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NEW OREGON HOWARD COUNTY. IOWA, SEPTEMBER 8 1863
Proceedings of The Soldiers
Convention.

! COnVtNtIOl.
| On motion, Captain Webster Bal
Finger was called to the chair pro tern
A H Ward and Lieut. Francis Welt
man were appointed secretaries
pro tem Of The Convention. ..---.
On motion. committee of five IN
credentials was appointed by the chair
consisting Of Capt, G WdClark, Lieut.
mckinney, Edmund Jaegar, Lieut. N
. Martin, Lieut.. VIM. O'Donuhue.
! On motion of Capt Clark. Capt
Laughlin of Jasper county, was appoint
ed chairman of said committee. ..-
On m ton the Convention adjourned
until 2o'clock p. m. = . -.
TWO O'CLOCK p. M.
Meeting called to order by the chair
Mr.. Murray offered the following
resolutions: 80 .
Resolved That this IS exclusively
a soldiers Invention, and that. none
but those who we're soldiers in the S. r
vice of the United States be admired
as delegates to this convention, and
all those who are delegates to the cop
perhead convention to MORROW be exclu-
ded as delegates to this convention.
Captain Edwards offered the follow
ing amendment: The words and loyal
citizens to be inserted after the word
soldiers in the second line, and after
the words 'Uni.ed States in the fourth
line, and the words convention that
meets on the Oath, to be inserted for
the words 'c'pperhead convsntlon.
The resolution as amended was then
carried.
The report Of the corom;t,ea on ere
aeot.,ts vas received nuG anoprod, IS
oiiovs:
The committee would report that the
following delegates from the different
counties are entitled to seats in this
convention: Lieut. Charles Shepard,
J P Mcdaniel, WIN Potter, Capt w
BaInger, Capt VIM Edwards, Edmund
Jaeger, LIST Serg't Ii A Whittier W
G Buck, Serg't D Wright, P G Brian,
Lieut. II D Henderson, Capt J W
Clark, J w McCaddin, Lieut. s Nc
Kinney, Lieut. N G Martin, Capt A
M Ault: Capt J W sennett, David
Beams, B Chaplin, Jacob Harden.
Lieut. VIM y D,nahue, G w Huxfo'd
Addison Dovis Smith Childs, H II
Jones l Ewing, Col H H Trimble.
Golfer of K9okuk county W E Hous' n
1t r R Por"nw, 1t N H Ward, W J
Jeffey, 1t Hardman, L Mowery, Lit
Myers, N s Faulkner, J B Fox, G F
Kelner, N W Laughlin, Col G j
CLARK, James r Webb, L VanHorn:
Albert jones. Sergt E HOLIDAY, VIM
D Lyon, F Hardin, w II Woodrow,
Capt T H Myer, Sergt John Loman,
Private Jnhn G Powers, 1t L A Gar
rett, Chaplain A J Barto Private S
Studsman, Sergt E Attmore, Drum
Mnjor Clemshaw, Capt J H Brown, 1t
F Weitman, Sergt H J Owens, E D
Loss, Henry Damn, Levi Gardner, j
Lowell, Alfred Mathews, sergt VIM s
Russell, G w Loomis. .
The Committee would further report
that the following gentlemen from Mad
ison county desire to participate in the
deliberations of this convention: NJ L
Mcpherson, John H Kelley W G
ewton, B F. Murray, A Bra ford,
Robert A Stett, Sam G Ruby,J F
Brock, W Pursel, S B Cherry, G N
Elliot. On examining their crede,-
tials, we find that the convention that
nominated these gentlemen adopted the
following resolutions:
Resolved, I'd, That while we de-
recate the actiou of the Union State
Convention which assembled at Des
Moines, June, 18th 1865, in sgitating
the negro suffrage question, yet we
heartily endorse the nominations of
said convention.
1t will be perceived that these gen.
tlemen are not entitled to seats, as they
do not bring themselves within the