The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-07-26

tnat time edited the JackSOnVille Jour
nal. 10 the only survivor. Abraham
Lincoln was a guest and assisted In
preparing the resolutions which rec
commended the state convention in
Bloomington.
Building Still Stands.
This convention Of 1856 was not
known as Republican, but as "anti-
Nebraskan." Its origin was founded
chiefly upon the KansaS-Nebraska bill,
which repealed the Missouri compro-
mise and thereby removed the restric-
ton against the introduction of slav-
cry into the territory north of the par
allel of 36 degrees and 80 minutes,
Anti-slavery Democrats and anti-slav-
cry Wings both were attracted to this
so called anti-Nebraskan convention. 1t
wasn't until a year or two later that
the name Republican began to be sub
stituted for "anti-Nebraskan."
1.-THE convention Of 1856" said Mr..
Kellogg, twas held in MAJORS hall, a
two story building that is standing to
this day. The ground floor was occu-
pied by two stores, and we delegates
marched up little narrow stairway
at the rear to a room on the second
floor. The call was for 226 delegates,
but the interest was so intense that al
most twice that number appeared.
"I was chairman of the Fulton coun-
ty delegation, and Mr.. Lincoln was
chairman of the Sangamon county del
egation."
Mr.. Kellogg recalled that it was in
this lost speech" that Lincoln deliv-
cred the famous epigram, you can fool
all of the people some of the time and
some of the people all of the time, but
you can't fool all of the people all of
the time"
Mr.. Kellogg was an alternate to the
national convention held in Philadel-
phia In 1853, which nominated Ere
mont He has attended every Repub-
lican national convention since then
up until 1896. He is eighty-two years
old and is still active physically and
mentally.
How He Went to Louisiana.
An interesting story has been told OF
how Mr.. Kellogg came to go from the
north down into Louisiana in the re-
construction days. When Mr.. Lincoln
was elected the second time Mr.. Kel-
logg was chief justice of Nebraska. He
had gone on to Washington to see
President Lincoln inaugurated the sec
ond time, and Lincoln called him to
the White House and told him he had
I l. Nv,
isiana.
That" said Mr.. Kellogg, was on
! Thursday, the day before Mr. Lincoln
was assassinated. Mr.. Lincoln insist
ed | should start for New Orleans on
Saturday and ordered that the com
mission should be made out at once"
Mr.. Kellogg called at the White
House on Friday morning and obtained
his commission and received the well
wishes of President Lincoln. He had
| bought two tickets for FOrd's theater
that night, intending TO go TO the per.
/ formance with Richard Yates of Ill.
nois, father Of the present Yates OF
that name and then a United States
senator. Mr.. Kellogg, however, got
mixed up with some of his friends who
insisted on celebrating his appoint
ment to the collectorship. The result
was he missed the show, but Senator
| Yates went.
Late in the evening" said Mr.. Kel'
logg, Il was in my room, No. u, at the
old National hotel. when Yates rushed
in as pale as death and cried, My God,
the president has been shotv
"The next day we stood in the drizzle
with the other sorrowing thousands
and saw the presidents body borne
from the house in Tenth street where
he had died. The next two days as
tramped the streets with my freshly
signed commission In my pocket were
among the saddest have experienced"