The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-05-28
Warmoth, of Louisiana supported

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Attorney General james Speed.
| Forney, Of Pa, as chairman of the
Republican Committe of that State
nominated Andre " J. Curtin.
Mcclure presented Curtains
claims as representative of three
hundred thousand Pennsylvania Re-
publicans, reminding the convention
that as the State casts her vote next
November so vii, be the decision Of
the canvass. Cheers.
Williamson, Of Iowa nominated
James Harlan.
Whittemorc, of South Carolina
endorsed Wilson. [Cheers.
Keifer, Of Alabama named William
D. Kelly Of Pa. Partial applause
and boisterous laughter.] g
Seymour, Of Wisconsin supported
Hannible. .Hamlin, but stated his del
CATION gave Fenton seven, Colfax
six, Hamlin two, Curtin one.
Personally, he thought it might
retrieve the mistake made at the
Baltimore convention when Hamlin
was displaced for johnson.
Shepley, Of Maine nominated Ham
lin. [Cheers.1
Vote.-3d ballot, Wade 179, Col
fax, 165, Fenton, 139, Wilson, SO.
Roster, of Illinois seconded Ham
lin, he would unite the party of the
whole Union.
Hubbard, Of West Virginia called
for vote that the delegations may
show their hands. [Cries, vote,
vote.
Martin, Of Kansas nominated Sen.
ator Sam. G. Pomeroy Of Kansas.
Proceeded to call the roll for Vice.
President; much splitting ofdelegates
occurred.
Fenton had 1872; Wade, 149;
Wilson; 1l9, Kelly, 6, Colfax, 11s,
Curtin, SO, Hamlin, 80, Harlan, 16,
Crosswe,l, IA, Pomeroy, 1; whole
number 64s, necessary to a choice,
1926.
4th ballot.-Wade, 2O4, Colfax,
I87, Fenton, lac, Wilson 81.
Speed had twenty-five; no choice
on second ballot. Speed withdrew.
Wade had 10. Colfax 149, Fenton,
140, Wilson, 113, Hamlin, 80, Curtin,
As.
Ottumwa, May21.-5:45 p. m.
EDITOR COURIER IL have just learn
ed from Chicago, that Colfax is the
nominee for Vice President.
j. r. SMITH.
Chicago, May 81.
The following is full copy Of the
resolutions adopted by the Republi-
can National Convention to-day.
Rcsolyed, That we congratulate the
country on the assured success ofthe
reconstruction policy of Congress, as
evidenced by the adoption in a ma
jority ofthe States lately in rebellion,
demonstrations securing equal, civil
and political rights to all, and we re-
gard it as the duty of the Govern
ment to sustain these constructions,
and to prevent the people Of such
States from being permitted to go in
to a state of anarchy military rule.
(Applause.)
Resolred, That the guarantee by
Congress ofequal suffrage to all loyal
men in the South was demanded by
every consideration of public safety,
of gratitude and of justice, and must
be maintained; while the question Of
suffrage in all the loyal States prop
erly belongs to the people of those
States. (Applalse.)
Resotued, That we denounce all
forms Of reputation as national
crime, and national honor requires
the payment of the public indebted
ness in the utmost good faith to our
creditors at home and abroad, not
only according to the letter but the
spirit of the laws under which it was
contrated. (Applausc.)
Resolued, That it is due TO the
labor of the nation that taxation
should be equalized and reduced as
rapidly as the national faith will per-
nit. (Applause.)
Resolued, That the national debt,
contracted as it has been, for the pre-
servation of the Union for all time to
come, should be extended over fair
period for redemption, ahd it is the
duty of Congress to reduce the rate
OF interest thereon whenever it can
honestly be done. (Applause.)
Resolued, That the best policy to
diminish our burden of debt is SO to
improve our credit that capitalists
will seek to lend us money at lower
rates of interest than we now pay and
must continue SO to pay SO long as
repudiation, partial or total, open or
covert is threatened or suspected.-
(Applause.)
Resolved, That the Government of
the United States should be adminis-
tered with the strictest economy. The
corruptions which have been so
shamefully nursed and fostered by
Andrew Johnson call loudly for re.
form. cloud cheers.)
Resolred, That we profoundly de-
.ploro the untimely and tragic death
of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the
accession of Andrew johnson to the
Presidency; who has acted so treach-
erously to the people who elected him
and the cause he was pledged to sup
port; who has usurped high legisla-
tive and judicial functions; who has
refused to execute the laws that he
has used his high Office to induce 9TH
or officers to violate the laws; that he
has employed his executive power to
render insecure the lives and
property, the peace, liberty and life
of the citizens; that he has abused the
pardoning power that he has de
nounced the national legislature as
unconstitutional; that he has persist
emily and habitually resisted, by ev-
cry means in his power, every proper
attempt for the reconstruction Of the
States lately in rebellion; that he has
perverted the public patronage into
an engine Of Wholesale corruption and
has been justly impeached for high
crimes and misdemoanors and prop
erly pronounced guilty thereof BY the
votes Of thirty fiveSenators. GOOD,
good, and applause.) b.
Resolued, That the doctrine Of
Great Britain and other European
powers, that because man is once q
subject he is always SO, must be resis-
ted at every hazard by the United