The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-01
THE DELEGATES

Issued, the leaders in the movement commenced
their preparations for the selection of the dele
gates. In the border States, and in Tennessee
and come parts of Virginia, no great difficulty
was encountered, and conventions were regu.
larly held and appointments made. With re.
gard 10 the other States, owever it was soon
found that 1t would cost even more than loyal
mans lie to advocate the cause of the Cony en-.
lion openly. So absolute is the
The Reign of Terror
in most of the States composing the late So
called Confederacy, that the idea of regular
State and District Conventions had to be aban-
doned. Loyal men who steadfastly and uncom.
promisingly fought secession, from its concep-
tiOn TO it's demise, shrunk with fear and trem-
bling from making known their sentiments in
the present reconstructed" condition of affairs
In many of the RECONSTRUCTED" States however,
there are clubs of Union men scattered about
in various localities, who have since held secret
meetings, and appointed some of their own
members to attend the Convention as delegates.
In places where these clubs have no regular and
systematic existence, the loyal men of par.
uoular neighborhood have assembled or con-
ferred with each other, and thus selected their
representatives. And where even this means of
appointment was impossible, loyal men have
been constituted delegates by their own appoint.
ment, and will attend the Convention in that
capacity.
For the reasons just stated it has been i'm
possible for us to obtain lists of delegates from
the several Southern States as full and correct
as were those we presented to the public previ.
GUS to the assemblage of the late Wigwam Con-
Vention in this city. Therefore, until the loyal
Convention has actually met and commenced
1ts deliberation, the world cannot know the
names of more than a few of those who will
compose it,
We give below, however, the lists as far as we
have been able TO ascertain anything concern.
ing them, up to the time of going to press:-
Alabama.
In this State there is but one Congressional
District in which the loyal men dare atte npt to
hold an open meeting, There they have held
convention, and appointed DR.. Thomas Haughey,
one of the signers of the can, as delegate
Others of the following signers from this State
will also be present at the Convention:-
sIGHERs OF THE CALL.
George Reese Thomas HauVbey
ID Il BlDgham, Albert Griffin.
N. j. Saffod, William H. Smith.
d. h. LsrcOmbe,
REESE is a South Carolnian by birth. Years
Alabama. He Is an uncompromlsing Union
man, and fought secession at home from the
very first. Last year he was the Union candi-
date for Representative in Congress from the
Third District, receiving 2lOO votes; but he was
defeated by Cullen A. Battle, Rebel General
VINO lost leg IN the service of the Confederacy.
BINGHAM is native of Vermont, but has
lived in Alabama about thirty.three years.
not f.Nxn1 L.. a.
Herald, and advocated the cause of the Union
in its columns up to the time of Mr.. Lincolu's
first election He then found it absolutely
necessary to dispose of his paper, but he re-
msned at home, opposing the war openly,
until the fall of 1862 He then went to Wash
ington, and was connected with the Treasury
Department until the 1st of August, at which
time he was dismissed because of his affiliation
with the proposed September Convention.
SAFFoLD, the author of the circular
given at length in a previous column,
was an outspoken opponent of the Rebel
lion until he was threatened with con-
eCription into the Confederate army. Then,
through the personal friendship and influence
of Judge Campbell, the Rebel Assistant Secre.
iary of War, he was appointed Provost Judge OF
fhe War Department of the &C. S. A." and sent
South to examine political prisoners. He
opened his provost-court and invariably re-
leased every man brought before him on the
charge of UnOnism. For this conduct, hume
Tous charges we're preferred against him, and
petitions for his removal poured into Richmond
from all parts of the South. However, he held
TO his position until the Federal troops took
possession of Alabama, when he again pr o.
claimed his Union sentiments without disguise.
This time his loyal course resulted in his being
forced to leave the State. He remained in
Washington for time and has recently been
stumping Pennsylvania against the Presidents
policy After the Convention closes, he goes
to Indiana on a campaigning tour, by invitation
of Governor Morton Of that State.
LAROOABE is a native of Pennsylvania, but
has lived in Alabama many years. At the out
break of the war he was in charge of the tele-
graph Office at Huntsville, Alabama, where he
still remained when the town was captured by
General Mitchell, in April, 1862. He was ap-
pointed by the latter superintendent of the
railroad and telegraph lines in his department
and in that capacity rendered material aid TO
the Union cause. Since the fall of 1862 he has
been in Washington.
HAUGHEY has long resided in Alabama. He
was an incorporating Unionist, and served
three years in the Federal army as assistant
surgeon and post surgeon.
GRIFFIN is the editor of the National of Mo-
bile, an intensely radical and loyal paper. He
is q native of Macon, Ca, where he resided
until 1856. In that year the cry of abolition
list" was raised, and he was obliged to come
North to save his life. He resided in the West
until January, 1866, since when he has been in