The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1863-06-24

Agates Letter - the Gin innAii Gszet;.
COLrNBrs June II 1893

COLUMBUS. June II, lSsS.
I All CAV Wednesday, as the delegates came
pouring in. you bear the same thing in :
thousand iOrms-always the same Wen show
these military despOts bat stuff the Democracy
Of Ohio are made OF. We don't care Tor Val
andlgham himself 40 very much, but wen teach
them that this business OF abusing an arrestiug
Democrats has gone far enough. Wen take az
this exiled martyr to the faith We'll crown him
sith the highest sanction of a great partv hat
four hfths Of the time has ruled State and couu
Try, we'll bear him from the exile of court mar
Jal to the chair OF Governor of Ohio. and Com
mander-ins Chief OF the State militia if VIC Can
# can't, ven least roll up the votes OF the
party in solid column for him by teus of thou
sands; we'll make bis cause our cause, and bali
the voters OF the State will Ge6auty take their
stand by Vslsndigbam's side, and then vel.
see whether they want to try their hand a, send
iug halt their population beyond the lines
ln short, she Convention means defiance to
the General Government aud the administration
the defiance OF powerful. well organized
thoroughly disciplined party, snartng under the
suspicion OF toryism. and determined not to bear
the title without earning it. Ii means not mere
ly condemnation Of the whole policy OF arbitra-
y arrests, but a declaration OF masses. who.
when thoroughly aroused, might do what the,
threaten, that they viii no longer submit TO
these arrests.
This voice, however, comes frem the rank and
Gle, not 50 freely FROM their leaders For once
the voting machines OF the old Democratic or
ganzatiOn, who used ." TO wait ill the man came
around 10 tell them Who TO vote for. have taken
the bit in thoir teeth aud arc dfagsinx then,
leaders along after them. Ii is true that the
wiser heads have been trying to stave of the
excited secession sympAlhizers, BY influencing
Gen. Mcclellan 10 accept the nomination; and
It is also true that they were sadly vexed al be
ing informed in a dispatch from this most prom
sing OF Democratic candidates, that be could
net sympathize with the views sy which he un-
derstood then Convention was 10 be controlled
These men we're wise X their generation
They wanted to nominate a candidate they could
elect and, above all, they wanted 10 avoid cut
ting their ewn thrOats, By committing them.
selves unmisiakinely and irrevocably 10 a peace
platform. But their efforts are Of no avail
The delegations come up bent on nominating
their exile martyr and maDipulations will all be
in vain. What a number Of corpses among
the leaders of the democratic party this Conven-
,ion will make" said prominent and far seeing
Democratic Official, as we shock hands "The vo-
ters, OF course, dOnt tdie-a bad record don't hurt
them; but alas, for the poor leaders saw where
this thing was golngto come out, and | positively
refused to have anything TO do with the COnven
tion!" Wise legislator But few Of your fel
lows are as prudent.
THE Den ocracy is mad said q well known
leader who happened TO cit near me at dinner.
and With whom the truth came out az the whis-
XIV went in The Democracy is mad, mad, mad
| never saw 80 many crazy people collected to
gether before ia all nv llfs" All, unconscious
imitstor Of Petsigru. The same thing was better
said. not so very long ago, in reference TO pre-
cisely the same course, iR--CharlestOn
II was perfectly evident that the nomination
was foreordained. There was a strong under
current against it in almost every county; bat,
to use the phrase of the Convention psc kin-
trade, the delegation was set From the
Western Reserve particularly, there came earn
est remOnstrances. "Of course wen support
him if he's nominated we always vote for The
regular candidate; but what do you want to pu
up a man you can't elect fors And besides
what's the use Of iRcsrriBg unnecessary odiun
by nominating unpopular man "Oh, d
all Yankee Democrats. anyhow" burst in q gen
uine old hard shell whose ancestors must have
/ hailed from Pennsylvania or the Fatherand. Il
had my way I'd set of the whole of that Re
serve of yOur'n iutO Ststs by themselves
" But" interpOsed an uneasy gentleman, with
wholesome recollection OF constituents WhO ha'
been gulled into voting for him by the mOst sol
enn protestations that he had nothing 10 d.
With Vallandigham or that set, and abhOrre,
them almost ss much as be did the AbolitiOnists:
4" but won't this be pretty bad record TO max
for most OF the party :" What's the matte
with the record: Don't you believe 10 Stat
Rights, and amt you il .syor Of this war stop
pin: What the - lemphasic substantive J
the matter with you: Il bet hundred TO OF
you're one Of the Dsvy Tod Democrats, you -
lempbatic adjectivel renegade yOui"
State Rights" ara this war stoppin, ver
indeed significant phrases. Posted on the wall
in the hotels and restaurants, and shop window,
we're hard-bills. beaded in staring capita,
STATE RIGHTS AND PEACE II ADQUAH
TERS," which were announced as being locate
ia public hall 10 the business part OF the cit
where good speakers would be in attendance
and where all good Democrats were ezhcrted I
come " fer the sake OF Ihe cause