The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-06-25
rFor the Ashland Union.1
RAN DEMOCRATIC
Ratification Meeting!
500 DEMOCRATS IN COUNCIL.
BUCHANAN AND BRECKENRIDGE
O. X.

der by nominating Gen. j. s. FULTON,
Chairman. Upon taking the Chair, he
made an excellent though brief speech,
expressing his appreciation of the high
honor conferred upon him, and referring
to the glorious cause which had once
more called together the Democracy
of the County-the lovers of their coun-
try who know no North, no South, no
East, no West-and denouncing, in IN
measured terms, the sectional agitaters,
fanatics and disunionists, who oppose US.
The applause which frequently inter
rupted his remarks, showed how cordi-
ally his sentiments were endorsed by
those present.
Hon. J. P. CowAN, of Jeromeville,
was then, by motion, appointed Score
tary, and JAMES SwINEFoRD, assistant.
On motion of j. SHERIDAN, Esq, a
committee of FIVE was appointed to draft
Regulations, expressive of the sense of
the meeting. The following gentlemen
were appointed by the Chair: j. SHER-
IDAN, G. W. BUSHNELL, J. P. CowAN,
JOHN HEARST and RoswLLE WESTON.
The Committee having retired, G. W.
GEDDIs, Esq, of Mansfield, was called
upon, and responded in a most able and
eloquent speech. He referred to the
nominees of the Cincinnati Convention,
the present standard bearers of the only
national party. The first, JAMES Pr
CHANAN, already tried and found nat
wanting, in nearly ell the most respon-
sible positions of the government, as a
United States Senator, as Minister at
the proudest, haughtiest and, with one
exception, the most powerful country
upon the face Of the globe, and now
called from that high position, by the
spontaneous voice of the people, to fill
the most commanding place known to
this country, or even to the world. The
second, JOHN G. BREoKINRIDGE, the i'm
PRESERVATION of L" Young America" and
just. old enough to be constitutionally
eligible to the Office of Vice President :;
young in years, but old IN knowledge;
a man whose ability is sufficiently guar
anteed by the fact that he was elected
to Congress in that district sacred to
the memory of HENRY Clay, and with
LESLIE CONES, the most popular ora
ator in Kentucky, as his competitor, by
a majority of over six hundred re-
elected over another popular competitor,
and since that time has declined other
and greater honors. Mr.. GEDDIs also
referred to the consistency Of the oppo-
sition.- = He read u sorg, written by emo
GREINER, a leader of the Wing forces,
some years ago, in which GREINER gave
his opinion of this Freesoil faction, TO
which he and his party have just sold
themselves, "Sody and soul"
Tho foundation of his song is dream.
He thought that he had arrived prema-
turely at his future r~esicrlece; that he
found TOWNSEND and MoEsz there; that
he overheard the discussion between the
Devil and his Irish servant as to wheth-
err his Satanic Majesty would be safe
upon his throne with such men around
him, and their final conclusion that be
would not be safe, and as the conse-
quence, they kicked TOWNSEND and
MORSE outside of the battlements of
Hades, 6c6w, and. sent them 10 their
own-a worse one-On earth!
VIM. STEVENS, Esq, of Mansfield, was
then introduced by the Chair. His nd
dress was eloquent and elegant. He
dealt out with an unsparing hand such
blows as mads the few Black Republi-
cans in the house elongate their faces
and tremble like BELsHAzzER. He por-
trayed in striking %colors, the cause of
the downfall of the proudest Republics
of the Old World, viz: intestine COM
motions, and showed as plainly as the
handwriting on the wall, that the Black
Republicans, by stirring up sectional
strifes and invoking civil wars in our
Territories, were attempting to bring
upon our country the same evil results,
which had swept to their tombs the once
proud monuments of former Republics.
Gen. MCLAUGHLIN. of Mansfield, was
next introduced. The General is a no.
BILE specimen of the old, tried and true
Democracy. His remarks were brief
and to the point. He examined the
history of fremont, a man whose entire
life has been such that it was impossible
that he could be a Statesman of any
considerable ability, and hence unfit to
guard the destinies of a Continent, or Of
guiding the Ship of State through the
dangerous shoals and quicksands, which
crazy fanatics are attempting to throw
around it. Upon the other hand, he re-
ferred to the Democratic nominees, as
resolute and tried Statesmen, and to
JAMES BUCHANAN as a d~iplomatist, SEQ
ond to none in the known world. His
remarks were received with rounds of
applause, and at the close the Band very
appropriately played W~AsHINGroN's
March.
The Committee on resolutions report
ed the following, which, on motion, were
received and unanimously adopted.
ReSolred, That in the gifted son of