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MORNING LEADER.
WARREN CORRESPONDENCE.
Congressional COnrenfiOn for the 2lsf Dist,ies-
Nomination Of Mr.. HHiehiAs-5fr. GiSds gs'
SPeeeh-COEnty Nominations.
WARREN, o, Aug %, l859.

SPeeeh-C0Enty AOntnGiIORs.
WARREN, o., Aug &c, 1858.
EDITOR DAILY LEADEE The Rspubln an
Congressional Convention for the 2Ist Dist let
assembled here yesterday, and, on the third al
lot, nominated JoHS HUrcHINs, of Warren, as
a candidate for Congress, TO succeed Mr.. GID
DINss. The contest in this part of the District
has been an exciting one The friends of Mr.
GIDDISGs insisted that his name should be used;
that he had no right to decline nomination if
the people sought to confer 1t upon him, and
thereby continue him longer in Congress. Mr.
GIDDISGs' long services in Congress rendered
1t improper for him personally to contest for
seat, but his position as the leader in the Con-
gressiOnal Anti-Savery fight would seem to
warrant his friends in using his name, and he
was willing to let the people decide and if
nominated he would continue his services in the
cause. Other candidates labored for nOmina-
ton, and among them Mr.. HUrcHrNs was the
most active: and a majority Of the people have
decided that he shall be the candidate, while all
bow in graceful submission to the will of the
people. Mr. HUTcHINs is q radical anti.savery
man, and will make good member He will,
of course, be triumphantly elected.
After the nomination the Convention ad-
jOurned 10 the National Hotel, where Mr.. GID
DISGs was stopping. On being called he came
out, and was surrounded by his old friends and
constituents, and large coneouIse of our citi-
zens, whom he addressed as follows:
Mr.. eIDDINes' SPEECH
Ny FRIENDS AND FELLow-c1rIzESs II SIN
cerely rejJice TO meet you here, and assure
You that have never come before you under
circumstances more pleasant and satisfactory
to myself personally.
For Sc years have been an active politician,
but during all that time never have attended
Congressional Nominating Convention until
now, and should not at this time but for the
purpose Of cOnsecrating my friend Mr. Hutch
insl to :he high and holy work you have set
before him know the pleasure he must feel
in having received the expression of your con-
idence, and in taking at your hands the impor-
tant trust of being your Representative. and in
acting for you in the great work of National
Reform. l fully sympathise with him in the
qualification he must experience, for l have
Travelled the same read.
From 1922, for l6 years the people of our
District sustained my predecessor Mr. Whittle-
seyl; and for twenty years have received its
approval. There are men in my county Ash
tabulal fifty-seyen years Of age who have never
voted for more than two men to serve them in
Congress. speak of my county, for the eoun-
ties of Trumbull and Mahoning by changes in
the District, were separated from our District
for ten
This stability of purpose is unparalleled
in any free State, and in but one District Of
the slave States. 1t has rendered US historical,
and given US position in the nation equal to
that of the people of any other. What have
contributed 10 this is not for me to say; but I
may remark that the great responsibility which
has for twenty years borne me down, has often
rendered my nights sleepless, and my days anK-
iOus, is now in part rolled of. l feel the re-
lief, ami never have l addressed you with
lighter heart.
But this vast responsibility Is now to rest on
my friend, whom you have nominated. He is
soon to bear aloh the Republican banner, and
in the name of our constituency l charge him
to that it be not lowered, that it never trail
in the dust.
A word as to myself Having so long repre-
sented the District, knew that was in Pc
eular position, and felt myself surrounded by
some difficulties which could not but occasion
me some perplexity in determining what l
should do at this time. It is a new thing for
me to attend Nominating Convention; and
am here now because have wished to show
you the motives which have Influenced me in
consenting to enter this canvass.
Many friends urged me to decline being
candidate before you. may be permitted to
say to you, also, that many friends in the Dis
trict, and from every quarter outside the Dis
trict, wished me to continue in Congress; and
they urged that L had no right 10 withdraw
from the canvass, however much might desire
to do so. Men of distinction, from other States,
whom love, insisted that had commenced the
agitation in Congress of the great question
whether the Constitutional powers Of the Fed
eral Government shall be put forth and exerted
for justice and liberty instead of slavery; that
had so long labOred for it as to become identi-
fed with the cause; that my present influence
was greater than at any former period; and
that | had no right to decline. / assured them
that was not ambitious to die In Congress, but
was willing to do so if necessary for the good of
thaf
permit me to ask or strive for a nomination
that it the duty Of the people of the District
TO nominate such an individual as would most
efficiently carry forward the great reformation
now IN progress, and would leave the matter
with them, silently submitting it to the people
whose interests and honor were most concerned.
coneurred with these friends that my posi-
/ ton would not permit me to decline nomina-
ton if rendered me, and preferred avoiding
responsibility in the matter, leaving that res
possibility where It naturally belongs.
Iwished to place myself thus on the record
that might be understood before and after the
nomination. l desired to say to the slave
holders did not voluntarily withdraw from the
contest; but that the people selected better
and an abier man to aid in carrying forward the
great subject which now absOrbs the popular
mind that he in the full tide Of ambitious man
hood will lend greater energy to the cause than
l can. Am nghtl IA general response in
the affirmative
In that feeling and object heartily concur.
In that selection feel myself thousand times
more honored than could have been by 4 re-
/ fusal to be a candidate. / have no interest
aside from this cause. l have no honor sepa-
rated from that Of our District and Of mankind.
With this cause / would stand or fall, and you
having selected an agent who viii lend it a
more efficient support than 1 could, l shall
feel more anxious 10 sustain him than to be
sustained myself
| want to saw 10 NV friend IMr Hutchins1