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An informal ballot was taken, with Col. William B. Archer, of Illinois, and Judge Rufus P. Spalding, of Ohio, as tellers. resulted as follows: Dayton 253, Lincoln 110, Nathaniel P. Banks 46, David Wilmont 43. Charles Sumner 35, Jacob Collamer, of Vermont, 15; John A. King, of New York, 9; Samuel C. Pomeroy, of Kansas, 8; Thomas H. Ford, of Ohio, 7; Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky, 3; Henry C. Carey, of Pennsylvania, 3; Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio, 2; Whitfield S. Johnson, of New Jersey, 2; and Aaron S. Pennington, of New Jersey, 1. Ohio gave Dayton 65 votes, Lincoln 2, Wilmot 1, and Clay 1.

Thomas D. Elliott, on behalf of the Massachusetts delegation, "requested the Convention to refrain from voting for either Speaker Banks or Senator Sumner. The former preferred to preside in the House and Massachusetts could not spare Mr. Sumner from the floor of the Senate."

Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, withdrew the name of David Wilmot, at his request. The Pennsylvania delegation preferred Wilmot to any other man in the State, but did not wish to present a candidate."

Joseph M. Root, of Ohio, gained the ear of the President, and said: Sir, this morning I had a conversation with Governor Ford, of Ohio. Says he: The boys may be troubling you with my name. I want to fight, but don't let them buckle a knapsack on me. I can fight better light. We can't spare Tom Ford; we want him for home consumption!"

A formal ballot was ordered and during its progress John M. Palmer, of Illinois, withdrew Lincoln's name and urged that the vote for Dayton be unanimous. Dayton

cept that twenty delegates persisted in voting for Lincoln, four for Banks, three for Sumner, and one each for King, Ford, and John Allison and David Elder, of Pennsylvania. Then all the scattering votes were with drawn, amidst much applause, and cast for Dayton, making the ballot. unanimous.

On motion of James M. Ashley, of Ohio, a committee of nine was appointed by the Chair to notify the candidates of their nominations, and he was named as one of its members. The Convention then gave itself up to enthusiastic ratification speech-making. Eloquent and hopeful addresses were made by Henry Wilson, Caleb B. Smith, Owen Lovejoy, Charles Francis Adams and John P. Hale. George Hoadly responded for As the head of the column has been assigned to Ohio in seating the members of this Convention," said he, so will our Republicans justify it by their 100,000 majority next fall. Under the banner of the White Bear, the Polar Bear, the Bear of the North, and Colonel Fremont, California achieved her freedom. Let this bear be our banner, White Bear as against Black Bear, Kansas for white men as against Kansas for slaves."

Judge Hoadly also proposed the usual vote of thanks to the officers, committees, citizens, etc. Then, led by Governor Cleveland, of Connecticut, who was in the Chair, the Convention gave nine tremendous cheers for the candidates, and in the best of feeling adjourned.

The Republicans waged a vigorous campaign in the North, more nearly approaching that of 1840 in its enthusiasm and determination than any other up to that day. But the Quakers did not come

out," Pennsylvania was lost, and dependence had been placed upon that State and Illinois to give them the victory. Maine and New Hampshire alone of the old-time Democratic States now became permanently Republican. Although beaten in the general result, the Republicans carried both New York and Connecticut, usually doubtful States. California, Illinois, Indiana and New Jersey, however, voted with Pennsylvania and the Solid South, excepting Maryland, in support of James Buchanan. Maryland was for Millard Fillmore, of New York, the American candidate.

The South, thoroughly alarmed, had indulged in many bitter threats. Henry A. Wise, Governor of Virginia, declared that if Fremont was elected, he would raise an army and prevent his inauguration, or, failing in that, Virginia would join her sister slave States and establish a Southern Confederacy. He addressed letters to all the Governors of the Southern States and asked their cooperation, and in most cases the responses were highly satisfactory to him. These threats unquestionably had their effect, thousands of voters in the North believing that the election of a Republican President would indeed be the signal for disunion, and so Fremont was defeated. He had against him the active influence of the Administration, North and South, as well as the intense opposition of the American party, which drew thousands of votes from him in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and certainly lost him the State of Illinois. The result was as follows: Buchanan, 174 electoral votes; Fremont, 114; Fillmore, 8; while the popular vote was Buchanan, 1,838, 169; Fremont, 1,341,264; Fillmore, 874,534. Plurality for Buchanan, 496,905; less than a majority, 377,629.

The time has again arrived for action. Important elections, State and National, are at hand, and it is deemed expedient that the people of Ohio take counsel together for which purpose a State Convention, composed of delegates from the several counties, is appointed to be held at Columbus, Thursday, May 29, when candidates will be nominated for Supreme Judge, Member of the Board of Public Works, Commissioner of Common Schools, six delegates at large to the National Convention at Philadelphia to nominate candidates for President and Vice President of the United States, and an electoral ticket will be chosen for Ohio. The people, without regard to past political differences or divisions, who are opposed to the Missouri Compromise; opposed to the policy of the present Federal Administration; opposed to the extension of slavery into the Territories; who are in favor of the admission of Kansas as a free State; and in favor of restoring the action of the Government to the principles of Washington and Jefferson, and otherwise favoring the objects in view, are cordially invited to co-operate in choosing delegates to this Convention. It is expected of the people in their respective counties that they take prompt action for the choice of delegates, and it is recommended that they assemble at the county-seats on May 22nd, next, and designate the number of delegates to which each county may be entitled, viz.:-one delegate for each 500 votes cast for the Republican ticket last October and one additional delegate for each fractional excess of 250 such votes, no county to be entitled to less than one delegate. And for the purpose of choosing three delegates from each Congressional district to the National Convention, it is recommended that a convention be held in each district at the same place where the last Con

gressional Convention was held, unless otherwise agreed upon by the local committees, on or before May 31st.

A. P. STONE,

L. G. VAN SLYKE,
WM. DENNISON, JR.,
O. FOLLETT,

J. H. COULTER,

State Central Committee.

The Convention assembled in the hall of the House of Representatives in the State Capitol at Columbus, at eleven o'clock, Thursday morning, May 29th. David Fisher, of Hamilton County, was elected Temporary Chairman. He enjoyed the unique distinction of having been a friend and colleague of the venerable ex-President John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, by whose side he sat as a member of Congress; and of having roomed with Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, afterward President, during his brief service in the House. When Mr. Adams fell at his post of duty, fatally stricken with paralysis, it was David Fisher who quickly caught and tenderly laid him upon the floor. Always an opponent of slavery, it was his good fortune. to enjoy the confidence of both these great men, the two most effective anti-slavery leaders of the age. He was fifteen years the senior of Lincoln, yet he survived him nearly a quarter of a century. Unlike Adams, he Unlike Adams, he lived to see the accursed institution of human slavery banished forever from American soil by the proclamation of Lincoln; and, more favored than Lincoln, he lived to see equal suffrage and equal rights everywhere acknowledged, if not firmly established, by the people of all the States of the Union.

Hiram Baldwin, of Trumbull, and John K. Green, of Hamilton, were elected Temporary Secretaries, and the following committees were announced:

Credentials: 1. Arthur Hill, Hamilton. 2. E. H. Johnson, Hamilton. 3. Felix Marsh, Preble. 4. Barton S. Kyle, Miami. 5. William E. Rose, Van Wert. 6. George H. Punteney, Adams. 7. Edward F. Drake, Greene. 8. John S. Henkle, Clarke. 9. David S. Smead, Sandusky. 10. William G. Gephart, Gallia. II. Joseph M. Dana, Athens. 12. Nelson Franklin, Pickaway. 13. J. J. Penfield, Morrow. 14. Josiah A. Locke, Ashland. 15. Joseph Devin, Knox. 16. Daniel Applegate, Muskingum. 17. Jared Taylor, Belmont. 18. John E. Wharton, Summit (Chairman). 19. Samuel P. Carleton, Geauga. 20. A. D. Webb, Mahoning. 21. Andrew G. Deshler, Columbiana.

Permanent Organization: 1. Thomas Spooner, Hamilton. 2. John A. Gurley, Hamilton. 3. William Beckett, Butler. 4. William H. Harper, Miami. 5. Samuel H. Chase, Clermont. 6. Addison P. Russell, Clinton. 7. Jere M. Deuel, Champaign. paign. 8. Edward Stillings, Hardin. 9. Robert S. Wilcox, Ross. 10. Joseph P. Plyley, Vinton. 11. John A. Sinnett, Licking. 12. Joseph Kennon, Huron. 13. William W. Taggart, Richland. 14. John

C. Tidball, Tuscarawas. 15. James R. Harper, Morgan. 16. Leroy T. Ellsworth, Guernsey. 17. Cyrus Prentiss, Portage. 18. Thomas Bolton, Cuyahoga. 19. James J. Elwell, Trumbull. 20. J. Van Brown,

Lawrence. 11. Nelson H. Van Vorhes, Athens. 12. Richard P. L. Baber, Franklin. 13. Thomas Bunker, Erie. 14. Francis D. Kimball, Medina. 15. Martin Welker, Wayne. 16. Davis Green, Washington. 17. Benjamin R. Cowen, Belmont. 18. George P. Ashman, Summit. 19. Rufus P. Spalding. Cuyahoga. 20. Robert W. Tayler, Mahoning. 21. Jonas D. Cattell, Jefferson.

The Convention, on motion of John K. Green, was favored with an address by Caleb B. Smith, of Hamilton county, who during the war was for a time Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Lincoln. He made an able and impressive speech, in the course of which he said: "We make no war upon slavery. We are not disposed to We are not disposed to interfere with it in the States where it now exists; but we can never consent to the monstrous heresy that slavery should be National and liberty sectional.

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will not tolerate the teachings of Washington and Jefferson, or Patrick Henry, and if either of them were on earth now and should say in the South what they once said they would be tarred and feathered."

In the afternoon, John A. Gurley, of Hamilton, Chairman of the Committee on Permanent Organization, submitted a report, which was adopted, designating the following as officers of the Convention:

President: Oliver P. Brown, of Portage. Vice-Presidents:-1. Fred Hassaurek, Hamilton. 2. E. H. Johnson, Hamilton. 3 David Heaton, Butler. 4. George D. Burgess, Miami. 5. John Hardy, Defiance. 6 Gideon Dunham, Brown. 7. Robert G. Corwin, Warren. 8. Joseph B. Underwood, Logan 9. Moses H. Kirby, Wyandot. Elias Nigh, Gallia. 11. Nelson H. VanVorhes, Athens. 12. William Dennison,

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14. Cyrus Spink, Ashland. 15. Paul Weatherby, Tuscarawas. 16. Davis Green, Washington. 17. Thomas H. Ford, Richland. 18. David Upson, Summit. 19. John H. Vincent, Geauga. 20. George W. St. John, Ashtabula. 21. Samuel Stokely, Columbiana.

Secretaries: Hiram Baldwin, Trumbull; John K. Green, Hamilton; Charles F. Campbell, Brown; John S. Herrick, Portage; Robert C. Wilson, Columbiana, and William B. Allison, Wayne.

Rufus P. Spalding, of Cuyahoga, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, submitted the following platform, which was received with demonstrations of applause, and unanimously adopted:

Resolved, 1. That the Constitutional Government of the United States was formed by our fathers to "promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty" to themselves and their posterity.

2. That the people of Ohio are determined to uphold the National Government, so that the "blessings of liberty" may be perpetuated.

3. That the Constitution of the United States guarantees to Senators and Representatives to Congress "freedom of speech;" and that any violation of this guaranty should receive the emphatic denunciation of every American citizen.

4. That the recent outrage on the floor of the United States Senate upon the Hon. Charles Sumner, a staunch and noble defender of the principles of freedom, by Preston S. Brooks, a Representative from South Carolina, is an act of atrocity which we unquali fiedly condemn.

5. That Kansas is entitled to freedom from slavery as her birthright, and that Congress ought to recognize her Free Constitution, and admit her into the Union as a Free State without delay.

6. That we can only expect to stay the hand of the ruffian and extinguish the torch of the incendiary in the border land by making a radical change in the administrators of the General Government, and to this great end we will direct our whole energies in the coming contest.

7. That Congress has power under the Constitution to prohibit slavery in the Territories, and that

8. That we commend the foregoing principles to the cordial support of all citizens, whether of native or foreign birth, and hereby declare that the great and only issue to be determined by the ensuing Presidential contest is whether "Freedom be National and Slavery Sectional," or "Slavery be National and Freedom Sectional."

An additional resolution, offered by William Dennison, Jr., of Franklin, was also unanimously adopted, as follows:

Resolved, That the thanks of the free men of the North are due Hon. Benjamin F. Wade for his manly defense of the freedom of debate in his recent denunciations in the Senate of the United States of the brutual assault by Preston S. Brooks, of South Carolina, on the person of Hon. Charles Sumner; and are also due the Hon. Lewis D. Campbell for his fidelity to the country in introducing resolutions in the House of Representatives, demanding the most rigid investigation into the circumstances attending said attack upon Mr. Sumner.

Nominations being in order, the following candidates for Supreme Judge, for the short term, were presented: Charles E. Goddard, of Muskingum; Ozias Bowen, of Marion; and George Hoadly, of Hamilton. The first ballot resulted: Goddard 127, Hoadly 95, Bowen 87. Thomas Spooner, of Hamilton, withdrew the name of Judge Hoadly, and a second ballot was taken, resulting Bowen 167, Goddard 132.

Josiah Scott, of Butler, and Milton Sutliff, of Trumbull, were presented for Supreme Judge, for the full term. The ballot resulted: Scott 201, Sutliff 97.

Candidates for Commissioner of Schools were announced as follows: Anson Smyth, of Franklin; Herman Canfield, of Medina; Abraham C. Deuel, of Champaign; Lewis Heyl, of Franklin; and Daniel C. McCloy, of Miami. A ballot was taken and resulted

in the nomination of Mr. Smyth by the following vote: Smyth 197, Canfield 47, Deuel 26, Heyl 19, and McCloy 7.

For Member of Board of Public Works, the following were announced: John Waddle, of Ross; John A. Ackley, of Cuyahoga; E. N. Gates, of Lorain; Jacob Egbert, of Warren; and Richard Howe, of Summit. Mr. Waddle was nominated on the first bal

lot, which resulted: Waddle 195, Ackley 46, Gates 27, Egbert 20, and Howe 11. The following telegrams were read, and greeted with much applause:

BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, May 29, 1856.

To the President of the Ohio Republican Convention, Columbus: The delegates of the free men of Illinois in Convention assembled, send greeting to the free men of Ohio. William H. Bissell is nominated for Governor, with the most enthusiastic acclaim, by the largest delegate Convention ever assembled in Illinois. Governor Reeder and Mrs. Robinson are here. They have appeared before the public and been greeted by the wildest applause. The excitement consequent upon the late outrages at Lawrence is sweeping like wildfire over the land.

JOHN M. PALMER, President.

COLUMBUS, OHIO, May 29, 1856. To the Republican Convention of Illinois, Bloomington: Ohio to Illinois responds. The announcement of the gallant Bissell's nomination was received with tumultuous cheers. The names of Governor Reeder and Mrs. Robinson were greeted with three cheers from the thousands assembled here. Judge Hunt and General Lane, of Kansas, are here and speak this evening. All is enthusiasm.

OLIVER P. BROWN, President.

The Convention proceeded to the election of six delegates at large to the first Republican National Delegate Convention, which was to assemble at Philadelphia on June 17th, with the following result: Thomas Spooner, of Hamilton, 206 votes; Rufus P. Spalding. Cuyahoga, 185; William Dennison, Jr., Franklin, 167; John Paul, Defiance, 154; Ephraim R. Eckley, Carroll, 120;