Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-29

| but Yesterday stroveto destroy the Repub.
lie and who to-day stand ready to dis
honor it.
John E. E. K Collins of Ohio Luther
Colvin, of New York, and Franklin s.
Richards, of Tennessee, were appointed
temporary Secretaries.
After some discussion on the question
of the appointment of a Committee on
Credentials, motion was made and car
ried, that the names of all the States be
called in alphabetical ORDER and each de-
legation name a member OF said Commit
tee.
Committees on Permanent Organiza'
ton, on Resolutions and on Rules, were
on motion, selected, when recess was
taken until p. m.
At 5o'clock the Convention reassembled
and was called to order by the temporary
President
The Committee on Permanent Organiza-
ton reported the name of General Joseph
R. Hawley, of Connecticut, for permanent
President. Report adopted.
General Hawley was then introduced,
and spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the Convention tender
YOU nv most grateful thanks for the high
honor you have conferred upon me- Deep
ly impressed by sense of the Responsible
ties of the position, earnestly solicit your
indulgence and your aid. We come TO-
gether charged with the momentou Us duty
of selecting the chief rnlers of the great
nation, which leads the world in promot-
ing freedom and equal rights. The indl-
cations of your purposes and spirit already
given assure us that you will maintain the
noble character of the Republican party.
We unavoidably recall the convention OF
1860, with its profound anxieties, its fresh,
pure and glowing devotion to liberty, and
it's enthusiastic acceptance of the wager
of battle rendered by slavery and seces-
sion. 1t now seems clear that God ruled
our counsels. He made our declaration
of principles bold, manly and sincere. He
gave us Abraham Lincoln for President.
May He send us like wisdom and success
to-day.
"He tested us in a manner, and to an
extent which the iveliest imagination
could not have anticipated. Posterity will
decide that we met the trial with spirit
worthy of free people. Countless trea-
sure and three hundred thousand lives,
freely offered, are the evidence that we
were solemnly in earnest We offered our
lives and our property, but it was not
enough. We laid our prejudices of race
and class upon the altar, and the con-
seriousness that we at last deserved success
redoubled our strength. The same high
resolve rules to-day, and the Union men
of the country are ready for equal and
greater sacrifices, if they be indispensable
to the dedication of this continent to lib
erty and equal rights.
GO Wo 1oorpo1 fho fret 1acoo,, xr,ba,, 1,yo
found that we must make all men free, and
call all men to the battlefield. We learned
the second lesson when we found that we
must still move on and impartially give
all men share in the governments we
were endeavoring to restore. ~v~.s.e,-~
with clear and fearless expression
of the essential and important questions
at issue, which the people well under
can obscure or avoid; passing by all per-
sonal and temporary controversies work
ing in perfect confidence, that the Ameri-
can people mean to do right, and will do
it in the end, we may feel sure of triumph
The power of nation of forty millions
must be behind the just claim of the poor
est workingman, of whatever race, to re-
cover even a days wages. Its majesty
man appeals against personal violence and
tional debt the blood of soldier is
pledged. Every bond, in letter and spirit,
must be as sacred as a soldiers grave. We
must win, gentlemen We shall win. 1t
is the old fight of liberty, equality, and fra
ternity, against oppression, CASTE and
aristocracy 1t is the old fight to
make the world BETTER with malice
toward none, with charity for ALL
We may halt for moment, or change
direction, but the good cause goes for
ward
con the evening of that awful battle of
the Wilderness, where the legions of the
Union army fought in the wild woods and
tangled thickets by faith, and not by sight,
it is said that some men asked General
Grant to step backward and reorganize,
and he replied: Gentlemen, we have
done very well; at halfpast three in the
morning we move .f0rao0rd.'
The list of Vice Presidents and Secre-
taries was then read, and the report
adopted as follows:
Vice Peside1sts.- Alabama, General Willard
Warner, Arkansas, A. Mcdonald; California,
james Coey; Colorado, j. B. Chaffee; Connecti-
Florida Flo Il. H. Moody; Georgia, Foster Blodgett;
Illinois, Jesse K. Dubois; Indiana, l.. @.
Gresham; Iowa, j. A. Hendrick; Kansas, S. s.
?. Kellogg Maine T. AID. Fessenden; Maryland,
No nomination; Massachusetts,, w. D. Grooch !;
Michigan, Henry 4. Waldron; Minnesota, P. Van
Harlan; N Nebraska B. Saunders; Nevada, j. NJ
Walker; New Hampshire, E. Gould; New Jersey,
J. s; Prick; New York; Chauncey M: Depew;
land Oregon, Josiah Farliing Pennsylvania, ].
K. Morehead; Rhode Island, G. Greene; South
Carolina, G. j. Stalbrand; Tennessee, 7. A. Ham
ward; West Virginia, L. b. Harms; ' Virginia, J.
Burke Wisconsin, Edward Solomon
Secretaries-Thos d. Pfster, c. B. Higley, B.
VIM G. Goodloe, Stephen D. Lindsey, Geo. G.
Briggs, A. Worley Patterson, Samuel Maxwell,
Francis 3 Aver, Luther Caldwell, Coates Kinney,
Max. Ramsey, Mr.. Pehilter, T. M. Kiney, v.
Dell, F. B. Solomon, Joshua 7. Heald, A. c. Har-
mer, VIM. E. Rose, Col. s: D. Ringree, Jos. T.
We'll, Col. G. W. Lowell, e. F. Waters, w. W.
Scott J. C.S Colby, VIM. P. Howe, Edgar Allen,
Chas Seymour.
On motion, committee of five was ap-
pointed to escort into the hall the Com
mittee of the Soldiers and Sailors Con-
vention, who were in waiting to present
the proceedings of that Convention. ~
The delegates from the Soldiers and
Sailors Convention were introduced, and
made their report, through Governor
Fairchild, Chairman of said Convention.
A motion was unanimously adopted
that the resolutions of the Soldiers and
Sailors Convention, as reported, be ac-
cepted by the Convention, entered upon
its record, and made part of it's pro-
ceedings.
Ex-Governor Joseph Brown, of Geor-
gia, being loudly called for to address
the Convention, made his appearance