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10. That our soldiers and sailors, who carried the

An active campaign was made by both

flag of our country to victory against a most gallant parties in Ohio, but the result was at no

and determined foe, must ever be gratefully remembered, and all the guarantees given in their favor must be faithfully carried into execution.

11. That the public lands should be distributed as widely as possible among the people, and should be disposed of either under the pre-emption of homestead lands or sold in reasonable quantities, and to none but actual occupants, at the minimum price established by the Government. When grants of public lands may be allowed, necessary for the encouragement of important public improvements, the proceeds of the sale of such lands, and not the lands themselves, should be so applied.

12. That the President of the United States, ANDREW JOHNSON, in exercising the power of his high office in resisting the agressions of Congress upon the Constitutional rights of the States and the people, is entitled to the gratitude of the whole American people; and, on behalf of the Democratic party, we tender him our thanks for his patriotic efforts in that regard.

Upon this platform, the Democratic party appeal to every patriot, including all the conservative element and all who desire to support the Constitution and restore the Union, forgetting all past differences of opinion, to unite with us in the present great struggle for the liberties of the people; and that to all such, to whatever party they may have heretofore belonged, we extend the right hand to fellowship, and hail all such, co-operating with us, as friends and brethren.

Francis W. Kernan, of New York, offered the following additional plank which was adopted:

Resolved, That this Convention sympathizes cordially with the workingmen of the United States, in their efforts to protect the rights and interests of the laboring classes of the country.

On the last day of the Convention, the following addition to the platform was accepted on motion of Clement L. Vallandigham, of Ohio:

Resolved, That the thanks of the convention are tendered to Chief Justice SALMON P. CHASE, for the justice, dignity and impartiality with which he presided over the Court of Impeachment on the trial of President ANDREW JOHNSON.

time in doubt, the popularity of General Grant being so great that it was from the start generally conceded that he would carry the State. At the October election the vote on Secretary of State was as follows: Isaac R. Sherwood, Republican, 267,065; Thomas Hubbard, Democrat, 249,681; Republican majority, 17.383. The other candidates on the Republican ticket were elected by substantially the same majorities, the variations being so slight that the figures need not be repeated. No candidate received less than 17,000 majority and none more than 18,000.

The Congressional election resulted in the selection of twelve Republicans and seven Democrats, a gain for the Democracy of three members. The vote in each of the nineteen districts was as follows:

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The New York Tribune Almanac for 1869 gives the whole vote of the country for President in 1860 as 4,680, 193; Lincoln over Douglas, 491,275; over Breckinridge, 1,018,500; over Bell, 1,275,821; all others over Lincoln, 947,289. In 1864, the whole vote, home and army, was 4,034789, and Lincoln's majority over McClellan 411,281. In 1868, the whole vote for President, with Nevada estimated, Florida choosing her electors by the Legislature, and Virginia, Mississippi, Texas and Virginia not voting, was 5.722,948; Grant 3,016,353, Seymour 2,706,631; Grant's majority, 309.722.

Grant and Colfax carried Alabama by 4,280 majority; Arkansas, 3,074; California, 514; Illinois, 51, 150; Indiana, 9.572; Iowa, 46, 359; Kansas, 17,030; Maine, 28,030; Massachusetts, 77,069; Michigan, 31,481; Minnesota, 15,470; Missouri, 25,883; Nebraska, 4,290; Nevada, estimated, 1,400; New Hampshire, 6,967; North Carolina, 12, 136; Ohio, 41,428; Pennsylvania, 28,898; Rhode Island, 6,444; South Carolina,

17,064; Tennessee, 30, 446; Vermont, 32, 122; West Virginia, 8,719; Wisconsin, 24,147; total, 530,056. Including Florida, they received 214 electoral votes.

Seymour and Blair carried Connecticut by 3,041 majority; Delaware, 3,357; Georgia, 45,688; Kentucky, 76,323; Louisiana, 46,962; Maryland, 31,919; New Jersey, 2,880; New York, 10,000 and Oregon, 164; total, 220,334. They received 80 electoral votes. There were 23 vacancies - Mississippi 7, Texas 6, and Virginia 10-or a total of 317 electoral votes.

was born in Dutchess county, New York,
August 13, 1835. His education was ob-
tained at the country schools, Amenia Semi-
nary and Hudson River Institute, New York,
and Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
In 1856 he entered the Law College at
Cleveland, was graduated in 1857, but did.
not practice his profession. He located at
Bryan, establishing the Gazette, the first
Republican newspaper in Williams County.
Its publication was continued until the out-
Mr. Sher-
break of the Rebellion in 1861.
wood was among the first to volunteer in
Northwestern Ohio, enlisting April 18, 1861,
as a private in the Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry. These were three-months men,
and he afterward re-enlisted in the One
Hundred and Eleventh Ohio Volunteer In-

At the Presidential election in Ohio, the Democratic vote was 11,061 less, and the Republican 13,102 greater than it had been three weeks previous, in October. The official figures were: Ulysses S. Grant, 280, 167; Horatio Seymour, 238,621; Grant's fantry, and was commissioned First Lieumajority, 41,546.

The successful (Republican) electoral ticket was composed as follows:

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For the State-at-large: David Tod, Mahoning County; Samuel Galloway, Franklin. For the several Congressional districts: 1. John G. Olden, Hamilton. 2. Stanley Matthews, Hamilton. 3. Andrew G. McBurney, Warren. 4. Jonathan Cranor, Darke. David Thomson, Allen. 6. David H. Bailey, Clinton. 7. Charles C. Walcutt, Franklin. 8. Lyman B. Matson, Richland. 9. Luther A. Hall, Seneca. 10. Hiram Frease, Henry. 11. John J. Harper, Scioto. 12. Phillip M. Wagenhals, Fairfield.

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tenant. His promotions were rapid, and
at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, he
was made brevet Brigadier General. He was
tendered a position in the Regular Army at
the close of the Rebellion, but declined.
He edited the Toledo Commercial for one
year and then went to the Cleveland Leader
for a year, at the end of that time purchas-
ing the Bryan Press.
In 1868 he was
elected Secretary of State as a Republican
and reelected in 1870. In 1872 he was
elected to Congress as a Republican, but
was defeated for renomination in 1874 be-
cause of the dissatisfaction regarding his
attitude on the question of the resumption
of specie payments. He then joined the
Greenback party, and as its candidate was
elected Probate Judge of Lucas County.
Since then he has acted with the Demo-
crats and has been nominated without suc-
cess several times for different offices by
them. His present home is in Canton,
Ohio.

CHAPTER XVI.

THE CAMPAIGN OF 1869.

he Democracy of Ohio seemed now to have entered upon a crusade against honest money and the payment of the honest obligations due the principal creditors of the Government, the bondholders who, next to the brave volunteers, had done most to save the country in its hour of gravest peril. Horace Greeley said that the Copperheads were distinguished by five sublime principles, which were enunciated in every Democratic platform of the day: "Damn the old soldiers; damn reconstruction; damn the nigger; damn the National banks, and damn the bloated bondholder." This was indeed the sentiment of long-winded harangues and the voluminous platforms of the "Peace Party," which, with President Johnson's potent assistance, had been granting general amnesty" to their unreconstructed brethren of the South, regardless of the future and indifferent to the outcome, except that they hoped to regain power and retain it, no matter how. Reconstruction meant always to them" Radical rule," and none of their leaders seemed then to comprehend that the enfranchisement of the negro could possibly result in making the South more powerful than ever and in every National campaign the main reliance of their party for success, even to a greater degree than when the negroes were held in absolute slavery.

York Tribune, had an extensive circulation in Ohio, was extremely bitter in his denunciation of President Johnson, and apparently delighted in calling him a "scoundrel," a criminal" and an "unholy conspirator." It is interesting to note, too, his fond anticipations over the inauguration of General Grant, who in the vicissitudes of politics was but a little later his own opponent for election to the Presidency. In January, 1869, he said, "We look for his (Grant's) coming as men who gaze through the darkest night and yearn for the glorious morning. His inauguration will be the sign of the coming day, and we feel assured that it will be a day of glorious and beneficent works of economy, honesty and peace." The Republicans of Ohio shared in this longing for the "coming day," for the four years of Johnson's Administration had been to them also a season of repining and bitter regret for the error they had committed in voting unanimously to displace Hannibal Hamlin with one who had proved both an ingrate and traitor to those who nominated and elected him. However, that he was not impeached and removed from office was no fault of the Ohio Republicans, for both Senators and all sixteen of their Representatives in Congress voted and spoke in favor of so disgracing him.

At their usual annual love-feast at the

Horace Greeley, whose paper, the New Capital, on March 31st, the Republican State

Executive Committee decided to convene the Ohio Convention, at Columbus, on Wednesday, June 23d. The call was issued May 3d, and the ratio of representation fixed at one delegate for every 400 votes cast in 1868 for Sherwood for Secretary of State, or 666 in all.

ing the morning, and reported the Vice Presidents and several Committees as follows:

Vice-Presidents: 1. Joseph Seifert, Hamilton. 2. Henry Kessler, Hamilton. 3. Seth S. Haines, Warren. 4. John D. Burgess, Miami. 5. George W. Holbrook, Auglaize. 6. Daniel H. Bailey, Clinton. The Convention met on the day set and 7. Emerson E. White, Franklin. 8. John was called to order by Albert B. Buttles, B. Coates, Union. 9. Levi Weirick, SenChairman of the State Committee, at eleven eca. 10. Amos Hill, Fulton. 11. John o'clock in the morning. Prayer was offered T. Wilson, Adams. 12. Nelson J. Turney, by Rev. Albert G. Byers, of Columbus. Pickaway. 13. John A. Sinnett, Licking. The temporary organization was announced 14. Willard Slocum, Ashland. 15. Nelson as follows: H. Van Vorhes, Athens. 16. Joseph D. Chairman: Benjamin Eggleston, of Taylor, Guernsey. 17. Edward F. Hamilton County. Schneider, Stark. 18. Charles B. PettinSecretary: Dudley W. Rhodes, of Dela- gill, Cuyahoga. 19. Abner Kellogg, Ashtabula.

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Assistant Secretaries: J. M. C. Marble, of Van Wert, S. E. Judd, of Summit and G. M. Emmitt, of Crawford.

Mr. Eggleston was warmly greeted and talked for a few moments on what had been accomplished by the grand old party, and what was still to be done by it. He said "that the Republicans were willing that all who would should join their ranks, but they were not willing that the newcomers should begin by driving the horses." He praised General Grant's Administration, saying that he had commenced right, was doing well, and there was much for the party to rejoice He believed that straight party issues should be met squarely and the delegates would coincide with him in the opinion that Governor Hayes, whose administration had been a model one, ought to have been renominated without even the usual formalities of a Convention, and felt sure the people would see to his reelection by a largely increased majority.

over.

The various districts had caucused dur

II.

Credentials: 1. John J. Hooker, Ham-
ilton. 2. Henry C. Borden, Hamilton. 3.
H. W. R. Brunner. Montgomery. 4. James
M. Craig, Darke. 5. John H. Foster, Van
Wert. 6. John M. Barrere, Highland. 7.
Daniel McMillan, Greene. 8. John Bartram,
Marion. 9. James B. Luckey, Ottawa.
10. Jacob C. Donaldson, Defiance.
John W. Collins, Scioto. 12. George W.
Gregg, Pickaway. 13. John A. Blair,
Muskingum. 14. Samuel Humphreyville,
Medina. 15. E. E. Cunningham, Wash-
ington. 16. O. Slemmons, Harrison.
Jonathan K. Rukenbrod, Columbiana.
George W. Steele, Lake.
Fitch, Ashtabula.

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