The Nevada Democrat., 1856-09-10
The RcpuD lean County Convention.

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Being prcselt OF Saturday evening while the
rlpdbl cal party were rjo cing over their la
bors propose to give you ii sk, tch Of the pro-
c.,d.Igs us tn y presented themselves to m>.
The oic1s having ia rly got on the tyack Of
Their several v.ct.ms, the party of prime pie
wear.ed with its Efforts sat down 10 Il feast of
reason. The services commenced with dtty
which was term, Il the dromo Diary sOIg-eXtcu-
ted by three nee young men-chorus OF ''lu
dah, du dab" by the members Of the convention
generally.
The music over, gentleman whose exterior
was sngularly suggestive of ~ certain "Co1ly
3 II arose AID assured the aud euce that lie
was glad he was thcr,, + c ty which he seem
d TO enjoy all alOlc, as the aud.eIce looked rs
if they wish, tn, msclvcs S0mewh re else. The
.p ak lated large ly upol the position Of the
rtpubl caa party, d spIaytng in this, great pow
ers of eudura4ce msclf and severely testing
the patience of his aud ence. In the course of
his lum nous exposition he startl>d his hearers
10y clarlg that Mr.. Buchanan had never cat
eh a mule. Tbs shows certainly great def
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part, and the olly way we can see that he can
MAKE up for tht omission Ill be TO appoint as
Secretary of State our cstmable ir.cd All Sing
who uXuriates each day on n roast dog pick
led rat or some other d., cacy Of that descrip-
tio1, The remark was regard MS a capital hit,
aad member continued TO rep at for long
tine that it was good very good" Whether
he referred to the mule eaten hy Mr. Fremont.
or the ole not eaten by Mr., Buchanan We could
not lcarl
The speak + then entered upol course of
log cal rtas0 hing, ahording his audience an op-
portulity for slstp ng. VIII ch was daily mprov, d
by yoar repor,e' J,rt, however, as had dr, am
I'd that sp culativc gea.us Of tn place was Of
firing to bet that he coudG d u ma 10 could
talk one hu.idred cOLs, cutve hours W .thoat
stopping or saying anything, | was arou- ed bv
the maa still + p atig good, very good" Ga
inquiry learned that the speaker had Or, d ca
ted tue vote of one of the southern counties for
Fremont Oh the fact that the sa county had
three TINES voted for h m, the sp.ak r.
While awaiting the orators cOaclus,on. or the
coming of the m. lenium, d. term ned upoa
thorough inspection Of the allcgor cal represeu-
tat.ol of the r,publ cal party which adora,d
the pres d;lts char II tbs mastery picture
the great pati-iad.r n is represented us he must
have appear immediately after swallowing
the nal with the tai of that unfortunate beast
hanging from his mouth. The fact that he is
the great pathfinder is modestly heralded upon
banner which he "a ries, although ho meat on
is made of the fact that his path was over ole
of the highest elevat ons of the S.erra's.
prominent feature is a locomotive u.der full
steam with Mr.. FrymoIt sitting square over the
botler-a very uncomfortable place for J ssiu's
husba ID To the left of the track. the engineer
to whose genius the explorer is so greatly in
debtod q. e. a buifalo,) bar ly saves his bacon.
This is supposed to Illustrate the ingrat tad, of
publ cs a ID + publicans. Upon the track n d
crush by tn wheels of the iron car. les tbe
cOnstitut on. From the gen, raj a-p ct of the
p ctur', we should say that Mr.. FRI mo # wos
irai pa mt d, d that the ra lroad a d locomo-
tive were afterwards put to h m for orlam nt
ke the two brass buttons upol the tn of n New
e Igland d acOl's Su day coat.
Our r>tiect ols Oh th s sp c'mrn of the fine
arts were at this point int, rrupt.d by the ed
vent OF new sp ak r. He inform d the and
ence that he sympath d heart ly with them
thing that a ~ nun of ord nary sensbl tics
would have done. u d the circumstances. of
their cent l'vcra ce from so ser'ons an in
II cton. He then proceed to take his pos
toa-in accomp shlng VIII ch feat, he cbaag d
thn pos tol Of large part of the audience
from the inSd. to the outs de- of tbp I'm Ill 'n0
After this moving speech the convention was
d'llver Ov n to the tend m rcies of the or, at
eXpouad Of the party and the constitution.
llr. Fra klin's admont'ons of carly hours. TO-
gether with staste for high constitutional
d alect cs, consprsd TO d iteruine onr oo,,r.o