A voice from Harper's Ferry; a narrative of events at Harper's Ferry : $b with incidents prior and subsequent to its capture by Captain Brown and his menAnderson, Osborne P. (Osborne Perry)
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A voice from Harper's Ferry; a narrative of events at Harper's Ferry : $b with incidents prior and subsequent to its capture by Captain Brown and his men
Anderson, Osborne P. (Osborne Perry)
Brown, John, 1800-1859; Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859
The President announced that the business before the Convention was
the further election of officers.
Mr. Whipple nominated Thomas M. Kinnard for President. In a speech of
some length, Mr. Kinnard declined.
Mr. Anderson nominated J. W. Loguen for the same office. The
nomination was afterwards withdrawn, Mr. Loguen not being present, and
it being announced that he would not serve if elected.
Mr. Brown then moved to postpone the election of President for the
present. Carried.
The Convention then went into the election of members of Congress.
Messrs. A. M. Ellsworth and Osborn Anderson were elected.
After which, the Convention went into the election of Secretary of
State, to which office Richard Realf was chosen.
Whereupon the Convention adjourned to half-past two, P. M.
2 1-2, P. M. Convention again assembled, and went into a balloting for
the election of Treasurer and Secretary of the Treasury. Owen Brown
was elected as the former, and George B. Gill as the latter.
The following resolution was then introduced by Mr. Brown, and
unanimously passed:--
_Resolved_, That John Brown, J. H. Kagi, Richard Realf, L. F. Parsons,
C. P. Todd, C. Whipple, C. W. Moffit, John E. Cook, Owen Brown,
Stewart Taylor, Osborn Anderson, A. M. Ellsworth, Richard Richardson,
W. H. Leeman and John Lawrence be and are hereby appointed a Committee
to whom is delegated the power of the Convention to fill by election
all the offices specially named in the Provisional Constitution which
may be vacant after the adjournment of this Convention.
The Convention then adjourned, _sine die_.
J. H. KAGI, _Secretary of the Convention_.
NAMES OF MEMBERS OF THE CONVENTION, WRITTEN BY EACH PERSON.
William Charles Munroe, President of the Convention; G. J. Reynolds,
J. C. Grant, A. J. Smith, James M. Jones, George B. Gill, M. F.
Bailey, William Lambert, S. Hunton, C. W. Moffit, John J. Jackson,
J. Anderson, Alfred Whipple, James M. Buel, W. H. Leeman, Alfred M.
Ellsworth, John E. Cook, Stewart Taylor, James W. Purnell, George
Aiken, Stephen Dettin, Thomas Hickerson, John Caunel, Robinson
Alexander, Richard Realf, Thomas F. Cary, Richard Richardson, L. F.
Parsons, Thomas M. Kinnard, M. H. Delany, Robert Vanvanken, Thomas M,
Stringer, Charles P. Tidd, John A. Thomas, C. Whipple, I. D. Shadd,
Robert Newman, Owen Brown, John Brown, J. H. Harris, Charles Smith,
Simon Fislin, Isaac Holler, James Smith, J. H. Kagi, Secretary of the
Convention.
CHAPTER III.
THE WORK GOING BRAVELY ON--THOSE COMMISSIONS--JOHN H. KAGI--A LITTLE
CLOUD--“JUDAS” FORBES--ETC.
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