Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-08-08
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of the 18th Congressional Diatrict'
The Union Central Committees of the
counties Of CuyahOga, Lake and Summit
met al the Office Of Samuel Williamson,
In the city Of Cleveland, on The 9th day of
August, A. D. 1862, at 10 o'clock A. NJ,
for the purpose of making arrangements
for holding a District Convention, to nOmi-
nate candidate for Congress in the 18th
Congressional District. Committees from
said counties present as follows:
cuYAHooA COUNTY.
E. 5. Flint, Jarvis NJ. Adams, William
Collins, Bushnell White, Merrill Barlow,
Jacob Mueller, Samuel Williamson, Loren
Prentiss and c. L. Russell.
LAKE COUNTY.
A. L. Tinker, NJ NJ. Seymour and Al
bert King.
SUMMIT COUNTY.
VIM. NJ. Beebe, n. W. GOodhue and G..
W. Mcneil.
The general committee was organized by
appointing Hon. E. S. Flint Of Cuyahoga
Co, Chairman, and n. W. Goodhue Of
Summit Co., Secretary.
On motion, it was resolved that the basis
OF the delegation to the Congressional
Convention, be seVenty-fve votes Of the
last Union GubernatOrial vote for each
delegate, to be divided among the counties
as follows, to wit: Cuyahogs county 81
delegates, Summit cCUaty Al delegates,
and Lake county q delegates.
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gressional District hold a Union Conven-
tion to nominate candidate for Congress,
at Cleveland, on the 2Sd day Of September
A. D. 1862, at IL o'clock A. NJ, and that the
+. Union voters Of the several wards and
townships in said district be, aud hereby
are requested to assemble at such hour on
Es--l-.-ia -slA a0nth - Gantannhar, a farasaii
as shall be named by the county Commit
tees of each county, at places to be by them
named. to select the proper number of
delegates to attend said nominating con-
veation, and that the polls be kept open
at least one hour.
Resolued, That each county Committee
shall apportion the number Of delegates to
which it shall be entitled, among the va
rious wards and townships of such county,
upon the basis of one delegate for every
/ seYenty-fve votes cast for Governor Tod
at the annual election in 1861.
ResOlUsd, That feeling deeply sensible
of the trying and harrassing circumstanc-
/ es, for the last year or more, and now sur
rounding our National Government and
the dangers that threaten its safety and
even its existence, we are firmly impress
| ed with the conviction that q united feel
ing of love for, and devotion to our Gov
ernment, united sympathy for the cause
of Freedom, and a united influence and
action in the councils of our State and
Nation, and on the field Of battle, are all
necessary to our success and safety.
We think that at this time, all the loyal
men Of Ohio, should be united by purer
and higher patriotism than party strife,
or any considerations Of partisan success,
and thus united, act together, in resisting
under all circumstances and in all places,
each and every attempt, north and south,
to dismember our once glorious Union;
that, thus united, they should feel and
speak, write and vote, and work and fight,
shoulder to shoulder, until this accursed
rebellion shall be crushed out in all our
land.
We feel that political unity upon the
part of the real friends of our country in
Ohio at this time, is the more necessary,
because the remnant Of once great and
powerful political party of Ohio, have very
recently fully organized in opposition to
both our State and National Administra-
tions. While claiming to be friends Of our
government and country, many of the
leaders of thatparty are most busy in Con-
gress, on the rostrum and through the
press, in scattering dissension among our
people, and persistently laboring to weak
| en- and destroy the trust and confidence of
the loyal people of Ohio, in each and every
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that party, and all men engaged in such
I Iabors, TO be essentially and vitality mimi
common country.
| Now, therefore, we earnestly invite all
the loyal men of this District to act with US
politically, who believe in the truth and
\ justness Of the above declarations; who
have faith and confidence in the saga
city, prudence, integrity, patriotism and
efficiency of our State and National Ad-
ministratiOns who are in favor of g
determined and vigorous prosecution
of the war, with all the weapons and aids
that the Government can control, until
this gigantic and unholy rebellion shall be
at an end, and who are in favor of the
eonfseation of all the property and slaves
Of all persons actively engaged in this re-
bellion, or giving aid thereto. GE
RESOLVED, That these proceedings be pub
Hshed in all the newspapers Of this Dis
trict. E. S. FLINT, Chairman.
N. W. GoODHUE, Secretary.