The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-07-25

not to be initiated at once. The time for exc.
cutting the movement Bas kept in the dark
1 When was it to be begun ? When was the
torch to be applied The Transactions 81
Charleston; in which Mr. Yancey and his fol
lowers took so active and SO ominous q part
have plainly proven to the world that the Con
.tyention of the National Democracy IN 1860
was looked forward to as the period when the
Democratic party and the Upion were to be
overwhelmed in one common ruin.
Afe yoh ready, fellow Democrats Of Ten
nessee, to follow the lead and assist in carry
ing out the schemes of a set of men who are
SO madly bent upon the subversien of the Re-
public, and the destruction of that good old
party which, if united, isstii the only nation.
al political organisation left in the country
which possesses the power, as well as tho will,
to protect the right of every section =
1t cannot be denied that Mr.. Douglas re-
ceived more than two-thirds Of the entire cleo
toral college, inasmuch as more than two
thirds of the delegates elected to the conyen-
ton remained after the secession was complete,
and all of them voted for him on the third
vote 1T -. - 80 =
So it will be perceived that on no ground
whatever, either of ancient usage or of fair
dealing, can the course of the majority of the
Tennessee delegation at Baltimore be defend
ed. Still less can it, be defended when we
take a glance at tie character and antecedents
of some of those who controlled the proceed
ings of the unwarranted fragmentary conven-
ton to whicbt they secsaed, and nominated
Messrs Bretkinridge and Lane. The trans
parent, un~blushing political trickery in which
that convention originated, is apparent to all
who have watched the course, of events since,
the adjournment of the Charleston convention,
that we need not expatiate upon them. Nor
have we the time in a brief and hastily written;
paper to go into the most fruitful but disgust
ing subjects, We have only time to adduce
one other signal evidence of the charges we
make against the objects and tendencies of the
whole disorganizing movement. It is this,
that on yesterday, the other secession or out
and-out disunion convention, which met at
Richmond, adopted both the platform and the
candidates of the pretentious little convention
which so irregularly and defantly of ancient
usages nominated Messrs.f Breckenridge and
Lane last week at Baltimore. gt6.5:- II
In conclusion, fellow-citizens, the facts we
have stated we know to be incontrovertible,
and we leave to your candid Judgment to de-
termine whether the differences and deductions
have drawn, and the conclusions to which
have arrived, are not fair and legitimate.
For ourselves we have only to say that we in
tend to stand by the nominees Of the only
Democratic National Convention which has as
since 1856. The nominees are, for
President, Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois,
and for Vice-Presido Ont, Herschel V. johnson,
of Georgia-both good Democrats, who never
owned any other faith, and bear the honored
scars of many hard fought fights for the Con
the South, the Union, and that
ancient Democratic party, whose organization
the masses of Tennessee, we believe, still cher
ish as the ark of our political salvation. Il
IF regular Democratic: tickets are run in all
the Southern States, as, we are assured by our
from every part, of the South they will
be ~tsiumphantly4 elected by the people. The
masses, throughout the Confederacy are already
rising up in their behalf, and especially in be-
half of the great and glorious, but much ca
statesman of Illinois, with an ardor
and enthusiasm which betokens a success equal
to that which characterized Democratic victor
les of the days of jackson. !
VIM. III. CARROLL,
Fl. NJ. WATTERsoN,
w. E. B. JONES.