The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-07-02
First Guns for Fremont.

IouSo anu AMY COuuuCteu pdp6I, uSu-
trail, or old line Wing, thus speaks Of it
REPUBLICAN NoMrNArIoN.-The Re-
publican Convention, in session at Phil
adelphia, yesterday on the first formal
ballot nominated Col. John G. Fremont,
as their candidate for the Presidency.
He is emphntically o new man, but
whether that will recommend him or not
is a question yet to be decided. OF polit-
cal history he has scarcely any, his only
connection with the politics of She coun-
try having been as Senator for the short
term from California, Immediately after
the admission of that State to the I'm
ion. He then acted with the Demo-
cratic party. Personally he is regard
ed a gentleman of fair abilities, but more
distinguished by habits of physical en-
durance and rugged determination than
for the high mental cultivation and ex-
tended knowledge of the statesman. He
is a good campaigner and a successful
explorer, but hardly qualified we should
think, either by experience or attain
ment, for the post to which the-pref-
erence of a sectional party have nomi-
mated him. The nomination is evident
ly one of expediency, in which the old
standard bearers of abolitionism have
been cast aside in order to uni te upon
one who without antecedents to answer
for might occupy the uncertain position
which witt uttruCt to- Acknowledgement
amount of support at the North. Fir-
tually the nomination is o conNssfon of
weakness, so far as the supposed princi-
Piles of the party are concerned. Singu-
larly enough, the New York Herald,
until latelysthe most bitter opponent of
Republicanism, was the earliest, and
has been the most earnest advocate of
the nomination of Fremont.
The Philadelphia EUening Journal,
neutral in politics, expresses the general
opinion in this city, outside of the Con-
vention, as follows:
The REPUBLICAN NoMINATIoNs.-A
few hours ago the action of the Repub-
lican Convention, assembled In this city,
was looked to by hundreds of thousands
Of people throughout the North, with
intense interest. The principal purpose
for which the body was convened has
been accomplished, and whatever may
be the effect elsewhere, it is quite GER
toih bAaG bIC utLOh il COud u.
Fremont for the Presidency has occca-
stoned in this community a very general
feeling of disappointment. Save in the
Convention itself, and a small outside
circle of his personal and political friends
the demonstration of enthusiasts with
which the announcement of the candi-
date. is received, is iii this locality any
thing but encouraging.
The cause required and deserved a
very different champion and leader in
the coming confess, and our conviction
is, that it has suffered greatly, if not ia
tally, in the estimation and sympathies of
very many earnest friends, by the inju-
dicious choice which has been made.
We speak, of course, only with refer
ence to the impression it has produced
here. That, however, is not only un-
mistakable, but it is pretty significant
of what will be the prevalent sentiment
of Pennsylvania. For the sake Of the
great principles and interests which
were at stake, there are many who viii
deeply regret a result which in their
judgment, has ,imperlled, if not doomed
to disastrous defeat, a cause wh-se pres=
poets were before SO bright and ANNA
ting.
The New York San, neutral, but
lately inclined to favor the so-callod Re-
publican party, thus speaks of the un-
experienced young gentlemen who has
been put in nomination:
"In some respects, the nomination is
an "aVailable" one, but we by no means
think it is the strongest which the Re
publicans could make. Col. Fremont
of the passes of the Rocky Mountains,
and as a participation with Commodore
Stockton and others in the Conquest of
California.
He was among the first discoveries
of gold in California, and evinced his
sagacity by purchasing the title to a
rich mining district. Perhaps to this,
more than to his successful ex pl0ration
of the South Pass to the Pacific, may
we ascribe his present luck in the politi-
cal world. Where he as poor and PEN
niless now as when he first returned
from California his name might not
have been heard of as Presidential Can
didate."
VIII the Sun take the trouble to in
quire as to the exact height of that eel
ebated Pass, which has conferred upon
the en~terprising discovery such ar envi-
able immortality of renown $4,000
feet, we believe, more or less.
The New York Eveming E9prcss. a
Fillmore organ, says:
Botween.now and election day--if he
accepts,--he has certainly a harder road
to travel than he has yet trodden. He
is in the hands Of political panthers, and
jackalls, and grizzly bears, that-before
they have Zone with him-will use him
worse than the quadrupedal monsters
he used to encounter upon the Sierra
Nevada. The Colonel claims to be the
first man to have discovered Salt Lake.
We do not like to discourage him, but
he may as we'll make up his mind now
to another dis~covery--the discovery of
Salt River. The explorer, if not the
discovery of Utah, he is now discovered
among sectional freelovers aud abolition
Mormons, as politically loose, as Joe
Smiths disciples are morally delinquent.
Colonel Fremont has led a life that, in
many respects has been one of consid-
cradle usefulness to his common country,
and it is for that reason that we are sor-
ry to see him make his bed among a
class of politicians, who, in point of fact,
(all their Probabilities and sophistries
tn the ooDtrarv otuitbstaDdinr pro-