Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-07-09
COUNTY CONVENTION.

The official announcement of the proceed
ings of the Chittcnden County Republican
Convention, held on Tuesday, is given
below. The Convention was well attended.
Besides the delegates, there were present
perhaps fifty others. We do not suppose
that the wishes of every one in regard to
nominations were gratifcd, though there was
no more disagreement about candidates (for
two or three of the ollces) than is usually
met with, A kind and pleasant feeling
seemed to lrevade the whole assembly. All
the proceedings were open. and the working
of u fair delegate Convention was so satisfac-
tory that there was IL unanimous vote for
instructing the County Committee to call
County Conventions hereafter on that plan.
We believe that in some instances where
II" 4 ,.esates had been appointed by a pub
lie meeting at home, the voters from such
towns present at gainesville Tuesday, elected
them there. That was the best which could
be done, under the circumstances, and no dis
satisfaction with the proceeding was ex-
pressed that we heard Of But the proper
way, beyond doubt, is for all delegates to be
elected by public meeting of the members
Of the party at home, and to bring regular
Certificate of their appointment certified to by
the officers of the meeting. In that way the
delegates will moro certainly represent the
prevailing sentiments of the voters, and fault
finding will be essentially done away with
Near the close of the meeting, after the
nominations were completed, Mr.. b. B..
Newton, who has been residing in Kansas
(whither he went with party Of Vermont
ors,) for sixteen months past, gave the con-
ycntion brief account of the trials and
peIils which have been undergone in some
parts Of the territory by those who wished to
be free themselves and to have Kansas a
free State. lie said that no accounts
which had been published this way, of the
violence and frauds which had been perpe.
trated in Kansas in order to harass, intimi-
date, drive out, and overpower the Free State
men, had come up to the reality.
However much such accounts had been
doubted as to their full extent, by some, and
denied by others, no body in Kansas and
Missouri doubted or denied them The actors
and encouragers Of the outrages openly admit
ted and boosted of them, and there was no at
tempt to bring tho guilty ones to public
Justice. The chief actors in all these
cnormitics were upheld by Federal officers,
and in many instances were such officers
themselves, No one residing in State could
have any adequate conception of the power
which the federal government had exerted in
that territory. Nevertheless the people, with
very few exceptions indeed, were determined
that Kansas should be free State and moth
Ing else, and he believed it would be.
The Convention was held in the spacious
Hall If Mr.. Tyler's Hotel. The dinner pre-
vided by Mr.. Tyler was the hest one we re-
member at any occasion Of the kind at that
plac'-the only drawbacks being the long
delay in its preparation, and the insufficient
amount Of table room, which compelled some
TO wait for second table ard some to 20
without, las one Of the editors Of this paper
can testify from his own experience def
ciencts which were doubtless unavoidable
under the circumstances