The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-05-28

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Gardsell; California, r. P. Chaplin !;
Connecticut, D. L. Sayle,r Delaware,
j. J. jenkins Florida, B. P. Chamb-
erlin; Georgia, David 6. Coffing;
Illinoise. Emory A. Stous Indiana,
G. X. Steel Iowa, K. NJ. Holt Kan
sas, w. B; Kentucky, T.. ].
Pickens; Louisiana, A. j. Sypher;
Maine, W. d. Hartman; Mass, T.
Howe; Michigan, w. 3. Williams !;
j. O.!Bullins; Nevada, o.
R. Leonard; New Hampshire, Ed
win Farr; New jersey, Chas. Hill
dreth New York, G. Barker; North
F. F. French; Ohio, Thos
L. Young; Pennsylvania, Thos. E.
Corcoran; Rhode Island, W. FL.
South Carolina, J. G.
Ebbingham Tennessee, Blank Lew
is ; Texas, j. P: Keating; Vermont,
G. G. Shepard; Virginia, John. Ok
ford West Virginia, H. G. New lard,
Wisconsin, A. j. Turner.
On motion of Gen. Sickles, the
Convention took a recess until five
o'clock.
EVENING SESSION. -ss-
The Convention reassembled pur-
suant to adjournment at 5 O'clock.
The Committee on Credentials not
being ready to report, Hamilton
Harris, Chairman of the Committee
ON Permanent Organization, fepor-
ted the name Of Gen.. James R.
Hawley, of Conn, permanent Presi-
dent Of the Convention. This an
nouncement was received with tre
mendous applause.
The President was conductsd to
the Chair by Ex-Governor Solomon,
of Wis, and ex- Governor Brown of
Georgia, amid great cheering for
Hawley, Brown and the retiring
Chairman. ' z3'.5= -
When the latter presented the per
manent Chairman, the Convention
received him with the heartiest out
burst of enthusiasm yet manifested.
Gen. Hawley addressed the Conven-
ton as follows:
SPEECH OF GEN. HAwLEY.
GENTLENEN OF THE CONVENTION :
I tender you my most grateful
thanks for the high honor you have
conferred upon me. Deeply i'm
pressed by a sense Of the response
bility of the position: I earnestly
solicit your indulgence and aid. We
come together with the momentious
duty Of selecting the chief rulers of
the nation which leads the world in
the promotion of freedom and equal
rights. [Applause]. Indications
of your purposes aud spirit already
given assures US that you will main
tain the noble character of the Re
publican party. We unavoidably
recall, at this time, the Convention
of 1860, with its profound anxieties
and glowing devotion to liberty, and
it's enthusiastic acceptance of the
wager Of battle rendered by slavery
and secession. Applause]. Itnow
seems clear to us that God then rul-
ed our counsels. He made our dec
larations of principle manly and sin
cere. He gave us a Lincoln for
President. Tremendous cheering.
God send us like wisdom to-day.
Applause. He tested us in q man
ner and to an extent which the live
liest Imagination could not have an
ticipated. Posterity, we hope, viii
decide that we met the test with the
spirit worthy free people. Count
less treasure and three hundred
thousand lives offered up were evil
dence we were solemnly in earnest.
We offered our lives and our prop
erty, but it was not enough. We
laid our prejudices of race and class
upon the alter, and the conscious
ness that we at least deserved sue
cess redoubled our nerve. The same
high resolve rules to-day, and the
honest men ofthis country are ready
for equal and greater sacrifices, if
they be indispensable to the dedica-
ton of this continent to liberty and
equal rights. Applause. We learned
the first lesson when we found we
must make all men free and call
them to the battle field. We learn
ed the second lesson when we found
we must move on and give, impair
tally, to all men place in the Gov
ernment we were endeavoring to re-
store.
With clear and fearless expression
on essential questions at issue, which
the people will understand, and no
device, no words, can oh
scure or avoid-passing by all tenn
porary and personal controversial
working in perfect confidence that
the American people will do right
in the end, we feel sure of triumph
The power Of a nation of forty mil
lions must be just to the claims Of
the poorest working man, of what
even race, to recover even and just
wages. Its majesty must be felt
wherever the humblest loyal man ap-
peals against personal violence and
oppression Every dollar of the
national debt the blood of a soldier
is pledged for. Every bond, in let
ter and spirit, must be as sacred as
a soldiers grave. We must win,
and we shall win. 1t is the old fight
of liberty, equality and fraternity