Of your State policy, and
the bearing ofyour public men, that no vote
capable of being fairly construed into disap-
probation of your administration of the State
government has ever been obtained.
You went out of power unspotted and un-
eondenaaed Questions of undoubted i'm
portance, but having no natural or proper
connection with party politics, divided and
distracted your attention. Personal al
liances, and political combinations, appar-
emily founded upon no principle higher than
that of personal convenience, have controll.
ed the State In the absence of any great
occasion calling for united exertiOn, you
have suffered your elections to go by default
In the last Gubernatorial election, the plu-
rality for Governor WooD was $4,000 votes
and yet his vote was by more than ten thou
sand smaller than you gave to Mr.. CLAY IN
ls44. No majority or plurality has been
given against US which a full Wing vote
us, which gave Governor WooD plurality
of $4,000, was but about 1000 votes more
than, General TAYLoR's vote in the disas-
trous and hopeless canvass Of is4S, when it
is well known that more Wings STAYED at
home than would be amply sufficient to over.
come that odds. The cause of our success
.sive defeats appears to have been-lst,
Want of organization and cohesion among
ourselves, which have always kept back the
vote. I'd, Combinations against US, which,
from the nature of the case could only be
temporary, and which are already visibly
falling to pieces.
In this condition of things, yon have dis
tnctly ia issue the principle of protection to
American Industry, and the great Western
doctrine of Internal improvements, con-
rected with the name of WINFIELD ScoTT
az a candidate for the Presidency. The
State Of OHIO has never given its vote, a.
gainst those principles, nor withheld its sup
port from aman whose claims to the conf
dence and gratitude of his country could be
shown by SO many .tles. On the subject
of slavery, which has recently absorbed SO
much attention, he is in fact and in profes-
sion disciple of JEFFERSON, and as un-
Objectionable to both North and South as
any man not committed and pledged to sec
tional feelings. Thus you have presented
the first opportunity for a common eflort,with
h cordial union Purpose and union ofhearts,
since 1914.
To this end you sent your delegates to
meet in Convention in Columbus, on the
2lst day of July last You knew what your
strength had been in .he State, and how you
had been deprived of it. You knew that
your principles and your candidate always
had been and were still acceptable to the
people of Ohio; and in this faith you deter
mined to conquer. You had been bound
with green wthes but felt that your locks
had not been shorn. You nominated an e.
lectoral ticket, and commissioned this COM
mittee to organize the State. No one ex
pected an easy victory; no one expected fa-
vorable results. except by putting forth the
exertions requisite to press conviction and
inspire thoroughly with confidence in our
cause, the public mind Under mutual
pledges Of faith and duty, the members of
your Convention separated each to his field
of labor.
The first step you all agreed upon, 1t
was too obvious to admit of hesitation. That
step consisted in ascertaining, through the
instrumentality of thorough organization,
which Of the people of the State were hope
lessly against us; which were firmly with us;
which were open to conviction, and upon
what points of opinion the votes the doubt
full were likely to turn. Until this was
known, all exertions would be but a careless
waste of energy; these facts uscertained,
everything else to be done could be done sys-
tematically and certainly. 1t does not be-
come US to say whether this duty has been
we'll or ia performed, bat we state the result
of it to be, a thorough and abiding conoiction
that you can if you will, give the electoral
votes Of Ohio to your candidates and your
principles.
Unexpected delays were encountered in
the organization; and the only real effective
work likely to produce result in votes has
been done within the last four weeks. One
of the first clear results of our organization
was to show that there was little probability
ofrallying full vote at the State election
Yet the work that has been done within the
last three weeks had produced results. Re-
turns are yet so imperfect that no satisfacto-
ry analysis can be made; but taking the most
unfavorable view, and conceding the imper-
feet, t,erroneous and exaggerated claims of our
adMersaries, and it is shown that all their
pretended exultation is over a loss on their
last previous majority of ten to fifteen thousand
potes! Taking the returns, imperfect as they
reach US, they indicate another light vote in
the State. The State candidates have eve
rywhere been treated as secondary, and the
test vote has generally been given upon one
or another of the local candidates. In some
places this has been done for members oil
Congress. In others for county officers
But our advices are uniformly that GENER.
AL SCOTT will get larger vote than the
favored local candidates. The only general
conclusion to be deduced, therefore, is that
there has been general, and in the aggre-
gate, large reduction Of the majorities against
us. Those counties which organized prompt
" now see the benefits ofthat organization.
Those which postponed it to the last mo-
ment, and then took hold Of it with reluc-
tance, also see where they are landed, In
three districts intended to be strongly and
safely Locofoco,we have elected Wing mem.
bers Of Congress. HARRISON, CAMPBELL and
SAPP are safe. In this district, the majority
Of 800 or 1000 votes against US has vanished