Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1858-09-04

responded in Subsistence "a iollows
M. Chsirman and Gcnflrmen Of III
Convention ] assure you ] can command
40 langouge which would adequately ex
press my ieelingsi IN being thus honorsd BY
yOur n6mhbtion Itwoold be at any tims
great horror 10 De chosen to represent the
people Of such District as this, but TO b
the coBaidalo for election aa the successor
df The venerable gentleman who has 50
long bean your CONGRESSMAN is doubly,
ttebly IN honor
know well the satisfaction you have
fen 10 the emineptly able aud courageous
manner 10 which he has always advocated
the principles Of freedom, and how thor
unghly and heartily yoe endorse bis action
upoutho grent questions at issue between
Republicanisln aud the enemies Of freedom,
While he hos been your Representative. l
can hardly promise you to "folow in the
footsteps Of my predecessor" not however
because my heprt is less deeply engaged
in the work than bis. nor because expect
70 be any less determined n supporter Of
Republicanism than he has beea, but be-
cause no common man eau without great
vanity, promise to M his place, on match
the stride Of our venerable Representative.
Whatever my ability will enable me to
do ! can promise you will surely be done.
am not so new man in the Anti.Slayery
cause that I need give any assurances of
the th0roughness Of my conviction that
there can be no compromises with the slave
poWer In my adhesion TO the principles
ef the Republican party's platform there is
no qualification, no reservation and my
voice will be for raising The standard high
CT, rather than for suffering an iota to be
subtyaeted froul tie radicalncss Of It's doe
triDeS
The anttslavery cause must 60 forward ;
every constitutional barrier against slavery
must be put up and kept up, and the moral
power OF freedom and frpelabor must
Fpread through The land until slavery is
rooted from its Businesses even in the Slave
States, and liberty prevail everywhere -
Oar political and constitutional work as a
party, must be seconded by our moral and
philanthropic work as iberty-loving men !;
until what laws may accomplish has not
ouly been done, but the spirit Of reform,
growing within the States themselves has
completed the task and crowned our polt-
cal efforts.
feel that in yielding 10 the known pri-
vase wish Of Mr. Giddlngs, und permitting
him to rest from the labors he has so long
and so vel endured, you have not intended
TO pluck one leaf from his well earned lau-
rsls. You would not do it. no one could
do t. His life and bis labOrs speak for
themselves, aud History viii see that they
are appreciated. OHr Joshua's Sun will
long stand high in the armament, cheering
and gRiding the Republican host to VIC
tory
In matters Of public economy, now grow
ing into greatly increased importance,
think know your wishes, and ] promise
you thorough obedience to them. Re
trenehment Of public expense is loudly de-
manded, and if elected ] will endesyor to
have the demand regarded. Our own Dis
trict has its peculiar interests also, which
are being rapidly developed and are grow
ing into great Importance and as your
representative shall hold myself account
able to you that those interests are not
neglected
Again / thank you, my friends. for your
confidence, and trast the vote of the peo-
pie at the coming election viii be to you
and to me satisfactory ratification of your
choice Whatever feeling of warm excite
ment may have been generated in this con
gention will die with the Adjournment,
and we shall 60 into the election as firmly
united as ever we have been. know that
this will be my sentiment and ! am assured
il viii be shared BY you all.
The RETrREMEST OF Hon. J. r. GIDDlNGs, is
thus alluded to by correspondent of the Alb.
Evening Journal writing from Cleveland
So ends the long service Of the Father
Of the House, Falling health compels bis
withdrawal from the scene Of his labors.--
The twenty years that haze passed over
Fin there, have whitened bis head and
bent his shoulders, but they never fonnd
bis voice faltering or his heart wagering in
the great struggle for freedom.
Every chair in the Old Hall OF Repre-
sentatives must be fraught with memories
Of the past to the aSenior Member He
has seen generations of short-lived politi-
clans rise, fall aud become forgotten. He
has seen faithful public servants removed
TO other trusts, and many to another world
Round the entire circle of the Hall his eye
fails to find a single member who sat there
when he entered it. and who has sat there
with him since Adams has gone TO his
reHard. Ogden Holman, Chas. G.. Ath-
erton, Leyerett Saltonstal, Edward Curtis
Barnwell Rhett, Dixon II. Lewis, and
many others are also gone the way Of all
theearth Hunter and Bell are transferred
to the Senate Wise to the GubeFnatorial
chair Brown is dispensing the patronage
Of the Posf.0lice Department Clifford
wears the silken judicial robe Of the sn-
preme Court Stanly has gone to that
then terra incegpita, California Truman
Smith, Cooper, Weller and Williams, after
exchanging Representative for Senatorial
houors, are departed from the Capitol
CoFwiu, AFTER brilliant career as Govern
OF Senator and Secretary, is proposing tc
return again 10 the 6eld Of his early dis
tinction. Pickens and Hopkins have beer
trying the pleasures sol foreign Courts
Briggs and Lincoln are ex-Goyernors. -.
Granger and Cave johnson are ex~Post-
masters.GeneraB. Strong and Marvin are
on the New York Bench Moses IL, Grim