Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-02-06

UNION REPUBLICAN STATE CON-
VENT1ON.
wednesday, March 4, 1868.

| TO The Union RepuOticdn Voters Of Ohio
At a meeting of our State Central and
Executive Committees in the Senate
Chamber, at the Capitol, at which were
! present by invitation the officers of the
! STATE Government, the Union members
ot the Legislature, and prominent citi-
1eiis from various portions of the State,
! it was resolved to hold the annual State
| Convention of the Party at Columbus on
WEDNESDAY, THE 3rH DAY OF MARCH,
1868.
This Convention will make nomina-
/ tons of candidates on the State Ticket
I for the following offices, viz:
/ Secretary of State;
Judge of the Supreme Court;
Commissioner of Common Schools;
! Clerk of the Supreme Court, aud
Members of the Board of Public Works
The Convention will also make choice
of -Four Delegates at Large to the Ma
tional Republican Convention to assem-
BILE at Chicago, May 80, 1868, to nomin-
ate candidates for President and Vice
President of the United State at the
ensuing Presidential Election. The
Convention will also nominate Two
Electors at Large for President and Vice
President, and.tiansact such other busi-
ness as may come before it,
The Committee would recommend
that the meeting in the several counties
| for the selection of delegates, be held
on Saturday, February I'D, and that, if
the eseyeral county meetings so d. sire, they
can,select their delegates with view to
the appointment of District Delegates to
the National Convention from.their sever
al districts, VIII en- they shall meet at the
State Convent OH ut Columbus.
The basis of representation in this
Convention has been determined to be,
| one delegate for every four hundred
votes cast for Governor Hayes in 1867,
and an additional delegate for any frac-
tion of two hundred votes and upwards
in each county.
(Belmont County is entitled to nine
delegates.
The attention OF the Republicans of
Ohio smost earnestly invited to this call,
in the hope that it will receive their
prom pit attention.
The campaign of186S, in the issues it
| involves Is one of the most If not the
most important we have ever been called
upon to engage in. Many OF the ques-
tions growing out of the late war are un-
settled. Their proper settlement de-
pends entirely on the Republican party
and our defeat in this campaign will be
the surrender Ofthe Government into the
hands of tho party which brought on the
; war. Shall the destructive policy ofthst
party again become the policy fo the Ma.
ton? We must judge our opponents
not by their present professions alone
but by their past actions. The same in
fiuence which in 1861 precipitated the
rebellion. and for four years waged q
reasonable war, still rule its councils and
shape Its policy should it return to pow
er. In Illustration of this we have the
action of the majority of the present
General Assembly in resembling the rati-
ficatlon of the Constitutional amend
mcnt and the proposed instructions to
our members Of Congress to vote for the
repeal OF the Reconstrction acts.
We must have patience in the labor of
reconstruction. 1t is not tile work of q
day. The Vaccinations of periidious
Executive, aided bya powerful and deter
mined party, largely composed of de-
feated rebels, have served to delay the
execution of the wishes of the loyal
majority OF the country, but cannot pre-
vent IL If we are as faithful TO our trust
In the future as we have been in the
past. ...,
Reverses may meet us in the execution
OF our policy now, as they did during
the war, but they must not cause US TO
falter in the course marked out. Rather
should they nerve us to renewed energy
and more determined effort.
The result of last falls election has
bceS most happily modified by the re-
cent glorious victory won by the gallant
Republicans of the Sth District. Let
their spirit animate all the Districts,
and the campaign of 1868 will he as
cheering In its results as those of 1868
and 1864.
Very truly your friends in the cause,
B. II. C0wEN, Chairman.
JAS. WILLIAMS, Sec'y.
CHAs. &. WALCoTT,
JOE. w. DwYER, Executive
RODNEY Foos,
HENRY MILLER, Com.
JAMES TAYLOR.
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
lst District, James w. Sands Cinein-
natl md, Thomas l.. Young, Cincinna-
til Sd, $, $. Haines, Waynesville; 4th,
A. i. Howard, Woodstock 9TH James
Harsh, Findly; 9th, Mills Gardner,
Washington G.. H.. 9TH, Ben. Nesbit.,
Nenia; Sth, a. II. Lee, Delaware 9th,
ID. W. Swigert, Bucyrus 10th, Denison
Steele, Toledo llth, James Tripp, Jack
son 18th, VIM. II. Free, New Lexing-
tom 18th, ID. II. Willard, GAINESVILLE;
18th, Jno. ii. Boynton, Elyria; 18th, l..
IL. Moore, Athens 10th, r. j. Bennett,
Cadiz,; 18th, G. a. Shober, Carrolton;
18th, Ii. w. Curtis, Chagrln Falls 10Th,
VIM, Stedman nnuuOlDh