The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-08-31

home, he only carrying 5 of the fifteen town
ships of our county; and it is more than pro-
bable that had not some of our democratic
friends at home taken so active a part in Sc
curing the nomination of DIR. Mack, Ashland
county would have had a senatar In 1851. l
think said committee did not look very closely
into the "facts" when. they charged the defeat
of Mr.. Bull upon Richland county, though
anxious soa,e of said committee may be to place
it there.
The next charge of said committee against
Riehland county, is that Mr.. Riblet was nom
mated for the senate in 1888. The commit
tee" do not dwell long upon the outrage COM
mitted upon us by our sister county in has NOM
~inatien. At that time Ashland county present
ed u one man, Jas. Musgrave. Mr.. Riblet car
riedin our own county, Hanover Green, and Ao-
hecan, and it was. a dead heat between the two
in Miton-each getting 80 votes-and in
many other townships the vote was very close;
whether they questioned the democracy of Mr..
Musgrave at that time and thought it well
enough to have him beat by a Richland county
man. am unable to say: but I do know that
Riblet received many votes from our own
county. Is it right, then, to charge Richland
we alone are to blame 1 think not. Said
COMMITTEE find no fault with the action of
Richland county in 1855, B.. w. Kellogg hav-
ing received the nomination-the true secret
of his success being that the Democracy of his
own county supported him. Unfortunately for
the democracy of this District and State he was
defeated at the election. Thscommittee then say:
"0ur right, then, to a candidate in 1851 wasatwo
fold one-the two term principle for the coun-
ty as claimed for Mr.. Riblet in 1858, as well
as the want of support from Riehland county
in the previous campaign for Mr.. Kellogg
These rights were not, however, to be recog-
nized, and the reason for trampling them I'M
der foot would be laughable if the honor as
well as the interests of our county had not
been so severely infringed upon" But let us
look again, and see if Richland county alone is
to blame for the defeat of the Ashland county
candidate. Did Ashland county stand by and
support DIR. d, S. Sampsel in 1857? In that
contest, Mr.. Cantwell, the present nominee,
carried the following townships in this county
Green, Hanover, TermiUiom and SuHivan
nearly one third of the delegate votes of this
county, who was to blame for this Certainly
not Richland county /; then why in the name of
truth and justice charge her with it when we
are to blame at home. Do the COMMITTEE" find
fault with Richland county for not compelling
us to support our own candidates? 1t would
seem so. I am at a loss to know why DIR. d.
G -Co,ooeo1 - not raoaiua tho anfira uofo of
Ashland county, he being the only candidate
we presented for the nomination. That he
did not is certain and why so large a portion of
the democracy of this county were induced to
cast their votes against him, 1 am unable to say.
And 1 have yet to hear any good reason for their
90 doing, as he is well known in this county,
These being the facts, SO far as Dir. Sampsels
should place the blame where it belougs-upon
ourselves.
It has been the usage of our party Ito use
an original remark oft The committee), $50 long
that the memory of. man runneth not to the
contrary" to give a man two terms if he stand
by the principles of our party. But, say the
committee, Mr.. Cantwell pledged himself to
the convention that he would not DO a candi-
date for denomination. This is a mistake
The following are the remarks he made to the
convention at Ashland in 1857 as reported by
J. J.. Jacobs, Esq, one of the secretaries of
said convention:
"Mr. President and fellow Democrats 1
cannot in words express to you my heartfelt
thankfulness for the high honor you have so
generously bestowed upon me. 1 have not nor
do I now pretend to be a man of words
Whatever my position, l do not expect to sus-
tain it by eloquent harangues and displays of
yerbosity but rather by that better index of
juc gment and character-my actions. In
them, if elected to the honorable position CT a
senator of Ohio by your suffrages, l shall ex-
pect you to find my principles and position !;
and L promise you they shall ever be upon the
side of justice, of right, and of the democratic
party. My every effort shall be for the pro-
mitigation and, adoption of these great funda-
mental principles of Democracy-equal and
exact Justice to all men-a preference for the
interests of twenty-six milliens of white men
to those of three millions of negroes, and the
| right of all the States and Territories to regu-
late their domestic concerns without inter-
ference of Congress, Southern fre-eaters or
| Northern Abolition demagogues. Again, /
thank you, gentlemen, for your generous conf
dence in me and promise you if it is in my power
to demonstrate to you that it is not misplaced"
There is certainly no pledge not to be a can
didate in the shove, and it seems to me that if
Mr.. Cantwell ever intended to make such a
pledge then and there would have been the
proper place to have done so.
The COMMITTEE" say, too, that Richland
county has had the Judges of the Court OF
Common Pleas &c. Very trus, but when did we
ever present a candidate for Judge? Is Rich
land county to blame because our lawyers will
not lsave their lucrative practice at the Bar fol
a seat upon the Bench? This is urged, fellow
democrats, as q reason why we should vote
against the regularly nominated ticket of the
democratic party. 1t does not satisfy me, and