The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-06-08
qe(istellaneons.
LETTER FROM GOLUMEBEs.
Correspondent Cincinnati Commercial
The Ohio Union State GGmyen-
fi0Fa-AGtiOn OF the Committee
oa Resolutions Respecting Mr.
eha0SO.
CoIUMBUs. Nav 25.

COLUMBUS, May 25.
The Union State Convention for 1864 has
passed into history The record Of its pro-
coedings is before your readers. Marked by
no unusual incident, there was but little else
to do than get through the routine business
and adjourn; and this was done in the most
exemplary manner IF any disturbing ele-
ment existed, the adroit management of ex-
perienced politicians, who shaped its course,
and marked out its line of action. effectua-
" suppressed it. The Convention had no
offices to dispose Of that appealed partieu-
lary to the greed Of any man doing busi-
ness more than u street grocery and as for
the honors-wel twenty years hence how
many Of the men and women of that day will
remember who was made Secretary Of State,
or Attorney General, or Sepreme Judge, in
the year Of grace, 1864?
But the men and women Of that day will
wonder that Convention of the loyal men
Of Ohio met and adjourned without recogni-
zlng in some marked manner the services to
his country, of Ohio's most distinguished
citizen, the Honorable Salmon ?. Chase
What had Mr.. Chase done, they will ask,
that the people Of his own State should fail
to mention by resolution orothe1wise, of his
name? We may as well put the facts on
record For the benefit Of posterity."
The sense Of the Convention was decided
ly in favor of the reelection Of Mr. Lincoln
to the Presidency. OF that there is no
doubt. The Endorsement of the resolution
nominating him for that honor, could not
have been marked BY more enthusiasm
Had Mr. Cha2e been a candidate for that
Office before the Baltimore Convention, the
reticcnce Of the Ohio Convention touching
has personal and political merits, would
have been understood But Dir. Chase de-
clined long ago, and is counted out of the
field. Neither the Cleveland or Baltimore
Conventions will take up his name, unless
unable to agree upon Nj Lincoln or ''any
other man There is not the least doubt,
then that a complimentary resolution would
not only have been appropriate, but it
would have met the hearty, unqualified ap-
probation of the delegates
To understand this matter it is necessary
to go behind the record of proceedings in
convention. Upon the appointment of the
Committee or Resolutions, it was moved
and carried that all resolutions be submitted
to the committee, without debate and acted
upon by them When the committee was
in session, and while the resolutions mere
yet in embryo, NJ. p Gaddis. Of the Second
District, offered the following for considers
ton: ""' .' -4
''Resotrea, That Ohio regards, with
proud approval, her distinguished citizen,
Salmon p Chase, who, during the most
gigantic civil war ever known, has SO con
tolled and directed the finances of the ma
ton, as to supply the necessities of the con
test, sustain the credit Of the Government
and preserve healthful condition of the
currency and business of the people"
DO you see any thing inappropriate or un-
deserved in that? Do the people of Ohio
refuse to say so much for man. upon
whose shoulders, more than those of any
man, in the Cabinet or out of it, rests the
gigantic proportions of this struggle and
upon whose financial ability, as much as
upon the bayonets Of our glorious soldiers
depends the salvation Of the Union? Put |
that to vote in the Army of the Cumberland |
or the Army Of the Potomac = any where
where there are blue jackets to vote or fight, |
md the response would be one long and loud
affirmative
MIR. Gaddis supported the resolution in an
earnest speech. z. X. Watson, from the
Ninth District, opposed it, as did the Hon.
John \, Bingham Of the Sixteenth District.
Hon. Abner Kellogg, of the Nineteenth |
District, spoke warmly in favor Of reporting
,he resolution to the Convention for adopt
on, and Hon. Peter Odlin, of the Third, |
made a brief speech and by all accounts,
pertinent one in its behalf George keck,
,f the First District, was neither flesh nor
fowl, and while not individually opposed to
t, did mt really think it would be polite, all
.hings considered, to indorse any man in the
Cabinet Mr. +. Archbold Of the Fif-
.eenth District, opposed it on grounds that
should admit him at once to the warmest
embraces of the copperheads. 1t wouldn't
10 to indorse Mr. Chase because ''green-
1acks" are going down, and maybe, in a
year or so, will fail entirely, and then the
party would be held responsible for this pa
Der issue
There were but twelve Of the committee
PRESENT during the discussion on this resolu-
ion, and counting noses, they stood seven to
i've for the resolution, but the minority CON
rived to get subcommittee appointed to
lraft the resolutions, and they set down up
IN. MIR. Gaddis bantling and squashed it IT.
Hon. John A. Bingham was one Of this
Wheel within wheel, and has the honor, |
'elieve OF drafting the resolutions, which,
n the main, are unexceptionable The res
tuition with regard to the part Ohio has ta-
en in the war, originally referred only to
Ter representation in the field. Mr. Gaddis
mended so as to include the word Cabinet,
oupling Herewith Mr.. Chases name. IT
I'LL hardly be credited that there was
hat committee men SO beggarIy. spirited
,at thasy ny,y,oaad av-on q :, ;n1s,.o.t -I.lJ