Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-04-04
American, Whig & Republican
Union State Convention.
HARRISBURG. March 26, 1856.

The PennSylvania Convention ,composeu
of representatives of the Wing, American,
and Republican parties, met in the hall Of
tie House of Representatives at II, NJ,
when JOHN COvoDE, NJ c. from Westm' d
county, was appointed Chairman pro tenn,
and Messrs. Beatty, Funk, and Ingbam,
Secretaries. The number of Delegates in
attendance, as arranged, was 1872.
Committees to report Officers, and on
contested Seats, were appointed, and the
Convention adjourned.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Committee reported the following,
who were unanimously elected Officers of
the Convention:
President-G. j. BALL, of Erie.
Vice Presidents-H.J Jones Brooke, VIM.
Stewart, DIR Wright, T. Z. Franklin, j osiah
Copley, Z Beatty, CT ones, Audw earns,
J.FLinderman, j iona. knight, Hy johnson,
Saml Roger, L. LMGutfin, DC. Boal, r.
P.M'Dowell, Wm. Jessup, j. M.Oliphant,
mol Power, d Is. NJ Annaliy.
ecretaries-E. MPherson, j. NJ. Rein
hart, J.W. I. MAllister, j. N. M'Donald,
NC Mercur, Tho C.Steel
Mr.. BALL, on taking the chair, thanked
the Convention for the honor conferred
upon him. He was one of those who had
joined in the call for she Convention. He
had signed it after anxious deliberation,
believing that the public mind was prepa
red for such a step; that the different
elements would select their delegates from
the earnest class of their friends, and send
them here to unite upon some practicable
basis to give effect to the power We possess.
He referred to the American, Republican,
and Wing parties, and their distinctive
characteristics, and closed with an earnest
and effective appeal in support of candid
union Of the parties.
The contested seats we're disposed of.
A committed Of one from each Senator
rial district was then appointed, to report
Resolutions.
Nominations were then made for the
different Offices to be filled at the October
election, when II gentlemen, from different
parts of the State, were proposed for Canal
Commissioner, l3 for Auditor General and
l3 for Surveyor General.
EVENING SESSION.
By request, Judge Jessup of Susquehanna
county, addressed the Convention, followed
by Gen. Williamson of Huntington.
Judge Wilmot, of Bradford, was called
up, and, though expressing desire not
to speak, addressed the Convention briefly.
He spoke of Slavery and its aggressions
He had no desire to interfere with slavery
where it existed, but was opposed to its
extension. He hoped the Convention
would harmonize every interest, and the
candidates nominated should have bis
hearty support.
Mr. M'Calmont, from committee, repor-
ted the following, which we're taken up
and after full and free discus
sion, ameuded and adopted as follows:
RESOLUTIONS.
WHEREAS, The freemen of Penusylva
MIA, opposed to the National Administra-
ton, ,are divided into political organizations,
holding, on some questions of government
tai policy divers opinions; yet it is believ-
ed that large majority Of the freemen of
this State are agreed upon the momentous
issues forced upon the country by the re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise; by the
undisguised policy of the National Admin
to impose, by violence and fraud,
Slavery upon Kansas, contrary to the wishes
of a large majority of the inhabitants; aud
by its unjust, illibcral and Anti-American
preference in the appointment Of men Of
foreign birth over those born upon the soil,
to Offices of trust and honor, as well as in
the distribution of its patronage:
AND WHEREAS, Agreement in principle
is the only bond that can unite effectively
honest men in political action Therefore,
Resolced, That, animated by the spirit
of concession, we will cordially unite in
the support of the candidates to be nomi.
mated by this Convention, upon the basis
of those principles upon which we are mu-
tually agreed.
ResolOed, That the present National
Administration, by the exercise of an un-
influence in the repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise, at the instance of
selfish and sectional politicians; by the re.
moval Of honest and competent men from
Offices of honor and trust, in order that
their places might be filled by inefficient
and corrupt partizaus; BY refusing to pro-
tect the freemen of Kansas in the enjoy
uent of the rights designed to be secured
to them by the Constitution and laws of
the United States-thereby showing itself
powerful for mischief, but feeble in the
of laws for the protection of
the people and the honor of the country
has justly forfeited all claim to the conf
ience and respect Of the people Of this
ResoiUed, That we will use all horora-
bic means to check the evils inflicted upon
The country by the unjust and sectional
measures adopted by the present National
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