The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-03-03

! s0t oniy afares open vjs6 woes voting, bot
smother evidence Of the dsmoralising ten
dsas;ss Of me Democratic partyl There
should b some shew Of honer, even among
thievesl
During tAs ehssgs Of HE vots, KElloao
became somewhat excited, and, in frsnsisd
manner, called upon his friends to eounterass
the CLAooErr movement, By dropping him,
and concentrating upon Col. TDsnrsoS, Of
Darlington. His susgsstion fell still. born,
and, ths forces Of 70 great CLAooErr, mo-
msns pr two later, s'ground arms" upon the
'terri,6fy 30 lately occupied BY the volunteers
Of ne 'seentlemcn from Decatur" Css
Bonoi CLAoorrr goes to Charleston in
April, and KELLooo, at the close Of the SEES
sion, will retire to the alceves Of Decatur
County, there to ruminate in comparative
seclusion upon the mutability Of the "vault-
ing ambition" which got overleaped.
After this refreshing little episode-an
episode which, by.the.bye will doubtless be
digni6ed into an irrefragible evidence Of the
harmony Of the Convention-the convention
proceeded to the selection Of alsernates--a
proceeding it accomplished with little difi-
Guilty.
sour Ben's' chance had now come, ~
had also hisresolutions. The resolves were
read, and, We suppose. adopted-thoagh
for the life Of Us, amid the ''noise and con-
fusion that prevailed, we were unable to note
anything of the kind. No0 comeindiridual
actors upon the stage, with, Of course,
in,promtu resolves. OF these resolves, and
the result Of their introduction, we
prefer to let the daily Register speak, a.
follows: "Several other resolutions We: .
introduced more especially With reference
to bringing the movers int notice. when a
row vas kicked urc W resolution Of J. NJ.
Walker Of Folk, who said he "lidn't amount
20 much in crowd anyhow" The resolution
bound the convention not only to support
the nominee Of the Charleston Convention
but ITS PLArroRx. The Douglas men
squirmed and twisted and got up tremen-
dous sxcitement.s Walker took the stand
and proved to the satisfaction of every one
outside the Douglas squad, that the idea OF
endorsing . candidate and not the platform
on which he stood, was perfectly ridiculous.
"Our Ben" made long speech, Claggett
discovered a grammatical error" and
Baker said 'sthe ground was covered else.
where" In the mean time personal appeals
wero made to "my young friend from Polk"
who became excited, was called to order BY
name by the President, and was at last
coaxsd into "Resolred, That We will abide
by the action Of the Charleston Convention, !"
as appears by the official procsed;Dgs.-
There has not been anything so ridiculous in
the actors, and so amusing to spectators in
Sherman's Hall for a long time" 5s-t
An effort was here made by some eastern
gentlemen, to secure the meeting Of the
next State Convention at Davenport, but
some discreet delegate obtained the floor,
and moved an adjournment. "The ayes aid
noes" were called on the motion to aijonrn,
in spite of the efforts Of interested parties.
the motion to adjourn carried, and the place
ofhol ling the next State Cow ion thus left
to the discretion Of the Central Committee.
So terminated the Convention Of tho unter-
ri6ed. a4s. tatr w. w. NJ.