The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-09-07
THURSDAY MORNING, SEP. 2,


VAN buren, LocoFoco CONVENTION IN INDI-
ANA.--The Free Sellers held convention at
Indianapolis on yesterday week for the purpose
of organization and for the appointment Of a
Van Buren, electoral ticket We cannot learn
from the papers that any thing very smart was
accomplished by the convention, nor can we
learn either who compose the ticket, the names
OF two or three gentlemen are given as belong
ing to the ticket, and that is all. We do OBJ
serve, however, that the Sentinel is putting up
pitious whine at The loss Of John II. Petit,
Esq, one Of the most influential members of
the locofoco party in that region heretofore,
and there are others of that party, no doubt,
equally as influential, whom the Sentinel will
soon have 10 number among the boilers from
Cass, for The truths. the party in this State
can't swallow the MichigaHder. AS our friend
Judge Towles said in his speech last night,
there is no enthusiasm about the locofoco can
didate or the party. and it is impossible to Gre
ate any, for somsthing cannot be form1i oul
of nothing.
We copy from the State Journal the follow
lowing account OF the con vention:
1t was supposed, when portion of the de-
m )cratic party, in New York, determined to
secede from the regular nomination made by
their party at Baltimore, that its influence
would De confined 10 that State. To the great
surprise, however, of the Cass wing of the De-
mocracy, the disaffection is rapidly extending
into other States. Whether il will increase 10
such an extent as to compel the Withdrawal of
Gen. CLss, remains 10 be seen.
A State Convention vas hell in this city, on
last Wednesday, for the purpose of forming an
electoral ticket. After some difficulty in find
ing suitable material. they succeeded in the OBJ
ject OF their assemb!age. We are not able 10
give the names of all The gentlemen selected a s
electors. We understand that Mr. Ellsworth,
of Lafayette, and John IL. Bradley, of Column
bus, are Electors for the State at large. Ovid
Butler, ESD, OF this city, is the elecior for this
district. s.va,ss.s
We attended the Convention and heard some
OF the speeches made. On Tuesday night. Mr.
Harding, one ol The leading Aboitionists of The
State, entertained his audience with a speech
oil considerable length. In the course of his
remarks, for the purpose of making Van BureE
pd!atdble TO the Abolitionists, he took the
ground that all bis former opposition to them,
aud all his political iniquity, should be buried
with the past-and that all should now rally
upon him, because he was now right. He &C
knowledged that it was with some difficulty he
got his own consent to 90 for him-bul he had
finally concluded TO do il. s4.-
John w. Wright, Esq, of Logansport was
called on. He did not altogether agree with
Mr.. Harding, and began his speech by saying,
III substance, he was not In the same position
de that occupied by his friend. He (Mr. W.
had always been Van Buren, man. and in now
supporting him there was no political incon-
sistency. There existed no necessity to take
anything back, or TO forget any thing in relation
10 Van Buren,. That gentleman had always
been right, and had never taken any thing back
lie stood now where he always had stood
There was, then, on his part, no sacrifice of
principle In giving his support 10 the glorious
old leader OF Democracy. He had read one
truth IN the State Journal few DAYS
ago. That paper stated that Ivan Buren, now
had the heartsofnine tenths of the Democratic
party. That is fact if they only dared to
speak out their real sentiments. There were
great many Democrats who refused to wear
the collar any longer, and especially is it so in
the Northern part of the State. John u Pet
tit, Esq, of Wabash, who attended the Balti-
mote Convention delegate on the part of
the State, had recently come out in strong
speech in favor of Van Buren, The Democra-
cy of the free North would never 60 for Cass
He had attended the Democratic State Conven-
ton last winter, and In caucus of the party,
he told them that he never would 90 for Cass,
after he had sold himself TO the slaveOcracy of
the South. Many of the Northern Democrats
had taken the same position-but he was sor-
~ to see that few OF. them were now '.craw-
fishing" on that subject. &c.
The convention was not very numerously
attended; the majority of those present were
of that class of people who voted for Birney in
1874, and are responsible for the annexation OF
Texas-the extension of slavery--the war and
the acquisition OF the territory out of which
the present question of slavery extension has
grown. They are now about playing the sa me
consistent and honest game.
0TIt appears from report made on the
Congress Printing that work which last year