The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1863-08-26
Union state Convention.
PITrsBURG, Aug 5, 1868.

of the Supreme Court met to-day. The
State was fully represented in the Con-
vention. A large number of strangers
from all parts Of the State were present.
There was great excitement about the
choice for Governor, but Curtin had eVi-
dently the inside track, and it was con-
ceded early in the day that he would re-
ceive the nomination. The friends Of
Covode and Morehead were still equally
active.
The Convention was called to order By
! G.. p. Markle. Chairman of the Executive
Committee, when the names of the dele
gates we're read.
Judge Maxwell was elected Temporary
Chairman, and Messrs ". II. Strickland
and W. J. P. White Temporary Sec'ys.
A Committee on resolutions was then
appoin ted, and the Convention adjourned
until 3 P. N.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
After the disposal of the question Of
contested seats, the Committee on Organ
izatien reported the Hon. Lemuel Todd
of Cumberland for President, with thirty
( Vice Presidents and several Secretaries
Judge Todd. on taking the chair, made
neat and appropriate speech, returning
( thanks for the honor conferred hoping
I the Convention would be harmonious in
selecting candidates worthy of the prin-
ciples of the Union party, and who would
unite the entire vote in the October
/ election
/ \ resolution was offered by Mr.. Nc
/ Kennon, stating that aG unfortunate diff
ference had sprung up between tive Of
the leading candidates for Governor, and
( that the best interests of the country and
party demanded that man should be put
into the field whose nomination would
reconcile the differences.
The resolution ELECTED some discussion,
and was shelVed by vote of 10 yeas to
81 nays.
Mr. Campbell then nominated Gov.
Curtin. The nomination was received
with applause.
The following additional nominations
were made: Henry D. Moore of Phila-
delphia, J K Morehead of Allegheny,
J ohm Covode of Armstrong, J. p Penny,
of Allegheny, Major Francis Jordan, j. J.
Pearson, F. c. Brewster of Philadelphia,
and Jas. Veech of Fayette.
/ Considerable debate followed on the
merits of the candidates, during which a
letter vas read from John Co7ode declin-
/ ing a nomination in order to harmoulze
/ the party.
At about Z o'clock ballot was had,
which resulted in the choice of Andrew
Curtin, BY a vote of 90 against 43.
/ The Convention then adjourned until
g p. IN.
NIGHT SESSION.
! The Hon. Daniel Agnew of Beaver was
nominated By acclamation for Judge of
/ Supreme Court.
! On motion, the delegates present were
instructed to name person from each
county, to constitute a State Committee.
! The Committee en- Resolutions report
the following:
| The loyal men of Pennsylvania, in Conven-
+ ton assembled, disclaiming all partizanship,
/ knowing no cause but that of their country,
+ declare for themselves and their constituents,
( First: The infexible purpose to maintain
/ by every necessary effort, service and sacrifice
/ the National Union, as the first, highest, most
solemn and most oyershadowing Of all politi-
cal duties
/ Second: That the Rebellion, which threat
ems the existence of the Union, was, without
cause, conceived in wickedness, organized in
| perjury, and developed by reckless violence,
and is stained with every crime and detesta-
/ ble in object, and informal in purpose and
must be suppressed by the people OF the
J United States, at the destruction of whose
liberties, and overthrow OF whose free institu-
tions it is tnjuriously aimed.
Third: That in the momentous contest now
raging there are, and can be, but two parties
one which firmly sustains the constituted
authorities of the nation in enforcing all the
/ laws thereof, and in protecting the principles
upon which the Government rests, forming at
once the party of law, of liberty, and of patri-
otism /; The other which cripples the constitu-
ted authorities Of the nation in enforcing the
laws, securing its safety, and preserving its
life, and is therefore the parent Of mcbs, enc
my Of order, and participant in treason-a
class whose detestable practices not only give
aid and comfort to the common enemy, but as
confessed at Richmond, light up these days of
Rebel darkness and disaster, and stimulate
them TO renewed and desperate efforts to re-
cruit their armies and to whom part is this
day Justly chargeable ofwhatever vitality the
Rebellion possesses. and whatever calamity
or afaiction the further protraction of the con-
+ test may involve But for Northern sympa-
thlzers with Southern treason, and the hopes
that their reasonable existence inspires, the
/ Rebellion would have sunk under the stag
gering blow dealt at Gettysburg, Yicksburg,
and Port Hudson.
( Fourth: That wholly without sympathy for
men who have made this war against free
Republican Government, or for the system of
human bondage in whose interest il was in