Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-07-16
the STATE CONVENTION.

THE STATE CONVENTION
The attendance upon the State Conventio
on Tuesday was, under the circumstances, larg,
every county except Grand Isle being represent
ed. The season of the year and the certaint
attending the result of the nominations prevent
ed any very extraordinary exertions on the par
of those out of the county to be present.
has heretofore always been the case that whel
ticket was to be re-nominated the attendanc
was much smaller than when new names wer
to be presented.
The efficient manner in which the duties O
the executive department of our State affair
have been discharged, the capacity and ripe ex
perience of the lieutenant governor and treasu
rer, have so fully met all the requirements o
the State and the party that their hearty ant
enthusiastic denomination by reclamation wa,
deemed by the Convention the most fit manner
in which to testify their cordial APPRECIATION
No better opponents of Vermont men and Yer.
mont principles can be found than HALL, MAR.
TIN and BATES, and their reelection by a more
than two-thirds vote will be the result of the
verdict of the people at the September eles-
ton.
The resolutions reported by the committee
and adopted by the convention very generally
express the sentiments of the Republicans of
this State upon those subjects to which they
have reference. They have the clear ring of
the genuine coin, compared with which the plat
form OF their opponents has the dead, leaden
sound of the new Buchanan cent. The empha-
Sis with which the new doctrine of citizenship
as laid down by Secretary Cass is condemned
Will meet with hearty response from all who
believe that even white men have rights which
their own government is bound to protect and
foreign nations cannot safely disregard.
AS will be seen by the last resolution moved
in, and adopted by, the convention, an impor-
tant change was made in the manner of calling
future conventions. The mass system which
has long been discarded in every Northern
State except Vermont, was abolished and dele
gate conventions substituted in its place. Here
after each town in the State will be entitled to
its own proper share of political influence. The
delegates will he elected at home by a constitu-
ency that can there and then express their pref
erences, and depend upon having those prefer
ences represented in Convention. All the bus
mess of nominating candidates will now be
done in open Convention without the interyen-
ton OF any committees. We are quite sure
that one years experience will convince the
most skeptical that this is the best as it is GER
family the iairest method of doing the legitimate
business of State Conventions.
CAtIroRNIA.-Thc Republicans of California
held their State Convention at Sacramento,
June lst, affirmed their opposition to Slavery
propagandism and their approval of the Pacific
railroad, central mail route, a homestead bill
and Grows land bill, and made the following
nominations:
For governor, Leland Sanford of Sacrament
to; lieut.. governor, James F. Kennedy of San
ia Clara; supreme court judge, Oscar L. Shat
ter OF San Francisco; clerk of supreme court,
,. /. Parker OF Tehama; state treasurer, =. Z.
Game Of Yuba; state comptroller, J. L. Clarke
OF III Dorado; surveyor general, A. G. Ran
dali of Amador; superintendent of public in
struction, w. s. Brown of Sonoma; state prin
ter, Il. Il. Murdoch of Santa Clara; attorney
general, IL. 5. Love of San Francisco; Con-
gress, +. d. Baker of San Francisco, and P. H.
Gibley of Placer.
The San Francisco correspondent of the New
York Tribune in noticing the action of the
Convention says of Oscar L. Shafter, Formerly
of Wilmington she is the ablest commercial
lawyer in the State and one of the first in the
Union This correspondent thinks it quite
likely that successful attempt will be made to
combine the Republican and Broderick strength
In which case portions of both tickets will be
selected. Should Mr. Shafter be elected Cali
fornia will have one upright and able judge in
her highest tribunal.