The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-04-20
THE STATE CONVENTION,
The Call by the Union ExeCu-
tive Committee.
UNION Ex. Cow. Rooms, !
Cnlnmhns O Anril 10 ,G6

UNION Ex. Cow. Rooms, |
Columbus, o., April 10, '65.
TO the Union u0ters Attic State of Ohio,
At q meeting of the State Central
sCommittee, held in the Hall of the
House of Representatives, at the Cap
.itol, at which were present by invita-
ltion, the officers of the State Govern
ment, Union members of Congress,
and of the General Assembly of the
States, and many distinguished citi-
,zens, it was resolved to hold q State
Convention, for the nomination of
candidates on the Union ticket. in this
lefty, on WEDNESDAY, THE 21ST
lDAY OF JUNE NEXT.
THE BASIS OF REPRESENTATION in
this Convention will be one delegate
for every five hundred votes on the
/. home vote cast for Abraham Lincoln
at the late Presidential election, and
one additional delegate for any fraction
of two hundred and fifty votes and up
wards making the representation Of the
several counties in the State, as fol-
ilows
[Wo give only the home vote for
Lincoln in 1864. in this county, and
Jour consequent representation.
Home vote in 1864, 2,0OG; number
Iof Delegates 4 Ed.
The several counties are requested
Ito hold their meeting for the selection
'ofdelegatcs on SATURDAY, JUNE
10TH.
REPRESENTATION FROM THE ARMY,
las determined by the State Central
Committee, will be as follows, One
delegate for each regiment, and for
leach regiment having n fraction of two
hundred and fifty Union votes over
five hundred, one ad ditional delegate,
for each separate organized battalion;
lonedelegate and for each independent
battery, one delegate, the latter being
lentitled to only half vote in the
Convention.
The delegates from the army> are
recommended to be chosen by ballot,
lat as early q day as practicable; and it
lis very desirable, that whenever possi-
bic delegate should be sent directly
from the regiment or other organiza-
Ition; but when this cannot be done,
let a proxy, fully authenticated, be
sent to some reliable citizen at home,
'entitling him to n seat in the Convcn-
tion, that every portion of the army
may be full y represented,
The Union voters of the several
Counties and Districts of the State are
earnestly recommended to make early
for members of the Gen
cral Assembly and for County officers,
in order that full timo may be allow
ed for sending tickets to the army,
and securing large vote Of the SOL
diers. And the Committee hereby
cordially invite the good and earnest
men of all political parties, to unite
with them in putting into official posi-.
ton such men. as at the present time,
when so much depends on correct and
salutary action, will devote them
solves wholly to the best interests of
the country, Let us lay aside all for
mcr prejudccs, all old predictions,
and come together with a detcrmina-
ton to preserve our country, and her
glorious institutions, from every peril
which threatens them at homo or
abroad.
The committee cannot close this ad-
dress to their fellow-citizens of Ohio,
whose sons have so nobly sustained
her reputation, both in the army and
in tho Cabinet, during our present
without calling upon all
good men to unite with them in return
ing the most sincere and heartfelt
thanks to tho Author of all good, for
the success both in the civil and mill
tary departments of the Administra-
ton, with which lie has crowned our
cause, and at the same time congratu-
lating them upon the glorious pros
pect now opening for our common
country.
Tho war is being brought rapidly
to successful termination, and the
rebellion which at one time threatened
to overturn tho Government, must
soon bo numbered with tho things
that were. The system of Negro Sla-
very, at once foul disgrace to the fair
fame of the Nation and continual
source of angry and perilous discord,
lis abolished by Constitutional enact
|ment, and We trust the day is very
far distant when any sound or loyal
man will bo found so far lost to all
sense of honor and justice as to advo-
cato Its establishment.
But let us not suppose that the time
|of danger is past, or that the objects
which caused the formation of the
Union party are SO thoroughly at
|tained as to render it's success no long.
Ter imperatively necessary to tho well
being of the country. On the contra.
iry at no time since the commencement
iof the great struggle, have the counsels
'of tho good and the wise been more
:imporiously demanded. Great ques
.tions growing out of tho important
events to which we have alluded, arc