The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-06-18
WIN. ALLEN On II NONE-
NATEONSs

-tisMell known that there are a few
professed Democrats h~ereabouts, who
complacently claim that the Democratic
party has left them ! 1t is equally well
known that these same men have hereto
fore professed to be great admirers of
the Hon. WIN. ALLEN, and have declared
their willingness to support him for the
Presidency, if nominated. We call the
special attention of these gentlemen to
the following remarks of Mr.. ALLEN,
made at a ratification meeting of the De-
mocracy of Chilicothe, on Monday, the
9th inst. He is thus reported in the
Advertiser
"Hon. VIM. ALLEN, who was on the stand,
came forward and addressed the meeting IN a
most happy manner. He alluded to the aglta-
ton in regard to the slavery question that had
distracted the country for some time-an agita-
ton looking to a ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Union.
The people, who cherish in their hearts a strong
devotion to the Constitution and to the Union,
had looked around them for a man whose ser
vices and experience in the councils OF the Ma
ton had been such as to furnish Il positive guar
antee that, under his administration, agitation
would be lulled and the various States would
be brought to cultivate O fraternal, a brotherly
feeling. Their gaze rested upon JAMES BUoHAN-
AN, and their voice went forth that ofall men he
was the man for the times. In view ofthis, the
old Keystone State-the central State-the State
wherein was born the Declaration of Indepen-
dence-the State wherein was begotten the
Constitution under which we have grown in all
the elements of greatness-presented him and
promptly to his support came Ylrginia-the
mother of States and of Statesmen-all hail to
tho obiualria State 7 Maine the State far TO the
Northeast, and New Jersey, all Revolutionary
States, voted for him from the beginning and
Louisiana, the State that is far to the South
west, and the Northwest almost unitedly did
the same thing, and on the 18th ballot they
made ii a unanimous nomination.
whenever a crisis arises in this country the
people look up and demand the right kind of n
man. In this instance the throbbing and pal
-pitating of the popular heart was felt on the
walls Of the building in which the Convention
was held and the Convention heard and
obeyed it.
"He is, therefore, the choice of the Democra-
CIV united-North, South, East and West. 1t
was this sort of agaci that pointed out WASH
INGroN, although then nearly a major, rs the
proper person to take command of the CONT
mental army it was the same sort of sagacity
that called JEFFERsoS and JACKSON to the Pres
idency.
His nomination Will have 4 potential in
fluence on not only this nation, but upon the
Old w ORD. AS Minister 10 fSuSSll anu Eng
land, he established u reputation for consuIn-
ate craftsmanship, that Will cause the Europe
an governments to become sensible of the fact
that the American Democracy, when the ext
gency of the times demand it, designate, for
the Chief Magistracy, Statesmen OF the hrst
water. Elect him, and those governments will
be exceedingly cautious how they meddle with
affairs in the Gulf of Mexico and Central Amer
lea.
"He adverted to the fact that English jour
nails, and some French journals, in specializing
on the chances of a war with this country, had
confidently counted on being joined by a large
party in the Free States, and that the South
would have to fight out the war alone. The
nomination of Mr.. BUCHANAN will disabuse
their minds with reference to this subject. In
it they behold that, in such an event, we would
be a united people everywhere in the Republic
as far South as the Gulf of Mexico, and as far
North as the Lord has land"
Of course We shall hear these men de-
nounce Mr.. ALLEN as a dough face, a
Stare Democrat, a niggT driUey, a 6or-
der ru6fan, and a thousand other equal
ly low epithets, to be found only in the
Black Republican vocabulary. And so
both Mr.. ALLEN and the Democratic
party have left them! Who ever saw
such pinks of political virtue before?
To use the impressive language of Bro.
GILES, " their names will not be forgot
ten in the hearts of the past generation,
nor remembered in those of the pres
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e The Weevil is said to be very
in the Wheat in this section.