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Weekly Standard 1860
Published in the Weekly Standard at Raleigh Jan. 24, 1860
 
DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN ANSON
 
A meeting of the members of the Democratic party of Anson was held in 
Wadesboro' on the 1st inst. to appoint Delegates to the District and State's 
Convention, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the Gubernatorial 
Chair, and also for appointing delegates to attend the Charleston Convention 
to nominate a candidate for the Presidency.
 
On motion, AUGUSTUS SHEPHERD was called to the Chair, and R. T. BARNETT and 
W.M. HAMMOND appointed Secretaries. On motion, a committee consisting of S.W. 
COLE, DAVID CARPENTER, HARVEY T. KNOTTS, WILLIAM M. HAMMOND, and WM. H. KIRBY 
was selected to draft resolutions. The Committee reported the following:
 
Resolved, That this meeting has unbounded confidence in the patriotism and 
nationality of the present Federal Administration.
 
Resolved,  That His Excellency, Gov. ELLIS, has discharged his duties so as to 
meet with our applause, and the delegates to the State Convention by this 
meeting appointed are hereby requested to cast their votes for him as our 
first choice for Governor of the State.
 
Resolved, That events are occurring every day, as the history of our country 
shows, which convince us that the Democratic party is the only one that has 
the will if not the ability to do justice to the South by a devotion to its 
Constitutional rights: -- that at the North it stands alone as a party of 
numbers sufficient to accomplish anything in its effort to resist the 
dangerous heresies and unpatriotic designs of black Republicanism; that 
therefore, in the opinion of this meeting, it is the duty of every true 
Southern man and every patriot to forget his prejudices and act with it in its 
efforts to defeat the enemies of the Constitution in its efforts to defeat the 
enemies of the Constitution and the rights of the States, since it must be 
clear to every intelligent man that the contest in the next Presidential 
election will be between the Democratic and black Republican parties.
 
Resolved, That having entire confidence in the ability, integrity and 
patriotism of JAMES W. OSBORNE, we recommend him as a suitable person on the 
Democratic Ticket as Elector for the District. The resolutions were then read 
seratim and unanimously adopted. On motion it was:
 
Resolved, That 20 Delegates be appointed to attend the District Convention and 
that the same persons attend the State Convention in the same capacity, which 
meets on the 8th of March and for reason it was further:
 
Resolved, That the meeting recommend on the 6th day of March and the town of 
Charlotte as the proper time and place for holding said District Convention. 
The following gentlemen were appointed delegates:

D. CARPENTER, G.A. SMITH, DR. C. WATKINS, DR. J. W. BURNETT, DR. WM. 
LEDBETTER, S. W. COLE, T. J. LOCKHART, W. M. HAMMOND, R. TYLER BURNETT, H. 
BEVERLY, FRANK PEARSON, JOHN BOYLIN, ELI FREEMAN, JOHN Q. MCPHERSON, H. B. 
HAMMOND, HART T. KNOLLS, W. L. WHITE, SHERWOOD RUSHING, N. M. HUBBARD, H. A. 
CRAWFORD, J. D. MOORE, J. J. RUSHING, J. P. RATCLIFF, JAS. CURTIS, T. C. 
STREATERS, JOHN KNOTTS, DR. THOMAS HALL, WILLIAM H. KIRBY, W. C. WATKINS, B. 
J. GARRIS, JOSEPH MEDLEY, DR. W. W. HARLEY and ROBERT TANNER.


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