The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-06-18

Union, which has given US a create
MEASURE of prosperity and freedom thar
ever before fell to the lot of any nation
Withered be the hand that is stretched
out to touch the Ark of the Constitu
| tiOn
During the delivery OF General Cass'l
speech he was repeatedly interrupted
with loud end enthusiastic cheers. Al
its conclusion, sh oqt after shout went VI
for Judge Douglas. The chairman ther
stepped forward and said that it was al
most useless for him to introduce to the
meeting one SO universally known as the
"!Y Young Giant of the west.n As soor
as the Wild applause which followed this
announcement had in measure subsidized
Judge Douglas appeared aud spoke sub
stancially as followed
JUDGE DOUGLAS SPEECH.
Hon. Stephen A. Douglas said he
came before the meeting with hearty
good will to indorse and ratify the ac-
ton of the National Convention at Gin
cinnati [Applause.] He came not as
matter of form; not in compliance
with a custom but with heart and
soul in the cause. He came to congrat-
ulate them upon the unanimous adop-
tion of platform which commands the
appreciation of every Democratic heart !;
to congratulate them upon the nomina-
tion of a candidate for the Presidency
and Vice Presidency worthy to stand
upon that platform, and to receive the
unanimous support of every Democrat.
[Cheers ] The platform and the stand
bearers are worthy of each other
each acceptable to the whole Democra-
racy of the entire country.
He felt more heart in this contest
than any he had ever before been en-
gagged in, and there was more of import
ance to be attached to it in its result,
and more to inspire the patriotism of
every lover of his country. This Union
was made through the Constitution, must
be. preserved through the Constitution,
and cannot survive for single day the
obligations of that instrument. The
Democratic party now stands before the
country as the only national party in the
whole republic; the only party which
avows principles alike in the East and
West, in the North and in the South
he only party whose principles must
prevail wherever the Constitution reigns.
Immense applause.l
e Look at the creed Of the party us
promulgated at CINCINNATI; and then
upon that disturbing element, the vexed
question of slavery, lou fad platform
which has received the sanction of every
Democratic delegate from every State
in the Union. Democracy is now the
same in Massachusetts,, in South Caro-
lima, [applause] in Michigan aud in Ill
inois, in Ohio and Louisiana and where
ever the American flag waves, there is
the Democratic creed one and the same.
What other party car cross the Ohio
River and Mason and Dixon's Line and
carry their principles with them? A
Voice-None. Can this Union be pre-
served in the hands Of a political party
whose principal action is hostility ON the
part of one half of the States against the
rights and privileges of the other half
of this Union? Can sectional strife, sec
tional animosity, and sectional warfare
"a part of the North against the South,
a psrt of the South against the North,
produce that fraternal feeling and broth
erly lnye which is essential to preserve
the Republic as our fathers made it
Have we not the greatest inducements
to stimulate US to our utmost exertions
No less than the integrity of the Con-
stitution, the preservation and perpetu-
ity of the Union, depend upon the result
of this election.
we had candidate for the Rresiden-
cy whose reputation was as wide, he was
about to say, as TIE public, but he would
say as wide as civilization man who
has filled the highest offices III his copn-
try save that only to which he is to be
on the 4th of March next
-[great and continued applause Ia
man of wide experience in the House of
Representative, ip the Senate, in the
Cabinet, in the foreign service, and
wherever commanding ability and stern
integrity were required for the discharge
of high duties Everywhere in the line
of duty you have found James Buchau-
an elevating his own reputation, while
sustaining and carrying forward the in
terest and honor of his country He
was a man without a stain upon his pri-
yate character, and with q political rec
ord equally uutarnished, from the days
of Jackson down to the present time.
Allusion was made to the signal SER
vices which he bad performed, not the
least Of which was the delicate duty of
this country at the first
court in the world during the present
Such was the man
whom the Democracy had presented to
them for their sufirages. The candidate
for the Vice Presidency was too we'll
known to Washington audience to re-
quire much praise. Most of them knew
him personally, and all that was neces-
sary was to know him in order to love
him. He possessed the highest quail
ties for the Office for which he was now
designated, or for a higher station in
future years, when his experience should
be more fully matured. The Democra-
cy thus had standard bearers with which
they conld defy the combined forces of
the enemy. They were one compact
party, protesting one common creed
and they were arrayed against the allied
forces of Abolitionism, Know othing
ism and every other ism. He rejoiced
that they had got all the isns into one
common line; he had long been wishing
to get them where the Democrats could
rake them all down at once. These isms'
were enimated by one common senti-
ment, and that was hostility to the Dem
ocratic party. Abolitionism and Know
Nothingism. were first cousins generally;