The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-09-21

speeches in Ohio upon political topics, aud
closed his engagement" at Wooster on Fri
day last. This heing the year preceding the
assembling Of the National Conventions, such
visi. wac to ave been expected. It is quite
evident to every boy and girl of 'school age"
in Ohio that the Judges labors here have
nothing to do with the success of the Demo
cratic State ticket this fall, whatever the State
Central Committee may think or say about the
matter. Nobody is deceived, because every
body well understands that the labors of the
Judge are directed to the single point of Sc
curing such delegates to the Charleston Con-
%vention as will be subservient to his inter.
ests, and support his pretensions before thai
body. To further his personal ambition, the
Congressional Convention for this District,
which had been called at Wellington for Fri
day, was, without proper authority, postponed
until the day following, and it was resolved by
his confidential friends to appoint the delegates
to Charleston on that day and occasion. The
Convention, however, which assembled on Sat
urday, wisely concluded not to assume such an
unauthorized power. To this extent, therefore
the labors of our ,'quandum friend were a fa:.-
are.
This is not, as before minated, the first
visit on the same errand, to Ohio, by Judge
DOUGLAS. He has been in our State before.
To do him justice, Thrust be admitted that his
quadrennial tours through Ohio have been re
markably p%unctuai and regular. But to say
the truth We believe DO is farther from the
goal of his ambition than ever-and it is a
most righteous and ~virtuous Democratic senti-
ment that such is the fact. Where would
have been THOMAS JEFFERSON, ANDREW
JACKSON or JAMES BUCHANAN had they
adopted such means to attain the Presidency ?
Instead of having achieved the positions they
have occupied and adorned, they would have
nSscn much more likely to hold a place in the
history Of their country with AARON BURR
and other ambitious spirits Of kindred nature.
The people will tolerate in a candidate for Con-
stable or Supervisor of Roads and Highways,
this system of personal electioneering; but
they have been accustomed to look fer a differ
ent rule of conduct in Presidential aspirants.
They may be inclined to fogyisn on this point,
but it can't be helped. They are there.
We will here say, in order hat we may not
be misunderstood, that if Judge DoUeL
should get back to the Democratic platform,
and should be nominated at Charleston, we shall
support him. We can do this the more cor
daily because we think he 1oU come back.
We understand by those who heard him, that
in his Wooster speech he abandoned the here
sizes of p~iratic.l, Constitution-defying and law
less "squatter sovereignty" as contained in his
Harper Magazine paper, and claimed that
Judge BLACK and the readers of that Maya
zine had grossly misunderstood hiai If the
Judge is coming ON to Constitutional ground,
and up to the platform of the Democratic par
ty-albeit we may not like some of his ways
we are with him "to the death"2whicR will
happen at the regular period in 1860! But
as he bitterly assailed Judge BLAcK, one of the
purest Democrats and ablest %jurists in the Uni
ted States, we shall publish the Judges most
conclusive and unanswerable exposition of the
true doctrines of the Constitution and of the
Democratic party In the Union of next week.
We hardly suppose that Judge DouaL3s
would listen to us; but if he would, we would
say that he adopts the wrong means to attain
his ends. He has thrust himself and his
schemes of personal advancement most mop
portunely upon us while we we're engaged in
an important State canvass, upon an issue with
the profigacy and arrant humbuggery of the
CHAsE administration of the State govern
ment. If his presence in Ohio at this juno
ture will have any effect, it will be mischiev-
GUS. We had earnestly hoped that we would
this year have escaped from Presidential in
trigues, and that we could have been permitted
to have a clean fight on State issues. Bat the
old worrying process is revived-and our only
hope is in the fact that the Democracy have
three weeks in which to repair damages, and
we trust that every man of them will address
himself to the good work, and remember only
the corrupt dynasty of CHASE and his profit
gate administration, with whom are the true
and only issue!
How and by whom DIR. Glass was nomi-
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