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The Daily Dispatch: September 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
etter dated at Indianapolis, August 19th: Facts, just come to light, put a new face on the address of the State Central Committee of the Democratic party. Its session of two days and nights was one of perplexity and peril. On the one hand was the defection of the peace wing of the party from its non-committal nominees, which had assumed such alarming proportions that the secret Order proposed revolution at once. There were present at that meeting of the committee such Congressmen as Voorhees, who, more than a year ago, proposed to settle the issue between his friends and the Government by the sword. Joseph K. Edgerton, of the Fort Wayne district, was also with the committee. On the 6th of June, 1863, he denounced the Burnside and Hassall policy in Ohio and Indiana, and said:"The end of these acts of despotism must come, either by Mr. Lincoln's administration wholly abandoning them, or by their resistance by the people even unto death." Such were the men who met to squelch the
The Daily Dispatch: September 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
brief speeches, and the question was taken on making the nomination unanimous, which was declared carried amid deafening applause. Mr. Wickliffe offered a resolution to the effect that Kentucky expects the first act of General McClellan, when inaugurated next March, will be to open the prisons and set the captives free; which was carried unanimously. The Convention then voted for Vice-President. The first ballot resulted as follows: James Guthrie, 65½ George H. Pendleton, 54½ Daniel W. Voorhees, 13; George W. Cass, 26; August Dodge, 9; J. D. Caton, 16; Governor Powell, 32½; John J. Phelps, 8; Blank, ½ On the second ballot, New York threw its whole vote for Pendleton. The other candidates were then withdrawn, and George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, was unanimously nominated. Mr. Pendleton, being loudly called for, could only promise to devote himself in future, as in the past, with entire devotion to the great principles which lie at the foundation of our government — the righ<