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Thos. Terry,
W. Hurd,
B. F. Adams,
J. F. Gue,
J. S. Dunham,
Luther Munson,
Allen Wood,
M. A. Robinson,
Joseph S. Steele,
C. C. Green,
Lorenzo E. Clark,
Joseph Butler,
H. Padelford,
Thos. H. Stringham,
J. A. Goss,
J. Dewey, Jr.,
N. J. Milliken,
W. P. Speaker,
E. P. Gue,
Chester Stoddard,
C. H. Seymour,
David Wood,
Edwin Barnard,
John Bement,
Z. Paddleford,
Enos Kent,
H. H. Titus,
M. Finley,
W. F. Curry,
I. C. Webster,
Rob't Royce,
Andrew Merrell,
P. D. Horton,
Aaron Pomeroy,
Isaac Platt,
Oliver H. Royce,
A. Spencer Wolcott,
I. R. Peck,
S. V. R. Mallory,
W. Doolittle,
H. Kendall,
J. Morse, Jr.,
E. Swan,
E. P. Pomeroy,
Peter Pitts,
G. Brown,
John W. Taylor,
G. W. Pitts,
J. A. Heazlit,
A. S. Buel,
N. Hicks,
L. B. Stout,
Chas. C. Murphy,
N. H. Lee,
J. Garlinghouse,
William P. Judd,
L. Hawes,
H. Ashley,
Andrew Peez,
N. Ashley,
John Ogden,
Frederick Judd,
Gideon Pitts,
G. Willson,
N. Parmele,
W. C. Stout,
S. Willson,
Samuel Hough,
D. A. Pierpont,
M. Munger,
H. E. Bostwick,
S. T. Seward,
R. Stevens,
Josiah Porter,
Orson Benjamin,
Theodore E. Hart,
Abram Pierce,
John Lamport,
John Warfield,
R. C. Munson,
W. Childs, Charles Jones.
D. F. Alverson,
J. D. Thompson,
J. C. Fairchild,
F. F. Wilson,
J. H. Bunnel, Cornelius Davis,
Edward C. Griffith, John Mosher,
R. C. Stiles,
Orrin Hart,
L. B. Antisdale,
C. W. Higby,
W. M. Chipman,
Jas. Anderson, Jr.,
A. Bagley,
Austin Persons,
D. A. Anderson,
'H. S. Wilkinson,
Wm. Tozer,
Jesse Campbell,
L. K. Betts,
J. F. Salmon,
Daniel Spring,
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Seneca Smith, Thos. C. Burling, Isaac O'Dell, Reuben Murray, Jr., J. M. Howey, Francis J. Lamb, Henry W. Taylor,
Frederic Munson,
A. D. Platt,
G. C. Seelye, Abraham Fish,
John J. Stone, Isaac N. Hart, H. O'Dell,
David Carlough.
Harris Andrews,
Lewis Coller,
C. H. Marsh, L .. Miles,
Wm. Woolston,
Richmond Case, Jr.
Isaac D. Peck.
Geo. T. Wheaton,
Wm. Pickett,
Samuel H. Bush,
N. G. Wilson,
W. D. Gregory,
M. Q. McFarland,
John Depue,
Augustus Buell,
John Wood,
Harry Gregory,
Edward Brunson, L. H. Brunson,
E. J. Brunson,
J. W. Hawly,
Chester A. Coller,
Charles L. Leete, H. W. Hamlin,
H. Fifield,
Jesse Mason,
Liberty Hayden,
John S. Bates,
George Dunkel,
Henry Pardee,
John S. Chapin,
Seely Sergent,
William Smith,
C. Remington, Wm. W. Warren,
John Moulton, E. M. Bradley, H. Beach,
John Willey,
Geo. W. Clark,
E. E. Clark,
John C. Beach,
Geo. N. West,
W. G. Antis,
Daniel T. Webster,
J. Cronk,
L. J. Sutherland.
William Bradley,
B. B. Trask,
J. L. Adams,
Reuben Norton,
Wm. I. Tromer.
L. C. Aylsworth,
Charles Williams,
M. A. Norton,
P. P. Bates, Samuel Tallmadge,
Thomas Smith, Z. J. Wheeler,
H. Peck,
James Walling,
George Allen,
Samuel How,
P. S. Richardson,
A. H. Parks,
M. Tooker,
S. F. Fowler,
John Stockwell,
S. B. Pond,
Wm. Gallup,
A. L. Peet,
Oliver H. Grow,
G. W. Barber,
E. W. Frisbie,
John H. Stothoff,
T. M. Biddlecom, Alver Warren,
T. R. Grow,
James Snow,
V. V. Draper,
C. S. Wright, V. R. W. Horton,
M. O. Wilder, R. Van Vranken,
Joseph June, Edward Wilcox,
Timothy Howley,
J. Q. Adams,
Daniel Stewart, George Plumer,
Samuel Parker,
Linus M. Goodwin,
B. M. Padget, John Frazer,
Conrad Cline,
John W. June,
Charles E. Jones,
Daniel Upright,
I. R. Snow, W. A. Smith,
Zenas Wheeler,
T. E. Hurlrick,
Thomas Padden,
A. Y. Peck,
John Arnold,
Thayer Gauss, A. H. Bradley, G. N. Allen,
J. H. Mason,
S. F. Ambler,
Stephen Saxton,
Jonathan Herriot,
A. J. Pierce,
John B. Coller,
I. R. Parcell.
John Peck,
J. B. Sands,
Welcome Arnold,
T. H. Kellogg, Jr., Morris Newton, Wm. Hobart,
Curtiss Bennett,
E. N. Green,
M. Lewis,
Albert Simonds,
L. O. Lampman, Wm. McGines,
Hezekiah Ferguson,
B. Newman,
T. O. Smith,
Marcus Bickford.
D. W. Fish, Joseph Bristol, Andrew Rowley,
Ansel Perkins, W. D. Norton,
Elijah Eaton,
David Heath,
Wm. B. Lynch,
S. C. Hersey, Charles Monroe, C. S. Morris,
G. W. Atchley, Benj. Gates,
W. N. Smith, D. W. Martz, Wm. Collins,
Horace Simmons,
Phineas Fabes,
Harlow Munson,
H. K. Cornell.
Franklin Edgerton,
David Sherrell,
Milton Edmonston,
Albert Banta, W. C. Shear,
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Jonathan West,
J. Greenman, John Q. Howe,
Harvey Rice,
F. Sale,
H. W. Jones,
Wm. W. Marsh,
Chester Gaylord,
James Covert,
J. M. Beaver,
Wm. Whiting,
S. C. Brown.
Not all those who signed the call for the county mass meeting of February 23, endorsed the progressive step embraced in this supplementary movement. Among the signers of the first call were a number of "Silver Grays," as that faction of the Whig party was called which had taken the ground that to reopen the slavery agitation would be to disrupt the Union. Alvah Worden, one of the local leaders of that faction, had spoken eloquently in support of the resolution adopted. But the Silver Grays, many of whom were sincere opponents of slavery extension, distrusted Seward's leadership, and refrained from identifying themselves with a movement that had in it the possi- bilities of disunion. Some of the Democrats, too, who had partici- pated in the earlier meeting held aloof from this. It was hard for the leaders of either party to take a step that meant the loosening of JEDEDIAH DEWEY. old political ties.
Jedediah Dewey was born April 15, 1807, in Farmington, now town of Manchester. A Member of the Legislature from the East- ern District in 1843, member of the Board of Supervisors in 1852, and Loan Commis- sioner for a number of years. Chairman of the Ontario county Anti-Nebraska convention. Died October 2, 1876.
Francis Granger and Alvah Worden, like many other Whig leaders, never came into the Re- publican party, though Mr. Grang- er at least rendered valiant service to the Union as a War Democrat. E. G. Lapham, on the other hand, was a type of the younger leaders of the Northern Democracy who, after a little natural hesitation at the leap, identified themselves with the new political organization and gained recognition as among its most earnest supporters and advisers.
The Ontario county Anti-Nebraska convention was held in the court house at Canandaigua on the day appointed, Saturday, August 5. Ira R. Peck, of East Bloomfield acted as temporary chairman
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and Orson Benjamin, of Canandaigua, as secretary. Committees were appointed as follows: On organization-Jedediah Dewey, Jr .. Frederick W. Collins, John S. Bates, S. A. Codding and Thomas Stringham ; on resolutions-N. J. Milliken, Silas C. Brown, Orlando Morse, Edward Brunson, and E. W. Simmons. Upon recommen- dation of the committee on organization, permanent officers of the convention were chosen as fol- lows: President, Henry Pardee, of Victor. Vice-Presidents, J. H. Mason, of Canandaigua; T. J. McLouth, of Farmington; Platt Reynolds, of Manchester; Zebina Lucas, of Canandaigua; A. J. Shannon, of Seneca. Secretaries, Myron Adams, of East Bloom- field ; E. W. Simmons, of Bristol, and John Mosher, of Canandai- gua. Mr. Pardee declined to act as chairman of the meeting and Jedediah Dewey, Jr., of Manches- ter, was elected in his place. Committees were appointed to nominate delegates to the Sara- toga convention, as follows: For the Eastern district, William D. Gregory, Lucius How, and Alfred THOMAS J. McLOUTH. Thomas J. McLouth was born in Farming- ton, October 3, 1803. Was a member of the Board of Supervisors in 1844, 1846, 1847, 1848, and 1849. Was a member of the Legis- lature of 1851, and took an influential part in the events leading to the organization of the Republican party. Died in Farmington, May 16, 1876. Dewey; and for the Western dis- trict, Joseph Garlinghouse, A. G. Murray, and Silas C. Brown. On recommendation of these commit- tees, delegates were elected as follow: For the Eastern district, John M. Bradford. Charles W. Sabin, Hiram Odell, Thomas J. McLouth, and John Q. Howe: for the Western district, Lyman Hawes, Asa Ball, E. W. Simmons, Ira R. Peck, and John Mosher.
Resolutions were adopted declaring that the South, in procur- ing an organization of the territories of Nebraska and Kansas under laws designed to effect the establishment of slavery therein. had released the North from obligations to sustain or respect any com- promises save those of the Constitution ; pledging the members of the convention to use all constitutional means to defeat the unhal-
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lowed project of slavery extension, to ensure the repeal or modifi- cation of the Nebraska and Kansas bill, to procure the repeal or modification of the Fugitive Slave law of 1850, the rejection of new States applying for admission to the Union with slavery tolerating constitutions, and the abolition of slavery in the District of Colum- bia and in all the territories of the United States; pledging them. irrespective of party, to support no candidate for Congress who was not fully committed to an active and vigorous advocacy of the measures and policy herewith set forth : tendering thanks to Hon. Andrew Oliver, representative in Congress from this district, for his manly and determined opposition to the infamous Nebraska swindle ; approving of the organization and object of the Emigrant Aid Society : and deprecating the proposition to nominate a State ticket at the Saratoga convention.
The Saratoga convention of the 15th of August was notable for the resolutions adopted upon the recommendation of a committee of which Horace Greeley was chairman. These resolutions declared the right of the general Government to prohibit "the extension. establishment, or perpetuation of human slavery in any and every territory of the United States," denounced the doctrine of Popular Sovereignty as a surrender to the slave power, asserted that "free labor and slave labor cannot co-exist on the same soil," and approved the efforts then in progress for the colonization "with free souls and strong arms" of Kansas and other territories. The con- vention then adjourned until September 26, for the purpose of taking action in regard to the nomination of candidates for State offices.
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MYRON H. CLARK ELECTED GOVERNOR.
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MYRON H. CLARK ELECTED GOVERNOR.
Mr. Clark's First Public Office That of Sheriff of Ontario County- Gained Prominence in the Senate as an Advocate of the Maine Law-Gubernatorial Nominee of the Seward Whigs, Free Soil Democrats, and Prohibitionists-Beginnings of the Republican Party.
As pointed out in the last chapter, the conventions held in this State in 1854, to voice the aroused sentiment of the people against slavery extension, were not called "Republican." The only excep- tion to this was in the case of Allegany county, where it is claimed that, at a convention held at Friendship in May of that year, the name Republican, first suggested by Horace Greeley, was formally adopted and at a subsequent date a county ticket was nominated and sup- ported under that name.
James G. Blaine, in a speech at Strong, Maine, August 19, 1884, where and when occurred one of the several celebrations of the thirtieth anniversary of the organization of the Republican party, aptly said: "The place and the time where the Republican party was first organized will, I presume, remain, like the birthplace of Homer, a subject of unending dispute. Seven cities claimed the latter, and seven States may claim the former. It could hardly be doubted that a great thought, common to the minds of a million of men, would find expression at the same time at places widely separated." But it is pretty generally conceded now that the first Republican State convention, Republican in name as well as in fact, was that held "under the oaks" at Jackson, Michigan, July 6, 1854. Republican conventions were held and Republican tickets nominated that year in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Maine.
In New York State, as we have seen, as in all the Eastern States, except Maine, it was known as the Anti-Nebraska move-
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ment, and its conventions made no independent nominations, but it represented here the same coalition and voiced the same princi- ples that in other states raised the Republican flag, and in endorsing Myron H. Clark, and his associates on the Whig ticket, it made them in fact the first Republican candidates for State office.
Governor Clark recognized this in the following letter written to A. N. Cole, of Allegany county, known widely as "the Father of the Republican party" from the fact that he called the Allegany county convention above referred to :
Hon. A. N. Cole, Wellsville,
Canandaigua, August 12th, 1884.
My long time, Dear Friend:
Your note of the 9th instant, and a copy of the Genesee Valley Free Press of the same date, were both received by me yesterday. You request me to give my recollections about the origin and organization of the Republican party; and to corroborate your statement in relation thereto, published in the paper you send me, so far as I am able.
It affords me pleasure to comply with your request; and to vindicate "the truth of history," for the benefit of the present generation of our citizens; many of whom can have but little appreciation of the stirring times, politically, you and I passed through in those early days of the party. The organization of the Republican party in this State, was effected in 1854. It was made up of the old Whigs, in large part; Temperance men, or Prohibitionists; Free Soil Dem- ocrats; and the "Anti-Nebraska" party. The nominating State Conventions in this State of each of those parties were held as follows: The Whig party, September 20, 1854, at Syracuse; the Free Democratic, September 25, '54; the Anti-Nebraska party. September 26, and the Temperance, or Prohibition State Convention, September 27, '54. The last three at Auburn. At each of these four State Conventions, I received the nomination for Governor; each of which I formally accepted, as the platforms of principles expressed and passed by the several Conventions, taken altogether, were in accordance with my political principles. These nominations, and my acceptance constituted, in effect, the formation and beginning of the Republican party in this State; although not then designated as such, I believe, by any of them, except the Free Democratic. There has been no Whig State Convention or party, in this State, since that time. The Republican name may have been, and probably was, used in local, town, or county conventions, previous to that time; but not by any State or National conventions.
My recollection coincides with your statement, that the name for the new party, "Republican, no prefix! no suffix; but plain Republican," was suggested by Horace Greeley. The name began to be used in the papers very soon; whether in the New York Tribune first, I do not remember. . But the Evening Chronicle, a Temperance and Anti-Slavery newspaper, published at Pough- keepsie, dated October 3, 1854, six days after my nomination, published "the Republican Platform," upon which (in connection with the Temperance plat- form), I stood and was elected. I send you a slip from that paper containing the platform, and editorial comments upon the nomination, etc.
My political platform of principles, like your own, then and ever since has
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consisted, mainly, of two planks; viz: opposition to negro Slavery in the Nation; and Anti-rum, in the State. Hence I have always been opposed to the Demo- cratic party, although occasionally I have supported Democratic candidates for local offices, when they have been better men than their Republican opponents.
The Republican party, thus made up and organized, on the principles and platforms originally adopted, has, with the aid of Providence made good begin- ning and much progress in the National branch of its work; whilst it has almost wholly ignored the temperance question, in its subsequent State Conventions; which I have very much regretted, believing it to be of paramount importance to the people, and the party. I have, however, advised against the Prohibition- ist party making a National ticket, believing it would be more practical, and useful, to confine its efforts to local, municipal, and State politics. I neverthe- less hope, and trust, that the Republican nominees for President and Vice-Presi- dent, may be elected. I shall give them my vote, and influence, to bring about that result. With sincere regard and respect, I am,
Very truly yours, MYRON H. CLARK.
Governor Clark erred in saying that the Republican name had not been used prior to the time mentioned by any State conven- tion, but otherwise his review summarizes the 1854 campaign in this State. The cooperation of the several parties mentioned in support of his candidacy for the governorship constituted in effect the beginning of the Republican party in this State.
Myron H. Clark was serving his second term in the State Senate, as the representative of the 29th, or Ontario-Livingston, district, at the opening of the year 1854. Born in Naples, October 23, 1806, and a merchant by occupation, he had been elected sheriff of Ontario county on the Whig ticket in 1837, and having become a resident of Canandaigua had been elected in 1851 and again in 1853 as State Senator. He had gained recognition as a competent. conscientious legislator, was one of the leaders of the Seward wing of the Whig party, and as chairman of the special committee which reported the Maine bill, designed to prohibit the sale of liquor in the State except for medicinal purposes, had gained State prominence.
The temperance question was a burning one in the State at that time, being hardly inferior in popular interest to the slavery question. It was the subject of heated debates in both houses of the Legislature. Senator Clark made a telling speech in support of the Maine measure, and it was finally passed, but to the great disap- pointment of the mass of the people it was vetoed by Governor Seymour.
Following the adjournment of the Legislature, the press con-
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tinued the discussion, and almost immediately there were suggestions that Senator Clark would be an available candidate for the governorship. "The Carson League," published in New York, an organ of a State temperance organization of the same name, strongly urged his nomination. Not only did The Times, the local Free Soil organ, commend the suggestion as gratifying to its editor personally and as pleasing to the community in general, but the Ontario Messenger, an ultra Democratic paper, declared: "Since Mr. Clark has been a member of the Legislature, he has proved him- self to be one of the most able, consistent, and dignified temper- ance advocates in that body, and has won the confidence and esteem of men of all parties." "Here at home," the Messenger continued, "where Mr. Clark is known, it need hardly be said that the com- pliment intended by such a nomi- nation is fully appreciated and could not be bestowed on a more worthy and deserving gentleman."
The Carson League of On- tario county, which was an organ- ization for the enforcement of the then existing excise law and was officered by Jesse Campbell, of Canandaigua, as president ; Hiram H. Seelye, of Seneca, as vice presi- MYRON H. CLARK. dent ; A. D. Platt, of Seneca ; T. E. Governor Myron H. Clark was born in Naples, October 23, 1806. Elected Sheriff of Ontario county on the Whig ticket in 1837. At close of term engaged in the hardware business in Canandaigua. In 1851 and again in 1853 elected State Senator. Was an active Anti-Slavery or Seward Whig. In 1854, elected Governor of the State on the Whig- Free Soil-Temperance ticket. Served as U. S. Collector of Internal Revenue under Presi- dent Lincoln. Died in Canandaigua, August 23, 1892. Hart, of Canandaigua, and Israel Washburn, of Phelps, as executive committee ; John Raines, of Can- andaigua, grandfather of the late Senator John Raines, author of the present Liquor Tax law, as treasurer, and Francis J. Lamb, of Canandaigua (now of Madison, Wisconsin), as secretary and agent, sent delegates to the State tem- perance convention instructed to favor Senator Clark's candidacy.
The Whig convention for the Second Assembly district, held at Hicks's inn, in Bristol, September 16, was presided over by
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Hiram Ashley, of Richmond, as chairman, and Alexander H. Howell, of Canandaigua, as secretary. N. J. Milliken, editor of The Times, was elected delegate to the State convention and Solomon Goodale, Jr., was nominated for member of Assembly.
The First district convention, held at Clifton Springs the same clay, nominated William H. Lamport, up to that time a Silver Gray or anti-Seward Whig, for member of Assembly. There is no record as to who was the delegate elected to the State convention.
At this last named convention held in Syracuse, September 20, an informal ballot developed ten gubernatorial candidates, but Mr. Clark led from the first and on the third formal ballot he received a majority of the votes cast and was declared the nominee. Henry J. Raymond, editor of the New York Times, was nominated to the office of Lieutenant-Governor. The resolutions declared that in their struggles against the principles involved in the Nebraska bill, the Whigs of New York invited "the cooperation, on terms of equality and fraternity, of all sincere and earnest champions of Free Labor and Free Soil."
The Times, voicing the sentiment at least of the Seward Whigs of Ontario county, said this in its issue of the following week :
"Myron H. Clark, the nominee for Governor, is a citizen of this place, with whom most of our readers are personally acquainted. He is a man of excellent judgment, and large experience in public affairs. Plain and unassuming in his language and deport- ment, he is yet possessed of great energy and decision of character- is sound to the core on all the prominent political questions of the day, and firm as a rock in support of whatever he believes to be right. It has been truly said that he is a self-made man, but he is none the less well made for all that ; and whoever has observed his course in the Senate, where he now holds a seat on his second term, will be a witness to the statesmanlike qualities he has displayed in that body, and to the enlarged and liberal views which have ever governed his legislative action."
It is interesting to note in passing that the local Whig ticket of that year was completed by the nomination of James L. Seeley, for member of Congress, George Rice for superintendent of poor, Lyman Clarke for justice of sessions, and Buell S. Bartlett for coroner.
Mr. Clark's nomination to the governorship was immediately endorsed by the Anti-Nebraska convention at its adjourned session,
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and successively, as stated in Governor Clark's letter above quoted, by the Free Soil Democratic convention and the Temperance convention.
The succeeding canvass was a bitter one and doubtful to the end, the Silver Gray wing of the Whig party being in open alliance with the Know Nothings in support of the latter's candidate, Daniel Ullman ; the Soft Shell Democrats rallying to the support of their party candidate, Horatio Seymour, and the Hard Shell Democrats having a candidate, also, in the person of Greene C. Bronson.
The four-cornered fight ended in the election of the Whig- Anti-Nebraska-Free Soil-Temperance candidate by a small but sufficient plurality, the vote being as follows: Myron H. Clark, 156,804; Horatio Seymour, 156,495 ; Daniel Ullman, 122,282; Greene C. Bronson, 33,850. Ontario county gave Clark 2,431, Seymour 1,280, Ullman 3,148, and Bronson 348 votes. William H. Lamport was elected to the Assembly in the First district by 486 plurality, but Solomon Goodale, the Whig candidate in the Second district, was defeated by Oliver Case, his Democratic or Locofoco opponent.
There was great rejoicing in Canandaigua when it was finally known that its distinguished citizen, Myron H. Clark, had been elected Governor of the State. A celebration, opening with a salute of one hundred guns, and closing with a banquet at the Canan- daigua hotel, was held on the evening of November 29. About one hundred guests participated in the affair, Orson Benjamin acting as toastmaster and chairman. Speeches were made by J. J. Chambers, of Albany ; Emory B. Pottle, of Naples ; Stafford C. Cleveland, of Penn Yan, and Ira R. Peck, of East Bloomfield. Sentiments were offered by several of the guests.
Thurlow Weed, the great Albany politician, sent a letter of regret in which he proposed the following toast :
Canandaigua-A village equally distinguished for its picturesque beauties and its social refinements. The executive honors so long anticipated by its eminent citizens have finally rewarded unostentatious personal worth and unswerving political fidelity.
The opposition made fun of the celebration, but it may be presumed that the Woolly Heads and their friends of the coalition read the jibes with equanimity. They had won. Their candidate for Governor, standing on a platform declaring for Free Labor and Free Soil, had been elected. The Republican party of New York State, in effect, had been born, though not yet named.
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