Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-13
The Guernsey Democracy.
correspondence of Ohio statesman.l

correspondence OF On1O. OIdloelnon'J :.
This firm old party met in Convention in
Washington on last Monday, and put in
nomination candidates to go before the
people in the Autumn campaign.
The Hon. William Lawrence was chosen
the Senatorial nominee, and his election is
certain, as the county is Joined with jack
sontan Monroe in the district. Mr.. Law
renee is just the man for the place-such
man we need in the councils of our State,
or Nation. He has been tried and found
faithful in every post of trust to which he
has ever been called. and these are many. So
far as honesty, integrity and capability 0he
three great elements of sound Democracy
are concerned, Mr.. Lawrence deserves and
will receive the implicit confidence OF all
unprejudiced men who know him either in
person or reputation. (y-T-trr- r- .
Mr.. A. 6. Squirea, of Cumberland, is the
nominee for Representative-andla a better
man than he in all the relations of life, in
both Church and State, is not to be found
among the many good men in Eastern
Ohio. Both these gentlemen were called
to these positions without either their
being at the Convention at the time of their
selection. But it was thought that the ex-
igencies of the State demanded that men
not too fond of Office and political life
should, in these troublous and corrupt
times, be called to take the helm of affairs.
+. All that has been said of these gentle
men applies also to Mr.. 8. B. Lawrence,
the county's candidate for Treasurer, who
received his nomination by acclamation.
And if long experience as bank account
ant and sterling moral integrity are to be
regarded as desirable qualities in public
officials, this gentleman should be our next
Treasurer. ~ rt
This whole ticket is regarded on all hands
as being in no sense objectionable, and if
our country is ever again to be restored to
constitutional order and purity, it must be
by placing our best men in office, and
wedding out the demagogues from all par
ties and places of trust.
The Senatorial nominee appeared in con-
vention near its close, and addressed the
delegates and citizens in most happy,
conservative and impressive manner, which
elected marked attention and rapturous
applause.
The meeting adjourned in the best of
feeling, after having given a most cordial
and unanimous Endorsement of the PLAT
FORM adopted by the Democracy OF the
State on the 8th OF January last; also,
strongly recommending the more general
circulation of Democratic papers and docu-
ments among our people, and giving es-
pecial approval of the Jefersonian of this
county and of the mode in which it is now
being conducted by its efficient editor, Mr..
Mitchner. -s- r.. ..... -fs-
In closing this article allow me, my
Democratic friends, to ask, why it is that
any of you do not take the journals of
your party. How do you manage to get
along without them? If yeu desire the
great cause of our party, which 1 believe
before God, to be the causeof our country,
to succeed, you must circulate our true UielcS
among the people, to counteract the thou
sand false statements made by ignorance,
prejudice, corruption and selt1shness
against us. Constant vigilance and eter-
nal action is the price of civil liberty.
When you read this, just ask yourself, IAN
I visilant? Am I active? If not, arouse
yourself A most momentous politi
cal crisis is upon us-one that is
seriously to affect our Government down to
the latest days of our posterity. Can it be
possible that you will do nothing to avert
it? Shall negroes be placed on an equal
footing with yourself and children in all
social, civil and sacred relations OF life in
this nation? Can you regard with calm
ness the day when your blood will run in
the veins of an African? This will be the
inevitable result of social equality. Do not
evil communications corrupt good man
ners, and will not evil associations beget
unions most revolving to contemplate? !?
Think of this-talk of it-read about it to
your neighbor, and just as certain as truth
has power and reason sway, he will
ponder before he votes for a measure so
monstrous as that proposed by the Radicals
for fngraftment on our organic law.
Tnen, if you do not take Democratic
paper, subscribe for one eimmediately-and
if you do, go see your neighbor who does
not, and pursuade him to subscribe at once
for some county, State or National journal
OF the dear old party, to which, doubtless,
you are proud to belong
Every Democrat should take at least two
Democratic papers. In our county, these
ought to be the Jefersonian, then the Ohio
Statesman, either OF these can be obtained
for less than two dollars each, a
sum not one-half as much in amount
as your tobacco costs you per, an
mum. Come, Democrats, let US better
sustain our press. 1t we feed it, it will
feed us, and like good family cow pay
well for its pabulum. take over dozen
periodicals. Some of them daily, and to-
day subscribed for another, and do feel
myself general agent for all the Democrat
ic periodicals in these dis-United States.
And thus 1 have written. My sole reward
is the hope of doing good in the nation, in
the State, and especially in
GUERNSEY.