member of the legislature and of the convention of 1821, and as having for a long time held the office of circuit judge of the first circuit. Judge Edwards, in his letter accepting the nomination, reviews the action of political parties in this state, and animadverts with some severity on the conduct of both the great parties.

At a convention held at Beardsley's hotel, in Albany, in the month of October, by the anti-renters, on the subject of state officers, they resolved to support John Young for governor, and Addison Gardiner for lieutenantgovernor. Mr. Evans attended this convention in behalf of the national reformers. A committee of that party had addressed letters to the whig, democratic, and liberty party candidates for governor, inquiring of them, respectively, whether they were for or against the leading doctrines of the reform party. To those letters Gov. Wright and Mr. Young had either returned no answers, or answers which were not satisfactory; but Mr. Bradley and Mr. Chaplin, the liberty party candidates, had made answers which met the approbation of Mr. Evans and his friends. Mr. Evans, therefore, was for nominating Mr. Bradley, or for repudiating all the candidates then before the public, and making an independent nomination. Several of the anti-renters (and it is presumed these were democratic anti-renters) were in favor of nominating a new candidate, but Mr. Wm. B. Wright, a member from Sullivan county, earnestly urged, in an elaborate speech, the nomination of Mr. Young: among other things, he affirmed that if Mr. Young was elected, he would pardon the anti-rent convicts. From the ballots given at this convention, the number of those who took part in its proceedings must have been small. A correspondent of the Young America

states that the result of the balloting was 20 votes for John Young, 7 for Benton A. Thomas, and 3 for Henry Bradley.

It is said that efforts were made by many of the dem ocratic anti-renters to nominate Mr. Wright instead of Mr. Young, and that he was earnestly pressed by some of them to give some assurances that he would, at a.. early period, pardon those who had been convicted ir Delaware and Columbia counties, and that he declined to make any intimations as to what his future action on that subject would be. For this reason, it is further asserted, the democratic anti-renters were compelled to give him up. That something of this kind did take place we have little doubt; nor do we doubt but that some of the radical friends of Gov. Wright made efforts to induce the anti-renters to nominate him. But the antirent convention was held in Albany, where Mr. Ira Harris then resided. He enjoyed the full confidence of the members of the convention, and was an avowed friend of Mr. Young. Is it not reasonable to presume that his opinion, together with that of Mr.W. B. Wright, had a controlling effect in the selection of a gubernatorial candidate by the convention, which was mainly composed of farmers and workingmen from the country? It has also been stated, in several public newspapers, that Judge Harris had in his possession a letter from Mr. Young, which at that time, or at a subsequent period before the election, he exhibited, in which Mr. Young expressed an opinion that those convicts ought to be pardoned, and that if elected he would pardon them. We do not know that such was the fact, but, as we have just remarked, it was so charged in severa newspapers, and never to our knowledge denied, either