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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19
"The Sober Second Thought.n

The Steubenville Union, which on the
announcement of the double nominations
at Baltimore, hoisted both tickets, has
hauled down the flag of Douglas, and now
warmly supports Breckinridge and Lane.
1t says that the Douglas men "lost sight
of principles and the best interests of the
Democratic party in blind adherence to a
man." Itprotests against the nomination
of Douglas.-1. Because he was not nom
mated by the Democratic Convention, but
only by remnant of it; 2. Because he
was not nominated by two-thirds of the
Convention, but in open and direct viola
ton of the usages of the party; 8. He was
nominated by delegates representing Re
pu6licans States only, and against the
wishes of every Democratic State 10 the
Union; he is therefore sectional, not na-
tional; 4. Because of his uncompromising
course towards the Southern States, and
has "vindictive, usrentless, shameless oppo
sition to the present Democratic Admins
tration;;" 5. Because he "has rendered
himself so obnoxious to all true National
Democrats as precludes the possibility of
bis obtaining the electoral vote of single
State in the Union" and 9th. Because the
Convention have nominated Breckenridge
and Lane. 1t says:
Ambitious men who have staked their
all, their fortunes, their honors, the best
interests of their country upon the hazard
of nomination, were rejected by the rep
resentatives of the conservative and pat,
riotic masses of the Democratic party, and
John G.. Breckinrinride, without his own
solicitation, without any request of friends,
but by the voluntary, spontaneous, unite d
action of the Convention, had thrust upo n
him the distinguished favor of being the
favorite of the Nationl conservative Dem
ocratic Convention, for President of the
United States.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19
The Douglas Convention at Gel.
umhUS.

The Convention of the friends of Mr..
Douglas met in Columbus and organized
BY the appointment of Gen. Samuel Lahm,
Of Stark County, as Chairman, and whose
place was subsequently, filled by Col. Nc
Cook, of Jefferson, as permanent Presi-
dent, assisted by the usual number of Vice
Presidents and Secretaries.
For Supreme Judge, T. J. S. Smith, of
Montgomery, fine lawyer and an agreea-
bic gentlemen, was nominated; for Attor-
ney General, Mr.. Stambaugh, of Tusca-
rawas, and for Board of Public Works, Mr.
Backus, the present incumbent.
A large number of delegates, stated on
the authority of the Hon. L. N. Hall, of
Crawford, to be fifty in number, refused
to have anything to do with the concern.
They were elected in ignorence of the fact
that the Convention was called to ratify
the nomination of Douglas.
Several gentlemen, members of Con-
gress or expectants, and Others who held
office or sought Office in Democratic coun-
ties, preached harmony and concession.-
To test the practice Judge Hall, as dele
gate from Crawford county, offered the
following, which was literally hooted out
Of the Convention, and although permitted
for short time, TO speak on question Of
privilege, the author of the resolution was
refused a hearing by the more rapid, who
had control, and be was forced to desist:
RESOLVED, That inasmuch as the National
Democratic Convention, recently held at Balti-
more, divided, and made two nominations for
| President and Vice President, we declare it is
the opinion of this Convention, that every DEM
ocrat in Ohio is at perfect liberty to vote for
John c. Breckenridge for President, and Gen.
Joseph Lane for Vice President or Stephen A.
Donglas for President, and Herschell V. john
son for Vice President, as shall best accord with
his views on the fundamental doctrines of the
Democratic party.
Of course after such an exhibition of
madness and insnlt-the declaration of an
intention to hold no political intercourse
withthe friends of Breckenridge and Lane,
the candidates so recently made converts
to the harmony doctrine had nothing to
say. The olive of peace was rejected, and
with insult, and Convention presided
over by man that was covered with po-
litical heresies, as leper is with spots, who
had ever been bolter and disorganizer,
1--WE allude of course to Gen. Lahm, pre-.
cipitated the very state of things certain
Douglas leaders professed to deprecate.
In the evening speeches were made of a
character the most insulting-the text in
every case, but one, being the South and
the Southern Democracy and the men
who stood by the rights of the State
and the principles of the Democratic
party in the North. The black Re,
publicans scarce received a notice, and the
members of that organization enjoyed
hugely the slang of the Douglas speakers,
many of them fresh from the Know Moth
ing Lodges, against lifelong Democrats.
The Mass Convention which was adver
tised to come off as a sort side show
was failure. The young men were no
here-they do not go the doctrines of thu
"Squatters. ."-Democrat.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19

The Breckenridge and Lane ratification meet
ing at GAINESVILLE Saturday evening was large
one. Among the speakers was In. Galley, late
editor of the Aafora, the Democratic organ of
Muskingum county.
One of the oil wells at Titusville, Pa, yields
voluntary flow of twelve barrels per day. The
oil flows through an inch led pipe with a sort Of
pulsatory throb, without a particle of water
The well is las feet deep.
The Democratic organs in Washington are
now in position to fire away at each other. The
ConstisMion has been formally transferred to the
Breckenridge wing, and the States and Union to
the Douglas. Both the old proprietors have re-
tired. The fight is growing warm, personal
and bitter.
The Red River Nor Wester records case o.
cannibalism in the Selkirk country. The vic.
TINS were six in number, a Salteaux Indian and
his wife and four children. When discovered
the bodies had been partially eaten by the mur.
derers.
A Douglas paper says that Mr.. Breckenridgs
is "a dead cock in the pit" Isn't Mr. Dougla.
dead cock in the bottomless pit?
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19

How TRUE Every editor knows the
truth of the following from the N. Y.
Home Journal:-"It is one of the hard
ships of our profession, that its work wheels
brains and hearts--are not allowed to
lag for sickness, or stop for calamity or
sorrow. The Judge may adjourn his court,
the school and the workshop may close
shutters, the mourner may veil features
and turn friend and stranger from the door
but the journalist must forget tomorrow
or to-day-must write gaily and freshly,
as newsmonger, on the trihe of the hour,
whatever burden has been laid on that
same hour, by Providence, for his heart
and brain as a man. 1t sometimes tries
and mocks-as the world that reads what
is thus written would never dream Of"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19
The HHarmOniOus Demec.
racV.,,

The New York Journal of Commerce
of the 9th, in ga few plain words with
New York Political Leader" says:-To
talk of carrying New York for Mr.. Dou-
glas or Mr.. Breckenridge, on divided tick
ct, is simply absurd. There is no posi-
bility of such a result, and we believe no
sensible politician in the State entertains
such an expectation. Those, therefore, who
oppose the adoption of single ticket for
Electors, and for State officers, design and
intend to give the State to the Republi-
cans" Is that really the object Of the
Douglas men everywhere.
A correspondent of the same paper
asks, "cannot the commercial classes be in
voked to address Mr.. Douglas, and urge
upon him in a most respectful but serious
manner to retire?" breckenridge, with a
pure and patriotic record, is more apt TO
succeed than Mr.. Douglas with mere
mathematical one" Will not the Little
Giant retire, or will he persist in running
on mathematical" or sectional record
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19

How MANY VoTKs DID DOUGLAS GET?-The
DOUGLAS papers do not agree among themselves
as to the number of votes Mr.. DouGLAs got in
Convention at Baltimore. The Ohio Statesman
says he had 2l21s votes, 16 more than there was
in Convention. The Cleveland Pldindealer says
1917. In the whole Convention, as shown by
the different ballotings, there were but 1876 votes
out of which number, the editor of the Ohio
Statesman, being ia the Convention, at the time
is willing to swear that Douglas received 2l211ss
votes out of 196 cast, near one-fourth of which
were bogus. The terrible swearing of the Army
in Flanders was nothing to the swearing of Col
Manypenny when he offers to make oath tha
Mr.. Douglas received 2l211a votes in Conven
tion where there were but 1876 votes. all told.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19
National Democracy in Con.
greSS TOWns6in.


We clip the following from theNational
Demoarat. as Indicative of the split with
which some of the Breckenridge men in
Wayne County act:
CoNeREss, Wayne county, O.,
June ID, 1850.
Editor National Democrat:-I have
enclosed five dollars for the Campaign
Weekly National Democrat. Send me
as many copies as you can for that money,
and in all probability 1 may get enough
subscribers 10 send you ten dollars more in
a few days. would further say that we
are going to have Ratification meeting
in Congress, on Saturday, July 81, 1850,
at one clock P. M. The exercises of the
meeting will consist of raising a splendid
hickory pole, and suspending flag from
its top-mast, containing about two hun
dred and fifty square feet in it, with our
national standard bearers inscribed there
on-"for President, John G. Breckenridge,
and Vice President, Joseph Lane, with
Equal Rights in the Union" We expect
to procure the best speakers to address the
meeting on that occasion, and in all proba-
bility there will be one hundred guns fired
for Breckenride and Lane. All persons are
invited to attend said meeting.
Yours respectfully, 1. F.
N. B.-The beauty of the whole exer-
else is, that this Breckenridge and Lane
pole is to be raised on the same spot where
the Buck and Breck pole was raised in
1856.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19

AGREED.-By consent Of the Republican Gen.
tral Committees of the four counties composing
the 18th Congressional District, it is thought
unnecessary to hold a Convention for the pur-
pose of putting in nomination candidate for
Congress, there being. no disposition, on the
part of the Republicans of the District, to run
any one in opposition to Mr.. HELMIoK. our pres
ent Representative. This, certainly, is fater-
ing to Mr.. H., and is conclusive evidence that
his course during the past winter in Congress
is wholly approved of by those who placed him
there. 1t will not be denied. even by Mr.. H s
political opponents. that the District has rarely,
if ever, had at Washington, more attentive,
hard-working member than Mr.. H., and the
voters of the same will show their appreciation
of that kind of a Representative in returning
him by an overwhelming majority.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19

eBThe Democracy had meeting at the
Court House few evenings since to organize a
DOUGLAS Club. 1t was most miserable lame
affair, from beginning to end. Some one was
brought forward and introduced as gentleman
that had formerly acted with the Wings, but
who was now going for DOUGLAS. This man, a
PENNSYLVANIA, then inflicted upon the audience
speech of half an hour in length, which made
even those who brought him forward ashamed
of the act. He was cheered in the telling Of
obscene anecdotes, which, if told in the fami-
lies of nineteen-twentieths of those who heard
him that night, would have cost him broken
head.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19

BRECKENRIDGE STATE CoNvENIIoN.-The Cleve-
land Democrat contains call signed by John
Dawson, Chairman, and VIM. A. Neil, Seereta-
ry of the National Democratic State Executive
Committee, for State Convention to be held in
Columbus on Tuesday, the 7th of August next,
in accordance with a resolution of the friends Of
Breckenridge and Lane. The basis of repre-
sentation is one delegate for every 500 votes
cast for Rufus P. Ranny for Governor, and for
every fraction over $50 votes over 500 IN addi-
tional delegate.
The purpose of the Convention is not stated,
but it is probably to select Breckenridge and
Lane electoral ticket.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19

a. The Breckenridge National Executive
Committee have addressed circulars to lead
ing Democrats in every State and almost in ev-
cry County, calling upon them to organize in
dependently and to nominate distinct Electoral
tickets. Orders have also been issued by the
Administration to the official troops throughout
the the country to the same effect, with an ad-
monition that refusal will be followed by remo-
val.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19
The FaIsehOOds "f the Douglas
Press.

Every Democratic Paper in Wisconsin
supports Douglas and Johnson, and repu-
dates the disunion ticket.-Ohio States
man.
The Madison argus d. Democrat, the
State organ of the Democracy, the Beaver
Dam Democrat, Waukesha Democrat,
Manitowoc Herald and Milwaukee See
Bote, support the nomination of Brecken-
ridge and Lane.
The Daily Milwaukee Enquirer, a Breck-
enridge sheet, is to be issued on and after
the 10th, under the control of A. O. Ell
lis and A. P. Swineford.
Every Democratic paper in Illinois, that
did not support Lincoln in 1858, now sup
ports Douglas and johnson, and repudiates
the disunion ticket of Breckinridge and
Lane.-Ohio Statesman.
The Springfield Qll.) Democrat, and
the Jonesboro (lll) Gazette, have raised
the flag of Breckenridge aud Lane, and un-
der these gallant leader do battle for the
Constitution and the Union.
In Missouri four-fifths of the Democratic
papers support Douglas and johnson, and
repudiates tie disunion ticket Ohio
Salesman.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, little more
modest than the Statesman, says, "Nearly
all the Democratic papers in Missouri have
run up the regular flag"
To show which is the Irregular flag" in
Missouri the Cincinnati Gazette publishes
the following list of Democratic papers in
that State which support Breckenridge and
Lane.
Examiner, Jefferson City; Bulletin, St,
Louis; Courier, Palmyra; Northwest Dem
ocrat; Legion, Bloomington; News, Stur-
geon; States Argus, Columbia; North
west Reporter, Paitsburg; Weston Argus,
Weston; Bolivar Courier, Bolivar; South
west News, Jasper Co., Howard Banner,
Fayette; Randolph Citizen, Huntsville;
Sturgeon News, Sturgeon; Springfield Ad
vertiser, Springfield; Canton Repository,
Canton; Marshall Democrat, Marshall
Milan Farmer, Milan; Chillicothe Chroni
Gle, Chillicothe.
In other days we used to think the Alb.
olition editors could tell more unblushing
falsehoods than any other set of men, but
really these Douglas editors can beat them
easy.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19
Breckenridge Accepts.

Mr.. BREcKExR1pGE has formally accepted the
nomination rendered him at Baltimore In nus
exposition of the doctrines Of the party that
nominated him, he Indignantly denies that they
do now or ever did, demand a Congressional
Slave Code, but assert. that they hold to the
doctrine of non-intervention by Congress or by
Territorial Legislatures either to establish or
prohibit Slavery in the Territories, yet he as
serts that it is the plain duty of the Federal
Government in all its departments, to secure,
when necessary, the enjoyment, as property, of
such slaves as shall, during the continuance of
the Territorial regime. be brought into the Ter
ritories. That is to say, if the Territorial Leg
islatures do not intervene to establish Savery
by securing the enjoyment of property in Slaves
then it is the duty of the Federal Government,
in all its branches. Congress included, to inter-
vene for that purpose. This securing enjoy.
ment in slave property is only another name
for the establishment of Slavery.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19

The President on THE STuMP.-The friends
of ofBREcKENRIDGE had another public demonstra-
ton at Washington on the evening of the 9th
inst, at which MIR. BUCHANAN made lengthy
speech. 1t is an exceedingly dull affair. In
the first place, he praised Major Breckenridge
and Gen. Lane as men who "needed no eulogy" "
from him. He promised, as he had ever been
the friend of regular democratic nominations,
to remove zone stumbling block out of the way" "
He explained that DO regular Democratic NOM
ination had been made. He discussed the wis
dom of the old Congressional caucus, and the
modern Convention system, and stated that the
two-thirds rule had been adopted in order to
prevent the nomination of candidates by the
delegations from anti-Demoeratic States. He
said:
purposely avoid entering upon any discus
sion respecting the exclusion from the Conven-
tion of regularly elected delegates from differ
ent Democratic States. If the Convention which
nominated Mr.. Douglas was not regular Dem
ocratic Convention, it must be confessed that
Breckenridge is in the same condition in that
respect. The Convention that nominated him,
although it was composed of nearly all the GER
tain Democratic States, did not contain the two
thirds; and therefore every Democrat is at lber-
ty to vote as he thinks proper, without running
counter to any regular nomination of the party.
[Applause, and cries of "three cheers for Breck-
enridge and Lane."] Holding this position, l
shall present some Of the reasons why prefer
Mr.. Breckenridge to Mr.. Douglas This shall
do without attempting to interfere with any in
dividual Democrat or any State Democratic
organization holding different opinions from
myself The main object of all good Demo-
Gratis, whether belonging to the one or the
other wing of our unfortunate division, is TO
defeat the election of the Republican candi-
dates; and shall never oppose any honest and
honorable course calculated to accomplish this
object.
He proceeded to approve the nomination Of
Mr. Breckenridge, because he was in favor o.
the equal rights of the States. This notion he
presented in the usual style for some time.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19

WANT A LEADER--The Philadelphia Press
Forney's paper-says DOUGLAS friends in the
South are badly in want of leader. They
want JACKSON, "a man who will stand by such
gallant spirits as John Forsyth, Geo. ". Jones.
Isaac Morse, and Pierre Soule, and aid them in
resisting the tide of nullifcation and disunion,
which threatens to overwhelm alike the North
and the South. John c. Breckenridge ought to
have been the Andrew jackson of the times; but
he has fallen from his high estate, from his fam
lily record, and from the expectation of his here
tofore tens of thousands Of friends. He has
lent his fresh, and, until now, unsullied name,
to the enemies of the Union. Who, in all the
South, with equal claims upon the country, will
come forth to take the place of jackson? Who
will take the lead of the gallant gentlemen and
the self-sacrifcing patriots in that region, who
have put themselves in the imminent deadly
breach3 We look around in vain for the man. +"
If there is no living Jackson in the Southern
states to stand up against the Disunion party,
why cannot the canonized bones of the dead
hero be unhearsed, and paced at the head of
those who are waiting for leader?
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19

Gen. Joe Lane seems to be goose enough to
make an exhibition of himself on the stump in
all directions. He attempted to make a speech
In Philadelphia and blathered ridiculously 10 a
crowd principally composed of Douglas men, who
were prevented from moving" him. only by
the excellence of the Philadelphia Police, who,
under the present efficient Mayor, secure the lib
erty of speech in that city. to of all persua-
sions, religious or political. He has responded
to O serenade in New York. He is advertised
as positively to make speech in Indianapolis,
and has also accepted an invitation to visit his
native State, North Carolina.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19

M-In 1856 the Republicans had but one
German paper in Indiana, but now the tables
are turned, and the Democrats have but one,
while six are doing effective service for the Re-
publican cause. The Illinois State Journal gives
list of sixty mine German papers in the eoun-
try that have raised the Lincoln and Hamlin
fao
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19

~The DouGLAs Pill seems hard one for
the Editor of the Former to swallow, and we
shall not be surprised if, after the State elec.
ton, he spit it up again, as he now does upon
the nominee. He would do this now, or he ney.
er would have oped his mouth to receive it, were
not his bread and butter in the opposite scale,
and to save this, he consents to sacrifice prin-
ciple, to swallow, not DsuaLAs only, but all he
has ever said against hin. Poor fellow he has
our synYsthiss. -i
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19

DARE NOT PUBLISH Ir.-Mr. JOHNSON, the can
didate for Vice President on the DOUGLAS ticket
has given to the world his views on the Slave
Code and Popular Sovereignty. Not DOUGLAS
sheet in Ohio has yet dared to give its readers a
chance to see how he opposes squatter sover-
eighty, or how he favors Slave Code, and the
reopening of the African Slave trade.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19

W The friends OF Mr.. Douglas in Kentucky,
knowing they would be in the minority in the
State Convention, have succeeced in advance,
and are going in gang by themselves to hold
a Convention in Louisville on the lIth of Au-
gust. The Louisville Democrat the Douglas
organ-advertises this as the Irregular State
Democratic Convention"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19
wThe Free Press states that tb

~T The Free Press states that the
wool clip of Carroll county amounts to
some $250,0Oo this year, which shows a
considerable increase over last years clip,
as the average price was the same both
years, and last year amounted to only
$175,oo9. The quality of our wool is also
rapidly improving, and wool buyers say that
the average quality is better this year, in
this county, than in the sdjoing counties.
This is encouraging TO our wool growers,
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19
Cleveland National Demcra

HThe Cleveland National Democrat
repudiates the idea that it is in favor of a
union on Electoral tickets between the
Breckenride and Douglas men. 1t says:
No proposition was ever made by the
friends Of Breckenridge and Lane to coal
esce, and if any arrangement is made we
will require bond and security 10 keep the
Douglas scamps TO their word, for without
security we would not give farthing for
all their pledges. They seek the election Of
Lincoln, and will ensure it if they can.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19

H-It is authoritatively stated that the
widow of John Brown has not received a
dollar from Hayti, although the report has
gone abroad that $4,000 was sent to her
from that country. The amount of the
aid received by this family from other
sources is not so large as it is generally
supposed TO be.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-19

The Detroit Advertiser speaks of the Dem
ocratic candidate for Congress in the Fourth
Michigan District, as "Mr. Thomson, the Doug
as-Wilmot-proviso-fre-trade-Dred Dred-Scott-slave-
n-anti-river-and- -harbor-im-
proyement candidate"