The Illinois free trader. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1840-1841, 1840-06-19
De E<alb County Democratic Convention.

De Naib County Democratic Convention.
At meeting of the Democrats of ID,
kalb county, held at the court house il
Sycamore, on the evening of June 4th
during the sitting of the Circuit Court fol
said county, JESSE G. KELLOGG
Esq, was called to the Chair, and MAR.
TIN M. HACK appointed Secretary.
Whereupon Levi Lee, Eli G.. Jewell
and Jesse G. Kellogg, Esqrs. were ap.
pointed committee to draft resolutions
expressive of the sense of this meeting
The committee then reported the follow.
ing resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted:
Resolred, lst. That, in the present
crises of our National affairs, our country
has right to expect that every Demo
crat will "do or die" to save her from
any insidious foe who threatens death to
her civil and religious liberty.
I'd. That, as portion of the Demo-
cracy of this county, we most sincerely
and deeply regret that local questions and
considerations have been suffered to dis
turb that harmony of feeling and concert
of action, which the principles of Demo
crazy in their primitive purity, never fail
to originate and ensure, and which should,
at the present moment, fire every demo-
cratic heart and nerve every democratic
arm in this County, State and Nation.
Sd. That we, as Democrats, approve
of the Convention system as a proper
means Of presenting candidates for office
To free people for their sunrages that
we entertain the fullest confidence in the
integrity and ability of A. r. DODGE,
Esq, the nominee of the La Sale District
Convention for Representative to the
Legislature of this State, that we believe
him to be sound and efficient Democrat,
and that, if elected, while discharging the
sacred duties of a Legislator, he will never
become the tool of any "local parties"
which do or may exist in any part of his
District, and that he will never sacrifice
the rights of the many for the aggrandize-
ment of the few, and that said nominee,
having been regularly and fairly presented
to the people of this District for their
suffrage, every honest and consistent De-
mocrat in this county and district, dis
carding sectional prejudices and petty
questions of local nature, is bound to
yield him his candid and hearty support.
4th. That the Democratic yeomanry of
Dc Kalb county do not deem the present
scarcity of good money in this commune
ty as the fault either of the present Or pre-
ceding administration of the General Gov
eminent, the leading measures of which
they most cordially approve, that the elo-
quent and sublime touches of wing oratory
so recently displayed in this court room,
have utterly failed to convince us that we
are degraded, distressed and unhappy
people, while gracious providence fills
orr barns and stack-yards with plenty,
and our cabins, not with "hard cider"
but with an abundance of all the necessa-
ries of life.
9th. That we cordially approve of the
Of the candidates for Pfesiden-
tial Electors made by the Democratic
Convention at Springfield in December
last, and that we wiz use all lawful and
honorable means to procure their election
aud thereby secure the reelection of Mar
tin Van Buren,.
9Th That we cordially approve Of the
present administration, believing that they
are well calculated to promote the hes,
interests of our country, and that we re-
gard the passage of the Independent Treas
ury Bill, as demanded by the best inter-
ests of the American people.
18th. That i. Cotton, Jesse G.. Kellogg,
John r. Iamlin, Frederick Love and
Austin Hayden be appointed Central
Committee for said county.
Sth. That Levi Lee, Eli G.. Jewell,
Rufus Cotton, David Merrill, and II. n.
Perkins be appointed corresponding
for SAID county.
9th. The: the Chairman nominate a |
vigilance committee for each precinct in
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