Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-28
Ohio Fusion Fooled.

present notice we accordingly invite their attention.
81 Ohio Fusion Fooled.
We predicted that when Americans came to
understand how they had been sold to Adolf
tion they would break the unholy bargain,
and regain the platform of their own princi-
Piles. We find overwhelming evidences from
Ohio that the nomination of Chase is indig
nantly repudiated, and is charged as a fraud
upon the American party. In Licking county
it is said the American party is not to be sold
by any man or set of men who may see proper
to merge their availability as Americans in
fusion convention" The American party of
the county repudiate Chase. There is not a
paper in the county that will advocate his
claims"
The American Gazette denounces the fraud.
1t says that the most prominent men on the
Republican ticket are well known Abolitionists.
Mr. Ford, and some others whose names were
placed on the ticket, "soere Americans; but
their proclvities towards Abolition have pc
remptorily returned them to their idols" The
Gazette remarks
" If simply selecting the prominent Aboltonists
who had protested American principles for traitorous
motives, the better to secure place and spoils, and
transferring them from the American platform to
another and distinct one which contains not of
the features principles of the American party, be
a fusion then the thing has certainly been DONE
But it is not the casc and the demagogues
and outsiders will find their mistake in sup
posing that the American party had anything,
to do with that affair, or have any design of
adopting and voting for single name pre-
scented; and Chase is not particle more OBJ
jectionable than any of the other names on the
ticket.
There has been large and enthusiastic
Wing demonstration at Chillicothe against
Chase, because his past course has proved him
to be inconsistent in everything except the
pursuit of his own interests and against the
fusion platform, because of "the pernicious
notification principles" which it contains,
(which strike at the legislation and judiciary
of the general government within their consti-
tutional limits"
1t was moreover resolved to cooperate with
the opponents Of Chase and Fusion, in defeat
ing both.
The Gallipolis journal thus Indignantly
protests against exclusion Of every other sub
ject except that Of slavery;
Astonishing az it may be to the right thinking,
honorable voters of Ohio this Convention in the face
Of the grievances by the people by excessive axation
misrule and ms-government in every shape past and
present, waived every consideration for that of the
welfare Of the negro, and nominated Salmon r.
Chase, rcd-hot. rsd-mouthed Locofoco Abolition
disunionist for Governor of Ohio. And il now
mains to be seen whether the citizens of Ohio will
disgrace themselves in the support Of this ticket with
Chase at the head. We have not the first particle Of
confidence in the man, and his viii only rivet
the chains Of the negro the tighter.
"The ticket nominated by this Convention may
suit some of the hot-headed Abolitionists, but for
TO support the ticket Il stands, is morally impos
sble We are no Abolition Disunionist and have no
sympathy with that class"
II is also charged that the nomination Of
Chase and the Abolition Platform was pro-
cured by fraud. Gallia county, (which has
never given over one hundred votes, voted
unanimously in convention for Chase"
At an immence meeting at the City Hall of
Columbus, TO express their sentiments upon
the Chase Platform
"Hon. Joseph II. Geger, formerly Senator from the
Pckaway district in pursuance Of loud calls from the
audience addressed them for more than two hours in
opposition to Chase aud in exposition Of the way in
which nc received his nomination. He showed that
the Fusion Convention Of the 18th was a regularly
Abolition packed affair-instance Of the vote from
some counties where there were but two or three
Abolition votes cast at former elections, and yet the
delegation contained three identical Aboliionists
who gave the vote Of their counties for Chase, when
they knew they were not acting in accordance with
the wishes Of the people Of their particular localities
He instanced the vote Of Scoto, Perry and other
counties TO this effect"
The meeting adopted the following decided
resolution
"Resolred, That we win oppose tho election Of
Salmon p. Chase, for Governor Of Ohio, because we
believe him TO be dcmagogue nullifer, adisunion
list, and ultra Abolitonst and has contributed ma
tcrally as as any man in the United States to the
spread and strengthening of slavery and the cmbodi
ment Of no principle but that Of mercenary ambition
which makes country subservicnt to self"
From these and other evidences we have
every right to believe that the attempt Of the
Aboltionists to sink the American party, and
commit it to Notification and Disunion, will
prove signal failure.
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