The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1848-07-07
Ti~ Wig Congressional Convcn,,on.

7 The Wing Congressional Convention.
! Ii may not DO generally known TO our
people, but il /, nevertheless a fact, that on
the fourth of July wing convention met in
this town 10 nominate candidate 10 repre-
sent this district in congress. As a matter
OF curiosity and also, we conf, S. i, by way
OF dotting down few notes, we pccpra in
upon this body and we have 10 lrlicitatc
ourselves upon having got quite a lumber
of little items. Firstly, the convention, fol-
lowing the example Of the Cook County
meeting, utterly and Indignantly rcpu-
dated the bargain Of Wilson, Mcokcr, Low
ny 4 Co., 10 sell the wing party TO Judge
Thomas. aud determined unanimously 10
make a nomination. This being settled.
two candidates presented themselves. Gen.
Gli!ley of Mclean county, an intelligent,
huc looking man, pat in as claim tina, he
was good, wing went for Taylor, would
canvass the district, AMI further that his end
Of the district was craiilc1to the representa-
axe. Mr.. Scammon, Of Chicago, on the 9TH
ter hand, claimed also 10 be good Taylor
whig oull also canvass ,hc district, and as
sett of probably ton being from the wrong
end d the district, he put ina further claim,
that ! had made large petuniary sacrifices
fol the support Of whisscry in owning and
keeping up the Chicago journal. This last
5rirk bat knocked Gcn.Ggidley into a cock
ed hat. and Mr.. Scammon was nominated.
Then a committee on resolutions was sent
out, aud in the meantime two or three gen
tlemau addressed the convention. The bur
den OF THEN speeches wasJohn Wentworth.
one thought he was too attentive 10 his con-
s,fuents III the way ofproviiiug post oiiicd
convenieuccS for them; another thought
he distributed too many garden Seeds and
the ,h:a thought no distributed too many
democratic documents, and by way Of q
sct-oit, made proposition 10 hand IN the
names of all good wings in this district TO \
the great wing iranking committee al
Washington, that they might also have doc
unen,s circulated among them. BY this |
Time the committee on resolutions returned
and submitted their report. But it was
found not satisfactory. II was objected 10 !
AZ loading Mr.. Scammou with too many !
principles, and the committee, with the gen
tlcman that was most strenuous in his OBJ /.
jecGUns, were sent back TO revise them
Upon returning second time, we noticed I
that the report had been cut down about f,
one half, but we are not able to'Say what all I
was omitted. One resolution, beginning
with, ''that we are opposed TO all forms OF
tyranny, 1--WE noticed had been stricken out, !
and another declaring Mr. Scammona VIII I
mot proyiso man. There were many other.
words about the proviso omitted, and we Sus- |
bcct this was more particularly the burden
that Mr.. Scammon was considered too
weak TO shoulder along with General lay
Tor. The resolutions, as Hghtened, were
passed unanimously; and then a motion
was made 10 adjourn SINE die, but before the ,
hiO'''H was I'ht "a OSS WV S''''N"'"" ~ VIZ
VIII county, the vice president, whom from
his talk, we took to be an abolitionist, felt
compelled to make a .teic remarks but as
there was a fight in the street about this .
time, we preferred witnessing that TO hear
ing the old gentleman out. So we left and
most of the delegates appeared TO agree with
It's, and followed our example. Whether
the old gentleman was allowed TO finish
his speech we are unable to say, but the
must have dispersed about the
same time, as we saw the president also
spectator at the row, regarding the affair
with much more apparent interest than
he did the proceedings Of the convention.