The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . w the movement to makeit unanimous. Then succeeded a period of speechmak-ing, in which Wilmot and Williams spoke for Pennsyl-vania. The former showed in his speech the strain andapprehension caused by the disagreements in his , in the name of God and of Justice, he exclaimed,can we not carry Pennsylvania? Williams said thatthe candidate was nothing—the principles were every-thing. He knew the people of his section, and knew thatthe platform alone of his part
The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . w the movement to makeit unanimous. Then succeeded a period of speechmak-ing, in which Wilmot and Williams spoke for Pennsyl-vania. The former showed in his speech the strain andapprehension caused by the disagreements in his , in the name of God and of Justice, he exclaimed,can we not carry Pennsylvania? Williams said thatthe candidate was nothing—the principles were every-thing. He knew the people of his section, and knew thatthe platform alone of his party, could triumph there,without thinking of the candidate. He appealed to Phila-delphia to rally for the ticket. The Minute Men of Bos-ton appealed to them, and shall they not have a response,as in the days of the revolution? He expressed himselfcertain of the cause in Pennsylvania. He spoke veryeloquently, and was enthusiastically applauded.^ Before Ex-Governor W. F. Johnston got 2 votes. 2 The ¥lorth American and United States Gazette, June 20, 1856. The reportin the New York Tribune is quite different and not so DAVID WII^MOTHalftone of a print in the Congressional Library, afteiby M. H. Traubel a lithograph REPUBLICAN AWAKENING AND RAILWAY WARFARE 299 the convention closed Mr. Wilmot reported that no con-clusion had been reached by the conference with the con-vention in New York. On the 20th the Americans, or Know Nothings, insession at New York, by a council, changed their nomi-nee for President to agree with the Republicans, andmade it Fremont and Johnston (W. F.), instead ofBanks and Johnston. In a few days thereafter , finding the resentment of the Know Nothingsof western Pennsylvania against the Republican refusalto meet them half way so very great, wrote Mr. Greeleya letter of inquiry as to possibilities of compromise on theVice-Presidency, and also enclosed a letter to ChairmanMorgan of his own committee. Mr. Greeleys letter is asfollows: New York
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