The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-07-01

IRON The Boston Fost:1 :
THE1oHTO PLATFoRM.
/ The friends of the Constitution and the
Union will heartily respond 10 the platform
adopted by the Democracy. osa Ohio. lit is a
platform for country = not merely to Gust men
IN power, butt to save a nation not for Offices
and spoils, but for principles and measures;
not fora few, but for the many who make mp
the Republic It is, therefore, in the best
sense of the word, conservative, for it aims to
preserve what is good ard life-giving in the
tshape of constitutionalism that a free people
have worked out and it is also progressive,
ffarit looks to q National Convention, at the
proper timeeand in the proper way, to incor.
porates reforms. into the national policy. For
the present the injunction and the great con-
viction is Hold on at all hazards to the
Constitution and the Union They say W
EHAyE NO SYMPATHY sw9TH THE ENEMIES
or EIrHER. There is nothing-7ot one
word of the old party platforms about this
presentation, of political ssentimcut-Y There is
n~othingFoyh ich an American ought not to
subscribe to.
ti1sBut there is another feature tnat is equally
Gratifying, which is expressed by that sterl.
ing statesman, exa Gov. Medill, the President
Eofathis Convention, namely, the object of this
body. He frankly ahnodncedi it 70 be to- place
ltaOnIe fuPoy n SAME PLATFORM WITH THE
STATE OF NEW YoRK'-whichs announce,
Lment ohcited1a perfect storm of cheers for
Empire tate+pev more worthy to be
called such than now as with Horatie SeJ-i
naour as its official representative, it stands ar
r1yed against Northern Abolition and South
ern Secession+-with the ballot for one and
arms forthe other. q his is noble in-the Ohio
Demoeracy, and 'wilEbe seen with ~ginexpressia
bic pleasure by the conservative phalanx,a not
merely those who have acted with the Demo
cratic organization, but conservative Wings,
conservative Republicans ALI of the class
who placed Horatio Seymour in the guberna-
torial chair-men who, in this awful hour,
mean to sink what is mere party under their
feet and rise to the high plane of action for
COUNTRY Let Democrats, of every State,
take the same ground, and the sun is not surer
to rise to morrow than it is that the national
organization founded by the Jeffersons and
Madisons of our hero age, which gave peace
and prosperity and restored by Jackson,
which again set up old landmarks, shall come
forth in spite of the foul detraclion of politi--
cal ~profigatcs, as a triumphant power ; and
once more bestow on The, country the peerless
blessings of PEACE aud good government.
Thus conspicuously have the Democracy of
Ohio laid down their platform put on it the
candidate selected BY an exercise of arbitrary
kpower which Americans by defending, un-
Americanize themselves. Indeed there is
nothing in the annals of political history
mere totally indefenslble, among a people who
have for centuries held on to a free press and
free speech, than the arrest, trial and Danish
ment of CIe nent L. Vallandigham ; precisely
lastherc IS nothing that stands out in the nre
Lyieus period of the American revolution more
arbitrary than the. proceedings of thu British
tories in thelcase of John Wilkes. 1t is the
precise truth to say, that there is not a liberal
WORK, on Constitutional Law-not a liberal
mind-that has a word of defense for the
George III stupid set who prosecuted Wilkes;
land so in after time the military orders that
make the bare tof the Punishment and their
by President Lincoln, must aecessari
1--WE write not arrogantly but earnestly
be pronounced coutraryft to the constitutional
right of American citizens. Let the people
of Ohio-we mean not merely Democrats, but
4IL who appreeists the. solid foundations Of
iAmerican Liberty--lift up Vallandigham to
gubernator:al chair and the result will.
make as glowing a page in American History
for Ohio as that which records the m,ral
courage of the men of the Catham mould
who ~triumpied in the case of Wilkes.
Is Well and with dignity hare the Ohio De
mocracy chosen their field of action ; as just
a right have they TO their banished citizen for
their Governor as the constituency of Wilkes
had to have him for their representative; and
so they sent a delegation of one from each
Eeounty TO the President, r specially request
ling d restoration of Va'landigham to his
HoMEl It is a righteous requestI The
whole proceeding against him, from the dis
patch of an informer, from the camp to spy
Eout accusatory matters, is wild, strange. and
unworthy of this age; as tic process went on
il serves to illustrate how Oliver Twist like is
arbitrary power, constant in its "call for more
to enable it to consumate its purposes Soon
er or later this whole proceeding viii be re-
venged. The rights Of the citizen must be
indicated through the law and the people
of Ohio owe it to themselves to vindicate
them at the ballot-box.
RsW ould that tho true men of every State
rise TO the dignity of which the hour demands;
to wiso, firm, conservative action froWn:ng
upon what is partisan and advancing what is
true and right. : IF they do this, they will
stand by the Constitution and the Union
with the ballot for all that can be done Iy the
ballot and war for what mast be done by war
and as sacred 1egacies of the Past, sancti-
fed alike by Memories and wonderful Pros
peritys save aud transmit them to bless poster
Iity. The Ohio democracy are for this.
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