The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-07-01
ASHLAND DEmOCRATTC COUNTY

NELE
The Democracy Of Ashland county, in
pursuance Of notice by the Democratic
Central Committee, published in the
ashland Uaiousthrough their delegates,
met at the Court House, in Ashland,
June %, 1857. to appoint delegates to
the State Convention to be held in
Columbus on the 9th August next.
On motion, JOHN 8. WHITE, of
Jackson township, was called to the
Chair, and B. f. HARGnAvE, of Mohecan
township was appointed Secretary.
On motion, a committee of five, con-
sisting of D. S. Sampsel, j. P. Cowen,
Thomas Cole, James al bertson and
Michael Miller, were appointed to re-
port one name from each township from
which the Convention should select four
delegates to attend the State Convention
to be held in the city of Columbus, on
the 9th day of August, 1857.
On motion of II. S. Knapp. it was re-
solved that a committee of five be ap-
pointed by the chair to draft resolutions
EXPRESSIVE of the sense of the Convention.
In pursuance of which resolution the
Chair appointed H. S. Knapp, John
Hearst, John W. Bull, j. ". Boyd and
George Mcconnell said committee.
On motion, the question as to the
time of holding the Primary Meetings
Masreeeaeeeit.ea+e theerHtraf Commit
tee of the county, with instructions to
FIX upon the 5th day of September, pro-
vided the Central Committee of Rich
land county concur therein other
wise, to fix upon such day as may be
agreed upon by the Central Committees
of the two counties.
The Convention then proceeded to
select delegates to attend the State Con
vention, whereupon, II. S. Knapp, John
W. Ball, John s.. White and Paul Oil
yer, were appointed said delegates; and
James AIberteoD, Esq, John Herpst,
and VIM. McAdoo were chosen alter
mates.
On motion, it was resolved that the
delegates at Columbus be empowered to
supply any vacancies that may occur.
The Committee on resolutions through
Fl. S. Knapp, their Chairman, reported
the following, which, on motion, were
unanimously adopted:
Resozved, That the Democracy of Ash
land county are satisfied with the Con-
s%titution and the Union as they are and
that the late decision of the Supreme
Court Of the United States, being in
conformity with the Constitution, assin-
terpreted by the best authorities, as well
as by its obvious meaning, meets with
our approval;-snd that the resistance
to this decision without the proposition
of a Constitutional remedy, by the Black
Republican party, is only designed to
prepare the hearts of the people for Rev
| %olution and civil war.
ReSolUed, That the co irse adopted By
the present Administration, hui far,
fully meets all the high hopes of the De-
mocracy; that in the hands of JAMES
BUCHANAN we have every confidence th2t
the integrity of the Constitution and the
Laws viii be maintained in their full
vigor, and hat economy and fidelity in
all departments of the Government will
be faithfully enforced.
ReS0lced, That the late election IN
Kansas demonstrates the falsehood and
hypocrisy of the self.styled Republican
party. By their refusal to vote, in the
face of their boosted and admitted claim
that they out-numbered the pro-slayery
party by ten or twenty to one-and in
the face of the ample guarantees of the
Administration of an honest and fair
expression Of the popular will,-they
have clearly shown that with them fac
ton is paramount to foeedO01 or couu-
try and if Kansas should be admitted
as a slave State, upon their heads will
rest the responsibility.
ReSoloed, That in the present canvass
we rejoice to discover unmistakable
signs that great STATE ISSUES, which
are always of more direct and vital i'm
portance to the People than any other,
are to overshadow all other issues;-
that if the senseless, aimless and false
clamor about Kansas had not made the
impression it did upon the popular mind,
the State would not now be cursed with
a dynasty, which, In the first seventeen
! months of its rule, has beggared the Peo-
Plies Treasury, and fastened indelible
infamy upon themselves, and dishonored
the name of our noble State ~thronghout
the civilized world. go - raz
RESOLVED, That the effort of the Black
Republican officials, now before the
bar of public opinion, to fasten their
crimes and follies upon an officer OF
State elected by the Democracy, and
whose faults the Democratic Party have
never sought to pailiate or excuse, will
meet with the indignant scorn of every
taxpayer in the State. Their lying and
contradictory statements, made under
the solemnities of official oaths aud pub.
locations Shy authority render theil
testimony like Seneca and other Banl
promises, entirely worthless.
RESOLVED, That the inexcusable re
peal, without any public or plausible
reason being given, of the act of Marcel
E 2, 1916, ITO punish the embezzlemen-
r of the public moneys" is evidence tina
the whole Republican dynasty, legisLa
tue as well as E1ecutiue, is implicated
0 iu9the late -stupendous robbery of tn
Peoples Treasury. 81
ReSoIUed, That it will be the first du
ty of the next Democratic General As
sembly to re. enact said law, and to adopt
so far as applicable, the Independen
Treasury System of the Federal Govern
ment, with the penitentiary and speci
= clauses, as the future policy of the Stat