Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1869 — General Rosecrans Declines the Democratic Nomination for Governor of Ohio. [ARTICLE]

General Rosecrans Declines the Democratic Nomination for Governor of Ohio.

Hon. A. G. Thckman, Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Central Committee, received the following dispatch last Sunday: “Sax Francisco, August 7. “Hon. A. G. Thurman, I Columbus, Ohio: j “Alter the war, I resigned a very desirable position in the army, and left my State to secure at least the possibility of fuifillityf duties deemed sacred to my creditors and family.— These duties now forbid me the honor of leading the Democracy ot Ohio in the pending canvass. I will send a letter to the committee by mail. “\V. S. ltOnKcktANS.” Tims, without one word of thanks “for the honor,” without an intimation of a desire for their success, or sympathy with the principles advocated in their platform, “Old Uosey” declines their nomination. It must be humiliatin'' to the doO mocracy of Ohio, after conquurmg t heir disgust for the “Lincoln litre-, ling,” “butcher,” “grave robber,” etc., so “much as to yell thentselvoshoarse over his nomination, to have him return a contemptuous'‘“it wont pay” to their urgent elamorings that he assume their leadership. S'