New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . eated opposed filibustering andthe taking of fees from debtors to be given an Aristocratic Chancellor that he might enjoy asalary of five thousand dollars per year, whilegovernment by the court of chancery and the forc-ible retention of State offices was also S. Olden was nominated. The Democrats, after five ballots scatteredamong seven candidates, selected Edwin V. as their nominee for governor. The plat-form declared against the revival of the slavetrade, called for a union among the members oft
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . eated opposed filibustering andthe taking of fees from debtors to be given an Aristocratic Chancellor that he might enjoy asalary of five thousand dollars per year, whilegovernment by the court of chancery and the forc-ible retention of State offices was also S. Olden was nominated. The Democrats, after five ballots scatteredamong seven candidates, selected Edwin V. as their nominee for governor. The plat-form declared against the revival of the slavetrade, called for a union among the members ofthe party who had divided upon the question ofthe Lecompton Constitution, and in generalterms demanded equality among citizens. The re-maining candidates were Thomas H. Herring,Alexander Wurts, Charles Skelton, Joseph , George Sykes, Charles Sitgraves, and PeterD. Vroom. The contest gave Charles S. Olden a majority of1,601 in a total vote of 105,029, while the Legisla-ture elected comprised a Democratic Senate, anda House of Assembly in which there were thirty. 400 NEW JERSEY AS A COLONY Democrats, twenty-eight Republicans, and two Americans. Across the giant stage of American politics themighty events of the years had moved. Brookssassault upon Sumner, Walkers filibustering ex-pedition to Nicaragua, Kansass two constitution-al governments, the Dred Scott decision, the ad-mission of Oregon, the Lincoln-Douglas debates,and the raid by John Brown at Harpers Ferryhad followed one another in rapid, blinding suc-cession. It was, as seen now, a part of the destinyof the republic, a part of that plan which, now un-folded, had yet to be disclosed—a plan so vast,so stupendous, that its workings yet aifect, andever will affect the lives of men. (end of volume three) JOHN BROWN. r, ^ laoa MAR 3 1902 I
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