The weekly Butte record., 1863-06-13
Abolition County Convention.

/ t!O1 IN lllS Town, on thursday last. fOr tne
purpose of parceling out the different Offices
among the expectant and hungry claimants
/ for the loares and fishes The convention was
called TO order By J. NJ. Clark, Chairman Of
the committee, who stated the object Of the
convention R. c. Gaskell was elected tenn
porary President, and Mr. Keats temporary
/ Secretary of the convention. Committees on
/ credentials, on permanent organization and or
/ der of business, and on resolutions. having
been appointed BY the President, the convea-
tion adjourned until O'Clock P. N.
( The convention re assembled in the afternoon,
pursuant to adjournment. The committee on
credentials not being ready 10 report, Tom
Shannon. one of the aspirants for Congress.
was called for, and took the stand Thomas
commenced by saying that be did not appear
before the convention as candidate for Sher
/ if, as that seemed to be the great struggle
/ THE President here reminded him that be was
out of order in casting reflections upon the
Chair. There was no such thing as politics
or party now. We were engaged 10 a great
struggle for Republican liberty. by which
he probably meant abolition.l They were
called upon as loyal men to separate them
selves from another class. the Democrats.
They mustn't alec -yun-ate themselves from
one another-must not vote for any one who
called himself Democrat, or who upheld 1.-The
Infamous curse of slavery against human liber
ty." Applause. For Gods sake don't
quarrel and split up and don't let sorehead-
eduess engeuder anything like the verdigris of
copper" Play upon the word copperhead.'
Having thus delivered himself of this outburst
of more than Ciceronian eloquence, the dstin-
guished gentleman spoke nary a word more,
and the convention adjourned for one hour,
either to digest the speech or to await the ac
tion of the committee on credentials.
On re assembling the committee on creden-
tials reported list of some l3O delegates.
The committee on permanent organization and
order of business then made their report. That
portion of it relating TO organization was
adopted, and the following gentlemen became
officers of the convention r. Gaskell, Presi-
dent; Ever and Monty, Vice Presidents !;
Keats and Young, Secretaries. The order Of
business. as reported by the committee, was
amended so as to make the nomination for
Sheriff take precedence, instead of being fifth
on the list. Before the question was taken on
the amendment, motion was made to with
draw the report Of the committee, On which
quite an animated debate took place as to the
ownership of the report-wbether ii belonged
to the committee or convention. The ques-
/ tion having been settled in favor of the con-
venton, the report, as amended, was adopted.
Thos. Wells, Chairman of the committee on
resolutions, reported short series-the pur-
port of which was, so far as we could hear,
! that it was constitutional for the Administra
tion to do whatever might be considered q ne
cessary" to save the Union; or, in other
words, that it was constitutional to destroy
the Constitution in order to preserve it. We
shall pay our respects to these incompatible
resolutions hereafter. A resolution was then
adopted requiring all the candidates placed in
nomination to endorse the platform as afore-
said, and pledge themselves to sustain the
nominations of the convention.
Nominations for Sheriff being now in order,
six candidates were presented, and the result
was as follows f. W. Day, AZ : B. F. Jones,
26 Russ johnson, % j. c. Vaudeville, 20;
j. NJ. Clark, II; R. c. Gaskell, 10. No
choice Amid much noise and confusion, mo-
tious and amendments, the convention adjourn
ed until O'Clock on Friday morning.
The convention, yesterday morning, adopted
a resolution requiring the candidates for Domi-
nations for the several Offices to contribute
$3.50 each 9" for the benefit of the party
The aspirants for the Sherifaity accordingly
walked up to the Captains office and
pungled. The balloting was then resumed
and continued until the fourth balot-Day
/ leading-when Gaskell withdrew from the
contest, in accordance with proposition,
made BY himself, that the lowest candidate, at
each successive ballot, should retire, until q
nomination should be effected. Five other
ballots were then had, in two or three of which
too many votes were found to have been cast,
and were therefore pronounced nuity. The
convention then adjourned to l o clock P. N.
Four more ballots were taken in the after
noon On the 18th and last, the vote stood
Day, - Jones, As johnson, is. Frank w.
Day was then, on motion, declared the unani-
nous choice of the convention as its candidate
for Sheriff Thus the long agony was over,
and the delegates breathed more freely. The
balance of the nominations will doubtless be
made without a very violent struggle, although
another day will probably be consumed in eff
fecting them. We will append such as are
made before our paper goes to press.
F. S.-For County Clerk. G. Moore.
For Recorder S. J. Whipple.