ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1838
Abstracts 1457 - 1459
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS· Cleveland & Cuyahoga (Cont'd)
3d, That the Barr faction has been got up by the administration party
for the purpose of dividing the Whigs of this county.
Resolved, That the proceedings be signed by the Chairman and Secretary,
and published in the HERALD AND GAZETTE. Abner Nelson, Chairman. John
Barnum, Secretary. (verbatim) (4)
1457 - H&G Sept. 25:2/3 - At a meeting held at lohn Melton·s in Mayfield
on the 20th inst., for the purpose of discussing the Whig cause, Harvey
Sheffield was called to the Chair, and Ezra Eddy appointed Secretary.
Wm. B. Lloyd, Esq. was called upon, and addressed the meeting.
Ebenezer Abbot, Will istor Murphey, and Orrin Chase were appointed a
Committee to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting.'
The following resolutions were reported and adopted:
Whereas, The prosperity, the happiness, and the glory of this country,
depends on the success of Republican principles, which all true Whigs
have for years been laboring to maintain and whereas there is no safety
but in union, therefore, Resolved, That as true Whigs we are resolved to
sacrifice personal preferences in relation to Representatives to the
next General Assembly on the altar of publ ic good, and wi 11 most hearti ly
unite in supporting the regular nominated Whig ticket.
Resolved, That the foregoing be signed by the Chairman and Secretary,
and published in the HERALD GAZETTE. H. Sheffield, Ch' n. E. Eddy,
Sec'y. (verbatim) (4)
1458 - H&G Sept. 29; ed:2/2 - We like to witness the "fitness of things"
even in the motto on a political banner under which either frier.ds or
enemies rally. Appropriateness in all things, say we.
The front window of the COllrt House is ornamented today wi th a transparency
covered with pictures of all manner of creeping things as magnified
by Dr. Weldon's Microscope of some millions magnifying power.
"The Microscope, an excellent one, too, is within, where the patent
democrats hold their convention today, and will doubtless be of great
service in magnifying the prospects, numbers, and qualities of the great
family of subservients, in this County." (2)
1459 - H&G Sept. 29:2/2,3 - The Whigs of Independence met at the House
of Wm. H. Knapp on the 21th Sept. 1838, agreeable to previous notice,
Jonathan Fisher Esq., was chosen chairman and E. M. Gleason Secretary.
Wm. B. Lloyd was called on and addressed the meeting. The following
Resolution was unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That inasmuch as the County Convention held in Cleveland
on the first inst. was composed of honorable and enlightened men we most
cheerfully approve the nominations made by that convention for county
officers and particularly for Representatives to the General Assembly,
and that we will use all honorable means to promote their election.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the
Chairman and Secretary and published in the HERALD AND GAZETTE.
Jonathan Fisher, Chairman. E. M. Gleason, Sec'y. (verbatim) (3)
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