Year: 1862

tilO I1tu luoVs, ohOt NCbiNCu VII AVANA'S


the State Convention on the 4th of Ju


ly next. According to the previou


rules adopted for calling these Conven


tions, the vote for Governor last fall


is taken as the basis for sending Dele


gates. First each County is entitled


to one Delegate, and an additiona


Delegate for every $50 Democrat,


votes cast for Mr.. Jewett. .s


An Auditor of State, Secretary


of State, Ito fill a vacancy Judge o


the Supreme Court, member of tn,


Board of Public Works, Attorney Gen


eral and School Commissioner, we be-


lieve, is the amount of the State Tick.


ct to be elected. Who may be the can


didates, so they are good, true, faith


full men, is not so important, but that


they should be elected, whoever they


may be, is of the highest consideration,


as the vote will be TEST one on the


free negro question, and may have


much to do with the future of our State
politics.


Every approach to Democratic men
and measures, is an Improvement on
the past, as everybody must admit. -
When the work is completed by elect
ing the full Democratic tickets, by
Democratic votes, then we may begin
to look for better state of things.


We have great doubts whether the
Republicans will venture to bring their
own men upon the track. They feel
very plainly that Republicanism is in
bad odor with the people. They only
saved themselves last year by borrow
ing Democrats from us to put on their
ticket. They had not enough Of repu-
table men in their own party to make
up tickets with any hope of success
Are they In any better credit this year?
We do not think they are, and we think
THEY are of the same opinion.


Now as Democrats have got to be
elected, we might as we'll elect them
ourselves, as furnish our enemies, and
the enemies of the people, with candi-
dates to run for Office. Let us, there
fore, call together our best and sound
est men to the State council-let us
come together to perform a great and
a good work, one honorable to ourselves
and the State. Let us have no doubtful
counscllors. We want men equal to
the occasion-men as just as they are
fearless. Patriots in whom there is
no guile or double dealing, men who
are prepared to speak out and speak
single tongued.


With q convention of such delegates
as these, we can pass resolutions and
ticket that will command
the public respect and public support.
The great heart of the voting popula-
ton of the State demand plain language
and fair dealing. No one is afraid to
express his honest convictions who has
no sinister purposes in being a politi-
clan. Politics is just as plain and
simple an affair, and as easily put on
paper and read, as anything else. 1t
is not a mystifed science that requires
D committee of the learned to frame
mystifed language to express ideas in
such a way that it would require anoth-
or set of still more learned gentlemen
rs interpreters.


We wish to maintain our Govern
nent, and let us say SO. We think
his can only be done by maintaining
The Constitution, and let us say so.--
We wish this war conducted so as to
produce the least loss of life and prop
erty, and let us say so. We wish our
sectional difficulties SO managed that
we will be able to restore order, and
preserve all the States as part of our
great nation, and let us say SO. We
ire opposed to making Ohio o depot
:or manamitted negroes, and let us say
20. AS we do not intend to make Ohio
! negro State, and therefore opposed
% Fremont's, Phelps and Hunters
universal confiscation Of negro slaves
TO be let loose upon us, then let us say
80. We believe that this war should
be sc, conducted as to save the Union,
and not to destroy it, and let us say
that also; and let us say further, that
when it cannot be 50 conducted, patri-
,tism, humanity and civilization de-
nand that it should cease, as war
without any good ends is nothing but
murder and the worst of barbarism. -
How easy, then, it is to say all these,
and more, if we choose, in the plainest,
simplest and most direct language. Ifl
our opponents wish to take issue with
US on any Of these points, let them do
It. Itis what we ask---it is what we
lesire-it is what, as honest men, we
should court. We then know what we
IRE supporting, and ,weknow also what
We are opposing. We 60 to work with