The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-07-04
Remarks of John COchraMc, of
New York.

j.. Below we give the neat and patriot
speech Of John Cochrane, of N. Y, givin
! his adhesion to the nominee OF the Demo
cratic party:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Con
VentiOn-It is with no reluctance, but witt
considerable diffidence, that rise to respon
to your call. | congratulate you and tn,
whole country upon the very successful ter
mination Of your labors. [Applause.l II
view of that success | have only TO regre
that my own individual efforts have MT beer
lent to the issue. L is due to you and to the
Convention and to frankuess itself to Bffirn
that with all the effort of which was capa
Bile, but still with manly openness, have
opposed the course which at last has landed
this Convention in the order OF It's desires
but, sir, that course was adopted under the
pressure OF convictions and of affections
everywhere given to the favorte son of II.
linois. [Applause.]
Sir, there was gentleman from the far
West whose position we of New York had
long contemplated with satisfaction; aud it
might not seem strange to our fellow citi
zens OF the United States that in gancing
along their borders our eyes have been per-
mitted to rest with satisfaction at times upon
some of our favorie sons, but the time has
arrived when these differences of opinion
are to be merged into the authoritve decree
of the great Democratic party, and us that
decree is here announced to the people OF
the United States, |, for one, lend the feeble
volume OF my voice to those winds and
those currents without that are now bearing
to every portion OF the Union the honored,
the illustrious, the impregnable name OF
Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois. Tire
mendous applause
Sir, it is the part Of patriotism, when q
sacrifice is required, to make that service
upon the common altar OF the common good
of the country, and the more so when that
sacrifice is in accordance with the best feel.
ings Of loyalty and devotion to the whole
country. 1t better than all that it should
be made with volition that commands and
an alacrity to boasts of no reluctance, but
is disposed to place duty with its whole
might at the command Of the nomination of
the party. Now. sir, should do myself
great wrong, and my constituents knowing
that, | should do for them great wrong were
| to suppress this declaration that he who
stands forth now as the standard bearer of
the Democratic party is the one who will
command the roar of reclamation from the
hills and the fields, from the streets and the
great State OF New York, loud as the shouts
of liberty from the free, sweet as the blest
voices uttering pIaudits. [Cheers.
can but say this to this Convention, and
tn fha Io1 1hnk bo
who has united the suffrage of my full dele
CATION here to-day is the man who was de-
manded by the great body of his people,
Applause. Now, sir, that the long toll is
over-that the controversy is at an end,
which has been fairly and manfulIy conduct
ed by ALL here, acting for myself and for
those who are in accord with the feelings
which have expressed, declare to you that
the reluctant past will be compensated by
the cordial future. Cheers ! And when
the Observation-Disclosures oil our
distractions and disogrecments
session after session still
sits here-the National Convention OF the
Democratic party of the United States-has
made this choice, it is not for me, sir, to say
that with such an authority, and with the
standard'bearer that has been given to us,
the Convention and the man will be victo.
rious against all its foes whatsoever. ZAP
plause. 1 have risen, sir, only in respond
to the call of my fellow deleg gates-not to
make speech. not 10 present an argument,
but to declare that patriotism, reason and
honesty require that they who compose this
Convention, and they who have sent here
.ner delegates to construct its platform and
20 select it's nominees, are in strict honor
"ouno ~ its proceedings. [Applause. i
anu one lining more /: That, above and be-
yonu Ihe ool'gAsion of honor, there are vol
ces expanding from these walls to the whole
country which proclaim hurra upon hurra
for Stephen A. Douglas, Of Illinois. Tire
mendous cheers.