Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-02
The New Paris Convention.

L aIlS ldSb MCCh W uOLhIldIC Viz buIASA
Pony" was not such a gathering as We
expected to see, either in number or en-
thusiasm. There was none of that
warm-hearted, cordial feeling among
the outsiders, which would indicate to
the close observer, that they had the
least shadow of hope for success
The speech of Campbell, as we remark
ed before, was the poorest attempt we
ever heard him make, and was a COM
plete failure. 1t fell upon the Conven-
ton like a wet blanket, while his nomi-
nation was deplorcd and ridiculed by
such men as Capt. Walker, Brown and
others of Dayton, and a few from our
own County. His whole effort
seemed to be to show to his con-
stitucnts hat he was the "Great l
Am" while in Congress-that the whole
federal government was centcred against
him, Lewis D. Campbell! But the most
ridiculous part of his whole speech, was
his story of a certain Southern member
attempting to buy him into the Demo-
cratic party. We could hardly think
that he was so Internal vain, as to sup
pose that even his own friends would
receive such stuff with any degree of
plausibility, but before he closed his
three hours effort, We were fully s~atisfi-
cd that he expected them to gulph all
his egotism and vanity down as facts
and to leave the Convention under the
impression that there is no other man
under the broad canopy of heaven, with
in the ranks of the Republican party,
that has stood up SO m~anfully for their
interests and rights! What a shallow
pretender? What a demagogue? Two
years ago, here on the Court House
steps in Eaton, he declared he would
"uever vote for any more slave territory,
or Slave States2" He made the same
declaration in New Paris. Did he not
vote for the Montgomery-Crittenden
amendment, which admitted Kansas as
a slave State, if her people said so? Why
did he not explain this to his ardent
Republican friends, in that Convention!
Many of them expected it, and he mus
not think he can slip through this con-
test without this matter being s~atisfac.
torily explained. There are some in
this county who are Republicans and
not Americans, and are determined i
Mr.. Campbell is the Republican can.
didate, that he must take Republican
grounds-that he must advocate theil
doctrine without any evasion. They
will not be put off by a few meaning,
less resolutions, gotten up by an Amer.
lean, in which the word s.Republican'
is entirely ignored. Nor will they BE-
satisfied with a speech hat can be claim.
ed by the American or the Republican:
as the occasion may suit, This is the
modus operandi he adopted two years
ago, when he was beaten in ting District.
and if he attempts it again, he will find
the rue Republicans of Preble County:
deserving him by the scores. No mat
ter if the Convention did succeed in
sitting him upon the District without a
"platform," and have dubbed him as
the "Peoples Candidate, all that won't
do. The humbug is too transparent
not to be seen. The "thimble rig
ging" operation may be practiced sue
~cessfully in a packed Convention, but
when it comes out among the people, in
the broad glare of day, the thing won't
win. The resolutions have been de-
nounced already by Republicans in this
county, as unworthy of their party, and
as a fraud and a cheat, gotten up by
those who have no sympathy or feeling
for their success. Whether all those
who have been bold enough to openly
express their dissatisfaction at the man
ner things were done up in New Paris.
can be whipped in, and made to swal-
low the "Pony" in any shape, remains
to be seen. We opine they can not.
BB- Several weeks have passed by
since an inouirv w1S mazda tbrourb tbo