The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1866-10-02
- piLl.burs CanlenIIon.


The Piasburs Cout eBtien.
rs Natisnsl Convention - Soldiers
arf snlap opposed n the policy = tsly
a5mnirratiau convened Il Piisbarg
a1 u, 5 q ha week Ne@udenN
,he leug ir9a ne iAly reports
rs elty uas ab.aze nith excitement.
aEd ihU IL Hall was crowded al the
Hluing alih spectators Who wui 90
So tie beautiful decorations with
which q Was adorned a lnrg number
.ni th soldiers 81 tir war e 1872 ard
tbe AcAseau aar oarupea tie platform
Ms.p lhe hear arrived lor ihg ass,mb-
Aul II the CONVENTION. the eruwd wsrc
requested o. fttlt. winch lhcy hd ser
ry relucisDtly. The deiogaions from
tile different States warc thun called
and entered amid tho widest enihusi-
hsm When the Wisconsin delegation
came ID with The i've eagle .Old Abe, p
borne aloft oa his perch, the cuthusi-
aga vas Tremendous On motion Of
ten Hanllu, Of Mane. "0ld Abe WAS
assigned position d honm on the
platform
General Negloy called the convention
to order it noon, and prayer WAS offer
cd by Geueral MOODY. formerly colonel
Of .he I4th OHIO regiment. Tho fol-
lowing Sts'es answered 70 the roll.cail
Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont, Mas
sachusotts, Rhode Island. Connecticut
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina
tennessee, OHIO, Illinois, Nevada, Mich
igan, WISCONSIN, Iowa, Minnesota, Ken
tucky, Missouri, Texas, California,
Utah There was the widest enthusi-
asm when the roll-cail was finished and
"Old Hundred WIS sung by the whole
oonY ention. A choir 81 100 ladies then
united ia singing the Star Spangled
Banner, the delegates joining in the
chorus. General Barlow, OF New York,
then read the cali under which the con
vention had assembled. l.. Edwin
Dudley, private soldier of the 18th
Massachusetts,, was made temporary
chairman.
Mr.. Dudley made brief and appro-
pirate 81 czech which was enthusiastic
cally cbs3red. Committees on perma-
nent Oh organization and resolutions were
appointed Upon the former commit
tee Vermont wasrepresented by Colonel
Rediield Proctor and Lieutenant-Col-
onel VIM. Y. w Ripley and ON the lat
ter by Colonel Proctor and Lieutenant
G, H. Bliss. Colonel Proctor and Col
onel Ripley were among the Vice Pres
idents and also Lieutenant G. NJ. Bliss
and Lieutenant Charles Fields Gen
eral Co3hTane for the committee on per-
manent organization made the follow
ing capital report: Your Committee,
as ia duty bound, contemplated the
Whole area Of the lighting Union They
examined into the claims Of each Of It's
martial heroes to preside over the de-
hberations Of its marshalled soldiers
They looked toward the East. and
while tho eliminating presence Of a
loader Of your ranks there presented
Itself 10 their contemplation, they were
prevented from accepting his Offices by
the fact that a humble but heroic pri-
yate from tie ranks Of Massachusetts
presided over yopr temporary organi-
zation; and therefore, soldiers, no whom
We had thought and had wished &c
bring his offering to your feet to-day
VIC postponed 10 other claims, and only
that lac should reap Of their honors.
! Applause. Your Committee looked
toward the West the rising West, the
commanding West the predominatinq
1 West, the West that il tho Union 81
Z this Government and we asked where
! Is that hero OF whom the country has
4 heard, under whose shadow armies
have been marshaled and by whose
proves political enemies viii be op.
pressed John A. Logan (Tremend.
GUS cheering, which was continued for
several minutes But We were ans.
4 wered that while the armies Of the Tn
ION We're musering at the center, Gen.
oral John A. Logan was encounterina
the enemies in the West. Great ap.
plausc,) Soldiers he is not here, sd
your Committee fall with grateful eve
upon another hero for heroes were
not wanting in this war for freedom
applause, and away in the distant
4 fields Of the far Ohio, Cncinnatus like
We end at has plow, General Jacob ID
Coz. prolonged cheers. We have
brought INN from the burrows so ricl
with the bodies Of the enemies of his
country to preside here over the coun.
sgls Of It's living friends. applause.
! ain INSTRUCTED, therefore, By the Com.
mittco on Permanent Organization. Mr.
J President, 20 nominate to the Conyen.
ton, and this is our report For Pres
ident Mni. Gen j. u. Cox, Of Ohio.
Great applause.
4 General Cox WAS received with great
applause and made an able speech q
the genuine sort, and closing as fol-
lows ~ say the citizen soldiery Of thi.
country recognize the Congress Of the
United States as the representative
/ Government in fact Of the whole coun,
try; the r. resentatiyes and Senators
Of the people in Congress assembled
now as an organized body, recognized
bv US and by the whole world al the
! Congress Of the people, and the only
persons who may rightfully, by Tia
powers given them by the people. de-
termime the mode and manner IN which
their Successors shall take their seats