Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16


next day. It is there styled the are.
publican and opposition convention.''-
: IF the Deacon had left off the word Re
publican, and only, baptized it opposi-
ton, he would have hit the nail on the
head. Opposition to what, is the ques-
tion that many who were in attendance
There would like ito have answered, so
far as anything is to be kneWn by the
utterances of their nominee, 1t is in his
| beautiful and chaste language, "opposi-
ton to the nefarious4 an Infamous ad
ministration of James Buehanan. ~
That is the sum total oftheir principles,
as, announced by this celebrated and
wonderfully and harmonious conven-
| ton, If buchanan should by any pos
sibility set right, do not see but this
opposition party would be entirely out
of principles, and whore. their celebrated
leader would land, no prophet or seer
can at all divine Now Mr. Editor, /
am totally opposed to fag end party.
l believe there are principles in the, Re
publican party, and that they are'worth
preservation, and am not disposed to
give tEem up to ACCOMMODATE Lewis ID.
Campbell, or any other man, that has
run so tOrtuous political race. Neither
am 1 satisfied that that gentleman who, ;,
when the principles of the great Re
publican PARTY were announced. and the
first efforts for founding the party in
Ohio were made, stood buck and waited
to see whether it was going to be .popu-
lar, and while thus waiting, fought with
extreme bitterness the nominations of
the party, moved heaven and earth to
i r. LII
county nomination in the State, made Il
third party in Montgomery county, and
did all that ssibly could be done to
stranale this then infant Organization
and hurl to everlasting shame and con-
tempt, every, man that was supposed to
sympathize in any way with the princi
Piles embodied in that name Republican
am unwilling that such men should
now come in and demand Of us that we
shall not insist upon u rugged Issue,
but shall quietly give up the organiza
ton, trail the flag in the dust, raise
new banner, and inscribe upon it,
"GIory ard honor to Lewis d. Camp
bell, and opposition to James BuShan-
an am, and have been. all my life,
a. a.thorou2h going party mia, ,>@aad have
-t1Eus= EEsss.ssIrel fsagty sszfHsstiszsss
bat have VET TO learn tftdt a~n6an Is !
bound. by any possible Obligation to sus
Hin nominations, whore the Convention
travels out of the bounds of the-Pa ty
for its candidate, and nominate man
that never did, dies NOT now, belong to
the party, IS no part of il, never sym
p<ithized with it. Lewis ID. Campbell
is not Republican now, and never was
u olC Klo -,
platform, has never accepted even the
loose aud accommodating resolutions
thatw passed by the convention two
years since at Hamilton. On that occa
sion, the fight of his special Friends was
that no resolutions should be passed.
and when ii was declared in that Con-
vchtion that Campbell was not Rcpub
| lican, and public defiance bid to his
warrncst friends to show any evidence
that he belonged TO the< party all the
answer they could or did make, was that
no, other man in the district could beat
| Vallaudi CHAM, and if he was not nomi-
mated a third ticket would be made, and
the only fair inference that could posi-
bly, be drawn was that, Lewis ID. Camp
| bell would head that ticket as candidate
Tor Congress. The plea was then urged
| in behalf of his n nominaton, that it was
the last, time his name would ever be
i offered, and the last time the party
would be asked to vote for him. All
: the reason that his special satellites
could offer for his nomination, was that
the Republican party in this District
had been outraged by the Democracy in
the person of l.. d. Campbell, and the
only w:ry to head the outrage was to put
Campbell back in possession Of the seat
that was wickcdly taken from him
Not that Campbell was Republican,
tliat he, had any sympathy with the par
ty Or its principles, but another must be
; added to the basket of beats of the gen
tleman that wore epa0ietsin Montg0m
cry county" and in the splendid speech
of this denli God of the journal, one OF
his great reports was that he had no;
epaulets He had lnuuh better ground
: in spirit that he did not possess politi
, cal Integrity. The spcoch OF Campbell
, accepting the n ominatfon was in hi.
usual strain Did ut want the nomina
ton Pressing calls for his remaining
at home. Didn't want, to come ther,
= to day, was sick, family sick, no man il
that convention had ever heard him sa,
q either directly or indirectly that he want
cd the nomination. If there was an.
one that would say that he had don
e anything to procure the nomination, h
would not accept, was no political nov
ice; had been in theipoli.ical arena thir
is ty years; had rode in "a Buggy many
s. dark night in Preble county, aud one
n on a very dark night, when he had bee
- Iaboring hard for the extension of libei
ty, he was fording river and it was
p very, dark night, and he narrowly es
$ capped drowning, The thought til;
D. flashed through some minds as he u
tered this declaration, was that the worl
would not ha re met with~a serious 10!
d had he not escaped. He talked of h
familiarity with Hunter, Guthrie, Ho
S. II. Stephens, Hon. William Hun
and a host of Southern mon, that he VI
friendly with. What good fellows tht
at we're; how much better than Cox, Mon