Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-09-18

frieBd OF Mr.. West Tor thai nomination, but
that We wen. into taas convention with the
honest intsndOn Of abiding By the action VI 4
majority ol that convention as guided BY It's
sStab6sAed Tldss. Nov whAiare The rules By
which a nomination has been Invariably made
since le4l. From that period We have bean
snIblsd TO speak from our own knovledge.-.
The rule in the old whig conventions always
required eight townships to make nomination
Now for the facts. Three years ago Nc But
Ter received foe County Auditor. Seven town.
ships out Of thirteen as We now recolIeet the
case on two successive ballots, yet he vas not
nominated. for on the 81 or 4th Ballot Mr.. John
|. Blackburn was nominated, he having recei-
we'd eight townships for county Auditor. And
that TOO after several Of the candidates for that
Office had Withdrawn as in this case, Mr.
Miller withdrew, And still Mr. Butler and his
friends did not claim the nomination under
hAt rule or that the majority Of the voting
townships should rale, but Mr.. Butler and his
friends turned in and supported Mr.. Black
burn for that Office with might and main That
was case as we recolect under the "old
Wing Convention" rule. Again in the last
year and under the Republican Convention
rule, on the first ballot for county Uommis-
Sioner Mr.. Jacob Strayer received for county
Com missioner seven townships cut Of thirteen
voting and yet on a motion to ralify that nom
insliOn made by.a gentleman Of Centre, zoe
convention re fused 10 do so after some discus.
ion, reaffirming the rule that had prevailed IN
the "old Wing conventions" nov we say this
is case in point acted upon by the Republi-
can convention requiring that eight townships
must vote for 8 candidate before be is
nominated. Well now to this case. On the
day, and in the Convention. after its organiza-
ton and before that any ballOtting was done
Mr.. Van. Brown, arose in his place. annOun-
ced that he supposed it was scarcely worth
while to say, for it was generally understood
that it required a majority Of all the townships
in the county to make a nomination And it
is and was at the time well understood that
Mr.. Brown was friend of Mr.. West as we'll as
ourselves. ThereupOu the convention BALLOT
ed. And then after some discussion upon
the point, by Mr.. Brown and some others, On
motion of DR.. D. A. Arter, (anOther well
known and ardent friend Of Mr.. Vests, the
convention retired to vote again And that our
friends should carry out their last resolve 10 vote
for Mr. Williams the Loco nominee is greatly
to be deplored, for it begets dissension, and
final division, Of those who should be friends,
Mr. Baxter's friends, claim that they had no
spokesman in that convention, nor a nan that
made single move but that its action was
governed entirely by US as the friends Of Mr..
West, and some Of the friends Of Mr.. Miller.
And as 10 the request Of our Monroe friends
to displace Mr.. Baxters name and "put In" Mr.,
West, we answer that ws have not the polOer 10
do so. Our friends in Monroe understand all
this as well as we do
To arrogate to ourselves that power would
be to set up our private opinion against the
declared will Of our party friends in convention
assembled, as printed by us in cur last paper
We hope that moderate councils may prevail,
and that our old, true, and well tried friends
may counsel wisdom and moderation. through
common desire To overcome a common and an
unscrupulops enemy Friends Of Freedom
shall we now partially divide over individual
preferences, in a contest where the most vital
Issue is at stake, Liberty and Freedom, for the
free men of the North. over oppression. tyranny !
and slavery
We think We hear your cool heads aud wise
counses determine that there shall be union fol
The cause Of Freedom We scarce know where
to stop, upon this grave matter. Our euemieu
already rejoice over our apparent discontinue.
Will you gladden. their hearts?
Mass Meeting