The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-01-13
sTH OF JANUARY FESTIVAL AT
ASHLAND.


Pursuant to a very brief notice, a mum
Der of Democrats from different portions
of the county assembled at the Miller
House, in Ashland, oRthe evening of the
9Th of january, for the purpose of cele
brating the anniversary of the greatest
military achievement of one of the mos
illustrious among the Soldiers and States
men of our country, who, upon the battle.
field and in the Cabinet, filled the
measure of his country glory
JOHN s. WHITE, of Polk, the ever
active, never failing and faithful represen.
tative of the Democracy of jackson own
ship, was called to the Chair, and DIR.
JOHN SHERIDAN, of Minnesota, who is
temporarily among us, was chosen Secre-
tary.
1t having been announced ia the Ash
land (R~epublican) Times of 31st ult.,
that the Democratic party sis divided in
this place." and that sMessrs. Fulton,
HOFFMAN, Deming, Kenny, Jacobs and
Sampsel coincide in views with Douglas,
whilst Messrs. Jones, See, T. G. Bushnell
and Knapp sustain the Administration .
it was,
On motion,
Resolued, That the gentlemen named
stitute q Committee for the purpose of
drafting resolutions expressive of the
sense of the Democracy here assembled.
The Meeting then proceeded to the
ballroom of the House, where a stump
tuous repast had been prepared for his
guests by Mr.. MILLER; after partaking of
which,
The following toast was proposed
BYJ Sherllan:- The Administration
of james Buchanan The Constitution,
the Union, and the Greed Of the Demo.
cratic Party are safe in its hands.
This sentiment was responded to by T.
J. KENNY, Esq, who endorsed it most
heartily, in a speech, the logic and elo-
quence of which, would have reformed
and regenesated any honest g~rumbler
against the patriotic policy of Mr. BIZ
cHANAN that has yet appeared in Ohio.
The reporter is unable to do justice in
his atIeIUDb lO IcpOTb JDC dOiS anu dIBU-
mentatize speech of Dir. KENNY. which
was listened TO with tho most profound
attention, with the exception of being oc-
casionally interrupted with mest hearty
applause.
Mr.. KENNY commenced by REM arking
that the sentiment just offered would meet
with a Jealous response from every honest
and rejecting Democrat in Ohio. If he
- Z 49, o-,
doubts of the wisdom of the Administra
ton policy regarding Kansas, those doubts
would nave been entirely dispelled by
events which have transpired under his
own eye within the last ten days, where
Democrats at the State Capital in omin-
GUS proximity, and agreeing substantially
upon.the same liue of policy.
What is the issue, Inquired Mr.. K.,)
which is sought to be made with The Ad-
ministration He would briefly explain
it, as be understood it. Up to the time
of the assembling of the Lecompton Con-
vention, the legality or legitimacy of that
body was recognized by the entire Demo-
cracy of the country, from the Atlantic
TO the Pacific, and from Minnesota to the
Mexican Gulf-and it was only the most
violent ameng the Republicans, even, who
had the hardihood to question that that
Convention was a legal body. K that
body was not virtually, as it was LEGALLY, |
the embodiment of the sovereign will of
the peeple of Kansas, then it was the
fault, not of the Administration, or of the
Democrats Party, but of the f%actious
proceedings of the opposition in Kansas,
inst gated by heartless and unpatriotic
outside of the Territory, whose
p~artizan interests required that the eK-
element should be prolonged to the latest
possible period, and, in order to make
good their evil prophecies, that Kansas
would finally be admitted as a Slave
State. Thus, then, for a long time after
the election of the delegates to the Con-
of that body to perform the high duty
with which it had been charged by the
of Kansas, namely-to make a
Constitution, preparatory TO admission
into the Union as a State-was unques-
as it was unquestionable. That
Constitution, when made by the Conyen.
ton was presumed to be the offspring of
the popular Sovereignty of Kansas; and
no one supposed that, if il was Republican
in its character, that the President or
Congress would have any authority, I'M
Ter the Constitution of the United States,
20 reject the application of Kansas to be
under it,
But at this point an instruction broke
,ut-and, strange to say, it was headed
~ the distinguished Senator from Illinois,
himself the father of the Kansas N ebras-
IA act, and the once eloquent champion of
Sovereignty.
He arraigns the Democratic Administra-
ion for its refusal to sinteryene" in the
ocal concerns of the People of Kansas,
nd demand of that people that they !,
houid regulate their domestic institutions
ccordiDg to the dictpm of Judge Douglas, (
of an their ot0n p0ay,p as pro-
ided in the organic act of which Judge {
was himself the champion Z
He arraigns Mr. Buchanan because of &
is refusal to usurp legislative as we'll as /
Executive authority, and amend the Kan '
as Nebraska law, SO IS to require the i
iecompton Constitution to be submitted i
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