Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-02-14
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::::::::;:TEBRUARY ~, 1880.
TIE WING CONVENTION

as George Winchester, Of Natchez, was Gale
IN 10 the chair, and A. r. Johnston, s. ii.
~ Black, and P. B. Barker, were appointed Secre
n. tarics. The members then produced thel
s, credentials and took seats in the convention
is resolution was adopted, inviting the WIFI
&c members of the Legislature from counIie
II which had not sent delegates, to take seats il
Or the Convention.
c. A committee was then appointed TO noml
T. nate officers for the convention. The commit
b tee reported the following nominations whicl
i were unanimously confirmed. w. S. Bodle.
r for President. Byrd Hill, LIST Vice President
u P w. Farrar, "a Vice President; JOSEPH
, Brown, 3rd Vice President; John Hardeman
{ 4th Vice President; Thomas Griffin, 9Th Vic,
c President S. II. B. Black, A. r. Johnston ant
P, B, Barker, Secretaries.
!. The rules which govern the House Of Rep
resentatives were then adopted for the govern
ment of the Convention, so far as they were ap
plcable. 1t was then resolved by the conven
ton that each county, in voting on nomina
tons, should be entitled to number of votes
equal to its number of representatives, and nc
more. A committee Of one from each county
was appointed to suggest to the convention suit.
able persons to be supported by the republican
Wing party of this State, at the ensuing No.
vember election. A committee ofnine persons
were appointed to draft resolutions expressive
of the principles of the Convention, and an ad-
dress to the citizens Of this State. A resou-
ton was adopted, expressing the regret of the
Convention that our distinguished representa-
tives in Congress, Messrs. Prentss and Word,
had declined a re-election,-and u committee,
consisting of Messrs. Gillespie, Acee, 3inga-
man, King and Farrar, was appointed to re-
turn them the grateful acknowledgements of
the Wings Of this State, for their bold manly,
and able defence of the rights of the people of
Mississippi, in the Congress of the United
States.
The rest Of the proceedings we annex from
the journal of the Convention, as follows:
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 80, 8 O'Clock, P. NJ.
After recess the Wing Convention met, and
Immediately the nominating committee, through
their chairman, made the following Report:
Mr. PREsIDENT:-Th committee appointed
by this convention to suggest the names ofsuit-
able gentlemen for the office of Governor of this
State, two Representatives in the next Con-
gress Of the United States, and such other Off
GERS as they may deem expedient, to propose toI
the Convention, &C., beg leave to report that
they have selected the following gentlemen,
viz:
For Governor,
Hon. EDWARD TURNER, ofFranklin,
For STATE Treasurer,
GEN SlLAs Brown, Of Kinds.
For Secretary Of State,
JAMES J. GRAVES, Of Amite.
For Auditor of Public accounts,
PHILIP Dixon, Of Kinds.
Your committee have not yet agreed upon
suitable gentlemen to run for Congress, and
therefore ask leave to sit again.
All which is respectfully submitted.
ALFRED COX, Chairman.
On motion, the report was accepted. The
several nominations, on motion, were separate
y submitted to the Convention, and unan-
mously adopted with the most enthusiastic ac-
CARNATIONS.
The select committee appointed to report an
address and resolutions, made the following re-
port through their chairman, Mr.. Winchester.
The Selec, Committee appointed to report an
address and resolutions, have proceeded to per-
form that duty in part, aud have instructed
their Chairman to adopt the following resolu-
lions:
LIST. Resolved, That the Wing party of Mis-.
sissippl hold the principles embodied in the
Declaration Of Independence by their Wing
fathers of the 4th of July, 1875, as the funda-
mental principles upon which our State and
Federal Constitutions are based.
end. Resolved, That the Wing party of Mis-
sissppi, recognise the doctrines Of the Republi-
;an party Of 1898, as the true doctrines of our
State and Federal Institutions, ana that upon
he preservation of these doctrines rests the
security Of the States against unwarran,able
exercises Of power by the federal government.
3rd Resolved, That the interference on the
,art of Congress with the question oC Slavery
IS it exists in the District of Columbia and the
erritories, would be just cause of alarm to the
southern States, and in violation Of the Consti-
ution of the United States, and would justify
he most decided course by those States to re-
list such interference.
4lb. ReSolued, That the Sub-Treasury sys.
EN- nov urged upon the American people by
he party in power is full OF danger, because