urpose of nominating candidates for President
and Vice President of the United States."

OHIO--Thos. H. Ford, J. H. Baker, B. S. Kyle, W. H. C.
Mitchell, E. T. Sturtevant, O. T. Fishback, Jacob Ebbert, Wm.
B. Allison, H. C. Hodges, L. H. Olds, W. B. Chapman, Thos.
McYees, Charles Nichols.

NEW HAMPSHIRE--Anthony Colby.

CONNECTICUT--Lucius G. Peck, Jas. E. Dunham, Hezekiah Griswold,
Austin Baldwin, Edmund Perkins, David Booth.

MASSACHUSETTS--Wild. S. Thurston, Z. R. Pangborn.

ILLINOIS--Henry S. Jennings.

PENNSYLVANIA--Wm. F. Johnston, S. C. Kase, R. M. Riddle, T. J.
Coffey, John Williamson, J. Harrison, S. Ewell.

RHODE ISLAND--E. J. Nightingale.

MICHIGAN--S. T. Lyon, W. Fuller, W. S. Wood, P. P. Meddler, J.
Hamilton.

WISCONSIN--D. A. Gillis, John Lockwood, Robt. Chandler, G.
Burdick, C. W. Cook.

IOWA--L. H. Webster.

THE ELECTION OF BANKS--THE SLAVERY QUESTION.

One of the issues in the Presidential contest now going on, is the
_slavery question_. A. O. P. X. Y. Z. Nicholson, of the Washington
Union, who canvassed this State in opposition to Scott, and shed his
_crocodile_ tears before every crowd he addressed, because so good a man
as Fillmore, who had stood firm for the _rights of the South_, had been
set aside by an ungrateful Convention at Baltimore, to give place to
Scott, the favorite of _Seward_--this miserable hypocrite, we say, now
comes out and says, "Fillmore's abolitionism will suit the North."

The Central Democratic Committee for East Tennessee, in a call for a
District Convention at Clinton, in May last, through the _Knoxville
Standard_, conclude said call in this language:

"The time has again arrived when the national Democracy must
rally to their country's call and preserve the Constitution as
it is in its purity, and perpetuate the union of the States
from the rain which the _Black Republican Party of the North_,
aided by THEIR KNOW-NOTHING ALLIES OF THE SOUTH, would bring
upon them. By order of the

"CENTRAL COMMITTEE."

The _Sag-Nicht Convention_ held at Somerville, on Thursday the 8th of
May, and which selected D. M. Currin as their Electoral candidate,
adopted the following resolution:

"_Resolved_, That we have been appointed by the Democracy of
this Electoral District to organize to fight, in the coming
Presidential election,