The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-08-25
II Asa LA No UNION
The Unity Of the Democratic

The action of the late democratic
convention in Ohio gives the most graf
flying assurance that the nationality and
integrity of the party cannot be easily
disturbed. Whatever differences may
have arisen among our friends in Ohio
during the. tendency of the Kansas ques-
tien in the late session of Congress, all
~dissensions are now at an end. There
is not only a universal concurrence in
the settlement of that disturbing issue
by the English bill, but with cordiality,
unanimity, and enthusiasm the demo-
cratic masses of Ohio have rallied to
the standard of their party, determined
to give to the patriotic administration
of Mr.-Bachanau q support worthy alike
oftbem and the President of their choice.
The information which comes to us
from all sections of the country indicates
the same state of feeling. This is as it
should be. Surely no President was
ever called upon, in the first year of his
administration, to encounter SO many
and such emb 'rrassing questions-and
we have the concurrent judgment of the
entire democracy of the land for saying
hat these issues have been met and
managed with an ability aud patriotism
which challenges the admiration of his
friends, and has almost sileuced the
clamor of his enemies.
A single dark spot rests upon the
horizon. The factious course of Judge
Douglas, in persisting in his warfare
not
upon the great body of the democratic
party of the Union-alone breaks the
universal harmony that would otherwise
pervade the party.
The action of the Ohio democracy
offers a stern rebuke to ,heunpardoanble
course of Judge Douglas and his mad
dened followers. If he had followed
the line of policy which his friends had
been Induced to believe he had marked
GU for himself on his return to Illinois
IF, acquiescing in the action of his par
ty, he had buried his Personal animosi-
ties and been content to forego his I'M
just antipasnies to the administration
if, L. a word, he had done as the Ohio
democracy have done, he would to-day
have found himselfin a far more enviable
position than the one he now unfortu-
natcly occupies. He has madly rushed
upon his own ruin, and seeks in his fall
to bring down the democracy of Illinois
with him into one common grave. If
Mr.. Douglas has heretofore believed
that he could distract the harmony of
the democratic party and seriously affect
its unity and integrity, he may we'll read
in the proceedings of the Ohio onven
ton conclusive evidence Ct the falsity
of his hopes. The organization of the
democratic party was not the work of
a day, nor is any man, however able and
eloquent, equal to the task of destroying
it. 1t has in times past withstood the
assaults ofenemies as powerful, and the
detection of friends as deeply trusted,
as Judge Douglas. 1t yet lives in all
its strength, power, and purity, and will
continue to live, though in the future,
as in the past, its ranks may be occa-
sionally thinned, whilst its Organization
is purified by the desertion of unworthy
recipients of its favor and confidence
In the States where elections are to
come off this fall, the democracy are
organizing with energy and enthusiasm
for the contest. Missouri and Ken
lucky have spoken. The defeat of the
apostate Blair in the first State, has
come with crushing power upon the was
ming hopes of black republ canism; whilst
the increased democratic majorities in
Kentucky utterly extinguishes Critten-
den and the peoples party speculation,
in which he was recognised as the prin-
cipal stcckhoider Washington Union.