The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser

FACTS.

The Convention which nominated General Gibbs was composed of less than fifty persons, among whom was no inconsiderable number of State and United States' office-holders.

And yet this body is styled in the Patriot, "a General Republican Convention of Delegates from the several towns in the State." Had the Convention been full, it would have contained seventy-two members, the number of Representatives in the General Assembly.

On the first balloting for a candidate in lieu of the Honourable James Fenner, who declined a nomination, General Gibbs received only thirteen votes--on the second ballot, he received eighteen, on the third twenty-two, and on the fourth and last, thirty-eight--From these facts, derived from "One of the Convention," who has stated them in the Newport Republican, the freemen will readily infer the degree of unanimity that prevailed in the nomination of General Gibbs. The first ballot alone is the true test of the estimation in which he was held, the others being the result of the coercive machinery of a caucus to produce unanimity. It remains to be known whether the independent electors of Rhode-Island will sanction a nomination made by thirty-eight individuals, twenty-five of whom were, in the first instance, opposed to the very man whom they now intrude upon the people as the candidate of the whole Republican party.