The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-06-28
COUNTY CONVENTION.

county officers. The convention was
called to order by Chairman Of Co. Com.
and organized by appointing as pcrman-
ent officers of the Convention:
Hon. Harvey Munsill, President;
Hon. L. ID. Warner of New Haven, II.
Chapman of Vergennes, and Hon. S. D.
Holcomb of Starksbero, Vice-Presdents,
Rufus Mead, Secretary.
On motion, Hon. j. w. Stewart and
Justus Cobb, were appointed committee
to determine the representatives each
town should have in Co. Com. on the
usual basis.
On motion, the Chair appointed a
Com. on Resolutions as follows:
j. NJ. Slade, Jonas Smith, J. w.
Stewart, Ira Clifford, Henry Lane.
Voted a recess of thirty minutes for
towns to make their Committees.
AT the close of the recess the following
gentlemen were reported for Town Com
mi;tecs:
Te'gcanes, /. Neadcr, w. II. Bixby,
G. II. Smith, II. Chapman.
StWhybo,o', Saml ID. IIolcomb, |. L.
Strong.
Bristol, Wolcott Norton, NJ. d. Par
melee, Chase Bush, Jacob Daniels.
Whiting, VIM. p. Wright, Abel Wal
ker.
Goshen, James Carson.
Saoreham, w. p. Frost, Il. Il. Totting-
ham, Ira G.. Bascomb.
jVahhdm, +. d. Barton, Chas' Ba-
con.
B,1iport, c. n. Hayward, Truman
Bailey, j. X. Ferrc.
Addsoa, A. 7. Smith, f. Gorham,
c. p. Morrison.
Leicester, Miles Story, John Preston.
CormwaH Henry Lane, l.. c. Mead,
Henry Warner.
FerrSbuyh, L. Orvis, ]. Ferris, CIV.
Porter, NJ. Ball, O. Gage.
WoaAton, L. b. Smith, c. S. Dean,
Levi Downey, II. O Smith.
MaldleJ,ay, L. Hammond, II. Mead,
j. NJ Slade, J. w. Stewart, J. Cobb, n.
Upper.
O,7reH, S. II. Bascom, d. w. Clark,
o. A. Peck, III. Parish.
Id'tOn, p. Bristol, Loyal Kent
Ne,o Ha,c0, f. S. IIinman, Henry
Clifford, E. d. Warner, VIM S. Wright.
Rpton, G. II. Axtell.
T;unoJ,, Cbne CIo,I.
Howard Clark.
IiWD'lgge, NJ. E. Spraguc, Edwin
Lawrence, j. A. Child.
.SalyJVy, r. d. IIeddcn, A. Board
man, c. Z. Evcrts, NJ. S. Sheldon.
On motion Chair appointed as County
Committee L. Hammond, f. S. Bottum,
ii. O. Smith, VIM. Joslin, J. Cobb.
Adjourned to two o'clock, afternoon.
The Committee on Nominations made
the following report which was accepted
and adopted:
Senators Lewis Meacham, NJ. O.
Porter.
Probate Judyes:-H. Munsill, New
Haven District, g. G. Tilden, Addison
District.
Comfy Jm1ges Edwin Evcrts, E. II.
Weeks
STATES Ahmmy III. S. Foote.
NenF:-G. A. Collamer.
High BahF:-Edward Gorham.
The Committee on Resolutions reported
the following:
Resolred, That we hail the advent Of peace
to our distracted country, with deyout thank
fulness to the Good Providence that has guild
ed us thus far through our manifold perils.
Re oired. That we renewedly pledge our
unfaltering support of the great principles of
Freedom, Justice and good Government, so
gloriously maintained and vindicated by the
yalor and patriotic devotion Of the loyal men Of
the country.
Resolref, That while we mourn with heart
felt sorrow, the death of our late President,
Abraham Lincoln, We will ever hold in loving
and grateful remembrance the lofty virtues
which he exemplifed-his unswerving intcg-
rty, his justice, his humanity and his pater-
nal, unselfsh devotion to his country's highest
good.
Resolved, That we cordially approve the pol
of ANDREW JOHNSON and that we will unitedly
aid in oil its efforts to restore the rightful au-
thority of our Government over tine States late
ly in rebellion, upon the enduring basis of
Justice and freedom to all without distinction
of race or color.
Resolved, That the National Government
should use every constitutional prerogative to
extend to the Freedmen of the South all the
rights and privileges of freemen, and elevate
and educate them out of that degradation to
which they have been sunk by unjust oppres-
sion,
Resoired, That we would extend our heart
felt sympathy to surviving relations of the
Heroes who have fallen in our defence, and to
the soldiers who yet survive and especially 10
those of our own State we would express our
heartfelt gratitude, and promise ever to hold
them in Sacred and Honorable remembrance.
Resoiped, That in the election Of new men
toloifce those only who have proved themselves
truly loyal through the years struggle fol-
the nations life are worthy of support and
such only shall receive political favor at our
hands.
The resolutions were ably discussed by
Messrs. Axtell, Slade, Stewart, Warner,
Human, Bidwell and others and sever
ally adopted.
On motion adjourned.
H. MUNSILL, President.
II. MEAD, Secretary.
Edmund Ruiiin, of Virginia, who free
! the first gun on Port Sumter, is dead. lie