The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-07-02
JOY OF III DEMOCRACY--.THE
DESPONDENCY OF THE OPPOSI-
TON.

When the Democratic party announ-
ced its candidates for the Presidency and
Vice Presidency, the result was a nation
al rejoicing over all the wide expanse Of
territory and in every degree of climate
where our Constitution is venerated and
obeyed. Even men who had been against
US for twenty-five years, and had not
yet made their minds up to support our
nominees, felt a thrill of joy pass through
them when they saw the great national
party of the country do their work so
nobly and SO well. 1t seemed as if the
telegraph had spoken with a tongue of
flame, and had lighted up bonfres on ev-
cry hill, in every valley, in every city
and in every town. 1t seemed as if the
cannon that spoke out in laundering
tones for BUCHANAN and ICGE
at Cincinnati was reechoed in an instant
by the artillery that Numbered in the
White Mountains of the East, and roar
ed far down in the Gulf of Mexico, or
that exploded amid EXPLANATIONS of joy
among the Alleghanies in Virginia and
Pennsylvania. Music filled the air, and
the general rejoicing extended to all
classes and to both sexes. Men felt as
if there had been a great national deliv-
erence and as if the black shadow OF
despair which threatened to blot out the
sun of our hopes had passed away. In
the shops Of. the artizans there were
cheers that spoke the hearty feeling of
thankfulness. AL working men of what
ever grade or class, responded to these
nominations. It was a sentiment CO.
extensive with the Union, and almost as
general as the casing air.
And now what Of the nomination of
JOHN G. Fremont by the Black Re-
publicans assembled in Philadelphia =?
Where is the JOY that welcomes it Eff
teen sovereign States see it written be-
fore them by the electric wires, and sit
by appalled,, but stricken with indigna-
ton and grief, that such things should
be put upon them by a set of men who
care no more for a pure administration
of the government than they care for the
the Uuion itself. This nomination is
greeted in the South with derision, with
contempt, with enace and with rage.
Go next to the North. How is it re-
ceived in Pennsylvania By the decla-
ration of the Pennsylvania fusion, that
it will be defeated by 81 1000 majority at
the election in November next. How in
Ohio2 By the curses Of the friends Of
MCLEAN, who feel that he had been
passed over, with his years of eminent
services, to make way for a tyro,-a fail
urea gross, ridiculous failure in the
Senate of the United States, and now
famous alone for his thirst for money
and speculation. There are no monster
demonstrations of the people there is no
rejoicing in the counting room, or in the
mechanics shop, or along the busy walks
of commerce, in the steamboat and in
the cars, or in the harvest fields of the
farmer. 1t is in all places regarded as
an absurd or contemps:5le trick, or else
as a bitter aud malignant insult to the
people. It awakers no enthusiasm the
emotions it forth are those of
ridicule or of rage. Such is the con-
trast. 1t is a contrast between Conven-
tions, a contrast between men, a con-
tt asst between measures, and a contrast
between dignity and dedrabation-be-
tween high and lofty intellect, and low
and grovelling demsgoguery.-D Daily
Pennsylvania.