The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-12-26
pelsga,s Convention ., 1avrsnee.

I Delegate Convention at Lawrence.
The Delegate Convention, which met
in Lawrence on the I'd of December, re-
convened, agreeably to call of the Ter
ritorial Executive Committee, at the Con-
gregational Church, in Lawrence, on
Wednesday, the 23d of December, the
President, DR.. Robinson, in the chair.
Convention called to order at 10 o'clock,
A. II. A new committee on credentials
was appointed; also committee on reSo-
lutions.
The Convention remained in session
two day, during all of which time an ami
mated discussion was kept up, limiting
the speakers, the most of the time on the
last day, to ten minutes. Messrs. Schuy-
Ter, Hanna, Vaughan, Conway, Judge
Davis, DR.. Robinson, G. W. Smith, Eme-
~, W. Y. Roberts, Mr.. Winchell, Dr.. Hall,
Ewing, Pomeroy, Noteware, o. C. Brown,
E. Heath, j. A. Wakefield; and, in short,
nearly all the prominent old settlers and
active Free State men in Kansas advocated
the voting policy, while the movement was
opposedby Hinton, Thatcher, and those who
were opposed to voting in October, and
who have been an incubus upon the Free
State party ever since their connection
with it.
A vote was taken on the afternoon of
the second day by a call of yeas and
nays, presenting the naked issue of voting
or not voting. The following gentlemen
recorded their names in favor of voting,
to wit:
C. Vaughan, John Kendall, G: R. Bu-
ell, S. j. Anthony, John Mckee, G. H.
Keller, DR.. J. Davis, J. F. Stooble, j. h.
Noteware, W. w. Backus, DR.. Budding
ton, Mr.. Bliss, W. Y. Roberts, Judge Nc
Kay, Mr.. Winchell, Stephen Sparks, Mr..
Pennock, A. Allen, Mr.. Hartman, S. C.
Pomeroy, James Redpath, F. G. Adams,
Morris Hunt, C. B. Ellis, w. Hosford, O.
c. Brown, John Hanna, B. F. Simpson
7. j. Hedges, A. Wattles, E. Heath, w
Mcfarland, J. A. Wakefield, H. Apple
man, G.. c. Boardman, John boy, G. w
Smith, James MCGEE, C. Robinson, G.
w. Highland. J. W. Roberts, A. Policy
w. S. Hubbard, P. Fuller, VIM. Austin,
J. K. Goodin, Fl. D. Hibbard-47.
&C. Green, R. j. Elliott, A. Cutler, J
NJ. Walden, DR.. Root, H. Stratton, JOSEPH
Thompson, A. A. Jamison, H. S. Rymal
J. F. Hillyer, DR.. J. Gobbe,.G. w. Par
ker, j. F. Legate, T. D. Thatcher, Jas
Blood, S. W. Eldridge, n. W. Spicer, w
Hutchinson, G. F. Warren, S. F. Tappen
Geo. Ford, W. jesse, C. P. Twiss, M. S
Bonnifeld, P. H. Townsend, J. F. Hill
W. W. Ross, Rev. Holiday, J. Pitsley,
W. Oakly, J. NJ. Armstrong, R. j. Hinton,
L. B. Bailey. C. B. Lines, j. R. Bisbee, J.
F. Carver, N. J. Canif, W. N. Shedd, S.
S. Prouty, G. A. Cutler, W. W. Clemson,
W. w. Griswold, B. w. Woodward, G..
Dudley. Nays, A.
By an arrangement the vote was count
ed by districts, by which one or more
persons cast the entire vote of his dis
triet. In this manner the result was
made to appear as but 81 yeas, to rs
nays, and on this result the Delegate Con-
vention resolved not to engage in the
election, although majority of the del
egates, as they actually recorded their
names decided IN favor of the voting
policy.
Gov. Roberts showed how the result
had been obtained, by persons voting from
districts who held certificates of election
of the character of the Oxford election
returns, and by persons who did not re-
side in the districts for which they voted,
who did not correctly represent the
position of their constituents, and he gave
notice that he, nor his friends, did not feel
bound by the decision of the convention,
to which, if submitted to, he apprehended
would bind US for all time to the slave
power. He requested those in favor of
voting to meet at Masonic Hall to consult
in regard to putting in nomination ticket.
The convention adjourned till evening.
But the life of it was gone. Those who
had directed the Free State party for free
dom since its organization, had left the
few, who, by dint of energy, had got con-
troll of the Convention, and gradually it
dwindled away until it ".fzz2ed all out"
not adozen remaining when the motion
was made to adjourn.
The proceedings in previous column
will show where they had gone to. and
their resolution not to be defrauded of
every honorable means to defeat the
slave power