Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1858 — Republican Congressional Convention. [ARTICLE]

Republican Congressional Convention.

The Republican Congressional Convention at Plymouth, on Tuesday last, was well attended. The delegation from the counties of Laporte, Porter and Lake, with part of the delegation of St. Joseph county, went down from Laporte on t l >e C. P. &C. R. R., filling six coaches. They were accompanied by the Laporte Band, who on every appropriate occasion throughout the day, discoursed most excellent music. On arriving at Plymouth, Hon. Schuyler Colfax was received with enthusiasm. A welcome speech was delivered from the balcony of the Edw'ards House, to which Mr. Colfax replied in his usual happy strain. The_Convention organized in a grove on the west side of town at eleven A. M. After appointing a committee on resolutions, a letter was read from the Republican County Convention of Jasper, declaring that Schuyler Colfax was their first and only choice for Congress; which sentiment was received with cheers. Mr. Shryock, of Fulton, rose and said, th’it gs it appeared to be the unanimous sentiment of the Convention, and not of the Convention only, but of the Republican party throughout the District, to nominate Colfax, therefore, he could see no use in delaying time in useless forms, but would move that Hon. Schuyler Colfax be declared the unanimous nominee of the Convention for- Congress. A gentleman from Laporte moved tflie vote be taken by three cheers, which was consented to. The President put the motion, which was responded to by three deafening cheers. There was not a voice or vote in the negative. The Convention then adjourned until after dinner. In the afternoon it was found that there were three hundred delegates present who were not on the ground in the morning, who were dissatisfied that they had not had an opportunity of voting for Colfax. The vote of the morning was therefore recinded, and the motion again offered that Hon. Schuyler Colfax be declared the unanimous nominee of the Convention, which was again carried without a dissenting voice. After the adoption of the platform, the committee appointed to wait upon Mr. Colfax and inform him of his nomination, conducted him to the stand where he spoke for some forty minutes. He thanked the Convention—he thanked the people, for the honors conferred upon him, and for so hearty an indorsement of his political course. He reviewed the course of the Administration in its attempt to spread slavery, contrary to law, and in defiance of the will of the people. “Kansas,” say the Democracy, “is getting to be a bore.” “Yes,” says the .speaker, “it has bored a hole in James Buchanan so that the people can see through him.” We cannot attempt to give our readers even an idea of the castigation the GreenEnglish swindle received. After Colfax's speech, a Centra! Committee was appointed, and the Convention adjourned.—Fa/parazso Republican. (/j"Here is a fine sample of the manner, in which the peculiar favorites of the Administration manifest their regard for Douglas. The extract is from the National Union-. “But the saddest and mbst repulsive feature in Judge Douglas’ character is his utter want of truth. He will pledge,his word of honor with thefervor of a Roman patriot, and break it with the calmness of a French philosopher. Truth for the good that is in itself as truth he never knew. When truth will serve him better than a lie, he will tell it, when it won’t, he won't. “His bravery of denial, his daring of assertion, when knowing both are false, are admirable as specimens o's mendacious courage though melancholy as of an American Senator. He is audacious, arrogant, haughty and triumphant in his manner of telling lies. He does it with the air of a monarch. ”