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ST.. GEORGE.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY WING CON
vENTION.
A large and respectable number Of dele
gates from the several towns, opposed tc
the election of Martin Van Buren, and r
NJ. Johnson isle La Mott excepted) assem-.
blcd at the Court House in North Hero
on the 18th July. The meeting was called
TO order by Hector Adams, Esq. and or
motion, the Hon. JOEL ALLEN was APP
pointed Chairman and f. HAzEN, Secreta.
ry.
On motion, committee Of two from each
town represented was appointed to present
to the Convention some suitable person to
represen, the County in the Senate of this
State, and the following named gentlemen
were appointed Messrs. G. w. Good,
rich, Doc,. Butler, Augustus Knight. ia
bez Ladd, Benjamin Griffith, Gary Whit
ney, Calvin Fletcher and Alison London.
The committee retired for short time,
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when the Chairman of the committee, Cal.
vim Fletcher, reported the name Of HEC.
TOR ADAMS, Esq. which report was &C.
cepted and the nomination of Mr.. Adams
was confirmed by the Convention without
dissenting voice.
We omit that portion of the proceed
ings relating to the local arrangements for
the election
Toted, That the proceedings of this
Convention be signed by the President and
Secretary and published in the Burlington
Free Press, or so much of it as will give
publicity 10 the nomination of HEcToR
ADAMS, Esq.
Adjourned without day.
JOEL ALLEN, President.
+. HAzEN, Secretary.
Mr.. STAcY-T noticed in the Sentinel Of
week before last, an article signed "Grand
Isle County," casting reflections on the
Wing candidate for Senator in Grand Isle
County, and the manner in which the NOM
ina;on was made. The writer of that ar.
ticle is known, and when his character rises
above that of the brute creation, he will
be entitled TO some notice. But perhaps
the public may demand that some further
notice should be taken Of the article in
question, and also the manner in which it
appeared ; and the manner in which it has
been received by the Van Buren, party and
candidate for Senator in this county, de-
mand it. 1t was fondly hoped that each
party would be free to select their own
candidate without any interference Of the
other party, and that the election would
be conducted upon fair and honorable prin-
cipes but this hope has been blasted by
the appearance Of the article in the Van
Buren, organ, and which is fondled and
cherished by their candidate and party in
this county. Ten days have been suffered
to pass since the appearance of the SANDER,
for the purpose of giving Mr.. Barnes and
his supporters an opportunity of condemn.
ing it, if they did not approve of it. But
his hired man has been seen peddling the
papers that contained it, There are but
two assertions in the article in question, that
are true,-one is, that Mr.. Adams was
nominated as candidate for Senator by
the Wing Convention in this county, and
the other, that Isle La Mott was not repre-.
scented in the convention, lin consequence
of the high winds rendering the waters i'm.
passable on that day. An incendiary is
always the first one to cry "fre." Let us
examine the nomination of Dr.. Barnes, the
Van Buren, candidate for Senator. No
public notice was given that a convention
was to be held for that purpose. Dr.. Barnes
repaired 10 North Hero on military mus
ter day, called few of his patients into the
Court House, who forthwith appointed him
chairman of the meeting. Dr.. Barnes ap,
pointed his committee, and his committee
in turn nominated him a candidate for Sen.
ator, and therefore DR.. Barnes ordered his
Secretary 10 publish this farce in the Sen
tlnel, as the spontaneous voice of the Van
Buren, party; when it is well known, that,
had the whole county been fairly repre-,
sented, Judge John M. Sowles would have
been selected as the candidate South He.
70 was not represented at all, and Aburgh
was represented only by two deputy Gus
tom House officers under Col II yde, who
is brother inlaw to DR.. Barnes. Now
under these circumstances, what chance
was there for the nomination of any per-
son except DR. Barnes.
In the Wing nomination, public notice
was given that convention would be held
for that purposes and four towns out of five
IN the county were represented, and the