Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1852-10-28
TO THE wHIGs OF OHIO.
WING STATE CENTRAL Con-. Room,
CoLuMsus, Ono, Oct. 1S, 1852. I

ton which could be relied upon, and nc
full vote has been cast in Ohio. Your
State policy secured your ascendancy
until 1848. Such was the character ol
your State policy, and the bearing ol
Your public men, that no vote capable
OF being fairly construed into disappro-
baton of your administration of the
State government has ever been OBJ
tanned.
You went out of power unspotted and
uncondemned. Questions of undoubt-
ed importance, but having no natural or
proper connection with party politics,
divided and distracted your attention.
Personal alliances, and political combi-
nations, apparently founded upon no
principle higher than that of personal
convenience, have controlled the State.
In the absence of any great occasion
calling for united exertion, you have
suffered your elections TO 60 by default.
In the last Gubernatorial election, the
plurality for Governor Wood was &c.
600 votes, and yet his vote was by more
than ten thousand smaller .han you gave
to Mr.. Clay in 1874. No majority or
plurality has been given against US
which full Wing vote would not have
beaten. The vote against us, which
gave Governor Wood plurality of 26,-
600, was but about 1000 votes more
than General Taylor's vote in the di>as-
trous and hopeless canvass of lS48,
when it is well known that more Wings
stayed at home than would be amply
sufficient to overcome that odds. The
cause of our successive defeats appears
to have been-1st, Want OF organiZa-
ton and cohesion among ourselves,
which have always kept back the vote.
End, Combinations against US, which,
from the nature of the case could only
be temporary, and which are already vis-
IDLY falling to pieces.
In this condition of things. you have
distinctly in issue the principle of pro-
lection to American Industry, and the
great Western doctrine of Internal I'm
provements, connected with the name
of WINFIELD ScoTT as a candidate for
the Presidency. The State of Ohio has
never given its vote against those prin-
ciples, nor withheld its support from a
man whose claims TO the confidence and
gratitude of his country could be shown
BY so many tides. On the subject of
slavery, which has recently absorbed so
much attention, he is in fact and in pro-
fession a disciple of jefferson, and as
unobjectionable to both North and South
as any man not committed and pledged
to sectional feelings. Thus you have
presented the first opportunity for a
common effort, with a cordial union Of
purpose and union OF hearts. since
1914.
To this end you sent Your delegates
to meet in Convention in Columbus, on
the slst day of July last. You knew
what your strength had been in the
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 determined
10 conquer. You had been bound with
green withes but felt that your locks had
not been shorn. You nominated an
electoral ticket, and commissioned this
committee to organize the State. No
one expected an easy victory; no one
expected favorable 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 Conven.
ton separated each to his field of labor.
The first step you all agreed upon
It was too obvious to admit of hesita-
ton. That step consisted in ascertain.
ing, through the instrumeniality Of a
thorough organization, which of the peo-
pie of the state were hopelessly against
US; which we're firmly with US; which
were open TO conviction, and upon what
points of opinion the votes OF the doubt
full were likely to turn. Until this was
known. all exertions would be but a
careless waste Of energy; these facts
ascertained, everything else to be done
could be done systematically and GER
tainly. II does not become US to say
whether this duty has been well or i'll
performed, but We state the result of if
TO be, thorough and abiding convic-
tion that you can if you will. give the
electoral votes of Ohio to your candi-
dates and your principles
Unexpected delays we're encountered
in the organization; and the only real
effective work likely TO produce re-
suit 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 of rally
ing full vote at the Stale election
Yet the work that has been done within
the last three weeks has produced re-
suits. Returns are yet so imperfect that
no satisfactory analysis can be made;
but taking the most unfavorable view,
and conceding the imperfect, erroneous
and exaggerated claims of our adversa-
ries. and it is shown that all their pre-
tended exultation is over loss on their
last previous majority of ten to fifteen
thousand rotesi Taking the returns,
imperfect as they reach US, they indi>
cate another light vote in the State j
The State candidates have everywhere
been treated as secondary, and the test
vote has generally been given upon one
or another Of the local candidates. In