Indiana and Indianans - a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood (1919) (14794064803)

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Title: Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924 Kemper, General William Harrison, 1839-
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Chicago and New York : The American historical society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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ere were two of them—went farther on the slavery question than theIndiana convention, but they did not go so far as Julian. Indianaspart in these conventions is of historical interest. Mr. Foulke says:The appointment of delegates was of course informal. They were inpart self-constituted, in part sent by various self-appointed meetingsand conventions of Republicans in the different states. Wayne countytook an active part in the movement, and a meeting of citizens was heldat Richmond on February 18, at which resolutions were unanimouslyadopted that the exclusion of slavery from territory now free was theparamount issue, and the common ground on which all eould unite. Theresolutions appointed Oliver P. Morton, Rev. Thomas A. Goodwin andWilliam Grose delegates to the convention. ^5 A contemporary accountof this Richmond meeting, in the Jefiersonian, the Democratic paper ofthat city, says: It was composed of a few busy Know Nothings, who. 35 Life of Morton, p. 44. wo G .f n dC Wo o o o g
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546 INDIANA AND INDIANANS without any public uotice having been given, stealthily came together inthe Mayors office. The resolutions themselves do not purport to bethe action of a Republican assembly, but begin: At a meeting of thecitizens of Richmond, on Monday evening 18th inst. in the Warner build-ing, Jolin Finley, Mayor, was called to the chair. The appointing reso-lution reads: Resolved, That we take great pleasure in recommendingthe Hon. Oliver P. Morton, Rev. Thomas Goodwin, and William GroseEsq. to the favorable consideration of the Convention to assemble atPittsburgh on the 22nd day of February inst., and would say that fullfaith and credit may be given to their acts, as members of said Con-vention, on behalf of Indiana. The printed reports of the Conventonshow, however, that George W. Julian was not only a delegate to theConvention from Indiana, but was one of the Vice Presidents, and chair-man of the Conunittee on Organization, and was the only Indiana dele-gate called to