New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-30
NR W.JER0KY ".

The Unionists of our neighbor State will holt
a convention at Trenton, Oh the Goth OF July
for the nomination Of Governor; and
"All citizens in favor Of sustaining the Administers
ton Of President johnson; Of securing the adoption Of
the Amendment to the Constitution aboshng Slavery
and recognizing and rewardiDR to the fun extent the
sacrifices, snerings and achievements VI our heroic
soldiers invited to take part in this EFFORT 10 re-
deem our State and relieve her from her present dis
graceful attitude the only among the Free States
which refuses TO sanction the Constitutional
ofSlaveiy."
are requested to unite in sending delegates
from their respective wards and townships, in
the ratio Of one for each thousand or major
fraction OF thousand inhabitants by the census
of 1860. We entreat those Of each township to
organize and prepare seasonably to send their
best citizens as delegates TO this Convention.
The great issue of the canvass has been made
up by our adversaries, aud is fairly set forth
above. New.Jersey is the only distinctiyely
Free State that gave popular majority against
Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and cast her full
Electoral Vote against him in 1864. She is the
only distinctively Free State that has rejected
the Constitutional Amendment expelling Hu.
man Slavery from our whole country, and pro-
hibiting its return. Her last Legislature
might have ratified that Amendment. and was
entreated to do so, but the Sham Democracy
would not give it single vote. They rallied
solid against the Amendment, thus telling the
People that New-Jersey can only set her
seal to the Magma Charta of Personal
and National Freedom through the defeat and
overthrow Of that counterfeit, Slavery-cher.
ishing Democracy. The gage thus thrown down
has been taken up; the Unionists Of jersey
have resolved by this sign to conquer. The
Amendment is sure to be adopted--ifnot by
the vote Of New.JcrSey, then by those of vir.
ginia, the Carolinas and Mississippi But will
it not be burning, lasting disgrace TO New.
Jersey If History shall record that, while Ar.
kansas and Tennessee, not to speak Of Mary.
land and Missouri, have ratified the Abolition of
Slavery. New-Jersey should still reject it. OBJ.
stinately attempting to set once more on its
pedestal the idol which has by it's very priests
been thrown down and broken into fragments,
New-Jersey at her recent elections Of moment
has voted in the aggregate as follows:
Republican. Democratic
1S56.-President. Fremont 2s 33o. buchanan AZ on
Fillmore, American. "a. lis
1S5o.-Gor.nor. .Olden. SO. 81. Wright 81 ia
$780, President. Lincoln So 324 .Douga G. so so
1901 Gorernor. Ward. ..4G, no. Parker. 81 S1
1S64.-Prssdent. Lincoln. CO. 723 Mcclellan 6s Ool
Ms,o,i,te:. olden, l,5e1; Douglas. A,4s5; Parker,
1857; Mcclellan. 1901. -
Mr. Lncoln's vote in ga was 9, 800 higher
than in 1860. though meantime many gallant
Unionists had been laid in bloody graves, while
not less than Is, 600 were absent from the State
in November last in the Military or Naval
service of their country, and therefore denied
the Right Of Suffrage by her Copperhead rulers,
who knew right well that the Soldiers Vote
would have swamped their factitious majority.
Tue soldiers Of New yegssy ia tho dsM were not