The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-06-28

ME; Fourth, W Frizzell; Fifth, Phil
ip Heisinger; Sixth, James Purcell;
Seventh, NJ D Brock; Eighth, ] s Jones;
Ninth, Jacob Scroggs; Tenth, George
Lusky; Eleventh, p Kinney; Twelfth,
Jos + Worthington; Thirteenth, John
A Sinnett; Fourteenth, II Bronson;
Fifteenth, Pitt Pdtnam; Sixteenth, L
G Davis; Seventeenth, R II Sherrard, jr;
Eighteenth, Sidney Edgerton; Nine
teenth, Buell. Barnes.
The following resolution was offer
ed by Major Blackburn, of Cincin.
natl:
"ReSolved, That all resolutions hav-
ing reference to State or National mat.
ters, be referred to the Committee on
Resolutions without debate"
Adopted unanimously.
Recess till 2 O'Clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
4P. M.-Tbc Convention no Assem-.
bled at 2 o'clock.
The Committee on Credentials re-
ported all the counties except Holmes
as represented, with 444 delegates
present Credentials all regular
and correct, and no contested seats.
Tho Committee on Permanent Or
ganization reported, recommending
the following:
President-Hon. Peter Odlin; Vice
Presidents as reported at the morning
session; Secretaries Hon. J. r Cow
en-, with the usual number of assist
ants.
On taking the chair, Mr.. Odln spoke
as follows;
SPEECH OF MR.. oDLlN. t"
Mr.. Odlin thanked the Convention
for the honor of presiding over its de-
liberations. He referred to the fact
that the Convention had been opened
by prayer. Allegiance to God and to
the country are tho positions that sho d
be occupied by this Convention
Such country as this, depending up
on the will of the people. should al
ways appeal to the Divine Throne, and
especially should their Representa-
tives, upon whose action depends the
social order and political well, being of
the people in their quiet homes
Equal protection must be extended to
all. Nationality must be preserved
The country should stand up now and
proclaim its authority at homo and all
over the earth. The speaker referred
to the changes engrafted on the Con-
stitution and reviewed the great trans
ition the country had undergone on
the slavery question. He alluded to
the Emancipation Proclamation Of
Abraham Lincoln, and to the amend
ments which have supplemented it.
A deeply rooted prejudice still exists
against the freedmen in the South.
The protection of the Government
must be extended over them, and fur.
therwe must psrpatu ate the benifi.
cent changes of the war by firm, strong
constitutional bonds. We, as a party,
offer thanks to Congress for the pure,
dignified and carefully elaborated Con
stitutional Amendment, which has now
passed over to the Legislatures of the
States for the great seal of approval.
[ [Applause The people will decide
that the principles embodied in it must
be established permanently. The
State of Ohio will stand iu tho future
as in the past, true to freedom and
the Government of the whole coun,
try.
Mr.. Odln concluded by asking the
assistance of the Convention in the dis
charge Of his duties as presiding Off
cor.
$40 P. M.-The Convention pro.
ceeded to tho nomination of candi-
dates.
Mr.. W. H. Smith and Generals Rob.
inson, of Hardin, WiIds, of Athens,
and Banning, of Knox, were ann oun-
ced, but before balloting commenced,
General Banning's name was with
drawn. Owing to various changes in
the votes, the first balloting was set
aside as informal, and the vote being
then formally taken, resulted, Smith
224, and Wllds; 220. In the course Of
taking the vote General Robinson's
name was withdrawn. Mr.. Smith
was, on motion declared the unani-
nous nominee fer Secretary of State.
For Supreme judge, Hon. Josiah
Scott was re nominated, by vote Of
227, to 81 for Swing, 70 for Winans
and 53 for Walker.
Captain Barrere, one armed sol.
dicr of the Union army, was nomina-
ted by acclamation for Member of
the Board of Public Works.
The following were appointed State
Central Committee: First District,
VIM P Nixon; Second, Thos L Young;
Third, Joseph Scott; Fourth, @ W 3
Allison; Fifth, J E Grissell Sixth, B
| w Loudon; Seventh, Isaac NJ Barnett;
Eighth, H G Hedges; Ninth, Charles
r Wickham; Tenth, M R Braily; Elev.
enth, Joseph Bradbury; Twelfth, Chas
F Shelter; Thirteenth, D II Willard
Fourteenth, James l. Drake; Fifteenth
W 2 Sprague; Sixteenth, B r Cowan;
Seventeenth, ] K Rukenbrod; Eigh'
teonth; w r Keith; Nineteenth, Peter
Hitchcock.
THE PLATFORM.
The Committee on Resolutions re
ported the following platform, which
was unanimously adopted with i'm
mense cheering;
"ResOloed, That the Union party o.
Ohio having sustained the Genera
Government during four years Of sue
cesstul war against the united effort