The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-22

and emclenC action at the hands OF 0uI
best citizens to secure the STATE and Ma
tion from disaster and ruin.
Inscriping ppon our banners retrench-
ment and reform4a repeal or medifca-
sions of our present ubiquitous and unjust
zfevnue and tax system, apd-a ~restora-
ton Of the government to the hands OF
the people, we sincerely aud honestly
ask your consent to the use of your
name, and Jour acceptance of the nomi-
nation thus unanimously rendered you
1y your friends and fellow citizens.
Trad KELLY,
Fssrz s5sFsr JAS. r.. STANBERY,
A. BANNING NORTON,
Il. 2. NORTON.
Hon. Allen Trimble, Hillsberough, O.
HILLsnoEo,, O., August Ii, '55,
Messers- Trad Kelly, Jas. r. Stran-
berry, a. Bennington Norton, ard T..
p. Norton-GentIencn Your letter,
personly presented last evening at my
residence, informing me that a mass
~conyentionso of the friends of the Amer
eaElseause in Ohio, assembled at Co
lumbus on the 9th iEsta had unanimous
1y nominated me as ascandidate for Cav
ernor Of the State, aid urging me to ex-
.eePt such nomiBatien-together with
other letters and messages from many
friends TO the sams effect@surprised snle
and for the night disturbed that repose
which, for many years, I have enjoyed
iDsthe shades of domestic retirement.
The nomination has been made with
oataany consultation with me, or the
knowledge. or consent Of any person au-
sth9rized to speak IN my behalf; against
1myown public wishes; and with the full
lknowiedge on the part of the Convex
ton that l was not a member of the
party represented by them ; aud there
tfore this morning when I annou @ced to
you, as 1 now do, that although itzmieit
lave been more expodieut to present
some other name; or my name under
more suspicious circumstances Fever
the less, being satisfied that, at this cri-
isis, the use of it, may result in the az
complisimCnt-of great public good, and
cannot result N ary possible public
harm, l wa We all personal considera-
-%stioRs, AID trust tIc use of it, as a can
didate. fo- Governor, to the people of
Ohio, IN the full ~conhdcnce that thcy
VIII not destroy or tariiish the humble
reputation which they have awarded me
for past services, and that after an ac-
quamtanee of half a century they will
not inipugn my motives.
The very fatterirg terms used by you
in communicating the proceedings of
the Convention, and their resolution
comforting the unsolicited honor of a
n~ominatioa, awaken In my bosom the
feelings of the warmest gratitude for
the Misrepresentation expressed for my
past life, aud no fanguagc can more for
chilly portray that gratitude, than for
me to say that I ask nothing more, if,
when the crisis is over, and all the bus
mess of life is done, it could be truly
sax, as you say in complimentary Ian
guage, that al have been a true Ameri-
can, a lover of the Union, a supporter
of the Constitution, and a well-wisher
of Free Institutions If to have al
ways been the firm and 1 hope) consist
~entsadYocate of Civil and Religious Lib
erty. of the rights of Conscience, the
, cause of Temperance. Education and
Religion, and of Progress aud Reform,
as known and defined by American laws,
Consultations, AID the Bibie AID if to
have been always ready to de>end those
Causes against any foreign or domestic
malignant infueuee-by the amendment
ofthe Naturalization Laws, or other
wlse-lf these constitute a true Ameri-
can, thensI claim to be one.
If always to have advocated national
principles, broad enough to comprehend,
and cherish, and protect all the varied
interests of the different States in our
: great confederacy, and to have been at
no time a member of Fang other than a
national party, and the supporter OF
none other than men of a national char
idctc'- 1and if to have abhorred and OPP
posed sanysect'onal party, constitute a
lover of the Union, then | have endeav-
oredto-be such. If to have believed
and ever maintained that our form of
government as established by the Con.
ssstftution of the United States, ana tie
republican Constitutions of the several
States, constitute the most perfect sys-
tenn of well regulated power and well !
balanced restraints, as between the eiti-
gers ofthe several States, that could be
devised by man, and that such form of
government and the laws enacted in pur-
suance thereof, as interpreted by the
: courts and afford to each, full protcc-
ton and ample encouragement for the
developments of all his endowmeuts as a
free agent, then such belief and humble /
advocacy constitute me a supporter of
the constitution.
IF to have emigrated at an carly day,
with aflm5 family, after the emancipa-
ton ofour slayes-from a slave State,
to an almost unbrokep, free territory,
and constantly thereafter to have labor
ed to uphold and spread the area of free
territory, for free white men and free la
boz, by all constitutional means-and if
to have maintained and ever to have vo-
ted when in public life, that it was the
drty Of those who had power IN our state
TO aid the development of all the re-.
sources Of the country, by the judicious
zencouragemeuto of internal improvements
to aid the industry and labor of the cit
; izen inthe transaction of his business
ethe support of his family. accumulation
Of a competency; BY securing to- him a
SOUND, safe and convertible medium of
exchange, In Ee nature of good bank