The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-01-11

Mr.. Payne made an Aminidab Sleek speech
on the resolutions, congratulatipg the Democ-
racy on tho harmony of the Convention, and
now, for the first time, Ohio was unani-
nous and Ohio would be a unit. He trusted
the resolution would pass without q dissenting
voice.
Dir. Payne soon found that there were live
Democrats in the Convention THAT it was not
composed of fossil remains of boil
tiers who went over to the enemy on L~ecompton,
and a division of the question was demanded,
and was sustained by the President OF the
Convention, who, here allow me to say, par
parenthesis, showed himself not only an admi-
rable but an exceedingly fair presiding officer
The resolutions passed without a demand for
a recorded vote, until the question was on the
adoption of the sixth resolution, wden a vote
by counties was demanded.
Mr.. Schleich, of Fairfield, took ground in
favor of its adoption. He was opposed to
Douglas, but he deemed him the choice of
Ohio for President. This feint of the Fair.
field Delegate would not dot was under
stoodethat he had been procured to make that
particular speech, and that fact but added to
the excitement.
Mr.. Payne, of Cuyahoga, defended the rcso-
luton, and Mr.. Gilsop, of Mahoning, replied,
warming with his theme, gave the Cuyahoga
Delegate a dressing which he will remember
as long as his name is Payne. 1t was as terri
BILE as it was we'll deserved.
When the question was taken on the adop-
ton of the resolution, it was agreed to-ysas
242; nays "a. "a
Mr.. ellison then introduced the following
resolution:
ResolUed, That we have abiding confidence
in the ability, patriotism and Democracy of
James Buchanan, the present Chief Magis-
trate of the United States, and will sustain him
in his laudable efforts to perpetuate the bless
ings of our National Union.
A perfect hurricane of objections were rails
ed to its introduction and it's passage. Motion
after motion was made, against its reception, to
proceed &c the vote for delegates, to lay it Cd
the table, to indefinitely postpone, etc. Judge
Rankin, of Franklin, who had been repudiated
by his constituents when he sought a re-noni-
nation for Representative, because of the VIC
lence of his abuse of the Administration while
a member Of the Legislature, was bitter in his
denunciations, charging the President with ad-
vocating a slave code, etc. Besides this objec-
ton, he said, it was known that the P~residentand
Judge Douglas are hostile-are personal enc
mics, and to pass a resolution endorsing the
Administration is to render null and void the
instruction to the Delegates to vote for Doug
las.
Mr.. Lahm, of Stark, was equally violent
He denounced the friends of the Administra-
ton as disorganizers, as enemies TO the Democ-
racy in the disguise of friends, and he called
upon the Douglas men to vote the resolution
down, and under no circumstances to let one
endorsing the Administration pass. AS the
orator closed, Mr.. Smith, late of the Ohio
Statesman, passed to his seat, and shaking
hands with Lahm warmly congratulated him on
the speech just made.
AT this moment Mr.. McGregor, of the Crno-
ford County Forum, succeeded in getting the
eye of The presiding officer, and obtained the
floor. The remembrance of other days, when,
as editor of the Stark County Democrat, he
fought the battles of the Democracy against
this same Gen. Lahm, a boiling Democrat.
eeeueed to inspire him as he spoke 1t is fit.
he said, that such a speech-so false and 50
unjust, should come from such a man-himscif
a ,disorgaaizer who had bolted a nomination
and run upon the ticket and was elected to
Office by the enemy, and equally fit it is that
the first person to congratulate such a man
upon his speech should be one [pointing at
SMITH who bnt last fall went into a Democrat
ic Convention as a candidate, and failing to
get a nomination, went over to the enemy and
was elected to Office by the Black Republicans.
In strong and indignant terms Mr.. McGregor
repealed the ISLANDERS of Lahm against the Ad-
ministration and its head.
Amotion to refer the resolution to the Com
mittee on Resolutions finally prevailed by a
small majority, and this, it was thought, would
end the matter.
The Convention then proceeded to the cleo
ton of four Delegates to represent the State
at large in the Charleston Convention. On
the first ballot Daniel p. Rhodes, supported by
many of the Democratic. Delegates who oppose
Douglas, for his many excellent qualities of
ii - l----L al 49, II Dbl --1-
declared elected. Two Delegates remaining to
stood, emitting the scattering vote, as follows
A. L.
Geo. W. McCook------ -------------l30
Geo. W. ~
FL. J.
G.. Volney Dorsey 80
Necessary to a choice -----------165
There being no choice a third ballot was
ordered. M%anypcnny, finding he stood no
chance, hauled off. The candidates had all
pledged themselves for Douglas-Manypenny,
by proxy, was for Douglas all the time-Back-
us, through lis mouthpiece, Steedman, and
Dorsey, gave in their adhesion in terms ex-
ceedingly offensive, and their fate was thereby
sealed. The minority made choice of McCook
and Jewett, and in solid column, their votes
were cast for them, while many of the Douglas
men who had voted for them on the previous
ballot went over to Backus and Dorsey. The
third ballot stood:
Abner L..
Geo. W.
Fl. J.
G. Volney Dorsey
Messrs. McCook and Jewett having received
a majority of all the votes east, were declared
duly elected.
As soon as the result of the ballot was an
nounced the friends of Mr.. Douglas began to
suspect they were taken in and done for. Mr..
Jewett is conservative, and although his un-
doubted preferences are for Douglas, he holds
the good of the party too much at heart to
press his nominal on against the wishes of the
States that will have to do the voting. Col.
McCook, in heart and soul, is opposed to Doug
las and Squatter Sovereignty, and is Lecompton
all over, and, it is said, has repeatedly ayowed