348                THE WISCONSIN FARM) IER.

city itself will have fallen. This is one of  Resolved, That we hail with
delight some
the towns we want to have blotted from the mianifestations of a desire on
the part of the
                                             people of some the seceding
States to return
face of the earth. Always a bot-bed of trea- to their allegiance to the Union,
and hold it
son, and the spot where the Rebellion began, to be the duty of the administration
cordially
     it deserve to be summarily and utterly deto co-operate with the people
of such States
  it deserves to be summarily and utterly de- for their restoration to the
Union with all the
stroyed.                                     guarantees of their rights and
interests con-
  Lee's army and Mleadc's still confront each tained in the Constitution.
                                               Resolved, That while we would
not 'withdraw
other on the Rtappahannock; neither party our arinies from the field, or
in any manner
feeling confident of its ability to destroy the recognize the so-called Confederated
States,
other,.l yet if such manifestations should become
                                            o  general throughout the seceded
States, we be-
  In Kansas a force under the rebel Quan- lieve that the offices of peace
should supercede
trell have been committing ravages and per- those of war, and that it would
in such event
petrating atrocities more wanton and infernal be the duty of the administration
to encour-
                                             age the holding of a Constitutional
Conven-
than any others recorded in modern history. tion of all the States to restore
to peace, main-
Lawrence has been burned and many of the tain the Union and support the Constitution.
inhabitants were either buried or burned in    Th             a   Ch
its ruins.  At last accounts Jim Lane had  Th uet.badpte the    veotions
   oned,
            overakenQuaurelland  ille a n~b~r l~lth ult., adopted the resolutions
subjoined,
 overtaken Quantrell tnal killed a number of and put in nomination a Union
ticket.
 his men.                                                     RESOLUTIONS.

 The Draft is quietly progressing in New   Resolved, That this Convention
cordially
 York and several of the other States. Negro approves the following propositions,
contained
                                             in the call under which it assembles:
regiments are being continually organized in  That the Union be preserveil
in its integ-
the South, and it is expected that nearly 100,- rity;
000 black troops will be in the field by the 1st  That the Constitution and
laws of the Uni-
                                              ted States be enforced throughout
the whole
of January.  The President's order gunran- national domain;
teeing to them, equally with the white soldiers,  That the rebellion be suppressed,
not by
the protection of the Government, in case of compromises with or concessions
to traitors,
                                              but by the suord whose agency
they have
capture, has given a new impetus to enlist- themselves invoked;
ments.                                         That the national administration
should be
                                              heartily and generously supported
in ite ef-
                POLITICAL.                   forts to put down the rebellion.
                POLITICAL.                    Resolved, That the dignified,
courteous and
                                  _  __  __ _ _   patriotic manner in which
the Hon. Edward
  The Democadtic Convention which met Salomon has discharged the duties of
the
at Madison Aug. 6th, placed in nomination office of Governor, devolved upon
him by
                                     for t r S othe decease of Governor Harvey,
at a most
 for the vario  tateoffices, the following gen mportant period in our political
history,
 tlemen:                                      meets our cordial approval;
 (overnor-Hleury L. Palnier,of Milwaukee.  Resolved. That this Convention,
following
 Lient. Govrnor-Nelson Dewey, (if Grant.  the example ot the Union Conventions
of
 Secretary or State--Emil Rothe, ot Jefferson..  Ohio, and other States,
present to the loyal
 State Treaurer-Cbarln S. Bienton, of La Cropee
 Attorney Gteneral-Eleaser Waknl..y, Ol Daoe.  people of Wisconsin the names
of the persons
 Bank Gomptroller-Henry S. Pierpout, of Munitowow. this day nominated, as
Union men, not aa
 Superintendent of Public Instructiou-Volney French, partisans, without reference
to their political
 Of Kenonsa.
 State Prison Oommissioner-Jobn t. Bohan, of One- antecedents, and ask for
them the support of
 kee.                                         all loyal men, without distinction
of party.
   The following are the resolutions adopted  Resolved, That we deplore the
partisan hos-
                                              tility which has been and is
being awakened
 by the convention:                           against the Government by interested
politi-
   Resolved, That we re-affirm and adopt the cians and designing demagogues
of the North,
 address issued by the State Convention held believing that it can only tend,
by encourag-
 September 3d, 1862, and the resolutions of the ing rebels to protract the
war; and inusead of
 Mass Convention held in Milwaukee, June kindling the patriotism, to arouse
the sni-
 26, 1868, as the settled doctrine of the Demo- mosities of our people, and
to occasion else-
 -..tn m-t. of this StA.                   I where the same riotous, diabolical,
and anar-



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