The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser. (Woodville, Miss.) 1853-18??, 1853-06-21

making thirteen counties, whose voice could
not be heard at jackson at all, while not one
Of The other counties hal sent delegates to
district convention in jackson.
What authority then had Gen. Stanton's
friends, 10 make a nomination The dele
| pates TO The State Convention might Just as
wei have constituted themselves into a tenn
peranee meeting and made a nomination for
Congress as to have held a district convention
in Jackson and made a nomination. They
would have had as much authority for the
one act as the other. Another singular fea-
ture in this affair is this, that the proposition
to hold a district convention at Monticello
came from Stanton's friends, who at Jackson
were unanimously opposed TO such convention
why and how was thisl If there was time
| think | could show very easily to the com
munity the why and the wherefore OF 1t. Did
not the proposal of Gen. Stanton, as stated in
the article of the Free Trader, show conclusive
ly that they apprehended dissatisfaction There
would have been dissatisfaction which might
have been answered before the election by the
inconvenience of assembling a convention
at Monticello in midsummer. 1t is doubtless
ineonvenient and its action may have been
apprehended as being more so. This state
ment of facts show that it was a desire for
fair play and that the people might be repre-
sented in a Congressional convention held at
the usual place of holding such convention
that influenced the action of the Franklin
county delegation and not from any desire to
compel Gen. Stanton to travel in the hot sun
from his home in Adams, through the Piney
Woods to Monticello. 1t was to preserve har-
mony in the party and not to give any addi-
tional cause for dissatisfaction by laying the
foundation of well grounded objections to the
manner of the nomination. 1t was party sue
cess and fair play that the Franklin delegation
had at heart, and no thought ofthe hot wealth
er and Gen. Stanton's inconvenience. Again
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10 defer to the wishes of the Franklin delega-
ton why was it necessary for them to urge a
meeting of the delegates in order that the ques-
ton might be settled against them by the
vote of the meeting. They knew before the
meeting of the delegates that Franklin county
was opposed to going into the nomination but
it was openly declared by the friends of Gen.
Stanton that the nomination should be there
made. If there was any magnanimity the
time to have exhibited it, was before the meet
ing and before they had tried their strength.
1t is true that a friend of Gen. Stanton's de-
clared that he, (the GEN. was willing to post
pone the Convention to Monticello, but still
they contended that the nomination should be
then and there made. After they were voted
down their Difference for our wishes com
menced. If Gen. Stanton's friends were so
magnanimous as to deer to our wishes in
preventing an unauthorized nomination, who
was it so anxious to 60 into the nomina-
ton, that it became necessary to vote it down
to reach what the Free Trader very properly
terms Gen. Stanton's romantic magnanimity.
There was more of romance than reality in
the attributed exhibition in this instance.
This is an instance where fiction is stranger
than truth. But, saws the Free Trader, the
nomination should have been made. Why?
Because, Gen. Stanton was the choice Of a
majority Of the delegates, not of the people
or counties, but of the delegates. The dele
gates of whom, to what, and for what! The
delegates sent by the different counties to a
State convention to nominate a State ticket.
Take for instance the county of Pike there
was one delegate from that county to the
State Convention. Gen. Stanton was his
choice, but his county had appointed delegates
to the Monticello convention, and instructed
them to vote for FL. Cassidy as their choice at
Monticello; but at Jackson their delegates
choice was for Stanton. Yet this meeting
was held and this resolution was passed pre-
yious to the convention at jackson. The
choice of the delegates from Amite and the
choice of a majority of the delegates from
Jefferson present at the State Convention were
similar and the choice of those counties like
Pike. How many counties were similarly
situated at that informal meeting, the future
will disclose.
The fact IS that the resolution to postpone
the nomination at Jackson was not offered by
the Franklin delegation. They were entitled
to but one vote and by a majority vote the