Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-01-25
MYe1ingof the Veterans Of 1919.


Flags in Philadelphia on the 9th inst,
We're displayed on all the public buildings
IN honor of the assemblage of the veterans
of 1919, who were mastering in great num-
bers at Independence Hall and the U. 5.
Courtroom The New Jersey delegation
arrived ut / O'Clock, with fife and drum.
The National Guard and Cornet Band
marched to the New York depot to receive
the New York delegation.
The convention organized in Indcpen-
ence Hall, Judge Sutherland presiding
An adjournment took place to the Chinese
Museum, after speeches had been deliver
ed by Judge Sutherland and Colonel
Height, ofNew York.
After Resembling. the Baltimore De-
tenders and the Veterans from New York
marched into the Hall, and were received
with great cheering. The latter number
ing 60 men, under the command of Col.
Raymond.
Resolutions were read and adopted
which declare the time and place of NEE
ting to be most appropriate lament the
death of the greater portion of their breth-
rem in arms-return thanks 10 Senators
Hamlin and Brodhead, sMessrs Went
worth, Florence and others who have aid
ed the cause of the soldiers in Congress-
and call Congress to place the soldiers of
1879 upon the same footing with those
who served in Mexico.
An ad jourDmet then took place until
six o'clock.
The convention re- assembled this evening
and several excellent speeches were de-
Nvercd by Gen. Ranny, of Missouri, Gen.
McCslla of Kentucky, Major William Pc
s H.,
Pelt, of New York.
"A resolution was adapted recommend
ing the soldiers to meet in each Congress
sonal district and petition an Immediate
representative in Congress to urge their
claims.
Another resolution, urging the Legisla-
lures Of the thirteen original States to
take action upon the proposed erection Of
a monument in Independence Square, to
the Signers of the Declaration of lndcpen-
dence, was adopted.
After other business Of minor impor-
dtance, the Convention adjourned sine die
OBJECT OF THE CALIFORNIA F1LLuUsrEEs.
In letter from San Francisco the real
object OF Walkers late expcd.lio against
the Mexican State OF Sonora is exposed,
and an article in the Alta California news
paper is referred to in support Of the state
ment that this object was we'll known in
San Francisco. The paper alluded to- the
Alta California of December 18Th says
g 1t is we'll known fact that for years
there has been class Of men it, .. IS Stale
who have been wild to get slavery intro
duced. and have devised various projects
by which to effect that most desirable oh
ject. But they have f&iled-sign.Iiy fail
ed-and though men Of great energy and
talent have been engaged in it, with
wealth ut home and assistance from the
older States to help it along their labor
has been lost.
"On q direct vote, we venture 10 assert
the slavery propayandists could mol get
one vote out ofscvcn thrOuI huut the State.
But they were not SO to be banked. If
foot hold could once be obtained on the
coast, they fancied i! would spread, and
the flag of slavery encircle in its folds II
large portion OF our country's possessions
on the Pacific.
After observing, that unless the govern
ment Of the United States step in to aid
the movement, which it will not, the ex-
petition must fail, the Alta California re-
marks:
1t requires no prohetic eye to see
what will be the course Of the people Of
California in this crisis. They are deci-
dedIy and unequivocally opposed to slave
ry on the Pacific, rs they have repeated
ly shown on various occasions"