The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-07-02
Eark Do You Hear That?

Int IDGdu CTt-cCCGs hIluCI W di oOAS
and unfalteriEg Wing Journal, has run
up the names of BUCHANAN aud BRECK-
INRDGE, and in doing so, wrote
This week we fling to the breeze the
names of James Buchanan, Of Pennsyl-
vania, and John G. Breckinridge, of
Kentucky, as our choice for President
and Vice President Of the United
States.
In doing this we sacrifice no princi-
pal. We surrender none CT our long
cherished and heartfelt predictions for
the glorious old Wing party, From our
earliest boyhood until the ~treacherous
fat o the, New York Tribune went forth,
proclaiming the Reorganization Of the
Wing party, we battled in the ranks of
that party for principles that were dear
to us as4-she- tae+norJ OF tho times
that have past-sometimes stormy, and
dark and fearful-sometimes chechered
by the bright hopes of success, commin-
gled with the ftful shadows of defeat :;
but always attended with the earnest
striviDgs of earnest convictions against
the manliuess CT an open foe-thOse
times in our political life will always be
remembered by US as among the bright
est in our existences. We have no re-
grets for this portion of the past. Were
the same circumstances presented
again, We would again enact the same
life.
Even after the Wing party was pro-
claimed to be extinct, with a hope that
found but few sympathizers, we have
chung to the idea of rejuvenated Wing
party till now, when all admit that there
is no longer ground for hope.
Old party issues are ignored. It is
said they are extinct. Perhaps they
are but We think at some future time
when less of danger surrounds the ex-
istence Of our national integrity, they
may be again presented.
There isreally but one absorbing ques-
ton now before the people. In the sol
emn magnitude of its presence all 9th
srs ere hushed. This question is at last
presented in a tangible form, Shall the
Union be Preserved ? or shall the first
step be taken towards the entire disrup-
ton of the States of the Union by a sew
erance of the North from the South =?
Looking at the political aspect of the
lllDeS, Will tALS uuCSGlOA hLuI lDS 10 ~
the face, we make our choice.of candi-
dates. The nominees of the Cincinnati
Convention make the preservation of the
Union the matter of paramount interest.
Other principles are advocated but if
any subservienoy is to be made-all the
others are to be compromised, all of
them may be subsericnt but the "UNIoN,
1T MUST BE PRESERVED
On the other hand, the preservation
of the Union is q minor and secondary
principle with those who have met IN
convention under the title of Republi-
car With them, the preservation o f
the Union is to be tolerated as a matter
of contingency. Mr.. Banks committed
the first act of treason, in declar-
ing il the halls of Congress that be was
in favor of Getting the Union slide,"
unless a favorite crotchet of his own
and his associates could be endorsed.
This is the grand and broad division
of the question that now divides he
country; and in view of it we hesitate
not to declare our infinite preference
for James Buchanan to any other man
who sustainssth he least chance of election,
and to endorse him as a man we'll calcu-
late&to faceSthe factions in our ownland,
and the wiles, and combinations, and
manifold diplomacy of the trickster pol
~iticans eff the old world.