Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-11-05
niaunion Convention.
The Cleveland pia;ndeaiev thus reports
Ne concluding performances Of the Dsun-
ION Convsntioo hc1d at that place:


The Cleveland pia;ndeaiev thus reports
Ne concluding performances Of the Disun'
ION Convsntioo hcld at hat place:
Tux Dsux1or SrLuRoE AT CHARMS Hail.
The small and sweet ssnted crowd st Cha
pins Hall have played out and gone home
They got through last night, after gu'ty
session Of two days The principal sponters
Of the Convention have been Parker f'is
bury, the heir-apparent Burleigh, h"sry,
headed and rather greasy old fellow named
Fosa, Sister Foster and one or two o,hef
powerful females whose names we were IN
able To learn and several talented niggers
from New England. 1t scenes that MIR
Watkins, a co'ored man and assistant editor
Of Fred. Douglas paper, veniured TO remark
Yesterday afternoon that the Convention
was going a litile to far, and the uniortu-
nate Wat kline was pitched into by All hands
last evening VIM Wells brown first wal
ked into the unhappy Watkins Sister
Jones then came sp the scratch and hgur'i-
lively speaking, dealt the III starred Wat
kins a sock dolaeer on the snelleri and the
fat and greasy lfoss VI New Hampshire I'M.
ishc.l the wretched Watkins. Mr. Foss
rolled upon the stand and told the audience
that he was rough He then said that
he wasn't polished These jocular obser-
vaton- bong received with great applause
aud laughter, Dir. Foss went in. After iin-
ishing the unhappy Watkins. he talked CON
tidentiaily with his friends the Republicans;
and il was mstter Of surprfse 10 Mr.. Foss
land 1t certainly is to us) why the Rcpubli-
cans were lot with the Disuuionists in this
Conv ention It must be, Foss said, that
there were hvpocrites in the Republican par
party. Mr.. Foss then proceeded to infsm-
ously abuse the name and memory Of Geo.
Washington.
We are glad to say that some Kisses were
hcnrd amidst the applause which greeted
these dirty remarks. IIe-Foss-wante
the Union dissolved right off He wanted
TO see fires spring up In the South-wanted
to see the mansions of slave holders ON fire
and dark, noble forms (meaning tho mig
gers stalking around with knives, beheading
white men This delightful picture pleased
the yirtuous Foss, and he laughed bolster
ously and rubbed his hands with frantic
glee after he had painted it.
The next. speaker was Charles Redmond,
a colored young man from Massachusetts,
As he arose somebody In the gallery fiercely
said, "5et down, Charles Redmond !" and
somebody else In another part of the gallery
requested Charles Redmond to dry up"
Redmond sayagely declined to either set
down or dry up, and proceeded to make a
terrific speech. II was evident that he had
slight misunderstanding with the editor
of the Herald. for his illusions to that gen
teman were not Of very complimentary
character Acknowledgement TO say
that he had seen more cultivated society
than the editor Of the UiroM dare aspire
to. Sister Foster arose and vouched for
the truth Of this statement Redmond
wound M by desiring TO see an Immediate
wind up of the Union.
A frosty headed old gentleman in specta-
| cles wa. the last speaker When We left he
was dissecting, as he termed it, the Union
The resolution adopted by the convention
have already been given to our readers. II
should be remembered that the principal
movers in this convention, especially Foss
were ardent supporters of one J. C. Fremont
in the presidential canvass of last fall
The Convention was down on the Plain
dealer raythcr. Foss said it was an infa
nous paper" Sister Jones said it was "a
devihsh paper" and one Of the speakers
"a culied pussen'-5aid it was "a fiendish
sheet