hibit slavery in the territories; and that whilst we will maintain all constitutional rights of the south, we also hold that justice, humanity, the principles of freedom as expressed in our Declaration of Independence, and our national constitution and the purity and perpetuity of our government, require that power should be exerted to prevent the extension of slavery into territories heretofore free.

Resolved, That the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was unwise, unjust and injurious; an open and aggravated violation of the plighted faith of the states, and that the attempt of the present administration to force slavery into Kansas against the known wishes of the legal voters of that territory. is an arbitrary and tyrannous violation of the rights of the people to govern themselves, and that we will strive by all constitutional means, to secure to Kansas and Nebraska the legal guarantee against slavery of which they were deprived at the cost of the violation of the plighted faith of the nation.

Resolved, That we are devoted to the Union, and will to the last extremity, defend it against the efforts now being made by the disunionists of the administration to compass its dissolution, and that we will support the constitution of the United States in all its provisions; regarding it as the sacred bond of our Union, and the only safeguard for the preservation of the rights of ourselves and our posterity.

Resolved, That we are in favor of the immediate admission of Kansas as a member of this confederacy, under the constitution adopted by the people of said territory.

Resolved, That the spirit of our institutions, as well as the constitution of our country guarantee the liberty of conscience as well as political freedom, and that we will proscribe no one, by legislation or otherwise, on account of religious opinions, or in consequence of place of birth.

Resolved, That in Lyman Trumbull, our distinguished senator, the people of Illinois have an able and consistent exponent of their principles, and that his course in the senate meets with our unqualified approbation.

Which report was received and unanimously adopted.

Mr. Wentworth submitted the following resolution which was unanimously adopted:

Resolved, That we are in favor of the strictest economy in the administration of our state government and a faithful application of all its revenues to the liquidation of our state debt. And that the practice of using our state funds for the purpose of private speculations, whereby a very large defalcation has occurred in our state treasury, cannot be too severely censured; and we therefore take issue with the resolution of the recent convention at Springfield which endorsed the course of our present governor.

Mr. Skinner offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted:

Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to act as a central committee for the purpose of calling future conventions, and to fill vacancies in our nomination (in cases where the nominations may become vacant, and it may be too late to call a convention to fill the same,) and do such other business as usually devolves upon central committees; and also to act as a disbursing committee of such funds as may come to their hands. Whereupon the following committee was appointed:

CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

James C. Conkling, Sangamon county; Asahel Gridley, McLean county; B. C. Cook, LaSalle county; Charles H. Ray, Cook county; N. B. Judd, Cook county.

Mr. Wm. A. James, of Cook, offered the following resolution, which was adopted.

Resolved, That this convention recommend every town. in every county in the state to form Anti-Nebraska clubs, for the purpose of effecting a thorough organization of the party prior to the ensuing election.

George T. Brown, of Madison, submitted the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted, amid deafening shouts, cheers and other manifestations of excited approbation.

Resolved, That STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, having laid his "ruthless hand" upon a sacred compact, which had “an origin akin to that of the constitution," and which had "become canonized in the hearts of the American people," has given the lie to his past history, proved himself recreant to the free principles of this government, violated the confidence of the people of Illinois, and now holds his seat in the senate while he misrepresents them.

Mr. Judd offered the following resolution, which was adopted:

Resolved, That the thanks of this convention are hereby tendered to the citizens of Bloomington for their kind hospitalities, and also to the committee of arrangements for the satisfactory manner in which they have discharged their self-imposed duties towards this body.

On motion of O. H. Browning:

Resolved, That the proceedings of this convention be signed by the officers and published by all the Anti-Nebraska papers in the state.

On motion of H. N. Hibbard:

Resolved, That the thanks of this convention be tendered to the presiding officers for the able and impartial manner in which they have discharged their duties.

On motion the committee adjourned sine die.

John M. Palmer, president.

Vice-presidents-J. A. Davis, Wm. Ross, James McKie, J. H. Bryant, A. C. Harding, Richard Yates, H. C. Johns, D. L. Phillips, George Smith, T. A. Marshall, J. M. Ruggles, G. D. A. Parks, John Clark.

Secretaries-H. T. Baker, C. L. Wilson, John Tillson, W. Bushnell, B. J. F. Hanna.

A full, true and correct copy from the files of the “Journal" of Springfield, Ill., of May 30, 1856.

HENRY C. RANNEY,

Copyist.

The convention of May 29, 1856, although called as a delegate convention, did not strictly preserve that character but rather resolved itself into a mass convention, as in several instances parties acted as officers of the convention whose names do not appear on the official roll as delegates at all.

In several counties the Chicago Press and also Chicago Democrat give additional delegates to those given in the official list. We give below the delegates in these counties as they appear in these papers:

Bureau County-Charles C. Kelsey, George Radcliffe, George W. Stipp, jr., John H. Bryant.

Lee County-E. M. Ingals, J. V. Eustace, Dr. Charles Gardner, John Dixon, Dr. Oliver Everett, George E. Haskell, Lorenzo Wood, Benjaman F. Shaw, Dr. Adams, Thomas W. Eustace, Andrew McPherson, S. R. Upham, Cyrus Aldrich, Joseph Crawford, James L. Camp, William E. Ives, Oziss Wheeler, Jerome Porter, A. A. Benjamin, S. G. Patrick, S. S. Williams, I. S. Boardman, David Welty, George R. Linn, Benjamin Gilman.

McDonough County-L. H. Walters, C. W. Craig, J. E. Wynne, S. P. Higbe, Anthony Corker.

Ogle County-Charles C. Royce, F. A. McNiff, G. W. Southwick.
Richland County-Edward Kitchell.

La Salle County-Washington Bushnell was one of the secretaries of the convention although he does not appear on the official list of delegates.

In the official list of Mason county J. M. Ruggles does not appear as a delegate but he acted as one of the vice-přesidents of the convention and we have

added his name to the list.

In McLean county the official list gives the alternates as the attending delegates. We have given the delegates and alternates as elected. The delegates evidently attended, as Gen. W. W. Orme, one of them, was one of the officers of the convention.

David McWilliams of Livingston county also attended as a delegate and we have added his name to the official list.

Elisha Harkness of Champaign county was also elected and attended as a delegate from that county and we have added his name to the official list. The delegates and alternates elected from St. Clair county were as follows: Delegates: Alternates: H. G. Harrison,

Philip H. Eisenmayer,

J. B. Hoppe,

Dr. Charles Vincenz,

Nathaniel Niles,

J. Thomas.

S. Anderson,
Conrad Bowman,

Dr. F. A. Carpenter
Edward Abend.

The delegates and alternates elected from Randolph county were:

Delegates:

Thomas McClucken,

Caspar Horn,

Alternates:

B. J. F. Hanna,
R. J. Hanna,

We have taken great pains to obtain a correct roll of the delegates attending the convention but in many instances it has been impossible to verify the list and there doubtless still remains many errors in it.

The electoral ticket nominated at this convention was defeated by the following vote:

Buchanan and Breckenridge, democrats..

Fremont and Dayton, republicans

Plurality for Buchanan and Breckenridge.

Fillmore and Donaldson, American or Know-Nothing.

Republican (96,189) and American (37,444) vote....

Democratic vote..

Majority of votes against democratic ticket..

Hamilton, dem.
Snyder, dem.
Casey, dem...

105,348

96,189

9,159

37,444

133,633

105,348

27,285

The state ticket nominated by this convention was elected as follows: Gov. Bissell, rep....111,375 W. A. Richardson, dem., 106,643 Bissell's plur❜lty 4,732 Lieut-Gov., Wood, r, 110,534 Sec. State, Hatch, r, 115.538 Auditor, Dubois, r, 199,234 Supt. S., Powell, r, 109,528 Treasurer, Miller, r, 128,430 Moore, dem.

St. Mathews, dem....

Congressional-Rep., 118,011; dem., 110,038; rep. plurality, 7,973.

Average American vote for governor, lieutenant-governor. secretary of state, auditor and superintendent of schools, was 18,530.-Tribune Almanac, 1857. James Miller, candidate for treasurer, was on both the republican and American tickets. E. M. PRINCE, Sec'y.

NOTE.-The Pantagraph of Bloomington, Illinois, of May 14, 1856, published the call for the convention of May 29 and beneath it published a call signed by John M. Scott, W. C. Hobbs, J. H. Wickizer, L. Graves, J. E. McClun, L. Lawrence, James Vandolah and Leonard Swett for a mass meeting of the voters of McLean county, favorable to the Anti-Nebraska movement, to assemble in Bloomington, on Saturday, the 17th inst. to select three delegates to the convention. At this mass meeting Dr. W. C. Hobbs was elected chairman and W. W. Orme secretary. James Gilmore, sr., Dr. Harrison Noble and William W. Orme, delegates to the State convention and Green B. Larrison, David Cheney and A. T. Briscoe, alternates. Resolutions were adopted demanding that the friends of the Union forget old party associations in opposition to the extension of Slavery over free terri tory, declaring slave labor and free labor are incompatible with each other, that our constitution does not carry nor protect slavery, except in the States, that its framers did not intend to extend this institution, that the passage of the KansasNebraska act was a wilful violation of the plighted faith of the nation, an act insulting to the Free States. and shamelessly in defiance of the public opinion of this age and of all enlightened, unprejudicial people, that slavery is à creation of municipal law and cannot exist one moment without it, that outside State jurisdiction the constitutional power of the Federal government should be exerted to secure life, liberty and the happiness of all men, that there should be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except for the punishment of crimes, in any of the territories of the United States.-Pantagraph, May 21, 1856.

Telegrams.

The Ohio Republican Convention was also in session May 29. The late Jesse W. Fell and Judge Owen T. Reeves, then a young lawyer recently from Ohio, prepared a telegram to the Ohio convention, submitted it to General Palmer who signed it and it was wired to Columbus. A return telegram was received and read amid great applause. The Mrs. Robinson alluded to in the Bloomington telegram was the wife of the first state governor of Kansas. We are indebted to the Ohio Archæological and Historical Society for a copy of these telegrams.-SEC'Y HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

BLOOMINGTON, ILL., 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 enthusiastic acclaim by the most enthusiastic 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 latest outrages at Lawrence, Kansas, is sweeping like wildfire over the land.

JOHN M. PALMER.