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E. (J. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
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Catnrbaii fßornmn, September 13, 1833.
REPUBLIC A X CAXDIDA PES.
FOR CANAI, COMMTSHFOXKR,
PASSMORS WILLIAMSON, of Philad'a.
FOR REPUF.SESTATI V E-=,
BARTHOLOMEW LAPORTE, of Dureil,
JUDSON HOLCOMB, of Rome.
FOR COCNTY COMMISSIONER.
PERLEY H. BUCK, of Pike.
FOR TKKASI KKH,
EZRA C. KELLOGG, of Monroe township.
FOR Arnrrott,
r CHRISTOPHER CHILD, of Smithfield.
ELECTION TUESDAY. OCTOBER !).
THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES,
We raise to our mast-head the names of the
candidates presented by the Republican Coun
ty Mass Convention, for the suffrages of the
Freemen of Bradford. In doing so, we take
occasion to express our gratification that they
should be so deserving of the support of our
voters. It should be a source of congratula
tion to the Republicans of Bradford that they
have candidates whose reputation for ability to
discharge the duties of the several stations in
connexion with which they have been named, is
of the highest order, and whose character for
honesty, affability and integrity is unquestioned.
In selecting a ticket, the Convention, being
on assemblage of the voters en masse, through
their chairman appointed a committee for that
purpose, representing nearly every election dis
trict in the County, who reported to the meet
ing the names composing the present ticket.—
Their action was then unanimously approved
of by the Convention, with every appearance
of enthusiasm and satisfaction. Thus, for once,
we have candidates emanating directly from
the people, without the interference of politi
cians, and uucontamiuated by bargains and
promises and log-rolling.
IN e need hardly say, that for Representa
tives the Convention re-nominated
BARTHOLOMEW LAPORTE, of Dure/1,
JUDSOX IIOLCOMB, of Rome.
Ihe Republicans of Bradford have never,
for a moment, considered the names of any
other persons as candidates for this important
post. Xo other candidate lias ever been sug
gested. The propriety and necessity for their
re-nomination was too evident. It was due to
the fidelity with which they discharged their
duties during the last session, and the uniform
consistency with which they maintained their
principles upon all occasions. Messrs. LAPORTE
and lIOIXOMH, in their Legislative career, have
uniformly acted together upon all the impor
tant questions which were agitated. We point
to their action with satisfaction, and challenge
for their legislative career the closest scrutiny.
For County Commissioner, is presented for
the suffrages of the voters of Bradford, the
name of
FLRLK\ 11. BUCK, of Pike.
It has been our privilege to be associated with
Mr. B. in the contests for Freedom in this
county, and we speak from an intimate know
ledge of his character and qualifications for
the important office he is selected to fill. He
is a gentleman well qualified by education, and
his business habits are of the very first order.
The growing interests of this large County de
mand that the Commissioner should be a first
rate business man, of inflexible honesty, of
good judgment, and a high degree of firmness.
All these are combined in an eminent manner
in Mr. BCCE, as the universal testimony of his
acquaintances will witness.
EZRA C. KELLOGG, of ATonroe,
selected as the candidate for County Treasurer,
is better known to the voters of the county,
having on a former occasion, been before them
for their suffrages. Perhaps the flattering vote
given him bv his neighbors, at that time, is a
better endorsement of his character and stand
ing than anything we could say. His reputa
tion for honesty and integrity is unquestioned,
and his qualifications for the office of Treasur
er, of the highest order. That the financial
affairs of the Couuty will bo efficiently manag
ed by him, we have no doubt, and we earnest
ly recommend him to the support of those with
whom we have always acted, as a candidate
worthy of their best exertions.
CHIUfcIOPHEII CHILI), of Smtf/ificltl,
was selected as a candidate for fhe office of
County Auditor. Politically speaking this post
is not of the slightest importance, but to the
tax-payers of the ( ouuty it is of immense mag
nitude. It requires for its proper discharge, a
ready and intelligent business-man, conversant
with the County business, ready to detect ex
travagance or imposition, and willing and de
termined to prevent ail abuses. Such we believe
we can recommend in the person of Mr. CHILD,
than whom no man sustains a better reputation
for ability and probity.
Such is the ticket presented by the Republi
cans of Bradford. N\ e have, on many occas
ions, taken pride in our candidates, but never
have we been able to urge the merits of a tick
et with such unqualified sincerity and unalloyed
pleasure. Fresh from the people, these candi
dates are distinguished by their eminent fitness
for the stations they have been selected to fill.
Each voter as he goes to the polls on the
second Tuesday of October, and deposites his
ballot for the Republican candidates, can do so
with the proud consciousness that heisnotoulv
advancing his principles, but that he is voting
for men who will carefully g„an( all the interests
confided to their hands.
THE REPUBLICAN MASS CONVENTION.
Let the friends of Freedom in Bradford be
of good cheer ! The principle of justice and
right for which we arc contending, is neither
" crushed out'' by the power and patronage and
denunciation of the General Administration,
nor is it to be hereafter bound down and crip
i pled by the shackles of party. The pure flame
upon the altar of Liberty burns clearer and
brigher and loftier than ever, proclaiming the
great and undying truth, that "resistance to
j tyrants is obedience to God." The Freemen
ot Bradford have arisen in their iudcpcudeuce
j and their strength, and declared that they will
present an united and unbroken front in the
great struggle which is now going on between
Slavery and Freedom. They have spontaneous
ly and solemnly declared that the issues and
contentions of the past, have no longer vitality
—that the continuation of past party associa
tions can only have the effect to divide and
weaken those who are struggling heart and
mind for a common purpose—and they have,
with singular unanimity, resolved to break the
fetters of party, and under the glorious banner
| of their common principles, do battle in uuison
against the usurping and lawless power which
threatens to subvert the principles for which
our forefathers poured out their blood.
In another column, will be found the pro
ceedings of the Republican Mass Convention
held at this place, on Monday evening last.—
The record will show the character and stand
ing of those who. participated in.it. It was a
gathering which by its enthusiastic and deter
mined action, and by the outspoken and man
ly expression of its principles, may well cheer
and invigorate to active exertions the friends
of the good cause. It is gratifying indeed, to
see active partizans, arrayed for years past in
antagonism, at the call of principle lay by the
prejudices and recollections of old conflicts,and
| eoiue up shoulder to shoulder, in a common
i cause. Such a spectacle will give new courage
|to the friends ot Freedom everywhere. It
j shows that the people are honest and indepen
, dent—that they have conscientiously differed
[ on questions of principle, but that now when
reason for differences no longer exist, thev are
ready to unite in defence of the liberties they
hold so dear.
The meeting of Monday night shows how
strong a hold the principle of Freedom has in
the hearts of the Freemen of Bradford—that
it has a lodgment there, which the arts of po
litical demagogues and the wiles of selfish and
ambitious men can never shake. The timid
may hesitate, the corrupt may oppose, the as
pirant may doubt and cavil, but the course of
our true yeomanry is onward and upward,
guided by the polar star of Freedom, and ac
tuated by a determination to oppose on all oc
casions, and in every form, the extension of
slavery.
lo the proceedings of this meeting we invite
the attention of our readers. Look at the
names of those participating in it. Arc they
not those who, belonging to both the late po
litical parties, have always been the determin
ed opponents of slavery-extension ? Has there
ever been the shadow of a variation upon this
question, in the course of those w ho now erect
the Republican banner, and under its broad
folds, emblazoned with the glorious principles
of Freedom, are determined to fight on, fight
ever, as long as slavery shall have desigys up
on the Free Soil of the Republic ? To the
principles enunciated, we proudly direct the
scrutiny of all those who have at heart the
cause of equal rights. There will be fouud no
attempt at deception or double-dealing ; no
evasion of the great questions crowding them
selves upon us for settlement; no trifling, nor
truckling, nor fawning to party or the slave in
terest ; no attempt to cover ulterior designs by
false pretences but in the platform as laid
down by the Republican Convention, there
speaks out the sentiments of the people ; the
throbbings of the popular heart have utterance,
in manly, honest, significant, emphatic tones,
which there can be no mistaking. There can
be no misconstruing the sentiments of that par
ty—they are an undying, uuceasing, uncompro
mising hostility to the aggrandizing and aggres
sive spirit of slavery.
lo that standard, all holding similar views
have been cordially invited. It will always be
found in coming contests in the thickest of the
fray, and rallying around it will be a baud of
devoted defenders, whom patronage cannot
corrupt, nor denunciations awe ; but who will
endeavor to effect the purpose for which it was
erected, and which should be the highest de
sire of every patriot, to separate the Govern
ment from all connexion with slavery— to keep
its baleful and prostituting influence from iu
\ading the halls of Congress—and from influ
encing the Federal Judiciary to acts of tvrau
ny and oppression worthy of the days of JEFF
REYS—to bring back the Government to the
original and simple design of its founders, and
make it the instrument for carrying out the
purposes f>r which it was instituted, instead of
becoming a mighty engine to forward the plans
of the slavery-propagandists. In a word, the
design is, to make Freedom Xational, and Sla
very sectional. All who may sincerely desire
to effect these great objects, are invited to join '
the Republican banner, and in conjunction with
the Republicans of the other free States en
deavor to place in the Presidential chair in
185(1 a President who will not humble himself
in the dust before the slave power, and become
the mere tool and instrument of that interest,
lending his influence to forward their purposes
and throwing the whole weight of the Govern
ment into the scale in favor of the usurpations '
of slavery-propagandism.
f®-Tlie Republicans of Tioga county have
nominated T. L. BALDWIN, for re-election, as
Representative, will see that it is done.
THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION.
It was hardly to be expected that a body
composed of such discordant elements as Yvas
the late Democratic County Convention, should
speak out in unambiguous language upon any
question. Those who have looked over its pro
ceedings will not fail to recognize amongst its
most active and leading members, the names
qf those Yvho have been for years opposed to
the action of the true democracy of this Omuty;
who have been consistent in nothing but uni
form opposition to the sentiments of Freedom
held by our citizens, who have endeavored in
every way to defeat and embarrass the utter
ance of those principles, and have been ojieu
and constant friends and advocates of pro-sla
very doctrines.
This YVC may add, is not the case with all
Yvho participated in the Convention. There
were, YVC knoYv, those amongst its members,
who are true to the cause of Freedom, and
would not willingly do anything to retard it.
That such are dissatisfied Yvitli the action of
the Convention, Yve also know, and will give to
the success of the Republican cause their best
energies.
We arraign that Convention, for placing in
nomination for Representative VICTOR E. PIOL-
I.ET ; because he has been for years the sup
porter of pro-slavery sentiments, the advocate
of pro-slavery men ; the opponent of the Free
men of Bradford County. The position for
which he is named, is one which bears directly
upon the question at issue. The next Legis
lature has the election of an U. S. Senator to
represent this Commonwealth for the next six
years. It is important that a true friend of
, Freedom should be chosen. Do the Freemen
j of Bradford county desire to have another Biton
lIKAD to misrepresent them for six years to
come ? In that time this great and momen
tous question will probably lie settled. HOYV
1 important then, that a tried and true friend of
j Freedom should be in the Senate.
We arraign that Convention, for an evasion
i of the great questions of the day—for a relue
; taut aud sneaking notice of those matters which
i are now engaging most earnestly the attention
of our people. For failing to denounce in pro
per terms the outrages in Kansas ; for omit
ting to mention in any manner, the unjustifia
ble removal of Gov. KEEPER ; for failing to
reprobate the of slavery, and for
silently passing over the Administration of
PIERCE without rebuke ; for failing to notice
the late outrageous decision of Judge KANE,
whereby Pennsylvania becomes virtually a slave
State ; and for failing to point out any reme
dy for these outrages and usurpations by the
slave power.
h reemen of Bradford, are yon afraid to speak
your sentiments in regard to these matters?—
Are you Yvilling to have it go abroad that you
dure not express yoar opposition to the Repeal
of the Alissouri Compromise ; your detestation
of an Administration which has forgotten its
pledges and its duty to the country ? Arc you
willing to have your voice silenced in regard
to the removal of Gov. REEDER ; and your de
termination to oppose the aggressions of slave
ry stifled by a so-called Democratic Conven
tion ? If you are not Yvilliug to become stulti
fied or to be thus misrepresented, you cannot
give your sanction or support to that Conven
tion.
If you have been consistent in your past ac
tion—if you have been honest in your previous
ly expressed sentiments—how can you give up
all by voting for nominees of this Convention,
thus endorsing its proceedings, and particular
ly how can you support VICTOR E. PIOI.LET,
whom you all knoYv as the opponent of every
principle of freedom you have ever held most
dear.
It is an insult to your honesty, an imputation
upon your intelligence, to suppose you capable \
of doing any such thing. The meu YVIIO have
so often rallied in defence of their principles,!
cannot be cheated nor brow-beat into the siqv
port of a candidate Yvho has been opposing
their principles and their champions for years.
Such a reproach will never attach to the freemen !
of Bradford. Local questions may be pander- 1
cd with,every township interest he appealed to,
but the yeomanry of Bradford Yvill rise above
such narrow considerations, and proudly and
independently assert their principles, and re
buke those who would seek to lead them
astray.
THE PROSPECT.
A\ c wish to convey to our Republican friends !
throughout the county, the nnmislakeable j
evidence of the success of this ticket, which j
reaches us from every part of the County. 1
The importance of the movement has been so
long manifest to the public mind that the mass
of the voters are hailing it with the utmost
enthusiasm. Before its sweeping progress, the '
feeble barrier of party ties are broken down, — i
the narrow designs of interested politicians in-'
terpose iu vain, to prevent the sspontaneous ex
pression" of the popular Yvill. The people arc
always ahead of politicians in all great move- j
ments, and crush beneath the wheel of their
progression, the selfish, the calculating aud the
hesitating.
But it is not enough that our ticket shall be
successful. The best energies of every Free
men should be devoted to the cause of Freedom,
from this time until election. Our object is
not merely to elect onr candidates, but to give
them such a majority as shall demonstrate the
hold our principles have in our hearts. To this
end every vote cast contribuces. Let the Re
publican ticket be triumphant by 2000 majority,
and Yve shall be ready iu 1850 to give the Re-,
publican candidate for President a majority in
this County, of nearly or qnite 5000.
•6?* Ihe proceedings of Court are unavoida
bly eroYvded out of this week's paper. i
The County Superintendent.
TOYYANDA, Sept. 11, 1855.
B. Lafortf. ovd J. llvlovmb, ESIJS :
GENT: —-The object of this communication
is to ascertain your views in regard to the of
fice of County Superintendent of Common
Schools. If elected to the Legislature would
you be in favor of repealing the law erecting
said office ? Very respectfully,
J A MKS 11. WE HIJ,
ASH Kit HUNTINGTON,
ULYSSES MOODY,
lIENKY (JAYLORI),
JAMES HODGE,
H. W. TRACY.
TOWAXDA, Sept. 12, 1855.
j (i EXTREME v :—Your letter in relation to the
i office of County Superintendent is before us,
j and we cheerfully reply to your enquiry. The
! law of last winter in regard to common schools
contains thirteen sections, and is general in its
character. It was projected by the committee
on Education, and advocated by the School
i Department as necessary to perfect our Com
mon school system. Some counties ia the state
had manifested a disposition to increase ther
salary of their County Superintendent, and the
Sth section was framed and inserted to give
such as desired it an opportunity to do so, on
petition of a majority of the boards of School,
Directors to the State Superintendent. This
section did not give us any uneasiness, as we
supposed the matter would be safe in the hands
of the School Directors, coming directly from
i the people.
We did not look upon"this section as of any
practical importance to our county, in one way
or the other ; and to prevent misapprehension,
I we will here state that the Superintendent of
this county never approached us in any way
upon the subject of this section,
i It appears that a majority of the boards of
school directors of this county has made the
| section of importance to the people, by a peti
tion to the State Superintendent for another
school director's convention, and a very small
minority—less than one-eighth of the whole
number of directors in the county—have, by
their action, trebled the salary of our County
Superintendent. On a re-examination of the
provisions of said section, we see no better way
, to get rid of this burden than to repeal the law
creating the office of County Superintendent ;
and if honored with seats in the next Legisla
ture, we shall be entirely willing to vote for
such repeal.
I We believe the usefulness ami efficiency of
the officer in this county, whatever may be the
capacity of the present incumbent, is effectual
ly destroyed ; and we doubt whether in any
case one man can be of any practical benefit as
Superintendent of the 344 schools of Bradford.
Neither the eye nor mind of one man can reach
over such an extensive field with any satisfac
tory result, and the practical management of
our schools must necessarily be left in the hands
of tlnise immediately interested, viz :—the fa
thers of the children composing those schools,
and the directors of the several school districts.
We may with propriety call your attention
to another section of the act of last session,
authorizing the payment of the public monies
to such school districts as had not been able to
keep up four month's school during the last
year, as required by the law of the previous
I session. Many of the school districts in this
county had only kept school open three months
according to the old law, and consequently
they could not legally receive their quota of
the state appropriation. We took some pains
| to have this section incorporated in the act,
and it was the only section in it that we then
thought of any practical importance to our
county. Verv Trulv, Yours,
B. LAPORTE,
J. HOLCOMB.
To Messrs. WEBB, HCNTINOTOX, and others.
THE FOREIGX NEWS by the last two arrivals
is unimportant. The papers are principally
filled with the details of Queen Victoria's visit
to Paris. No change had taken place in the
Crimea.
At the late annual commencement of
Madison University, the degree of Bachelor
of Arts was conferred upon Dr. S. E. SHEPARD of
New York city, formerly of this county. This
houorary distinction could not have been more
appropriately eonfered.
The Supreme Court of this state have
denied PASSMOKE WIJ.T.IAMSOX the writ of
habeas corpus, upon the ground that one Court
has not the right to interfere with another in
such cases. Judge Kxox dissented, and pub
lishes an elaborate opinion in favor of granting
i the writ.
Death of the Hon. H. Williston.
On Monday, the 3d inst. the death of the
Hon HORACE WILMSTON was announced to
the Court by Edward Overton Esq., in a most
eloquent manner. Mess. Bullock, Watkins,
El well and Patrick passed high but well de
' served ecomimus upon the legal ability and high
moral worth of the deceased. These gentle
men were followed by the Hon David Wilmot
who spoke of the virtues of Judge Williston
in an impressive manner, whereupon the Court
adjourned, and a meeting of the members of
the Bar was called for the purpose of giving
suitable expressions to their feelings,—Edward
Overton Esq., was called to the chair. 1). A.
Overton and F. Smith, appointed Secretaries.
Mr. Patrick made some very feeling and
appropriate remarks on the early life and
character of tiie deceased.
Mr. Patrick, moved that a Committee be
appointed to prepare resolutions ; whereupon
the Chairman appointed the following gentle
men :
H. W. Patrick, A\ in. Elwell and Darius
Bullock, Esq., who reported the following re
solutions, which were read by Air. Patrick and
adopted by the meeting.
Rcsolved , That in the death of the Hon.
HORACE WII.I.ISTOX, late President Judge of
this district, this Bar has lost one of its up
right, intelligent, and most valuable members ;
and the community a kind, open hearted and
benevolent Christian.
Resolved, That we most deeply sympathize
with his family in this bereavement by which
Yve lose a companion and friend YVIIO for many
years has been associated Yvitli us in his pro
fession and attached to us by the most friendly
intercourse.
Resolved, That the members of this Bar,
wear a crajic on the left arm for 30 days as a
mark of resject for the deceased.
Resolved, that a copy of the proceedings of
this meeting be forwarded to the family of
Judge \\ lu.isro.x by the chairman and be pub
lished in the papers of this district.
REPUBLICAN
MASS CONVENTION.
Pursuant to a published cull, signed by &
large number of persons, the Freemen of Brad
ford County, without regard to former party
associations, assembled iu the Court House, ill
this Boro', on MONDAY EVENING, Sept.
10, 185f>, for the purpose of organizing a RE
PUBLICAN PARTY, and placing iu nomination A
Republican County Ticket.
The Convention was called to order by AI.I.FN
! McK BAN, upon whose motion the following
I named persons were elected officers :
PRESIDENT :
AARON CIIUBBUCK, ESQ., OF ORWELL.
| VICE PRESIDENTS T
| M. H. COBBING, HECTOR OWENS,
; PKTKR STKRIOF.RE, J. G. TOWNER,
N. C. HARRIS, JOHN A. MOODY,
L. S. KKKI.KR, WILLIAM TITTLE,
T S. W. PARK, C. H. AMES,
HANSON SPALDING, DAVID FARNSWORTH,
F GEORGE TERRY, DARILS BCLLOCK,
I GEO. F. lIOHTON, DAVID B. SMITH,
• JOHN F. LONG, O. A. VINCENT,
X. T. DICKF.RSON, W. Y. G LINES,
J EARL NICHOLS, I). F. HILDRETH,
JosEpnrs CAMPPF.LL, GEO. A STEPHENS,
JKHIAI. MCKEAN, GEO. VAXNESS,
PERRY B. PRATT, PETER MONROE,
WM. 11. VANDYKE, BELA COGSWELL,
S. H. NEWMAN, HARRY ACKLF.Y,
j STEPHEN BCLLOCK, N. N. BKTTS,
I ULYSSES MOODY, M. C. MF.RCCR,
ROBERT BCI.L, JAMES ELLIOTT,
\\ M. BLAKE, W. W. EAST A BROOKS,
! J- M. MARTIN, 11. LAWRENCE SCOTT,
BENJ. SAXTON, K. W. HALE,
HARRISON ROSS, AI.YIN W. THOMAS,
GEO. W. ELLIOTT, EZRA LOOMIS,
EZEKIF-L CARII, B. S. l)ARrr,
j A. I>. Foss, E. NEWBERRY,
C. T. BLISS, S. C. HOVF.V,
J CYRCS BLOODGOOD, J. L. GORSF.LINE,
I). B. COOPER, CALEB ABEL,
JERF.MIAH HOLLON, I MILES PRINCE,
DANIEL DECKER, LORENZO GRIXNEI.L,
j ZEBUI.ON FRISBIK, lICMPIIREY MOSHIER,
I HENRY GIBBS, J. B. G. BABCOCK,
E. B. COOLBACGH, WM. SIBLEY,
: J. B. M. lIINMAN, JUSTUS LEWIS,
I JAMES HAVERI.Y, CHARLES lIOMET,
WM. WALTMAN, J. M. REED,
JAMF.S HODGE, SAM'I. COOI.BAUGII,
DANIEL BAILEY, J. L. JONES,
I WILLIAM SEEI.Y, J. L. TCKRELL.
SECRETARIES :
. E. A. Parsons, J. R. Ingham,
I E. O. Goodrich, Samuel Reynolds,
j O. 11. P. Kinney, S. R. Crane,
!E. C. Wells, ' B. F. Pouell.
The object of the meeting having been stat
ed, on motion of HENRY W. TRACY, the Chair
appointed a Committee to draft resolutions ex
pressive of the sense of the Convention, con-
J sisting of the following named persons :
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS :
; Henry W. Tracy, Gordon F. Mason,
Ulysses Mercur, Guy 11. Watkius,
Henry Booth, Sturges Squires,
John B. Hines, J. M Martin,
E. R Myer, Truman M. Beach,
! Edward Crandal, Griswold Mathews,
Allen McKean, Paul D. Morrow,
Isaac X. Evans.
On motion of JAMES 11. WEBB, the Chair
appointed the following named persons a Com
! mittee to report the Convention the names of
candidates for a Republican County Ticket :
COMMITTKF: TO Hi:rosT CANDIDATES :
James 11.- \\ ebb, J. 11. Marsh,
John B. Stcrigere, George W. Brink,
C. Moshier, I). Chaffee,
j I). B. Cotton, E. W. Towner,
Isaac N. Evans, Wm. Stevens,
! J°hn F. Dodge, C. T. Covel,
j Charles Knapp, j 1). B. Culver,
Hiram McKean, Win. Tripp,
Win. McKean, ! C. A. Lyman,
Frederick Whitehead, S. R. Crane,
UEL C. Porter, O. A. Vincent,
Mial P. Slade, H. W. Root,
Stephen Bullock, H. L. Scott,
I lyases Moody, W. 11. Decker,
Edward Hornet, Stephen Powell,
Ahira Gay, W. W. Eastabrooks,
Ezra Spalding, Wm. C. Bogart,
Ezekiel Carr, Jerc Culp,
J. S. Crawford, W. Barrowcliff,
Jacob Campbell, Edward Kemp,
Stephen Evans, E. 11. Forrest,
A. D. loss, Manson Elsbree,
Ezra Holcomb, Hiram Taylor,
I rccinan Sweet, Henry Gaylord,
Daniel Decker, C. K. lugham,
Hiram Sweet, John B. Hines,
Dennis Darling, I. p. Spalding,
Julius Gorham, C. S. White,
James Haverley, Hiram Stone,
Jacob Strcby, Ilcnry Noble,
Joel Tattle.
During the absence of the Committees, Hon.
DAVID WILMOT, being called for, addressed tiie
C on vent ion with his usual ability and eloquence
—depicting the growing arrogance and multi
plied usurpations of the Slave-power, and illus
trating the necessity for united action on the
part of the North. At the conclusion of his
remarks, the Committee on Resolutions, thro'
their Chairman, 11. W. TRACY, made the fol
lowing report:
M HERE AS, The true object of party organi
zation is to settle the principles and policy up
on which the government should be administer
ed ; and parties are of no value in our politi
cal system, except as they represent the real
issues by which the people are divided ; ami
when they cease so to do, and tend to distract
the efforts of those who are united iu sentiment
the public welfare imperatively demauds that
they be rc-constructed upon the real, vital is
sues which affect the interests and enlist the
feelings ot the people : And whereas, the ques
tions of public policy which iu times past have
divided the two great parties of the country,
have become of minor iinjFortance, and another
question has arisen, so absorbing in its charac
ter and so momentous in its consequences to
the present and future welfare of the nation,
that our political differences uj>on other matters
seem trivial in comparison, and no longer justi
fy the separate political action of those who
arc united upon this great question. There
fore,
Resolved, That the question which now over
whelms all others by its magnitude, is one of
freedom or slavery—whether this government
shall hereafter fulfil the design of its founders
as set forth in tire Constitution, " to establ's!
"justice, to ensure domestic tranquility, to nice
" vide for the common defence, promote th
" general welfare and secure the blessings of
"liberty to ourselves and our posterity" 0 '
whether the chief end of its existence lierea/
ter shall be to extend and pcr]>etiiate in f n "
territory the area and the curse of human bo,!
dage.
Resolved, That while we claim no power to
interfere with slavery iu States where it n w
exists, we believe that the National Govern
luent should be relieved from all connection
with, or accountability for it.
JUsUced, That the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise was a violation of the National
faith, and a wanton outrage upon the rights of
the Free States ; and that it was the first ste
of the conspiracy against freedom, which ha,'
found its appropriate and intended sequel iu the
lawless attempts of a Missouri mob, instigated
bv a conspicuous friend of the National Admin
istration, and connived at and sanctioned li
the same, to force the curse of slavery up!',
the free soil of Kansas ; and we not onlv
oppose the extension of slavery over our
national territories, but also the admission of
any new Slave states in the Union, believing
that, as our national domain is free front slave
rv, in the absence of auy positive law establish
ing it, we are justified in making freedom a con
dition of their admission into the sisterhood of
States.
Resolved, That we are in favor of the repeal
of the present Fugitive Slave law, because it
virtually suspends the sacred writ of habeas
corpus, und takes away the right of trial by
jury.
Resolved, That the recent attempt on the
part of the Federal Judiciary to authorize, by
judicial construction, the holding of Slaves in
this Commonwealth, and the imprisonment
without trial, of citizens of the free Slates, by
Federal Judiciary, is a bold invasion of personal
liberty, a violation of the guaranteed rights of
States, and an assumption of federal power
that should he resisted determinedly by every
friend of personal and civil freedom, and we
call upon our National Representatives soon
to assemble, to prefer articles of impeachment
against the federal Judge w ho has thus offended.
Hesolred, That the gross neglect of the Na
tional Administration to extend its protecting
care over the law-abiding citizens of Kansas
and its having removed Gov. REEDER at the
request of the slave power, evinces not onlv a
disregard of the personal safety and lives' of
the inhabitants thereof, but a settled purpose
to connive at the lawless invasion of her terri
tory by bands of Missouri ruffians ; and calls
loudly upon Northern Freemen to uuite togeth
er for the purpose of placing in the Presiden
tial chair a man who recognizes the rights of
the North, and who will so administer the go
vernment as to protect our citizens in the en
joyment of their rights, and restore our govern
ment to the policy of its founders.
ResdceA, That while we disclaim all connex
ion with other political organizations, vet we
cordially invite all who approve of the priuci- j
pies set forth in these resolutions, without re
gard to their former political associations, to
unite and co-operate with us for the purpose of
restoring the administration of this government
to its original purity, and directing its energies
to the accomplishment of its true object, asset
forth in the Constitution.
Resolved, That we hail the nomination of
PASSMORE WILLIAMSON asCanalCom
missioner, by the Republican State Convention,
recently assembled, as indicative of public sun
pathv lor his unjust imprisonment; awl of de
testation towards the representative of the
: slave power which placed him there; and in
| asmuch as every vote cast for Pa-more Wil
liamson is a withering rebuke to that official,
and a manly assertion of state rights, be shall
receive our united and cordial support.
On motion, the resolutions were unanimously
and enthusiastically adopted.
JAMES H. WEBB, Chairman of the Commit
tee to nominate Candidates, then reported that
the following ticket had unanimously been re
commended to the Convention :
FOK REPRESENTATIVES :
BARTHOLOMEW LAPOKTE. of Durtll,
JUDSOX HOLCOMB, of Home.
FOR CorXTV COMMISSIONER :
PERLEY 11. BUCK, of Ph.
FOR TREASCRER :
EZRA C. KELLOGG, of Mvnm.
FOR AUDITOR :
CHRISTOPHER CHILD, of SmithfiM. I
lie report of the Committee was confirms! Bp
by the Convention without a dissenting vo;it |
The Convention was then addressed bj H I
W. TRACY, UI.YSSES MERCIR, HENRY Bo ~ I
and B. LAPORTE, in able and spirited remark- I
eliciting the frequent aud hearty applause w I
their large auditory. I
On motion of AI.I.EN MCKEAN, the fo'Jo'- 1
ing resolution was unanimously adopted: B|
Resolved, That the President be hi-rt ri -"l
thorized to appoint a Stauding County OBj
mittee consisting of thirteen, to serve for f B
ensuing year, whose duty it shall be lien 1 '- Hj
to appoint Committees of Vigilance in ' " B |
veral election districts of the County, andm* I
effectually to perfect a permanent organize B.
of the Republican party. 1
W hereupon, the Chair appointed tiiofj-'B
ing named persons as a Republican I
STANDING COUNTY COMMITTEE- I
ALLEN M KEAN, I
E. O. GOODRICH, I
WM. C. BOG ART, I
G. P. MASON, 1
J. B. G. BABCOCK. I
EUGENE KEELEB, I
JOHN A. CODDING, i
WM. 11. VANDYKE, I
V. S. VINCENT. 1
SAMUEL DAVIDSON, 1
L. C. KELLOGG, 5
C. F. NICHOLS, 1
IRA C. BULLOCK. |
On motiou of ULYSSES MERCI R, the fil
ing resolutions were unanimously adopts• I
Resolved , That the ticket this night
nated meets our cordial approbation, *"
pledge ourselves to use our most actm- * ■
energetic efforts to secure its election. ■
Hesolred, That the proceedings of tu-y ■
vention be published in all the papers
County, and in other papers through l " R|
State favorable to the Republican I Bj
On motion, the Convention then a 1 I
[ Signed In the llf vers 1