The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-01-11
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Onto Democratic state Convention.
THE
.,.sd a. the National Democrat, by JAMES
a. MISE. ESD, ono of the editors of that able
and truly, Democratic paper, will be found In
another column.
We cannot otherwise than regard the result
rs painfully demoralizing to the party-as a
tr;umph of faction over the true men aad
measures of the National Democracy. HUGH
IT, WRITES influence once accomplished the
same thing in Tennessee; WV O.sRIvEs ana
Mp .TALLMADaE were at one time success
full in obtaining possession of the party ma
-chinery in Virginia and Yew York. A Demo-
cratic Administration and the Democratic creed
we're ~repudiated. 1882 was a darker day TOR
ANDKEw JACKSON than is 1860 for JAMES
BUCHANAN.
lin all the contests to- which We have referred,
the great Democratic party passed through the
furnace purified and solidifed. 1t will be SO
now. We never felt more hopeful and en-
couraeed upon the eve of a Presidential battle,
than at this hour. Wearc upon the threehhoiq
81 a terrible conflict with external and internal
-sectionalism-and the early showing OF hands
at the prematurely-called State Convention,
will have a purifying influence upon the coun-
try There are thousands of good Democrats
In Ohio who have been misled by Judge DOUG
Las an64Aeuncrupulous leaders who manage
his interests, who~M now clearly see the ten
dency of this acknowledging and principle
IGNORING movement, and will resume their pla-
eos in the old ranks and un1er the old flag of
the Democratic party. ~
We wish every Democrat in Ohio could
have been present to have heard che speeches
of RANKIN, LAIN, and other leaders, who
claim to speak for Judge DoUGLAs. They
went beyond moderate Republicans in their
views of the Slavery question. They were
fulv up to the old "Abolition," Liberty" SEN
timent,. which Judge SPALDING says is the
.soul and life-blood of the Republican party
sdepuncfations of the Democratic Admin
i~stration. and the raw head and bloody bones
asldvery propaganda" were after the most ap-
proved twattle of .G,DDINGs. The too fire.
quent repetition of this stuff has made 1T nau-
seating to every one except JOHN BROWN,
GopPIc, & Co., and even they, ct length, got
to the end of their rope.
The miserable sophisms which Turk IN the
resolution he artful lodges ofpriuciple-the
Quixotic assumption of ignoring the popular
sovereignty of the Congressional DISTRICTS
the insult offered the President, IN the one re-
= ferins to his Administrative all will have to
undergo the test of the popular crucible, and
will thereafter pass at their true Constitutional
value.
On the choice of at least three of their dele
gates, the combination were routed-and no
men better than the successful candidates I'M
derstand this fact.
If we had before supposed that Judge
DOUGLAS stood the slightest chance of a nomi
nation at the Charleston, Convention, proceed
ings at Columbus on Thursday swept away the
remotest probability of such a result. He. ha S
been sla n in the house of his friends. The cid
wing "Slaughter House was transferred from
Philadelphia to Columbus.
We shall have occasion to refer to the do
ings of this Convention and its men at future
p times.
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