. Historic days in Cumberland County, New Jersey, 1855-1865 : political and war time reminiscences . icket tobe voted for in No\-ember. No record of this conventionappears in the Bridgeton papers other than a paragraphstating that a Republican ticket was nominated consistingof the following: For Senator—Benjamin Rusli Rateman. of Fairfield. For Asseml;)ly—First District. Robert More, of Hope-well ; Second District, Philip Souder, of Deerfield. For Coroners—Jaines M. Riley, of Bridgeton; Syl-vanus Tubman, of Downe; Thomas Corson, of Millville. The call for the conxention was signed by JamesHamp
. Historic days in Cumberland County, New Jersey, 1855-1865 : political and war time reminiscences . icket tobe voted for in No\-ember. No record of this conventionappears in the Bridgeton papers other than a paragraphstating that a Republican ticket was nominated consistingof the following: For Senator—Benjamin Rusli Rateman. of Fairfield. For Asseml;)ly—First District. Robert More, of Hope-well ; Second District, Philip Souder, of Deerfield. For Coroners—Jaines M. Riley, of Bridgeton; Syl-vanus Tubman, of Downe; Thomas Corson, of Millville. The call for the conxention was signed by JamesHamptim, James M. Riley. G. H. Reeds. It is presumedthat the men who met in the court house in 1855 and thosewild met in the Sessimis 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 achertising 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-K.^ Hon. Benjamin Rush Kateman Dr. William Elmer David P. Mulford Archibald Minch Isaac Elwell Dr. Enoch Fithian John S. Bonham(11) 12 IIISTOHIC DAYS of New York, afterward editor of Harpers Weekly, ad-dressed a mass-meeting in behalf of the principles of thenewly organized party. He was an able speaker, and hearts of his iiearcrs l)y his pungent references to theslave power. Tlie campaign was short but enthusiastic, and theDemocrats were at their wits end to circum\ent the argu-ments of the woolly heads as they continued in term thefollowers of hremont and l)ayt(.in. On the day the nominations were made a parade wasformed and marched through the streets of Bridgetou. Itcontained a large wagon in which were thirty-two youngladies dressed in white, one for each State of the Lnion andone for the territory of Kansa
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