East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-09-23
THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS-
II IONAL CONVENTION.


give a minute account Of it. They or.
gained. Mr. Brown, of. the Upper
Peninsular, chairman. After balloting
the remainder of tho day without any
final result, splitting on the Upper
Peninsular candidates, and Burney aud
briggs, and some boiling, whether of
members of the Convention or of the
party, we did not learn, they adjourn
ed to East Saginaw for an evening SEES.
sion in Beuna Vista Hall. The hall
WAS comfortably filed. They soon got
to baloting again, an1 the machinery
moving in seeming good order and
harmony, after a few ballots briggs
was highest and he was declared unan
imously nominated. briggs in the
meantime had gone out A COMMITTEES
was appointed to wait on him, and bring
him in They brought him in and in.
troduced him as the choice OF the Con-
vcntion to represent them in Congress !
We could scarcely suppress smile;
and we heartily echoed the sentiment
of a republican acquaintance sitting by
our side, "Oh the force aud humbug
of politics !" Mr.. briggs then made a
speech in which he "returned his thanks
to the Convention for the distinguished
honor they had conferred upon him, !"
etc., etc and also said that it was un.
expected and unsought for on his part,
aud that he had attended the Conven.
ton only with the intention and expec-
tAtion of doing what he could towards
confcring the honor upon some other
person." Here again we smiled and
blushed too, for the hardihood and au
dacity of the man in saying such a
thing, for we KNEW, as there is not q
child in the whole community who does
not know, that he demanded the nom.
nation long ago, and has been W ire
working and figuring with all his pow
ers to that end, and, therefore, of course,
expected, and work ed for it, and for
nothing else; and then TO say, as his
whole audience must bear witness he
did say, "that'it was unsolicited, and he
had no expectation Of such thing, and
that he attended the Convention only
with the intention Of aiding In confer
ing the honor upon some other person.
we submit what was it more than ut.
tering in the face of the whole people
deliberate and unqualified falsehood ?
With strangers, of course, all that
sounded well and made him appear
very disinterested man--but to tho peo
pie here who know the facts what un.
blushng hypocricy Mr.. Brincy was
then called for, and the gist of his
speech was personal defence of him.
self against the charge of radicalism'
Then Mr.. Strickland, of Clinton, who
very soon worked himself up into an
agony, and acquitted himself of an
abolition harangue, during which he
Mas very generally and loudly applaud.
ed. The course was then interrupted
by the coming in Of the committee on
resolutions, Col. Gage az their chair.
man, reported their action and submit
ted a single resolution. We have no
copy of it and cannot pretend to give
the wording. The resolution as read
was just what any patriot would echo
with all his heart, aud taken by itself,
detached from its abolition surroundings,
would be worthy better birth. Then
Mr.. Campbell, of Marquette, was called
out and made respectable, most excel
lent, speech, and in abiding to the de-
mocracy said they were patriotic and
loyal people, and as proofs Of it cited to
the army, and to the cooperation and
support in the way Of money and labor
tho Democrats at home were giving the
government" and in all this canddly ad.
mitted and stated what all the world
knows to be fact, and talked like an
impartial man; the only wonder being
how he could be acting and identifying
himself with such radical body of men.
Then came Mr.. Ingersoll, Of Owosso, he
talked principally about himself and the
''Free Press and finally dropped down
upon their nominee and swallowed him
with seeming great gusto. Next DIR.
Gale, of Gencssec, was called for, and
he said she went in for calling things by
their right Names" evidently abiding TO
MIR. CampbelPs speech, and not at all
suitod with Tho 1;La,ol;t,, IL ..-..-