Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-10-19

The County Convention.

The County Convention.
Pursuant to call, the Republican Del
egates of the several Towns end Wards
of the County and City of Kenoshs, met
at Lyman Dutton' sin she Agricult, r.
al Society Building, this l4th day of Oc-
tober, 1854.
The Convention was called to order
by Mr.. Bourne.
Mr.. Golf moved that I. N. Stoddard
be chosen President Of the Convention.
Carried.
Mr.. Sholes moved that William Golf
be chosen Secretary. Carried.
The Chair called for the Credentials
of Delegates, whereupon Crenentials for
the following Delegates were handed
in:
First Ward, City-C. c. Sholes, W.
H. Smith, and c. B. Lewis.
2nd Tard-L N. Stoddard, j. P.
Glover. and Reuben Sniffin.
Sd Wdrd-C. L. Ely. j. E. Henry, and
Alfred Burroughs.
Bristol-Roswell Bourne, II. Richards,
and S. r. Leonard.
Brighton - Obil Dewell, Alexander
Baily, and w. V. Gull.
Pleasant P,uirie-William Golf, T.
Rowland, and S. S. Derbyshire.
Paris-J. II. Hitchcock, Lyman Dut-
ton, and o. P. Hale*
Soniers-H Harmon Marsh, n. B. Clapp,
and Alexander Spence.
SaLem-Jessee Hooker, G.. W. Jack
son, and A. d. Cornwell.
Wheaildnd - Bassett, Brainard. and
Robinson.
The validity of the Credentials of the
Delegates from Salem was desputed.
Mr.. Bourne moved that Committee
of three be appointed to investigate the
matter, and report thereon. Carried
The Chair appointed Messrs. Bourn,
Clapp, and Rowland said Committee.
Mr.. Sholes moved that Committe OF
five be appointed to prepare and report
resolutions for the consideration of the
| Conventivn. Carried.
The Chair appointed Messrs. Sholes
Basset, Hitchcock. Bourne, and Derby
shire, said Committee.
The Convention then adjourned TIL
l o'clock, for dinner.
At l o'clock the Convention was cal.
led to order by the President.
The Delegation frem Paris not being
full, and the Town Caucus having failed
to provide for supplying vacancy, the
portion present asked leave to fill it
| Granted.
THE vacancy was then filled by ap
ing o. P. Hale.
Mr.. Clapp, from the Committee, re-
ported in favor Of the Delegation pre-.
senting credentials from Salem.
The report was accepted, and the Com
mittee discharged.
The Chair said the Delegates from
Salem would take their seats if no far.
Their objection was urged.
No farther objection was urged, and
the Delegates took their seats.
Mr.. Glover sent up to the Chair the
following:
Resolved, That the Republican Party
Of this County will support no Candi-
date for any County Office, at the ensu-
ing election, who will no. subscribe to a
Declaration that he is opposed to the SC
called Compromise or Fugitive Slave
Act of 1850 and in favor of it, unquali-
fled repeal and that he is hostile to the
provisions of the late Act of Congress
called the Nebraska Bill and is opposed
to the admission of any State into this
| Confederacy with the power to hold
Slaves, even with the consent of the in
habitants of the Territory asking sucn
admission.
|
was before the Convention.
Mr.. Sholes moved to lay it on the Ia
BILE, for the reason that the Committee
on Resolutions were prepared to report
one covering the identical ground, and a
repetition of resolutions but numbered
up the proceedings. Carried.
Mr.. Sholes, from the Committee, re-
ported the following Resolutions:
Ist, That the great political issue now
forced upon the people of this country,
is the question of freedom or slavery
and believing, as we do, that our Gov
eminent was organized to establish JUS
tice and to secure the blessings of free
dom to its inhabitants, we are deter
mined to resist all further encroachments
of Slavery, and by every Constitutional
means to prevent the admission of any
more Slave States into this Union.
End, That this Convention re-affirms
the principles of the Resolutions adopt
ed at Madison by the Republican State
| Convention held on the 18th of July
last, and also of the Republican County
Convention held in this County on the
I'd of September last and that the nom
inees of this Convention are expected to
give their unequirocaL adhesion to the
principles of political action set forth in
the Conventions before mentioned, TO en-
title them to the cordial support of the
Republican Electors Of this County.
Sd. That we hail with joy the Repub-
lican triumphs in the States of Iowa.
Vermont, and Maine, and the recent
cheering intelligence of Republican sue
cess in the States of Ohio. PENNSYLVANIA.