. Historic days in Cumberland County, New Jersey, 1855-1865 : political and war time reminiscences . cket tobe voted for in November. No record of this conventionappears in the BridgetDii ])apers (ither than a paragraphstating tliat a Republican ticket was nominated consistingof the following: For Senator—Benjamin Rush Bateman, of Fairfield. For .Assembly—First District, Robert More, of Hope-well : Second District, Philip Souder, of Deerfield. For Coroners—James M. Riley, of Bridgeton; Syl-vanus Tubman, of Downe: Thomas Corson, of Millville. Ilic call for the comention was signed bv TamesHampt
. Historic days in Cumberland County, New Jersey, 1855-1865 : political and war time reminiscences . cket tobe voted for in November. No record of this conventionappears in the BridgetDii ])apers (ither than a paragraphstating tliat a Republican ticket was nominated consistingof the following: For Senator—Benjamin Rush Bateman, of Fairfield. For .Assembly—First District, Robert More, of Hope-well : Second District, Philip Souder, of Deerfield. For Coroners—James M. Riley, of Bridgeton; Syl-vanus Tubman, of Downe: Thomas Corson, of Millville. Ilic call for the comention was signed bv TamesHampton. James Al. Riley, G. IL Leeds. It is presumedthat the men who met in the court house in 1835 and thosewho met in the Sessions Room at Shiloh, .August 18. 1856,were self-constituted delegates to this convention. Theeditors of the two Bridgeton papers were on the fence, andfor fear that they might lose a little advertising or otherlocal patronage they carefully avoided publication of theresolutions or proceedings of the convention. In the afternoon at 2 oclock, George William Curtis, (10). GROUP OF FOUNDERS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY-l^v, Hon. Benjamin Rush Dr. William Elmer David P. Mulford Archibald Minch Isaac Elwell Dr. Enoch Fithiao John S. Bonham(11) 12 lUSroUU DAVS of New ^Iork, afterward editor of Harpers Weekly, ad-dressed a mass-meeting in behalf of the principles of thenew ly organized party. He was an able speaker, and stirrectlie hearts of his iiearers by his pungent references to thesla\e power. Tiie campaign was short but enthusiastic, and tlieDemocrats were at their wits end to circumvent the argu-ments of the woolly heads as they continued to term thefollowers (.)f Fremont anil Dayton. On the day the nominations were made a parade wasformed and marched thmugli the streets of Bridgeton. Itcontained a large wagon in which were thirty-two youngladies dressed in white, one for each State of the Union andone for the territory of Kan
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