Year: 1861

A report of the doings of the Democratic
State Convention will be found on our first
page. 1t will be seen that that body, ignor-
ing the great issue of the day, have put up
u straight party ticket and platform. After
a very liberal proposition made by the Re-
publican Executive Committee for q union
of all parties upon the simple basis of main
tanning the government, this partzan action
OF the Democratic Convention, although we
did not expect anything different, is really
much to be regretted on account of the
encouraging effect it may have on the rebel
cause. An officer in our army, democrat,
remarked to us a few days ago, that the
moral effect of the action of the Columbus
| Convention would be equal to that produc-
ed by the addition of one hundred thousand
men to the rebel ranks. This is perhaps an
exaggeration, but the remark is significant as
| showing the opinion our gallant volunteers
have of the partizan warfar which dema-
gogues are endeavoring to carry on against
the Administration.


| The simple refusal to unite on the broad
and patriotic basis proposed by our lato
political opponents is, ofitself, an encourage
ing token TO the rebel government of JeH
Davis. The latter will draw from it the in
! ference that there is a strong party in Ohio
opposed to the maintenance of the Federal
government by force Of arms. But this in
ference will be changed to a firm belief in
the midst of the rebels when they come to
read the fault-finding and denunciatory re-
solutions of the Ohio Convention. Those
resolutions are framed with much cunning
| and adroitness; they cover up the most
subtitle poison under a sugar coating; pro-
Tossing loyalty they are not loyal, and all
the more detestablo for their Hypocrisy
They may deceive some democrats in Ohio,
but their true character will not escape the
scrutiny of the rebel leaders. They will
understand that any political action in ref
erence to the great and overshadowing
issue of the day, which does not give an un-
equivocal support to the National adminis-
tration, means friendship for them, under
whatever disguise it may be hid. They
will understand that there can be but two
parties in this emergency-the party against
the rebellion and the party i'll sympathy
with it.


Entertaining these views, we must now
do what we have never before done in tho
whole course of our editorial career-exhort
our democratic friends to repudiate the ac-
ton of the so-called Democratic State Con-
vention of the 7th inst Patriotism points
out no other course. Every vote cast for
this partizan platform and ticket will be a
word of encouragement to the rebels-eve-
Ty NOIc against III Will DC q voice III IaNOT OF
the National Government as our fathers
made it, Democrats of Sandusky county,
can you hesitate to say on which side you
will be found? You are now invited to join
a great national organization of the people
which is being organized to meet the COM
mon danger. The platform of this organiz-
alton has no tricks or dodges-it has Moth
ing TO conceal-it has but one plank, which
is broad enough to afford every man solid
footing who is in favor of the unconditional
maintenance of the Government, and too
narrow to accommodate any others. Let
the partizans who are endeavoring to divide
the people and cripple their energies while
great danger menaces the life of the ma
tion-who can see nothing higher nor holier
nor more worthy of their regard than the
petty and ephemeral interests of party,
while the very earth trembles beneath their
feet under the throes of national convul.
sion-whle more than two hundred thou
sand armed rebels are endeavoring, in tho
expressive language of Douglas, ito blot
out the United States from the map of
Christendom.- these partizans, we say,
stand upon the platform they have built,
but let no one who prizes his own or his
country's welfare get uponit. 1t is made Of
treacherous timber, and with the organiza-
tion that stands upon it will be scattered to
the winds hy.tho uprising tempest of apeo-
pies wrath.