The St. Cloud journal., 1866-09-27

TIE CONGRESSIONAL NOMINEE.
DR.. Foster moved that the csnven-
ton proceed to nominate a candidate
for Congress from the Second District
Messrs. Cutter aud A. G. Foster were
appointed tellers, and the convention
agreed first to have an informal ballot,
which resulted a. follows:
Hon. 1gnatius Donnelly, IS
Gen. J. B. Sanborn. 12
Col. Cyrus Aldrich, IL
Gen. L. F. Hubbard, 8
THE FIRST REGULAR BALLOT
Then succeeded with the following
| result:
Hon. 1gnatius Donnelly, 40
Gen. John B. Sanborn, 8
Col. Cyrus Aldrich, IL
Gen. L. !. Hubbard, 9
Mr.. Dounelly having received a ma
jority OF all the votes cast, was declared
the nominee Of the convention, which,
on motion, was made unanimous.
On motion, Messrs. Ingersoll and
Butts were appointed a committee to
notify Mr. Dounelly j., Of his nomination,
who soon appeared, and amid much ap-
plaase was escorted to the platform,
where he delivered the following speech:
MR.. DoNNELLY's REMARKS.
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Convention:
With a heart filed with profound
gr"ti*-de, thank you, and, through
you, the people of the disrrtct, fur tls;e
new evidence Of your continued conf
dsnce and appreciation. I cannot but
recognize it as the voice Of the people
rising up through all obstacles in testi-
mony that have at least striven to do
my whole duty. As l look back over
my whole political career, since that day
when I was first nominated for Lieu
tenant Governor, until this hoar, there
is not line of my record that I would
willingly see obliterated; not vote or
an utterance that has not been on the
side Of justice, freedom and human pro-
gress.
The endorsement you have to-day
given me l cannot but recognize as bas-
ed upon the fact that 1 have followed
out those great principles to their COM
plete ful6lment, even in the face of the
veto power Of the President Of the Uni
ted States. 1t is my hope and belief
that shall never in the future say or
do aught that shall lower the standard
of human progress a hairs breadth, or
that shall strengthen the arm of injus-
tice or add single pang to the suffer-
ings Of tho oppressed. By this light I
have sought to interpret constitutions,
politics, parties and laws. The right
wrongs no man; and equal rights,
equal opportunities and equal laws are
4 platform which cannot be resisted,
! since God and man alike approve them.
If can know at the close Of my pub.
lie career, however short it may be, that
the world was benefited in any degree
by my having lived, I shall feel that I
have not existed in vain.
I have striven not to degrade my
| constituents, but to be the mouth-piece
and exponent of all that was best and
truest and noblest in their thoughts
and aspirations. If I have not done all
that could be reasonably expected my
efforts at least have all been in the
right direction.
I shall 60 back to my labors strength
ened aud reinvigorated, and determined
to pursue the path of duty soherever
it may lead. We know not what the
future may bring forth, but we know
that united, enlightened and deter
mined people are the masters of the Sit
uation and that they c4n be neither
deceived, iptimidated nor destroyed.
| There is in the patent Office at Wash
ington time.worn, discolored, rudely-
written parchment; the signatures are
faded the illustrlous men who penned
them have long since perished into
dust, but the principles written there
have not faded they are to-day in.
scribed in ineffaceable characters in mil
lions of brains; millions of hearts di'
late when they are uttered millions o1
breasts are barred to the deadly hail Of
battle, when they are imperilled. The
emigrant halls them from afar of, hi
face shining with promise; to them the
dusky freedman looks up as to the ev
erlasting stars Of the sky: the, arr
that colslmnation of the sermon or
the Mount, contained in the angus
declaration Of the inalienable right o
all men to life, liberty aud happiness
So long as l stand by these princi
pies, I shall expect you to stand by me
When desert them, shall expect 20,
to desert me. "a voice-'oe piN l..
They are to the nation vhat the soul i
to tho man; the essential principle 0
life, and the suerdon Of Immortality.
Besides these your material interest
:. are as nothing-your grain folds, you
i. granaries and warehouses-your store
and merchandise are a. nothing-fo
, these, all these, and . million Of inter
|, ess beyond, are incladed in these grea
|; principles. If you permit these princi
. pies to be wrecked, you permit the de
struction Of everything dear to the hear
!, Of man. In their name and not in m;
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