The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-02-06
Union Republican state Com
VentiOn.
Wednesday, March 4, 1868.

sTATI UHI1h REPUBLIcAE ConMI1TKE RoonS,
COLUMBUS. ONO, February !, 1868. J
10 the Union Republican Voters Of Ohio; 3
AT q meeting Of our State Con.
tral and Executive Committees in
the Senate Chamber, at tho Capi-
tol, at which were present by In.
vitation the officers OF tho State
Government, the Union members
Of the Legislature, and prominent
and influential Union citizens from
various portions Of the State, it was
resolved toahold the annual State
Convention OF the Party at Colum.
bus; on Wednesday the 4h day Of
March, 1868.
.cs This Convention will make nom
Einaiions Of candidates on, the State
Ticket for the following Offices, viz.
Secretary of State;
Judge Of the Supreme Court
Commissioner Of Com IN o D
Schools;
Clerk of the Supreme Court; and
Member OF the Board OF Public
Works. .&l-i'l l4Lit
The Convention will also make
choice Of -Four Delegates at large
to the National Republican Con.
ventlon TO assemble at Chicago,
May 20, 1868, to nominate candi.
dates for President and Vice Pres
ident of the United States at the
ensuing Presidential Election. The
Convention will also nominate tuo
Electors at Large for President and
Vice President, and transact such
other business as may come before
it.
The Committee would recon.
mend that nthe meetings in the
several counties for the selec.
tion Of delegates, be held on Sat.
urday, February 22d, and that, #
the several county meetings so de-
sire, they select their delegates
with view to the appointment Of
District Delegates TO the National
Convention from their several dis
tricts, when they shall meet at the
State Convention at Columbus.
The basis of representation in this
Convention has been determined to
be, one delegate 10 every four hun,
dred votes cast for Governor Hayes
in 1867, and an additional dele.
gate for any fractions of two hun
dred votes and upwards in each
county.
upon this basis Fairfield county
will be eutiLled to fve delegates.)
The attention Of the Republicans
of Ohio is most earnestly invited
to this call, in the hope that it will
receive their prompt attention.
The campaign Of 1868, in the is.
sues it involves, is one oflhe most
if not the most important we have
ever been called upon to engage
in. Many of the questions grow
ing outof the late war are unset.
tied. Their proper settlement des
pends entirely on the Republican
party, and our defeat in this cam.
paign will be the surrender of the
Government into the hands of the
party which brought on the war
Shall the destructive policy of that
party again become the policy Of
the nation?
We must judge our opponents not
by their present professions alone
but by their past actions. The
same influences which in-l861 pre-.
cipitated the rebellion, and for four
years waged reasonable war,
still rule its councils and will shape
its policy should it return to pow.
er. In illustration Of this wo have
the action of the majority OF the
present General Assembly in re.
scinding the ratification of the Con.
stitutional Amendment and the
proposed Instructions to cur Nom.
bers OF Congress 10 vote for the re-
peal Of the Reconstruction acts.
We must have patience in the
labor of reconstruction. 1t is not
the work of day. The machina,
tions of perfdious Executive, aid.
ed by q powerful and determined
party, largely composed of do.
feated rebels, have served TO delay
the execution of the wishes of the
loyal majority of the country, but
cannot prevent it, FIVE are as faith
full to our trust in the future as we
have been in the past.
Reverses may meet us in the
execution of our policy now, as they
did during the war, but they must
not cause US to falter in the course
marked out. Rather should they
nerve us to removed energy and
more determined effort.
The result of last falls election
has beer most happily modified by
the recent glorious victory won by
the gallant Republicans of the 9Th
District. Let their spirit animate
all tho Districts, and the campaign
of 1868 will be as cheering in its
results as those of 1868 and 1864.
Very truly your friends in the
cause, B. r. COWEN,
Chairman.
JAS, WILLIAMS, Sec'y.
CHAs. G, WALcoTT, !
JOE. W. DwYER, Executive
RODNEY Foos, : -
HENRY MILLER, Committee.
JAMES TAYLOR.