The Ashland Union

The Germans find that they are to be forced, willing or unwilling, to support a Know Nothing for President, although they had proclaimed their choice to be Seward, and had demanded his nomination as the price of their allegiance. The Chase men feel that their candidate was slaughtered in the house of his friends—that even Ohio would not support his pretensions. The friends of Seward feel that an "irrepressible conflict" against their favorite has brought him to the ground by the thrust of a "base marauding lance." The prestige of victory is not with the opposition they have no heart for the work, no stomach for the fight. Their nomination fell like a wet blanket upon the most ardent of the opposition. With a good candidate on the part of the Democracy the victory will be an easy one.—National Democrat.