The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-08-31
The Campaign

The Campaign.
This years political campaign is now fully
opened. The State ticket has been long in
the field. The Senatorial and County Con
ventions of last week, put in nomination,exce
lent tickets and now the patriotic duty of
electing them devolves upon the Republican
voters.
The contest is IN important one, and our
friends should see that thorough organizations
are perfected in every township and school
district. What is worth doing at all in this
behalf, is worth doing well. It is to be hoped,
as it is expected, that the Township Commit
tee men, whose names appear in the proceed.
ings this week, will be vigilant and faithful -
The cause must be protected at all points,
Every voter must be at the polls.
The resolutions adopted by our county con
vention, meet our entire appreciation. We
are glad to see the intelligent and patriotic
Republicans of Portage county, not only
planting themselves upon correct. just and
impregnable principles, but also indicating. as
in the case of Messrs Chase and Dennison
agents. capable and faithful, TO sustain and
carry out these principles.
The indication of preference for Govern
or Chase, for the United States Senate, is
timely and highly gratifying, and will be re
spected we are sure. by our candidates for Sem
ator and Representatives. as an intimation
Of. the wish of their Republican constituency:
and we are sure, that the individual prefpren
ces of our candidates fully accord with that
expressed by the convention. And we are
sure, also, that the Republicans of Portage
county, are second to none in their admiration
of Gov. Chase, or in their desire to see him
elected to the Chief Majestracy of the Ma
ton. The Republicans of Portage county
are not only attached to their cardinal prinei-
Piles, but to the tried and trusted friends of
their principles, like Chase, Dennison and 9TH
er eminent statesman that we might name.
The work for the present campaign is now
fully prepared. 1t should be faithfully done.
We are sure the Republicans of the county
need no heightened exortation to discharge
| their duties in the premises. Each must feel
his own individual responsibility, and each will
pairioticaly meet that responsibility, we are
confident.
Judge Gholson.
i The Ashtabula Sentinel etnotices and relieves
the position of the Republican nominee for
Judge, thus:
| Now as to Judge Gholson, he was nominal.
ed partly because of his locality, partly on &C
count of his general fitness for the office, and
also because he had not rendered such de
cision as Judge Swan had, and his history and
Il the pledges of his friends made him accepta
Bile to the anti islavery men who would not
vote for Swan. He now receives the support
/ of the ultra Republicans as an anti slavery
man, practical abolitionists, occupying DO.
Isition that differs from Judge Swans. The
reasons why they SO support him, are:
4 He left the State of Mississippi on account
of his opposition to slavery, and brought away
his slaves and emancipated them, as James @.
Birney had done.
He is an intelligent citizen who knows what
is doing around him, and knows the meaning
Fl OF words and public acts He understands
! the circumstances under which he was nomi
Il mated; and he accepts the nomination, know
|, ing that it pledges him to the Philadelphia
Platform and to the idea that the Fugitive
} Oidfe ACL ~ buutefstV'- OF me rights of the
! people, contrary to the plainest dictates ofh
. manity and abhorrent To the moral sense of
the civilized world From the universally
conceded character of the man. it is impossi
BILE that our inference should not be correct
: and we are justified in supporting him as an
anti slavery man; and he stands pledged TO the
: posi- ion we define, as plainly as If he had writ
ten it down
In reference to the recent publications O
the Democratic press, touching Judge Ghol
IS on and the sale of his slaves, the Sent;ne
fui ther SAYS:
The U. 8. Marshal johnson, whose busi
ness is to catch fugitive negroes, set himse
oags 10 the task, and wrote to Mississippi As tn
result OF his labors, he publishes certain cor
les OF bills of sale OF negroes in l844-fiftee
- years ago They may be correct; and the
= may he forgeries. They are anterior 10 III
w time when he is alleged to have frooJ =
OF slaves, and cannot affect his present nos;,;n,
~ Trotting.
&c Flora Temple beat Princess at the sara,,
"a "a course on the 9th in three straight be,,
ch fime--2:3o IL, I2:3S, 2:34
Re The London Racing Times says Mr. T,