Daily American organ., 1856-03-31
Ohio State American Conyenti ON.

the late State Council of Ohio had repudiated
the American nominations made at Philadel-
phia--and that minority of fifty delegates
had Withdrawn from that Council, and that
President Bartlett had revoked the charter of
the Council of which Governor Ford was Pres
ident, and granted new charter to establish
a council which would recognise the authority
Of the National Council The new State Coun-
Gil has been organized with Thomas G. Ware,
Esq, as its President, and this Council has
ratified the nominations made by the National
Convention, by the adoption of the following
resolution: .
Resolved That we cannot sanction the course
Of that portion Of our delegates who seeded from
the American National Convention nor can we
become parties to the construction of merely
sectional organization; therefore We do ratify the
nomination of Mlard Fillmore for President, and
Andrew jackson Donelson for Vice President of
| the United States.
This Council adjourned to meet at Colum-
bus, Ohio, on the first Tuesday in June.
We learn from the American papers in Ohio
that Governor Ford, President of the late State
| Council, only gave some three or four days
notice of the meeting of his State Council, held
on the Goth instant, and that but few Coun-
ellis were represented. The Independent Re-
publican, published at st. Clairsville, Belmont
county, complains that in that county the no
ticc of the meeting of the Council only reached
there on the day after the meeting of the State
| Council
That press in commenting upon the conduct
of Gov. Ford, says
/" If the President of the State Council had been
disposed to act in good faith to the whole party he
would have taken the usual means to notify the
subordinate councils throughout the State. This,
he has not done, or We in Belmont would have been
again, as in January, at our posts. If other coun
ties have been treated in like manner 1t looks sus-
picious" .... ...-. .,...-.
We shall repudiate their action, as not binding
on US, or on the American party in this county
While men who have under all circumstances, re-
mained true 70 their obligations as Americana, are
not represented, others who leaders in the Re-
publican movement, occupied seats In that BODY,
among whom notice the name of Gibson and
Others who were members of the Pittsburgh Con-
yention plotting treason against the National Ame-
rican Convention, which was then in session in
Philadelphia. We believe that there ia National
American party in Ohio, and to that party zoe be-
long, and in behalf Of the principles of that party
we 5nall ueVOIe ourselves.
This manifests the right spirit, and augurs
well for the purifcation of the American party
in Ohio. We trust, and we have confidence in
the opinion, that the State Council to be held
at Columbus on the first Tuesday in June will
embrace delegations from every portion of the
State, and that thorough reorganization of
the American party will be effected in Ohio,
upon the basis of the National Platform which
was adopted by the National Council in Feb
ruary.
We find in the Independent Republican,
above referred to, ian American paper,) tho
majority and minority reports of a committee
Son the state of the order" appointed by Gov.
ernor Ford, in the late State Council, held on
the goth instant, from the latter of which 9TH
minority reporD we extract the ffc.n..owine to
wit:
:" we recognise s.nse the National Council as the par
.nt authority of the American Order, and deem
refusal to support candidates nominated by con-
yention assembled in accordance with its rules
virtual abandonment of our organization"
(" We cannot sanction the course Of that portion
of our delegates who seeded from the American
National Convention, nor can we become parties
to the constructing Of mere sectional organiza-
ton, and therefore recommend to the members of
the American Order, that they preserve it in it's
full integrity and its entire nationality and support
the nomination Of Millard Fillmore for President
and Andrew Jackson Donelson for Vice President
of the United States"
These are the views of national men, and if
responded to by the body of the American par
ty in Ohio, the American ticket will receive the
electoral vote of that State, which will thus
place herself once more upon broad national
grounds, and bury in the depths of Oblivion
the remains of sectionalsm in the Northwest.
We trust that every man in Ohio who ac-
knowledges the evils Of foreignism will unite
upon the above basis
| We might here ask these men of Ohio. and
elsewhere, who, in the language of the msjori-
| ty report, demand of the General Govern
ment an immediate redress Of the great wrongs
inflicted upon the cause of freedom and the
American character by the repeal of the Mis-
souri, compromise" what they expect to gain
by this demand from the General Govern
mentN at this junctureS Were it universally
admitted that the great wrongs" complained
OF had been inflicted, do not those who com
plain of them see plainly, that there is now no
means Of redressH Should those men who
feel and admit the evils of .foreignism, refuse
to cooperate in remedying these evils, on the
ground that what they regarded as wrongs"
cannot be remedied at the same time and by
the same meanss On the question Of foreign
ism, the whole American party North and
South agree, and they can act in harmony in
applying the proper remedy for the mischief