The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-06-20
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The proceedings Of the Republican State
Convention held ia this city yesterday, demon
strated ~beyondeall further cavil, that G1DpINds
and not Gowns, isthe leader and true expo
nent of the Republican party in Ohio. The
conservatives had struggled necessarily for
several days and all through the Convention,
to nominate conservative and unexceptionable
candidates, and to shape the platform so as to
avoid assuming the ultra abolition, doctrines of
GIpDINas and CHASE. They succeeded in
getting a Committee on Resolutions favorable
to their views, which reported a platform SIM
ply endorsing that indefinite and non commit
tai thing promulgated at Chicago. Bat it was
no co. GIDDINGs demanded the pohoe nisger5
and he got i'll As soon IS the resolutions were
reported, and the loud, long and yociferous
cheers with which they were received had sub
sided, Mr.. VANCE, an old Liberty man from
Knox county, moved an amendment, endorsing
substantially the platform of 1S59-which de-
mands the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law.
For a time it seemed as though Mr.. VANCE
would be overwhelmingly choked down-seye1
raj delegates protested in the most bitter terms,
declaring they might as well endorse the new
testament, and one fellow actually moved to
the Wing platform of 1S40l But Mr..
VANCE is not made of the stuff to be put down
in that way, and he maintained the floor until
he got a hearing, when he made the old thea
tire ring with his demands for a platform of
priacipes. Lieutenant Governor KIRK, know
ing that neither VANCE nor the old Liberty
Guard were to be got rid of so easily, and fear
ing the result of defeating it, appealed to the
Convention to adopt Mr.. VANcE's amendment
all weuld notdo-the clamor was oeifer-
Gus for laying it on the table. At this moment
old GIDDINes mounted a chair, and lashed the
opponents of the amendment right and left
claimed that he made the Republican party of
Ohio all that it is, and said that he would
sooner his right arm should be torn from its
socket, than it should be said that the great
Republican party, of which he was the father,
should be afraid to own its principles-princi-
pies upon which they had so often triumphed.
He spoke earnestly, determinedly and threat
ningly; and finally the Convention came TO
order, and a vote was taken on the amendment.
The President declared the amendment adopt
ed-and then the Resolutions as amended were
adopted.
= Thus again triumphed old JOSHUA, over the
forces of ABRAHAM, and the old covenant was
substituted for the new one made at Chicago,
much to the disgust and chagrin of a large
number of Delegates!
Tom CoRwIN may now give up the belt
yesterdays proceedings have laid him on the
shelf, and proclaimed that JOSHUA r. GID
DINes is the true founder and only authorized
.e~xpounder of the Republican faith! Great is
the tribulation and mourning in the Wigwams
of ABRAHAM 1fG tase
P.S.-In the evening the Republicans met
in the Wigwam to hear speeches from the disE-
ferent orators in attendance ON the Convention,
Mr.. VANCE, of Knox, was loudly called for to
open the ball-but the conservatives feeling
-vengeful over TIE fact that he had forced upon
them a demand for the repeal of the Fugitive
Slave law continually interrupted him, in a
very discourteous manner-but he persisted in
being heard. We regretted this, as Mr.. VANCE
is a very clever fellow, and honest and sincere
in his opinions. But old, Gin, after a while
got the floor, and pitched into the conservatism
of the people of Columbus right and left
and at every bold declaration of his ultraism,
would apologize, by saying he forgot he was in
lUolumbusl The evenings entertainment was
decidedly rich, but the conservatives got a
little more than their share of the strong meat.
Salesman.