The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1868-03-13

Dauphin-John McCreary, John b.
Grouse.
Delawarc-Dr. j. l.. Forewood.
Erie-Captain ID. NJ. Hutchinson, w.
w. Lyle, T.. Camp Howden, j. Ross
Thompson (contested).
Fayette- Joseph 7. Mccormick.
Grecne-A. A. Purman.
Huntingdon, Milllin and Juniata-Geo.
jackson, Joseph Wareham.
Indiana and Westmoreland-J B. San
som, Bales McCauley, T.. w. Wilson.
Lancaster-George Nauman, G.. A.
Wormley, \. NJ. Frantz, Colonel A.
Feather.
Lebanon-W. NJ. Breslin.
Lehigh--J. +. Kline, c. F. Shultz.
Lycoming Union and Snyder-John A.
Luzerne-Jos. T.. Nanleer, Daniel Hard
ing, w. II. Pier.
Mercer, Lawrence and Butler--Jacob
Ieiglcr, $. Marshall, Colonel T.. w.
stephens, James Shankley.
Montgomery-Daniel Quillman, Abel
Satterthwaite.
Northampton-William Mutchler,G Geo.
w. Stein.
Northumberland-W r. Forsyth.
Perry and Franklin--J, B. Hackett, w.
S. Stenger.
Schuylkill-P. +. Collins, w. NJ. Ran
dali, j. p. Bechtol.
Somerset, Fulton and Bedford-G Gorge
A. Smith, Hiram Findlay.
Susquehanna and Wyoming-Walter
Barber.
Tioga and Potter-Col. n. f. Elliott,
Miles White.
Nenango and Warrcn--J. 5. Mccall
mont, f. b. Eldred.
Washington and Beaver--Wm. Hop
kins, ID. NJ. Donehoo, Adam J. Ecker.
Wayne and Pike. +. Eldred.
Gork-Adam Ebaugh, Perry l.. Wickes.
Colonel Wallace then addressed the
Convention, interrupted with repeated
applause.
SPEECH OF COLONEL WALLACE.
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION {:
The political events OF the past year are
full of reasons for pride in your strength
and confidence in your future.
Success has crowned your efforts and
the great principles of civil liberty and
constitutional government have asser-
ted their power over the minds of the
people.
These great doctrines gave birth to
our organization, and, when we are de-
feated in their support, like the fabled
Antpus, when hurled to his mother
earth, we gather therefrom renewed
vigor and arise stronger and more de-
| tcrminod than before.
The warand the attendant train of hor'
rOrs are remembered in sadness. Rea
son resumes its throne and designing
men can no longer attain their seliisl
end by appeals to passion. Christian
charity now fills the place that rancol
has usurped, and hate and bitterness
are slowly passing away.
The Radical party have shown thei
incapacity to govern the Republic, ant
nizc the fact. Famine and crime, mil
itary rule, insecurity of life and proper
ty, the negro dominant, the white rae
oppressed, are the proofs of this in on
section, while grinding taxation, uncel
tainty in business and financial distres
pervade the other. 1t has given us Z"
broken and discovered Cnion," corruI
tion and extravaganza in the use of tn
public money, confusion in monetar,
affairs, and mismanagement of the i'm
mense revenues it has wrung from the
people. 1t can unite upon no policy bu
the perpetuation of its own power. Il
the mad spirit of faction, it seeks t
strip the Executive of his prerogativC
and to ignore the sacred functions of tn
Judiciary. 1t tramples upon the organ
ic law, revcrses our traditions, an
brands as criminal every attempt t.
stay its wild career.
Our form of government is the eXtel
nal evidence of our capcity for self-goN
crnment, governments are what pee
pie make them. If we can govern oul
selves, we can sustain the governmer
we love and can safely trust to the fore
of ideas, to the march of mind, to pull
lie opinion, to crush with the ballC
those who through the forms of law a
tack the vital spirit of our institution
The people have ordained a free systeI
of laws and complex yet simple org;
J.. nism--the People, the States and I'll
Union. The preservation of the rigl
: of each Of these is essential to the ext
tence of the whole. TO maintain theS
they have created the three great COO
+ dinatc branches of the governmental
:, Executive, the Legislative and the j,
dicial. Public good and private rigl
demand the preservation of the integr
: ty of each.
Sovereignty i5in the people. The Z
Il vernmcnt is their creature, woven
n protect their liberties. Its division i
to independent branches was of the vel
,, essence of the system. The destructiC
of either is stride toward tyrann
+ The organic law defines the power
- each, and to that law each must he 60
fined. The Constitution is the suprer
s. law. Ii is the only evidence Of powt
granted blythe States and the people.
must be strictly pursued and implicit
obeyed.
Il, TO sustain these truths, more tn
300, 900 men, in conscious strength a
e. quiet dignity, await your call, and Il
r, day speak through you, for obedience
Is law, for the government of the Cons
= tuition, and for the Federal Union
the States.
When Mr.. Wallace concluded, IL,
$. T.. Ancona nominated for tempora
Lhairman, Hon. William Randall
Schuylkill county. This was una
mously approved and Mr.. Randall
dressed the Convention.
Mr. Davis, of Berks, moved that
two contested elections from PhilaC
phia be referred to the delegation fr
that city.
II. Mr.. Zeigler, of Butler, opposed
B' motion, and argued in favor of the