Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1865-08-30
GGDemOcratiC,' State COnVen-
ton,

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The political organization that as
sumes the name of Democratic, met
in State Convention at Columbus on
Thursday last, and nominated a State
Ticket, passed a series of resolves as
a platform for the ensuing campaign.
The convention organized with a slap
at the Union and a huzza for the reb-
els, by making c. L. Vallandigham,
Chairman, thus endorsing all the mis-
chief and treason that rebel has been
guilty of.
Gen. George w. Morgan, of Knox
County, was nominated for Governor.
Morgan was a Brigadier General for
about a year during the war, and
gained a little notoriety by retreating
from Cumberland Gap. He never did
any serious fighting, hence while the
prefix Of General may sound well con-
nected with his name, he never hurt
the rebels enough to make him I'M
popular with the Democracy" Nor
gan made a speech before the Con-
vention, in which effort he proposed
his patent nostrums as panaceas for
all our political ills. On reconstruction
he is soundly copperhead. He wonld
have the loyal people open wide their
compassionate arms and take the rebels
and traitors to their embrace, and for
give and forget the bloody and cruel
past, asking no guarantees for the
future, except such voluntary submits
sion as the rebels might yield to the
United States Government. He says
the admission must be made that both
have erred, and not insist that the
South only has been the offender
He, of course, denounces the black
man as inferior, and is opposed to al
lowing him the right to vote, Gen.
Morgan's party not only persist in
pronouncipg the negro their natural
inferior, but r very anxious that
their assumption should be indelibly
stamped upon the statutes of every
State, and the blacks every whore be
anathemized by the ruling power of
the whites, lest they by the enjoy
ment of privileges common 10 the
whites, should disprove the biased
theories of men. They hope to make
their charge of inferiority always
good, by keeping the doomed race in
an oppressed and inferior condition
That is modern democracy"
The Convention did itself the nota-
bic honor of nominating DAVE NJ.
WILSON, of Mahoning County, for
Attorney General. Wilson is well
known in TrumbulI County, as an in
dividuaI of eccentric habits and as
being practically hostile to temperance
societies. But then the ticket needed
some on it to give it character, stami-
na, backbone and genuine DimOcratic
flavor and aspect. David NJ. Wilson,
according to Democratic ideas of ex-
cellence, was the embodiment of these
requisites, and a representative man
of that wriggling reptile organization.
The platform this party adopted is
full of high sounding, meaningless
words. They advocate a strict con-
s~truction of the Constitution /; oppose
centralized action of power in the
Federal Government; advocate State
Rights as laid down in the Virginia
and Kentucky resolutions. They
claim that rebel states are entitled to
the privileges of the other States, in
Congress and at Presidential cleo
tions. They declare themselves une-
quivocally opposed to Negro suffrage
and claim this government was made
for white men only.
They are still as Indignantly pro.
slavery as ever, and in sympathy
with their southern brethren. The
loyal men Of the Union must oppose
and defeat this party, or lose all gain.
ed by the war.