Details of the Cotton Township, Switzerland County, Indiana Democratic Meeting for March 1840 appeared in:
Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat – 4 April 1840 – Page 2, Column 4.
COTTON TOWNSHIP
Democratic Meeting.
Pursuant to notice given in the Vevay Times, a large number of the Democratic Republican citizens of Cotton township met at the School House in Allensville, on Saturday, the 28th instant.
The meeting was organized by appointing WILLIAM McCULLOUGH, President, WILLIAM FISHER JR., and MICHAEL DUNNING, Vice Presidents; and P. S. SAGE, Secretary.
The object of the meeting was then stated by the President; when on motion, it was
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to draft resolutions, expressive of the sense of the meeting. Whereupon Robert Bovard, and Hiram Buttles, were appointed said committee. The committee retired for that purpose, and after a short absence, reported the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted by the meeting.
Resolved, That we heartily concur in the propriety of holding a County Convention in the town of Vevay, on the 25th day of April next, for the purpose of nominating Democratic candidates for the State Legislature, and that we will give our undivided support to the nominees of said Convention.
Resolved, That we look upon the present embarrassed and prostrate condition of our State, as the direct offspring of Federal Whig misrule, and wanton profligacy, which calls loudly for reform—that the public usurpers may be driven from power, and our once flourishing State restored to her former prosperity.
Resolved, That we unanimously respond to the nominations made by the State Convention, held at Indianapolis on the 8th day of January last, of Tilghman A. Howard for Governor and Benjamin S. Tuley for Lieut. Governor, and that we will use all honorable means to promote their election.
Resolved, That we have as yet seen no cause to sever the unabated chain of confidence reposed in the wisdom, integrity, and Democratic principles, of the President and Vice President of the United States, Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson, and therefore will give them our hearty support for another term.
Resolved, That we view the well conducted press, as the great safeguard of our republican institution, and the best possible medium through which to convey to the people the glorious principles which we sustain and cherish. And whereas, the whig party have taken active measures for the circulation of the Lawrenceburgh Beacon, and other opposition papers, through this township until after the Presidential election, therefore
Resolved, That every Democrat in this township be requested to use his exertions to extend the circulation of the Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat, for the same length of time, On motion
Resolved, That twenty-five delegates be appointed to represent this township in the Convention to be held at Vevay, on the 25th day of April next. Whereupon the following gentlemen were appointed said delegation:
- Robert Bovard,
- George Stoops,
- P. S. Sage,
- Michael Dunning,
- Nicholas Sedam, sen.,
- Reuben Brookens,
- Henry H. Sedam,
- Benanuel Hoag,
- Simon Hageman,
- William McGuffin,
- William Melick,
- Horace Ayers,
- Isaac Vanatter,
- Andrew Hodges,
- Daniel L. Livings,
- John Lewis,
- William Fisher, jr.
- Harvey Littlefield,
- Hiram Buttles,
- William Sedam,
- Christopher Peelman,
- John Keeney,
- Michael Sedam,
- Charles Humphrey,
- David Seward,
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the President and Secretary, and published in the Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat.
WILLIAM McCULLOUGH, Pres’t.
P. S. Sage, Secretary.