The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-06-18
THE NOmINATIONS.--HOw THEY
K

ZOE the TWO nlgnest omceS WITHIN tnt
gift of the American people, been re.
eeived with such universal joy and en-.
thusiasm, as in the case of BucHANAN
and BREcKINRIDGE. Our exchanges
are filed with glowing accounts of rati.
fcation meetings held in almost every
city in the Union, at which the nomina-
tions are endorsed amid the widest DEM
Oh strations of joy. On our first page
will be found the proceedings of the
monster meeting at Washington city,
and the speeches of Messrs. CAss, DOUG
LAS, and PIERCE, in which these dis
tinguished champions of the Democratic
faith, cordially endorse the action of the
National Convention in every particu-
lar. We wish every Democrat in the
land could read the noble tributes which
these men pay to the distinguished mer-
its of our standard bearers. Endorse
menrs from such sources cannot but have
weight with the Democracy of the I'm
ion, and unite in indissoluble bands our
glorious old party. 1t will be seen that
the Little Giant" stands pledged to
take the field in favor of the ticket.
The noble, self-sacrifcing spirit-the
devotion to the interests and welfare of
the Democratic party-thus exhibited
by Mr.. DOUGLAS, should he live, will re-
ceive its reward in the highest honors
his country can bcstow.
Upon the. reception of the news of his
nomination at Mr.. BUcHANAN's residence,
Lancaster, Pa, q procession of eight
hundred old, conservative Wings, was
formed, who marched to his residence
and pledged him their support. I'M
mense notifications have been held in the
cities Of Philadelphia. New York, Bos-
ton, Belfast, Concord, Albany, Brook
Ign, Pittsburgh, and in our own State,
at. Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati,
Chillicothe-in short, in almost every
town of any note in the State. From
the extreme North to the extreme South,
and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, as
cends n universal shout of joy, for the
Union is safe, the Constitution is safe,
and the days of se~ctionalism are num-
bered. As to the press, NC could fill
our columns with encomiums, but we
have room for but few. Here is the en-
dorsement of the Washington Union,
the National Organ of the Democracy.
The Democracy would have been invinclble
in the approaching Presidential campaign with
any candidate whom they might have nQmi-
naued III the platform of the Cincinnati Con
~yention. With James Buchanan as their stand
ard-bearer, they can scarcely encounter a con-
test.
The reputation of this eminent Citizen has
been so long and SO favorably associated with
his country's history that the memorial of his
public services, imprinted in the minds and
hearts of all patriotic Americans, requires no
repetition. In the House of Repre-
sentatiYes -ofthLFuitcd- States nnd-in-th !
Senate. in the Cabinet as the head of the De-
partment of State, and abroad as a d~iplumatist
in the charge of our most important foreign re-
.lations, he has been distinguished alike as the
Sagacious and trustworthy statesman, in whose
hands the national welfare might always be
profitably not less thap securely for
lis country interest.
The New York Journal Of Commerce,
The great organ of the commercial and
noneyed interest in New York city,
NOMINATION OF Mr.. BUcHANAS.-The Gin
Convention have concluded their Ia
oors, with a result which will elicit an APPROX
response from the conservative and solid
men of the country in every section of the I'M
on. The selection of Mr.. Buchanan will tend
o strengthen the public faith in the fitness of
he people for self government. An ong the
most experienced of the few remaining states
men who have been employed in the national
service during a period extending over half the
of the Republic, he has exhibited in
he various exalted stations which he has been
;aIled to fill, a thorough fitness for their re-
duties, a perfect comprehension of the
interests intrusted to his charge, an undertaking
Iense of equality and justice in Judgment and
administration, and Liberal and patriotic esti-
nate of those considerations necessary to the
adjustment of conflicting sectional interests,
Which have hitherto SO happily controlled the
ounsels of the country, and given to it an I'M
,recedented development of expansion, power
md prosperity, and which the advancement of
general civilization and progress, no less than
,ur own permanent well-being, require to be
maintained.
Tho Richmond Enquirer, the old or
gan of the Virginia Democracy, thus
cordially responds:
A disposition to comply with the just and
easonable demands of a great State that has
TODD by the Union in every crisis of its histo-
V, and to present a man to the American PEG
BE in whom every patriot may confde, deter
mined the convention to nominate James Bu-
.hanan. No person familiar with the history
this eminent statesman viii deny that the
has been equally successful in
the interests of the country, and salts
ying 6he expectations of the party. He will
eceive the unanimous and cordial support of
he Democracy, of whose patriotic principles,
interest and progressive impulses he is
he worthy and illustrious representative. He
will be sustained, besides, by honest and con-
~ervative men Of every political complexion,
vho see in his ripe experience sagacious states
and comprehensive nationality of
pirit, an infallible assurance of q wise, safe
nd successful administration of the interests
f the country. BY the nomination of Jalaes
Buchanan the triumph of the Democracy is Sc
ured, and the hopes of the patriots will be re-
liked in the election of a President of whom
very citizen may be proud.
The Albany IN. " argus and 1T
as, a very influential Depocratic jour
says of Mr.. BUCHANAN: /
No more suspicious nomination could have
made fr the Democracy and the Union,
han this. In all its relations it is gratifying.
n all its effects it will be most happy. 1t is a
TO a man who has maintained in long
ublic service the highest character, and whose
areer, marked by the choicest honors of the Sen
te and of the diplomatic service of the country
t home and abroad, naturally culminqtes in
ne Executive office. 1t is due to the great