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ton in the Court House, on the 2Ill lhst,'
to put in nomination Candidates for the
ensuing elce..o.a attended thatconVen-
ton for the purpose Of seeing what the
principles OF The Polkites were. The Dele
gates met at the appointed hour. The
convention proceeded to business by noml-
natiug Col Ayes, Of New HawIsburgh,
President, and J.. MGllitt, Sec'y. AT this
time the "greatest unanimity' appeared
10 exist among the ,faMjW The gentle
man Of pe1HionndioriGty and the PiiJ-PPd'er,
had not vet ceased from iUg rolling with
the Delegates. When the President an
nounced to the convention that it was Or
gani,al aud .rrora~od for business Il gem
/ tleman by the name Of brown, { think they
call him Colonel, as Bll great men among
the Pokite party are Designated by some
of the various military titles arose ana
moved "thut the convention proceed to
ballot by townships for one person to rep
resent this county in the Legislature. -
! That was the test vote which would either
make or break Dan & Co. with their serVIle
clique. After few eloquent and lucid re-
marks by COL Brown, i'll which he stated
the object of the resolution, &C.; Colonel
AIRES left the chair, and proceeded to en-
j tighten the delegates upon the SUBJECT
| He said that he was a dimOcrat of unllnch-
ing integrity, that he had came up to this
convention as a delegate from Harrison
township; that as dinl0crutheW bound
to obey the will Of his constituents And
that tile great dimocratic doctrine ''that the
bn ltr
which thisconvention should be governed.
That he had attended all the djmoCrdtic
mass cOnUeatjoaS that had ever been held in
this county, and that mall their proceed
ings they lad always said'thepopuIar vote
W as the true criterion by wh16h1to decide
! in this matter-that he was not Hing to
leave the old dimocrutic land marks, to'Keep
up with the progressive principles Of the
party. If they nominated by townships,
that the willof the people would lie set at
naught--that they would be dislrarchIsed,
and that the result would be as disasterous
to the dimoCrary in this county, "a the
nomiue t0nof JAMES K Polk, by the BaIh-
more Convention was to the dimocrofic par
twin the U. States. That the party would
be routed foot, horse, and drogoon, IN De-
tober Such, gentlemen, will be the in
evitabe'result if J.. W.. Russell, is nomna-
ted by this convention, instead OF the peo-
Pies candidate, John Deford. He has re-
ceived large majority of all the votes cast,
and we.must nominate him. Having clos
ed his remarks in favor Of the clique can
ddate, the fight became general. Colonel
FCrOw, ,of Lee, next proceeded to address
the convention in support OF the RoaoIu-
ton. Ho.stuted that the remarks Of the
gentleman who mad just taken his seat,
were aAfi-dem0crafc, and that he utterly
despjsed the game that the clique wereGt-
tempting to play off in hisconvention, by
log rolling with the delegates. He had
,'cama up here with the understanding that
the delegates were to vote by townships,
and with Misunderstanding, and noother,
would he consent 10 act. And that any
attempt by the managers of the clique to
wrcsl hat power from his hands, would be
| met on the threshold Of hiscOuntry' rights;
that lie would right the wrong, where it
was given, if twere in the court of Heav-
ren. AT this stage Of the proceedings, the
agony of the Clerk OF the Court became in
tense. The ex- Auditor drew his specLucles
from his classic brow of GreCian mould,
while his whole frame shook with univer-
sal tremor--he gHzed upon the delegates
and seemed TO say. Gentlemen, record your
votes against the resolution. Sacrifice all
for the party--suf)er not yourselves to be
divided upon such sectional matters as men
and measures, tor in tie language of the
Bible, "a house divided against itseII can
mot stand" Toby seemed to utter in In
articulato sentenses and broken accents,
"help me Cassius" or "McCluslen's appli-
auces' are gone. The appearance OF the
man of the scaipel and laHc6t was horrible
to relate, The last scene in the act OF the
dying Gladiator, would fall far shortot the
intense agony that he seemed to endure.
Alonzo bore it Ike man accustomed to
be foiIod He saw that his relative was to
be defeated, and with himsank, politically,
all the nigh honors of thelrauclert Reman
family. The convention presented the ap-
, pcarance of Il managere of wild beasts,
Dan and the Pill-vender officiating as ring
rnYasters,) more than the peaceful citizens
Fof civilized country. The master OF
ceremonies was seen rushing TO and llUm
one part of the room to another, threaten
ing one delegate here, and persuading a
mother to oppose the resolution. Finally
the vote was taken and the resolution pas
/. sed-was re.consdered and passed again;
and thus the famous leader of the clique
was Goored. A smile ofvindicrive triumph
lit w the countenance of the victors,
when they beheld the Hercules Of the clique
layiug IKE Sampson in the arms Of Dcliah,
shorn eof his strength. The convention
thtnprocccded to nominate by townships;
, whereupon, John w. Russell,,o Rose tp.,
f was declared the regular Locopoco, Texas
| candidate for Representative, John M.
} Lyte, who is looked upon by the real ST
mon .purcs of .thepai! " iii town, as,a.kind