{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3567", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "V arv. kim:-\\nS J. o K ,SJ V^ S\\n.0^\\n^V f^ ^v^ .r-^-.-^^\\no\\no V\\nS o^\\nx\\nSI S- te#.- S-\\no\\nt^ o o C\\n4 o\\ny c ^o\\n^oV\\n-^^0^", "height": "3417", "width": "1957", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "-3^--.\\n^y^Vr/^^\\nv v I*;:\\nf:\\n^_\\n.-^^xr.\\n-n.o^\\n^^F V\\n-^--0^\\n4 O\\nV\\ny A3 V\\nJ: A A* .0\\n.V\\n.4 o.", "height": "3402", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3422", "width": "1916", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "CAUCUSES OF 18 GO.\\nJr:\\ni HISTORY\\npiitioniil f 0liticiil (ilJtfurijntion!^\\nCURRENT PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN:\\nCO.AIPLETE RECORD OF THE BUSINESS OF ALL\\nTHE CONVENTIONS;\\ny j\\n^KETCHES OF DISTINGUISHED MEN IN ATTENDANCE UPON THEM.\\nAND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MOST CHARACTERISTIC\\nSCENES AND MEMORABLE EVENTS.\\nCompiled from the Correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial, written\\nOn the Circuit of the Conventions, and the Official Keports.\\nj^\\nBy M. HALSTEAD,\\nXS EYE-WIT.NESS OF THEJI ALL.\\nCOLUMBUS:\\nFOLLETT. FOSTER AND COMPANY\\ni 8 G\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ih", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "D.TfV", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nIf I have a prejudice against or partiality for any political party,\\nsuch that I am incapable of taking an impartial view of its proceedings,\\nand of telling the truth of it irrespective of the antagonisms, that de-\\nmand concealment on the one hand and perversion on the other, I ara\\nunconscious of the fact.\\nI know that in making the Circuit of the Conventions, in the\\ncapacity of a journalist, I endeavored to pursue the path of candor\\nand that this was not only my personal feeling but the policy of the\\njournal with which I am connected.\\nIn the first letter of the correspondence from which this publication\\nis largely made up, I promised to remember in my writings of the Con-\\nventions the entreaty of Othello, concerning information to be des-\\npatched from Cyprus to Venice\\nI pray you, in yeur letters,\\nWhen you shall these unlucky deeds relate,\\nNothing extenuate,\\nNor set down aught in malice\\nI should consider the displeasure and hostile criticisms of partisans of\\nall persuasions and organizations, the best testimony that I have kept\\nthis promise. M. H.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPage\\nThe Charleston Convention 1\\nThe Constitutional Democratic Convention at Charleston 97\\nThe Baltimore National Constitutional Union Convention 104\\nThe Chicago Convention 120\\nThe Constitutional Democratic Convention at Richraonil 154\\nThe National Democratic Convention at Baltimore 159\\nInstitute Hall -Secedcrs Convention 217\\nThe Second Richmond Convention 231", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION.\\nThe Hon. Stephen A. Douglas was the pivot individual of the\\nCharleston Convention. Every delegate was for or against him. Ev-\\nery motion meant to nominate or not to notninate him. Every parlia-\\nmentary war was pro or con Douglas.\\nOn the route to Charleston, delegates and others who were proceed-\\ning to attend the Convention, talked about Mr. Douglas. The ques-\\ntions in every car and at every station, were Would he be could he\\nbe? should he be nominated? Could he get a majority of the Conven-\\ntion could he get two-thirds Would the South support him if he\\n.should be nominated? Would the Administration acquiesce if he were\\nnominated\\nNOTES BY THE WAY.\\n[The following extract from a letter written at Atlanta, Ga., April\\n17th, will give an idea of the spirit of Southerners when en route for\\nthe Convention\\nAtlajsiTA. Ga.. April 17th.\\nWe had interesting political talk on the cars this evening. Two\\nGeorgians were disputing as to the strength of Douglas in the State.\\nOne, a Charleston delegate, said he would not do. He might possibly\\nvote for him if nominated, but it would be with great reluctance. He\\ndid not know but one man in favor of Douglas in his district. The\\nother had been defeated as a candidate for Charleston delegate. He\\nsaid Douglas men were thick as blackberries all through the region\\nfrom which he came. Douglas would carry the State by twenty thou-\\nsand majority. Let him be nominated, and there will be such a war-\\nwhoop as never was heard in the land. The same man said the old-\\nline Democrats of Georgia were for Douglas, and the old-line Whigs\\nand the Americans, turned Democrats, were against him. This man\\nwas asked if he believed in Douglas s doctrine of popular sovereignty,\\nwhich was uo better than Abolitionism, and he said he went the whole\\nof it and he was backed up by a Douglas man from Kentucky.\\nThe Georgians and Kentuckians generally, on the train, considered\\nthat it would nut do at all to run Douglas. Some man must be run\\nwho would unite the party somebody not obnoxious to any section of\\nit .somebody who had not been so recently as Douglas fighting side by\\nside with the Black Republicans against the one and indivisible De-\\nmocracy.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "[Tlifi followinp; from a letter written nt Social Circle, Georgia, on the\\n18tli Apiil, is still farther illustrative\\nSociAT, CiRCLK. Oa.. April 18th.\\nWe h;ive h;id warm times among the delejijates to the Convention\\npinoe cur stop hero. A conversation coninu Dced at the dinner talile\\nahout Duu^ las. There wa.s a delei^ate from Indiana and an mitsider\\nfrom KcnMicky. sitting very near a couple of Mii^sis.^-ippians, delegates,\\nfriend.-; of JifF. Davis, and fire-eater.\u00c2\u00ab. as we term them. Some\\nprivate whi.-ky was pa. jsed. and the Miss ssippians drardc to the\\nhealth of the nominee. The que.-tion was asked whether that in-\\ncluded O .iiglas. IMississippi said he did not consider him in the ring\\nat all. He [Douglas] had no chance of being the nominee, and there-\\nfore, wlien he diank to the health of the nominee it did not include\\nhim. The Douglas man ihoutjht Doui^las should he included, and nro-\\nceeded to say that if he was nominated he must have the support\\nof the entire Democratic patty. A man ciaild not go into a Ccnvon-\\ntinn and then holt the notiiinee if not pleased with him not at all, cer-\\ntainly not with honor. Now, the ]Mis is ippiaiis do intend to holt\\nDouglas if he is nominated, atid hence they were touched, and toi k\\nfire. The controversy ran high. The Indianian was asked what he\\nmeant hy Southern fanatics and fire-caters an express on he had\\nused and he said, such men as Jeff. Divis. This was foui liiiig\\nthe Mi.^,-is ippians on a tender point. They demanded very explicitly\\nto know in what respect Davis was fatiatieal and the spccitications\\nwere rather vague. Mississippi wanted to know whether Davis had\\never dccnanded any thing hut the riglits of the South, and if so, what V\\nand ^aid th t certain alh gations made against the conservatism of Davis\\nwere mere falsehoods. Indiana claimed the same right to criticise Da-\\nvis that Mi sissippi had to criticise Douglas. Mississippi denied that.\\nDavis was a patriot, and Douglas was a traitor, d d little hotter\\nthan Scward that was the difF.-rence. Indiana talked i^hout fighting\\nthe hattles of the South in the North, and all that sort of thing. Mis-\\nsissippi did not thank the Northern Di niocracy- for d.iing any such\\nthing. J he South was able to fight her own hattles, and to protect her\\nrights. She could do this out of the Union, if not in it. Indiana\\ntalked ahout returning fugitive slaves, and Mississippi laughed scorn-\\nfully. .Vnd as the pirties had to either het or fight, a het of one thou-\\nsand ilollars was made on the spot. The Mississippian het that Doug-\\nlas would not receive the electoral vote of that State if he were nomi-\\nnated. The Fo iglasitc bet liiat he would. If Douglas is not nomi-\\nnated at Chares on, the stakes are, of course, to he withdrawn The\\nfeeling excited by this conlroveisy, was warm and general. The dele-\\ngates who did not mix in. shook their heads and talked of stoiniy times\\nahead, and the peril in which the party would be placed. It was man-\\nifest that if the Mississippian and the Imlianian were joint repic.-enta-\\ntive men of their sections, there was little chance for tiie nomination of\\na candidate who could, by any possibility, be elected, or of the cou-\\nTlii* bi t wM wlltidrawn at tlio foliciUtion of mutual friciKLs from Kentucky.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "3\\nstrncMnn of a platform tliat wnulil be even fuperfi(;ijilly (satisfactory.\\nThe Mississi|)piatis utnlersfood theinselves tu liu of tin; clasH that riic-\\ntate-s dtut.r me to the Democratic pirty, and talked as if the party was\\ntheir property, peculiar, at that, and ratlier a worn (mt old rii;: ^er,\\nwelcome to die. Indiana talked of love for ihe puriy, and devofiuti to\\nit., and a determination to support the nominee, whot-vcr he mii -|it he.\\nMis8is-ippi talked of principle, and damn the party, if it was not\\nplaced ^({aarely upon principle. In other words, if the party was not\\nto serve the S.)Uth, its mission was a c()iiipli ht d. My Indiana fiii-nd\\nwas, I think, astonished to hnd a real live specimen of fire-eater and\\nwas rather emharrassed hy his discovery.\\nJ hiive dwelt on this scene thus fully, because it is a preliminary\\nsymptom of the Charleston C( nveniinn, and is, indeed, the hisioiy of\\nthe Convention in miniature and wanting the cliuiax. While the war\\nwent on, the Kentucky delegation, quiet, suhstantial gt-ntlemcn. who\\ndon t want office, and would not have ir, stood back, and talked in bns-\\niness-like style of the great merits as a man and availihili y as a candi-\\ndate, of their fiietid, the Hon. James Guthrie. The Jlississippians\\nhave the Kreeport speech of Douglas with them, ar.d intmd to hdin-\\nbard hitn in the Convention with ammunition drawn from ir. The ex-\\ntract upon which they depend most, i^ that in which lie said no matter\\nwhat may be the decision of the Supreme Court, the people of a Ter-\\nritory could abolish slaveiy while in a territorial condiiion. Tli(ywill\\nUse this remorselessly. However great may Im the weight of (he Doiw-\\nlas men in the Convention, he will he assailed mo.st bitttrly. The fi-ht\\nagainst hiin involves, for a very large class of Southern politicians^\\nindeed, the most influential class of the time the i.-sues of lift-, :ind\\nthose Southern men have a great advantage over the Dou^ilas men in\\nthe fact that they are sincere. They have prineiples. They stand up-\\non convictions, ami will tight until fiom thiir hones the flesh be hacked.\\nThe Douglas men. are not so st,ff in iheir hacks nor so strong in the\\nfaith. Ill a conversation with an Alaliama delegate to-day. I told him\\nI presumed the South would have to put up with another platform t apa-\\nble of a double construction he declared that inij o. ^sihle. I irquiied\\nDon t you see the Douglas delegates don t agree with you, and\\ncan t and won t agree with you? Do )ou not know that if they went\\nhome to make a fight on the platform }ou in.-ist fhiy shall place them-\\nBelves upon, th(y would lie hiaten in every Noithun Stale and ev\u00c2\u00bb ry\\nNorthern township, and that the m.ij u lty against them in all the North-\\nern States would only he counted hy tens of thou.-andsV\\nNo, he did not know any such thing. M;iyor Wood w:is a sound\\nman, and had cariiLd the city of N w Yoik. He was as sound its any\\nSouthern man. Connecticut would have I een cirriid hy the D. mofiu-\\ncy if there had not heen so niurh pm iering to Dougla.-i.-m. The way\\nto flight, a battle was to fight it on pr nciplc. If the North was not wil-\\nling to stand squarely up for the Constitution with the Si. nth, it was\\nhigh time the fact were known. This camp lign was the test can pai ;n.\\nIt must be foujiht on principle. There tnust be no Douglas dodoe,-\\nno doiilde construetioi s no janus-tact d lying lefolutions no rionhle-\\ntongued and doubly damned intiing with ilie people. The pe( pie were", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "entitled to a fair fight, and must have it. What was the Democratic\\nparty for if it was not for the vindication of the great constitutional\\nprinciples upon which our governmental fabric rests? I stated I had\\nfor some time t^trongly suspected that the Democratic party was an or-\\n(\u00c2\u00bbrtnization for the purpose of obtaining federal offices in other words,\\na political corporation like a great lottery company for the distribu-\\ntion of the spoils. I thought that I could safely speak for the party in\\nthe North, in that respect. lie repudiated, with indignation obvious-\\nly sincere, too all idea of the spoils. He was for Southern principle;\\nand if the Democratic party was not for them it was against them and\\nif it was a spoils party, the sooner it was destroyed and sent to the devil,\\nthe better. As for the popular sovereignty doctrine, it was as bad as\\nSewardism it was the real practical Black Republicanism doctrine it\\nwas the veritable short cut as Gov. Wise said in his Donnelly let-\\nter to all the ends of Black Republicanism. If the Republican\\nparty leaders had half sense (he said), they would adopt the Squatter\\nSovereignty platform at Chicago. It was the Chicago, not the Charles-\\nton card.\\nI thought so too, but the difficulty was, the Republican leaders hadn t\\nhalf sense, and couldn t see their game. His confidence in their polit-\\nical sagacity was far greater than ni-ine.\\nThe chances of Mr. Douglas for the Charleston nomination, were\\nnext in order. I spoke of the great pressure that would be brought to\\nbear from the North, for Douglas. He said the nomination of Douglas\\nwas not a possibility. He put the case in this way The North has\\nhad two Presidents. The South is willing, so far as she is concerned,\\nthat she shall have another one. But the South will not allow the\\nNorthern man, who, of all men claiming to belong to the Democratic\\nnarty, is most obnoxious, to be the candidate. The South has to per-\\nform the principal part in the election of the President; and her feel-\\nint^s must be respected. The nomination of Douglas would be an in-\\nsult to her, which she must resent by defeating him at all hazards.\\nAnd liere our coversation subsided into observations concerning cypress\\nswamps, the inky Edisto river a ditch fifty yards wide, filled with black\\n^yter the lofty cypress trees the yellow pines the live oaks the\\nSpanish moss making the wilderness venerable the white sand ^^the\\nred clay, etc., etc.\\nrL.\\\\CE3, PKUSONS AND POLITICS IN CHARLESTON BKFORE TTIK CONVEN-\\nTION.\\nThere was in Charleston, as usual in such cases, much that was im-\\nportant in the business preliminary to the Convention, and there are\\nniiiny phices in the city intensified with the Convention in interest.\\nAmon those places, jierhaps the most interesting are Institute Hall,\\nwhere the Convention was held, and Ilibernia Hall, which was the\\nDouglas head-quarters.\\nCUAKLESTON. April 20tl).\\nThe Institute Ilall where the Convention is to be held, will contain\\nabout ihreo thousand people. The floor is perfectly level, and the seats", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "are all old-fashioned, wooden-bottomed chairs, whicri have been indepen-\\ndent of each other heretofore, but which are now being screwed hy the\\nhalf-dozen to pine planks placed acro.ss the bottotn. There is u good\\ndeal of gaudy and unceiith ornamentation altout the hull. The frcHCO-\\ning is mere daubing. The principal ofFnt in art i.s inimediatoly over\\nthe stage. Three highly colored but very improperly dressed females\\nare there engaged. One seems to be contemplating matters and thing:-!\\nin general. Another is mixing colors with the apparent intention of\\npainting something. The other is pointing with what seems to be a\\ncommon bowie-knife, to a globe. The point of the dagger is plunged\\ninto the Black Sea. It may be held to be according to the proprieties,\\nthat the continent which is outlined most conspicuously on this globe is\\nmarked Africa. There are rooms behind the stage, and two private\\nboxes above it.\\nThe Hall is situated on the principal thoroughfare and near the bus-\\niness centre of the city. The Hibernian Hall the Douglas head-quar-\\nters is situated on the same street, a square and a half distant. This\\nbuilding has two large halls, and is two stories in height. The first\\nfloor is divided into two small rooms and one spacious hall, where a\\ngigantic bard of Erin is holding a harp, such as was heard in Tara s\\nHalls before the soul of music fled. Tbe smaller rooms are furnished\\nwith long tables, plenty of chairs and writing materials, and a large\\nsupply of Sheahan s Life of Stephen A. Douglas. The second floor is\\none large hall, and is full of cots for the Northwestern delegations.\\nThei-e are several hundreds of them, with white spreads and pillows.\\nThey are arranged in rows and sections, numbered and marked for the\\ndiflTjrent States.\\nThe Douglas men are to be found for the most part at the Mills\\nHouse. The fire-eaters congregate at the Charleston. The spa-\\ncious passages and public rooms about these houses are already swarm-\\ning with politicians. It must be admitted that the Southerners have the\\nadvantage in per-^onal appearance. The strong men of the South are\\nhere in force, as they always are upon such occasions. There is sufii-\\ncient wisdom among the oligarchy to be represented in Congress and\\nConventions by men of experience and intellect, and they attain weighty\\nadvantages in this way.\\nThe arrival at the Charleston Hotel to-day, is that of the Hon. W.\\nL. Yancey of Alabama, the prince of the fire-eaters. He is the man\\nsaid to be charged with a three days speech against Douglas. He is a\\ncompact, middle-sized man, straight limbed, with a square built head\\nand face, and an eye full of expression. He is mild and bland in man-\\nner as Fernando Wood, and has an air of perfect sincerity which Wood\\nhas not. No one would be likely to point him out in a group of gentle-\\nmen as the redoubtable Yancey, who proposes according to common re-\\nport to precipitate the cotton States into a revolution, dissolve the Union\\nand build up a Southern empire. The strong point made against him\\nby the Douglasites is that he is a disunionist It will not frighten hitn,\\nnor his Southern friends, however, to apply that epithet to him. I very\\nmuch doubt whether the Douglas men have a leader competent to cope\\nwith him in the coming fight. It is quite clear that while the North", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "mny l e ?tron!rost in vrtoa here, anrl the most noisy, the South will have\\nthe in ellc ut iini the pliiuk to iiiiike its pnirits. I dn not tl)ink uny iin-\\nporta iiin of DmivhiH m n can prevent the Convention from wearing\\na ?-ouiliuin aspect, as ihe Mercury, of this city, said it must. Prom-\\ninent in the crowd at the Mills Hi. use, is the burly foiin of the far-\\nfamed Geo. N S IkKts, New Yolk navy agent. The poliiiL-ians here\\nare fond of inqiiring whether he feels eoiiif ortalile ahout tlie neik, it\\nbeing rumored tiiat the President is about to remove him fur his audac-\\nity in coming down here as a Douglas man.\\nThere are a greaf m;iny men of distinguished personal appearance to\\nbe seen ahout the hotels, as usual during National Conventions, speak-\\ner hip contists. and other times of extraordinary comim)ti( n among pf)I-\\nitieiaiis. A huge numl)er have the jieneral characteristics of fir t class\\ngamblers, an l th i probahiiity is, there are keepers of the playful animal\\nknown as ye tiger to he found in this vicinity. There are great\\nportly fellows, with pntfuberant stomachs and puffy cheeks, red fore-\\nhead.-), hair thin and grizzly, dressed in glns.sy black and fine linen, with\\nthe latest st\\\\le of stove-pipe hats, and ponderous gold-headed canes\\nperspiring and smoking, ami engaged in mysterious conversations, con-\\ncerning cincus stratagems, of intense interest to themselves. Every\\nbody is talking about the Convention, and prophesying and wondering\\nas to its action. The Dougl.isites claim jirodiginus things. Jhe ultra\\nSoifhern men sneer at the idea of Doujilas s nomination, and itxiuire\\nWhere was he two years ago? and answer the question thetnselves\\nCaucusing with Seward leagued with the Black Republicans\\nagainst a Democratic Administrati(m. They say his pretenses in the\\nLecompton rebellion were false, and that his subsequent talk proves\\nthem to be so. Ttiey say bis line of policy then, if honestly followed,\\nwould have carried him where John W. F orney is now into the ranks\\nof the liepubjiean party. The Dou; ;las men generally respond by\\nspeaking of their champion facing dreadful mobs of lilack Repuldieans,\\nand gaziiij; into the mouths of pistols, in defense of the riijhts of the South.\\nThey inquire further, whether Illinois has not always been true to the\\nD. moeratie party. I heanl this question put to a fire-eater, and he said,\\nDid nt lllinoiselect a Black Republican Governor V Who was Bis-\\nsellY The resjionse of tlie Douglas man was, that Bissell was not\\nnot elected by a majority vote. Jhe Southern rejoinder was: Dd\\nDoiighis have a iiiaj .rity of the pnj)ular vote in his Senatorial eontest\\nwith Lincoln? And the Douiilasi e come back with a broadside, di-\\nrected at the Danites, or Administration men, who gave Lincoln aid\\nand comfort. And so the battle rages along the whole line.\\nThe Douglas men came down here from their head-quarters In Wash-\\nington, where whisky flows like a river.\\nI ike fome Ta.st river of unfailing source\\nlOiniJ, exIiaustltMis deeii,\\nthey were full of enthusiasm rampant and riotous hot as mon-\\nkeys iind procdaim th;it the universal world is for the Little Giant.\\nThey b:ive a desperate fight before them, and are brim full of the sound\\nand fury of boablfulnesa.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "THE DOUGLAS DEMONSTRATION SENATOR 6LIDKLL.\\nCiiAui.ESTON, S. C, April 2lKt, 1860.\\nThe principal hotels swurm like hives this iiiornitig. Tlie greatest\\ncrowd is at the IMills ILiUMe, which is the Diiiglas head-quarteis The\\nair is full of tobaecostiidke aixi riiiiiors. There is nothing detiriite to\\nbe found Oit. The private cmsukation rooms are the cent. e-i of inter-\\nest, but it is impossible to arrive at results. The fiiends of Douglas\\nare by no means disposed to talk about their second choice. They\\nswear they have none, and will stick to Dug while the hair is on their\\nheads. Tliey won t, however. M;my of them wouM be weary after\\ntwo days baUoting. Ttie Admini tration and Southern U. S. Setiators\\nscout the idea of the success (\u00c2\u00bbf Douglas. They considtr his defeat a\\nforegone conclusion. Slid\u00c2\u00ab U was urged last week to come ilnwn and\\nattend to the extermination of his enemy, but said at first, he would not\\nfor theie was no danger of the nomination of the obnoxious individ-\\nual. The Douglas men made such demonstrations in Wn.-hington,\\nhowever, an(i indicated such power and confidence, that Old Hou-\\nmas, as hL- enemies style him, concluded to come. He will be here\\nthis evening, and will operate against Douglas. He is a mai^:;hles8\\nwire -worker, Jind the news of his approach causes a flutter. His ap-\\npearance here means wur to the knile. It means also, that the Admin-\\nistiation is uneasy on the Douglas question and feel constrained to\\nexert every influence against the Squatty Giant of Illinois, whose nom-\\nination would be perdition to Buchanan, Slidell Co.\\nThere is not, however, for the moment, so much bitterness of denun-\\nciation in the talk of the Southern delegates here, as there was on the\\nroad. The Douglas element is so powerful, that it would be indiscreet\\nto exasperate it. And the Dougla.-ites repeat very few of those dis-\\nparaging words so familiar in their mouths at home, about the Southern\\nfire-e.iters and fanatics. They sing low and roar gently about Southern\\nseclionaliMii. All these ill humors must, however, have their breaking\\nout in the heat of the Convention. In these jiiping times of private\\ncaucuses, the bad blood is diplomatically preserved for home consump-\\ntion.\\nTUE DAY PRECEDING THE CONVENTION DOUGLAS STOCK UP.\\nCharleston, S. C, April 22d.\\nThe run of the current this morning is Douglas-ward. The friends\\nof Douglas are encouraged by the events of last night. In the first\\nplace, the Executive Committee adjourned sine die, without repudia-\\nting the action of Judge Smalley, the Chairman, in issuing tickets to\\nthe Cagger, Ciissidy and Dean Richmond New Yorkers, and to the\\nDouglas Illinois delegation. Fernando Wo d and Ike Cook and their\\ndelegations are full ot wrath, and denounce Smalley in extreme terms.\\nThe fight in the Executive Committee on the question of adjournment\\nsine die, was a small fight between the Douglas ;ind Anti-Douglas men,\\nand the former triumphed by one m^j irity. The Committee, however,\\nwas not full, only eighteen States being represented. This sends Doug-\\nlas stock up this Uioruing. Another thing is, the Southern dtlegationa", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "have held caucnsop and consultations for two or three days, to try to\\nagree upon a c-nndidnte upon whom to concentrate their vote, and upon\\nthe points of the platform. They had a special meeting last night and\\nfailed to accomplish any thing, except to exhibit their incapacity to come\\ntogether. The game of the Douglas men, just now, is one they are\\nnot well qualified to play. It is to be quiet and conciliatory. They try\\nto think and act upon the presumption, that they have the Convention\\nin their hands, and wish to make all the friends they can in the South.\\nThey say, and it is possible there is some truth in it, that the failure of\\nthe South to unite, arises from secret Douglas influences. The ultra\\nSoutherners aie becoming more bitter. The delegations from Georgia,\\nAlabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas and Texas, have\\nagreed to withdraw if Douglas should be nominated, and it is believed\\nthat a portion of the North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri\\ndelegations would follow. The Douglas men look a little wild at this,\\nbut say they don t care, and console themselves by assuming that this\\ncourse on the part of the South would be great gain to them in the\\nNorth. They assert their ability to carry all the Northern States, if\\nthis Southern withdrawal should take place. The South is not unwil-\\nling, if it fails to control the Convention, so far as to defeat Douglas,\\nto accept the hazard. The ultras have no doubt of their ability to\\ncarry six or eight, perhaps more. Southern States.\\nThey expect Douglas then to carry enough Northern States to carry\\nthe election into Congress, where they have no doubt the Senate would\\nfinally be called upon to elect. In case of the nomination of Douglas by\\nthe Convention, and the withdrawal of the Southern ultras there would\\nbe a desperate battle fought in the ultra Snuthern States between the\\nslave code and Douglas Democracy and it might do the fire-eaters\\ngreat good to be whipped in that way upon their own ground. They\\nhave, however, unlimited confidence in their ability to carry their own\\nStates.\\nSeveral incidents occurred last night to raise the spirits of the Doug-\\nlasites.\\nThe majority of, the Pennsylvania delegation is against Douo-las\\nand proposing in the caucus last night that Pennsylvania should vote\\nas an unit in the Convention the Douglasites rebelled, and threat-\\nened to leave the caucus room if the movement of the majority were\\npersisted in, whereupon the caucus adjourned, to meet at nine o clock\\nto-morrow morning, when the majority will experiment again on givino-\\nthe vote of the State solid. The prospect of attaining this solidity, is by\\nno means flattering. On the other hand, in the Indiana delegation,\\nthe Dnuglas majmity triumphed, and the stiff-necked Adminishalion\\ndistrict delegates, Develin of Wayne, and Tabot of Marion, knocked\\nunder, and agreed to go with their Douglas brethren and cast the vote\\nof the State as a unit My opinion still is that the chances are against\\nthe nomination of Douglas. I can see how he can get a majority vote\\nbut I cannot figure out a two-thirds vote for him. The tide of affairs\\n18, however, favorable to him to-day, and the capacity of the prcsuiijnf\\nand vrliciiicnt bearers of the political fortunes of the Little Giant to\\nrealize their prophecies, may be very great.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "THE NIGHT BEFORE THE CONVENTION.\\nChaulkston, S. C April 22- 10 P. M.\\nThe excitement in the city to-night is higher than heretofore. The\\npoliticians are in full blast. I think Douglas stock, which wont up a\\nlittle this morning, is now drooping.\\nPassing l ^in im iHa Hall this evening, I saw the Douglas delegation of\\nCongressmen from Illinois, seated mournfully on the steps. Their na-\\ntive resolution seemed sicklied o er by the pale cast of thought, and to\\nhave lost the name of action. They were pensive and silent. There\\nwas Logan with his dark, narrow face, and black hair and eyes, gazing\\nupon one of the pillars, his hat tilted far back on his head, his hands in\\nhis pockets, and his mouth full of tobacco. There was Col. McCler-\\nnand, with peaked face, running to a hooked nose, sadly playing with\\nhis watch-guard. Presently there was Richardson, the Douglas leader\\nin the Cincinnati delegation, and the champion in the House of Repre-\\nsentatives, of the Little Giant, in the days of the Kansas Nebraska Bill.\\nPoor Richardson has had a hard time of it. He left Congress, where\\nhe might have been a fixture, and made the canvass for Governor of Illi-\\nnois against Bissell. He did this against his wishes, and to carry the\\nState, where his popularity with his party is second only to that of\\nDouglas. He was influential in carrying the State for Buchanan, but\\nlost his own election He was appointed Governor of Nebraska, and\\nresigned after the Lecompton rebellion, to escape removal. He is a\\nfine specimen of a strong, coarse man. He has an immense no.^e and\\nmouth, and fine eyes, and amid such scenes as are here being enacted,\\nhe is second to none as a, worker of sagacity and force.\\nThe Mills House, where Douglas men most do congregate, is as\\nlively as a molasses barrel with flies. Here is where the outside pressure\\nis brought to bear. It is here that public opinion is rej)resented ac-\\ncording to Douglas. Here they tell you Douglas must be the nominee\\nall that is to be done is to ratify the voice of the people. There\\nis nothing but a few ballots, and all is over Douglas the nominee\\nSouth will come down certain to be elected. The country safe the\\nparty safe. They only want a chance to raise the war-whoop for\\nDouglas in the North-west that s all. Carry every State North-west\\ncarry Ohio? Lord, yes! Carry Ohio by twenty thousand. If\\nsomebody suggests, but where are your figures How can you obtain\\nthe two-thirds vote requisite to nominate And half a dozen of the\\nmakers of public opinion tell you all about it. Every thing North is\\nclaimed of course, and you hear that on certain ballots, Kentucky, Mis-\\nsouri, and Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, California and Oregon,\\nare coming into line. And suppose Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia\\nand Louisiana, with scattering delegates in other States, go out what\\nthen? What? why tremendous gains in the North, to be sure,\\njust the thing we want. But if you suggest, Douglas stock is droop-\\ning a little this evening. It is not at the high mark it was this morning.\\nYou have enthusiasm enough, but you have not the votes. You are\\ntold, Not a bit of it. Douglas stock down not possible. It can t\\n0-0 down.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "10\\nThere is For God s sake Linder, of Illinois. TTo made a speech\\nlast niglir, in Hilicrriia Hall to the faithful, somothin^ jilfer the John\\nBrougli f tyle of uliqtience. Ilis lineti suffered in theiff.nt, and he has\\nnot l)eeri at |iaiiis to conceal the evidences of his enthu ia,-ni by the\\nproper change. Ilis collar and cravat have seen service evidently.\\nHe gets his name For God s sake Linder, from a letter which\\nDouglas once wrote him saying, for God s sake, Linder, come down\\nhere, I need hidp. Some enterprising editor obtained a cojty of the\\nletter, and printed it, atid it has not been forgotten. There is the en-\\nterpri ing firm of Faran McLean, looking solemn as the grave, and\\nbutton holeini; some lefiactory delegate, telling him how es.^entiai it is\\nto the safe y of the universe that Douglas shouhi be noniinaied. Tliey\\nof cour.-e don t feel any personal interest in tlie matter. They are af-\\nflicted with principle only. T. .leff Sherlock, Esq., is looking in upon\\nthe crowd, and don t thiidc Douglas can be nominated. He represents\\nthe Collec or s ofiTce, and the virtuous Douglas men, who don t want\\noffice, itiM-t that he is ncdjody because he is in offi(;e. And radiant in\\na full suit of white along comes W J. Flagg, E-q., legislator the\\nman who was so bold as to advocate the admission of fresh air info the\\nhall of a delilieraiive assembly in Ohio. It is clear tliat he is an inno-\\nvator, and iti the e times, when conservatism is so much in deujand, he\\nuju. .t be held to be dan ;erous.\\nPassing along we find a tall portly man in glossy black, with a bad\\nstoop in the shoulder?, a new stove-pi[)e hat retaining in places the\\noriginal shim;, a bright red face out of which look brilliant eyes, carry-\\ning in his right hand, as if it were a mace, a huge gold-heaiied cane\\nIt is Col. Orr. of South Carolina, late Speaker of the House, and now\\nsuspected of Douglas inclinations and of a willingness to be either\\nPresident or Vce President of the United States. He is in the midst\\nof a confi.lenrial talk with a burly, piratical looking person in a gray busi-\\nness suit, the sack coat making him look even more squatty than he\\nreally is. The features of this individual are a little on the buH-dog\\norder. He does not look like a man of much intellect, but is evident-\\nly a marked man a man of energy and perseverance, of strength and\\nstrategy. Ponderous as he is, he moves lightly. Fat as he is, he is\\nrestless, and as he smokes his cigar, he consu nes it with furious inces-\\nsant wh ff-i. Toe black whiskers are sprinkled lightly with fj^ay. It is\\nYoung America, otherwise Geo. Sanders. And, so, so, Mr. Orr, we\\nsee how the cat is jumping with you. You would have no objections\\nto be second choice of the Douglas men not a bit. Ytm would be\\nwilling to take the Vice Presidency at the hands of the Douglas De-\\nmocracy, wouldn t you? And, so, so, you got up a Convention in\\nSouth Carolina the other day, Mr. Orr. The Platform was a little too\\nstrongly anti-Douglas to suit you, but that could not be helfied. You\\ncould not do too much violence to the tiaiiitional leading Southern pro-\\nclivities of South Carolina. You did all you could. Your intentions\\nwere towani Donglas, and yourself, if you dared, you wouM, with\\nyour So\\\\ii|i Carolina delegation, make common cause with the I)ou -las\\nmen. iJut you dare not do that. And we leave you, Col. Orr, in the\\ncare of Geo Sanders.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "11\\nAt tbe Cbarlcpton ITouse we find another atmospliorc. TTcre are\\nthe fire-oaters in full force. We tiiii^s the prince of thon, Y.uici y of\\nAlabaina. II\u00c2\u00ab is not a man to talk coiifiiJcntially in en wil.s. He\\ndon t talk politics wiili or like the common herd. He may I e found in\\nthe [trivate parlor of the Alabama deh-gition. And then- is I aik.sdale,\\nthe Congies-man of iMi. -sit^sip|)i, with his hat pulled down ovi-r his\\nriu ht eye. He has a way of throwing his head on one side and turning\\nup his chin, and talking in a short sharp way, like a N w Yoik H hoy.\\nHe is thick set, Inoad shouhlered and short-legged. His cyf; is small\\nand fierce. The wliole country knows that he wears a wig for Potter,\\nof Wisconsin, kiioikid it iff once upon a time. ]Jut as fir a duel, be-\\nware of meeting Barksdale with bowie-knives! He knows how to han-\\ndle the implement and lias handled it. The fire eateis are talking about\\nprinciple. A Douj^las man or two have strayed down here, and are\\ntrying to explain that Douglas don t really mean any thing by popular\\nsoveieignty. He had to talk that pretty strong to get back to the\\nSenate. The people must be talked to violently about somelliing\\nmight as will say popular sovereignty to them as anything else.\\nDouglas would leave it all to the Courts at last. The Courts will fix\\nit all ri^ht. Let us drop this immaterial issue and go in fur tliu strong-\\nest niaii and his name is Stephen A. Douglas. The South listens\\nand commences What, and we must throw a bone to the Abolition-\\nists, must we, eh? We must coniproniise with Abolitionism in oicicr to\\nCarry the North must we We must take up an unsound man, or\\nlose the battle must we? No, sir. We have had too much of this.\\nIt is time the Democratic party took up sound men, and fought on prin-\\nciple, it is the best policy to fight on principle. Mayor Wood carried\\nNew York on principle. Connecticut would have been carried, if it had\\nnot been for the taint of Douglasism. Rhode Island victory! There\\nis no such thing. The Sewani Ref)ublicans and Douglas Democrats in\\nlihode I.-land united and beat a John Brown Helperiic. That s the\\nway of it. I tell you we can succeed without Douglas. He is the\\nweakest man out. But if he was strongest, I would not give a damn\\nfor a victoiy with him. I want the party destroyed if it is a one-man\\nparty. 1 want defeat if we can t have honest victory. No unfriendly\\nlegislation shall exclude our property from the Territories. We aiust\\nhave our property protected.\\nThis is not, by any means, an imaginary conversation. I have heard\\ntwo to-night that were in substance as 1 have set down here.\\nTo complete the rounds to-night, we must go over to King street,\\nand h. ok in upon the head-quarters of the Administration Senators es-\\ntablished luxuriously there, in a large old-fashioned building, overlook-\\ning and entered through an ice-cream garden, which, though this I9\\nSunday evening, is open to the public, and thionged by visitors. The\\nAdministration Senators tell us that they are not at all uneasy on the\\nsubject of the nomination of Douglas. They say he cannot possibly\\nget more than one hundred and six votes on the first ballot that his\\nstrength will never be as great as it was at Cincinnati after Pierce was\\nwithdrawn; th9t is, they say, if there is truth in men. But some-\\ntimes, and this is one of them, there is not truth in men. Douglas will", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "12\\nnot, I pro-ume, bo mmiitiated, but be will get more than one hundred\\nand six vutos._\\nThe Adininiistration Senators tell us Douglas is not to be the nomi-\\nnee cannot get one-half the votes nothing like it. If these Senators\\nare speaking the truth, then there are lies enough told at the Mills\\nHouse every day to sink a ship, if each one only weighed but an ounce.\\nAnd the Senators produce the figures. Douglas will hardly get a vote\\nfrom a slave State, unless it may be one or two from each of the States\\nof Maryland and Missouri. New York is dead against him. Neither\\ndelegation from that State is for him, and the State must vote as an\\nunit. But will it V Senators say yes. And Pennsylvania l Sena-\\ntors say Douglas cannot certainly get a vote from Pennsylvania. The\\nmajority of the delegation is for Breckenridge, and it is the Hunter and\\nGuthrie men who are strongest against State unity. But they will all\\ncome in every man and the State will be an unit against Douglas.\\nIt will all be fixed in the morning. And Senators say also that Massa-\\nchusetts is against Douglas dead and united against him and Maine\\nevenly divided. New Hampshire is for him, and waiting to have him\\nslaughtered, in order to introduce to the Convention the name of Frank-\\nlin Pierce. Senators are bitter. They are not only against the Presi-\\ndential aspirations of the Senator of Illinois, but they hate him most\\ncordially, and some of them swear vengeance.\\nThe full-faced gentleman without a vest, sittinq; on the corner of a\\nchair, and smoking a fragrant cigar in the contemplative style the gen-\\ntleman with long brown curling hair, parted in the middle is Senator\\nBayard, of Delaware, a distinguished lawyer and a Democratic partisan\\nof long standing. He could do his State some service, by belping her\\nto get rid of slavery, but he is a pro-slavery man. He is a descendant\\nof the illustrious Chevalier Bayard, the knight without fear or reproach.\\nSenator Bayard is a handsome, courtly gentleman, who is personally a\\ngoodly man to know.\\nThe heavy, closely-shaven gentleman, with yellow vest, open, that\\nits wearer may have the benefit of the breeze the gentleman leaning\\nagainst the railing, in his chair, looking like a business man more than\\na Senator (if we may be allowed such a distinction), is Jesse D. Bright,\\nwho has long been the king caucus of Indiana. Mr. Bright s hatred of\\nDuugbis is, perhaps, just now, the strongest passion of his soul. Doug-\\nlas voted to exclude him from the Senate, and their relations are those\\nof irreconcilable and deadly hate. It is reported that he swears he will\\nstump Indiana, county by county, against Douglas, if he should be\\nnominated.\\nThe rosy gentleman, with the farmer-like aspect, slightly inclined to\\nbe just fat enough to be sleek, and whose countenance is so placid that\\nyou would not imagine he had ever been crushed by Douglas in debate,\\nor become weak in the knees, and been guilty of wincing at Southern\\nthunder, the gentleman who has just ascended the stairs, and has thrown\\nbiinself into a perspiration, and who is alternately nuifiping with his\\nhandkerchief and fanning with his bat, is the Hon. William Bigler, of\\nPennsylvania. Within, seated at a round talde, on which books, news-\\npapers and writing material is scattered about, is a gentleman with long,", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "13\\ntliin white hair, through which the top of his head hlushes like the shell of\\na boiled lobster. The gentleman has also a cherry-red face, the color\\nbeing that produced bj good health, and good living joined to a florid\\nteuiperanient. His features are well cut, and the expression is that of\\na tbouLThtful. hard-working, resolute man of the world. lie is a New\\nYorker by birth, but has made a princely fortune at the New Orleans\\nbar. He is not a very eloquent man in the Senate, but liis ability is\\nunquestioned and it is universally known that he is with the present\\nAdministration, the power behind the throne greater than tiie throne\\nitself. Mr. Buchanan is as wax in his fingers. The name of this gen-\\ntleman is John Slidell. His special mission here is to see that Stephen\\nA. Douglas is not nominated for the Presidency. If I am not much\\nmistaken, he just now manipulated a few of the North-eastern men with\\nsuch marvelous art, that they will presently find they are exceedingly\\nanxious to defeat the nomination of Douglas, and they will believe that\\nthey arrived at the conclusions now coming uppermost in their minds in\\ntheir own way.\\nThere has been a great deal more drunkenness here to-day than here-\\ntofore. Most of the violent spreeing is done by roughs from the North-\\nern x\\\\tlantic cities who are at last making their appearance, i here\\nhave been a number of specimens of drunken rowdyism and imbecility\\nabout the hotels. And I hear, as I write, a company of brawlers in\\nthe street making night hideous.\\nLIST OF DELEGATES TO THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CON-\\nVENTION.\\n[From the Secretarj s Roll.]\\nThe following, furnished by the Secretary of the Convention to the\\nCharleston newspapers, is the most correct List of Delegates published.\\nThe list cannot be absolutely accurate, for the reason that some of the\\norio-inally accredited delegates never appeared and after the first day\\nof the Convention, changes were constantly being made\\nThos. Bradbury, Eastport.\\nGeorge F. Stapley, Portland.\\nE. Wilder Finley, Newcastle.\\nAmos M. Roberts, Bangor.\\nS. R. Lyman, Portland.\\nThomas K. Lane, Saco.\\nS C. Blanchard, Yarmouth.\\nCalvin Record, Auburn.\\nThomas D. Robiusou, Bath.\\nHenry W. Owen, Bath.\\nHenry A. Wyman, Snowhegan.\\nCharles D. Jameson, Bangor.\\nJ. Withrop Jones, Ellsworth.\\nP. S. J. Talbot, East Machias.\\nJ. Y. McCUntock, Belfast.\\nW. H. Burvill, Belfast.\\nJohn S. Robinson, Bennington.\\nJasper Rand, Berkshire.\\nHenry Key.s, Newbury.\\nE. M. Brown, Woodstock.\\nCharles G. Eastman, Montpelier.\\nPitt W. Hyde, Hydeville.\\nH. E. Stouahton, Bellows Falls.\\nStephen Thomas, West Fairlee.\\nLucius Robinson, Newport.\\nH. B. Smith, Milton.\\nNEW HAMPSHIRE.\\nJosiah Miuot, Concord.\\nDaniel Marcy, Portsmouth.\\nRobert S. Webster, North Barnstead.\\nGeorge W. Stevens, Dover.\\nAaron P. Hughes, Nashua.\\nEdward W. Harringtou, iManchester.\\nAlpheus F. Snow, Claremont.\\nAnsel Glover, Alstead.\\nWilliam Burns, Lancaster.\\nGeorge A. Bingham, Bath.\\nMASSACHUSETTS.\\nCaleb Gushing, Newburyport.\\nJas. G. Whitney, Boston.\\nOliver Stevens, Boston.\\nIsaac Davis, Worcester.\\nWm. C N. Swift, New Bedford.\\nEdward Merrill, New Bedford.\\nPhineas W. Lelaud, Fall River.\\nAlex. Lincoln, Hingham.\\nOrison Underwood, Miiford.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "14\\nBradford L V\\\\ ales, Randolph.\\nJames IliUiv. I! Sloii.\\nIsaac II VViiu lit. noston.\\nCornelius l) .li. r(y, Uoston.\\nK. S. Chiir.e Eist Cain -iridge.\\nE. G. Wi.li ims. Newburyport.\\nC. G. Clark. I.yni\\nF. O. Priiico. VViiirhcster.\\nGeo. Johnson, UraUford.\\nBrtij F niit cr. LowcjU\\nWalter Fes-e kIii!, Townsend.\\nHenry II s-cvihs, Dudley.\\nGeo. VV. Cill. Worcester.\\nC. W (;ha;jin, Springfield.\\nJosiah Allis, VVhatoiy.\\nD. N C^irpoiiter, Crtenfield.\\nCharles llcebuer, Lee.\\nCONNECTICUT.\\nJames T I ratt, Roek Hill.\\nSamuel Ari JId, Ilndlmi\\nAndrew I.i pitt, New London.\\nW U. Hisliop. Biidgeport.\\nA. G. Hissnl. Kiptield.\\nM. R. West. \u00c2\u00bbt*!lord.\\nE. Aug RussL-U Middlctown.\\nC M. Ingersol, New Haven.\\nWm. L. Coiverse. Norwich.\\nRufus L. Itjker. Windham.\\nJames G tllijrner. New Haven.\\nP. C. CalUoua, Uiid Report.\\nKHODE ISLAND.\\nWelconne B. Sayies, Providence.\\nCharles S B .\u00c2\u00bbd.ey, Hrovidciice.\\nGeorge H. IJrow.ie, Providt-nce.\\nJohn N. Fr.iiieis, I rovideiice.\\nEdward F. Newlo i. Newport.\\nAinasa .S triiic Providence.\\nGideon Braiilord l rovideiii,e.\\nJacob Babbit, Bristol.\\nNEW YORK.\\nDean Rich nond, BafTalo.\\nAugustus .S liell, ^ew York city.\\nIsaac V. I owler, N w York city.\\nDelos DoWolf Oswego.\\nWm. 11 Liidli.w, S.iyville.\\nTeuiiis lier^ei. Uai^ridge.\\nH. McLan{;;;ii i. Brook yn.\\nFrancis II. .spmola. Mrooklyn.\\nJohn Y Sava. e. New York city.\\nWin. Miner. New Vork i ily.\\nSamuel L M, nloiv. New York city.\\nJohn i;iaii y. New York i ity\\nIsaiah Ryi d rs. New York city.\\nEdmun I ltiij .;s, Uioiklyn.\\nJohn Cn(-lir.-i le, New York city.\\nAu. uste H I ii iMt, New York liry.\\nNelson J W iii, runry. New York city.\\nWin. N. M.li.t\\\\rr. N w York city.\\nEdward Cuo.er. New York eitv.\\nSamuel F. H ulerworth. Now York city.\\nGiiuvcrneur Keiililo. (^old Spririjjs.\\nEdwin (Jro ^vv 11. New York city.\\nBenjamin F. PM-iill, G ishen.\\nJohn Ilollcv, Monlicello.\\nWm. F. Rissell. Saiit crtics\\nGeo. Beat h Cairo\\nTheiidor(r iller I udson.\\nHenry Slaals, Red II. mk.\\nDavid L inoer. Troy.\\nMoHcs W.ineri, I riiv.\\nEniKtut Ciin.iiu A hany.\\nPeter Ca L-er. A I any\\nJohn TilciMiib. Wiiierf.ird\\nCharloK it In.-.ill^ Grcnwieh.\\nLomuol Stel-.oii i Ultbbuii;h.\\nHenry A. Tilden, New Lebanon.\\n.lames C. .Spencer, Ogdensburf.\\nLorenzo Cairyl, Sails lury.\\nAlonzo C. Paige, .Schenectady.\\nDavid Spraker. Oanajoharie.\\nSamuel North. Uiiadilla\\nAlevaiid. r H. Burhans, Roxbury.\\nJohn S ryker. Rome.\\nD. P Bis.-.el, Utica.\\nHenry S. Randall. Cortlandvillo.\\nJohn F Hubbard, jr., Norwich.\\nWillard Johnson, Fulton.\\nSidney T. Fairchild. Cazenovia.\\nD. C. West Lowville\\nAllen C. Bec; h, Watertown.\\nJames P. Haskin Syracuse.\\nJohn J. Peck, Syracuse\\nElmore P. Ross, Auburn.\\nJohn N. Kiiapp, Aunurn.\\nWm. W. Wrisht. Geneva.\\nDarius A. O^den, Peiin Yan.\\nHenry D. Barto, Trumansburgh.\\nCharles Hiilett, Horseheads.\\nC. C. B Walker, Corning.\\nA. J. Abbott, Genesee.\\nS. B. .fewett, Clarkson.\\nB. F. Gilkeson, Rochester.\\nMarshall B Champ ain, Cuba.\\nHeiiiy J. Glowacki, Batavia.\\nSa.iford E Church, Albion.\\nA. H Easinian, Lockport.\\nJohn T. Hudson, BulFalo.\\nAlpheus t niice, Clatence.\\nJo, in Devereux. EUicottville.\\nH. J. Miner, Dunkirk.\\nNEW JERSEY.\\nWilliam Wright, Newark.\\nBenjamin Williamson, Elizabeth.\\nJaaies W. Wall (absent), Burliii(ton-\\nJoim C RafTcrty. New Germault,wn.\\nSamuel Hanna, Camden.\\nJoh i L. Sharp, Miliville.\\nGeorye F. Fort. New E^ypt.\\nDavid Naar, Trenton\\nAlbeit R. Speer, New Brunswick.\\nJoshua Doughty, Somerville.\\nRiibert Ilamiiton, Newlon.\\nJohn Uu ler, Hackensaek\\nSaniunl Westcott, Jersey city,\\nJacob Vau Arsdale, Newark.\\nDELAWARE.\\nJohn H. Beverley, Smyrna.\\nWilliam H Ross Sealord.\\nJames A. Bavard Wilmington.\\nJohn B Pi;nniiigtoii, Pover.\\nWilliam G Wliiiely, Newcastle.\\nWilliam Saulsbury, Georgetown.\\nMARYLAND.\\nJohn Contee, Bucna Vista.\\nWilliam T. Hiiuiitoii, Ilugerstowrn.\\nLevin Wnolio.d, I riiuos Ann.\\nJohn R Ell o y. Otitreviile.\\nWm. S tiitiiiit. 3, Baltimore city.\\nSamuel S Maflit. lOlkton.\\nCarville S St msbury, Stemncr s Run.\\nWm. Byrne, Baltimore city\\nE L. F. Hardiastle, Ro\\\\ai Oak.\\nDaiiel Field, Fed ralsliuig.\\nRobert J Brent. Baltimoie city.\\nT M Linahan, B.i.tin.ore i ily.\\n-t- Brad ey Johnson. Frederick city.\\nJohn J. Morrison. Barton.\\nO ^rar Miles. Viie iowii.\\nWilliam D Bowie, Prime G, orgc county.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "15\\nVIRGINIA.\\nArthur K. Smith, Tortsmouth.\\nJohn J IviiidriH), Jerusalem.\\nLewis E. H;ii-vie, Chala\\nWm. F. Tliompsoii, Crimea.\\nWilliam II. Clark, Halifax Court House.\\nWalter Coles. I iltsv Ivaiiia Court House.\\nEdmund W. Hubard, Curdsville.\\nRoboit H. Glass, Lyiifhburg.\\nWilliam L. E^rly Madison Court House.\\nRobert A. (-O-hill, New Glasgow.\\nWalter D. Leake, Gooclilaud Court House.\\nJas. Hobhs, M uiehe. ter.\\nGeorge Booker. Hamplon.\\nM. W Fisher, EastviUe.\\nWm. A Bi.ekner. Uowling Green.\\nHenry T Gan.el t. Oak Grove.\\nJiimes Barbour. Brandy Station.\\nJohn Seddon, Fiedericksburg.\\nJohn Dlair Hose, Maitinsburg.\\n0. R. Funsten, While Post.\\nS. M. Yost, Stan itou.\\nS. H. Mollatt, Harrisonburg.\\nDaniel If Ho e. Bl:icksburg.\\nJames W. Davis, Greenville Court House.\\nRobert L. Crockett, Wythefille.\\nWilliam T. Cecil, Tazewell Court House.\\nHenry Fiizhugh. Kanawha Court House.\\nJohn Braniiou, Wosl(m.\\nWilliam G. Brown, Kingwood.\\nCharlts W. Russell, Wheeling.\\nNORTH CAROLINA.\\nWilliam W. Avery, Morgantown.\\nWilliam S. A.-he, v\\\\ilmingtou.\\nBedford Brown, Locust Hill.\\nWilliam H Holdeii Raleigh.\\nWilliim A Moore, Edenton.\\nNicholas M. Long, VVeldon.\\nRobert R. Bridytr.s, I aiboro\\nLotte W. Hutnpnrey, Richland.\\nWalter L. Steele, Rockingham.\\nJames Fulton, Wilmington.\\nThomas S Green. VVarrenton.\\nJ. W B. Watson, Sii.iihfield.\\nRobert D .ck, Greensboro\\nCharles S. U instead, Roxboro\\nSamuel Ilar^ rave, Lexington.\\nHampton B. Ilanmiond, Wadesboro\\nWillia.ri Lundeis. Lincolnton.\\nColumlms .Mill.s, Columbus.\\nHenry T. Fanner, Flat Rock.\\nSOUTH CAROLINA.\\nJames Simons, Charleston.\\nSamuel .MctJowan A lbeville Court House.\\nH. B. Wilson, Geo getovvn.\\nR. B. Boylston, Wmnsboro\\nJ H Witherspoon La-icaster Court House\\nE. W. Charles, Darlington Court House.\\nGeorge N. Reynolds, Charleston.\\nThoma-- Y Yimous. Chaileston.\\nJames Patterson, Barnwell Court House.\\nB. H Brown, Barnwell Court House.\\nArthur S m|)kiiis. E igefield Court House.\\nLemuil B J zer Leviigtou Court House.\\nB. F. Periy. Greenville.\\nJ. P. Rcid A iderson Court House.\\nJohn S Pre ton Columbia.\\nFranklin GaiUard, Columbia.\\nGEORGIA.\\nHenry L. B inning. Columbus.\\nJohn H Lumpkin. Rome.\\nIsaiah T irvvi i, VVasiiiiigton.\\nHenry R JicUson .Savannah.\\nJunius Wjajri .ld Eilo itoa.\\nULain VVaiuer, Gicenville.\\nSolomon Cohen, Savannah.\\nJames L Seward, Thornasvillo.\\nJulian llartridge. Savannah.\\nW B. Gaulden, Huntsville.\\nW. J. Johnson, Fort liaiiies.\\nJohn A. Jones, Columbus.\\nJames M. Clark, Lumpkin.\\nW M. Slaughter. Albany.\\nE. L. Stroccker, Macon.\\nP. Tracy, Macon.\\nO. C. Gibson, Griilin.\\nE J. McGehee. Perry.\\nJames J. Diamond Stone Mountain.\\nJ. A Render, Greenvi le.\\nSamuel C. Chaedlor, CarroUton.\\nG J Fain, Calhoun\\nE. R. H.irdm, Dalton.\\nJames Hoge, Atlanta.\\nMark Johnston, (;aitersville.\\nWilliam 11. Hull, Athens.\\nGeorge Uillyer. Monroe.\\nA A Franklin Hill. Aihens.\\nHenry P. Thomas, Lawrenceville.\\nL H. Brisco, \\\\lilledi;eville.\\nJell Lamar, Covin. ton,\\nJ. W. Burney, Monticello.\\nJames Thomas, Sparta.\\nL. A iN elms,\\nD. C. Barrow, Lexington.\\nII Cleveland, Augusta.\\nH. R. Casey. App.L.g.\\nFLORIDA.\\nT. J. Krpes, Apalachicola.\\nJohn .Nil It on, Mariinna.\\nB. F. Wardlaw, Madison Court House.\\nC E. Dyke. Ta laha. isee.\\nGeorge L. Bowne, Key West.\\nJames B. Owens, Ocala.\\nALABAMA.\\nF. S. Lyon, Demopolis.\\nA B. Meek Mobile.\\nD. W. Bayiie, Havneville.\\nW. L. Yancey, Montgoniery.\\nL. A Laiifler, Talladega.\\nJ. A. Winston, ^lobl.e.\\nL P. Walker, Huntsville.\\nH. D. Smiih, uraveley Springs\\nG. G. Gnllin, Demopoiis\\nN. H. R. Dawson Selma.\\nR. G. Scott, Claiborne.\\nJ W. p.irter, NeggsviUs.\\nL. L. Cato, Enfala.\\nT. J. Burnett, Greenville.\\nJ. R, Breare, Newton.\\nM. J Bulger, DadeviUe.\\nP. O. liar, er. West Point.\\nJ, C. B. Mitchell Mount Meigs.\\nW. C Vldver, Tuskeegee.\\nJohn Erwin, Gruensborough.\\nW. M Brooks, Maiion.\\nJ. C Guild I uscaloosa.\\nA. W. Dlliard, Livingston.\\nF (i Norman, Tuscumi ia.\\nR. M Patton, FJorcn c.\\nW. C. Slierrod i:ouitlai d.\\nR. Chapman, Hunisvil :e.\\nG. C. Bradley, llanisviUe.\\nT. B Cooper, entre.\\nA. J. Henry. Guntcrsville.\\nT J. Bradford, Talladega.\\nW Ganett, Bradlord.\\nP. G. King, Moiitevallo.\\nMISSISSIPPI.\\nW. S Barry, Columbm.\\nChirles i;rarke, Prentiss.\\nE. BarKsda.e, Jackson.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "16\\nW. S. Wilson, Port Gibson.\\nJames Urane, lianliston.\\nBeverly M.itthuws, Columbus.\\nP. M. Thomson, Houston.\\n\\\\V. II 11. Ti.sou Carroll ville.\\nJoseph R. Davis, Canton.\\nC. E. Hooker, Jackson,\\nJ. T. Sims, Delta.\\nD. C. Glenn, Mississippi city.\\nGeo. H. Gordon, Woodville.\\nARKANSAS.\\nJ. p. Johnson, Laconia.\\nT. B. Flournoy, Laconia.\\nN. Burrows, Van Buren.\\nF. A. Perrj-, W averly Po.st Office.\\nJno. J. Stiriuan, Dardauelle.\\nJno. A Jordan, South Iteud.\\nVan U. Manning, Hamburg.\\nK. \\\\Y. Uoudley, Little Kock.\\nKENTUCKY.\\n(i. A. Caldwell, Loui. ville.\\nU. P. White, tirceusburg.\\nJ. C. Mason, Owingsville.\\nR. K. Williaui.-J, .Ma.yiield.\\nWni. Bradley, Madisonville-\\nG. II. Morrow, Paducah.\\nLafayette (ireen, Fall. of Rough.\\nS. B. Greenfield, llopkinsville.\\n(i. T. Wood, Munfordsvilltj,\\nJ. A. Pinn, Pranklin.\\nS. B. Field, olumbia.\\nJohn S. Kindriek, Somersett.\\nR. Spalding, Lebanon.\\nW. B. Read, Hodgesville.\\nJohn Dishnian, liarbourville.\\nColbert Cecil, Fiketon.\\nWm. Garvin, Loui.-iville.\\nE. Dchaven, LaG range.\\nR. M. John.-;on, White Sulphur.\\nJ. B. Beck, Lexington\\nN. Green, New Liberty.\\nR. McKee, Louisville.\\nH. D. Helm. Newport.\\nR. P. Butler. Carrolton.\\nTEN NE83EK.\\nAndrew Ewing, Na.shville\\nJohn R. Howard, Lebanon.\\nJ. D. Atkins, Paris.\\nSamuel Milligan, (ireenTille\\nm. Ilunry .Maxwell, Jonesboro\\n.John D. Kiley, Rogersville.\\nThonia\u00c2\u00ab M. Lyon, Knoxville.\\nW. K. B. Jone.-i. Livingston.!\\n;eorge \\\\V. Rowlcs, Cleveland.\\nWilliam AVall;u-e, Maryvillc.\\nDavid Bunford, Dixon Springs.\\nJames M. Sheid, Manchester.\\nJohn McGavock, Franklin.\\nJamci M. Avcnt, Murfreesboro\\nRobert Matthews, Shelbyville.\\nL McClelland, Lewi.\u00c2\u00abburg.\\nThomas W. Jones, Pula-ski.\\nU C. Whittliorne. Columbia.\\nAlfred Robb, Clarksvillc.\\nThomfifl Meuecs, Springfield.\\nWm. H. Wall, Paris.\\nJames on nor, Ripley.\\nWill. H. Carrol, Memphis.\\n.Samuel McClonahan, Jackson.\\nMISBOnRI.\\nJ. It. Henderson, l/ouisiana.\\nW. J W. MclMiany, St. Charles.\\nK F. lAkf-maii, ilnnnibal.\\nG A. Sliorlri lge, lUooiuington.\\nJohn I\u00c2\u00bb. Clark, WaxUln^ton City, D. C.\\nAustin A. King, Richmond.\\nGeorge P. Dorris, Platte city.\\nJames Craig, St. Joseph.\\nWm. Douglass, Boonville.\\nN. C. Claiborne, Kan.sas city.\\nP. S. Wilkes Springfield.\\nJ. A. Scott, Elk Mills.\\nC. G. Corwin, Jefferson city.\\nJ. Men.se, Washington, Franklin county.\\nA. Hunter, Benton.\\nJohn O Fallon, jr.. Sulphur Springs.\\nJohn M. Krum, St Louis.\\nSam. B. Churchill, St. Louis.\\nA. C. Dodge, Burlington.\\nB. M. Samuels, Dubuque.\\nD. 0. Finch, Des Moines.\\nWm. H. Merritt, Cedar l{apids.\\nT. W. (^laggett, Keokuk.\\nJ. W. Bosler, Sioux City.\\nE. U Thayer, Mu.scatine.\\nW. U. M. Pusey, Council Bluffs.\\nWISCONSIN.\\nJohn R. Sharpstein, Milwaukee.\\nAlex. S Palmer, Geneva.\\nAlex. F. Pratt, Waukesha.\\nWm. A. Barstow, Jauesville.\\nJames H. Earnest, Shulsburgh.\\nOiarlea Whipple, Eau Claire.\\nPerry H. Smith, Appleton.\\nFrederick W. Horn, Cedarburg.\\nEdward S. Bragg, bond Du Lao.\\nJohn Fitzgerald, Oshkosh\\nMINKESOTA.\\nW. A. Gormans, St. Paul.\\nGeorge L. Becker, St. Paul.\\nIleniy H Sibly, Mendota.\\nA. J. Edgertou, Mantorville.\\nA. M. Fridlcy, St. Anthony.\\nJ. Travis Hostler, Maukato.\\nW. W. Phelps, Red Wing.\\nS. S. Marshall, McLeansboro\\n0. B. FicUlin. Charleston.\\nW. A. Richardson, Quincy.\\nR. T. Merrick, Chicago.\\nWm M. Jackson, Union.\\nJohn D. Piatt, Warren.\\nJohn B. Turner, Chicago.\\nA. M. Ilerrington, Geneva.\\nAllen \\\\Vithers. Bloomington.\\nR. E. Goodell, .loliet.\\nB. S. Prettyman, Pekin.\\nR. HoUoway, Monmouth.\\nW. H. RoUoson, Dallas city.\\nJames M. Campbell, Macomb.\\nMurry Mc(JonneU, Jacksonville.\\nIVm. F. Thornton, Shelbyville.\\nAaron Shaw, Lawreuceville.\\nW. F. Linder, Chicago.\\nS. A. Buckmaster, Alton.\\nZ. Casey, Mount Vernon.\\nW. J. Allen, Marion.\\nM H. Green, Metropolis.\\nOHIO.\\nGeo. ^V. McCook, Steubenville.\\nGeo. E. Pugh, incinnati.\\nD. P. Rhodes, (Cleveland.\\n\\\\^ashington McLean, Cincinnati.\\nHenry B. Bowman, Cincinnati.\\nCharles Rule. Cincinnati.\\nWesley M. Cameron, Cincinnati.\\nWilliam T. Forrest, Cincinnati.\\nA.. P. Miller, Hamilton.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "17\\nGeorge W. Tlouk, Dayton.\\nSabirt Soolt, St. Mary s.\\nJosbua TownseiiJ, Greenville.\\nJames U. S eedman, Toledo.\\nWui. Mungen, Findlay.\\nJ. B. Cockerill, West Uaioa.\\nT. C. Kennedy, Batavia.\\nDurbin iN ard, Lebanon.\\nW. M. SUrk, Xeiiia.\\nGeorge Speiice, Springfield.\\nR. E. Itunkle, West Liberty.\\nEdward F. Dickinson, Fremont.\\nAbner il. Jackson, Bucyrus.\\nThoma.s McNalley, Chilicothe.\\nWells A. Ilutchius, Portsmouth.\\nLot L. Smich, Athens.\\nE. F. Bingham, McArthur.\\nWayne Griswold, Circleville.\\nGeo. B. Smith, Newark.\\nThomas W Bartley, Mansfield.\\nJohn Tiffr, Norwalk.\\nJ. A. Marchand, Wooster.\\nJ. P. Jeffries, Woo.ster.\\nJ. G Stewart, Coshocton.\\nR. H. Nugen, Newcomerstown.\\nS. R. Hosuier, Zanesville.\\nW. \\\\V. Coues, (lincinnati.\\nJ. S. Way, Woodsfield.\\nW. Eaton, Morristown.\\n8. Lahm, Canton.\\nS. D Harris, jr., Ravenna.\\nH. B. Payne, Cleveland.\\nJ. W. Gray, Cleveland.\\nDavid Tod, Brier Hill.\\nD. B. Woods, Warren.\\nThomsis S. Woods, New Lisbon.\\nB. F. Potts, Carrollton.\\nINDIANA.\\nE. M Hunfington, Terre IIaut\u00c2\u00ab.\\nS. H Buskirk Bloomington.\\nRobert Lowry, Gc^hen\\nJames B Foley, Greensburgh.\\nJohn S. Gavitt, Kvansville.\\nSmith Miller. Patoka\\nJ. B Norman, New Albany.\\nS. K. Wolfe, Corydon.\\nP. Dunning, Bloomington.\\nH. W. Harrington, Madison.\\nJ. V Bemusdaffer, Greensburgh.\\nJohn Anderegg, Lawrenceburgh.\\nLafe Devlin, Cambridge i ity.\\nEdmund Johnson, Newcastle.\\nW. H. Talbot, Indianapolis.\\nJ M Gregg, Danville.\\nE Read, Terre Haute.\\nH K. Wilson, Sullivan.\\nL B. Stockton, Lafayette-\\nIsaac C. Ellston. CrawfordsTllle.\\nG. Hathaway, Lap rte.\\n8. A. Hall, Logansport.\\nP. Hoagland, Fort Wayne.\\nG. AV. Mc Connell, Angola.\\nWm Garver, Noblesville.\\nJohn R. luflroth, Huntington.\\nI.00I8IANA.\\nE. LiiSere. Now Orleans,\\nE. Lawrence, New Orleans.\\nF. H Hatch, New Orleans.\\nA. Talbot. Iberville\\nR. A. Hunter, Alexandria.\\nRichard Taylor. St. Charles Parish.\\nD D Withers, New Orleans\\nJohn TarUon, Bayou Bueff, St. Mary s Parish.\\nCharles Jones, Trinity.\\nB W. Pearce, Sparta, Bienville Parish.]\\nA Mouton, Vermilionville.\\nJames A llcHatton, Baton Rouge.\\nTEXAS.\\nH. R. Runnels, Boston.\\nE Greer, Marshall.\\nThos P. Ochiltree, Marshall.\\nM. W Covey, Jefferson.\\nJF. R Lubbock, Houston.\\nGuy M Bryan, Galveston.\\nJosiah F Crosby, Kl Paso.\\nF. S Stockdale, Port Lavaca.\\nMICHIGAN.\\nGeorge V. N. Lothrop, Detroit.\\nCharles E. Stuart, Kalamazoo.\\nH H. Riley. Constanline.\\nGeorge Perk, Lnnsing.\\nBeoj. Follctt, Ypsilanti.\\nFidus Livermore. Jackson.\\nJohn G. Parkhurst, Coldwater.\\nPhilo Wilson, anandaigua.\\nFranklin Muzzy, Niles.\\nAlex F. Bell, Detroit.\\nAugustus C Baldwin, Pontiac.\\nWilliam S. Bancroft, Port Huron.\\nOREGON.\\nLansing Stout, Washington, D. C.\\nJ. R l^merii k, acKsonville.\\nIsaac \u00e2\u0096\u00a0J Stevens, Washington, D. 0.\\nJustus Steinberger, Washington, D. 0.\\nR. B Metcalfe, Independence, Texas.\\nA P. Dennison, The Dalles, Oregon.\\nCALIFORNIA.\\nJ. Bidwell, Chico\\nG. W. Patrick, .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^ooora.\\nLewis R Bradley. Stockton.\\nAustin E Smith, San Francisco.\\nJohn A. Dreibellis, Shasta.\\nJohn S Dudley, Yreka\\nJohn Hains, Los Angelos.\\nD. S. Gregory, Monterey.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "18\\nFIRST DAY.\\nThe opening Scenes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Actors in the First Fight\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Cochrane\\nWilliam A, Richardson\u00e2\u0080\u0094 E. Barksdale\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Walker of Alabama-\\ndark oj Missouri Butler of Massachusetts.\\nInstitute Haix,\\nCliarleston, S. C, April 23d.\\nThe hour appointed for the meeting of the Convention was at twelve,\\nM. About eleven a deliglitful shower came up, which was quite wel-\\ncome, for the country has been suffering excessively from drouth, and\\nthe air was full of the hot dust of the streets. Orders were issued that\\nthe doors should not be opened until twelve o clock. That hour has\\npassed. The reporters are at their places, with piles of paper and\\nbunches of pencils sharpened at both ends. A boy is waiting, ready\\nto run to the telegraph office with dispatches. The delegates are pour-\\ning in and finding their places. About a dozen ladies occupy seats in\\nthe gallery, looking down with critical interest on the seething mass be-\\nlow. One-third of the space in the galleries is allotted to the ladies,\\nand the remaining two-thirds to the outsiders, whose occupation is the\\nmanufacture of public opinion. Each delegation has a certain number\\nof tickets for distribution among outsiders. They admit the holders in-\\nto the gallery. The hall is far more spacious, better ventilated, and\\nbetter arranged than that in which the Convention was held four years\\nago. The delegates are in groups all over the floor, talking and gestic-\\nulating as in all other conventions. The scene is very much like that\\nin the Hall of the House of Representatives on the opening day of a\\nsession of Congress. The men who, by their position upon the Execu-\\ntive committee appointed at Cincinnati, have to initiate proceedings, are\\nJudge Smalley, of Vermont, Chairman, and C. L. Vallandigham, Sec-\\nretary. Judge Smalley arises and calls the Convention to order. He\\nstates the business of the Convention with the utmost simplicity, omit-\\nting, as was agreeable to every body, the opportunity afforded of mak-\\ning an able and eloquent speech. He calls for the nomination of a\\nPresident, pro tern. Mr. Flournoy of Arkansas was nominated by\\nMcCook of Ohio. There was no opposition. A committee was ap-\\npointed to escort him to the chair. He stated upon assuming the chair\\nthat he should exert himself to produce a speedy organization of that\\nbody. As an earnest of his intention to proceed to business, he sat\\ndown. Thus two opportunities to make speeches were irrevocably lost.\\nMr. Flournoy is a gentleman at least six feet two inches in height, and\\nwould weigh two hundred and thirty pounds. He is a splendid speci-\\nmen of physical manhood, but is not troubled with too much brain.\\nThe next thing in order is a written sermon in the form of a prayer.\\nSome {)ortly, wliitc-headed, red-faced and gold-spectacled parson, from\\ntlie South, being called upon for a prayer, proceeds to recite one which\\nhe has written down and pasted in the cover of a book for the occasion.\\nThere are not ten men in the hou.se who can hear what he says and\\nthe fine, old, fat clergyman is pronounced an unmitigated bore. His\\nsolemn tone is worse than a stump speech would have been from the", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "19\\nrostrum. In case of the speech we might have had a few rahlilo-rous-\\ning sentences. As it is we have only a noise that is in the usuiil into-\\nnation of prayer. A Virginia delegate arises and makes a n(jiiiina-\\ntion of temporary secretary.\\nIt already appears that the hall is one in which it will be almost im-\\npossible to hear what is said. The street in front of the hall is paved\\nwith bowlders (Cincinnati fashion), and the incessant clatter of the\\nwheels is deafening.\\nMr. Fisher of Virginia tried to intrQduce a resolution, and to read\\nbefore introducing that resolution. It was well understood that this\\nwas a resolution respecting the contested seats of New York. John\\nCochrane rose to a point of order. An Alabamian and a Mississippian\\npitched in. Fisher of Virginia appealed from the decision of the chair,\\nwho had ruled him out of order. The chair was sustain* d by a roaring\\naye. Another struggle took place as to which should be appointed\\nfirst the committee on Credentials or on Organization. The object of\\nthe ultra Southerners was to exclude Illinois and New York from the\\ncommittee on Credentials and Organization. Richardson of Illinois,\\nand Cochrane of New York, disclaimed any desire to participate in the\\ncommittee on Credentials. They were not disposed, however, to give\\nup their places in the committee on Organization. In the course of the\\nstruggle on this point, it became evident that the weight of the outsid-\\ners was for the Douglas delegation from Illinois, and the Cassidy, Rich-\\nmond, Cagger, John Cochrane and Co. delegation from New York.\\nAt last the Convention came to a vote on a proposition that the conmiit-\\ntees on Credentials and Organization should be simultaneously appoint-\\ned, the committeemen on Credentials from Illinois and New York not\\nhaving authority to vote on the contested cases of their own States.\\nThe vote was taken by States. The proposition was affirmed, Virginia,\\nLouisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, and half of Cali-\\nfornia, voting no. Mr. Fisher of Virginia protested in behalf of his\\nState against the record, because the vote of New York, the delegates\\nseats being contested, h;id been taken. A resolution was offered by a\\nMississippian, that the New York and Illinois delegations be requested\\nnot to take part in the proceedings until the committee on Credentials\\nhad reported, and the contests had been settled. Payne of Ohio\\nmoved to lay this resolution on the table. A vote was taken by States\\non Payne s motion, and it prevailed by a heavy majority. This is a\\nvote which indicates that the Fernando Wood and Cook delegations\\nwill have to remain outside the Convention. Richardson of Illinois\\npronounced the contest in his State, the most frivolous and contemptible\\never heard of. The committees were appointed, and the Convention\\nadjourned. The noise of wheels on the streets was so great, that saw-\\ndust is to be heaped in front of the hall, to deaden the clamor.\\nThe ultra-South was guilty of a very foolish thing to-day. They made\\na bitter fight on a question, when there was no possible chance of doing\\nany thing. The Convention was against them six to one, and yet they\\nstruggled with as much energy as if they expected to accomplish some-\\nthing wonderful. In this way they lost prestige in the Convcntion.\\nThey threw themselves away without sufficient cause. If they continue", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20\\nthis style (if performance Douglas will be the nominee at last. I con-\\nsider his cliMnces augmented by the proceedings to-day. The Ike Cook\\nand Foniando Wood movement was in the preliminary stages utterly\\noverthrown. Several of the scenes of the fight were highly entertain-\\ning. Mr. Fisher, of Virginia, was picked out to make the onslaught.\\nHe is a slight gentleman, with a thin face and high, bald head, small\\nvoice on a high key, and more zeal than discretion. He was about to\\nbave a communication read, which every body knew was in reference to\\nthe New York contest, when a point of order was raised upon him by\\nJohn Cochrane, of New York, who is the brains of the Cagger-Cassidy\\ndelegation, a man of high order of ability, an accomplished and forcible\\npubli.; speaker, an old bachelor, and a man of the world. He is perfectly\\nat home in a parliamentary. fight, and has a splendid voice, which in a\\nnoisy convention is a gift, when coupled with brass, of the highest value.\\nCochrane is a large but not a big man, full in the region of the vest,\\nwears all his beard, which is coarse and sandy, trimmed short, and is\\nbald a blemish which he attempts to conceal by combing the hair that\\nremains at the sides over the barren region. Ilis countenance is bold,\\nbut not amiable, and there are assurances in his complexion that he is\\nwhat is known as a generous liver. In fact, he looks as though it would\\nrequire a very strong cup of coffee to bring him into condition in the\\nmorning. He is a fair type of the fast man of intellect and culture, of\\nthe city of New York, whose ambition is to figure in politics. He is in\\nCongress, as most of our readers know, and can command the ear of the\\nHouse at any time. His great trouble is his Free Soil Keeord. He\\nhad a very violent attack of Free Soil opinions some years ago. He\\ntook Free Soilism like a distemper, and mounted the Buffalo platform.\\nHe is well over it now, however, with the exception of a single heresy\\nthat of the Homestead law. He is for giving homesteads to the actual\\nsettlers upon the public land. He appeared to much advantage in the\\nConvention to-day, and his sonorous voice, imposing manner and parlia-\\nmentary tactics told with great force.\\nllichardson of Illinois made one of his earnest-toned speeches, vin-\\ndicating the Douglas delegation from Illinois. The Douglas men would\\nnot know what to do without him. From appearances, though there are\\nseveral gentlemen ambitious to lead the Douglas forces in this war,\\nRichard.s jn will overbear them all. He is a large, coarse, powerful man,\\nwith a harsh but distinct voice that is heard above the clamor of a Con-\\nvention, like a fire-bell over the clatter of engines in the street. He\\nevidently felt that there was a critical time to-day, whether there was one\\nor not, and was stalking up and down amono; the Douirlas delegations,\\nhis forehead furrowed with heavy wrinkles, his face glowing, his shirt-\\ncollar wilted down, his coat-cuffs rolled half-way up to his elbows, a palm-\\nleaf fun in his hand which he used spasmodically; and as he moved\\nabout, he pulled the wires here and there, encouraging this man to pitch\\nin and that one to subside. When he spoke he commanded universal\\nattention. And I venture to guess that whenever his broad shoulders,\\n.shaggy head and broad-axe nose is seen above the throng, and his voice\\nis heard he will have attention, for he is the strong man of the North-\\nwest, and a representative man, too. I remember well how he bore", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "21\\nhimself in the crisis of the Cincinnati Convention, when T\u00c2\u00bbU(h:inan\\nbavin a in;ijority vote, the dispatch from Doughis directed io Uich-\\nardson wr-s read, withdrawing liis name. Richardson s hclinvior was\\nvery manly then. And now, if Douglas should get a majority vote,\\nRichardson will revive the recollection of tlie scene which I liave just\\nmentioned, and demand the same consideration for Douglas that he\\nshowed Buchanan. It is likely that Buchanan would have hcen nomi-\\nnated at any rate, but the Douglas dispatch and Richardson s speech\\nmake up a precedent that the Douglasites will be happy to put to the\\nConvention. It is doubtful, however, whether they ever get that far.\\nThey will, however, if the South does not behave better than she did\\nto-day.\\nTbe spokesman of Mississippi was E. Barksdale, editor of the Mis-\\nsissippian, and brother of the Congressman. He is not so large a man\\nas his brother, V)ut has more brains. He is hardly up to the middle\\nsize, but is well put together, wiry, and active as a cat. He has not a\\ngood voice for a turbulent crowd, as it is rather sharp and wants iiody;\\nbut he is game to the backbone, as they say. His face would in-\\ndicate a man of unusual amiability, if it were not for the sarcasm in\\nhis smile, and a mischievous glimmer in his eye. He is, perhaps, tbe\\nmost fierce of the fire-eaters, but did not exhibit any very striking qual-\\nities as a tactician to-day.\\nThe most conspicuous of those who resisted the current of the day\\nwas Walker of Alabama, a tall, gentlemanly man, with long pale face\\nand high forehead, whose health is feeble, and who so exhausted him-\\nself in forcing the chair and the Convention to hear him, that he had\\nnot much to say when he had the ear of the Convention. He was de-\\ntermined not to be chocked down. At first he stood upon his chair,\\nand the noise being so great that he could not be heard, he took a posi-\\ntion in front of the seals on the vacant space between the Convention\\nand the chair, and finally mounted the Secretary s desk near the plat-\\nform upon which the chairman sits, and the Convention seeing that he\\nwould occupy the time until heard at every hazard, consented to bear\\nhim.\\nClark of Missouri pushed himself into the fight, and seemed to have\\na mission to perform, which the Convention could not appreciate. He\\nwould have some qualities of a strong speaker if his words had not a\\nway of becoming bungled in his mouth, and coming out in confusion,\\nand in a mutilated condition. I imagine Clark had a notion that he\\nwould be able to save the fire-eaters fiom the blunder they were com-\\nmitting in making hopeless fight. But he was incapable of curbing\\nthem. Mr. Clark is the man who introduced the Helper book resolu-\\ntion into the House in December last, and to whom Helper sent a copy\\nof his affectionate production, bound in Russia. A little old dapper,\\ncomical fellow from Pennsylvania, tried several times to put in his\\njaw when it was evident he had nothing to say, and would be incom-\\npetent to say any thing if he had occasion to do so. It may be im-\\nproper to print profane language, but the desire which possesses me to\\ngive the spirit of this Convention, induces me to say that several heart-\\nless wretches said to the little old dapper gentleman G d", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22\\nyou, Fit down and that such questions were put to hina as, What\\nthe hell do you want to talk for?\\nAll persons who attended the Cincinnati Convention, will remember\\nthe liiild-lieaded and rampant Butler of Massachusetts. He is here.\\nHe springs to his feet with wonderful quickness, and rips out, Mr.\\nChairman, in a tone like the sound of a file on a cross-cut saw, and\\nwith a i esture as if he proposed to stab the presiding officer, if he did\\nnot devote his attention instantly to the gentleman from Massachu-\\nsetts.\\nButler was one of the Free Soil Democracy of Massachusetts, ^ho\\nelected, by a cnalition with ultras, the Hon. Charles Sumner to the U,\\nS. Senate. Pic, like John Cochrane, has repented. He is pro-slavery\\nas possible, and the little, brown moustache under his sharp, crooked\\nnose, would curl with wrath if he should be reminded of his record.\\nHe admits that he had a Free-soil attack a sort of political measels\\nbut considers himself all the better for having recovered from it.\\nYancey of Alabama, the leader of the ultras, was evidently aware\\nthat his friends were doing a foolish thing to-day. He took no part in\\nthe squabble, but it is understood that he has a vast amount of ammuni-\\ntion for a bombardment of the Douglas castle, ready for use when the\\ndecks are cleared for action, and the occasion when it will be worth\\nwhile to make a fight, shall have arrived.\\nThe first vote taken by States was on a proposition submitted by Mr.\\nCessna of Pennsylvania, looking to the simultaneous appointment of\\nthe committees on Credentials and Organization, and providing that\\nin determining the controversy in regard to the disputed seats from\\nthe State of Illinois, the member of the committee on Credentials from\\nthat State shall not be permitted to vote thereon. And in determining\\nthe controversy from the State of New York, the member of the com-\\nmittee from that State shall not be permitted to vote thereon.\\nThe vote stood\\nStales. Yem.\\nMaiiif 8\\nNew Hampshire 5\\nVermont ,5\\nMassacliusL tts 13\\nRhodu Island 4\\nCouaeciicut G\\nNew Jersey 7\\nPennsylvania 27\\nDelaware 3\\niluryland 8\\nNew Vurk 35\\nVirj^iiiia\\nNortli Carolina 10\\nSouth Carolina 8\\nGeoriiia 10\\nAlulianja\\nLouisiana\\nMissouri 9\\nNays. Stales. Yeas. JVays.\\nIndiana 13\\nllluiois 11\\nOhio 23\\nMississippi 7\\nTexas 4\\nFlorida 3\\nTennessee 12\\nKentucky 12\\nWisconsin 5\\nIowa 4\\nMichigan 6\\n15 Arkansas 4\\nCalllornia 2 2\\nOregon 3\\nMinnesota 4\\ny _\\n25C 47\\nAnd thus extreme Soutlicrnism (Cotton Stateism) first placed itself\\non the record of the Convention.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "23\\nThe committees appointed were as follows\\nCommittee on Credentials. C. D. Jameson, Maine A. P. ITujrhee,\\nNew Hampshire; Stephen Thomas, Vermont; Oliver Stephens, Massa-\\nchusetts George H. Brown, Rhode Island James Gallagher, Coiinec-\\nticut Delos De Wolfe, New York A. K. Speer, New Jersey II. M.\\nNorth, Pennsylvania; Wm. G. Whiteley, Delaware; W. S. Gittings,\\nMaryland; E. W. Hubbard, Virginia; II. R. Bridges, North Caroli-\\nna; B. F. Perry, South Carolina; J. Hartridge, Georgia; W. M.\\nBrooks, Alabama; W. S. Barry, Mississippi; F. II. Hatch, Louisiana;\\nJames B. Stedman, Ohio G. T. Wood, Kentucky W. H. Carroll,\\nTennessee; S. A. Hall, Indiana; W. J. Allen, Illinois; John M.\\nKrura, Missouri; Van H. Manning, Arkansas; Benjamin Follett,\\nMichigan C. E. Dyke, Florida E. Grier, Texas D. O. Finch, Iowa;\\nP. H. Smith, Wisconsin John S. Dudley, California H. H. Sibley,\\nMinnesota Lansing Stout, Oregon.\\nCommittee on Organization. W. H. Burrill, Maine R. S. Web-\\nster, New Hampshire H. E. Stoughton, Vermont; C. W. Chapin,\\nMassachusetts John N. Francis, Rhode Island A. C. Lippett, Con-\\nnecticut; S. F. Fairchild, New York; Robert Hamilton, New Jersey;\\nJ. Cessna, Pennsylvania; J. B. Pennington, Delaware; John R. Em-\\nory, Maryland; John Brannon, Virginia; W. A. Mole, North Caroli-\\nna; B. H. Wilson, South Carolina J. H. Lumpkin, Georgia A. B.\\nMeek, Alabama; Charles Clark, Mississippi; T. J. Eppes, Florida\\nEmile LaSere, Louisiana; F. R. Lubbock, Texas John J. Stirman,\\nArkansas; S. D. Churchill, Missouri; T. M. Jones, Tennessee; C.\\nCecil, Kentucky; George W. Houk, Ohio; S. K. Wolf, Indiana; A.\\nM. Harrington, Illinois; A. C. Baldwin, Michigan; E. S. Bragg,\\nWisconsin E. H. Thayer, Iowa J. T. Rosser, Minnesota G. W.\\nPatrick, California John K. Lamerick, Oregon.\\nSECOND DAY\\nMORNING SESSION.\\nInstitute Hall, April 24th.\\nThere is an impression prevalent this morning that the Convention is\\ndestined to explode in a grand row. The best informed and most dis-\\npassionate men are unable to see how such a termination of this party\\ncongress can be avoided. The Southern delegates last night, in caucus\\nassembled, resolved to stand by the Jeff. Davis resolutions. There is\\ntumult and war in prospect. The first thing in order after calling the\\nConvention to order, was the report of the committee on Permanent\\nOrganization, made by Mr. Cessna of Pennsylvania, its chairman, as\\nfollows", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "24\\nFOR PnEMIT)Ji:KT\\nHon. CALEB CUSIIING, of Mass.\\nFOlt VICE-PRBSIDENTa AND SECRETARIES\\nMaii(e.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas D. Robinson\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 C. Record.\\nNew Hampshire.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Daniel Marcy.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 George A. Bingham,\\nVermont.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jasper Rand.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 P. W. Hyde.\\nMassachuKdls.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Isaac Davis.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 B. F. Watson.\\nRhode Island.\\nVice-President-Gideon Bradford,\\nbecrotary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Amasa Sprague.\\nConnecticut.\\nVice-Presidont-Samuel Arnold.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. R. West.\\nNew Jersey.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wm. Wright\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John C. Ratterty.\\nNew York.\\nVice-Pr(!sidcnt\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Erastus Corning\\nbecretury\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Edward Cooper.\\nPennsylvania.\\nVice-President-Thomas Cunningham.\\nSecretary- Franklin Vansaut.\\nDelaware.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W. II. Ross.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John H. Buley.\\nMaryland,\\nVice-President- W. P. Bowie\\nSecretary-E. L. F. Hardca.stle.\\nVirgiina.\\nVice-President -0. R. Furiston.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Robert II. Glass.\\nNorth Carolina.\\nVice-President- Bedford Brown\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 L. W. Humphrey.\\n^outh Carolina.\\nVice-Prosident-B. H Broun\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Secretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Franklin GaiUard.\\nGeorgia.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James Thomas\\nS.cretary- J. J. Dimond.\\nAlabama.\\nVice-President R. G. ScotU\\nSccretary-N. H. R. Dawnon.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James Drane.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W. H. H. Tyson.\\nLouisiana.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 R. Taylor.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles Jones.\\nOhio.\\nVice-President- David Todd.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W. M. Stark.\\nKentucky.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 B. Spalding.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Robet McKee.\\nTennessee.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J. 0. C. Atkins.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John R. Howard.\\nIndiana.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Isaac C. Elston.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lafayette Devlin.\\nIllinois.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Z. Casey.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 R. E. Goodell,\\nArkansas.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Francis A. Terry\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 F. W. Hoadle^.\\nMichigan.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H. H. Riley.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John G. Parkhurst.\\nFlorida.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 B. F. Wardlaw.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 C. E. Dyke.\\nTexas.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H. R. Runnels.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas P. Ochiltree.\\nMissouri.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Abraham Hunter.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J. T. Mense.\\nIowa.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 T. W. Claggett\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J. W. Bosler.\\nWisconsin.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Frederick W. Horn\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A. F. Pratt.\\nCalifornia.\\nVice-President-J. A. Dreibelbis.\\nSecretary John S. Dudley.\\nMinnesota.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W. W. Phelps.\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 G. T. Rosser.\\nOregon.\\nVice-President\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A. P. Denison,\\nSecretary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 R. p. Metcalf.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "25\\nThe committee further rccommentlcd that the rules and regulations\\nadopted by the National Democratic Conventions of 1852 and 1S5G be\\nadopted by this Convention for its government, with this additional\\nrule:\\nThat in any State which has not provided or directed by its State\\nCon.vention how its vote may be given, the Convention will recognize\\nthe right of each delegate to oast his individual vote.\\nThis was a Douglns dodge, to allow minorities in Pennsylvania and\\nother States, in which the anti-Douglas men were in the majority, to\\nvote for the Little Giant. The war at once raged along the whole line.\\nRichardson of Illinois defended the report of the commit tee, as\\nfoll(\u00c2\u00bbws:\\nMr. Richardson, of Illinois. If I propose to go into an inquiry of\\nwhat was done by the committee, it might be proper to say that the\\nproposition now submitted was acted upon in a fuller meeting, as I am\\ntold, than that of last night, and adopted unanimously. I do not pro-\\npose to discuss with the gentleman from Mississippi the subject as to\\nthe action of the committee. I propose to place it upon the basis of its\\nown merits. Where a State Ccmvention has met and instructed its\\ndelegation as a unit, and they have accepted the condition, they are\\nbound by it. Wherever they give no such instruction, wherever they\\nhave refused in State deltgation to give such instruction, it is proper to\\nplace the right of the deUgate upon the broad and distinct ground of\\nright. But where they have entered into an organization, and are\\npledged, they are not at liberty to overrun the expressed wishes and\\nwill of their constituents. But I propose to place the question of indi-\\nviduality upon the broad ground of right, and right alone. [Applause.]\\nI say upon that ground the report of the committee ought to be\\nadopted.\\nTexas, Mississippi, Illinois and Pennsylvania were heard on this\\nsubject. Randall of Pennsylvania made a speech, in which he said\\nhe would not go for any candidate who was not acceptable to a majority\\nof the South. He also hinted that Douglas was the weakest man\\nwhose name was before the Convention. Richardson, of Illinois, said\\nit might be interesting to inquire how long the gentleman had been a\\nmember of the Democratic party. The fight was understood to be a\\nfair and square one between the Douglas and anti-Douglasites. It was\\nthrust into the Convention before its premanent organization, because\\nFlournoy, the chairman, was favorable to the Douglasites. The chair,\\nhowever, blundered, and twisted, and twisted, and got his precedents\\ntied into several hard knots. Richardson held the floor, though about\\ntwenty points of order were raised upon him. He was, however,\\nallowed to proceed. He made a speech which was not called for, and\\nwhich was injurious to the Douglas faction. He referred, in the midst\\nof his heat, to Mr. Randall as one of the recruits of yesterday, and to\\nhimself as an old soldier in the cause. He wanted the raw recruits to\\ntarry awhile at -Jericho, until their beards were grown, before they\\ninstructed him, an old soldier. Mr. Randall was highly excited, and\\noiFered Richardson his card, indicating that he would hold him person-\\nally responsible. At this demonstration there was hissing about the", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "26\\nhall. Tlift war proceerled. Wright, of Pennsylvania, made a long\\nspeech. The chair finally decided that the question on the adoption of\\nthe report was divisible, and put the question as to the adoption of so\\nmuch of (he report as related to the organization exclusively. That\\npart of the report was then adopted, and the permanent ofScers installed.\\nThis decision of the chair was really a sort of blunder. Mr. Floufnoy\\nbeing anxious to get out of the chair, allowed himself to defeat the\\npurposes of his friends.\\nBefore leaving the chair Mr. Flournoy uncorked a speech the me-\\nmorable passages of which were references to eternal icebergs and\\neverlasting frosts and the following gigantic effort on the Mississippi:\\nThe great father of waters, the river which commences at its source in\\nthe mountains, in springs and streams so small, that a hunter would\\nscarcely widen his steps to cross them. But, running on, it mingles\\nwith other streams; yet so shallow that the mother duck can scarcely\\nswim her follow young in its waters. Then rolling onward, it mingles\\nwith yet other streams, until, at last, it forms the great Mississippi\\nRiver so deep and so vast that all the navies of the world could ride\\nin safety upon its waters.\\nMr. Flournoy introduced Mr. Gushing, who was received with warm\\napplause, though the Douglas men dislike him intensely. They would\\nnot needlessly offend him, as they have to do the best they can with\\nhira. While they may have the bulk of the Convention, they have not\\na majority of the States, and were consequently defeated in committee.\\nThe interest to hear the speech of Mr. Gushing was intense. Out-\\nsiders had been admitted until all the galleries and spaces not covered\\nby chairs on the floor were densely filled. When Mr. Gushing was\\nintroduced he seemed for the moment slightly nervous, and in a heat.\\nHe was dressed in a short, brown, sack coat, grey pants, and black satin\\nvest. Considering the amount of intellectual labor he has performed,\\nhe seems in a remarkably fine state of preservation. He is partially\\nbald, but not at all gray. Such hair as he possesses has the gloss of youth\\nand bear s grease. He uses a plain eye-glass, suspended about his\\nneck by a black ribbon. His hands are brown as a laborer s. He evi-\\ndently preserves himself by out-door exercise. His head is round and\\nlofty; the forehead high and full; nose straight and sharp; lips thin\\nand expressive of intellectual consciou^sness and pluck, and his face\\nshows very few wrinkles. His voice is clear, musical, and powerful;\\nevery syllable of his speech was heard in every part of the house. The\\nConvention is fortunate in having a presiding oflBcer so accomplished.\\nThe following is Mr. Gushing s speech, as oflBcially reported\\nGentlemen of the Convention I respectfully tender to you the most\\nearnest expression of profound gratitude for the honor which you have\\nthis day done me in appointing me to preside over your deliberations.\\nIt is, however, a responsible duty imposed, much more than a high honor\\nconferred. In the discharge of that duty, in the direction of business\\nand of debate, in the preservation of order, it shall be my constant en-\\ndeavor faithfully and impartially to officiate here as your minister, and\\nnot hutnl)ly to reflect your will. In a great deliberative assembly like\\nthis, it is not the presiding oflSccr in whom the strength resides. It is", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "27\\nnot his strength, but yours your intelligence, your sense of orrler, your\\ninstinct of self-respect. I rely, gentlemen, conBdently upon you, not\\nupon myself, for the prompt and parliamentary dispatch of the business\\nof this Convention.\\nGentlemen, you have come here from the green hills of the Eastern\\nStates from the rich States of the imperial centre from the sun-light-\\ned plains of the South from the fertile States of the mighty basin of\\nthe Mississippi from the golden shores of the distant Oregon and Cal-\\nifornia [loud cheers] you have come hither in the exercise of the\\nhighest functions of a free people, to participate, to aid in the selection\\nof the future rulers of the Republic. You do this as the representa-\\ntives of the Democratic party of that great party of the Union, whose\\nproud mission it has been, whose proud mission it is, to maintain the\\npublic liberties to reconcile popular freedom with constituted order\\nto maintain the sacred, reserved rights of the sovereign States [loud\\nand long-continued applause] to stand, in a word, the perpetual sen-\\ntinels on the outposts of the Constitution. [Cries of that s the talk,\\nand lo\u00c2\u00abd cheers.] Ours, gentlemen, is the motto inscribed en that\\nscrool in the hands of the monumental statute of the great statesman of\\nSouth Carolina, Truth, Justice, and the Constitution. [Loud cheers.]\\nOpposed to us are those who labor to overthrow the Constitution, under\\nthe false and insidious pretense of supporting it those who are aiming\\nto produce in this country a permanent sectional conspiracy a traitor-\\nous sectional conspiracy of one half the States of the Union against the\\nother half; those who, impelled by the stupid and half insane spirit of\\nfaction and fanaticism, would hurry our land on to revolution and to\\ncivil war; those, the branded enemies of the Constitution, it is the part\\nthe high and noble part of the Democratic party of the Union to with-\\nstand to strike down and to conquer Aye that is our part, and we\\nwill do it. In the name of our dear country, with the help of God, we\\nwill do it. [Loud cheers.] Aye, we will do it, for, gentlemen, we will\\nnot distrust ouiselves we will not despair of the genius of our coiintry\\nwe will continue to repose with undoubting faith ift the good Providence\\nof Almighty God. [Loud applau. ^e.]\\nGentlemen, I will not longer detain you from the important business\\nof the Convention. Allow me a few moments for the purpose of com-\\npleting the arrangements with the elected oflBcers of the Convention, and\\nthen the chair will call upon you for such motions and propositions as\\nmay. be in order before the Convention. [Applause.] _\\nAfter the speech, some time was occupied in arranging the duties\\nof the various clerks, so as to proceed with system and order, to busi-\\nness. Gushing had the good sense, while this was going on, to give\\nthe Convention a recess.\\nThe business first in order was the test struggle on the proposed\\namendment of the rules which had been incorporated into the report of\\nthe committee on Permanent Organization, but which had been gotten\\nrid of for a time by the division of the question.\\nA motion was made to strike out from the report of the committee on\\nOrganization the original rule, and the vote was called by States, re-\\nsultino; as follows", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "Stntes. Teas. Nays. States. Yeas. Nay\u00c2\u00bb.\\nMaine 8 Mississippi 7\\nNew Hampshire 5 T\u00c2\u00abas 4\\nVermont 5 Arkansas 4 3^\\nMassachnsctts 5i Missouri 2 7\\nRhode Island 4 Tennessee 12\\nConneetieut G Kentucky (J 12\\nNew York 35 Ohio 23\\nNew Jersey 7 Indiana 13\\nPennsylyania ...14 lOJ Illinois 11\\nDeh\\\\wai e U Michigan 6\\nMaryland 3^ 4^ Wisconsin 5\\nVirjrinia 15 Iowa 4\\nNorth Carolina 7 3 Minnesota 4\\nSouth Carolina 8 Calii oruia 25 1^\\nGeorgia 10 Oregon 3 O\\nFlorida (i\\nAlabama 9 lOl 198\\nLouisiana 6\\nThis vote is tolerably near a correct representation of the strength of\\nMr. Douglas, in the last analysis of the Convention, hy the final strug-\\ngle. The nays, those opposed to striking out the interpolation, are not\\nall for Douglas now, hy any means. Many of them aie against him, so\\nfar as to have some other first choice. But they may, under the pres-\\nsure that will come, be brought to vote for him. And we may add to\\nthem the vote of South Carolina. It is too soon yet for the delegation\\nfrom that State to show its hand. To avoid scandal, it voted with the\\nSouth, but it is of the Softs of South Carolina.\\nThe- conclusions which I draw from this vote are very sturdily di\\nputed here by the anti-Douglas men. And the New Yorkers and Ken-\\ntuckians say they meant no such thing as I say. The first choice of\\nKentucky is Mr. Guthrie, and her second, Breckenridge, but a ma-\\njority of her delegates would acquiesce in the nomination of Douglas,\\nand might, under pretext of saving the nation, vote for him in an ex-\\ntremity, to give him a two-thirds vote. And John Cochrane will lead\\nthe New Yorkers into the Douglas camp, the moment he can do so with\\nthe greatest eclat, and make sure of giving him the nomination. Then\\nJohn will expect the grateful recognition of Mr. Douglas if he should\\nbecome President. Douglas might, of course, afford to give the Eng-\\nlish mission for the vote of New York in this Convention, and enough\\nbesides of Federal fatness to buy thirty politicians of easy virtue.\\nPoor Lafe Develin of Indiana gave one shriek for freedom to-day.\\nHe is hed^red about by his colleagues, and iron-bound by the instruc-\\ntions of the State Convention of Indiana, that her delegation should\\nvote there as an unit. Lafe has insisted that he would not be bound by\\nState instructions, but I believe that in an unguarded moment he\\nvoted in the Indiana Convention for the unity of the Charleston dele-\\ngation. Lafe s zeal cooled, when Buchanan appointed the grandfather\\nof the En^^lish bill U. S. Marshal of Imiiana. But to day he could\\nnot stand it, and shrieked loudly that he was authorized to cast two\\nvotes from Indiana. But he was put down. He fell in his tracks, as\\nit were, a d Freedom shrieked when Lafayette Develin fell. A portion\\nof the Tennessee delegation squirmed at the vote thrown aa above.\\nV", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "29\\nNearly lia1f the delegation were determined to vote tlie otlior way, hut\\nthe itiajorify ruled.\\nThere are a large numhcr of gentlemen here from Kentucky, working\\nfor John 0. Breckenridge. Among them are Senator Powell, Gov.\\nMagolhn, Burnet (Congressman), Pre. -ton, Minister to Spair), and others\\nof diistinction. But the Kentucky delegation stands firm for old Iron-\\nsides, that is to say, James Guthrie.\\nThe following committee was reported to-day\\nCommittee on Resolutions and Platform Maine, A. IM. Poherts\\nNew Hampshire, Wm. Beven Vermont, E. M. Brown Massachu-\\nsetts. B. F. Butler; Rhode Island, C S. Bradley; Connecticut, A.\\nG. Hazard New York, Ed. Cogswell New Jersey, lienj William-\\nson Pennsylvania, A. B. Wriglit Delaware, J. A. Bayard Mary-\\nland, B. S. Johnson; Virginia, J. Barbour; North Carolina, W. VV.\\nAvery; South Carolina, J. S. Preston; Georgia, J. Wingfield Flor-\\nida, J. B. Owens; Alabama, John Erwin Louisiana, H. A. Hunter\\nMississippi. E. Barksdale Texas, F. S. Stockdale Arkansas, N. B.\\nBurrow; Missouri, Tennessee, Sam. Milligan Kentucky, R.\\nK. Williams; -Ohio, H. B. Payne; Indiana, P. C Dunning; Illinois,\\nO. B. Ficklin; Michigan, G. V. N. Lothrop; Wisconsin, A S. Pal-\\nmer; Iowa, B. M.Samuels; Minnesota, J. M. Cavanaugh; California,\\nAustin E. Smith Oregon, James J. Stevens.\\nCOMMENTARY ON SECOND DAy s PROCEEDINGS.\\nCharleston, S. C, April 24th (at night).\\nThe advantages gained by the Douglas men in the Convention to-\\nday were important, and will, in my judgment, certainly resulc in Mr.\\nDouglas receiving a majority of the votes in the Convention. Then\\nthe struggle to give him two-thirds will be tremendous, and in spite of\\nthe bitter opposition of the ultra South, and of the Administration,\\nPresident, Cabinet, and Senators, he may get two-thirds, and it is my\\npresent impression that he will. The friends of Douglas have not only\\nthe strcmgest compact body of delegates, but have thus far displayed\\nthe best tactics. The South has been not only divided in counsel but\\ndeficient in judgment. The current has run steadily for Douglas from\\nthe first. It was apparent several days ago, that the outside pressure\\nwas for him. Every Southern man of any force, who is for Douglas,\\nthough in a small minority at hoitie, and repudiated by the Conventions,\\nhas been summoned here to manufacture public opinion. This has\\nbeen done calculatingly and systematically, and has its effect. There\\nare men here from every Southern State, working directly or indirectly\\nfor Douglas. The first gain of the Dougla-sites wasin the action of\\nJudge Smalley, in admitting the Cagger, Cassidy, Richmond, and Coch-\\nrane New York delegation, and the Douglas Illinois delegation to seats,\\nand excluding Fernando Wood, Ike Cook, and their foiloweis.\\nThe next gain was in the confirmation of this action of the Execu-\\ntive committee, by the Convention yesterday, which was not so import-\\nant in itself, us in the weakness of the ultra South exposed I V it. Ttie\\ngreat gain to-day was in passing a rule allowing single delegates in", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "30\\nStates not instructed to vote as an unit, to vote as they please. This\\nwill a(Ul about twenty-five votes to the Douglas strength and will give\\nthe current which is running toward his nomination greater impetuosity\\nand more formidable power. There is a great deal in this current, in\\na Convention in which, as m this, the mere politicians largely predomi-\\nnate. There are many eager to make themselves conspicuous in the\\neyes of the man upon whom they look as the next President. He has\\noffices within his gift, foreign missions and all that. You know how\\nit is you know how it was in the Cincinnati Convention.\\nThere are several Southern States whose delegations are unsound.\\nEven the Alabama delegation contains two Douglas men. They have\\nto vote with the rest, but their presence is influential. The ultras of\\nSouth Carolina, standing upon their dignity, did not go into the Con-\\nvention for the nomination of delegates to the National Convention.\\nTheir virtue was superior to the blandishments of a National caucus.\\nThe consequence is, Mr. Orr, whose position I detailed you in another\\nletter, comes here with the vote of the State in his hand and I am\\nnow convinced that Douglas can get it whenever it would give him the\\nnominatiim. The New Yorkers, of both factions and Fernando Wood\\nhas no chance are purchasable. Some of the delegates are govern-\\nment officers, but the last sands of this administration are running out,\\nand its di.spleasure is no longer feared. The eyes of Federal gold wor-\\nshipers are turned to the coming man, and when Douglas can be nom-\\ninated by the vote of New York, he will get it. And so of other\\nStates. But there will be a rupture. There is a portion of the South,\\nas represented here, that cannot and will not submit to Douglas on a\\nplatform that tolerates the notion of Popular Sovereignty. A great\\nbattle is to be fought on the platform. It is, I believe, as I write, being\\nfought in the conmiittee on Resolutions. There are radical and inex-\\ntinguishable feuds in the Democratic party, and they must come out\\nhere and now.\\nTHIRD DAY\\nInstitute Hall, I\\nCharledon, S. C, April 25tli. J\\nThere was much noise and confusion about town last night. The\\nSouthern men kept up their spirits by aid of a band of music, and\\nspeeches by the leaders of the iire-eaters. The speakers were very se-\\nvere on the bobtailed poify from Illinois. Fernando Wood was sere-\\nnaded, and made an able and adroit response, which was entirely ac-\\nceptable to the South. He was looking forward to an explosion of the\\n(Jonvention, and his nomination as Vice-President by the Southern lead-\\ners. It is the general impression this morning, as 1 have just informed\\nyou by telegraphic dispatch, that there will be an explosion of the Con-\\nvention ih.it it is indeed inevitable, and that the Convention is only\\nheld togi tlirr now by endeavors of the various factions, which are irre-\\nconcilably hostile, to make a record suitable for their ulterior purposes.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "31\\nThe hall is very mncli crowded. Those who have tickets, send them\\nout after they get in, and others come in. In this way every body who\\nunderstands the trick, and nearly every body does, gets in. So there\\nis an infernal crowd. Fortunately the atmosphere is much cooler than\\nheretofore. The ladies have become anxious on the subject of the Con-\\nvention. Their gallery is as full as possible, and still crowds of them\\nare besieging the stairways.\\nThe Convention was opened with prayer, which is presumed to have\\nbeen very solemn and fervent, but nobody heard it.\\nThe first thing in order was to inquire whether there was any com-\\nmittee ready to report. There being none, the unfinished business of\\nyesterday was taken up. This was in relation to the adoption of a rule\\nthat, in debate, no delegate should speak more than once, nor more\\nthan fifteen minutes.\\nProceedings were interrupted by a gallant gentleman from Missouri,\\nwho proposed to relieve the ladies wh(^ere hanging on the stair-\\nways. The Convention invited the lacnes to come in and take seats\\nin the chairs under the galleries.\\nThe immoderately anxious Douglas men wanted the fifteen minute\\nrule adopted. They were too anxious to put down the screws, however,\\nand were defeated. The vote was 121 for the fifteen minute rule, and\\n182 against. Now, according to the rules adopted being those of the\\nHouse of Representatives the hour rule is in force.\\nThe vote as taken by States stdnds as follows not a test for or\\nagainst Douglas but a test of prudence\\nStates. Yeas. Nays. States. Yeas. Nays.\\nMaine S Mississippi 7\\nNew Hampshire 5 Texas. 4\\nVermont 5 Arkansas 4\\nMassachusetts 13 Missouri 9\\nRhode Island 4 Tennessee 12\\nCoauecticut 1 5 Kentucky 11 1\\nNew York 35 Ohio 23\\nNew .Jersey 7 Indiana 13\\nPennsylvania 27 Illinois 11\\nDelaware 3 Michigan C\\nMaryland 8 Wisconsin 5\\nVirginia 15 Iowa 4\\nNorth Carolina 10 Minnesota 4\\nSouth Carolina S Culii ornia 4\\nGeoroia, 10 Oregon 3\\nFlorida 3\\nAlabama 9 121 182\\nLouisiana 6\\nIt is a general remark that the Convention has narrowly escaped doing\\na very foolish thing. It would have been unsafe to have choked down de-\\nbate into fifteen minute speeches. It would not do to bottle up wrath\\nso intense. It is now hoped that the South s fire will pale in long\\nspeeches, and become ineffectual in the course of their hour harangues.\\nA debate followed, on the propriety of gag laws. It was said, on be-\\nhalf of the South, that eloquence must be resorted to. The State of\\nAlabama must not be gagged. Her eloquence must be allowed to flow.\\nLowry of Indiana thought it a very equivd^fr-compliment to the del-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "32\\negates, to suppose that much talk would move any of them from their\\nconvictions. As fur eloquence, on such occasions, it was too prone to\\ndegenerate into invective.\\nIt w;is contended hy a delegate from Delaware, that the hour rule,\\nunder the operation of the previous question, would be the most horri-\\nble of gags. After a free interchange of views, the fifteen minute rule\\nwas adopted, with this proviso, that the rule should not be applied in\\ndiscussions on the platform. The speakers will each be allowed an hour\\nto ventilate the Territorial question. This is about the best thing that\\ncould be done. A conversati(jn sprung up between Walker of Mis-\\nsouri, and Cochrane, pending a motion to open the galleries to the pub-\\nlie. W;dker informed the ladies that Mr. (Cochrane was a bachelor.\\nThe infiirmution was received with immenj^e approbation. Cochrane\\nacknowledged his desperate condition, and expres ed his willingness to\\nenter into the marriage relation. Walker said that it was apparent that\\nthe reason why Cochrane l^d not married was becaus^e he could not.\\nHe moved to lay the New Yoik bachelor on the table. The Chair tol-\\nerated this nonsense for some time, but at last interposed, and summarily\\nshut down upon it. Mr. Vallandigham made an explanation of the\\naction of the Executive committee reurardino; the is-ue of tickets, which\\nwas satisfactory. Bhe Convention then refused to throw open the doors\\nto the miscellaneous public.\\nThere was now no business before the Convention, the committee on\\nCredentiali^ot being able to report the Convention adjourned to four\\no clock, when the New York fight will come off. It will be warm, and\\nloud and long. A considerable majority of the Convention will be ia\\nfavor of excluding the Fernando Wood and Ike Cook delegations.\\nThe Convention is most fortunate in having so excellent a prei iding\\nofficer as Caleb Cushing. Mr. Cushing s head is wonderfully clear,\\nand his knowledge of parliamentuary law and the rules of the House\\nof Reprcffcntatives perfect. All his staten.ents of the questions that\\nare beiore the hiiu?e, are distinct and downright, and no one thinks, as\\nyet, of taking an appeal from his decisions. This will help the Con-\\nvention materiully in its great tribulation.\\nMore ii!t(jnse interest than has yet prevailed is felt in the forthcoming\\nNew York fight. This wdl cont-ume the afternoon session, and to-mor-\\nrow we will have the platform fight, and I do not see how it will be\\npossible to prevent a disruption of the Convention. The South makes\\nit a point of honor that the platform shall not be one capable of*a double\\nconstruction, but shall be one which cannot be fairly interpreted to mean\\nany thing short of sound Southern doctrine, that is, the protection of\\nslave property in the Territories, and the unequivocal repudiation of the\\nDouglas doctrine of squatter, or popular sovereignty. Tht; Norf-hern\\ndelegates don t care much about the honor of the matter. It is of the\\nmost grave consequence to lln iii, involving, as I have before said, for\\nthem, ihe is. ues of life and deah. Their [Kilitical existence depends\\nab.soltely upon tluir ability to construe the platform adopted here to\\nmean popular sovereignty, in other words, upon such a form of words\\nin the platform, as will allow them to declare, in the North, that the\\nofficially expressed Dcmociatic doctrine is that the people of the Terri-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "as\\ntories may, while in their territorial condition, abolish or exclude slavery.\\nThey cannot, dare not yield the opportunity fur pressing this pretext.\\nThe South will not allow it. Here, then, is the nrepressihle conflict\\na C(niti:ct between enduring forces. You may witli propriety use, re-\\nspecting it, language as strong as that of Mr. Seward in liis Rochester\\nspeech. The Douglas Democracy, you know, only want the pretext to\\nuse before the people. They are willing to acquiesce in the decision of\\nthe Supreme Court, knowing beforehand that the decision would be\\nagainst them. The South stands upon what they believe to be princi-\\nple, and they cannot in honor, as they say, allow the Nortliern branch\\nof the party to yield so far to the Abohtion pressure, as to take relume\\nfrom it under a false and fraudulent {)retense.\\nThe preponderant faction of the Northern Democracy say the South-\\nern doctrine of protection of slave property in the Territories is inad-\\nmissible that is the word and 1 believe they have, when the pinch\\ncomes, a miijority of the Convention. The^outh says a platform with\\ntwo faces is no longer tolerable. And the South has in this position a\\nmajority of the States. There is a majority in the committee on Plat-\\nform in favor of amending the Cincinnati Platform so as to repudiate\\nits Northern interpretation. The States of Pennsylvania, Oregon and\\nCalifornia, as hei*e represented, are with the South in this matter. The\\ninevitable consequence is, there will be two reports from the committee\\non Platform. The majority report, favored by a minority of the Con-\\nvention and the minority report, favored by the majority. *Upon the\\nadoption of the Cincinnati Platform, with its popular soverei -nty\\nheresy understood to be attached, and constituting its vitality, the\\nSouth must withdraw. At least half a dozen States will certainly go,\\nand how many more, and how many fragments of others, it is impossi-\\nble to say. Then the majority Convention will nominate Douglas. The\\nSouth will be sustained in its secession by the whole power of the Ad-\\nministration, and by the Southern Senators, who would be murdered,\\npolitically, by the nomination of Douglas in a full Convention, upon a\\nplatform on wbich it would be possible for him to stand.\\nWhen it was determined yesterday, as it was by an overwhelming\\nvote, to adopt a platform before nominating a candidate, it appeared that\\nthere was no hope remaining of the unity of the Convention. Both\\nfactions voted to have the platform first. The only possible way to keep\\nthe Convention together from the start, was for the Douglas men to\\nwithdraw his name and then the South, with another man, would have\\nbeen willing to mitigate the asperities of the slave code platform. The\\ndisruption of this Convention insures the nomination of S^wird at\\nChicago but not his election. Southern secession here, would give\\nDouglas strength in some of the Northern States. There would be\\nno possibility of his election, however, for he would certainly lose sev-\\neral Southern States. He might, and the chances are that he would,\\ncarry Northern States enough to defeat the election of Seward. Thus\\nthe election would be thrown into Congress md eventually into the\\nSenate. This is beyond question the game of the Southern men, and\\nit looks as if the chances were that it would win. Tliese are not, only\\nmy opinions and speculations here to-day, but they are such as are cur-\\n3", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "34\\nrent among those wh\u00c2\u00a9 are candid witb themselves and frank in giving\\nexpression to their views.\\nAFTERNOON SESSION.\\nAfter some immaterial controversy,\\nJudge Krura of Missouri, chairman of the committee on Creden-\\ntials, presented the following report and resolutions, upon which the\\ncommittee bad agreed, and he claimed for it the attention of the Con-\\nvention\\nMAJORITY REPORT.\\nTo the National Democratic Conventiwi\\nMu. Presiuent Your committee on Credentials, immediately after their aj)-\\npointment, entered upon the discharge of the duties assigned them, and carefully\\nexamined the credentials of the several delegates to this Convention.\\nYour committee tind that ^11 the States of the Union, except the States of\\nMassachusetts. Maryland, Illinois and New York are represented in this Conven-\\ntion by delegates duly elected in the several States by State or District organi-\\nzations of the Democratic party, and your committee append to this report, as\\na part thereof, full lists of the delegates so selected.\\nYour committee further report that there were contesting claimants to the\\nseats held by the delegations in the following cases, viz\\nIn the Fifth Congressional District of Massachusetts.\\nIn the Fourth Congressional District of Maryland.\\nIn the State of Illinois, and\\nIn the S^te of New York.\\nThe contestants in these several cases had a full and impartial hearing before\\nyour committee, and, after a full consideration of their respective claims, your\\ncommittee are of opinion that the sitting delegates in these Districts and States\\nare justly entitled to their respective seats.\\nAll of which is respectfully submitted,\\nJOHN M. KRUM, Chairman.\\nResolved, That the sitting delegates to this Convention from the State of Illi-\\nnois, of whom Col. W. A. Richardson is chairman, ar^ entitled to their respec-\\ntive seats.\\nResolved, That Cornelius Doherty and K. S. Chappec, delegates representing\\nthe Fifth Congressional District of Massachusetts, are entitled to their respec-\\ntive seals.\\nResolved, That F. M. Landham and Robert J. Brent, delegates representing\\nthe Fourth Congressional District of Maryland, are entitled (to their respective\\nscats.\\nResolved, That the delegates to this Conventioa\u00c2\u00bbfrom the State of New York,\\nof which Dean Richmond is chairman, are entitled as ^ch to seats therein.\\nAdopted.\\nMr. J3rooks, of Alabama, presented the following Minority Report\\nand llesolutions\\nMINORITY REPORT.\\nTo the Honorable President of the Naiional Demmratic Convention\\nThe undersigned, members of the committee on Credentials, under an impe-\\nrious sense of duty, are constikined to dissent from the report of the majority of\\nthis committee, and respectfully recommend that the two delegations from the\\nState of New York be authorized to select each thirtv-tive delegates, and that\\nthe Hovt-nty Delegates thus selected be admitted to this Convention as the dele-\\ngates of the New York Democracy, and that they be allowed two hours to re-\\nport their selection\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the two delegates to vote separately, each to be entitled to", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2u\\n35\\nseventeen votes, the remaining vote of said State to be cast alternately by the\\ntwo delegations, the sitting members casting it tlie fust time.\\n(Signed) WILLIAM M. BROOKS,\\nDelegate from Alabama.\\nJOHN S. DUDLEY,\\nDelegate from California.\\nE. GREEN,\\nDelegate from Texas.\\nVAN H. MANNING,\\nDelegate li om Arkansas.\\nJULIAN HARTRID(;E,\\nDelegate from Georgia.\\nW. S. BARRY,\\nof Mississippi.\\nMr. Brooks of Alabama offered the following resolution\\nReifolved, That the two delegations from New Y ork be authorized to select\\neach thirty-five delegates, and that the seventy Delegates thus selected, be ad-\\nmitted to this Convention as delegates from the New York Democracy, and that\\nthey be allowed two hours to report their selection. The two delegations to\\nvote separately, each to be entitled to seventeen votes, the remaining vote to be\\ncast alternately by the two delegations the sitting members to cast it the first\\ntime.\\nA discussion followed in which New York politics were well ven-\\ntilated.\\nThen the several resolutions reported by the majority were adopted,\\ndown to the resolution on the New York case.\\nThe question then being on the amendment of Mr. Brooks of Ala-\\nbama, the State of Alabama called for the vote by States, and the State\\nof Mississippi seconded the call.\\nThe amendment was lost by the following vote\\nSlates. Yeas.\\nMaine\\nNew Hampshire\\nVermont\\nMassachusetts\\nRhode Island\\nConnecticut\\nNew Y ork\\nNew Jersey\\nPennsylvania\\nDelaware\\nMaryland\\nVirginia 3i\\nNorth Carolina 5\\nSouth Carolina\\nGeorgia 10\\nFlorida\\nAlaViaraa 9\\nLouisiana\\nThe question then recurring on the adoption of the resolution of the\\nmajority, the same was adopted by a large majority.\\nThe entire report of the committee was then adopted.\\nMr. North of Pennsylvania moved to reconsider the motion to\\nadopt the report, and to lay that motion on the table. Agreed to.\\nMr. North of Pennsylvania then moved that tha rejected claimants\\nNays.\\nSlates.\\nYeas.\\nNays.\\nS\\nMississippi\\n7\\n5\\nTexas\\n4\\n5\\nArkansas\\n3\\n1\\n13\\nMissouri\\n1\\n8\\n4\\nTennessee\\n9\\n3\\nKentucky\\n12\\nOhio\\n23\\n1\\nIndiana\\n13\\n27\\nIllinois\\nU\\n3\\nMichigan\\n6\\n8\\nWisconsin\\n5\\n10\\nIowa\\n4\\n4\\nMinnesota\\n4\\n8\\nCalifornia\\n3A\\ni\\nOregon\\n3\\n3\\n55\\n210^\\n6", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "v\\n36\\nfor seats in this Convention be invited to take honorary seats on this\\nfloor. [Cries of No! No! No!\\nMr. Lawrence of Louisiana. The gentlemen whose claims have\\nbeen rejected will not accept such an offer.\\nA Voice. Then let them stay out.\\nThe Illinois contest was not alluded to in debate. The Cook dele-\\ngation were kicked out without a dissenting voice. This must be very\\npleasant to Mr. Buchanan, whose postmaster at Chicago, and especial\\npet, Mr. Cook is. Poor Cook swears profusely and piteously, and\\nthat is the extent of his capacity.\\nThe death of the chairman of the Vermont delegation, Hon John\\nS. Robinso:i, was then announced and resolutions of respect passed.\\nThe credential controversy being closed, the contest conies on the\\nplatform, and then the disruption An explosion is certain to take\\nplace, and the only question is as to the extent of the Southern seces-\\nsion. The air is full of rumors, and there is general concurrence in\\nthe proposition that it will be impossible for the unity of the Convention\\nto be preserved up to the commencement of the balloting for candidates.\\nI am informed by a delegate from one of the border Southern States,\\nthat his delegation will not withdraw when the Southern platform is\\nrejected, and the Northern one with two interpretations is adopted, but\\nwill withdraw when Douglas is nominated on the equivocal platform, an\\nevent which is certain to follow the secession of the Gulf States, which\\nwill take place after the platform fight.\\nChaulestox, S. C, April 25th (at night).\\nThe Convention is now ready for the great business upon which it\\nhas come together that of constructing a platform and nominating a\\ncandidate. The committee on Platform is now in session, and in agony\\nno doubt, with the various ambiguous resolutions before it. Tlie case\\nis very simple. There is, to begin with, an irreconcilable difference in\\nthe doctrines respecting slavery in the Territories between the Northern\\nand Southern wings of the Democratic party. The platform must be\\ndrawn with elaborate ambiguity, and capable of two constructions, or\\nthe party must be divided.\\nIt is only certain just now, that the understanding this morning that\\nthere would be a disruption of the Convention, caused a panic, and\\nthat a disposition to compromise and be ambiguous prevails.\\nI hear it asserted on that which seems reliable authority, that Mr.\\nRichardson of Illinois has authority to withdraw the name of Douglas,\\nand Will withdraw it, if there is any thing about the protection of slavery\\nin tlie Territories in the platform.\\nThe party must take refuge under false pretenses of doctrine, or go\\nin pieces. The question is: Will the South yield the point of honor,\\n-which they have been insisting upon, so far as to allow the platform to\\nbe made ambiguous? If they wdl, the Douglas men are so confident\\nin their ability to nominate Douglas, and in the putency of their war-\\nwhoop, that they will probal)ly allow the Cincinnati Platform to be\\namended by the addition of something equivalent in the estimation of\\nthe South to the affirmation of the Dred Scott decision doctrine, with", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "37\\nthe interpretation put upon the decision by Judge Black, in his pamph-\\nlet controversy with Douglas.\\nDouglas men are asserting warmly at the Mills House that they never\\nwill yield an inch never, never. And they want a little Southern\\nsensation on the platform. They want about forty Southern delegates\\nto go out, for that would insure the nomination of Douglas, and help\\nhim in the North. Their fear is, that the secession will be uneomfort-\\nably large. A slight secession of merely the shred of Gulf States\\nwould be a help; and a great secession, carrying with it the weight of\\nthe South, would be ruinous. To-morrow is understood to be the crisis\\nof the Convention. We hear hourly that a crisis involving the fate of\\nthe country is at hand.\\nThe moi-e I see of this city the more I am impressed with its singu-\\nlar beauties. The most charming spot it contains is the Battery\\nwhich is in fact a park situated at the extreme end of the peninsula\\nupon which the city is built. On one side is the harbor, the islands,\\nthe shores of the bay, the forts and shipping. On the other is a street\\nof stately edifices, splendid private residences, surrounded by trees.\\nIn the pleasant evenings, the people of leisure congregate here\\nhundreds of carriages and buggies, full of ladies and gentlemen, whirl\\nalong the drives loving couples, and nurses with babies in their arms\\nor in hand-carriages, and leading or directing groups of children,\\nthrong every promenade. At times it seems the whole town must have\\nturned out for a grand reunion, and the sea-breeze comes up with health\\non its wings. During the session of the Convention there has been a\\nband of music from Boston, used principally in serenading great men\\nat a late hour, and bringing out speeches unpremeditated, of course,\\nthough the speakers are usually notified beforehand), which has made\\nthe battery especially delicious of evenings, by discoursing there the\\nmost exquisite music. About dusk the streets leading to the battery\\nare full of people returning from visits to it. The sidewalks are lined\\nas if some street public assemblage, political or religious, had just been\\ndissolved.\\nThe delegates that took precaution to have contracts with the hotel\\nkeepers, have found themselves badly sold. The North-western dele-\\ngates are taxed at least fifty dollars each extra, in consequence of their\\ncontracts. The Kentucky delegation made a contract with the proprie-\\ntor of the Charleston Hotel for parlors and bed-room.^, cujnble of\\naccommodating fifty persons, agreeing to pay two hundred and fifty dol-\\nlars per day, from the fifteenth of April to the end of the Convention.\\nOnly twenty persons appeared, and the poor fellows came together and\\nappointed a deputation to wait on the hotel-keeper. He agreed to allow\\nthe expiration of the contract ten days from its commencement, and\\nthen to board them at the rate of two dollars per day.\\nThe twenty gentlemen thereupon shelled out one hundred and twenty-\\nfive dollars each, and had their contract canceled. Most of them were\\nmen who had plenty of money, but they travailed and groaned in spirit,\\nconfessing, however, that they had only themselves to blame.\\nThere are accommodations here for three times the number of persons\\npresent.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "38\\nFOURTH DAY.\\nInstitute ITaix,\\nCharleston, S. C, April 26th.\\nThe committee on Platform is again in session, and doing its best to\\nmake a platform. It adjourned at a late hour last night, without hav-\\ning ac3omplished the objects of its sessions. A member of the com-\\nmittee informed me that there would in all probability be three reports\\nan ultra-Southern a Popular Sovereignty and a safe middle ground\\nreport, according to the exceedingly moderate and conservative views\\nof our illustrious Administration.\\nThe rumors are this morning, that the endeavors to patch up matters\\nwill fail entirely. The cohesive power of public plunder, when that\\nplunder is worth one hundred million dollars per year, is tremendous,\\nbut the ferment of factions here is such that this power may be over-\\ncome. The Convention has to choose between subterfuge and dis-\\nruption.\\nIt is, for the present, the policy of the Douglas men not to excite\\ncontroversy. They feel so confident of their strength in the Convention,\\nthat they are exceedingly anxious to preserve its unity, that they may\\nuse it. If they could induce thirty or forty ultra-Southern votes to go\\nout, they might nominate Douglas. They do not provoke discussion.\\nMany speeches are made at night, at the principal hotels, all extreme\\nSouthern in character. If a man should undertake to make such a\\nDemocratic speech here as is heard from every stump of the North,\\nfavoring the exclusion of slavery from the Territories by the people\\nthereof, he would be hooted down as an Abolitionist, and possibly\\nmobbed as an incendiary. Several gentlemen were called out at the\\nMills House last night. Among them was Burnett, member of Con-\\ngress from Kentucky, who made a fire-eating speech, violently opposing\\nall concessions of principle, all subterfuges, all equivocations, all doubt-\\nful candidates. The speech was a blow at Douglas, and the reply of\\nhis friends who were in the crowd was, Never mind, when we get to\\nvoting we beat them like hell. 0. Jennings Wise made a speech,\\nglorifying the State conservatism of South Carolina, and the memory of\\nthe immortal Calhoun, who is referred to here as if he were the patron\\nSaint of the Democracy.\\nFernando Wood was called out and made a speech, pledging himself\\nin advance to the platform and candidate of the Convention. Wood,\\nthough excluded from the Convention, has made a strongly favorable\\nimpression here. He is one of the first favorites of the South Cari-\\nkenee-ans as they all style themselves. There were several scenes\\nof uproar in front of the hotel. One poor fellow, piteously drunk,\\nmade a running sj)ccch for half an hour, during which the crowd roared at\\nhim, calling him all sorts of names, telling him to go to bed, etc., etc.\\nAs the Convention assembles there are a dozen rumors about the plat-\\nform, flying. One that there is wonderful harmony another that there\\nis intense antagonism. The ladies crowd in in greater numbers than\\never. South Caroleena beauty is well represented. Many of the", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "39\\nladies bave fine features but most of tbem bad complexions. They are\\nsplendid in eyes and hair, with fine profiles and bright countenances,\\nbut not excellent forms. The ladies are a great feature of the Conven-\\ntion. The delegates are desperately gallant.\\nThere i\u00c2\u00ab a general understanding this morning that the crisis has\\narrived at last. The Convention must speedily become indivisible, or\\nit must separate, and there are many here who sincerely belive that the\\nfate of the country turns on this point.\\nThe prayer this morning has the advantage of being heard in the\\nhall. And it is probably as able and fervent as was ever delivered\\nto a Boston audience. Harmony was especially prayed for, as it is\\nespecially needed about these times. The Reverend gentleman said\\nOh, come, Heavenly Father, and with Thy spirit guide and over-\\nrule the deliberations of those now present. Grant unto them that, in\\nharmony and peace, and with a patriotic desire for the preservation of\\nall that is sacred in the institutions of the country, they may come to a\\ntrue and wise conclusion in their counsels. And not unto us, not unto\\nus; but unto Thee shall be the honor and the glory.\\nThe Convention is flooded with resolutions. Mr. Fitzhugh of Vir-\\nginia introduces the following\\nResolved, That the rendition of fugitive slaves and other property by one State\\nto another is a right secured by the laws of nations, recognized by the Colonies\\nand the mother country previous to the Declaration of Independence, by the\\nCourts of Great Britain and by the Supreme Court of the United States, and\\nby the law and Courts of all civilized nations, and a fortiori is the duty of the\\nStates of this Confederacy under the Constitution and laws.\\nResolved, That the refusal of the Governors of the several States to deliver up\\nfugitives from justice and fugitive slaves, is an open and palpable violation of\\nthe above natural and international law and the Constitution and laws of the\\nUnited States, constituting official perjury by such Governors as have evaded\\nor refused to perform this duty, and if persevered in must lead to the severance\\nof the Union.\\nMr. Hughes of Pennsylvania\\nResolved, That while recognizing the doctrine that the General Government\\nhas no power to create in, or exclude from, by legislation, any species of prop-\\nerty in any State or Territory, yet we maintain that it is the duty of that Gov-\\nernment to provide the Courts with ample process and ministerial officers for the\\nprotection and enforcement of any existing right, or the correction of any\\nwrong, over which said Government, under the Constitution, has jurisdiction.\\nMr. Browne of Pennsylvania moved the following\\nResoloed. That the citizens of the several States when emigrating into a Federal\\nTerritory, retain the right to slave and other property which they take wit^h them\\nuntil there is some prohibition by lawful authority and that, as declared by the\\nSupreme Ct)urt, Congress cannot interfere with such right in a Territory, nor can\\na Territorial Le nslature do so, until authorized by the adoption of a State Con-\\nstitution and that the attempted exercise of such a function by a Lerri tonal\\nLegislature is unconstitutional, and dangerous to the peace of the L aion.\\nMr. Walker of Alabama\\nResolved, That It Is the duty of the Federal Government, in all its departments\\nwithin their constitutional sphere, to afford adeqate protection and equal advan-\\ntage to all descriptions of property recognized as such by the laws of any ot the", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "40\\nStates as well within the Territorits as upon the bigb-beas, and evtry place sub-\\nject to its exclusive power of legislation.\\nMr. Wall of Tennesoe offered the following resolutions, being the\\nPlatform advocated by tliat State\\nBe it Resolved. That we hereby reaffirm the principles announced in the Plat-\\nform of the Democratic party, adopted in Convention at Cincinnati, in June,\\n185(!, and fiiat we hold them to be a true exposition of our doctrines on the sub-\\njects embraced.\\nRes Aved. Tiiat the views expressed by the Supreme Court of the United States\\nin the decision of the case of Dred Scott, are, in our opinion, a true and clear\\nexposition of the powers reposed in Congress upon the subject of the Territories\\nof the United States, and the rigiits guaranteed to the residents in the Territories.\\nResolved, That the States of the Confederacy are equals in political rights each\\nState has the right to settle for itself all questions of internal policy the right\\nto have or not to have slavery, is one of the prerogatives of sell-government\\nthe States did not surrender this right in the Federal Constitution, and Tennes-\\nsee will not now do so.\\nResolved, That the Federal Government has no power to interfere with slavery\\nin the States, iu)r to introduce or exclude it from the Territories, and no duty to\\nP -rtbrin in relation thereto, but to protect the rights of the owner from wrong\\nand to restore fugitives from labor these duties it cannot withhold without a\\nviolation of the Constitution.\\nRcwlned, Tliat the organization of the Republican party upon strictly sectional:\\nprinciples, and its hostility to the institution of slavery, which is recognized by\\nthe Constitution, and which is inseparably connected with the social and indus-\\ntrial pursuits of the Soutliern States of the Confederacy, is war upon the princi-\\nples of the Constitution and upon the rights of the States.\\nRe^iolved, ITiat the late treasonable invasion of Virginia by an organized band\\nof liepublicaiis, w^as the necessary result of the doctrines, teachings and princi-\\nples of that party was the beginning of the irrqiressible conflict of Mr. Sew-\\nard was a blow aimed at the institution of slavery by an effort to excite a servile\\ninsurrection was war upon the South, and as such, it is the duty of the South\\nto pr., pare to maintain its rights under the Constitution.\\nResolved, That if this war upon the Constitutional rights of the South is per-\\nsisted in, it nuist soon cease to be a war of words. If the Republican party\\nwould prevent a conflict of arms, let them stand by the Constitution and fulUll its\\nobligations we a.sk nothing more, we will submit to nothing less.\\nMr. Wolfe of Indiana moved the following\\nRexolval, That the Federal Government has no power to interfere with slavery\\nin the Slates, nor to introduce or exclude it from the Territories, and no duty to\\nperform in nilation tlwreto, but to faithfully enforce the Fngitive Slave law.\\nand all the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States in regard to\\nall the rights of the peoj)le of every State and Territory under the Constitution\\nof the United States.\\nMr. Glenn of Mississippi presented the following\\n1. A citizen of any Statt; in the Union may immigrate to the Territories with\\nhis property, whether it consists of slaves or any other subject of personal own-\\nership.\\n2. So long as the Territorial condition exists the relation of master and slave\\nis not to be disturlied liy FiMfi-ral or Territorial legislation and if so disturbed\\nthe Frdcral Government must furnish ample protection therefor.\\n3. Whenever a Territory shall be entithd to admission into the Union as a\\nState the iiiliul)itants may, in forming their Constitution, decide for themselves\\nwhether it shall authorize or exclude slavery.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "41\\nMr. Horn of Wisconsin offered the following\\nResolved, Tlnit the letter of President Buchanan acceptinpr tlie nniiiination at\\nCincinnati, where he explains the Cincinnati Platform in rehitioii to llie ])ower of\\na Territorial Leijjslatnre on the subject of slavery is eminently snuful, and is\\nhereby referred to the committee on Resolutions lor their consideration.\\nMr. Mouton of Louisiana offered the followins\\nResolved, That the Temtories of the United States belong to the several States\\nas their common property, and not to the individual citizens thereof\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that the\\nFederal Constitution recognizes property in slaves, and as such the owner thereof\\nis entitled to carry his slaves into any Territory of the United Slates and hold\\nthem as property. And in case the people of the Territories by inaction, un-\\nfriendly legislation or otherwise, should endanger the tenure of such property or\\ndiscriminate against it by withholding that protection given to this species of\\nproperty in tlie Territories, it is the duty of the General Government to inter-\\npose, by an active exertion of its Constitutional powers to secure the rights of\\nslaveholders.\\nMr. Greenfield of Kentucky offered the following\\nResolved, That it is the duty of the National Government to provide, by law,\\nfor paying ibr such fugitives from labor as, by the illegal interposition of State\\nauthorities, the owners thereof may be prevented from receiving under the Fu-\\ngitive Slave law.\\nMr. Bidwell of California moved the following\\nResolved, That our States and Territories on the Pacific, and the Territories of\\nthe Great Basin, and of both slopes of the Rocky Mountains, demand the early\\nconstruction of a railroad to connect them with the internal navigation and rail-\\nway system of the Atlantic States and that on the ground of postal communi-\\ncation protection of Territories and States, and of military defense, the General\\nGovernmeut has accepted authority under the Constitution.\\nMr. Craig of Missouri offered the following\\nResolved, That the Democratic party are in favor of granting such constitution-\\nal aid as will insure the speedy construction of a railroad connecting the Atlan-\\ntic and Pacific States.\\nMr. Stout of Oregon offered the following\\nResolved, That to preserve the Union, the equality of States must be maintain-\\ned, and every branch of the Federal Government should exercise all their Con-\\nstitutional powers for the protection of persons and property.\\nMr. McConnell of Illinois offered the following\\nResolved, That the Federal Government has no power to interfere with slavery\\nin the States, or to introduce it or exclude it from the Territories, and has no\\nduty to perform in relation thereto, except to secure the rights of the owner by\\na return of the fugitive slave, as provided by the Constitution.\\nMr. Seward of Georgia presented the following\\nResolved, That the Constitution of the United States extends to the several\\nStates, and to every citizen, the full protection of persons and property in all\\nthe States and Territories, and that those rights, as declared and determined by\\nthe Courts, under the Constitution, are to be respected and maintained by the\\nGovernmeut of the United States; and that James Guthrie of Kentucky be the\\nnominee of the Democratic party for President of the United States, on this\\nplatform.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "42\\nMr. Cessna of Pennsylvania offered the following\\nResolved. That the convictions of the Democratic party of the country remain\\nunshaken in tlie wir^doui and justice of an adequate protection of iron, coal, wool,\\nand th(! other i^reat staples of our country, based upon the necessities of a rea-\\nsonable revenue system of the General Government and approving of the views\\nof President Buchanan upon tlie subj ct of specific duties, we earnestly desire our\\nRepresentatives in Congress to produce sucli modifications of the existing laws\\nas the unwise legislation of the Republican party in 1837 renders absolutely\\nnecessary to the prosper) ty of the great interests of the country.\\nCapt. Rynders wanted protection extended over Monongahela whiskey.\\nAll these resolutions were referred to the committee on Platform.\\nResolutions became ridiculous, and on motion of Mr. Pugh, it was\\nvoted that tliey should in future be referred without reading.\\nThis was throwing the mantle over the nakedness of the party. Mr.\\nPugh is a good boy.\\nThe committee on Resolutions being still in travail, almost hopeless,\\nthe Convention adjourned until -i P. M., having no business before it.\\nThe evening session amounted to nothing. There was much talk of\\nthe crisis ^and the Convention adjourned in a hopeless mood.\\nThere is but one course for it to pursue and be honest that is, di-\\nvide. They cannot agree, and every man in the Convention knows\\nthey cannot. Cool-headed men here are impressed that the chances in\\nthe next campaign are with the Chicago nominee. This thing is in a\\nhopeless jumble. The South has driven the Northern Democracy to\\n,the wall, and now insists upon protection of slavery in the Territories.\\nIn other words, insists upon the political execution of every Northern\\nDemocrat, and the total destruction of the Democratic party. The\\nNorthern Democracy here are smitten with great terrors, and are wil-\\nling to do almost any thing for harmony, but bow their necks to the\\nknife of their political opponents. They are unwilling to submit them-\\nselves to assassination or to commit suicide. And the South will not\\nyield a jot of its position as master of the party, nor abate its devotion\\nto constitutional abstractions and the propagandisra of slavery. It is\\nperfectly clear, glaringly apparent here, seen in every face, heard in every\\nvoice, and pervades the city like an atmosphere, that the doctrine of the\\nDemocratic party must be that of exerting all powers of the Federal\\nGovernment for the extension of slavery, and the increase of the polit-\\ncal power of the master class of the Southern section. The record of\\nthis Convention will prove this fact to a demonstration. The word is\\njust now that the committee will agree upon a platform which will be\\nadopted. Rut the most sagacious of the politicians are uneasj. The\\nsessions of the committee on Resolutions are protracted and exciting.\\nTheir labor of splitting hairs is enormous. And they know they must\\nbring in a subterfuge, or throw a bomb-shell.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "48\\nFIFTH DAY\\nInstitutk IIai.i,. j\\nCharleston, S. C, April 27th.\\nThe crisis which was to have arrived yesterday, was postponed by the\\nfailure of the committee on Platform to report The committee, when\\nthe Convention came together this morning, was still unprepared.\\nThe reports were not made until half-past eleven o clock, when Mr.\\nAvery of North Carolina presented the following from a majority of the\\ncommittee on Resolutions\\nMAJORITY REPORT.\\nBesolved, That the platform adoptfd at Cincinnati be affirmed, with the follow-\\ning resolutions\\n1. Resolved, That the Democracy of the United States hold these cardinal\\nprinciples on the subject of slavery in the Territories First, That Congress\\nhas no power to abolish slavery in the Territories. Second, That the Territorial\\nLegishxture has no power to abolish slavery in any Territory, nor to prohllnt the\\nintroduction of slaves therein, nor any power to exclude slavery therefrom, nor\\nany right to destroy or impair the right of property in slaves by any legislation\\nwhatevei\\n2. Resolved, That the enactments of State Legislatures to defeat the faithful\\nexecution of the Fugitive Slave law are hostile in character, subversive of the\\nConstitution, and revolutionary in their effect.\\n3. Resolved, That it is the duty of the Federal Government to protect, when\\nnecessary, the rights of persons and property on the high-seas, in the Territo-\\nries, or wherever else its constitutional authority extends.\\n4. Resolved, That the Democracy of the nation recognize it as the impera-\\ntive duty of this Government to protect the naturalized citizen in all his rights,\\nwhether at home or in foreign lands, to the same extent as its native-born citi-\\nzens.\\n5. Resolved, That the National Democracy earnestly recomend the acquisi-\\ntion of the Island of Cuba, at the earliest practicable period.\\nWhereas, that one of the greatest necessities of the age, in a political, com-\\nmercial, postal and military point of view, is a speedy communication between\\nthe Pacific and Atlantic coasts Therefore, be it\\nResolved, That the National Democratic party do hereby pledge themselves to\\nuse every means in their power to secure the passage of some bill for the con-\\nstruction of a Pacific Railroad, from the western line of the Mississippi River to\\nthe Pacific Ocean, at the earliest practicable moment.\\nMr. Avery was instructed, as chairman of the committee, to report\\nthis Platform. He was further instructed to say that entire unanimi-\\nty did not prevail on a portion of the resolutions.\\nThe first and third resolutions in relation to slavery in the Territo-\\nries, and the duty of the General Government to protect the right of\\nperson and property, were adopted by a bare majority of the committee.\\nThe second resolution, in relation to the Fugitive Slave law, and the\\nfourth resolution, in relation to naturalized citizens, were adopted unan-\\nimously, and the fifth resolution, in relation to the acquisition of puba,\\nwas adopted without a division. The last resolution of the series, m\\nreference to the Pacific Railroad, was adopted by a majority vote.\\nMr. Payne of Ohio submitted the\\nMINORITY REPORT.\\nThe undersigned, a minority of the committee on Resolutions, regretting their\\ninability to concur with the report of the majority of your committee, feel con-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "44\\n.strained to sulmiit the f()llo\\\\viii i as their report, and recommend its adoption as\\na subbtitnte lor the npurt of tlie majority.\\nUe.specttullv submitted.\\nAMO.S ROBERTS, delegate from Maine.\\nW. BURNS, delegate from New Hampsbire.\\nE. M. BROWN, delegate from Vermont.\\nC. S. BRADLEY, delegate from Rhode Island.\\nA. G. HaZZARD. delegate from Connectieut.\\nBENJ. WILLIAMSON, delegate from New Jersey.\\nII. B. PAYNE, delegate from Ohio.\\nP. C. DUNNING, delegate from Indiana.\\nO. B. FICKLIN. delegate from Illinois.\\nG. V. N. LOTHROP, delegate from Michigan.\\nA. S. PALMER, delegate from Wisconsin.\\nBEN. M. SAMUEL, delegate from Iowa.\\nJ. \\\\S. M. CAV.ANAUGIL delegate from Minnesota.\\nEDWIN CIROSWELL, delegate irom New York.\\nH. B. WRIGHT, delegate from Pennsylvania.\\nThe name of Mr. Croswell was followed by the note that he signed\\nthe report in accordance with the wishes of his delegation, and agreed\\nwith the resolutions as far as they went. The resolutions of the minor-\\nity, which he would read, contained one or two resolutions similar to\\nthose of the majority but as they hoped their report would be the\\nplatform of the party, they had thought it best to embody these in that\\nreport. The resolutions are as follows\\n1. Besohrd. That we, the Democracy of the Union, in Convention assembled,\\nhereby declare our affirmance of the resolutions unanimously adopted and de-\\nclared as a platform of principles by the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati\\nin the year 1856, believing that Democratic principles are unchangeable in their\\nnature when apy)li( d to the same suVyect-matters and we recommend, as the\\nonly further resolutions, the following\\n2. lic.^olved, Tliat all questions in regard to the rights of property in States\\nor Territories arising under the Constitution of the United States are judicial in\\ntheir character, and the Democratic party is pledged to abide by and faithfully\\ncarry out such drterniination of these questions as has been or may be made by\\nth(? Supreme Court of the United States.\\n3. lienolird, That it is the duty of the United States to atford amjjle and com-\\nplete protection to all its citizens, whether at home or abroad, and whether na-\\ntive or fortMgn-born.\\n4. Rexolvi d, That one of the necessities of th6 age, in a military, commercial\\nand postal point of view, is speedy communication between the Atlantic and\\nPacific States and the Democratic party pledge such Constitutional Govern-\\nment aid as will insure the construction of a Railroad to the Pacific coast, at\\nthe earliest practical)le period.\\n5. Resnlvfid. That the Democratic party are in favor of the acquisition of the\\nIsland oj Cuba, on such terms as shall be honorable to ourselves and just to\\nSpain.\\n6. Reaolved. That the enactments of State Legislatures to defeat the faithful\\nexecution of the Fugitive Slave law, are hostile in character, subversive of the\\nConstitution, and re\\\\olutionary in their effect.\\nMr. IJ. F. Butler of Massachusetts presented the following minority\\nreport, signed by himself as a substitute for the amendment proposed\\nby the gentleman from Ohio\\nResolved, That we. the Democracy of the Union, in Convention assembled,\\nhereby declare our atlirmance of the Democratic Resolutions nn:uiimonsly\\nadopted and declared as a Platform of Principles at Cincinnati, in the year\\n185G, without addition or alteration, believing that Democratic principles are", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "45\\nuncbangoable in their nature, when applied to the pame suliject-iiiatter. and we\\nrecommend as the only farther resolution, the ibllowuig\\nResolred, That it is the duty of the United States to extend its jirotection\\nalike over all its citizens, whether native or naturaliz( d.\\nA minority of your conmiittee liave agreed to re])ort the above as the sole\\nresolutions upon the subject of the principles of the party.\\nIn behalf of a minority of tlie coinuiiltee,\\nB. V. BUTLER.\\nMr. Cochrane of New York gave notice that as soon as one of the\\namendments was out of the way he would offer the following\\nResolved, That the several States of this Union are, under the Constitution,\\nequal, and tliat the people thereof are entitled to the tree and niidistnrl)rd pos-\\nsession and enjoyment of their rights of person and propL^rly in ll]e common\\nTerritories, and that any attempt by Congress or a Territorial LegislaturJ to\\nannul, abridge or discriminate against any such equality or riglits would be un-\\nwise in policy and repugnant to the Constitution and that it is tlie duty of the\\nFederal Government, whenever such rights are violated, to atford the uecessary,\\nproper and constitutional remedies for such violations.\\nResolved, That the Platform of Principles adopted by the Convention held in\\nCincinnati, in 1S5(), and the foregoing resolutions, are hereby declared to be the\\nPlatform of the Democi atic party.\\nA dreary discussion followed. Mr. Avery spoke first, going over\\nthe usual ground traversed by Southern gentlemen of second-rate abili-\\nties in dismissing the slavery question.\\nMr. Clark of Mis.souri interrupted him in the course of his remarks,\\nsaying he was one of the majority who had indorsed the platform. The\\ngentleman had alluded to his State as one that stood by the report.\\nHe wanted to announce to the Convention that he did not approve\\nwholly of the report, and would not vote for the first resolution in the\\nreport. He had signed the report only in order to enable the committee\\nto report.\\nMr. Avery did not make much headway.\\nMr. Payne of Ohio defended the minority report. He made a vig-\\norous speech, deeply earnest, and strongly fortified his position by ex-\\ntracts from the speeches of Southern gentlemen. He said of the action\\nof the Platform con)mittee\\nHe deemed it due to say, by way of testimony for all his colleagues\\non the committee, that they had, for three days, soberly, earnestly and\\nsolemnly discussed the issues that now divide the Democratic party.\\nIt is not a personal victory they seek to achieve, but every gentleman\\nhad, he believed, felt in his conscience and in his heart, that upon the\\nresult of the deliberation of the Convention, in all human probability,\\ndepended the fate of the Democratic party and the destiny of the Union,\\nand they would have been no patriots if they had brought into their\\ndeliberations any but an earnest desire to adjust the diHerences that\\nexist in the party. It was with that purpo.-e and that feeling that he\\ntook a seat in the Convention and on the committee and if be knew\\nhis own heart, there is no personal sacrifice he would not make, short\\nof his honor, to rekindle the spirit of harmony that prevailed in former\\ndays in the Democratic party of the Union. But there exifrted a differ-\\nence between the members of the committee. After a protracted dis-\\ncussion they had been unable to agree, and it was the most painful act", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "46\\nof his political life when he found himself compelled to dissent from the\\nmajority of the committee in their final action.\\nIn conclusion, he asked the South\\nAre you for a very abstraction going to yield the chance of success?\\nIs there any disposition to rob you of your political influence on the\\npart of your Northern brethren\\nWe say we u ill abide by the decision of the Courts. The Dred\\nScott decision having been rendered since the Cincinnati Platform was\\nadopted, renders this proper. We will take that decision, and abide\\nby it like loyal, steadfast, true-hearted men. Is not that enough?\\nHe would appeal to the South to put no weights upon the North to\\nlet them run this race unfettered and unhampered. If the appeal is\\nanswered, the North will do her duty in the struggle. Should the\\nplatform of the majority be adopted, he would go home and do his\\nbest but hopeless of success. But he would ask, in that case, that\\nhis gallant Southern friends who desire to spend their summer farther\\nNorth, would visit the State of Ohio, and join in the battle on the\\nWestern Reserve.\\nGen. Butler of Massachusetts proceeded to dissect both platforms,\\nand did it with an incisive ferocity that was refreshing to behold. The\\nCincinnati Platform had had two interpretations placed upon it, eh So\\nhad the Bible and the Constitution of the United States. Gentlemen\\ncould not construct a platform that would not have a double interpreta-\\ntion.\\nThe rights of persons and property on the high-seas to the pro-\\ntection of the Federal Government, were asserted by Gen. Butler to be\\ncapable of a construction, showing it to assert the duty of Government\\nto protect the African slave-trade. The General was assured that the\\nSouth did not mean that, but the construction could not be got rid of.\\nIt would adhere, and would, if it were adopted, do the Northern De-\\nmocracy incalculable mischief. Gen. Butler was right in this. The\\nresolution asserts the duty of Government to protect slavery in the\\nTerritories no more clearly than its duty to protect the slave-trade on\\nthe high-seas, and such, doubtless, was the intention of the writer of\\nthe resolutions.\\nMr. Butler waded into the platform presented by Mr. Payne of Ohio.\\nHe said the Cincinnati Platform contained a resolution on the annexa-\\ntion of Cuba, much more delicately, diplomatically and properly ex-\\npressed, than that in Mr. Payne s report. He was not in favor of the\\nPacific Railrpad. This doctrine of internal improvements by Govern-\\nment, was a new thing for the Democratic party. It was not according\\nto his style of democracy. The first part of the resolution in the mi-\\nnority report that clause in reference to slavery in the Territories, as-\\nserting the question of property to be a judicial question, was a mere\\ntruism when considered in the sense in which it was meant. The\\nsecond part of that resolution was very dangerous. It pledged the\\nDemocratic party to all the decisions the Supreme Court might make.\\nWas this tlie doctrine of Old Hickory Why, it would be enough to\\nmake tlie bones of old Jackson rattle in his coffin, to have such a reso-\\nlution as that entertained by a Democratic Convention. Suppose the", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "47\\nDemocratic party should be divided, by some foolish differences arising\\nhere, and Wm. H Seward should become next President of the United\\nStates.\\nThe judges of the Supreme Court were old men, and some of them\\nwould soon die. Seward proposed, at any rate, to reorganize the Su-\\npreme Court. Was the South ready to indorse in advance all the de-\\ncisions of the Supreme Court, when it might become Black Republican,\\nwhen Sewaid might have the manufacture of it There were shouts of\\nNo, no.\\nThe Convention adjourned when Gen. Butler concluded his speech,\\ntaking a recess until four o clock. There were hundreds of ladies in\\nthe hall without umbrellas in hand or carriages at command, and during\\nthe morning session the rain commenced falling heavily. The long\\ndrouth was over at last. The people in the hall were in a bud condi-\\ntion, but the city and the country need the rain badly.\\nMany of the ladies contrived to do without their dinners and spent\\nthe recess in their gallery. The poor creatures, with their new dresses\\nand loves of bonnets, were in sore tribulation. The atmosphere of the\\nhall was already damp and chilly, and their fine feathers are drooping.\\nThe doctrinal position of the Democracy as displayed in the debate\\nto-day, is pitiable enough. It is indeed ridiculous and absurd for this\\nbody of delegates to be pretending to try to agree on a platform, when\\nthe whole country, themselves included, know well their disagreements\\nare radical and absolute.\\nAFTERNOON SESSION.\\nThe first thing after the Convention was called to order in the after-\\nnoon, was a speech from Mr. Barksdale, editor of the Mississippian,\\nwhich was a clear, well-expressed, shrewd, and keen ultra-Southern\\nspeech, demanding the protection of slavery in the Territories, and in-\\nsisting upon adhering to principle rather than consulting expediency.\\nMr. Barksdale is, I presume, a more forcible writer than speaker.\\nThe speech which he made to-day will read better than it sounded. He\\nis a disciple of Jefferson Davis. His personal appearance is much in\\nhis favor but he is full of fire and prone to fly off the handle. Som\u00c2\u00ab\\nexpressions of his countenance are very amiable but there is a dan-\\ngerous glitter in his eye, and his thin, white lips are, when in repose,\\nshut like the jaws of a steel clasp.\\nMr. King of Missouri, an old Tom Benton Democrat, who has only\\nrecently repented of associations with Frank Blair, B. Gratz Brown and\\nCo., followed. He made an ultra-Douglas speech, indorsing the North-\\nern Democracy in the most unqualified manner. He told the South\\nthat their demand for the protection of slavery in the Territories would,\\nif persisted in, result in a Black Republican Congress, which would give\\nthem such protection as wolves gave lambs.\\nMr. King is an elderly gentleman, who impresses all who hear him\\nthat he is thoroughly sincere. He was put forward by tlie Douglasites\\nas a Southerner to answer Barksdale, and his effort was warmly ap-\\nplauded by the Northerntfaction of the party. He stated in commendation", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "43\\nof Northern Democrats that, they were always willing to assist in return-\\nini^ fu i itive slaves. Wherever a Southerner, when hunting his peculiar\\nproperty gone astray, could find a sound Democrat, he was certain of\\nsvnipatliy and assistance. He lamented the injustice done by the South\\nto Northern Democrats, and deplored the hard political fate of those in\\nthe North who stood up for the South, and fought the battles of her\\nrifhts. He appealed to the South not to drive the Northern Democracy\\nto the wall, and alienate them, and thereby secure the election of Sew-\\nard to the Presidency.\\n]\\\\lr. Yancey of Alabama rose to replj^and received a perfect ovation.\\nThe hall fur several minutes rang with applause. It appeared at once\\nthat the outside pressure was with the fire-eaters.\\nMr. Yancey is a very mild and gentlemanly man, always wearing a\\ngenuinely good-humored smile, and looking as if nothing in the world\\ncould disturb the equanimity of his spirits. He commenced by saying\\nthat no time could be more appropriate for an Alabamian to be heard, than\\nafter the strange and unnatural speech they had just heard from a son\\nof the South (Mr. King). Mr. Yancey asked for more time than was\\nallowed by the rules of the Convention, and by common consent was\\nallowed an additional half hour. He filled up his time (an hour and a\\nhalf) with great effect. There wns no question after he had been upon\\nthe platform a few minutes, that he was a man of remarkable gifts of\\nintellect and captivating powers as a speaker He reviewed the differ-\\nences on the slavery question of the Democracy. He charged that the\\ndefeats of the Democracy in the North were to be traced to the pander-\\ning by the party in the free States to anti-slavery sentiments they had\\nnot come up to the high ground which must be taken on the subject, in\\norder to defend the South namely, that slavery was right. He re-\\nviewed the Kansas question, and detected enormity in the action of\\nStephen A. Douglas and his followers, in refusing to admit Kansas into\\nthe Union as a slave State under the Lecompton Constitution, and sor-\\nrowed over the fact that only three constitutional Democrats were to be\\nfound in the Northern States to vote against the admission of Kansas\\nunder the \\\\Vyandotte Constitution. He traced the history of Northern\\naggression and Southern concession as he understood it. He spoke of\\nthe deep distrust the South had begun to entertain of the Northern De-\\nmocracy, and urged the propriety of the demand of the South, that the\\nDemocratic party should now take clear and high ground upon a consti-\\ntutional basis. He pronounced false all charges that the State of Ala-\\nbama, himself or his colleagues, were in favor of a dissolution of the\\nUnion per se. But he told the Democracy of the North that they must,\\nin taking high constitutional ground, go before the people of the North\\nand .tell them of the inevitable dissolution of the Union if constitutional\\nprinciples did not prevail at the ballot-boxes. He spoke of the Demo-\\ncratic indorsement which the majority phitform had received, saying that\\nnot one State wliich had voted against it, in committee, could be certain-\\nly relied upon to cast Democratic electoral votes, while every State that\\nhad supported that platform, with but one exception (Maryland) could,\\nupon that platform, be counted absolutely certain in the electoral\\ncollege for the JJemocratic candidate. He spolc directly to Southern", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "49\\nmen and appealed to them to present a united front in favor of a plat-\\nform that recognized their rights and guaranteed their honor. IIo said\\ndefeat upon principle was better than a mere victory gained by present-\\ning anibiguous issues and cheating the people. He referred to tlie de-\\nfeat of the Democratic party when it made a fight on principles against\\ncoon-skins and log cabins in 1840, and called :ittcntii n to the over-\\nwhelming tide on which they rode again into power the tide of the\\nsecond sober thought of the people. The Southerners in the hall\\nwere thoroughly warmed up by his speech, and applauded with raptur-\\nous enthusiasm. Several of his points were received with outbursts of\\napplause that rung around the hall as if his hearers had been made to\\nsliout and stamp by the simultaneous action of electricity. One of his\\nmost effective points was in relation to the Dred Scott decision and tlie\\nplea made by Douglas and others that almost all of it was mere obiter\\ndicta. This plea was disrespectful to the venerable man, who, clothed\\nin the supreme ermine, had made an exposition of constitutional law.\\nwhich had rolled in silvery cadence from the dark forests of the North\\nto the glittering waters of the Gulf.\\nHe distinctly admitted that the South did ask of the Northern De-\\nmocracy an advanced step in vindication of Southern rights and Mr.\\nYancey s hour and a half closed wh.ile he was in the midst of a series of\\nlofty periods, and Mr. Pugh of Ohio sprung to his feet. The speech of\\nMr Yancey had been the speech of the Convention. Some time before\\nit was concluded the day had expired, and the gas had been lit about\\nthe hall. The scene was very brilliant and impressive. The crowded\\nhall, the flashing lights, the deep solicitude felt in every word, the im-\\nportance of the issues pending, all combined to make up a spectacle of\\nextraordinary interest, and something of splendor.\\nMr. Pugh took the platform in a condition of considerable warmth.\\nThere was an effort made to adjourn, but the crowd was eager for the\\nfray, and in-^^isted that Pugh should go on. He did so, thanking God\\nthat a bold and honest man from the South had at last spoken, and told\\nthe whole truth of the demands of the South. It was now before the\\nConvention and the country, that the South did demand an advanced\\nstep fiom the Democratic party. Mr. Pugh read the resolutions of the\\nAlabama Convention four years ago, reported by Mr. Yancey, showing\\nthat the delegation of Alabama demanded of the Democracy assembled\\nat Charleston, more than they required of the Democraf^y at Cincinnati,\\nfour years ago. His point was weakened, however, by the fact that he\\ndid not read all of the Alabama resolutions until forced to do so by the\\nperemptory demands of Yancey and Judge Meek. Mr. Pugh said that\\nhis political life was almost over, and so far as he was personally con-\\ncerned, he did not regret it. He then traced the downfiill of the North-\\nern Democracy, and the causes of that fall, charging the South with it.\\nAnd now the Northern Democracy were taunted by the South with\\nweakness. And here, it seemed, the Northern Democracy, because\\nthey were in the minority, were thrust back and told in effect they\\nmust put their hands on their mouths, and their mouths in the dust.\\nGentlemen of the South, said Mr. Pugh, you mistake us you\\n4", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "60\\nmistake us we will not do it. Mr. Pugli was interrupted mj motions\\nto adjiturn, and the Convention took a recess of one hour.\\nAt half-|)a.\u00c2\u00abt nine o clock in the evening, the Convention again assem-\\nbled, and Mr. Pugh took the platform, in the face of a magnificent\\naudience, and spoke with intense energy and animation, in his best\\nsiyle.\\nHis first point was against the exercise of doubtful constitutional\\npowers and he insisted that the Southern demand for peculiar protec-\\ntion of their peculiar property in the Territories, had no warrant in the\\nConstitution.\\nMr. Pugh s cffirt is conceded to have been bold and adroit. It had\\nnot the silvery music, the grace and poli^h, that distinguished the ora-\\ntion of Mr. Yancey, but it was keen, shrewd and telling.\\nA Washington reporter, who has heard all Mr. Pugh s Senate speeches,\\nsays this effort was far superior to the best of them.\\nHe spoke of the sacrifice of the Northern Democrats of their political\\nlives, battling for the doctrine of the South, now scornfully repudiated\\nand pointed out among the delegates, men who had been Senators and\\nRepresentatives, and who had fallen in the fight. In conclusion, he\\nstated the Democracy, who were prepared to stand by the old faith,\\nwould be sorry to part with their Southern friends, but if the gentle-\\nmen from the South could only stay on the terms proposed, they must\\ngo. The Democracy of the Noith-west would make itself heard and\\nfelt. The Northern Democrats were not children under the pupilage of\\nthe South, and to be told to stand here and there, and moved at the beck\\nand bidding of the South. The hall was still, as it was understood\\nthat Pugh was the spokesman of Douglas, and that the fate of the\\nDemocratic party was in issue.\\nWhen Mr. Pugh concluded, Mr. John Cochrane pressed a motion\\nto have a place assigned for his amendment to the majority report.\\nAfter some discussion, it was ruled out of order.\\nMr. Bishop of Connecticut now said he thought nothing new could\\nbe said of the dissentions of the Democratic party, if the Convention\\nremained in session and debated all summer. All these questions had\\nbeen discussed time and again, and the minds of gentlemen made up,\\nhe therefore demanded the previous question.\\nIn an instant the house was in an uproar a hundred delegates upon\\nthe floor, and upon chairs, screaming like panthers, and gesticulating\\nlike monkeys. The President, for the first time, completely lost con-\\ntrol over the Convention; not a word was audible. The reporters\\nclimbed upon their tables, the delegates mounted the chairs, the people\\nin the galleries stretched their necks and hung over the balustrade, and\\nliterally, as was said of a scene in the House of Representatives, you\\nwould see the Speaker s hammer going, but could not hear it. The\\nchair singled out a red-haired member from Missouri, who was standing\\non a front seat, and shaking his gory locks, and trying to shriek louder\\nand louder, and to look more terrible than any body else, and recog-\\nnized him as moving to adjourn. The chair probably thought it the\\npart of prudence to see that the Convention adjourned, for voting on", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "61\\nthe platform in the midst of sucli a tornado, and at that hour (it was\\nafter ten o clock), would be certain to blow up the Convention.\\nStill the Convention roared and raged, and the chairman, h^eein^ it\\nwas not worth while to try to put it down by vehement efflnts, hoked\\nquietly at it^; and after he had recognized the Missifceippian, remained\\nquiescent.\\nThe first voice that rose above the din was that of some frio-htened\\ndelegate, crying aloud like some strong swimmer in his agony, emit-\\nting a bubbling groan, that the application of the gag would be dis-\\nastrous to the party. The poor fellow thought the party was about to\\nbust and the thing die so he shrieked for the salvation of the Dumo-\\ncratic party. Presently the chairman managed to take the reins in his\\nhands, and with great equanimity, firmness and calmness of manner,\\nstated that there was no occasion for so much agitation and discompos-\\nure. A crowd gathered about Bishop, and some seemed to menace\\nhim. The delegates gathered in groups and grappled with each other,\\nand surged about like waves of the sea.\\n.The chair recognized the motion of adjournment, and a vote by States\\nwas called for, and an adjournment carried by a small majority yeas,\\n158i nays, 143. The following is the vote\\nStates. Yeas. A^ii/s. States. Yeas. JVays.\\nMaioo 8 Mississippi 7\\nNew Hampshire 5 Texas 4\\nVeimoiit 5 Arkansas 4\\nMassachusetts 7 5i Missouri 3 6\\nRhode Island 4 Tennessee 12\\nConnecticut 1 5 Kentucky 12\\nNew York 35 Ohio 23\\nNew Jersey 7 Indiana 13\\nPennsylvania 8 19 Illinois 5 6\\nDelaware 3 Michigan 6\\nMaryland 8 Wisconsin 5\\nVirginia 15 Iowa 4\\nNorth Carolina 10 Minnesota U 2i\\nSouth Carolina 8 California 4\\nGeorgia 10 Oregon 3\\nFlorida 3\\nAlabama 9 lo8i 143\\nLouisiana 6\\nThe Convention separated in a bad huraor. There was a call on the\\nSoutherners to remain and consult. It was a cold, rainy night, but\\nthere was intense heat about the hotels. Men stalked about with drip-\\nping umbrellas, and consulted eagerly and anxiously. Every bidy said\\nthat there would necessarily be an explosion in the morning. During\\nthe evening, as it was known that the crisis could not much longer\\nbe put off, dispatches were flying between Washington and Charleston.\\nThe Southern members of Congress were telling the delegates from\\ntheir States that they must go out with Alabama. Toombs telegraphed\\nto the Georgians that they must not stay after Alabama went out.\\nGartell did the same thing. The South Carolinians also sent di.-jiatches,\\nsaying that the Palmetto delegates must not be outstripped in the race\\nof zeal for Southern rights and independence.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "52\\nSIXTH DAY.\\nChakleston, Saturday. April 28th.\\nThe first thing was a pathetic appeal from Bigler of Pennsylvania.\\nBiffler in his wisdom, considered the occasion critical. He feared the\\nunfon of the Democratic party could not be maintained. He was in\\nfavor of the union of the Democracy for the sake of the union of the\\nStates of course the union of the States would go up, the moment the\\nDemocratic party went down.\\nHe moved that the majority and minority reports be recommitted to\\nthe Convention, with instructions to report in an hour the following\\nresolutions\\nResolved, That the platform adopted by the Democratic party at Cincinnati be\\natfirm-d. with the followiug explanatory rosoliitiou.s\\nResolved, That the govenimenl of a Territory, organized by an act of Congress,\\nis proviKional and temporary, and, during its existence, all citizens of the United\\nStates have an equal right to settle in the Territory, without their rights either\\nof person or property, being destroyed or impaired by Congressional or Territo-\\nrial legislation.\\nResolved, That the Democratic party stands pledged to the doctrme that it 13\\nthe duly of the Governmuut to maintain all the coustitutiomd rights of property\\nof whatever kind, in the Territories, and to enforce all the decisions of the\\nSupreme Court in reference thereto.\\nResolved, That it is the duty of the United States to afford ample and com-\\nplete protection to all its citizens, whether at home or abroad, and whether\\nnative or foreign.\\nResolved, That one of the necessities of the age, in a military, commercial and\\npostal point of view, is speedy communication between the Atlantic and Pacific\\nStates; and the Democratic party pledge such constitutional government aid as\\nwill insure the construction of a railroad to the Pacific coast at the earliest\\npractical period.\\nResolved, That the Democratic party are in favor of the acquisition of the\\nIsland of Cuba, on such terms as shall be honorable to ourselves and just to\\nSpain.\\nResolved, That the enactments of State Legislatures to defeat the faithful exe-\\ncution of the Fugitive Slave law, are hostile in character, subversive ot the Con-\\nstitution, and revolutionary in their effect.\\nThe question was divided, and a vote was taken upon the first branch\\nof the motion of Mr. Bigler to commit the resolutions offered by the\\ncommittee on Resolutions, with the amendments, back to the committee.\\nAlabama demanded that the vote be by States.\\nThe question was taken, and it was decided in the afi rmative. Yeas,\\n152; nays, 151, as follows:\\nSlates. Fea,^. Nays. States. Yeas. Nays.\\nMaine o 5 Maryland 5i 2.^\\n.Now Hampshire 5 Virginia 14 I\\nVermunt 5 North Carolina 10\\nMassachusettH 8 5 South Carolina 8\\nRhode Island 4 Georgia 10\\nConnecticut 1 i 4.^ Florida 3\\nNew York 35 Ala));una 9\\nNewJtrsey 4 3 Louisiana 6\\nI ciinsylyauia 16 II Mississippi 7\\nDelaware 3 Texas 4", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "53\\nStaffs. Yea. JVoi/a. SU/fex. Yens. Nay^\\nArkansas 4 Wisconsin 5\\nMissouri 5 4 Inwa 4\\nTennessee 11 1 Miiiiicsota 1\\nKentucky 12 California 4\\nOhio 23 Oregon 3\\nIndiana 13\\nIllinois 11 152 151\\nMichigan 6\\nSo the proposed platforms were recommitted.\\nThe effect of the vote to recommit was to dampen the ardor of the\\nDouglas men very much.\\nMr. Bigler s motion instructing the committee, was laid on the table\\nby a vote of 242 to 56|^, when the State of Georgia was called. As\\nthis vote was being taken a minority of her delegation, Douglasites,\\nmade a struggle to assert their right to vote as they individually pleased.\\nThe Georgia delegation had been requested to vote as a unit. The rule\\nadopted by the Convention provided that the individual delegates should\\ncast their votes as they pleased, when it was not provided or directed by\\nthe State bow they should cast their votes.\\nThe President reviewed the facts of the case as brought to the knowl-\\nedge of the Convention, and held that the words of the rule, which\\nallowed any delegate to cast his individual vote, except where the State\\nhe represented hs.A provided or directed how the vote of the delegation\\nshould be cast, covered, in his judgment, the resolution that it had been\\nagreed upon by both parties, had been adopted by the Georgia State\\nConvention. The word jirovided, in the rule was evidently meant\\nto cover something more than directions, as both words had been\\nused. The request of a State should certainly be liberally construed,\\nand he thought it was a provision as to how the vote of the State\\nshould be cast. He, therefore, resolved to receive the vote of the State\\nof Georgia, through the chairman of the delegation, as a unit.\\nSenator Salisbury was exceedingly anxious to talk of the perilous\\ncondition of the Democratic party.\\nA Delegate from Florida rose to the question of privilege. He was\\nanxious to get along harmoniously and with order. As there were a\\ncertain number of gentlemen who seemed bound to make the Conven-\\ntion look at their faces, by hopping up every minute to some question\\nor other, he would suggest that their daguerreotypes be taken and handed\\nround, then there would be no occasion for them to thus annoy and trou-\\nble the Convention.\\nThe Convention adjourned until four o clock, to give the committee\\ntime to report.\\nAFTERNOON SESSION.\\nOn reassembling there was the same old trouble. Three reports\\nvery slightly moditied from those originally reported.\\nMr. Avery of North Carolina. Mr. President, I beg leave,_ on be-\\nhalf of the committee on Resolutions, to make a report, and 1 will take\\noccasion to avail myself of tbe opportunity, before reading it, to make\\na single remark.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "54\\nThese resolutions meet the approbation of a mnjority of the States\\nrepresented upon that committee. I will state further, that the com-\\nmittee understood that this report embodies in substance the Bayard\\nresolutions, and in substance the resolutions of the gentleman from\\nPennsylvania (Mr. Bigler), and in substance the resolutions offered\\nby the gentleman from New York (Mr. Cochrane), being modified in\\nsuch sliape as the committee think will meet the approbation of the\\nCovention. [Applause.]\\nKesolveA, Tliat the platform adopted by the Democratic party at Cincinnati be\\nailinncd. with the following explanatory resolutions\\nFird. That the government of a Territory organized by an act of Congress, 13\\nprovisional and temporary and, during its existence, all citizens of the United\\nStates have an efjual right to settle with their property in the Territory without\\ntheir rights, either of person or property, being destroyed or impaired by Con-\\ngressional or Territorial legislation.\\nSecond, That it is the duty of the Federal Government, in all its departments,\\nto protect, when necessary, the rights of persons and property in the Territo-\\nries, and wherever else its constitutional authority extends.\\nThird, That when the settlers in a Territory having an adequate population to\\nform a State Constitution, the right of sovereignty commeucts, and, being con-\\nsummated by admission into the Union, they stand on an equal footing with the\\npeople of other States and the State thus organized ought to be adn jitted into\\nthe Federal Union, whether its cousiitution prohibits or recognizes the institu-\\ntion of slavery.\\nFourth, That the Democratic party are in favor of the acquisition of the Is-\\nland of Culja, on such ti rins as shall be honorable to oui selves and just to\\nSpain, at the earliest practicable moment.\\nFifth, That the enactments of State Legislatures to defeat the faithful execu-\\ncution of the Fugitive Slave law, are hostile in character, subversive of the\\nConstitution, and revolutionary in their effect.\\nSixth, That the Democracy of the United States recognize it as the impera-\\ntive duty of this Goveinment to protect the naturalized citizen in all his rights\\nwhether at home or in foreign lands, to the same extent as its native-born citi-\\nzens.\\nWhereas, one of the greatest necessities of the age, in a political, commer-\\ncial, postal and military point of view, is a speedy eonmiunication between the\\nPacific and Atlantic coasts Therefore, be it\\nResolved. Tliat the Democratic party do hereby pledge themselves to use every\\nmeans in their power to secure the passage of some bill, to the extent of the\\nconsiitulional authority of Congress, for the constniction of a Pacific Railroad,\\nfrom the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, at the earliest practicable mo-\\nment.\\nMr. Avery remarked\\nIt is proper, Mr. President, that I should state that the Bayard res-\\nolutions have been amended, first by inserting in the first resolution,\\nafter the word settle, the words with their property by insert-\\ning in the second resolution, after the words Federal Government,\\nthe word.s in all its departments; after the word protect, the\\nwords when necessary; by striking out in the same resolution the\\nwords on the high-seas, as they seem to have led to some misappre-\\nhension in regard to the views entertained by the committee in asserting\\nthat amendment. In the resolution relating to a postal and military\\nroad to California, the words to the extent of a constitutional author-\\nity of Congress are inserted after the word bill.\\nI would further state that the second resolution is amended in this", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "55\\nparticular As originally drafted, it read, tho rights of |ici.sons and\\nproperty on the high-seas, in the Territories, or wherever else its con-\\nstitutional authority extends. The committee have stricken out the\\nwords high-seas, and after the word Territory, they have strick-\\nen out the word or, so that the resolution now reads:\\nThat it is the duty of the Federal Government, in all its depart-\\nments, to protect, when necessary, the riglits of persons and property\\nin the Territories, and wherever else its constitutional authority ex-\\ntends.\\nMr. Butler of Massachusetts. I desire to say that I have a report\\nto offer from the minority of the committee, which I am instructed to\\npresent, and to move its submission as an amendment, for the report of\\nthe gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Samuels), who represents the larger\\nminority of the committee.\\nI have also the happiness to state that I have an addition to my thir-\\nty-two companions of yesterday. At such time as it will suit the pleas-\\nure of the Convention I will offer my amendment, which is the Cincin-\\nnati Platform, pure and undefiled. [Applause.]\\nMr. Samuels of Iowa. I am instructed by the minority committee\\non resolutions to offer the following report. It is identical with the re-\\nport that was presented by the minority committee yesterday, with the\\nexception that the second resolution of the minority report of yesterday\\nhas been stricken out, and the following has been substituted. I will\\nread the resolution which has been substituted. [Voices Read\\nthem all.\\nI will read them all, then. The resolutions are as follows\\n1. Resolved, That we, the Democracy of the Union, in Convention assembled,\\nhereby declare our affirmance of the resolutions unanimously adopted and de-\\nclared as a platlorni of principles by the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati\\nin the year 1856, believing that Democratic principles are unchangeable in their\\nnature when appli d to the same subjtct-matters and we recommend, as the\\nonly further resolutions, the following\\nInasmuch as differences of opinion exist in the Democratic party as to the\\nnature and extent of the powers of a Territorial Legislature, and as to the pow-\\ners and duties of Congress, under the Constitution of the United States, over\\nthe jnstitutiun of slavery within the Territories\\n2. Remlned, That the Democratic party will abide by the decisions of the Su-\\npreme Court of the United States on the questions of constitutional law.\\n3. Resolved, That it is the duty of the United States to afford ample and com-\\nplete protection to all its citizens, whether at home or abroad, and whether na-\\ntive or foreign.\\n4. Resolved, That one of the necessities of the age. in a military, commercial\\nand postal point of view, is speedy communication between the Atlantic and\\nPacific States and the Democratic party pledge such constitutional Govern-\\nment aid as will insure the construction of a Railroad to the Pacific coast, at\\nthe earliest practicable period.\\n5. Resolved, That the Democratic party are in favor of the acquisition of the\\nIsland of Cuba, on such terms as shall be honorable to ourselves and just to\\nSpain. 1 1 1\\n6. Resolved, That the enactments of State Legislatures to defeat the faithful\\nexecution of the Fugitive Slave law, are hostile in character, subversive of the\\nConstitution, and revolutionary in their effect.\\nMr. Avery made a speech in which he told the Northern delegates a", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "56\\npreat deal about the concessions of the South and urged them to rccol\\nlect that the slaves who now grow cotton in Ahibama, Mississippi and\\nGeorgia are the children of slaves who were formerly slaves in their\\nown States.\\nMr. Samuels lillod up an hour with a pompous stump speech advo-\\ncating the minority report.\\nMr. Butler of Massachusetts rehearsed his speech of the previous\\nday in favor of that singulaly luminous proposition, the Cincinnati\\nPlatform, pure and sin)ple. As to the two interpretations on the Cin-\\ncinnati Platform, he stated that there were already two interpretations\\nupon each of the reports before the Convention. There would always\\nbe two interpretations.\\nGov. Stephens of Oregon made a speech in favor of the majority\\nreport.\\nMr. Brent of Maryland made a speech for the minority report. The\\ndebate was dreadfully dull and intolerably long one dull fellow after\\nanother takes the floor and bores the immense and impatient audience\\nfor an hour. It becomes apparent that there is a determination not to\\nallow a vote on the resolutions.\\nNow, the majority report i.- at least tolerably honest. You can tell\\nwhat it means. There can be no dispute, however, but the minority\\nreport is a miserable and cowardly evasion. The favorite phrase of our\\nNorth-western gentry one that they have abided by through all their\\ntroubles is that Democratic principles are unchangeable in tlieir na-\\nture, when applied to the same subject-matters. They then proceed to\\nindort-e the Cincinnati Platform, knowing it to be an exposed cheat\\nthat the Administration elected upon it, has not construed it as it was\\ninterpreted before the people. They want to cheat and to be cheated.\\nThe next thing is an indorsement for time and eternity of the Supreme\\nCourt. Both platform reports were in favor of the exercise of consti-\\ntutional power (which means none at all) for the construction of the\\nPacific Railroad. Both were in fovor of Cuba on terms honorable to\\nourselves and just to Spaiu (which means, that Cuba is to be grabbed\\nwhenever an opportunity affords). Both were opposed to unfiiondly\\nlegislation in the Northern States, and both in favor of doing wonderful\\nthings for the foreign-born citizen at home and abroad.\\nAfter the debate had gone on several hours, being more wretched in\\nsubstance and unentertaining in manner than an ordinary wrangle in\\nthe^ House of Representatives, the previous question was demanded.\\nThis was done by a trick. Mr. Claiborne, delegate from Missouri,\\nwanted to explain the position of that State. Gushing had the floor\\nfarmed out, and expected to make a speech himself. He sent a messen-\\nger, to inquire whether the Missourian proposed to move the previous\\nquestion. The messenger saw the wrong man, and was deceived, and\\nin turn deceived Gushing, who thus lost the opportunity for which he\\nwas aching, to speak on the platform.\\nAnd now en.sued a parliamentary struggle, exceedingly exciting and\\ninteresting. The Douglas men were inten. ely anxious to finish up the\\nweek s work in good style by adopting their platform. The opponents\\nof Douglas were resolved that the vote should not be taken on the plat-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "67\\nform. The Dou^lasites were resolute, in the nijijority, and good tacti-\\ncians. But the South ffll back upon its old tactics in Congress that\\nof filibustering to save time. They heaped up motions to adjourn,\\nand motions to lay the whole matter upon the tai)le, and rose to privi-\\nleged motions and personal explanations. The Chair ruled steadily,\\nbut carefully, in favor of the filibusters. He was in a tight place,\\ntoo, and felt it. He became nervous and fidgety, and threatened to\\nleave the chair and abandon the Convention and the Convention posi-\\ntively seemed alarmed and disheartened at the idea of Caleb leaving it\\nto devour itself. Caleb said, it was impossible for him to maintain a\\ncontest of physical endurance with six hundred gentlemen. He said\\nThe Chair will entertain no motion, until the Convention is restored\\nto order, and when that is done, the Chair desires to make another sug-\\ngestion to the Convention. The Chair has already stated, that it is\\nphysically impossible for him to go on with the business of the Con-\\nvention, so long as one-half of the members are upon their feet and\\nengaged in clamor of one sort or another. The Chair begs leave to\\nrepeat that he knows but one remedy for snch disorder, and that is, for\\nyour presiding officer to leave the chair. He, of course, would deeply\\nregret that painful necessity, but it would be a less evil than that this\\nincessant confusion and disorder, presenting such a spectacle to the\\npeople of South Carolina, should continue to prevail in this most hon-\\norable body of so many respectable gentlemen of the highest standing\\nin the community, engaged in debate and deliberation upou the dearest\\ninterests of the country. [Applause.]\\nThere was a Mississippian, Jackson, who was particularly prominent\\nin putting motions. He had a good voice, and was standing in his\\nchair and roaring all the time. Now, Caleb saw in him an opportunity\\nof making a scape-goat. He (Caleb) had been holding the helm hard\\ndown against the Douglas parliamentarians, and now, taking a virtuous\\nspasm, he told Jackson in a tone most unphilosophically indignant, that\\nhe could not tolerate him on his feet incessantly putting an endless\\nseries of motions.\\nMr. Walker of Alabama wanted the unanimous consent of the Con-\\nvention to hear the Hon. Caleb Cushing on, the resolutions, but was\\nhooted down.\\nA gentleman from Tennessee, who had made many efforts to get the\\nfloor, finally obtained a hearing, when the motion he wished to put was\\nnot in order, and took advantage of his opportunity to introduce him-\\nself formally to the distinguished President of this Convention.\\nCushing was puzzled for a moment, and was then guilty of an awkward\\nbow, and a very thin artificial smile.\\nDuring the parliamentary squabble two votes by States were taken\\non motions to adjourn. The first was as follows\\nStales. Yeas. Nays. Stales. Yeas Nays.\\nMaine 8 Connecticut 6\\nNew Hampshire 5 New York 35\\nVermont 5 New Jersey 7\\nMaspachn setts 5 7i Pennsylvania 13 11\\nRhode Muad 4 Delaware 3", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "ays.\\nStales.\\nYeas.\\nNays.\\n2 J\\nKentucky\\nn\\nU\\n1\\nOhio\\n23\\nIndiana\\n13\\n8\\nIllinois\\n11\\nMicljigan\\n6\\nn\\nWisconsin\\n5\\nIowa\\n4\\nMinnesota\\n4\\nCalifornia\\n4\\n9\\nOregon\\n3\\n139\\n1G9\\n58\\nShite: Teas.\\nMaryland 5J\\nVirjrinia 14\\nNorth Carolina 10\\nSouth Carolina\\nGeorjria 10\\nFlorida 3\\nAlabama 9\\nLouisiana 6\\nMississippi 7\\nTexas 4\\nArkansas 4\\nMissouri\\nTennessee 12\\nIt is believed that the column of nays in this vote represents the ut-\\nmost strength of ]\\\\Ir. Douglas and there are some votes in it that he\\ncannot get. It is now thought that the South u in such a condition,\\nthat it would be absolute suicide for the South Carolina delegates to\\nvote for him, however great the emergency. There are also in this\\nvote two votes from Pennsylvania that he cannot get for the nomination.\\nAnd there will be one vote from Minnesota against him for the nomina-\\ntion. There are also five of the nine Missouri votes forever against\\nhim. It will be perceived, too, that the Douglas men screwed out of\\nthe Southern States their last half votes one vote and a half from\\nKentucky, and one vote from Virginia. There are, however, one or\\ntwo votes from Tennessee, that we find in the column of yeas above,\\nthat are for Douglas. On the whole, a close analysis of this vote shows\\nthat Douglas will get a majority vote, but cannot get a two-thirds vote,\\nunless the expected Southern secession should draw off thirty or forty\\nvotes. Then the Douglas men would use their numerical siiperiority\\nto construe the rules so, as to allow two-thirds of the votes present to\\nnominate.\\nThe fight on adjournment was at last a drawn battle. The main\\nquestion was ordered, and the Convention adjourned at 11 o clock P. M.\\nIt will be necessary on Monday morning to proceed to vote on the\\nplatform.\\nCharleston, April 29th.\\nThis, the day of rest, is the most busy day of the session among\\nthe politicians. The vote on tlie platform must come off in the morn-\\ning. The question on the platform of principles to-day, is which side\\nhas the most money and can make the biggest promises to obtain the\\nfloating vote. The uncertain men here, as in the late contest for the\\nSpeakership of the House, have the decision of the question. If the\\nmajority platform should be adopted, Douglas is dead without further\\nceremony. The Douglas stock is falling. Several of his delegations\\nare shaky men can be picked from all the delegations for him that are\\nat heart against him, and that will be happy to lead a stampede. These\\ngentlemen are very busy to-day, and were in a flutter yesterday. There\\nIS a feeling of distru.st in the delegations of Ohio, Indiana, and even\\nIllinois. Tho.=;e who are for Douglas through thick and thin, now and\\nforever, are becoming disgusted and alarmed at the coldness of some of\\ntheir colleagues. They are also in trepid.ation about the South. Every", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "59\\nimaginable offin-t will be made to-day by the deadly enemies of Douglas\\nto keep the South in the Convention. If Alabama and company will\\nstay in, after the minority platform is adopted, Douglas cannot receive the\\nnomination. There are, at least, one hundred and thirty votes innnov-\\nably against him. He can get more than that number, but there are not\\nthat many anxious about him. The New York vote will be east as an\\nunit for him, and yet there are more than one-third of the delegation\\nhotly opposed to him. The Douglas men have become so solicitous on\\nthe subject of the going out of the ultra-South, that the ultras are rather\\ndisposed to stay inside and disappoint them. Yesterday, for instance,\\nan Ohioan asked a Louisianian in a very solemn way, how many of\\nthem would be likely to go. Oh, never mind, said Louisiana, we\\nwon t go out until we are ready. You are too damn keen for us to go.\\nI am inclined to believe, from the information that comes to me from\\nvarious sources, that ten times the number of offices in existence under\\nthe Government, have been promised by Douglas Co., in case he\\nshould become President. I am told of one delegate from a Southern\\nState who has been three times approached, and asked whether he would\\nnot like a foreign mission, and could not be reconciled to Douglas.\\nForeign missions, collectorships, indeed, all offices within the gift of the\\nPresident, are the currency here.\\nI do not know but I will have to take back a statement made in this\\ncorrespondence, that the preponderance of brains in the Convention was,\\nor would be, with the South. If the South has the greatest weight and\\nbrilliancy of brains in the Convention, the fact has not appeared very\\ndefinitely, up to this time.\\nThe tactics of the Douglas men have been much better than those of\\ntheir opponents. No Southern speech upon the floor has been remark-\\nable for power, except that of the Hon. Wm. L. Yancey and there\\nhave been a considerable number of displays of the worst sort of South-\\nern blatherskiteisra, and some notable instances of Southern ill-manners.\\nThe Douglas men came here with a regular programme, with a power-\\nful mass of instructed delegates, and an enthusiastic corps of outsiders.\\nThe South, and the Administration forces, came without a candidate, a\\nprogramme, or even a conceit of a policy. They have rested secure in\\nthe idea of their strength. The force of the zeal and impudence of the\\nDouglas men amazes and confounds, while it exasperates, them. And\\nnow they find themselves face to face, with a pressing danger that\\nDouglas will overwhelm them. They did not know the tremendous ef-\\nforts\u00c2\u00b0the Little Giant was capable of putting forth. It is very evident\\nhere to-night, that with the Federal Government, and the dominant iiien\\nof the section of the greatest strength of the Democratic party against\\nhim, he is, in generalship, more than a match for them all. He in-\\nspired his followers, who gathered around him in Washington, as they\\npassed on their way to this place, with the wildest enthusiasm, and the\\nmost resolute determination to nominate him at all hazards, together\\nwith confidence in their ability to do so. And now, in spite of the\\nSouth s prestige, in spite of the Administration s hate, nothing stands\\nbetween him and a triumphant nomination but the two-*hirds rule\\nand it is not certain that even that will avail. It would be unwise to", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "60\\nunder-estimate the nuui who is competent to such a performance as this.\\nFrom the beginning of the struggle here, his enemies have been swim-\\nmino; against the tide. Slidell and all the rest, have been, as it were,\\nbut taking up arms against a sea of troubles, and they have not made\\nmuch prtigress toward ending tliem. The South has not yet produced\\nupon the floor in the rough-and-tumble fights of the Convention, a\\nchampion who could cope with the rude giant Richardson, while it re-\\nquired very acute ruling, by that most clear-headed sophist Caleb Cush-\\ning, at one time, to prevent Stuart of Michigan (the Democratic Sen-\\nator who stood with Douglas and Broderick against Lecompton) from\\nending the platform fight disastrously for the Administration, by a par-\\nliamentary coup d etat. I am not unwilling to admire, as all the world\\ndoes, a bold game played with enormous force and splendid impudence\\nfor an imperial stake, like as this Douglas game for the Presidency.\\nThat there is infinite rottenness and corruption under it, there is abun-\\ndant evidence. This is not confined to the Douglas side, however. It\\nis a part of :he caucus system. The revenues of King Caucus are bribes.\\nThe crowd here has thinned out rapidly within the last three days.\\nEvery train goes away full and two steamers, one for New York and\\nanother fur Philadelphia, left to-day, bearing off at least two hundred\\noutsiders. The halls of the hotels are not obstructed, nor the bar-\\nrooms crowded as they were two weeks since. Scores of faces that be-\\ncame familiar in the early days of the Convention, have departed. The\\noutside pressure from both sections melts away day by day. The\\nstages rattle away from the hotels, loaded down with trunks, and filled\\nwith passengers. The purses of the bar-room orators and ward politi-\\ncians of the North were becoming collapsed, and as this is just now a\\nbad place to borrow money, they took flight while they had enough\\nto see them safe home. And the Southern men are talking con-\\nstantly about their cotton. They are nearly as much interested with\\ncotton talk, as with the logic to which they are greatly devoted, concern-\\ning the protection of slave property in the Territories. They are\\nalso solicitous as to how their boys and girls are getting\\nalong and Southern mails will not bring them letters at satisfactory\\nspeed.\\nA great calamity has come upon the Ohio delegation. Their private\\nwhiskey, of which they laid in a supply supposed to be equal to all\\nemergencies, the nomination of Douglas included, gave out this morn-\\ning. They attribute their good health which they have enjoyed to this\\narticle. The Kentucky whiskey, too, is nearly all gone. The barrel\\nin which it is contained, apd which occupies an honorable position, and\\nreceives much attention, in their parlor, gives forth, M hen consulted as\\nto its condition, a dismal tone of emptiness.\\nThe weather has been wonderfully changeable during my residency\\nin this city. It was sultry and prostrating for a time. The sun shone\\nwith sucli power that there seemed, when walking on the sunny sides of\\nthe streets, to be danger of sunstroke. We had some days like those\\nscorching ones of June in Southern Ohio. But for three days past\\nthere has been a cold rain and blustering wind, and gdod fires have\\nbeen good thmgs during the first part of this day. The rain fell fast,", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "61\\nand the wind carried a chill to the bones. Ahout noon, all the clouds\\nwere blown over into the Atlantic. The sky was stripped in an hour\\nof the whole mass of bleak and drifting clouds, and the sun shone with\\nrevivin i- waimth, while the wind was not chilly, hut merely cool enough\\nto be refreshing. The planters were at the breakfast table this morn-\\ninf (gossiping about the frost. This evening they are comforting them-\\nselves with visions of growing cotton and wondering how will the\\nboys have it set by this time.\\nOne of our Northern delegates, a gentleman whose name or State I\\nshall not mention, strolling down a side street the other day, saw a sign,\\nSlaves for sale. He walked in, and was asked, in effect, whether be\\nmeant business. He promptly replied that he wanted to bny a nice\\nwoman, and they told him they could sell him a very fine seamstress.\\nHe concluded to look at her, and she turned out to be a clever mulatto\\ngirl, well dressed, and, like a great many of her race, sporting consider-\\nable jewelry, ear-drop^, finger-rings, etc. Her qualities as a seamstress\\nwere dwelt upon, and our friend was told that as it was him, he might\\nhave her cheap price only S1500. He concluded to think of it, and\\nlook further before purchasing.\\nSEVENTH DAY.\\nCharleston, S. C, Monday, April 30th.\\nThe Convention came together this morning with a curious mingling\\nof despair of accomplishing any thing, and hope that something will\\nturn up, hope as illogical as those everlasting anticipations of Mr.\\nMicawber.\\nI am not stating the case over-strongly, when I say there is a general\\nconsciousness that the Convention is making so bad a record, that its\\ndeliberations are becoming of little importance, so impossible will it be to\\ndefend any conclusion likely to be reached, before the country. The\\nDemocratic party has here furnished to its enemies the ammunition that\\nwill enable them to annihilate the preposterous pretensions wtiich it has\\nfor some years put forth. The scenes around me are those of the dis-\\nsolution of the Democratic organization.\\nThe North-western delegates are disheartened. They see that it will\\nhardly be worth while to nominate Douglas, as it will be impossible for\\nhim to drag through the coming campaign so cumbrous a mass of an-\\ntagonisms as have been presented here.\\nI have several times this morning heard the remark, The President\\nwill be nominated at Chicago. It is my own opinion, however, that\\nthere will be as irreconcilable adverse interests and sentiments devel-\\noped in the Republican party at Chicago as have obtruded themselves\\nhere.\\nThe hall is more densely crowded this morning than ever before. A\\ngreat many strangers have gone home and there are but feeble swarms\\nbuzzing about the hotels, compared wish those who were crushing each\\nother aud roaring a week ago. But the South Carolinians have become", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "62\\nintcresifd, and the doors being oponed to them this morning, they have\\nrushed in and filled vacancies. The Convention, so far as outsiders are\\nconcerned, wears a Southern aspect. The delegates are all here,\\nor vacancies supplied but the manufacturers of public opinion, satis-\\nfied with their exertions, are making their way Northward.\\nThe vote first in order was on Butler s amendment, that is, the Cin-\\ncinnati Platform. During the call of the roll of the States, a row\\nbroke out in the New Jersey delegation, as to whether the delegates\\nhad been instructed to vote as an unit. This was important, as it would\\ndetermine on which side three votes should be cast. The chair decided\\nthat the recommendation of the New Jersey Convention, that the dele-\\ngates should vote as an unit, was equivalent to a provision to that effect\\nand the rules required that delegates should vote as bad been provided.\\nThe decision of the chair was appealed frt)m. A motion was made to\\nlay the appeal upon the table. A vote by States was demanded. The\\nappeal was not laid upon the table; vote 145 to 150. The vote was\\nthen taken directly whether the chair should be sustained. The chair\\nwas overruled by a vote of 145 to 151. The roll being called through\\non the Butl.er resolution, the vote stood for the Cincinnati Platform,\\nwithout the dotting of an i, or the crossing of a t, but with a resolution\\nabout the protection of foreign-born citizens, 105 ayes, 198 noes, as\\nfollows\\nYtAS Maine 3, Massachusetts 8, Connecticut 2|, New Jersey 5,\\nPennsylvania 10^, Delaware 3, Maryland b^, Virginia 12^, North\\nCarolina 10, Georgia 10, Missouri 4^, Tennessee 11, Kentucky 9,\\nMinnesota I5, Oregon 3 105.\\nNays Maine 5, New Hampshire 5, Vermont 5, Massachusetts 5,\\nRhode Island 4, Connecticut 3^, New York 35, New Jersey 2, Penn-\\nsylvania KH, Maryland 2i, Virginia 21 ^uth Carolina 8, Florida 3,\\nAlabama 9, Louisiana 6, Mississippi 7, Texas 4, Arkansas 4, Missouri\\n45, Tennessee 1, Kentucky 3, Ohio 23, Indiana 13, Illinois 11, Mich-\\nigan 6, Wisconsin 5, Minnesota 2i, Iowa 4, California 4 198.\\nJust before this vote was declared, an old gentlemen declared on the\\nfloor that the gentleman in the galleries were spitting upon those below.\\nThis was styled a privileged question. The gentlemen in the gal-\\nlery were respectfully requested not to use the heads of gentlemen be-\\nlow them for spittoons, and not to wear their hats in the presence of the\\nuncovered Convention.\\nAnd now came the tug of war the crucial test on the adoption of\\nthe minority, or Douglas-Popular Sovereignty-Supreme Court-ambigu-\\nous, report. When this report was read, Butler of Massachusetts moved\\nto lay the whole sui)ject on the table, and proceed to ballot for President.\\nThis was ovcirruled, and the vote was taken direct on the minority plat-\\nform. Wliile this was pending a iMarylander renewed Butler s motion,\\nand an Aiabamian seconded it by mistake. Discovering his mistake,\\nhe said, Mr. President, I don t second the motion of that man down\\nyonder. The Maiylander was indignant, and jumping up, disj layed\\na neat-fitiiiig pair of light kid gloves, and the round face of a young\\nman. Ib-j gave his name, and said he would be very glad to know the\\nname and address of the delegate who talked of that man down yon-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "63\\nder. A great hearty, good-natured gentleman a two hundred and\\ntwenty pounder with as honest a face as you would find in a day,\\nloomed up from his chair, and said, I intended no disrespect to the\\ngentleman from Maryland but my name is Tom C\\\\)oper, of Alabama.\\nThe house thundered applause, and the Marylander luoked as if he had\\nfished for a seal and caught a rhinoceros. He gave his address, and\\nsaid if Tom Cooper would call upon him him, they would take a drink\\ntogether.\\nFlournoy of Arkansas had a personal explanation, and s:iid he was\\nfor Popular Sovereignty.\\nThe States were then called on the motion to adopt the minority res-\\nolutions in lieu of the majority report, and they were adopted by the\\nfollowing vote\\nYeas Maine 8, New Hampshire 5, Vermont 5, IMassachusetts 7,\\nRhode Island 4, Connecticut G, New York 35, New Jersey 5, Pennsyl-\\nvania 12, Maryland 3i, Virginia 1, Missouri 4, Tennessee 1, Ken-\\ntucky 2^, Ohio 23, Indiana 13, Hlinois 11, Michigan 6, Wisconsin 5,\\nIowa 4, Minnesota 4 1G5.\\nNays Massachusetts 6, New Jersey 2, Pennsylvania 15, Delaware\\nMaryland 4|, Virginia 14, North Carolina 10, South Carolina 8,\\nGeorgia 10, Florida 3, Alabama 9, Louisiana G, Mississip|ji 7, Texas 4,\\nArkansas 4, Missouri 5, Tennessee 11, Kentucky 9i, Michigan 10,\\nCalifornia 4, Oregon 3 138.\\nThere was one more straight vote required to clinch the thing that\\nwas a majority vote on the platform as amended by the substitution of\\nthe minority report. Mr. Butler moved for a division of the proposi-\\ntion, and moved for as much of it as indorsed the Cincitinati Platform\\nsimply, the chair ruled that each substantive and intelligible proposi-\\ntion (V) could be taken separately. The crisis was now, after long\\npostponement, at hand. In calling the vote on the reaftirmation of the\\nCincinnati Platforbi, a delegate from Mississippi arose, his face livid\\nwith excitement, and said that Mississippi, believing the Cincinnati\\nPlatform to be a miserable swindle on one side of the house or the other,\\nvoted no. Arkansas followed and the cotton States generally came\\ninto line under the lead of Mississippi. Under Mr. Butler s motion\\nand the ruling of the chair, there was a vote on the first resolution of\\nthe series, thus\\n1. Resolved, That we, the Democracy of the Union, in Convention aj^somblod,\\nhoreby dcchire our alBnnance of the resolutions unanimously adopted and de-\\nclared as a Platform of Principles by the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati,\\nin the year 1856, believing thai Democratic principles are unchangeable in their\\nnature, when applied to the same subject-matters.\\nIt was carried as follows\\nYeas Maine 8, New Hampshire 5, Veamont 5, Massachucsetts 13,\\nRhode Island 4, Connecticut 6, New York 35 New Jeoey 7, Penn-\\nsylvania 27, Delaware 2, Maryland 5, Virginia 14, North Carolina 10,\\nMissouri H, Tennessee 10^, Kentucky 12, Ohio 23, Indinna 13, Illi-\\nnois 11, Michigan 6, Wisconsin 5, Iowa 4, Minnesota 4, California 5\\n237i\\nNays Delaware 1, Maryland 3, Virginia 1, South Carolina 8,", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "64\\nGeorgia 10, Florida Alabama 9, Louisiana G.Mississippi 7, Texas 4,\\nArkansas 4, Missouri lu, Tennessee 1, California 3|, Oregon 3 65.\\nMr. Driijgs of New York said the Convention having adopted the\\nCint-iniiati Platform, he moved to lay all the resolutions on the table.\\nThe motion to lay on the table was lost.\\nYk.\\\\s Massachusetts 8^, Connecticut 2, New Jersey 5, Pennsyl-\\nvania IGs, Delaware 2, Virginia 11, North Carolina 9, South Carolina\\n8, Tennessee, 101, Kentucky T^, Minnesota 1 81.\\nN.ws Maine 8, New Hampshire 6, Vermont 5, Massachusetts 45,\\nRhode Island 4, Connecticut 4, New York 35, New Jersey 2, Penn-\\nsylvania lOi, Delaware 1, Maryland 8, Virginia 4, North Carolina 1,\\nGeorgia 10, Florida 3, Louisiana 6, Arkansas 1, Missouri 9, Tennessee\\n1|, Kentucky 4^, Ohio 23, Indiana 13, Illinois 11, Michigan 6, Wis-\\nconsin 5, Iowa 4, Minnes )ta 3, California 4, Oregon 3 188.\\nDuring the call, Mr. Walker af Alabama withdrew the vote of his\\nState.\\nMississippi withdrew her vote.\\nArkansas withdrew three of her votes.\\nThe cry goes forth from one delegate after another, in these solemn\\nmoments that the party must stick together, for the country will be\\nruined if it does not. If the party remains united, on whatever false\\nand hypocritical platform, or pretense, the country is safe. If the par-\\nty blows up, the country is doomed, of course.\\nIt is said that the South can t stay in the Convention if the Cincin-\\nnati swindle, and an indorsement of a court decision variously inter-\\npreted, is thrust upon the country as the Democratic platform. The\\nSouth thought yesterday they could stay in the Convention, after the\\nambiguous platform was put forth, for the sake of defeating Douglas.\\nBut to-day, they have slept upon it and become hotter, and are up to\\nthe explosive point.\\nMr. Gittings of Maryland insisted on talking out of order. He ac-\\ncused the chair of ruling him out of order because he came from a\\nslaveholding State. As the President was somewhat peremptory with\\nhim, he said:\\nOnly one word, sir. I want to be heard. The only time I ever\\nremember to have seen our worthy chairman before was in 1840, when\\nhe made one of the most violent Whig speeches I ever heard. [Cheers,\\nhisses and laughter.]\\nMr. Ewing of Tennessee called for a separate vote on the following\\npreamble and resolution\\nlimsinuch as ditlorenccs of opinion (^jist in tho Democratic party as to the na-\\nture and extent of tiie powers of a Territorial Legislature, and as lo the powers\\naiid_ duties of Con; Tess, under the Constitution of tho United Stales, over the\\ninstitution of shivery within the Territories:\\n/{exolval. That the Democratic party will abide by the decisions of the Su-\\npreme Court of the United Slates on the questions of constitutional law.\\nMr. Stuart of Michigan said, if the gentleman did not want the res-\\nolution, we of the North did not.\\nlion, liedf ord lirown of North Carolina warned his Northern friends\\nnot to adopt this preamble and resolution. It swept off every barrier", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "65\\nof the Constitution, and would destroy tho Democratic party and the\\ncountry. [Great applause.]\\nMr. llicliardson wantud to speak, but Mr. Hooker of I\\\\Ii.\u00c2\u00absis.sippi\\npernisted in raisina; a point of cider on him. John Cochrane said there\\nmight he peace-ofFi^rin^s coming.\\nAmid.st a bahel of noise and confusion tho vote was taken aceordino-\\nto the call of Mr. Ewing.\\nThe roll call was constantly interrupted by questions and explana-\\ntions.\\nThe Northern States first voted affirmatively, but finding the South\\nrefused to vote, changed their votes to the negative, amidst ciies of\\nWhat s the dodge now That s a back down and the like.\\nThe vote was announced, and the preamble and resolutions wore re-\\njected.\\nIt was rej ^cted by the following vote\\nYeas New Hampshire 1, Rhode Island 4, Pennsylvania 8, Mis-\\nsouri 4, Kentucky 4 21.\\nNays Maine 8, New Hampshire 4, Vermont 5, 3Iassachusetts 13,\\nConnecticut 6, New Yurk 35, New Jersey 7, Pennsylvania 19, Dela-\\nware 2, Maryland 8, Virginia 15, North Carolina 10, South Carcdina\\n8, Missouri 5, Tennessee 12, Kentucky 8, Ohio 23, Indiana 13, Illi-\\nnois 11, Michigan 6, Wisconsin 5, lowu 4, Minnesota 4, California 4,\\nOregon 3\u00e2\u0080\u0094238.\\nA division was called on all the remaining resolutions, and they were\\nseverally adopted that relating to the rights of naturalized citizens re-\\nceiving a utianimous vote, even in this divided Convention. The reso-\\nlutions adopted, in addition to the Cincinnati Platform, are as fulluws:\\n3. Resolved, That it is the duly of the United States to afTord ample and com-\\npU te protwstion to all its citizens, whether at home or abroad, and whether na-\\ntive or f()rci j;n.\\n4. Resolved, That one of the necessities of the age. in a military, commercial\\nand postal point of view, is ppicdy communication between tiie Athiiitic and\\nPacilic States and the Uemocratic party pledge such constitutional Guvern-\\nmeut aid as will insure the coastructiou of a Railroad to the I acitic coast, at\\nthe earliest practicable pt-riod.\\n5. Resolved, That the Democratic party are in favor of the acquisition of the\\nIsland of Cuba, on such terms as shall be honorable to ourselves and just to\\nSpain.\\n6. Resolved, That the enactments of State Legislatures to defeat the faithful\\nexecutioa of the Fugitive Slave law, are hostile in character, subversive of the\\nConstitution, and revolutionary in their clt ect.\\nMr. Smart of IMichigan now procured the floor, and made a very ir-\\nritating speech, exceedingly ill-timed, unless he intended to drive out\\nthe Gulf States, and he has been accused of entertaining such purpose.\\nWriting, some days afterward, of this scene, I said of the part Mr.\\nS;u irt performed\\nSo, as oon as the platform was adopted, he took the stand upon a\\nmotion to reconsider, made for the purpo-^e of inj cting a speech into\\nthe proceedings at that t-tage, and proeeeded in the most offensive way\\nto cIjvv at the tld sore of liie party, already full of fever. If iiis ob-\\nj. ct was to pr(iduce irritation, he succeeded adiniribly. The explosion\\nfulluvvcd fast upon his iueendiaiy shakiiig of fiic-biaaJd in the party\\n5", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "6Q\\npowder-touse. But there was more powler in tlie explosion than Stuart\\ncalculated upon. Instead ot merely blowing off a fragment or two,\\nand producing tlic long-coveted reaction in the North, one half of the\\nSouth the very citadel and heart of Democracy was blown away\\nand the other half prevented from following, only by that which was in\\neffect a real reconsideration of the platform, the last thing which Stuart\\nwanted.\\nAfter Stuart s speech, Mr. Walker of Alabama read the protest of\\nthat State against the proceedings of the Convention, and formally with-\\ndrew from it.\\nMr. Barry did the same thing for Mississippi. Mr. Mouton did the\\nsame for Louisiana Gen. Simmons for South Carolina Mr. Milton for\\nFlorida; Mr. Bryan of Texas, and Mr. Burrows of Arkansas. The\\nspeeches which give the spirit of this exciting period better than any\\nothers, were tho.se of Mr. Mouton of Louisiana, and Mr. Glenn of\\nMississippi, the latter making decidedly the speech of the occasion.\\nSPEECH OF MR. MOUTON.\\nMr. Mouton of Louisiana. I have but a short communication to\\nmake to this Convention. I do not do so in my individual name. I\\nam instructed by the delegates of Louisiana, whom I represent, to say\\nthat they will not participate any more in the proceedings of this Con-\\nvention. Heretofore we have been in the habit of saying, that the\\nDemocracy of the country were harmonious; but can we say so to-day\\nwith any truth? Are we not divided, and divided in such a manner\\nthat we can never be again united and reconciliated, because we are\\ndivided upon principle Can we adopt this platform voted for by the\\nmajority of the Convention? Can we go home to our constituents, and\\nput one construction upon it, and the Northern Democrats another\\nNo. I think I speak the sentiment of my State when 1 say, she never\\nwill place a double construction upon a platform.\\nIf we are to fight the Black Republicans, let us do it with a bold\\nfront, and together. Let us take the same arms let us sustain the\\nsame regiment. We say that the Douglas principles, adopted to-day\\nby the majority, can never be the principles of the South. And let me\\nsay, at the same time, that I should have suggested the propriety of\\ndispensing with all these votes, and have come at once to the conclusion\\nwe have now reached.\\nMr. M. then argued on the principles of the two platforms, and\\ndeclared his conviction that the only way to meet and to check Black\\nRepublican aggression was to adopt the doctrine of protection by Con-\\ngress to the property of Southern citizens in all the Territories of the\\nUnion.\\nSPEECH OF MR. GLENN.\\nMr. Glenn of Mississippi arose. He said: For the first time, for\\nthe only time, for the last time, and in the name of the State he had\\nthe honor in part to represent, he desired to say a few words. He herld\\nin his hand the solemn act of the Mississippi delegation upon this floor.\\nIt was not a hasty act, not conceived in passion or carried out from mere\\nI", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "67\\ncaprice or disappointment. It was the firm resolve of tbe ;reat body\\nthey represented, wliich was expressed in the Convention who sent them\\nhere, and tliat resolve that people, we, their representatives, will main-\\ntain at all times and at all costs. They came not to dictate, and since\\ntheir arrival, the intercourse has been courteous with their brethren\\nfrom other State Conventions, as far as personality was coneerned. But\\nthat was not all. They claimed the exercise of the principles upou\\nwhich the party must stand. He did not ask them to adopt a platform\\nopposed to their conscieptious principles. He claimed tu come as an\\nequal member of the common Confederacy, with the simple desire of an\\nacknowledgment of their equal rights within that Confederacy. What\\nwas the construction of the platform of 1856 V You of the North said\\nit meant one thing we of the South another. Either you were rio-ht\\nor we wrong. They ask which was right and which wrono-. The\\nNorth had maintained their position, but, while doing so, they did not\\nacknowledge the rights of the South. Turn back to one of their lead-\\ning men, once representing a sovereign State in the Union, who then\\nvoted that Congress had the constitutional power to pass the Wilmot\\nproviso, or to exclude, and now, when the Supreme Cuurt has said it is\\nin that power, he eomes forward and says that Congress is impotent to\\nprotect slave power.\\nThe speaker then referred to the gentleman from Ohio, who, a few\\ndays since, said if a Terriforial Legislature should misuse its powers or\\nabuse them. Congress can wipe it oat altogether. They would part\\nwith their lives before they would acknowledge the principles for which\\nthey contend. We say go your way, and we will go ours. The South\\nleaves not like Hagar in the wilderness but he would tell them that in\\nless than sixty days they would find a united South, standinc shoulder\\nto shoulder.\\nSenator Bayard of Delaware now announced his withdrawal from the\\nConvention, and Senator Saulsbury of the same State, stated that\\nhe did not know what to do.\\nMr. Merrick of Illinois made a little speech. He said\\nA Southern man. by birth it is but three years since I parted\\nfrom that Southern soil and upon the tide f f emigration sought my\\nfortunes in the great North-west. Coming back here, and hoping to\\njoin in fraternal concord and mutual love with my Southern brethren of\\nthe Democratic party, I find, sir, star after star madly shooting from the\\ngreat Democratic galaxy. Why is it, and what is to come of it? Does\\nit presage that, hereafter, star after star will shoot from the galaxy of\\nthe Republic, and the American Union become a fragment, and a\\nparcel of sectional republics?\\nPoints of order were raised.\\nMr. Russell of Virginia made a speech for that State. He said\\nHitherto the career of Virginia has been side by side with all her\\nsister States, North, South, East and West, and beneath a banner on\\nwhich every State has its star, as members of one coram(tn and united\\nconstellation but it must be known to this assembly that if indeed the\\nhour shall ever come when the North and South must separate, the destiny\\nof Virginia is with the South. [Loud cheers.] She will then have to", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "68\\npay to tlie South, where thoii gocst T will go; thy people shall be my\\npeople, an l thy God shall be Tiiy God. [Great cheiriiig\\nBut, ^ir, she will pause before she detcruiines that ihat event is in-\\nevitable. Virginia stands in the midst of her sister States, in garments\\nred with the blood of her children slain in the first outbreak of the\\nirreure.ssible conflict. But, sir, not when her children fell at midnight\\nbeneath the weapon of the assassin, was her heart penetrated with so\\nprofound a grief as that which will wring it when she is obliged to\\nchoose between a sep^irate destiny with the South and her common des-\\ntiny with the entire Kepublic.\\nIn conclusion, he stated Virginia wanted an opportunity for consulta-\\ntion, and the Convention adjnunied.\\n[So great is the interest felt in this day s proceedings, that I recapit-\\nulate to some extent, by inserting the descriptive letter below:]\\nSCENES OF THE DAY DESCRIBED HOW THE DISRUPTION HAPPENED.\\nCharleston. S. C, ilunday vight, April 30.\\nIt was asserted, early in the sitting of the Convention, that it would\\nbe impo.-sible for the South to submit to Mr. Douglas as the nominee\\nUDon a platform on which it would be possible for him to stand. The\\nDouglas men at first laughed this to scorn. Presently they saw such\\nindications of earnestness, that they paused and considered the matter,\\nand became much more tolerant, and seemed willing to acquiesce in any\\nsort of a platform, provided the South would allow the nomination of\\nDouglas. The determination of the New York contest, and the adop-\\ntion of a rule allowing individual delegates from uninstructed States to\\nvote as they pleased, gave the friends of Mr. Douglas a majority in the\\nConvention. They proceeded to use that majority, for the purpose\\nof making sure of their game. They joined the ultra-Southern States\\nin demanding the test fight upon the platform. It became apparent\\nthe moment the platform was taken into consideration that there were\\ndifferences it would be impossible for honest men to accommodate. The\\nDouglas men begged for a chance for ambiguity. Thoy craved and\\nclamored for a false pretense. They begged to be allowed to cheat, and\\nfor the privilege of being cheated. Thry were particularly anxious for\\nsuccess. They were not so particular about principle. The South\\nwould stand fast for the great principle of constitutional rights as she\\nunderstood it; and by her more ultra-representatives declared, that if\\nby the bare numerical majority of votes, the Southern Plafform was\\nrejected, and the Squatter Sovereignty Platform, or sotne dishonorable\\nequivocation protruded, she would withdraw from the Convention. By\\nthis time the Douglas men had discovered, that whereas fhey had just\\nabout a majority, it would be impossible for them to obtain a two thirds\\nvote in a fall Convention. They were willing, therefore, that a few\\nultra-Southern States might go out, and allow them to nominate their\\nman. All at once they became veiy cheerful on the subject of a dis-\\nruption of the Convention. Thiy could go North and get two votes\\n(electnral) for their nominee, for every Sduthern vote that would leave\\nthe Convention. Their game then was, to have three or four States, at", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "69\\nniost, go out. Thoy wanted a little eruption, but not, a great, one. On\\nFri(l;iy last it ap[)eaie(l thai if the majority insi. ^ted upon its auidiguous\\nplatfiirrn, tluTO wouM be a tremendous explosion. Even the Kentucky\\ndelegation had informally determined, only two of the delegate.? dissen-\\ntin that if the exigeney arose, that Alabama Co. must go out,\\nKentucky must go along. Douglas men were alarmed at the piosj)ect,\\nand T^igler s ret^olution to recommit the platform to the committee, was\\ncarried against the Douglas forces, by a vote of 151 to 152. So the\\nficht went over until Saturday.\\nThe committee succeeded in modifying the reports, but not in chang-\\ning their essential character. Saturday was spent in the most tedious\\nand tasteless, flat, stale, and unprofitable debate that it has ever been\\nmy misfortune to listen to. It was worse than when the House of Rep-\\nresentatives resolves itself into a debating society, and fifth- rate mem-\\nbers draw on each other and the people to the dismay of the galleries,\\nreams of fook^^cap filled with ess; ys on the slavery question. After the\\nflood of twaddle was stopped by the call for the previous question, the\\nparlimentary fight was interesting, and made amends for the painful\\nhours spent in listening to the drivel of inconsequential debate. The\\nSouth filibustered to prevent a vote on the platform that night. The\\nNorth was resolved to have a vote. After some hours spent in skir-\\nmishing, as T have elsewhere described, the matter was compromised by\\ndisposing of the preliminary points, and agreeing to come to a fair vote\\nthis morning. Yesterday there was a report current that the South, dis-\\ncovering the total impossibility of the nomination of Douglas while the\\nConvention remained consolidated, his full strength having been shown,\\nand amounting to a bare majority, would find some excuse for staying\\nin the Convention even after the adoption of the minority report, and\\nwould slaughter Douglas under the two-thirds rule. The most talka-\\ntive and raliid of the Douglas men swore that if this was done, they\\nwould repeal the two-thirds rule, and let the Convention explode if it\\nwanted so to do. Last night it was reported, and I was told by South-\\nern men it was so, that the only State that would go out was Alabama-\\nThere was no possibility of preventing Yancey r. Co. from going out,\\nbut the rest of them would stay in and slaughter Douglas. The par-\\ntisans of the Little Giant looked blue at this. There were other re-\\nports afloat that were somewhat exciting. The rabid Douglasites wore\\nalarmed at signs of discontent and shakiness in several of the North-\\nwestern delegations. They said it had been discovered there was a par-\\ncel of delegates to whom it would not do to trust the secrets of the\\nDouglas party. Those fellows were leaky, and whenever the Conven-\\ntion adjourned they were found together buzzing and busy as green flies.\\nIt was known that SUdell Co. were willing to buy all such fellows,\\nand there was alarm in the camp of Douglas on the platform question.\\nThey were afraid the majority report would be adopted at lust. There\\nwere threats that if this was the case some of the Northwestern States\\nwould bolt. These threats were seriously made, too. And the North-\\nwestern men had no hesitation in saying that they could not and would\\nnot fi^ht upon such a plutform. They would go home and fold their\\nhands, and let those who believed in using all the powers of the Fed-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "70\\neral Government for the protection of slavery against the people of a\\nTerritory, do the work. This morning, however, it became apparent\\nthat the Douglas mjijority was firm, and the South desperate. It was\\nnot long before every observer saw that the long-looked for explosion\\nwas at hand. The South would not stay in the Convention, even to\\ndefeat Douglas, if the double-shufde platform were adopted.\\nI shall not now trace all the twistings and turnings of the fight. Let\\nit be suflicient to say thut, in the first place, the Cincinnati Platform by\\nitself was voted down.\\nThe minority resolutions were then carried as a substitute for the ma-\\njority resolutions, by a vote of 165 to 138 this 138 is the solid anti-\\nDouglas strength. Now the question came on the adoption of the\\nsubstituted report the definite, irrevocable vote of the Convention upon\\nthe Douglas Platform, was divided into its substantive propositions.\\nThe resolution reaffirming the Cincinnati Platform, believing Demo-\\ncratic principles to be unchangeable in their nature, was first voted upon,\\nand it was carried by 237|^ to 65. There was a motion now made to\\nlay all the rest of the report upon the table. This would have been\\nsimply the adoption of the Cincinnati Platform, and it was defeated,\\n81 to 188. While this vote was being taken, Alabama, Mississippi and\\nArkan.^as withdrew their votes. Now the question arose upon the\\nadoption of the Squatter Sovereignty part of the platform that part\\nwherein it is stated that, inasmuch as differences of opinion exist in\\nthe Democratic party, it will abide by the Supreme Court. The Hon.\\nBedford Brown now saw the crisis. The political tornado was about to\\nburst. The barometer indicated a sudden storm. Mr. Brown did not\\nknow it was too late to save the party, and the country attached thereto,\\nand he made an appeal to gentlemen, as piteous, as solemn, as agoniz-\\ningly earnest, as ever a man offered up for his life, that the Convention\\nshould not pass that resolution, and thereby disrupt and destroy the\\nDemocratic party. He called upon gentlemen to pause upon the brink\\nof the tremendous precipice upon which they stood, and to look into\\nthe gulf before they took the leap.\\njMr. Y ancey caught my eye at this solemn moment, as various\\ngentloMien in the Convention insisted upon calling it, and he was smiling\\nas a bridegroom. He had evidently made up his mind. He was not\\nperplexed Ijy saucy doubts and fears.\\ni\\\\Ir. Stuart of Michigan wished to speak, but was put down by loud\\ncries of Order.\\nMr. William A. Richardson of Illinois wished to speak. As the\\ncrisis had arrived, and as llichardson is a great man for a crisis, and had\\nwithdrawn Douglas from the Cincinnati Convention, it was hoped that\\nhe had something to say which would relieve the party from its misery.\\nThere were cries of Hear Richardson. A thrill of excitement\\npassed around the hall, and every body leaned forward or stood up to\\nsee and hear the right-hand man of the Little Giant on the crisis.\\nRichardson commenced with his usual hoarseness and solemnity, when\\nJudge Meek of Alabama, a gentleman six feet eight inches in height,\\nwith a splonilid voice, arose and made a point of order against Stuart of\\nMichigan, who still seemed, by standing in his place, to claim the floor.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "71\\nJudge Meek s point of orrlei* caused another sensation. Presently tlio\\nJudge s point of order was ruled not well taken, and silence was ob-\\ntained, when John Cochrane of New York jumped up and called\\nMis-/pr Presi-niiNr and proceeded to urge that Richardson niijrht\\nbe heard. He believed Richardson was about to bring peace-offer-\\nings. Every body knew there could not be any peace-offorings but\\nthe dead body of Douglas, and it was thought that would be a singular\\ntime to make an offering of the corpse of the Little Giant. The great\\ncrowds in the galleries heaved like big waves. They thought some-\\nthing prodigious was about to occur. But no sooner had Ri -hardson\\nopened his mouth and commenced to speak of the delegation from Illi-\\nnois, and its intention in appearing there, than Mr. Hooper of Missis-\\nsippi olijected peremptorily, and insisted and persisted in calling Rich-\\nardson to order and by insisting upon his point of order, when ninety-\\nnine out of every hundred persons were willing and anxious to hear\\nRichardson, would not let him be heard. This was considered an act\\nof discourtesy toward Mr. R. of the most flagrant character. A South-\\nern gentleman explained it to me this evening, by saying that the South\\nwas at that moment in a delicate position, and did not want any traps\\nsprung. He also excused the seeming discourtesy, by speaking of\\nRichardson s discourteous behavior toward Randall of Pennsylvania.\\nAnd now ensued a most extraordinary scene. Instead of proceeding to\\nput their explanatory resolution upon the Cincinnati Platform, stating\\nthat there were differences of opinion in the Democratic party, and re-\\nferring to the Courts for doctrine, the Douglasites were suddenly dis-\\ncovered in full retreat.\\nThe object of Richardson, in attempting to gain the floor, was then\\nat once seen. He had desired to say, that Illinois and the North-west\\nin general, had not been anxious to have any thing but the Cincinnati\\nPlatform, and would be content with that, if the others would. This\\nwas to have been his peace-offering his olive-branch. As the Douglas\\nmen did not understand the movement, several delegations stood firm,\\nand voted roundly for the adoption of the explanatoi-y resolution, ac-\\ncording to the original programme. Most of the States passed the\\npoint, however, and consulted. New York retired from the hall to con-\\nsult. It took some minutes for the new tactics of Richardson to get\\ncirculation, and in the mean time, as one delegation after another under-\\nstood the point, the votes of States were counted, and finally, with a\\ngeneral rush, the only resolution having the slightest significance in the\\nminority report, was stricken out. The Douglas army had retreated\\nbehind the position of Gen. Butler of Massachusetts. By a flank\\nmovement, they had placed themselves upon the Cincinnati Platform,\\npure and simple.\\nThose who had no insight into things, thought at this moment that\\nthe dead point of danger was safely passed. The fact was (if we may\\nchange the figure somewhat materially from those hitherto used), the\\nship had struck the rock, and just as the passengers thought they were\\nfloating safely into deep water, the vessel was actually sinking. It was\\nominous that, from this time, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana,\\nMississippi, Texas and Arkansas, declined to vote.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "T2\\nThe Convention now prooeeclod, as if in earnest, to take the vote by\\nStates, on the several propotiitions tacked to ihe fail of the explanatory res-\\nolution, f (\u00c2\u00bbrii wtiicii ihi.s hail 1 een sevt red. These propositions were about\\nprotecting foreigners, and huilding a Pacific. Kaihoad, and acquiring Cuba\\non fernis honorable to ourselves and just to Spain, etc.; and the vote was\\nunaiiinKius in all ca.-es excepting that regarding the Pacific Railroad,\\nand nearly so in that case the Gulf States still refusing to vote.\\nThere were several attempts during the reading of the poor clap-trap\\nresolutions (the substance of all of which was in the Cincinnati Platform\\nalready) to get up a show of enthusiasm. The failures in each case\\nwere extremely dreary. The Convention was under the fmwn of King\\nCotton, and his displeasure was upon it like a blight or deadly night-\\nshade. And now the platform was constructed as it stands, the most\\nuncouth, disjonted, illogical, confused, cowardly and contemptible\\nthing in the history of platforms, mean and cowardly as they have been\\nfrom the beginning. Mr. Stuart of Michigan moved a reconsideration\\nof the vote, and proceeded to speak upon it. He was evidently labor-\\ning under the impression that he was full of a very poweiful speech.\\nWhen he undeitook to find it, however, he discovered his mistake, and\\nfioon got into the old rut about the gallant and glorious North-west, and\\nhow Wonderfully the Northern Democracy had stood up for the South,\\nand had fought, bled and died for the South and he seemed to re-\\nproach the South with inconsistency, and with having demanded of the\\nNurchern Democracy more than they could bear. He stated that Mr.\\nYancey had admitted that the South had asked new guarantees of\\nSouthern safety from the Northern Democracy. Yancey corrected him.\\nHe had not made such admission. He had simply contended for the\\nSouthern construction of the Cincinnati Platform, and repudiated am-\\nbiguity. Stuart was getting into hot water at every plunge, and his\\nfine round bald head glowed liice the full moon, as he was making mat-\\nters worse. Stuart is one of the best parliamentarians in the country,\\nand a man of fine intellect, and he would, in spite of the thinness of\\nhis hair, be a handsome man, if it were not for his nose, which is\\nwretchedly broken down, and gives him a P. R. sort of appearance.\\nSenator Saulsbury of Delaware was greatly concerned. He still\\nhoped to save the Democratic party. He still hoped to prevent the\\ndire combustion and ruin from breaking forth and consuming the pre-\\ncious old part) legacy from our fathers, and so forth. Mr. Saulsbury\\nru.shed in to save the country that is, he stood upright in his chair.\\nHe is a very well-looking man fine, intellectual face, brilliant eyes,\\nand a vast assortment of black hair. He had forgotten his hair, and\\nin the confusion and excitement of the moment it hung all over his\\nforehead and into his eyes. He made an appeal to the patriotism of\\nStuart to desist, as he was manifestly stirring the waters of bitterness.\\nThree or four gentlemen were anxious to reply to Mr. Stuart. Ran-\\ndall of Penn.sylvania wished to do something grand, gloomy, and pecu-\\nliar, in showing up the fallacy of the statement that the Nortbern De-\\nmocracy had ever been committed to Squatter Sovereignty.\\nMr. Randall is a short, stout old gentleman with a round and wrin-\\nkled sort of head, while his features habitually express the most fierce", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "73\\ndiscontent. Stuart finally retired from the y)latform, having done a\\nvery inflaiiiniMtory tiiiriii;, and being toleralily well informed of tlie fact.\\nAnd now coiunienced the regular stampede. Alabama led the South-\\nern column. Mr. Walker of that State, a tall, slender, pale gentle-\\nman, able in controversy and graceful in movement, called the atten-\\ntion of the house to a communication from the State of Alabama,\\nwhich he proposed to read from the clerk s desk. There v^ as a shudder\\nof excitement, an universal stir over the house, and then for the first\\ntime during the day, profound stillness. Mr. W. pr )ceeded to give the\\nreasons which had influenced Alabama to retire from the (yoiivention at\\nthat point. They were, first, the instructions of the Alabama Conven-\\ntion second, the conviction the delegation felt that it was its duty to\\nretire, as justice had not been done the South. When he concluded,\\nwhich he did by stating that there could not thereafter be any represen-\\ntation from the Srate of Alabama in that Convention, the dcdegation left\\ntheir seats and made their way to various points, where they took posi-\\ntion as spectators. Mississippi went next, with less formal ty but more\\nvim. Her declarations of the manner in which the Nonheru Democra-\\ncy had been found wanting, and of her purposes, were exceedingly ex-\\nplicit. T le Northern Democracy had been found anxious to dodge the\\nissues before the country. That would never do for Missis.-ippi. She\\ncast her fortunes with those of her si.-ter State, Alabama. Mr. Glenn\\nof Mississippi mounted a chair, and facing the Ohio delegation, which\\nsat directly behind Mississippi, made one of the most impassioned and\\nthrilling twenty-minute speeches to which I have ever listened. It was\\nevident that every word was from his deepest convictions. He was pale\\nas ashes, and his eyes rolled and glared, as he told the gentlemen from\\nOhio how far they were from doing their duty now, and how kindly he\\nfelt toward them, and how they would have to take position yet upon\\nthe high ground of the South, or it would be all in vain that they would\\nattempt to arrest the march of Black llepublicanism. For the present,\\nthey must go their ways, and the South must go her ways. He declared,\\ntoo, with piercing emphasis, that in less than sixty days there would be\\nan United South and at this declaration there was the most enthusias-\\ntic shouting yet heard in the Convention. The South Carolinians\\ncheered loud and long, and the tempest of applause made the circuit of\\nthe galleries and the floor several times before it subsided. There was\\na large number of ladies present, and they favored the secessionists with\\ntheir sweetest smiles, and with nods and glances of approval, a delight-\\ned fluttering of fans and parasols, and even occasional clapping of hands.\\nThe Alabamians and Mississippians were standing in the aisles and\\ngetting away from their seats, and as the spokesman of Mississippi con-\\ncluded what he had to say, Alexander Mouton of Louisiana, and Col.\\nSimmons of South Carolina the Loulsianian a thick-set, gray-haired\\ngentleman, with French manners and accent and the Carolinian a tall\\ngentleman, of commanding presence were claiming the floor, each to\\ngive warning that his State was going. The Louisianian took prece-\\ndence, and made a plain, blunt speech, charging upon the Northern\\nDouglasites a disposition to shirk and to dodge under ambiguities which\\nwould be dishonorable.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "74\\nHe dwelt upon tbe platform which had been adopted in terms of\\nwithering contempt, and said that was not the way to fight the Black\\nRepublicans. lie made a very decided impression, and called down\\nrapturous jipi)l;iuse from the swarming galleries. As he spoke he was\\nfacino the Oliio dtdegation, and within a few feet of them, and seemed\\nto be addressing his remarks particularly to them. Gov. Payne\\nturned his head over upon his left shoulder, and once or twice made a\\nsorrowful effort to laugh, that would have brought tears to the eyes of\\na tender-hearted and sympathizing friend, it was so hopeless and forlorn.\\nColonel Simmons of South Carolina now spoke for that State in a\\nquiet, dignified manner, and presented the reasons for the withdrawal\\nof the State to the Convention. The secession of South Carolina drew\\ndown another tempest of approbation. All the delegates from that\\nState (sixteen) had put their jiames to the paper with the exception of\\nthree. Several of them, nearly all perhaps, did not like to do it, but\\nit would be political perdition in South Carolina to those who, profess-\\ning to represent her, should fail to join in a secession movement. Flor-\\nida was the next to go, and then Arkansas. In the delegation of the\\nlatter State there had been a dispute, but the majority were for going\\nout. And so they did, each delegation forbidding unautliorized persons\\nto fill their places. Merritt of Illinois now obtained the floor, and pro-\\nceeded to make an appeal. He wanted to try the effect of elo(|uence\\nupon the secessionii-ts. He was becoming very red in the face, and\\nwas almost launching away into the empyrean, when he was cut short\\nby several delegates, who did not want to hear eloquence, and the chair-\\nman of the Georgia delegation said Georgia wished to retire, to consult.\\nLeave was granted and now Virginia, through her spokesman, wanted\\ntime for consultation also. Georgia and Virginia expressed the deepest\\nsympathy for their Southern brethreti. Their destiny was with the\\nSouth forever. The Southern feeling ran high, and it seemed that\\npublic opinion was about to enforce, as the test of loyalty to the South,\\nsecession from the Convention. A large number of gentlemen in the\\nhall looked absolutely frightened. They considered themselves looking\\nupon a spectacle of prodigious significance, and some were muttering\\nwith white lips that the hour of revolution was at hand. And there\\nwere Neros about, too, who thought the whole matter an extensive joke,\\nand insisted upon calling attention to the ridiculous points.\\nIn the course of the disruption, notice was given that all who sym-\\npathized with the movement should meet at St. Andrew s Hall at seven\\no clock in the evening.\\nWhen the Convention adjourned, the people stood in groups on the\\ncorners, and even in the middle of the streets. The outside pressure\\nwas for the seceders, and Southern feeling runs high. It is now be-\\nlieved that nearly the whole South will go out, and that there may be\\nan attempt made to organize two National Democratic parties. I\\npresv me this will be done. The Douglas men are swearing vengeance\\nto-ni;ht not loud but deep, and the North-western States say they will\\nUdmii.ate him if they have to do it themselves.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "75\\nTHE NIGHT AFTER THE DISRUPTION.\\nCharleston, S. C. Tuesday, May 1st.\\nLast night, after completino; a letter giving an account of the explo-\\nsion of the Convention, I walked in the direction of the Southern mass\\nmeeting.\\nThe night was beautiful with moonlight, which silvered the live oaks\\nalong Meeting street, and made the plastered fronts of the old houses\\ngleam like marble. The hour was eleven, and a stranger, unacquainted\\nwith the condition of affairs, would not have been long in discovering\\nthat there was something extraordinary afloat. People hurried by,\\nlooking excited and solicitous. There were still groups about the cor-\\nners, and the conversations were full of animation. Presently I heard\\na band of music and the shouts of a multitude. Hurrying past the\\nMills House and Magnolia Hall, where the Douglasites had congregated\\nin the days of their glory, but which now looked dark and deserted, -I\\nsoon came upon a street full of people in front of the Court House,\\nand heard a thousand throats call for Yancey! Yancey! I\\nwas just too late to hear\u00c2\u00abLamar of Mississippi, one of the best speakers\\nin the South. He had concluded a speech of an hour and a half, in\\nwhich he had analyzed the record of Douglas on Squatter Sovereignty,\\nand with contemptuous fury spurned the pretension that Douglas had\\nbeen consistent. He followed Douglas in all his turnings and doublings\\nremorselessly as the hounds follow the fox, and when he had snapped\\nhim at last in the fanged jaws of his logic and fact, he worried him\\nwithout mercy.\\nMr. Yancey appeared, and was proud and happy to see the South\\ntaking so proud a position in favor of her constitutional rights. He\\nspoke of the seceding delegates as about to form the Constitutional\\nDemocratic Convention, and the delegates who remained, as compos-\\ning the Rump Convention. He said this Rump Convention would\\nspeedily be in fact a Sectional Convention, and would represent only a\\nfaction of the Free Soil sentiment of the North. He said the South\\nmust come up as a unit, and vindicate its constitutional rights. Every\\nultra sentiment was applauded with mad enthusiasm. Yancey said\\nthat, perhaps even now, the pen of the historian was nibbed to write\\nthe story of a new Revolution. At this, some one of the crowd cried\\nthree cheers for the Independent Southern Republic. They were\\ngiven with a will.\\nYancey closed by saying he would reserve his powers for such service\\nas he might be able to render the South in the Constitutional Demo-\\ncratic Convention which would meet in St. Andrew s Hall. After Yan-\\ncey, Mr. Hooker of Mississippi spoke, and made a flaming fire-eating\\nharangue. When he concluded, the music and crowd proceeded\\nto the Mercury ofiice, and called out Mr. Rhett, the editor. Thence it\\nmoved to the head-quarters of the Louisiana Convention, and heard a\\ncouple of speeches, which were received with enthusiasm. The next\\nmove was to the Mills House, where Fernando Wood was called out,\\nand that silver-tongued and smiling gentleman made a Constitution-\\nal speech.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "76\\nThere was a Fourth of July feeling in Charleston last night, a jn-\\nbilee. There was no nur-taking the public senlinient of the city. It\\nwas overwhfliiiiiigly and enthusiastically in favor of the seceders. In\\nall her history (Charleston had never enjoyed herself so hugely. The\\nDougla- men look badly this morning, as though they had been trou-\\nbled duiing the night with bad diean)S. Some of them arc as jolly as\\nMark Tapleys, and deserve tliat credit for being jolly under adverse\\ncircumstances, which distinguished that pliilosopher. The disiuption is\\ntoo serious for tliem. They would have been happy if a couple of Gulf\\nStates had gone out and left them with the rest, and the votes to nomi-\\nnate Douglas, and all the prestige of regularity. But they see now\\nthat their party is rent v.s Keitt was going to rend the Union, from\\nturret to foundation-stone.\\nThe Douglasites find themselves in the position of a semi-Free Soil,\\nsectional party, and the poor fellows take it hard. The bitter cup\\nwhich they have o often pressed upon the Republicans is now thrust\\nupon them. They are denominated by the ultra-South scctionalists,\\nand are accused of cleaving unto heresies as bad as Scwardism, of\\nbeing Frank IJlair Piepublicans at heart. They are told, too, that they\\nhave no principles, but are devoted unto death to a man and the spoils.\\nEIGHTH DAY,\\nConvention opened with a solemn prayer for harmony. Gen.\\nGushing looked troubled, but some one had covered his desk with flow-\\ners, and he regaled himself by thrusting his pale nose into the red\\nroses-\\nBusiness commenced ominously.\\nMr. Benning of Georgia announced the result of the consultation of\\nthat State. It was the adoption, by a majority of the delegation, of the\\nfollowing resolution\\nResolved, That upon the openinjj of the Convention this morning ourcliairman\\nbe re(iuesttd to state to the I rcsideut that the Georgia delegation, after mature\\ndeliberation, have felt it to be their duty, under e.xisting cii cumsiauces, not to\\nparticipate further in tiie deliberations of the Couveutiou, and that, therefore,\\nthe delegation w ilhdraw.\\nTwenty-six out of thirty-four Georgia delegates then retired from the\\nhall.\\nA majority of the Arkansas delegation announced their deliberate\\ndetermination formally to retire; and retired.\\nThe Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina and Maryland delegations\\nretired to consult.\\nSolomon Cohen of Savannah, Ga., who remained in the Convention,\\nmade a speech ultra-Southern in tone. But he could not then leave the\\nConvention, until the last straw had broken the camel s back. He\\nwas with the seceders in sentiment, and they were earnest in action,\\nand would be united. The South would stand together. The sub-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "77\\nstance of his speech was a warning to the Doun;l;isitos not to put Doug-\\nlas in nomination and make the breach irrecom-ilalile.\\nHe said I charge my Northern fViuiids and I yet love to call\\nthem so be not deceived. The feelings which have prompted me to\\nremain in this Convention, are, I trust, high and lioly. I am prepared\\nto stay here in the hope and I trust in God it may not prove a fruit-\\nless one tliat the spirit of our ancestors, that the s|)irit of brotherly\\nlove, that the spiiit of concord and patriotism, wiiich hovered over those\\nwho framed the Constitution of the country, may hover over and rest\\namongst and upon us. Be not deceived, I repeat, for in heart and in\\nprinciple I am with those who have retired from the Convention. Yet\\nI have deemed it my duty to remain among you, and to mingle in your\\ndeliberations, with the hope that the cup of conciliation may not be\\ndrained to the dregs.\\nYou have perhaps supposed that the South are not in earnest. You\\nhave perhaps cause for the supposition, in the fact that a portion of the\\ndelegation remain here in this Convention, that Georgia is not a unit\\nupon this question. Gentlemen, I have been engaged in many contro-\\nversies in two States, in which my lot has been cast in diffi^rent periods\\nof my life and the only question that has ever divided the people of\\nthe South, as far as I have seen, is simply the question of time.\\nI will stay here until the last feather lie placed upon the back of\\nthe camel I will stay until crushed and broken in spirit, humiliated\\nby feeling and knowing that I have no longer a voice in the counsels of\\nthe Democracy of the Union feeling that the Southern States are as a\\nmere cipher in your estimation that all her rights are trampled under\\nfoot; and I say here that I shall then be found shoulder to shoulder\\nwith him who is foremost in this contest.\\nAll of which was understood to mean never, never nominate Doug-\\nlas, or all things dire will happen.\\nMaj. Flournoy then begged to be indulged in one remark. He was\\nopposed to giving up the ship. The following is one of his paragraphs\\nMr. President, I am a Southern man. Yes, sir, I have been reared\\namidst the institution. All I have is the product of slave labor. I\\nbelieve the institution a patriarchal one, and beneficial alike to master\\nand slave. The bread which supports my own wite and tender babe,\\nis the product of slave labor. I trust then that, like Cajsar s wife, I\\nam above suspicion.\\nMr. Gaulden, the slave-trader of Savannah, gave his reasons for re-\\nmaining in the Convention\\nHe was a slavery-extension, slave-trade man. He believed the insti-\\ntution to be right, socially, politically, morally and religiously. He\\nbelieved that, if the institution of slavery were to be aboli. lied, civiliza-\\ntion would go back two hundred yeais. The prohibition of the slave-\\ntrade had put an end to all hope of extending the area of slavery at the\\npresent time. There was but one remedy at present for the evils the\\nSouth complained of, and that was, to reopen the African slave-trade.\\n[Cheers and loud laughter.] In this he looked to the Nurthern Dtmoo-\\nracy to ad ihem. [Renewed laugiiter and ch crs.]\\nHe told his lellow- Democrats that the African sla.etrade man is the", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "78,\\nUnion man the true Christran man. He told them that the slave-\\ntrade of Virginia was more inhuman, more unchristian, in every point\\nof view, than the African slave-trade for the African slave-trader goes\\nto a heathen land, and brings the savage here, and Christianizes and\\nmoralizes him, and sends him down to posterity a happy man. [Cheers\\nand loud laughter.]\\nMr. Reed of Indiana. I am with you. I favor it.\\nMr. Gaulden. Good. Then he would put him down for one. He\\ndeclared that the Virginia slave-trader, who tore a slave family asunder\\nfrom those ties which cluster around civilization, whether it be the slave\\nor the free man, was far more open to rebuke than the man who brought\\nthe African from a land where he has no ties of country or family\\naround him.\\nHe desired not to be discourteous to Virginia but, with all deference\\nto the State, he believed they were influenced more than they ought to\\nbe by the almighty dollar. He had himself purchased some slaves in\\nVirginia, and had to pay from one tliousand to twelve hundred dollars,\\nwhile he could buy a better nigger in Africa for fifty dollars. [Loud\\nlaughter and great applause.] Now, if any of his friends from the\\nNorth would go down to his plantation in Georgia it was not far from\\nhere, and he hoped many of them would he would show them negroes\\nhe had purchased in Virginia, in Georgia, in Alabama, in Louisiana,\\nand he would also show them the native African, the noblest Roman of\\nthem all. [Shouts of laughter and applause repeated round after\\nround.]\\nThe applause and laughter on the floor, during this gentleman s\\nspeech, were overpowering. He was in deadly earnest, and talked with\\nno little force of expression. He is a tall, hatchet-faced man, with\\nbrown complexion, high nose, great eyes, thin, straggling, black beard\\nand black hair. His personal appearance is much like that of Edo-er-\\ntou, M. C, of Ohio.\\nMr. McCook of Ohio moved the adoption of the following resolution\\nResolved. That this Convention will proceed at 2 P. M. of this day, hy a call\\nof the States, to nominate a candidate for President, and immediately thereafter,\\nto nomiuate a candidate for the Vice-Presidency of the United States.\\nMr. RafFerty of New Jersey, on the part of his delegation, presented\\na protest against the vote of the house, overruling the decision of the\\nchair, on the controversy respecting the easting of the vote of that\\nSlate.\\nThe condition of affairs here and now Charleston, May 1st, twelve\\no clock is as follows The seceding Southerners are just calling their\\nConstitutional Democratic Convention to order, at St. Andrew s Hall.\\nA row is in progress in this hall among the California delegates. At\\nthis moment, three of them are at sword s points, bickering as to what\\nshall be done and who shall speak the voice of the State. John Coch-\\nrane of New York is anxious to make a speech. Mr. McCook of Ohio\\nwants to force a motion to come to a ballot for a candidate for the Pres-\\nidency at two o clock. Half a dozen Southern delegations are out\\nconsultiTig, trying to find where they are to go.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "79\\nOne of the Californians obtains full possession of the floor, and pro-\\nceeds to pour liot shot into the Popular Sovoreii^nty camp. He charged\\nthose who liad supported the minority platform, with truckling to Black\\nRepublicanism. A Connecticut delegate (Gallagher) springs up, white\\nwith rage, and black hair flying in his eyes, ami raises a que. -tion of\\norder, that the gentleman from California has no right to slander tlie\\nDemocracy of Connecticut. He made the point of order, too, that the\\nCalifornian had no business to stand up and, as with a lash, to belather\\nthe men of the North.\\nCalifornia has great happiness in finding that the cap fits the gentle-\\nman from Connecticut. He proceeds to say that the South has been\\nmaltreated in the confederacy, and says that if the aggressions of the\\nNorth continue, and the Union should be dissolved, the Pacific States\\nhave, thank God, the domain upon which to build up a splendid empire\\nof their own. He Concludes by grossly insulting a gentleman fiom\\nMissouri. This Californian seems eager to vary the exeroi. ^es by a\\nfight. He looks and talks as if nothing would agree with his stomach\\nso well as a bowie-knife encounter. The insulted Missourian proceeds\\nto make a speech. He would not sit in a Convention where his motives\\nwere called in question. The chair had not heard the insult, or he\\nwould have called the Californian to order. Missouri proceeded to give\\nforth a doleful sound about the disrupted Democracy. His lamentations\\nwere grievous as tho.se of Jeremiah, but not so eloquent or poetic. A\\ntall, black-bearded, ferocious looking Californian gets up, and makes\\nthe most amiable speech ever heard, rebuking, in the mildest and kindest\\nterms, his ill-mannered and insolent colleague. McCook of Ohio jumps\\nup and wants to press a vote on the Presidency. John Cochrane wants\\nto speak but objections are raised, and John can t speak. Seward of\\nGeorgia wants to explain his position. After a while, he obtains unan-\\nimous consent to go on, and proceeds to tell what he thought of the un-\\nderstanding between the North and South in the Kansas and Nebraska\\nfight all of which he ^aw, and part of which he was, as a member of\\nCongress from the State of Georgia. As this letter closes, Seward is\\nmaking a strong popular sovereignty speech, which is oil upon the fev-\\nerish wounds of the poor Northern Democrats. He is going home to\\nGeorgia to state the case to the people of that State. And now a North\\nCarolinian gets up and encourages the Douglasites, by telling them he\\nis not going out.\\nMr. Richardson of Illinois tried to speak comfortably to the people.\\nMr. Perry of South Carolina, one of the fragments that remained,\\nrose to speak, and was greeted by a storm of hisses from the galleries.\\nMr. Perry begged the North, making the appeal in the most earnest\\nand pathetic manner, simply to give up the point of controversy. He as-\\nsured the Northerners that they were wrong, and should give up for the\\nsake of harmony. The Charleston Courier reports him as saying He\\ndeeply regretted the schisms that had been going nn. He represented,\\nwith his friend, Col. Boozer, only one vote, and if the South all retired,\\nit would be folly for them to remain so he besought the Convention\\nto give some boon to the South. So far as any practical good could be\\naccomplished, it was a mere abstraction no issue could arise under it,", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "8^\\nfor no slaveholder would go into Territories unfit for slave labor, whea\\nit was hure to liocume a tree State upon entering the Union. He beg-\\nged the North to cuusider these things;, and to do all in its power to heal\\nthe unhup[\u00c2\u00bby differences that had arisen.\\nMr. llo.vaid of Tennesste had been instructed to ask of the Con-\\nventidn llic rnognitiun of Congressional piotectiun. The gentleman\\nfrom Illinois (Mr. lliuhardsonj suid that his honur and manliui d forbid\\nbini from retreating from his position. Was his honor, was his mauhoud,\\nonly dependent upon a disregard of conslitutiunal righlsV He read,\\non the [lurt of Tennessee and tier sister State of Kentucky, which stood\\nbetween the two extrenies of the country, the following resolution, which\\nhe believed would reunite the North and the South, and was the ulti-\\nmatum of the South\\nRe-iolved. Tiiat all the citizens of the United States have an equal right to set-\\ntle, with ilicir properly, in the IVrritories of the United States, uud tiiat, under\\nthe decisions ot the Supreme Court of the United Slates, which we recognize as\\na correct exposition ol the Coii^litutiou of the Uiited States, neither then- rights\\nof person nor properly cau be destroyed or unpaired by (Jongressioiial or Ter-\\nritorial legislation.\\nHe also presented a resolution, declaring that on the ballot for Pres-\\nident and Vice-President, no person should be declared to be nomina-\\nted who did not receive two-thirds of all the votes the full Convention\\nwas entitled to cast.\\nMr. Richardson of Hlinois took the floor, when the chair reminded\\nhim that ihe dehate was not in order.\\niMr. Ptus.-ell of Virginia said the delegation of that State believed, so\\nfar as the plutfomi is concerned, the resolution read by the gentlemaa\\nfrom Tennessee formed a reasonable basis f)r a unimi of the Ncnth\\nand South. It affiims the decision in the Supreme Court, in the Dred\\nScott case, and goes no further. So far as the second resolution was\\nconcerned, relaiiug to the selection of a candidate for the Ple^idencJ,\\nthey believed that if the selection of a candidate was made, national in\\nits character, the South would support them, no matter what the action\\nof delegates might be. It might he suspected that, the resolution was\\naimed ai one particular candidate. It was not so. Virginia only de-\\nsired to receive the nationality of the nomination. The South would\\nonly be lepicsented negiitively in the choice, for her absent votes could\\nnot be counted in the affirmative for any candidate. They believed,\\ntoo, that the true interpretation of the rule would require the votes of\\ntwo-thirds of the representation to nominate, and not two thirds of those\\npresent, alone. Unless the resolution he offered should be adopted, he\\nwas not in.^iructed to cast the vote of Virginia on any question at pres-\\nent in this Convention.\\nMr. Howard of Tennessee disclaimed any intention in his remarks to\\nbe threatening.\\nMr. Caldwell of Kentucky said When the delegation had retired\\nfor consuhaiior), and had declared that the adoption of the resolution\\nread liy the gentleman from Tennessee, would be acceptaltle to Ken-\\ntucky, and would, they believe, bring ijaek those who had left the Con-\\nvention, il,e Kentucky delegation had also taken action ou the two-thirds", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "81\\nrule, and had decided that the proper constraction of the two-thirds rule\\nwas, that it required two-thirds of the vote of the Electoral College to\\nelect.\\nA motion was made to adjourn, and upon it the vote was taken by\\nStates.\\nWhen Georgia was called, Mr. Cohen, of that State, said ten dele-\\ngates remained, and they claimed to have power to east the vote of the\\nState. The chair decided that the minority had no right to cast the vote\\nof the State.\\nMr. Holden of Tennessee appealed from the decision of the chair.\\nHe said Whoin the Gods would destroy they first make mad. The\\ndecision of the chair is mofct suicidal and destructive. It destroyed the\\nrights of the State.\\nThe decision of the chair was sustained 148 ayes to 100 nays.\\nThe previous question on the motion of Mr. Howard was seconded.\\nThe motion to adjourn, on which the vote by States had been called,\\nwas lost 92 ayes to 158 najs. Convention, after skirmishing, ad-\\njourned until 5 o clock P. M.\\nAFTERNOON SESSION.\\nMr. Howard rose to a privileged question, and moved to take up his\\nresolution. The chair said it was not a privileged question.\\nMr. Howard. Then I will state it as a privileged question.\\nMr. llussell of Virginia wished to state that the decision which the\\nchair makes on this question now, will decide whether Virginia will\\nlonger partake in the proceedings of the Convention.\\nMr. Howard said the time fixed by Mr. McCook s resolution to bal-\\nlot for a candidate for President had long since passed, and that the\\nresolution was not, therefore, in order. The chair decided that the time\\nnamed in the resolution would not affect its passage.\\nThe question, shall the main question be now put, was then put,\\nand the motion carried by the following vote\\nStates. Yeas. Nays. States. Yeas. Nays.\\nMaine 5 3 Mississippi\\nNew Hampshire 5 Texas\\nVermont 5 Arkansas 1\\nMassaclmsetts 6 7 Missouri Ak H\\nRhode Island 4 Tennessee 1 U\\nConnecticut 31 2^ Kentucky 12\\nNew York 35 Ohio 23\\nNew Jersey 7 Indiana 13\\nPennsylvania 9^ Ifij Illinois U\\nDelaware 2 Michigan 6\\nMaryland 3 5 Wisconsin 5\\nVirginia 15 Iowa 4\\nNorth Carolina 10 Minnesota 2^ 1^\\nSouth Carolina California 4\\nGeortiia Oregon 3\\nFlorida\\nAlabama 149 102\\nLouisiana\\nMr. Ludlow, before the vote of New York was cast, inquired of the\\nchair if he uadeislood that the question of privilege on the meaning\\n6", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "82\\nand effect of tlio two-thirda rule, would be decided before the question\\nwas put on the resolution.\\nTlio President. It will be so decided.\\nThe propo-sition of Mr. Howard, declaring tbat the President would\\nuot declare any candidate elected who did not receive two-thirds of the\\nvote of the Electoral College, was then brought forward as a question\\nof privilege.\\nMr. Howard said he would use no argument to enforce this on the\\ncommittee, but would leave it at once to a decision of the chair.\\nThe chair is of opinion that this proposition of the State of Tennes-\\nsee, involving the question as to how the chair will decide the vote on\\nthe election of the candidate for the Presidency, is in order.\\nMr. Ftichardson. On that, I appeal from the decision of the chair,\\nand call the vote by States.\\nAfter some discussion, Mr. Richardson withdrew his appeal, and\\nmoved to lay the resolution of the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr.\\nHoward) on the table.\\nThe vote was taken by States, and the motion to lay on the table lost\\nSlates. Yeas. Nays. States. Yeas. Nays.\\nMaiae 5 3 Mississippi\\nNewHampRhire 5 Texas\\nVermont 5 Arkansas 1\\nMas.sachu8etts 4^ 8^ Missouri 4J 4J\\nRliode Islaud 4 Tennessee 1 11\\nCouuccticut 3^ 2J Keutucliy 12\\nNew Yorii 35 Ohio 23\\nNew Jersey l\\\\ bk Indiana 13\\nPcansylvania 10 16g Illinois 11\\nDelaware 2 Michigan 6\\nMaryland 2 6 Wiscousia 5\\nVirginia 15 Iowa 4\\nNorth Carolina 10 Minnesota 2^ 1^-\\nSoulh Carolina California 4\\nGeorgia Oregon 3\\nFlorida\\nAlabama IIU 141\\nIjouisiana\\nThe question then being on Mr. Howard s resolution, Mr. Stuart of\\nMichigan raised the point of order that the effect of the resolution was\\nto change the rule of the Convention, and must lie over. He read the\\nrule, which was that two-thirds of the votes given should be neces-\\nsary to nominate. He declared language could not be more explicit.\\nMr. Howard said a case in point had arisen in 1844, when the New\\nYork delegates were excluded from the Convention. The decision then\\nWJis tbat it required two-thirds of the electoral vote to elect.\\nThe President said the rule of the Convention of 1852 was in sub-\\nstance as the gentleman had stated. It was true a rigid construction of\\nthe rule would seem to be that it alluded to the votes cast on the ballot\\nin this Convention. But the words are, Two-thirds of the votes given\\nin this Convention.\\nThe gentleman further argues the inconvenience that would arise\\nfrom the voluntary absence of one-third of the Convention, so as to\\nprevent a nomination. This Convention has no legal authority its au-\\nthority is only of a moral character.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "The gentleman bad remarked on the inconvenience that might be ex-\\nperienced by a Convention assuming that a third of the delegates should\\nwithdraw and\u00c2\u00bbprevent a nomination but it would be a still greater in-\\nconvenience should a small minority of a Convention be enabled to\\nforce a nomination on the people of the United States. The nomina-\\ntion of a Convention is only a recommendation to the people of the\\ncountry, but in the judgment of the chair, the consideration of con-\\nvenience and inconvenience would, if taken into the question at all, re-\\nquire that the act of the Convention should be the act of all the States\\nof the Union.\\nThe chair is not of opinion that the words of the rule apply to the\\nvotes cast for the candidate, but to the votes that are cast here, in this\\nConvention, or two-thirds of all the votes to be cast by the Convention.\\nSo the chair is of opinion that the resolution of Mr. Howard of Ten-\\nnessee contemplates no change or modification of the rules of the\\nhouse. Another reason is, that it is not competent for the chair to\\nconstrue a rule, when it is proposed by a vote of the house to decide\\nits construction. The effect of the resolution of the gentleman from\\nTennessee, if adopted, will be to direct the President that in the votes\\nto be cast under his inspection, he shall make only such a decision as\\nto the nomination as the resolution dictates. The resolution of the\\ngentleman from Tennessee is, therefore, in order.\\nMr. Stuart of Michigan trusted that it was not necessary for him to\\ndisclaim any discourtesy to the chair, when he appealed from this de-\\ncision, and he would only say that the construction of the chair, that\\nthe words the votes given here were meant to apply to all the votes\\ncast by the Convention, could never receive the sanction of logic.\\nSeveral delegations having asked leave to retire for consultation, de-\\nsired that the chair would state, before they retired, the exact position\\nof the question.\\nThere was intense excitement and great confusion in the hall.\\nThe chair explained that the question was upon the appeal from the\\ndecision, that the resolution of Mr. Howard did not change the rules,\\nand was, therefore, in order.\\nThe vote was announced as follows\\nStates. Yeas. Nays. Stales. Yex/s. Nays.\\nMaine 3 5 Mississippi\\nNew Hampshire 1 4 Texas\\nVermont 5 Arkansas\\nMassachu.gett.? b\\\\ 3^ Missouri Ai 4.]\\nRhode Island 4 Tennessee 11 l\\nConnecticut 24 6 Kentucky lU\\nNew York 35 Ohio... o fi\\nNew Jersey 5] 1^ Indiana lo\\nPennsylvania 17i 9^ Illinois 11\\nDelaware 2 Michigan 6\\nMaryland 6 2 Wisconsin 5\\nVirginia L) Iowa 4\\nNorth Carolina 10 Minnesota 1 2^\\nSouth Carolina 1 California.... 4\\nGeorgia Oregon 3\\nFlorida\\nAlabama 144 108\\nLouisiana", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "84\\nJlr. Sturirt moved to anaend the resolution by adding And that\\nevery person who casts a vote binds himself hereby to vote for the can-\\ndidate rioinirvated.\\nMr. Howard. I ask by what right the gentleman makes himself a\\nkeeper oF the consciences of his peers.\\nJMr. Butler of Massachusetts raised the po nt of order that the\\namendment was not germane to the original resolution. He moved the\\nprevious question.\\nMr. Rustell of Virginia siaid that if Virginia remained in a Conven-\\ntion, her honor bound her to abide by its decisions. [Applause.]\\nAfter further discussion, the chair decided that the amendment of\\nMr. Stuart was not germane to the original resolution, and hence, was\\nnot in order.\\nThe previous question was then ordered, and the vote being called\\nby States, Mr. Howard s resolution was adopted by the following vote\\nSiaies, i eas. Nays. States. Yeas. Nay^.\\nMaine 3 5 Mississippi\\nNew Hampsliire 5 Texas\\nVermont 6 Arkansas 1\\nMassachusetts ik Missouri 2^ 2k\\nRhode Island 4 Tennessee 11 1\\nConnecticut 2^^ 3k Kentucky 11 1\\nNew York 35 Ohio 23\\nNew Jersey 5J IJ Indiana 13\\nPennsylvaijia Hj 9^ Illinois 11\\nDelaware 2 Michigan 6\\nMaryland C 2 Wisconsin 5\\nVirginia 15 Iowa 4\\nNorth Carolina 10 Minnesota U 2^\\nSouth Carolina 1 California 4\\nGeorgia Oregon 3\\nFlorida\\nAlabama 141 112\\nLouisiana....\\nMr. Bio ler moved to reconsider the vote and that the motion be laid\\non the table. The vote of New York was decisive on this question.\\nBalloting for a candidate for the oflBce of President of the United\\nStates was now in order. Mr. King of Missouri nominated Stephen\\nA. Douglas. Mr. Caldwell of Kentucky nominated the favorite son\\nand incorruptible statesman of Kentucky, James Guthrie. Mr. Pat-\\nrick of California nominuted Daniel S. Dickinson. Mr. Russell of Vir-\\nginia nominated It. M. T. Hunter. Mr. Ewing of Tennessee nomi-\\nnated An Irew Johnson. Mr. Stevens of Oregon nominuted Joe Lane.\\nAfter the vote of New York had decided that it was impossible to\\nnominate Douglas, she proceeded, the roll of States being called, to\\nvote lor him as demurely as if she meant it.\\nThe first ballot for the nomination of a candidate for the Presidency,\\nwas taken about dusk, amid the most profound silence. When the\\nname of Douglas was put in nomination, a feeble yelp went up from\\nthe North-western delegations. It was not hearty and strong, but thin\\nand spiritless. There was no hopefulness in it, but something of defi-\\nance. It was as much as to say, Well, if we cau t nominate him, you\\ncannot nominate auy body else.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "85\\nThe spnlcesmen of the North-western delegations tried to make their\\nvotes for Douglas impressive, but it was a failure. They said ao many\\nvotes for Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, but it would not do.\\nThey were overhung now by a cloud of South Carolinians in the gal-\\nleries, and the cold steel of the new construction of the two-thirds rule\\nhad pierced their vitals. The North-western delegations, commencing\\nwith Ohio, had always, until now, produced something of an effect,\\nvoting in solid column, according to the direction on the Douglas pro-\\ngramme. But McCook of Ohio failed to give any rotundity to the\\nvote, twenty-three votes for Stephen A. Douglas. Gavit of Indi-\\nana ripped out the vote of that State, and glared round with the air of\\nan assassin. He looked as if he would cut any man s throat who had\\nany thing to say against that. Richardson of Illinois looked as if at a\\nfuneral, and gave the vote of Illinois in a voice like the sound of clods\\non a coffin. The followinsr is the\\nFIRST BAIJ.OT.\\nSTATES.\\ni\\nbo\\na\\no\\nQ\\n.2\\n.a\\n3\\nO\\nc\\n5\\na\\nD\\na\\na\\na\\n.a\\nc\\nOS\\nh-5\\n3\\n2^\\nu\\nMaine\\n5\\n5\\n5\\nH\\n4\\n35\\n3\\n9\\nk\\n2\\n1\\n4\\n7\\n6\\n3\\n2\\n5\\n15\\n9\\n1\\ni\\n4?,\\nU\\n12\\n3\\n3\\n6\\nNew Hampshire\\nVermont\\nMassachusetts\\nRhode Island\\nConnecticut\\nNew York\\nNew Jersey\\nPennsylvania\\n9\\ni\\n1\\nDelaware\\nMaryland\\nVirginia\\nNorth Carolina\\nSouth Carolina\\nGeorgia\\nFlorida\\nAlabama\\nLouisiana\\nMississippi\\nTexas\\nArk ausas\\nMissouri\\n4J\\nTennessee\\nKentucky\\nOhio\\n23\\n13\\n11\\n6\\n5\\n4\\n4\\n145^\\nIndiana\\nIllinois\\nMichigan\\nWisconsin\\nIowa\\nMiimesota\\nCalifornia\\nOregon\\nTotal\\n35^\\n1", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "86\\nSECOND BALLOT.\\nDouglas 147\\nHuntiT 41 J\\nGuthrie 3(i^\\nJohiiKoii 12\\nDickinson Ci\\nLaue 6\\nTouccy 2|\\nDavis 1\\nTHIRD BALLOT.\\nDoiisjlas 148J\\nGuliiiie 42\\nHunter 36\\nJohnson 12\\nDicliinsoa 6^\\nLaue 6*\\nDavis 1\\nFOURTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 149\\nHunter 41J\\nGuthrie 37|\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 6\\nDickinson 5\\nDavis 1\\nFIFTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 149,]\\nHunter 4l\\nGuthrie 37^\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 6\\nDickinson 5\\nDavis 1\\nSIXTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas U^\\nGuthrie 39^\\nHunter 3G\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 7\\nDickinson 3\\nDavis 1\\n.SEVENTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 150^\\nHunter 41\\nGuthrie 38.J\\nJohnson 11\\nLane 6\\nDickinson 4\\nDavis 1\\nEIGHTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 150J\\nHunter 40|\\nGuthrie 38,}\\nJohnson 11\\nLane 6\\nDickinson 4.^\\nDavis 1\\nNINTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 150^\\nGuthrie 41^\\nHunter 33=}\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 6\\nDavis 1}\\nDickinson l\\nWhile the roll was being called, Mr. Edgerton of Minnesota desired\\nto have his vote recorded for Johnson of Tennessee.\\nThe question was, whether, before the Convention adjourned, Doug-\\nlas would get a majority of the Electoral College. He crawled up, half\\na vote at a time, until, on the ninth ballot, he reached the figure 152\\nbut before the vote was declared, the column of the North-west was\\nbroken. Gorman denied Edgerton s right to change his vote chair\\nrecognized Edgerton s right to vote as he pleased.\\nTENTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 150J\\nGuthrie 3;),i^\\nHunter Si)\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 5j\\nDickinson i\\nDavis 1 1\\nKLKVKNTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas l^Qi\\n(iuthrie 3 ).i\\nHunter 38*\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 6^\\nDickinson 4\\nDavis 1|\\nTWELFTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 150|\\nGuthrie 39|\\nHunter 38\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 6|\\nDickinson 4\\nDavis li\\nOn motion of Mr. Richardson of Illinois, the Convention then ad-\\njourned.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "v^ 87\\nThe Douglas men were very despondent after this day s experience.\\nThe delegates generally are dispirited, worried out liy the long wrangle,\\nand disgusted. It is the prevalent impression that the l)ein icratic\\nparty has been done for. Even if it should be possible to patch up a\\nsuperficial reconciliation, and nominate with a whole Convention, the\\nnomination would be worthless. I hear it stated here a hundred times\\na day, by the most orthodox Democrats and rampant Southerners,\\nWilliam H. Seward will be next President of the United States.\\nAnd I have heard this remark several times from South Carolinians\\nI ll be damned if I don t believe Senator Seward would make a good\\nPresident. The fact is, there is a large class to whom the idea of\\nDouglas is absolutely more offensive than Seward.\\nOur North-western friends will go home with hatred of the Democratic\\nparty, as it has appeared here, rankling in their hearts. As Douglas\\nwill not be the nominee, they will wish to see the nominee defeated.\\nSome of them say, openly and earnestly, they will go home and join the\\nBlack Republicans. I never heard Abolitionists talk more uncharitably\\nand rancorously of the people of the South, than the Douglas men here.\\nOur North-western friends use language about the South, her institu-\\ntions, and particularly her politicians, that is not fit for publication, and\\nmy scruples in that respect are not remarkably tender. A good many\\nof them will eventually become the most intolerant Republican parti-\\nsans. Their exasperation and bitterness toward the South, that has\\ninsisted upon such a gross repudiation of the only ground upon which\\nthey could stand in the North, can hardly be described. Many of them\\nwould not lift a finger to prevent the election of Seward to the Presi-\\ndency. They say they do not care a d n where the South goes, or\\nwhat becomes of her. They say she may go out of the Convention\\ninto hell, for all they care. I know it will be asserted that this is a\\nhighly-colored, statement but it certainly is not; on the other hand^ it\\nis mild. There will be no fight in the North-west worth thinking about.\\nThe Douglas men will permit the election to go by default. No matter\\nwhat this Convention does after this date, the Chicago Convention has\\nall the cards in its hands to win the next Presidency and the spoils of\\nthe Federal Government.\\nThis is a fixed fact, as the honorable President of this Convention\\nonce said. By the way, the Douglas men are desperately bitter on\\nCaleb Cushing. They call him all manner of hard names.\\nPeople are fast leaving the town. Mr. Douglas s outside pressure\\nhas melted away. The Charleston disunionists now gloat over the\\npitiful and disgraceful wrangling that occupies the attention of the Con-\\nvention.\\nNINTH DAY\\nMORNING SESSION.\\nCharleston, May 2, 1860\\nPrior to the opening of the proceedings to-day, the Boston Brass\\nBand, accompanying the Boston delegation, appeared in the gallery and", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "88\\nplayed several national airs, and at the close of wliicli, Mr. Flournoy of\\nArkansas pro|josod three cheers fur the Union, which were given.\\nThe roll of States was called for the thirteenth ballot (202 votes\\nbeing necessary to a choice), which resulted as follows\\nTUIRTEEXTH BAIXOT.\\nDouglas U^\\nGuihrie 39$\\nLane 20\\nHunter 28.V\\nJohnson 12\\nDickiiisoa 1\\nDavis Ij\\nFOUUTEEN TH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 150\\nGutlirie 41\\nDickinson 5\\nHunter 27\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 20^\\nDavis I\\nFIFTEENTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 150\\nGutln-it! 41^\\nDickinson\\nHunter 262\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 20|\\nDavis 1\\nSIXTEENTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 150\\nGuthrie 42\\nDickinson\\nHunter 26\\nJohnsoa 12\\nLane 20^\\nDavis 1\\nSEVENTEENTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 150\\nGuthrie 42\\nDickinson\\nHunter 2G\\nJoliiison 12\\nLane 20^\\nDavis 1\\nEIUUTKENTH ItAI.LOT.\\nDouglas l. iO\\nGuthrie 4I5\\nDickinson 1\\nHunter 26\\n.foinison 12\\nLane 2O5\\nDavis I\\nNINETEENTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 150\\nGuthrie 41f\\nDickinson 1\\nHunter 26\\nJoiuisoa 12\\nLane 20^\\nDavis 1\\nTWENTIETH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 15()\\nGuthrie 42\\nDickinson\\nHunter 26\\nJolinson 12\\nLane 20|\\nDavis 1\\nTWENTT-FIRST BALLOT.\\nDouglas 150|\\nGuthrie 41|\\nDickinson J\\nHunter 26\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 20^\\nDavis 1\\nTWENTY-SECOND BALLOT.\\nDouglas 150|\\nGuthrie 4l|\\nDickinson J\\nHunter 26\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 20J\\nDavis 1\\nTWENTT-THIRD BALLOT.\\nDouglas 152|\\nGuthrie 41^\\nDickinson\\nHunter 25\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 19^\\nDavis 1\\nBefore the twenty-third ballot was declared, there was trouble in the\\nVirginia delegation. One of the votes was cast for Mr. Douglas by the\\ndelegates of one of the districts. The chairman of the State delegation\\nwas opposed to this, and produced the instructions. Gov. Todd of Ohio\\n(tem|i()rarily in the chair), ruled that the Virginia vote could be cast\\nfor Douglas, in spite of the majority of the delegation. This vote gave\\nDouglas on this ballot a niajoiity of the Electoral College vote, and his", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "89\\nfriends were greatly inspirited. If Cusliing liad been in tlie chair, the\\nfractious Virginians would have been ruled under. Cusliing rushed in,\\nout of breath, just after the vote was declared, and took his pofiition\\nwith some discomposure an extraordinary thing for him.\\nTWENTT-FOCllTU BALLOT.\\nDouclas 15U\\nGuthrie 4U\\nDickinson li\\nHunter 25\\nJohnson 12\\nLane\\nDavis.\\nm\\nTWENTY-FIFTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas I5I2\\nGuthrie 41\\nDickinson H\\nHunter 35\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 9i\\nDavis 1\\nIn this ballot North Carolina changed\\nher ten votes from Lane to Hunter.\\nTWENTY-SIXTH BALLOT.\\nDou!?las 151^\\nGuthrie 41^\\nDickinson 12\\nHunter 25\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 9\\nDavis 1\\nWhen North Carolina was called on\\nthis ballot. Mr. Brown of North Caro-\\nlina said North Carolina casts her\\nten votes for that incorruptible states-\\nman and pure patriot, Daniel S. Dick-\\ninson of New York. [Applause.]\\nTWENTY-SEVENTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 15U\\nGuthrie 4-4\\nDickinson 12\\nHunter 25\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 8\\nDavis 1\\nTWENTY-EIGHTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 15U\\nGuthrie 42\\nDickinson 12^\\nHunter 25\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 8\\nDavis 1\\nTWENTY-NINTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 151J\\nGuthrie 42\\nAdjourned until 5 o clock.\\nDickinson 13\\nHunter 25\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 7J\\nDavis 1\\nTHIRTIETH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 151 J\\nGuthrie 45\\nDickinson 13\\nHunter 25\\nJohnson H\\nLane 5^\\nDavis 1\\nTHIUTY-FIRST BALLOT.\\nDouglas 151^\\nGuti irie 47^\\nDickinson 3\\nHunter 32^\\nJohnson 1 1\\nLane ^k\\nDavis 1\\nOn this ballot North Carolina cast\\nher vote between Hunter and Guthrie.\\nTHIRTY-SECOND BALLOT.\\nDouglas 152|\\nGuthrie 47^\\nDickinson 3\\nHunter 22J\\nJohnson H\\nLane 14j\\nDavis 1\\nNorth Carolina in this ballot cast one\\nvote for Douglas again, giving him a\\nmajority of the entire electoral vote.\\nTHIRTY-THIRD BALLOT.\\nDouglas 152J\\nGuthrie 47^\\nDickinson 3\\nHunter 22^\\nJohnson H\\nLane 1^2\\nDavis 1\\nTHIRTY-FOURTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 152^\\nGuthrie 47J\\nDickinson\\nHunter 22J\\nJohnson 1^^\\nLane ^^2\\nDavis.\\n1", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "9a\\nAFTERNOON SESSION.\\nTHTRTY-FrFTH BAI.I.OT.\\nDouglas 152\\nGutiirie 47.]\\nDickinson 4.]\\nHunter 22\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 13\\nDavis 1\\nMr. Gittings of Baltimore moved to adjourn to that city on the first\\nMonday in July. Withdrew his motion.\\nTHIRTY-SIXTH BALLOT.\\nDouirlas 1.51^\\n(Jutiirio 48\\nDickinson 4i\\nHunter 22\\nJohnson 12\\nLane 13\\nDavis 1\\nThe vote of Arkansas having been east for John C. Breckenridge in\\nthis ballot,\\nMr. Beck of Kentucky asked that the vote might be withdrawn. On\\nthe part of Mr. Breckenridge, he desired to say, that it was not the de-\\nsire of that gentleman that his name should be used in opposition to the\\ndistinguished gentlemen now in nomination. The vote was withdrawn.\\nWhen the vote was announced,\\nMr. Ewing of Tennessee said that the Tennessee delegation had pre-\\nsented a name for the nomination Mr. Johnson. They now desired\\nto withdraw that name, and to express the hope that a nomination might\\nbe made. Their vote on the next ballot was cast 10| for Guthrie, 1\\nfor Douglas, and for Johnson.\\nTHIRTY-SEVENTH BALLOT.\\nDonglas 15U\\nGuthrie 64|\\nDickinson 5%\\nHunter 16\\nJohnson 1^\\nLane 12 J\\nDavis 1\\nTHIKTT-EKiHTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 1511\\nG utlu ie (iC\\nDickinson 51\\nHunter 16\\nLane 13\\nTHIRTY-NINTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 151^\\nGuthrie 6bJ\\nDickinson 5|\\nHunter 16\\nLane 12^\\nFORTIETH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 151 J\\n(iiithrie 66^\\nDickinson 5j\\nHunter 16\\nLaue 12^\\nKORTY-FIR8T BALLOT.\\nDouglas 15]i\\nGutiirie 66|\\nDickinson 5\\nHunter 16\\nLane 13\\nFORTY-SECOND BALLOT.\\nDouglas 15U\\nGuthrie 66^\\nDickinson 5\\nHunter 16\\nLane 13\\nFORTY-THIRD BALLOT.\\nDouglas 151^\\nGuthrie 6.5^\\nDickinson 5\\nHunter 16\\nLane 13\\nDavis 1\\nFORTY-FOURTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 151 1\\nGuthrie 65^\\nDickinson 5\\nHunter 16\\nLane 13\\nDavis 1\\nFORTY-FIFTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 151.J\\nGuthrie 65|\\nDickinson 5\\nHunter 16\\nLane 13\\nDavis 1", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "91\\nFORTY-SIXTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas I5I5\\nGiithrie 654\\nDickinson 5\\nHunter 16\\nLane 13\\nDavis 1\\nFORTY-SEVENTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas L51^\\nGutlirie 654\\nDickini5on 5\\nHunter 16\\nLane 13\\nDavis 1\\nFORTY-EIGHTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 1514\\nGuthrie 65^\\nDickinson 6\\nHunter 16\\nLane 13\\nDavis 1\\nFORTY-NINTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 1514\\nGuthrie 594\\nDickinson 4\\nHunter 16\\nLane 14\\nDavis 1\\nFIFTIETH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 1514\\nGuthrie 654\\nDickinson 4\\nHunter 16\\nLane 14\\nDavis 1\\nFIFTY-FIRST BALLOT.\\nDouglas 151J\\nGuthrie 65J\\nDickinson 4\\nHunter 16\\nLane 14\\nDavis 1\\nFIFTY-SECOND BALLOT.\\nDouglas 151i\\nGuthrie 05^\\nDickinson 4\\nHunter 16\\nLane 14\\nDavis 1\\nFIFTY-THIRD BALLOT.\\nDouglas 151^\\nGuthrie 65|\\nDickinson 4\\nHunter 16\\nLane 14\\nDavis 1\\nFIFTY-FOURTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 151\\nGuthrie 61\\nDickinson 16\\nHunter 20J\\nLane 14\\nDavis 1\\nFIFTY-FIFTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas I5I5\\nGuthrie 65J\\nDickinson 14\\nHunter 16\\nLane 14\\nDavis 1\\nMr. Gittings said it was no use voting this way like a machine. He\\nmoved that it was inexpedient to nominate a candidate. There were\\ncries that his motion was out of order. He said I want to see if\\nyou ll come up and face the music. I mean to vote against it myself,\\nbut I want to find out what you re going to do. If you ll nominate\\nDouglas we can elect him, by G d [Laughter and cheers.]\\nThe President. The motion is not in order.\\nMr. Gittings. No, of course not; that s the way we are prevented\\ngetting a vote on it.\\nFIFTY-SEVENTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 151^\\nGuthrie ^H\\nDickinson 4\\nHunter 16\\nLane 14\\nDavis 1\\nMr. Gittings moved to adjourn till the 1st Monday in June. Laid\\non the table. Adjourned.\\nMr. Douglas s friends were quite nervous after getting a majority vote.\\nFIFTY-SIXTH BALLOT.\\nDouglas 151 J\\nGuthrie 65i\\nDickinson 4\\nHunter 16\\nLane 14\\nDavis 1", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "92\\nThe leaders were quite fidgety. Stuart of Michigan, Richardson of Il-\\nlinois, JlcCook of Ohio, and other.\u00c2\u00ab, bad their heads together at inter-\\nvals, and were evidently proposing to do something dbs-perate. Just\\nbefore the Convention adjourned, Stuart sought the floor and clearly ob-\\ntained it, but 3Ir. Gushing w nh stony face looked over his shoulder and\\nsaw the gentleman from North Carolina, Mr. Ashe, who made the\\nmotion to adjourn until live o clock, which was carried, by declaration\\nof the chair, though there was a strong negative vote.\\nThe New York vote is ready to be cast for the Tennessee conciliatory\\nresolution, which is readily a mild but unmistakable slave code resolu-\\ntion. It would deaden Douglas. The spectators have become tired of\\nthe Convention. The galleries are no longer crowded, and it is hardly\\nworth while to keep up the ceremony of presenting tickets. The ladies\\ngallery is very thin, and the poor creatures look down into the hall,\\nvainly seeking objects of interest.\\nThe South Carolina delegates who remained after the secession have\\nwithdrawn. They were loudly hissed every time they voted, and the\\nexpressions of public disapprobation were so strong that they have suc-\\ncumbed.\\nDevelopments of some sort are expected and insisted upon. The\\noutsiders are becoming as impatient as the insiders. The whole arrange-\\nment is pretty nearly beyond endurance. There is little hope of reach-\\ning any conclusion this or even next week. It is very clear that the\\nDouglas men have strength enough to prevent nomination whether they\\nhave or have not to nominate. His friends are obstinate and are be-\\ncoming more embittered every hour. There are some who hope he will\\ncut the Gordian knot here by a summary telegraphic despatch peremptori-\\nly withdrawing his name. But his friends say he promised them in\\nWashington a fortnight since, when all contingencies were being con-\\nsidered and his counsel was taken, that he would not repeat the Cincin-\\nnati despatch under any contingency. There are serious propositions\\nmade to adjourn, to meet in New York or Baltimore in June. This\\nwould seem, however, to be a mere hopeless attempt at evasion of the\\npresent interminable difficulty. The only substantive thing, thus far,\\nthat has been done here is the disruption of the party.\\nTENTH DAY\\nTHE CLOSING SCENE.\\nCharleston, S. C, May 3d.\\nThe Convention or rather that which is left of the Convention, the\\nKunip as Yancey calls it meets this morning with the understand-\\ning that it is to adjourn to meet in Baltimore early in June. The\\nNorth-western delegates are said to be in favor of Baltimore, on the\\nthird Monday in June. This is in sheer desperation. The Douglas\\nmen expect to have soft Conventions held in the cotton States,\\nwhich will send up to the Convention two representatives favorable to", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "93\\nthe Little Giant. They are against a new deal in the Northern\\nStates, and holding what they have, will grab wliat, they can. There\\nwill be two Conventions, the Squatter Sovereignty one at Baltimore,\\nand the Constitutional one, which will assemble at tlie call of the cotton\\nStates.\\nThe Convention opens with prayer. Mr. Russell of Virginia ob-\\ntained the floor, to make an explanation relative to the position of the dele-\\ngation of his State, on the resolution offered by Mr. Howard of Ten-\\nnessee, which had been printed erroneously in the papers. The Mer-\\ncury, of this morning, contained an article denouncing the resolution as\\nno better than squatter sovereignty. The editor had been under a mis-\\napprehension as to the strength of the resolution the resolution assert-\\ned that the right of property in slaves in the Territories could not be\\ndestroyed or impaired by Congress or a Territorial Legislature. The\\neditor of the Mercury had omitted the words, or impaired. Mr.\\nRussell of Virginia stated that it had been ascertained that there was\\nstrength enough in the Convention to pass this resolution whenever it\\ncame up. This is known to be a fact.\\nThe language of Mr. Russell was\\nAll the Southern States, be believed, ]iad agreed on this, and he un-\\nderstood the State of New York had given her assent to its adoption.\\nHe now offered the following\\nResolved, That when this Convention adjourns to-day, it adjourn to reassemble\\nat Baltimore, Md., on Monday, the 18th day of June, and that it be respectfully\\nrecommended to the Democratic party of the several Stales t make provision\\nfor supplying all vacancies in their respective delegations to this Convention\\nwhen it slJall reassemble. [Applause.]\\n[A dispute has arisen about the wording of this resolution a pam-\\nphlet copy of the proceedings at Charleston having been published in\\nWashington, in which the resolution reads:\\nResolved, That when this Convention adjourns to day, it adjourn to meet in\\nBaltimore on the 18th day of June, in order to afford the States that are not\\nnow represented an opportunity to fill up their delegations.\\nSenator Mason of Virginia considered this matter of sufficient im-\\nportance to address a card to the Washington Constitution concerning it.\\nMr. Mason quotes the two forms of the resolution, and says of that\\nfirst above, wnich I take from the file of the Charleston Courier\\nThe above is a copy taken by me from the resolution in Mr. Russell s\\npossession, which he brought with him from Charleston.\\nThe marked difference between the two will strike the reader at once.\\nAs printed in the pamphlet, it is addressed only to States that are not\\nnow represented, imputing that there were States, in the judgment of\\nthe Convention, not then represented in the Convention thus seeming\\nto imply that the seats of the delegations of those States who had with-\\ndrawn were then vacant.\\nIn the resolution really presented and adopted, a recommendation is\\naddressed to the Democratic party of the several Slates to make pro-\\nvision fur supplying all vacancies in their respective delegations when\\nit fchall reai^kcmble.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "Tlie rules were quickly suspended to allow Mr. Russell s resolution\\nto be considered.\\nThen there was an amendment made to strike out Baltimore and in-\\nsert Philadelphia. There was moved an amendment to the amendment,\\nto strike out Philadelphia and insert New York. Pending these amend-\\nments there were several very funny scenes, which would have been ex-\\nciting, if the Convention had not become an inconsequential mob.\\nRandall of Pennsylvania several times jumped up with his gnarled\\ngray head and comically severe expression, and attempted to put some-\\nthing before the house with which he was swollen. Several malicious\\nfellows, to tease the old man, raised points of order upon him. The\\nold gentleman would get out of his place, close up to the chair, to put\\na moiion, and some rascal would raise the point upon him, that he was\\nout of his place. Gushing would look down upon him with a queer\\npucker at the corners of his mouth the smile of a lion looking kindly\\nupon a sheep and would slaughter him by sustaining the point of\\norder and sending him back to his place. At last the old gentleman\\nmounted a chair in his place and screamed at the chair, and was recog-\\nnized. The Convention was in great good humor with him, and gave\\nhim a vociferous round of applause. The old gentleman moved to sub-\\nstitute for the various motions before the house, that the Convention\\nmeet on the fourth of July, in Independence Plall. He thought a\\nmeeting at that holy time and place, would do them all a great deal of\\ngood.\\nThe country would have been saved at once, but the motion was out\\nof order.\\nMr. Montgomery of Pennsylvania was desperately anxious to address\\nthe chair, and when the chair recognized somebody else, he was indig-\\nnant, and declared his voice (which is a roarer) too weak, and his form\\n(which is a whopper) too small, for the one to be seen or the other to\\nbe heard by the chair. The chair arose in indignation and struck the\\ntable three violent blows with his hammer, which he would evidently\\nhave been happy to bestow upon the head of Montgomery. He then\\nstated the case to Montgomery in the most explicit terms.\\nThe question on substituting New York for Baltimore, was lost by a\\nviva voce vote The question on substituting Philadelphia for Balti-\\nmore, was lost by the following vote\\nYkas Maine 3, Massachusetts 10;^, Connecticut 1, New Jersey 7,\\nPennsylvania 2G^, Delaware 2, North Carolina 4, Missouri 4, Ten-\\nnessee irjl Kentucky 11^, Minnesota H, California 1 88^.\\nNays Maine 5, New Hampshire 5, Vermont 5, Massachusetts 2^,\\nRhode Island 4, Connecticut 5, New York 35, Maryland 8, Virginia\\n15, North Carolina 6, Arkansas 1, Missouri 5, Tennessee 1^, Ken-\\ntucky 5, Ohio 23, Indiana 13, Illinois 11, Michigan 6, Wisconsin 5,\\nIowa 4, Minnesota 2^, California 3, Oregon 3\u00e2\u0080\u0094165.\\nThe original resolution was then carried by the following vote\\nYkas Maine 5, New Hampshire 5, Vermont 5, Massachusetts 10,\\nRhode Island 4, Connecticut 0, New York 35, New Jersey 2, Penn-\\nsylvania 23^, Maryland 5, Virginia 14^, Arkansas 1, Missouri 6, Ten-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "95\\nnessee 7, Oliio 23, Indiana 13, Illinois 11, Michigan 6, Wisconsin 5,\\nIowa 4, Minnesota 4, California 3 195.\\nNays Maine 3, Connecticut 3, Now Jersey 5, Pennsylvania 3,\\nMaryland 3, Virginia d, North Carolina 14, Missouri 3, Tennessee 5,\\nKentucky 12 55.\\nThe President. The chair, before putting the final motion to ad-\\njourn, requests for a few moments the attention of the Convention.\\nOrder being restored, the President naid\\nGentlemen of the Convention: Allow me, before putting the\\nquestion of adjournment, to address to you a parting word.\\nI desire, first, to say, and, in saying it, to bear testimony to your\\nconstituents and to the people of the IJnited States that, coiisirlering\\nthe numerousness of the assembly, the important interests involved in\\nits deliberations, and the emotions thus naturally awakened in your\\nbosoms considering all this, I say your sessions have been distin-\\nguished by order, by freedom from personalities, by decorum and by\\nobservance of parliamentary method and law. In the competition for\\nthe floor, in the zeal of gentlemen to promote their respective opinions\\nby motions or objections to motions in the lassitude of protracted sit-\\ntings, occasions have occurred of apparent, but only apparent, confu-\\nsion. But there has been no real confusion, no deliberate violation of\\norder. I am better able than any other person to speak knowingly on\\nthis point, and to speak impartially, and I say it with pride and pleas-\\nure, as a thing especially proper for me to say from the chair.\\nI desire further to say for and in behalf of myself, that I also know,\\nby the knowledge of my own heart and conscience, that in the midst of\\ncircumstances always arduous, and in some respects of peculiar embar-\\nrassment, it has been my steady purpose and constant endeavor to dis-\\ncharge impartially the duties of the chair. If, in the execution of these\\nduties, it shall have happened to me to address any gentleman abruptly,\\nor not to have duly recognized him, I beg pardon of him and of the\\nConvention.\\nFinally, permit me to remind you, gentlemen, that not merely the\\nfortunes of the great Constitutional party which you represent, but the\\nfortunes of the Constitution also, are at stake on the acts of this Con-\\nvention. During the period now of eighty-four years, we, the States of\\nthis Union, have been associated together in one form or another, for\\nobjects of domestic order and foreign security. We have traversed\\nside by side the wars of the Revolution, and other and later wars.\\nThrough peace and war, through sun.shine and storm, we have held our\\nway manfully on, until we have come to be the Great Republic. Shall\\nwe cease to be such I will not believe it I will not believe that the\\nnoble work of our fathers is to be shattered into fragments this great\\nRepublic to be but a name, a history of a mighty people once existing,\\nbut existing no longer save as a shadowy memory, or as a monumental\\nruin by the side of the pathway of time I fondly trust that we shall\\ncontinue to march on forever the hope of nations, as well in the Old\\nWorld as in the New like the bright orbs of the firaianicut, which roll\\non without rest, because bound for eternity without haste, because pre-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "destined for eternity; so may it be with this glorious Confederation of\\nStates.\\nI pray you, tlierefore, gentlemen, in your return to your constitu-\\nents and to the bosoms of your families, to take with you as your guid-\\ning thought the sentiment of the Constitution and the Union. And\\nwith this, I cordially bid you farewell, until the prescribed reassembling\\nof the Cunvcnlion.\\nThe address was received with loud applause, and at its close the\\nPresident doolared that the Convention stood adjourned until the 18th\\nof June, then to meet at 12 o clock, noon, in the city of Baltimore.\\nThe final fall of the hammer was the signal for a general stampede,\\nand the delegates rushed from the hall.\\nThe monu ot before the Convention assumed a nebulous appearance,\\na Baltimnrean had something very sweet to say of the hc-pitalities\\nof the Monumental City. The loss of interest in the proceedings of this\\nConvention will strikingly appear from the fact, that while there are seats\\nin the ladies gallery for at least four hundred, and that at times they had\\nnot only filled them, but appeared on the floor by scores, there were\\nbut seven ladies in the hall when the adjournment took place.\\nPublic opinion has for some days been divided as to the abilities of\\nMr. Curbing as a presiding officer. He is accused of being too elabo-\\nrate, and too formal, and incapable of despatching business. Bat it\\nshould be remembered that during a great part of the time here, his\\nobject has not been to despatch business, but to procrastinate. Certain-\\nly there has been admirable success in this. It must, however, be said\\nof Mr. Curbing as a presiding officer, that he is a little too fond of\\nmaking i speech in deciding a point of order, and that he gives too\\nmany reasons for a ruling, especially where it is tolerably clear that he\\nis not strictly impartial.\\nCharleston, S. C, May 3d (evening).\\nThe adjournment of the Convention has been followed by an outrage-\\nous eagerness to get home. Yesterday the Northern delegates general-\\nly professed the most amazing capacities for endurance. They were\\nready to stay here any length of time. There was nothing either in\\ntheir families or their business to call them home. They were prepared\\nto brave yellow fever or any other form of pestilence. They were\\nready to defy the plague, though it might be as malignant as tradition\\nsays it was in other countries. To-day, the Convention adjourned at a\\nfew minutes after eleven, and there was a little more than an hour left\\nbefore the principal Northern and North-eastern trains took their depart-\\nure. The rush to the hotels, and the calls for bajigag-e and bills, the\\nhurried cramminy; of carpet-bags, valises and trunks, the headlong races\\nup and plunges down stairs, the yelling after coaches, the shaking hands\\nand tak-ng [)arting drinks, made up a scene that was somewhat\\namazing to the leisurely people of Charleston. Some of those who\\nwere yes erday loudest in their professions of willingness to spend the\\nBumincr mouths here, made the most reckless despatch in getting out of\\ntown.\\nDouglas men think they have done it up beautifully, in adjourning.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "97\\nand calling for new representations for the cotton States. But the path\\nbefore them is by no means clear, as yet. The vote of New York is\\nthe pivot on which things turn, and it is uncertain as the wind at a\\nstreet-crossing.\\nTHE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.\\nFIRST DAY.\\nCharleston, S. C, May 1st.\\nThe seceding delegations met, in the first place, the evening after the\\ndisruption of the National Convention, at St. Andrew s Hail, where\\nthe names of Secretaries were reported Mayor Wood and his New\\nYork delegation also registering their names, upon the invitation of\\nMr. Yancey.\\nPursuant to call, the seceding delegates met at Military Hall, Tues-\\nday, May 1st, at 12 M. John S. Preston, of S. C, called the meet-\\ning to order.\\nThe following number of delegates were found to be enrolled\\nFrom Delaware, 2 Virginia, 1 South Carolina, 14, Georgia, 2\\nFlorida, 6 Alabama, 21 Mississippi, 14 Texas, 10 Arkansas, 4\\nMissouri, 3; New York, 41.\\nOther delegates proceeded to enroll their names.\\nMayor Wood Co. withdrew, because the New York delegation\\nwere not in the attitude of being members of the Convention which sat\\nin Institute Hall.\\nThe following gentlemen were elected officers of the Convention\\nFOR PRESIDENT.\\nJAMES A. BAYARD, of Delaware.\\nFOR VICE-PRESIDENTS.\\nJames Simons, South Carolina. John Milton. Florida.\\nI. T. Irwin. Georgia. John A. Jordon, Arkansas.\\nRobert G. Scott, Alabama. H. R. Runnels, Texas.\\nJames Drane, Mississippi. William G. Whitelej^, Delaware.\\nBmile LaSere, Louisiana. M. W. Fisher, Virginia.\\nFor Secretaries\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas P. Ochiltree, of Texas; Franklin Gaillard. of\\nSouth Carolina; N. H. R. Dawson, of Alabama F. W. Hoadley, of Arkansas;\\nD. D. Withers, of Louisiana W. H. H. Tison, of Mississippi.\\nMr. Bayard, in taking the chair, made a lengthy speech.\\nA committee on Resolutions was appointed as follows\\nDelaware, W. G. Whiteley South Carolina, A. A. Allemong Geor-\\ngia, Henry R. Jackson Florida, Charles E. Dyke Alabama, John\\n7", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "98\\nErvin Mississippi, Ethan Barksdale Louisiana, Eobcrt A. Hunter;\\nArkansas, W. E. Burrows Texas, Fletcher S. Stockdale.\\nMr. Yancey oflered the following, to be referred to the committee on\\nResolutions\\nRcifolved, Thiit desiring to base its action entirely upon the Constitution, this\\nmeeting style itself the Constitutional Democracy.\\nResolved That the platform adopted by the Democratic party at Cincinnati\\nbe affirmed, with the following explanatory resolutions\\n[Those of the majority report of the other Convention.]\\nAdjourned.\\n1\\nSECOND DAY\\nCharleston, S. C., May 2d.\\nConvention met in the theatre. The seats in the dress circle were\\noccupied by a brilliant array of beauty and fashion. The family circle\\nand galleries were filled with spectators, citizens and strangers. The pit\\nhad been reserved for the delegates.\\nIn correcting the journal, Mr. Walker of Alabama moved to correct\\nby striking cut the word seceding before delegations, and inserting\\nthe word retiring, so as to make it read retiring delegates.\\nMr. Winston suggested the word withdraw. The word retiring\\nwas adopted.\\nMr. Burrows, from the committee on Resolutions, reported a series of\\nresolutions, the material ones of which were\\nResolved, That the platform adopted by the Democratic party at Cincinnati, be\\naffirmed, with the following explanatory resolutions:\\nFirst. That the governmein of a Territory organized by an act of Congress,\\nis provisional and temporary and during its existence, all citizens of the Unit-\\ned States have an equal right to settle with their property in the Territory,\\nwithout their rights c4ther of person or property being destroyed or impaired by\\nCongressional or Territorial legislation.\\nSecond. That it is the duty of the Federal Government, in all its departments,\\nto protect, when necessaiy, the rights of persons and property in the Territo-\\nries, and wherever else its constitutional authority extends.\\nThird. That when the settlers in a Territory having an adequate population,\\nform a State Constitution in pursuance of law, the right of Sovereignty com-\\nmences, and, being consummated by admission into the Union, they stand on an\\nequal footing with the people of other States and the State thus organized\\nought to be admitted into the Federal Union, whether its coustitutiou prohibits\\nor recognizes the institution of slavery.\\nMr. Yancey said I think, sir, that the Convention is prepared to\\nact now on the platform. That is all, 1 believe, that it is proposed to\\nact on until another contingency arises, to wit, the nomination of a\\ncandidate by the National Democratic Convention in session, the rump\\nDemocracy or rump Democrats, when it may be our privilege to indorse\\nthe nominee, o;- our duty to proceed to make a noiuination according\\nto the will of this body.\\nMr. Jaeksun of iMississippi was not in favor of stopping with the\\nadoption of a platform. He said This is no time to pause for further", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "99\\nreflection. But I am not propareil to pause simply upon a platform of\\nprinciple. To pau.se at all is, in my judgment, a synij)tom of woaknci-s.\\nWe have met the Demecracy now in t^ossiun. We have left it upon\\nprinciple, and upon principle alone will I ever return to it. [Applause.]\\nBoldly, Mr. Ciiairman, boldly have we taken our position, and it is a\\nposition of positions. Are we to be tempted back into that organiza-\\ntion by the nomination of any man. [Cries of No never\\nMr. Yancey argued that that was simply a meeting of delegates retir-\\ned from another Convention. He said further We may be called Dig\\nunion Democrats. We are not disunionists. We have put nothing\\nupon the record to justify the assertion yet it will be easy to attach to\\nthe name the weight of the disunion movement.\\nAfter a long discussion, the platform was unanimously adopted. A\\ndiscussion then ensued on the propriety of proceeding to nominate candi-\\ndates. The time was spent in speeches, however.\\nTHIRD DAY\\nCuART.ESTON. S. C, May 3d.\\nAfter some discussion, the motion of Mr. Jackson, that the Conven-\\ntion proceed to nominate candidates, was withdrawn.\\nNext a discussion sprung up about an address to the people of the\\nUnited States. There were several propositions of this nature. Judp-e\\nMeek, in stating the facts as to the strength of the different branches\\nof the Democracy in Alabama, said\\nThey [alluding to the delegates of the other Convention, which\\nhad just adjourned] had then adjourned to meet at Baltimore at a\\nfuture day. They had thus, to use a popular phrase, clinched their ac-\\ntion, and now they called upon the South to send new delegates to the\\nadjourned Convention. Alabama would never be represented in a\\nConvention so formed, founded on a Squatter Sovereignty Platform.\\nThe vote in the Convention that elected the present delegation to Charles-\\nton, stood four hundred and ninety-nine to twelve, and that was the\\nstrength of the Douglas Squatter Sovereignty doctrine in Alabama.\\nIndeed, out of this twelve, seven were in fact opposed to the doctrine\\nof Squatter Sovereignty. Now, what the present Convention had really\\ndesired, was to have put forward a great historic name, that would have\\ncommanded confidence and respect all over the Union he alluded to\\nJefferson Davis of Mississippi. They had also, he might say, contem-\\nplated putting in connection with that name the name of the honored\\ngentleman who now presided over their deliberations, and thus have\\nsecured a ticket sans peur, sans reproche. But any definite action\\nnow was deemed inexpedient.\\nIt was decided, finally, not to address the country. Mr. Yancey\\ndisclaimed disunionism per se. Mr. Jackson of Georgia offered a res-\\nolution, calling for a Convention at Washington City on the second\\nMonday in June. Adjourned.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "100\\nEVENING SESSION.\\nPresident Bayard made a speech, retiring from the Convention. He\\nmade a strong speech for the Union.\\nJudge Meek replied to Bayard. He said The gentleman said\\nthey had come here to save the Union. They had not they had come\\nhere to save the Constitution. [Applause.]\\nThe following resolution was adopted, and the Convention adjourned\\nResolved, Tliat the Democrutic party of the United States who are in favor of\\nthe platform of priueiple rccoiniueuded by a majority of States in the Charleston\\nConvention, be invited to b^end delegates to a Convention to be held in Rich-\\nmond, on the second j\\\\londnj in June next and that the basis of representation\\nbe the same as that upon which the States have been represented in the Charles-\\nton Convention.\\nAPPEARANCE OF THE SECEDERS CONVENTION IN SESSION.\\nChakleston. S. C May 3d.\\nAfter the adjournment of the National Democratic Convention, I\\nlooked in upon the Seceders in their theatre. The dress circle was\\ndensely crowded by ladies. You see at once the patriotism of the\\nCarolina ladies exemplified. Tbere were not more than a dozen of them\\nto witness the proceedings of the Rump Convention this morning, and\\nhere they were smiling upon the constitutional champions of the\\nSouth by hundreds. I do not think I had seen the Carolina beauties.\\nThere were actually plenty of beautiful women in the theatre this\\nmorning, and it has been a customary remark during the sessions of the\\nConvention at Institute Hall, that female beauty was a scarce article in\\nthe Carolinas, so far as appeared. But though the women were beau-\\ntiful, they had not the peach-bloom cheeks and May-cherry lips of the\\nOhio girls no, not by any means. Well, the principal feature of the\\nConvention was the ladies. The performance, while I was present,\\nwas fair. In fact, it looked very like a play, the actors having not only\\noccupied the stage, but taken possession of the parquette. The latter\\nwas occupied by the delegates, and no impartial spectator could have\\nsaid, that the representatives of the cotton States there assembled were\\nother than a noble set of men. The chevalier Senator Bayard occupied\\nthe chair, and sat near the footlights a courtly gentleman, whose ro-\\nmantic ancestry and name, as well as his long curls, and fine features,\\nand distinguished air, were admirably adapted to concentrate the gaze\\nof the ladies. The stage scene which was on, was that of the Borgia\\nPalace. Those who have seen the play, will of course remember the\\nbloods on a spree, one of whom struck off the b, leaving okgia,\\nwhereupon there was an unnecessary (as always occurred to me)\\namount of amusement and alarm concerning the freak, and immoderate\\noffense taken at it. Well, in this play the u was already off the deed\\nhad been done. As I first looked at the stage, two gigantic policemen\\nIii.shmen, of course with blue frock-coats and brass buttons, and\\nlarge stars on their breasts, and maces eighteen inches long in their\\nbands, stalked behind the President and Secretaries and Reporters, and\\nmysteriously passed beyond a side scene.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "lOi\\nThey seemerl to be the heavy villains, procured by the designing\\nscoundrel to carry off the virgin in the case, who was in love with some-\\nbody else.\\nThe real play was going on in the pit. Mr. Burrows of Arkansas,\\na black-haired, black-eyed, swarthy, hook-nosed, portly gentleman, had\\nthe floor, and was making some very general and very extreme proposi-\\ntion. His idea and it was not a novel one of being a bold and\\noriginal man is to be as ultra as possible to out-Herod all the Herods\\nof his party. The fundamental article of his faith, just now, is that\\nSquatter Sovereignty is a great deal worse than the rankest sort of\\nAbolitionism that Douglas is ever so much more dangerous to the\\nSouth than Seward, and that the Douglas men are a very bad type of\\nAbolitionists.\\nJudge Meek of Alabama was next on the floor. The Judge is a\\ngentleman whose height is variously estimated between six feet four and\\nsix feet eight inches. He is a lofty specimen, at any rate, and a very\\npowerful public speaker. I do not mean powerful in the able and\\neloquent sense in which it has been used in Kentucky. It is re-\\nmarkable, that in the speeches of the extreme Southern men in this\\nConvention, we have not had any of that peculiar eloquence which we\\nare accustomed to call Kentucky, because, I suppose, it is a bad\\nimitation of the style of Henry Clay.\\nWashington, D. C, May 7th.\\nThe evening after the adjournment of the Convention, Charleston\\nwas herself again. But she had not been so dreadfully disturbed as\\nshe had anticipated. I was told by gentlemen of the city that they\\nhad several times ^een greater crowds about the hotels during racing\\nweek. The Charlestonians were rather inclined to say, as the contem-\\nporary of Noah remarked of the deluge not much of a shower after\\nall.\\nWe left Charleston for Washington at eleven o clock of the night of\\nthe last day of the Convention. The train was an enormous one for a\\nSouthern road, but would have been a trifling affair up North. There\\nwere many distinguished passengers there being about an equal\\nnumber of United States Senators and keepers of Faro tables, the lat-\\nter wearing decidedly the most costly apparel, having made the most\\nmoney during their sojourn in the Palmetto City one gambling house\\nrealized twenty-four thousand dollars clear profits, I am told. The\\nmoon was up and the night beautiful, but there was nothing to see\\nfrom the windows of the car but swamps and pine forests but it was\\nthe ground made classic by Marion, which was some comfort. The\\nprincipal features in the journey to me were pine-trees along the road,\\nand six changes of cars.\\nPRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IN THE SENATE DOUGLAS, SEWAKD AND\\nDAVIS.\\nWashington, D. C, May 8th.\\nAnd here, coming from the cloak room on the Democratic side, is a\\nqueer little man, @\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bbb\u00c2\u00ab head and duck legs every body knows the", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "102\\nLittle Giant he loolvS conscious of being looked at and he is pointed\\nout by a hundred hands, as he makes pretentious strides of about\\neighteen inches each toward his chair. Two or three of his admirers in\\nthe galli ry are disposed to applaud, but you hear merely the rattle of a\\nsingle boot heel. He shakes hands with Clingnian of North Carolina,\\nand chuckles with him over something that seems to be highly relished\\non both sides. The Little Giant wears his black hair long, but it is\\ngetting thin, and is not the great tangled mass we saw on his neck a\\nfew years ago. And, Little Giant it grows gray rapidly. Now he\\nproceeds to twist himseK down in his chair as far as possible, and places\\nhis feet in bis desk; and thus his admirers in the gallery look upon the\\nprodigious little man, squirming flat on his back. He don t feel very\\nelastic this morning, that is evident. His mouth is closed up as if he\\nwas trying to bite a pin in two. He is not all brain, as Senator\\nBrown says. He requires a large vest and large as he is about the\\nchest, bis waist is becoming still more extensive. But he has an immense\\nhead in height, and breadth and depth in indications of solidity and\\nforce, you cannot find its equal in Washington. There is power under\\nthat massive brow, and resolution in that grim mouth no doubt at all\\nof that. After he has fairly stretched himself and rolled over in his\\nchair, like the trained lion in his cage, he becomes fidgety, and clasps\\nand unclasps his stumpy hands, drums with his white fingers on the\\narms of his chair, rubs his nose, places bis hands affectionately on\\nClingman s knee, and seems at a loss for occupation.\\nAnd now an individual appears on the other side of the House, who\\nat first sight seems to be rather a comical person. He has the most\\nsingular head in all the assortment before you. It rises above the ears\\nlike a dome, and looks not unlike a straw stack in shape and color.\\nHis nose a high, sharp beak strikes out below the strawy hair that\\nthatches the dome. Can you imagine a jay-bird with a sparrow-hawk s\\nbill the high tuft of feathers towering above the eyes the keen hook\\nbelow V There is a quaintness in that high head and high, sharp nose.\\nYou are anxious about the forehead. You are sure that must be a\\nman of talent, and he must have a forehead. But to save you,\\nyou cannot tell which is hair and which is forehead. All is of\\nthe same parchment hue. You seem once in a while to catch a\\nglimpse of a lofty mountain range of ideality, etc., according to\\nthe map of the phrenologists. And then you are not sure but it is\\nhair. This tall and peaked and pallid head is perched upon a body\\nthat is active and restless. It moves about with school-boy elasticity.\\nIt walks with a slashing swagger. It strikes off with a rollicking gait\\nfrom one point to another, and is in and out of the chamber by turns.\\nThere is an oddity in the dress in harmony with the general queerness\\nof the thing. The pantaloons have a dingy oaken appearance. You\\nwould not be surprised to see breeches of that color in Oregon, but in\\nthe Senate-chamber they are without a parallel. And did you ever see\\n80 much tail to a frock-coat in your life Hardly. There is certainly\\na grotesque amount of coat tail. Now after making the round of the\\nRepublican side of the chamber about twice in ten minutes he offers\\nfrom the chair (next the main aisle and most remote from the Vice-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "103\\nPresident s) a petition, in a Vioarse croakinsj voice and when the Vice\\nPresident recognizes The Senator from New York, there is a stir i\\nthe galleries and a general stare at the gentleman with the top-knot a-\\nbeak and voice. He sits down, takes a pinch of snuff, and presen; j\\njou hear a vociferous sneezing, and the high-headed, straw-thatched\\ngentleman is engaged upon his beak with a yellow silk handkerchief.\\nAnd you remember that Seward takes snuff, and has ruined his voice\\nby the nasty habit. In the llopublican corner of the Senate-chamber\\nis a familiar face and form you recognize the portly person and mas-\\nsive intellectual developments, the thin frizzly hair and oval brow of\\nSalmon P. Chase. Next him is Gov. Dennison. Seward comes up\\nto them and seems to be guilty of some good thing, for they laugh vio-\\nlently but quietly, and Seward rubs his oaken breeches with his hands\\nand then gives his nose a tremendous tweak with the yellow handker-\\nchief. He is wonderfully affable. He acts as though he would kiss a\\nstrange baby. Ah, he is a candidate for the Presidency.\\nThe crowd has filled the galleries of the Senate-chamber, expecting\\nto hear Jeff. Davis s speech; and there are expectations that Douglas\\nwill reply. The hands of the Senate clock approach the points indica-\\nting the hour of one, and the people are weary of the monotonous read-\\ning of bills and petitions by title, and the presentations of the miscel-\\nlany of deliberative bodies in audible tones. Ah here he comes.\\nThe crowd in the galleries give a buzz of relief, and every body tells his\\nright hand man here he comes that s Jeff. Davis. And can it\\nbe possible that he proposes to make a speech 1 You are surprised to\\nsee him walking. Why, that is the face of a corpse, the form of a\\nskeleton. Look at the haggard, sunken, weary eye the thin white\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2wrinkled lips clasped close upon the teeth in anguish. That is the\\nmouth of a brave but impatient sufferer. See the ghastly white, hollow,\\nbitterly puckered cheek, the high, sharp, cheek bone, the pale brow\\nfull of fine wrinkles, the grizzly hair, prematurely gray and see the\\nthin, bloodless, bony, nervous hands! He deposits his documents\\nupon his desk, and sinks into his chair as if incapable of rising. In a\\nfew minutes the Vice-President gives his desk a blow with his ivory\\nhammer, calls for profound order, and states that the Senator from\\nMississippi has the floor. Davis rises with a smile. His speech was\\nclosely reasoned, and his words were well chosen. Once in a while he\\npleased his hearers by a happy period; but it was painfully evident that\\nhe was ill.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "104\\nTHE BALTIMORE NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL UNION\\nCONVENTION.\\nLIST OF DELEGATES,\\n[From the Secretary s Roll.]\\nPENNSYLVANIA.\\nSenatorial Delegat-s Hon. Joseph R. In-\\ngersoU, Gen. Abraham Markley.\\nAUcTJiates\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Col. H. M. Fuller, Alfred How-\\nell.\\nCongressional Districts E. P. Molyneau,\\nCharles D. Freeman, Wm. S. Elder, E. Har-\\nper Jeffries, Wm. H. Slingluff, Capt Frank\\nSmith, M. Mundy, Jno. A. Bauks, H. K. Kil-\\nlian, Henry Keller. Merritt Abbott, Col. Jo-\\nseph Paxton, J. W. Martein, Edw. Shippen,\\nE. C. Pechin, J. D. Bayne, John A. Ettiiiger,\\nThomas Hayney, Patten, F. W. Gray-\\nson, J. K. McDonald, Joseph H. Irwin, Gen.\\nWm. Shall, A. S. Redstreake, John H.\\nHicks.\\nAlternates Sam l M. Lee, F. S. Altemue,\\nJohn Slemer, John Bell Robinson, John S.\\nLittell, T. W. Woodward, Wm. Graeff, H. C.\\nFondersmith, C. C. Lathrop, Wm. H. Pierce,\\nWm. Hillman, C. H. Breisler. Robert M.\\nMcClure, E. P. Borden, Col. W. Lee, Chas.\\nChadwick.\\nNEW TOUK.\\nAt Large Washington Hunt, Erastus\\nBrooks, B. David Noren, Jonas C. Hearts.\\nAlternates\u00e2\u0080\u0094 GaoTse A. Halsey, John S. Van\\nRensalier.\\nDistricts\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Alfred Doolon, Thos. R. Webb,\\nJ. DePeyster Ogden, Charles Beck, Horace\\nH. Day, A. M. Bininger, Frederick A. Tall-\\nmadge, Clark Peck, Daniel R. St. John, Pe-\\nter Cantine, A. K. Chandler, George B. War-\\nren, James Kydd, Clarence Buck, James L.\\nSmith, Orville Page, Charles B. Freeman,\\nEdwin J. Brown, A. W. Northrup, Aaron\\nMitchell. Newton B. Lord, R. F. Stevens,\\nFrederick C. Wagner, Jacob P. Faurotte,\\nChas. Coryell, Sain l J. Wilkin, D. W. Tom-\\nlinson, Erastus S. Mack, G. A. Scroggs, Jas.\\nW. Gerard, Harlc Haikes.\\nAlternates-John P. Dodge, Alfred Wat-\\nkins, Jonas Bartlett, William J. Bunce, Har-\\nri:*on Hall, Wm. H. Falconer, Wm. T. Jen-\\nnings. John C. Ham, Fenlon Harbrouck. O.\\nB Wheeler, William Ducr, Silas Swam, Ru-\\nfus Ripley, W. D. Murphy, Wm. Burling,\\nJohn Leveridgo, Louis Lillie, Abel .Smith,\\nHarvey Smith, Jon. Muiin, W. M. Conkey,\\nDaniel L. Couch. Alfred Wolkyu, A. G.\\nMynck, Daniel S. Baker, Anson Spenser, S.\\nL. lluggin.s. H. H. Golf, M. F. Robertson,\\nJohn H. White, John F. Morton, L. L. Piatt.\\nTENNESSEE.\\nW. G. Brownlow, Bailey Peyton, John S.\\nBricn. G. A. Henry. W. Brazleton, Robert\\nCralRhead, John J. Craig, N. S. Brown, Edw.\\nH. Ewiug, J. W. Richardson, A. J. Donelson,\\nW. Homar, O. P. Temple, C. F. Trigg, R.\\nBrabson, Joseph Pickett, Wm. Hickerson,\\nS. H. Combs, Jordan Stokes, R. S. Northcott,\\nA. S. Colzar, Henrv Cooper, L. J. Polk, J. C.\\nBrown, W. P. Ken drick, Jos. C. Starke, J.H.\\nCallender, Clay Roberts, Joseph Barbien, J.\\nM. Parker, T. A. R. Nelson, H. Maynard,\\nWm. Stokes, Robt. Hatton, Jas. M. Quarles,\\nWm. Etheriige, P. W. Maxcey.\\nILLINOIS.\\nGen. John Wilson, Chairman Geo. V.\\nByrd, Josiah Snow, John T. Stuart. Alfred\\nDutch, D. J. Snow, Alternate Eliphalet\\nWood D. W. Ford, Alternate.\\nJohn J. Hayden, R. W. Thompson, James\\nMontgomery, Lewis Howe, J. M. Havron,\\nDennis Gregg, A. H. Davidson, C. W. Prath-\\ner, W. K. Edwards, John P. Early, J. M.\\nSmith, J. W. Dawson, J. A. Bridgland, Thos.\\nB. Long, H. M. Gram, Jas. L. Bradley.\\nDelegates\u00e2\u0080\u0094Sol. Smith, William F. Switz\\nler, Edward M. Samuel, John P. Bruce,\\nMatthew H. Moore, Thos. A. Harris, John\\nScott, Joseph B. Terry, Adolphus Masser.\\nAlternates J. T. Clements, J. E. Barron,\\nR. H. Porter, J. R. Hammond, J. B. Wil-\\nhams.\\nVIRGINIA.\\nDistrict Delegates Samuel Watts, Travis\\nH. Epes, Wm. Martin, Edward D. Christian,\\nWm. L. Goggin, Marmaduke Johnson, Geo.\\nT. Yerby, E. T. Tayloe, Robert E. Scott, N.\\nB. Meade, A. H.H.Stuart, James Witherow,\\nWm. J. Dickinson, George W. Summers.\\nWaitman T. Willey.\\nAlternates Thomas L. Pretlow, Daniel\\nLyon, George Towns, W. W. Henry, Alex.\\nRives, Peyton G. Coleman, Robert Saunders,\\nGeorge W. Lewis, Henry W. Thomas, Wm.\\nAndrews, Chas. H. Lewis, Wm. Copeland,\\nIsaac J Leftwich, Arthur J. Boreman, James\\nS. Wheat.\\nSenatorial Dclrgatr. Gov. Allen Trimble,\\nHon. John Scott Harrison.\\nCongressional Districts N. G. Pendleton,\\nGilbert Kennedy, J. R. Nelson, A. J. Thorp,\\nN. Mclleth, Dr. J. Way, Jos. N. Snyder, M.\\nJ. N. Glover, H. T. Barnes, C. L Garro, Jas.\\nH Laws, J. T. Hyatt, Joel Funk, R. R. Sey-\\nmour, R. H. Geary, Jas. H. Emminger, J. M.\\nBushfield, Amos Glover.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "105\\nMISSISSIPPI.\\nHon. Wm. L Sharkey, Hon. J. W. C. Wat-\\nson, Col. J. M. Patridge, E. F. McGehee,\\nHick Bell, R. II. Rivers, T. B Mosely, J. K.\\nYerger, Joseph Regan, W. H. Vasser, A. S.\\nMitchell.\\nMASSACHUSETTS.\\nDeleg ates\u00e2\u0080\u0094llon. Jos. Grinnell, Col. James\\nW. Leva, Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Hon. S.\\nL. Crocker, Leverett Salstonstall,Hon. Geo\\nS. Hillard, Benj. L. Allen, Col. Winthrop\\nFaulkner, Jonathan Johnson, Wm B. May,\\nHon. Luther V. Bell, Hon. Abel S. Lewis,\\nHenry White.\\nAlternates\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Frankhn Weston, N. F. Saf-\\nford, J. L. Baker, Hon. D. Warren.\\nCONNECTICUT.\\nDelegates at Large Hon. Jno. A. Rockwell,\\nHon. Austin Baldwin.\\nAlternates\u00e2\u0080\u0094 E. M. Shelton, F. H. Whit-\\nmore.\\nDistricts Hezekiah Huntingdon, Hon. Ezra\\nClarke, jr., H. C. Miles, C R. Alsopp, C. A.\\nLewis, Henry Burr, C. H. Leeds, D. W.\\nPierce, S. H. White, Wait M. Hawley, Wal-\\nter, H. Bacon, Lyman W. Cole, F. F Loomis,\\nHon. J. Dunham, R. E. Hitchcock, B. A.\\nHawley.\\nS. R. Hanson, Jos. R. Brozier, Phineas\\nBarnes, Samuel Taylor, Geo. E. B. Jackson,\\nSam l P. Shaw, Geo. C. Getchell, Daniel L.\\nChoate.\\nNEW JERSEY.\\nSenatorial Delegates Hon. Jos. F. Ran-\\ndolph, Hon Jas. Bishop.\\nAUernates\u00e2\u0080\u0094Dr. Chas. G. McChesney, Eli-\\nsha Day.\\nDelegates\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jesse E. Peyton, CoL J. W. Al-\\nlen, Hon. Peter J. Clark, Samuel G. A. Van\\nLain, James A. Williamson.\\nAlternates\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Geo. M. Robertson, Jacob Her-\\nbert, Hon. Abraham V. Schenck, A. W. Coul-\\nter, Peter S. Duryea.\\nVERMONT.\\nAt Large John Wheeler.\\nAlternates R. McKinley Ormsby, E. J.\\nPhelps, A. Stebbins.\\nCangreisional Districts J. M. Knox, M.\\nCottrill, Daniel Tilden.\\nAlternates ^Ab. Brown, Andrew Tracey.\\nJewitt.\\nARKANSAS.\\nC. C. Danly, Q. K. Underwood, Jno. Brad-\\nley.\\nAlternate J. B. Keatts.\\nGEORGIA.\\nR. A. T, Ridley, Hon. Joshua Hill, Hon.\\nThomas Hardeman, jr., II Hopkins, J. A. L.\\nLee, James M. Calhoun, George W. Adair,\\nJ. R. Parrott, Thomas W. Walker, Isaiah\\nFairview, Z. H. Clark, Williard Boynton.\\nDELAWARE.\\nWilliam Temple, Jos. P. Comogys, Jas. R.\\nLoffland, Chas. Cullen, Wm. ElcLjooti, Laban\\nL. Lyons, J. M. Barr, H. P. Blaudy, Geo. W.\\nKarsner.\\nAlternates A. Stockley, Thomas Wallace,\\nJohn M. Denning, Manlove Hays, Wm. Loflf-\\nland, Wm. Wilson, L. G. Gooch, Dr. J. F.\\nWilson, Reese G. Wolf, Henry F. Fookes.\\nKENTUCKY.\\nState at Large Leslie Coombs, Laban T.\\nMoore, Gibson Mallory, James S. Jackson.\\nDistricts J. D. M. Goodwin, Benjamin\\nBerry, F. M. Bristow, S. G. Suddarth, B. B.\\nThompson, C. F. Burnham, John Barbee, J.\\nK. Goodloe, Wm. R. Duncan, John W. Fin-\\nnell.\\nAlternates\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thos. A. Duke, S. G. Rhea,\\nBlanton Duncan, A. H. Sneed, G. W. Fore-\\nman, D. A. Sayre, W. C. Whittaker, S. F.\\nGano, J. J. Miller, Samuel Davis.\\nALABAMA.\\nN. W. Shelly, Philip Morgan, J. Q. Dure.\\nNORTH CAROLINA.\\nState at Large\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hon. John M. Morehead,\\nHon. Richard S. Donnell, Hon. Nathaniel\\nBayden.\\nDistricts\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I}a.vii A. Barnes, D. D. Ferebie,\\nE. W. Jones, Richard H. Smith, Jos. B.\\nCherry, W. H. Clark, John H Haughton, W.\\nFoy, Walter Dunn, Thomas Sparrow, E. C.\\nYellowby, Daniel L. Russell, E. J. Hale,\\nGiles Leitch, A. N. Waddell, John G. Blue,\\nR. McNair, Hon. R. B. Gilliam, Wm. H. Har-\\nrison, Hon. E. G. Readc, John Manning, John\\nM. Cloud, R. W. Wharton, Hon. J. M. Leach,\\nT. C. Ham, Thos. S. Ashe, Rufus Barriuger,\\nS. H. Walkup, Todd R. Caldwell, Wm. M.\\nShipp, A. S. Merrimon.\\nTEXAS.\\nA. Banning Norton, A. M. Gentry, B. H.\\nEpperson, Evans.\\nFIRST DAY.\\nBaltimore, May 9tli.\\nThe hotels were filled up last night by the delegates and outsiders in\\nattendance upon this Convention. There were crowds of good looking\\ngentlemen, talking of the prospect of redeeming the country. The\\ncandidates under consideration are Botts of Virginia, Houston of Texas,\\nBell of Tennessee, Crittenden of Kentucky, Everett of Massachusetts,\\nand McLean of Ohio. The chances seem to be in favor of John Bell.\\nThere is a disposition to use Mr. Everett as candidate for the Vice-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "106\\nPrcsUlcnfy. The delegates seem to be in high spirits, and to be confi-\\ndent of tlieir a])ility to make at least a powerful diversion. The general\\nfoolishness of the two great parties has given the third party unusual\\nanimation.\\nThe Amorieah element appears at once upon entering the hall,\\nwhich is an old church, with galleries on three sides. The galleries are\\nfestooned with tri-colored drapery. There is a full-length painting of\\nWashington, surmounted by an American Eagle, and two great flags of\\nour country, behind the President s chair. The south wall, above and\\nbelow the galleries, is covered with an assortment of star-spangled ban-\\nners. The general appearance is patriotic as the Times office, on\\nWashington s birth-day as described on one occasion, four days in\\nadvance.\\nAs the delegates pressed in, the galleries were on the look-out for\\nlions, and applauded in the old style of the spreads, whenever a\\ndistinguished gentleman could be made out. Crittenden had quite\\nan ovation.\\nWhen the hour arrived for calling the Convention to order, Mr.\\nCrittenden advanced upon the platform and took the chair. There was\\na vociferous outburst of applause. Some one called for Three cheers\\nfor John J. Crittenden. They were given as only the spreads can\\ngive them. Three more were called for and given; and then\\nthree more, wild and shrill, hats and handkerchiefs waving, and great\\ndelight appearing in every countenance. Crittenden bowed until he\\nwas tired, and tlien took his seat. When the noise subsided, we had a\\nprayer, a very fair pious political speech. It was written out and read\\nfrom manuscript. The difficulty with it was as to whom it was\\naddressed to the Lord or the Convention. It was very eloquent and\\nwell delivered.\\nMr. Crittenden, as chairman of the National Constitutional Union\\nConvention, called the Convention to order. A speech was expected\\nfrom him, but he only said\\nIt has been made my duty, gentlemen, as chairman of the Execu-\\ntive committee of the Constitutional party, to perform the honored task\\nof calling this Convention to order, and I will discharge the duty with\\nas much brevity as I can. I hesitated, and was a little diffident about\\nthe propriety of my occupying your attention for a single moment on thus\\ncalling to order this Convention. You are, in yourselves, the great\\nbody that represents the party of the whole country. I will, therefore,\\nonly perform the duty without an unnecessary word.\\n1 would recomnieiul, in the first place, the appointment of a tempo-\\nrary chairman and I nominate, in accordance with an arrangement\\nwhich I understood had to some degree been made before, Washington\\nHunt, former Governor of the State of New York, as your temporary\\nchairman. [Api)lause.]\\nMr. Hunt was unanimously elected temporary chairman. Mr. Hunt\\nmade a very fair speech, embodying many good sentiments, and glitter-\\ning with tlie usual generalities about peace, concord, fraternity, love,\\ngood will, no North, no South, etc. He referred to the disruption of\\nthe Dctuocratic party, wrecked on the mysteries of territorial sovereignty.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "107\\nThe Convention insisted on applauding nearly every sentence, and\\nseveral times refused to let liiiii finish a sentence. It was worse than\\nthe applause given by an Irish audience at an Arclibishop s lecture.\\nThe Americans must never laugh at the Irish for their irrepresssble dis-\\nposition to ajjplaud. As the committee on Permanent Officers was\\nbeing appointed, nearly every name received a round of applause.\\nDuring the first hour and a half of the session, I presunie at least one\\nhundred rounds of applause were were given, and the more the\\nspreads applauded, the greater became their zeal. I have stated, in\\nletters from Charleston, I believe, that the Douglas men were the most\\nnoisy fellows in the world, in proportion to their dimensions. 1 take it\\nback. The Plugs can beat them at their own game.\\nThe committee on Permanent Officers, consisting of one from each\\nState, was constituted as follows:\\nAlabama N. W. Shelley. Mississippi John K. Ycrger.\\nArkansas\u00e2\u0080\u0094 C. C. Danley. Missouri Sol Smith.\\nConnecticut Hon. John A. Rockwell. New Hampshire\\nCulituruia New York B. Davis Noxon.\\nDelaware Wm. Temple. New Jersey J. W. Allen,\\nriorida North Carolina Nathaniel Boydcn.\\nGeorgia J. S. Fannin. Ohio Allen Trimble.\\nIndiana John G. Hcydon. Oregon\\nIllinois John Wilson. Pennsylvania Joseph Paxton.\\nIowa Rhode Island\\nKentucky John W. Finnell. South Carolina\\nLouisiana\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Texas\\nMaine C. B. Jackson. Tennessee^A. J. Donelson.\\nMassachusetts L. V. Bell. Vermont John Wlieelor.\\nMichigan Virginia Wm. L. Goggin.\\nMinnesota T. J. Barrett. Wisconsin-\\nMaryland Thomas Swann.\\nNo delegates appearing from the States of California, Florida, Iowa,\\nLouisiana, Michigan, New Hampshire, Oregon, Rhode Island, South\\nCarolina and Wisconsin.\\nSeveral of the Southern States are very strongly represented here.\\nVirginia and Tennessee have exceedingly able delegations on the floor.\\nA great portion of the delegates are of the eminently respectable\\nclass of gentlemen and most of them are somewhat stale in politics.\\nThe Convention took a recess until four o clock in the afternoon,\\nwhen A. J. Donelson, from the committee on Organization, reported\\nthe following names for permanent officers of the Convention\\nPRESIDENT.\\nW^ASHINGTON HUNT, of New York.\\nVICE-PRESIDENTS.\\nS. R. Jackson, Maine. James Calhoun. Georgia.\\nR. M. Ormsley, Vermont. J. J. Dew, Alabama.\\nMarshall P. Wilder, Massachusetts. Richard W. Thompson, Indiana.\\nAustin Baldwin, Connecticut. David A. Sayer, Kentucky.\\nFrederick A. Tallmadge, New York. Edward F. McGehee, Mississippi.\\nPeter J. Clark, New Jersey. Q. K. Underwood, Arkansas.\\nJos. R. Ingersoll. Pennsylvania. Gustavus Henry, Tennessee..\\nDennis Claude. Maryland. J. Scott Harrison. Ohio.\\nAlex. H. H. Stuart, Virginia. Jos. P. Comegys, Delaware.\\nRobert B. Gillian, North Carolina.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "108\\nSecretauies S. C. Long, Maryland A. Payton. New Jersey: Ezra Clark,\\nCoiiaccticut Snow, Illinois L. Saltonstall, Massachusetts John W. Lynn,\\nMassachusetts; Samuel Davis, Kentucky J.P.Early. Indiana; AdolphusMus-\\nser, Maine Richard Bell, Mississippi John H. Callender, Tennessee.\\nThe report was unanimously adopted. Mr. Hunt made another\\nspeech, and several other gentlemen followed ably and eloquently.\\nMr. Coombs of Kentucky, the subject of platforms being introduced,\\nmade a hit as follows\\nSo deeply have I been impressed with the necessity of a platform to\\na great political party, that I have taken upon myself the labor of pre-\\nparing three [laughter], one for the harmonious Democracy, who have\\nlately agreed together so beautifully at Charleston [laughter] one for\\nthe irrepressible conflict gentlemen, who are about to assemble at\\nChicago, and another for the National Unionists now before jsnd around\\nme. [Laugbter]. And as all are brief and perfectly intelligible, I\\nshall take the liberty here to repeat them.\\nFirst, for the harmonious Democracy the Virginia and Kentucky res-\\nolutions of 1798-9 [laughter], without preamble or comment, followed\\nby two upon the slave question, one in favor of excluding slavery from\\nthe Territoiies of the United States, and the other in favor of forcing it\\ninto them [applause] both to be adopted unanimously by the Conven-\\ntion under the previous question, and no questions asked afterward.\\n[Laughter].\\nFor the irrepressible conflict philanthropists about to assemble at\\nChicago, I suggest the blue laws of Connecticut [laughter] with a\\nslight modification upon two points first in reference to the right of a\\nman to kiss his wife on Sunday, and the second in reference to burning\\nwitches, providing that the young wife shall have the privilege to be\\nkissed and the old witches to be burned. [Great applause.]\\nIn reference to this Convention I have provided a still shorter plat-\\nform The Constitution of the United States as it is Good good\\nand applause] the Constitution as it is, and the Union under it now\\nand forever. [Great applause.] I will not speak in reference to the\\nfirst at large, but I venture to say that it will be as intelligible hereaf-\\nter to the wide-spread Democracy, as it has been heretofore and being;\\nthus intelligible, I venture to stake all I am worth not very much-^\\nthat not one in five hundred have read those resolutions, and not one in\\nfive hundred who have read them understand them.\\nIn reference ot our platform the Constitution as it is the Legisla-\\ntive, Judicial and Executive departments, each in its separate depart-\\nment supreme. I ti)ink that will be platform enough for the Union\\nparty to stand upon [applause] the Congress of the United States to\\nenact the laws, the Judicial department to interpret, and the F xecutive\\nto have them executed.\\nThis is all we want that is all we need. Were I an assemblage of\\nChristians about to establish a creed for Christians, do you think I would\\ntake dipping or sprinkling? I would take the Bible as it is, leaving\\nall to construe it, they being responsible for its construction. [Immense\\napplause, and three cheers for Mr, Coombs, the Convention rising in\\ntheir places.]", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "109\\nErastus Brooks said\\nSir, we misjudge the people of the country, if any of us suppose\\nthat they an- nut heart-sick and head-sick of what are called, technically,\\nparty platforms. We know it what we have seen at Charleston is but\\nillustrating the fable of Saturn, for they literally devoured their own\\nprogeny. [Applause]. What we see elsewhere in regard to the great\\nRepublican party is equally true t^y are composed in one State of\\nvarious classes of men a conservative class in favor of the Fugitive\\nSlave law and the Constitution of the United States, and that class ad-\\ndresses themselves to the commercial community and to the manufac-\\nturing community. There is another class of men who follow in the\\nwake of these, leaving the city and going into the rural districts, and\\nthere they preach as the great architect of that party preached at Cleve-\\nland, for a higher law than the Constitution of the United States.\\nA committee on Resolutions and Business was constituted as follows\\nAlabama A. F. Alexander.\\nArkansas M. S. Keniiard.\\nCouuecticut Austin Baldwin.\\nDelaware Chas. F. Cullon.\\nGeorgia Hon. Joshua Hill.\\nIndia na Iloti. R. W. Thompson.\\nIHiuois John Wilson.\\nKentucky\u00e2\u0080\u0094 C. F. Bm-nham.\\nMaine George E. B. Jackson.\\nMassachusetts Abial S. Lewis.\\nMinnesota T. J. Barrett.\\nMaryland George A. Pearrie.\\nMississippi John W. C. Watson.\\nMissouri Thomas A. HaiTJs.\\nNew York Hon. Erastus Bi ooks.\\nNow Jersey Joseph F. Randolph.\\nNorth Carolina Richard S. Donald.\\nOhio\u00e2\u0080\u0094 N. G. Pendleton.\\nPennsylvania Hon. Jos. R. lugersoU.\\nTexas A. B. Norton.\\nTennessee Hon. Bailie Peyton.\\nYermont John Wheehr.\\nVirginia Robert E. Scott.\\nSPIRIT OF THE FIRST DAY S PROCEEDINGS.\\nBaltimore May 9th (at night).\\nThe Convention organized in this city to-day does not furnish a very\\nanimating theme. Not that it was not animated in itself. There were the\\nsame furious demonstrations of enthusiasm that we had occasion to re-\\nmark in the Fillmore performances in 1856. A hundred of the Fill-\\nmore men would make more noise than three times as many Democrats\\nor ten times the number of Republicans. There is too much unanimity\\nhere, however, to be interesting. Every body is eminently respectable,\\nintensely virtuous, devotedly patriotic, and fully resolved to save the\\ncountry. They propose to accomplish that political salvation so devout-\\nly to be wished, by ignoring all the rugged issues of the day. The ex-\\npression against platforms was universal and enthusiastic. Instead of\\nproceeding to make a platform, the worthies here in Convention assem-\\nbled all fell to abusing platforms. There was probably as much discre-\\ntion as virtue in this, for the delegates would find it impossible to agree\\non an expression of principles formally laid down, and the intention is,\\nto make the canvass simply upon an assumption that this body repre-\\nsents the Conservative American Constitutional Union element.\\nWhat this element proposes to do, can be stated in one way in the\\nSouth and another way in the North, and thus our excellent friends will\\nhave all the advantages of an ambiguous platform, and will not encoun-\\nter any of the disabilities attendant upon a written standard of ortho-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "110\\ndoxy, flavor Swann stated that, when John J. Crittenden took the\\nstand, he saw platform enovigh for him, and the plugs who were in\\nthe galleries, cheered him tremendously. I have heard a great deal\\nof virtuous twaddle in public speeches within a few weeks, but the essence\\nof the article was uncorked to-day. Erastus Brooks gave his idea of a plat-\\nform. It was the Constitution and laws. The Constitution as inter-\\npreted by the constituted authorities the highest judicial authorities\\nand the enforcement of the laws. VNow, Erastus is the editor of the\\nNew Y^ork Express, and therefore a great man. He was consequently\\napplauded throughout witii even unusual vigor. He is in favor of the\\nnomination of Gen. Sam. Houston, a rather good old soul, as we all\\nknow, but the most shallow of the shallow politicians who have been\\nengaged for some years in attending to the affairs of our beloved coun-\\ntry. He probably has a very brilliant understanding of that Constitu-\\ntion and law which is to be the platform. His appreciation of and\\nrespect for the constituted authorities was exemplified in his recent pro-\\nposition to invade Mexico. While sneeches were beino; made, the\\nchair announced that the delegation from Texas was at the door. [Tre-\\nmendous applause.] The chair directed the door-keeper to admit the\\ndelegation from Texas. [Tremendous applause.] The delegation from\\nTexas was admitted. [More tremendous applause.] The delegation,\\nheaded by a man with a beard half a yard long, who w as dressed in\\nhome-spun and bore a great buck-horn-handle cane, made its way to a\\nfront seat, amid tremendous applause. An officious delegate said\\nthat the long-haired man had agreed at one time not to have his hair\\ncut until Hency Clay was elected President. [Still more tremendous\\napplause.] v\\nDuring both sessions of the Convention this day, every speech was\\nreceived in this tremendous style. The moment a speaker would\\nsay Constitution law Union American conservative element\\nglorious victory our fathers our flag; our country or any thing\\nof the sort, he had to pause for some time, until ihc. general rapture\\nwould discharge itself by stamping, clapping hands, rattling canes, etc.,\\netc. I have likened the enthusia-sm to that of an Irish audience at an\\narchbishop s lecture. It was so, with some additional peculiarities of\\nextravagance. The noise and confusion of applause became a disgust-\\ning bore to all but the patriotic plugs.\\nIf I had not known otherwise, I should have thought sometimes that\\nthe incessant rage of approbation was factious; but the plugs by\\nwhom the galleries were loaded, meant only to emit their pent-up ec-\\nstasy. So vivid were their perceptions of patriotic sentiments, that they\\ncould not in dozens of cases await the conclusion of a sentence, before\\nshouting and stamping like Yahoos on a spree. When a speaker would\\nput off something about the Constitution and laws of our beloved coun-\\ntry, he would be obliged to suspend his remarks, until the tempest of\\napprobation subsided. And if ho should, in order to make himself in-\\ntidligiblo, so far as he might, commence the broken sentence over again,\\nten to one, when he arrived at the patriotic point, where the fracture\\ncommenced, the storm would break out again, with redoubled fury. As\\na matter of necessity, a committee to report business was constituted", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "Ill\\nIt was necessary to present some business to tlie Convention. About\\nevery other committee man s name was received witli outrageous yells\\nof admiration from the galleries, and stamping so desperate that the\\nmortar rattled down, and there were appreiiensions that the galleries\\nthemselves might tumble under the weight of rampant patriotism heaped\\ninto them.\\nIt is presumed that a nomination will take place to-morrow, and that\\nseveral cheers will go up, and that a determination to elect the nominee\\nand save our sweet country, will be expressed by a large number of\\nable and eloquent gentlemen, who will cause the skies to be rent\\nwith roars of American enthusiasm.\\nThe turn out of delegates is larger than was expected. I believe\\nthere are really as many people in attendance here, as there were at\\nCharleston. The hotels are full, and the narrow Baltimorean sidewalks\\ncan hardly contain the groups of exuberant and vociferous patriots.\\nJohn Bell stock was high to-day, and is tolerably well high up yet, but\\nthere are many who are anxious to avail themselves of the battle of\\nSan Jacinto. The persuasion that presses John Bell is, that he is\\nstrong in the North. But nearly every body ought to know, that he\\ncould not carry a single Northern State. ^The pressure for Houston is\\nupon the presumption that he is powerful in the South. I am very\\nseriously told that he could sweep every State in the South with perfect\\nease, and New York also, thereby securing his election in the Electoral\\nCollege. And, I am further informed, that if by some unforeseen acci-\\ndent or most illogical turn of affairs, he should not be triumphantly\\nelected according to the first form made and provided by the Constitu-\\ntion, and the election should be thrown into Congress, the Republicans\\nthere would prevent the election of an ultra-Southern man by the\\nSenate, by joining in the House with the men who have taken the\\nCon.stitution, Union, and salvation of the country into special consider-\\nation; and by elevating their champion to the Presidency, give the\\nnation another lease of life. I have been obliged to say to some of our\\nConstitution-loving friends, that I did not think the nominee of this\\nConvention, even with the naked Constitution for a platform, would be\\ncertain to carry the State of Ohio. I have gone so far as to indicate an\\napprehension that the chances were, the electoral vote of the State\\nwould be thrown for somebody else.\\nSECOND DAY.\\nBaltimore, May 8th.\\nWhen the President of the Convention, Washington Hunt, Esq.,\\nappeared upon the platform this morning he was received with the usual\\njoyous cries and stamping. The Convention being called to order, we\\nhad a fervent prayer for the Union. The minister did not, like his\\nbrethren in some cases at Charleston, pray directly for the triumph of\\nthe ticket that might be put forward. The Union being prayed for,\\nhowever, it was inferred that as this body had the confederacy in charge,", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "112\\nthe petition for the preservation of the Union included an invocation for\\nthe success of the Convention s nominees before the people.\\nThe old church used by the Convention is very much crowded this\\nmorning. The ladies gallery is well filled but there is hardly a fair\\nrepresentation of that female loveliness, for which this city has a just\\ncelebrity.\\nThere are many distinguished men on the floor, but they are mostly\\nvenerable men, who have come down to us from a former generation\\nof politicians, and whose retirement from the busy scenes of public life\\nhave beeo rather involuntary than otherwise, and whose disgust at polit-\\nical trickery may perhaps in part be attributed to the failure of the popu-\\nlace to appreciate their abilities and virtues.\\nThe Hun. Jos. R. IngersoU made the report of the Business commit-\\ntee. He said of the committeemen\\nThey met with entire cordiality they proceeded with entire good\\nfeeling, and they terminated their proceedings with great unanimity,\\nand I may say with patriotism. [Applause.] I would not venture to\\npresent as an example at all to a great and highly respectable body like\\nthis the feeling and the cou^feous deportment of the gentlemen with\\nwhom I had the pleasure to sit as chairman last evening; but I would\\nsay that a more entirely respectable set of men in manner, appear-\\nance, and in result I never saw. [Applause.]\\nTHE PLATFORM.\\nWhereas, experience has tlemonstrated that platforms adopted by the parti-\\nsan Conventions of the country have had the etfect to mislead and deceive the\\npeople, and at the same time to widen the political divisions of the country, by\\nthe ci eation and encouragement of geographical and sectional parties; there-\\nfore\\nRcaolvcd. That it is both the part of patriotism and of duty to recognize no\\npolitical principles, other than\\nTUE CoNSTrrUTION OP THE COTJNTKT,\\nThe Umox of the Stater and\\nThe Enforcement of the tLaws\\n(Loud and prolonged cheering.)\\nand that, as the representatives of the Constitutional Union men of the country\\niu National Convention assembled, we here pledge ourselves to maintain, pro-\\ntect, and defend, separately and unitedly, those great principles of public lib-\\nerty and national safety, against all enemies, at home and abroad, believing that\\nthereby peace may once more be restored to the country, and the just rights of\\nthe people, and of the States re-established, and the Government again placed\\nin that condition of justice, fraternity and equality, which, under the example\\nand constitution of our fathers, has solemnly bound every citizen of the United\\nhftates to maintain, a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic\\ntranf|uillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and\\nsecure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. [Prolonged\\ncheers.]\\nMr. IngersoU in making this report was cheered when he took the\\n\u00c2\u00abtand, cheered when he opened his mouth, given nine cheers when he\\n.said the committee had with entire unanimity and surprising enthusiasm\\nagreed that there should be no formal platform. When the declaration\\nof principles was read, there was more cheering. The opening proceed-\\nings were, in fact, a long yell, partially subsiding at intervals, so that a\\nfew remarks could be interpolated. The declaration of principles was", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "113\\npassed unanimously, with a prnpor amount of the article of enflinsiam.\\nBut the pt i-fuct harmony which had thus far prevailed, was now dis-\\nturbed. There was a distressingly earnest and dreailfully protr;icted\\ndiscussion, on the report as to the process of business, which was pre-\\nscribed in the following resolutions\\nResolved, That each State shall be entitled to the same number of votes in\\nthis Convention as its electoral vote, and that each delegation shall, for itself,\\ndotermiiie the manner in which its vote shall Vje cast.\\nResolved, That in luiUoting for President and Vice-President, ballots shall be\\ntaken until the candidate nominated shall receive a majerity of all Ihe votes\\ncast that the candidate for President shall first be balloted for and selected,\\nand then the candidate for Vice-President.\\nThere was an impression somewhere that there was a disposition in\\nthe various States to coerce the minorities, and out of this the trou-\\nble grew.\\nThe Convention got itself into a very uncomfortable condition of con-\\nfusion, and about twenty resolutions were heaped upon each other.\\nThe gallant and gifted Goggin, of Virginia, at last offered a resolu-\\ntion, which brought the Convention out of tribulation and the rapids of\\ncontroversy into calm and deep water.\\nIt was as follows\\nResolved, That the chairman of each delegation shall cast the vote of his State\\nfor each delegate, in such way as he may be instructed by the delegate entitled\\nto vote, and when there is not a full ivpi eseulation from any 8tate, then the\\nmajority of such delegation shall decide how the vote of the district UJirepre-\\nsented shall be cast and where there be two delegates who cannot agree, each\\nof said delegates shall be entitled to one-half a vote.\\nThis was adopted.\\nAt half past eleven, the nomination of a candidate for the Presidency\\nwas in order. Some time was spent by the various State delegations,\\nin preparing their votes, and there was no little sensation in the hall.\\nThe Maryland delegation being unable to get the proper construction of\\nthe Goiririn resolution through its head witliout a surgical operation, re-\\ntired for consultation, and to have the necessary operation peitunned.\\nA delegate from 3Iinnesota had a delicacy. He was the only man from\\nthat State, and had not been appointed a delegate. He was a substi-\\ntute, consequently he did not feel like representing the State. The\\nvoice of the Convention overcame his modesty. Ttie names most loud-\\nly cheered as the balloting proceeded were those of John Bell and Ed-\\nward Everett. Everett received a long and loud clamor, and the ladies\\nwaved their handkerchiefs. When the vote of Texas was called for,\\nher hairy delegate got up and mentioned the battle of San Jacinto, and\\ntried to give peculiar emphasis to the Sam part of Houston s name.\\nBut it did not take wonderfully.\\nThe first ballot resulted as follows", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "If4\\nFIRST\\nBALLOT.\\nStates.\\no\\no\\nd\\n-a\\ns\\nSo\\nbo\\nS\\na\\nd\\n03\\npq\\non\\na)\\n9\\n3\\n1\\n2.\\n3\\n1\\nDelaware\\n3\\n10\\n5i\\n5?,\\n12\\n8\\n13\\n7^\\n9\\n1\\n28\\n1\\n4\\n2\\n2\\n2\\n10\\nOhio\\n5\\n9\\n4\\n11\\n4\\n2\\n2\\n17J\\n2\\n12\\n5\\n2\\n7\\n13\\nTotal\\n25\\n57\\n68|\\n28\\n3\\n22\\n21\\n13\\nThe President announced the result as follows\\nWhole number of votes cast 254\\nNecessary to a choice 128\\nOf which John Bell of Teaaessee received 68^\\nSam. Ilouston of Texas 57\\nJohn J. Crittenden 28\\nEdward Everett 25\\nWm. A. Graham 22\\nJohn McLean 21\\nWm. C. Rives 13\\nJohn M. BottB 9^\\nWra. L. Sharkey 7\\nWm. L. Goggin 3\\nAs the second ballot was being taken it became apparent that the\\nfriends of John Bell were in the ascendant.\\nAs the vote of New York was being taken, Jas. W. Garrard, of that\\nState, gave his political biography. He stated that he had been in the\\nhabit of standing up in favor of the South. He was a Northern man\\nwith Northern principles. Northern conservative principles were the\\ngame as Southern conservative principles. He mentioned that he had\\nseveral times talked like a prophet. He had something to say of\\nWashington, the American Eagle, the Washington monument, the\\nBattle monument, and striking upon expediency, availability, etc.,", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "115\\nwound up with a screech for Sara. Plouston, appealing in behalf of the\\nDutch and Irish of New York. He declared that what was wanted\\nwas a Southern Democrat to sweep up the votes.\\nPendleton of Ohio declared that Ohio wanted a Southern Whig.\\nThis expression was received with an uproar of approbation, as it was\\nunderstood to be a stroke for John Bell. So it was Southern Whig\\nagainst Southern Democrat.\\nHouston s long-haired friend from Texas, made a wild speech for\\nhim. He (long hair) was an old friend of Henry Clay loved,\\nadmired, revered him, and followed him through his days of adversity.\\nBut Sam. Houston was the man.\\nIt was now clear, however, that the flood was for John Bell.\\nWhen the State of Virginia was called, Mr. Summers of Virginia\\nstated that the delegation asked to be allowed a few moments for con-\\nsultation, before announcing her vote.\\nThe excitement was intense throughout the Convention, as upon the\\nvote which Virginia might give, would depend the nomination of Hon.\\nJohn Bell of Tennessee upon this ballot, as he then lacked but three\\nvotes of a majority of all the electoral votes represented in the Con-\\nvention.\\nThe ballot, as it then stood, was as follows\\nSECOND\\nBALLOT.\\nStates.\\n3\\nO\\nS\\nOS\\nXI\\nS-\\no\\n0)\\nO\\nc\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2r-\\n6\\na\\na\\no\\n9\\n4\\n31\\n3\\n3\\n3?,\\n6\\n6i\\nKentucky\\n4\\n12\\n1\\ni\\n5^\\n8\\n12\\n1\\n7\\n1\\n29\\n1\\n1\\n6\\n4\\n5\\nNew Jersey\\n1\\n1\\n10\\nOhio\\n18\\n19\\n5\\n7\\n4\\n1\\nTexas\\n12\\n5\\nTotal\\n125\\n68\\n18i\\ndI\\nH\\n1\\nMr. Summers, on the part of the Virginia delegation, announced that", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "116\\nho harl hoen instrnctod to announce that, they oast 13 votes for John\\nBell of Tennessee, and 2 votes for John Minor Botts.\\nThis ^Mve Bell a majority, and there was a great clamor of applause,\\na tearinj^ roar of cheers, a violent stamping B lUam broki n loose.\\nhe Convention now went through the formality of changing votes,\\nso as to make the nomination unanimous. As State after State changed\\nits vote, there were the usual demonstrations of delight, by which this\\nConvention has been distinguished above all other caucuses ever heard of.\\nLeslie Coombs, in changmg the vote of Kentucky, paid a high com-\\npliment to Gen. Sam. Houston, and went over to Bell. Coombs said\\nsince the death of Clay, he had not been in active political life but\\nsince the tocsin of disunion had been sounded North and South, he\\nhad thought it his duty to come up out of his pfilitical grave, and\\njoin the throng of the living, and enter into the campaign for the Union.\\nThere was a great deal said of the great Bell that was to toll the\\nknell of the Democratic party. Several gentlemen were quite capti-\\nvated by their ability to pun on the name of the favorite son of Ten-\\nnessee, and a delegate from Pennsylvania propi)sed to furnish the bell-\\nmetal necessary for the enormous National Bell which was to be sound-\\ned over the Union. And so on for quantity.\\nWhile New York was changing her vote, there was a crash somewhere,\\nand it suddenly occurred to every body that the galleries, which were\\nenormously loaded, were giving way. There was a tremendous rush\\nof terrified men for the doors and windows. By great efforts of those\\nwho were too far from tho windows to get out, and tho-e who were in a\\nposition, and cool enough to see that there was no danger, the panic was\\nsubdued. When it was discovered that there was no peril, the crowd\\nstared at each other, with white faces, and laughed.\\nThe changing of votes was so tedious, that it became an almost\\ninsufferable bore. It was over with at last, however. Erastus Brooks\\nmoved to make the nomination unanimous, and the chairman put the\\nquestion whether that should be done. Thereupon there was a yell\\ntiiat was called unanimous. Then the chairman arose to perform the\\nproudest duty of his life. It was almost too liig for him. But he\\nstruggled with it and triumphed, and he proclaimed that John Bell was\\nthe unanimous choice of that Convention.\\nM;ijor G. A. Ilenry?^of Tennessee, grandson of Patrick Henry,\\nresponded in behalf of his State. He spoke in glowing terms of John\\nBell, whose whole record he declared to be sound. No sectional sen-\\ntiment ever soiled the paper on which his speeches were written.\\nHe proceeded to make a Union speech. It would not do to allow\\nthe Union to bo dissolved. He, for one, could not stand by and per-\\nmit it. The revolutionary blood in his veins forbade him to be passive\\non such an occasion. A voice here cried out A grandson of Pa-\\ntrick Henry! There was at once a sensation. Tliiee cheers and\\nthree more were given, and Washington Hunt sprang up, his eyes\\nstreaming tears, and grasped his hand. JMr. Henry is a tall, well-formed\\ngentleman, with tine pleasant face, bald head, and fringe of silvery\\nwhite buir about the ears. Tl^e old^man had really inherited sorue", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "117\\nof til e powers as an orator of bis illustrious ancestcir, and made tlie speech\\nof the Convention.\\nWe are Uninn people; shall we throw this Union away? ITow can\\nwe avoid the responsibility of standinj^ up to defend it? With what\\nface couhl we n)eet the wonderinc; nations, if hy strife and hate and\\nblinded councils, and the Masted sway of deniaj^ogues accursed, we\\nthrow away the richest heritage that God ever gave to man, blot out\\nour fair escutcheon to all coming time, deliver down our names to be\\naccursed, teach desyjots that freedom is but a dream, quench its fair\\nlight wherever it may dawn, and bid the lovers of mankind despair?\\nIf such must be our country s early doom; if all her pride, her power,\\nher cherished hopes, our stripes, our stars, our heritage of glory, and\\nthe bright names we have taught our children to revere if all must\\nend in this, never let free man meet free man again, and greet him with\\nlength of years.\\nAn early tomb,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^hprein to esoapp the liiss and scorn\\nOf ;ill raankiud, were sure a better doom.\\nTear down your flag; burn your Capitol dismiss your navy; dis-\\nband your army; let our commerce rot; overturn all your monuments,\\nhere in Biiltimore and everywhere else; give to the flames the once\\nloved record of our father s deeds; scatter the sacred dust of Washing-\\nton Never, never, teach your boys to forget his name, and\\nnever let the pilgrim s foot tread the consecrated groves of Mount\\nVernon. Can we surrender all these bright and glorious hopes? If\\nwe can, then we of the Union party are the most recreant of all man-\\nkind, and the curses of all time \u00e2\u0096\u00a0will cling upon us like the shirt of\\nNessus.\\nHis description of the return of delegates from Charleston was rich.\\nHe said\\nAs I was coming on here, the other day, I saw some of the dele-\\ngates returning from Charleston, and I declare to you that I never saw\\na more broken down and desponding set. [Laughter.] They were\\ntired, sleepy, and disheartened and I must say without any figure of\\nspeech, they were unwashed. [Eenewed laughter and applause.]\\nI said to them, Gentlemen, what upon earth is the matter with you\\nnow? What has hayipcned to you? Oh! says one man, our\\nnational Democracy is broken up, and the lampntations of tlie whole\\nworld, I reckon, will attend it. Oh 1 yes, said I, I shed oceans of\\ntears over the result. [Laughter.] They looked to me like the\\nbroken columns of Napoleon s army when they returned di.-^fcomtited\\nfrom Moscow.\\nHere and there I caught one and asked him what occurred down\\nthere. Why, said one, I have not slept a wink for fmr nights.\\n[Laughter.] I said to one, who I thought treated me a little scurvily\\nabout it, Why, perhaps a little good brandy would cheer you up.\\nNo, said he, even burnt brandy wouldn t save me now. [Renewed\\nlaughter.] Gentlemen, upon my honor, I expect every one of them to\\ndie soon, and in eveiy paper I read I look to see the death of some of\\nthe Charleston members.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "118\\nThe old man was in good earnest, and his effort was immensely\\nacceptable. In truth, I have seldom heard a speech better calculated\\nto arouse popular fceUng. When he closed he was given about twenty-\\nfive cheers, and the Convention being in the humor for talk rather than\\nbusiness, the Hon. W. L. Sharkey of Mississippi was called upon for a\\nspeech, at the conclusion of which the Convention took a recess.\\nUpon reassembling, there was an eagerness on the part of nearly all\\nthe delegations to put forward for nomination for the second place on\\nthe ticket, the name of the Hon. Edward Everett. Only one other\\nname was proposed. Col. Finnell of Kentucky nominated the chair-\\nman of the Convention, Washington Hunt, who declined to allow the use\\nof his name, in a speech entirely too long and rather awkward. After\\nabout twenty speeches, which filled up three hours, and such stamping\\nand shouting as was absolutely deafening, the nomination of Everett\\nwas made by acclamation.\\nThe speech of this part of the performance was made by the Hon.\\nGeo. S. Hillard, one of the editors of the Boston Courier. Mr. Hil-\\nlard s effort was exceedingly graceful, and well worded, and the ladies\\nhonored him by throwing bouquets upon the platform. He responded\\nby telling them that unfortunately the ladies of Massachusetts were\\nllepublicans almost to a man.\\nThe following is the passage of his speech\\nNow, gentlemen of the Convention, you have this day done a good\\nand glorious work. It will send a thrill of joy and hope all over the\\nland. I know well the feeling which will be awakened in New Eng-\\nland. It would be felt there like the breeze from the sea after a day of\\nexhausted heat like as a man at the poles who is languishing after the\\nprotracted darkness of an arctic winter feels, when he sees the first\\nruddy spark which tells him that the sprino; and summer is coming, so\\nshall we at the North welcome the intelligence of this Convention.\\n[Applause.] As the greater part of creation waiteth for the manifes-\\ntation of the Son of God, so all over the land will the true and patriotic\\ncitizens of America rise up and call you blessed. As you go home you\\nwill be received with applause, with the waving of handkerchiefs,\\nthe clapping of hands, and eyes sparkling with joy and triumph. As\\nthe English poet has said upon a great occasion\\nMen met each other with erected look\\nThe steps were highest whicli they took\\nyriends to congratulate their f rieuds made haste,\\nAud long inveterate foes saluted as they passed.\\nWhen we go back to Massachusetts, and to New England, all over our\\nhills and valleys which are but just beginning to feel the genial touch\\nof spring, wliat a thrill of joy and exultation will ring along our cities,\\nour towns, our villages, our solitary farm-houses, which nestle in the\\nhollows of the hills! It will be so everywhere. [Applause.] How\\nbeautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring tidings of\\npeace. How beautiful, beautiful upon the mountains, are the feet of\\nthose who reconcile sectional discord that bring together the North\\nand the South and the West, and bind them together in the unity of\\nI", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "m\\nthe spirit of the land of peace [Cries of Good, good, and\\napplause]\\nOn motion of Mr. Lathrop of Pennsylvania, the following persons\\nwere constituted a National Central Executive Union committee\\nAnthony Kennedy, of Maryland. J. B. St. John, of New York.\\nA. R. Boteler, of Virginia. R. W. Thompson, of Indiana.\\nJoshua Hill, of Georgia. John Wilson, of Illinois.\\nJohn A. Campbell, of North Carolina. James Bishop, of New Jersey.\\nRobert Mallory, of Kentucky. John A. Rockwell, of Connecticut.\\nThos. A. R. Nelson, of Tennessee. Marshal P. Wilder, of Massachusetts.\\nHenry M. Fuller, of Pennsylvania. William Temple, of Delaware.\\nSeveral gentlemen spoke of Mr. Everett as the Ladies candidate.\\nand the ladies v?ere especially called upon to persuade their husbands\\nand sweethearts to vote for him. They were frequently informed that\\nthey must remember how assiduously he had labored for them in the\\nMount Vernon business; while the rest of mankind were informed that\\nwhile engaged in that business he had become wonderfully imbued with\\nthe spirit of Washington.\\nAmong the glowing compliments paid Mr. Everett was the following,\\nby Mr. Watson of Mississippi\\nI have made the remark again and again, that Edward Everett was\\nat this moment better known throughout the length and breadth of this\\nland than any other living being at this good hour. [Applause.]\\nI have been told that every man was familiar with his name. I say\\nthat not only every man, but every lady is familiar with his name and\\nnot only every lady, but every child is familiar with his name and\\nevery school-boy has recited his glowing eloquence again and again.\\nYou may take his record up from first to last, and see his patriotism in\\nhis antecedents. His ability is matchless, and above all, his virtue is\\nfearless in every sense of the word. [Applause.] That man has\\nstudied the character of Washington, and in his studying, he has drawn\\nin an inspiration that has so purified and elevated his patriotism that it\\nis enough of itself to save the Union, were there no other embodiment\\nof patriotism within our limits. [Applause.]\\nIt was remarkable, and I shall not say it was not a refreshing fact,\\nthat the Covention avoided altogether the discussion of the slavery ques-\\ntion. It was only referred to by indirection. Hon. Neil S. Brown of\\nTennessee thanked Grod that he had at last found a Convention in which\\nthe nigger was not the sole subject of consideration. Not a word\\nwas said from first to last about the question of slavery in the Territo-\\nries, or the execution of the Fugitive Slave law, and old John Brown\\nwas only referred to a couple of times.\\nAnd there was nothing said of Americanism not a word. The\\nHon. Erastus Brooks declared that the Convention was of a new party,\\na party only six months old, and that all old party afiiliations were sub-\\nmerged. The whole talk was of the Constitution, the Union and the\\nlaws, of harmony, fraternity, compromise, conciliation, peace, good will,\\ncommon glory, national brotherhood, preservation of the confederacy.\\nAnd of all these things it seemed to be understood the Convention had\\na monopoly. The Constitution, the Union, and peace between the sec-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "120\\ntinns would appear from the record of proceedings to he it (he exclu-\\nsive care of, and tbe peculiar institutions of, the no-party and no-platforo*\\ngen letnon here assenihlcd.\\nThe Ciinveiition adj turned in high spirits.\\nAt niglit a ratideaiion meeting was held in Monument square. An\\nextraordinarily large and elaborate stage was erected. There was a\\nplatform for the speakers and musicians. Upon each flank of this was\\na tower near thirty feet in height, each tower bearing a flag-staff from\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which the celebrated flag of our country streamed. In front of one of\\nthe towers was a likeness of Washington, and Chiy adorned the other.\\nOn one tower appeared the name of John Bell, on the other that of\\nEdward Everett. An arch spanned the platform, inscribed, The\\nUnion, t/ie Constitution, and the Enforcement of the Laws Cir-\\ncling above the inscription were the coats of arms of the States. The\\ncentre of the arch was intended for the American Eagle. But a suita-\\nble bird could not be procured to perch in that exalted place, and a few\\nsmall flags were substituted. The whole thing was decorated by lamps,\\nand presented an exceedingly brilliant appearance. I imagine that\\nnothing more complete in design, or elaborate in execution, was ever ia\\nthe United States constructed to serve a similar purpose.\\nTHE CHICAGO CONVENTION.\\nChicago, May 15.\\nLeaving Baltimore in a flood we found the West afflicted with a drouth.\\nAt one end of the journey, there was a torrent tearing down every ra-\\nvine at the otlier there was a fog of dust all along the road.\\nThe incidents of the trip were a land-slide on the Pennsylvania Cen-\\ntral, and tbe unpleasantness of being behind time to the extent of sis\\nhours on the Pittslmrgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago. Tbe detention was\\noccasioned by the fact of the train consisting of thirteen cars full of\\nirrepressibles. I regret to say that most of the company were un-\\nsound, and rather disposed to boast of that fact.\\nThe difference between the country passed over between I^altimore\\nand Chicago, and that between Louisville and Baltimore, by way of\\nCharleston, is greatly in favor of the former. I have not had any dis-\\npo.sifion to speak in disparaging terms of the Southern country, but it\\nis the plain truth that the country visible along the road from Baltimore\\nto Ilarrisburg alone, is worth more by far than all that can be seen from\\nCharleston t(Tthe Potomac. In the South few attempts have been made\\nto cultivate any lands other th.tn those most favorably situated, and mos*\\nrich, liut in Pennsylvania, free labor kas made not only the valleys\\nbloom, but the hill-tops are radiant with clover and wheat. And there", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "121\\nare innny other tliinj^s that rush upon the sij^ht in tlie North as contrast-\\ned with tho South, that testify to tlie paramount ;ilory of free hilmr.\\nAnd while pursuing the path of perfect cai)(h)r in all these matters,\\nit becomes nice Siiry to say that the (quantity of whiskey and other ardent\\nbeverages consumed on the train in which I readied this city, was )nuch\\ngreater than on ar)y train that within my knowledge entcre i Charleston\\ndurino- Convention times. The number of ])rivate bottles on our train\\nlast night was snmething surprising. A portion of the Republicans are\\ndistressed by what they see and hear of the disposition to use ardent\\nspirits which appears in members of their supposed to be painfully vir-\\ntuous party. And our Western Reserve was thrown into prayers and\\nperspiration lust night by some New Yorkers, who were singing songs\\nnot found in hymn-books. Others are glad to have the co-operation of\\nCapt. Whiskey, and bail the fact of the enlistment of that distinguished\\npartisan as an evidence* that the Republicans are imbibing the spirit as\\nwell as the substance of the old Democratic party. I do not wish, how-\\never, to convey the impression that drunkenness prevails here to an ex-\\ntent very unusual in National Conventions, for that would be doing an\\ninjustice. I tlo not feel competent to state the precise proportions of\\nthose who are drunk, and those who are sober. There are a large num-\\nber of both classes and the drunken are of course the most demonstra-\\ntive, and according to the principle of the numerical force of the black\\nsheep in a flock, are most multitudinous.\\nThe crowd is this evening becoming prodigious. The Tremont House\\nis so crammed that it is with much difhculty people get about in it from\\none room to another. Near fifteen hundred people will sleep in it to-\\nnight. The principal lions in this house are Horace Greeley and Frank\\nP. Blair, Sen. The way Greeley is stared at as he shuffles about,\\nlooking as innocent as ever, is itself a sight. Whenever he appears\\nthere is a crowd gaping at him, and if he stops to talk a minute with\\nsome one who wishes to consult him as the oracle, the crowd becomes\\ndense as possible, and there is the most eager de^ire to hear the words\\nof wisdom that are suppoi^ed to fall on such occasions.\\nThe curio-ity of the town next to the wfgwam is a bowie-knife\\nseven feet long, weighing over forty pounds. It bears on one side the\\ninscription, Presented to John F. Potter by the Republicans of Mis-\\nsouri. On tho other side is this motto, Will always keep a Pryor\\nen(/agem.e7it. This curiosity is gaped at almost as much as Greeley,\\nand It is a strange and dreadful looking concern. It is to be formally\\npresented to Potter at Washington, by a committee from Missouri.\\nThe city of Chicago is attending to this Convention in magnificent\\nstyle. It is a great place for large hotels, and all have their capacity\\nfor accommodation tested. The great feature is the Wigwam, erected\\nwithin the pa.st month, expressly for the use of the Convention, bythe\\nRepublicans of Chicago, at a cost of seven thousand dollars. It is a\\nsmall edition of the New York Crystal Palace, built of boards, and\\nwill hold ten thousand persons comfortably\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and is admirable for its ac-\\ncoustic excellence. An ordinary voice can be heard through the whole\\nstructure with ease.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "The political news is the utter failure of the Ohio delegation to\\ncome to any agreement, and the loss of influence by that State.\\nCuK AGO, May IGth.\\nThis is the morning of the first day of the Convention. The crowd\\nis prodigious. The hotel keepers say there are more people here now\\nthan during tlie National Fair last year, and then it was estimated that\\nthirt} thousand strangers were in the city. This figure was probably\\ntoo high, but there are, beyond doubt, more than twenty-five thousand\\npersons here in attendance upon the Convention. This is a great place\\nfor hotels, and the multitude is fortunately distributed through them all\\nover the town. There are only a few points where the jam is painfully\\nclose. One of those places is the Tremont House, where aboat fifteen\\nhundred persons are stowed away, and which is the focus of political\\nexcitement.\\nAs in the case of all other Conventions, the amount of idle talking\\nthat is done, is amazing. Men gather in little groups, and with their\\narms about each other, and chatter and whisper as if the fate of the\\ncountry depended upon their immediate delivery of the mighty potitical\\nsecrets witli which their imaginations are big. There are a thousand ru-\\nmoi s afloat, and things of incalculable moment are communicated to\\nyou confidentially, at intervals of five minutes. There are now at least\\na thousand men packed together in the halls of the Tremont House,\\ncrushing each other s ribs, tramping each other s toes, and titillating\\neach other with the gossip of the day and the probability is, not one\\nis possessed of a single political fact not known to the whole, which is\\nof the slightest consequence to any human being.\\nThe current of the universal twaddle this morning is, that Old\\nAbe will be the nominee.\\nThe Bates movement, the McLean movement, the Cameron move-\\nment, the Banks movement, are all nowhere. They have gone down\\nlike lead in the mighty waters. Old Abe and Old Ben are in\\nthe field against Seward. Abe and Ben are representatives of the con-\\nservatism, the respectability, the availability, and all that sort of thing.\\nThe out-and-out friends of Mr. Chase here are very much embittered\\nagainst the Wade movement. They are mistaken about it in some par-\\nticulars. While this movement has certainly been used to slaughter\\nMr. Chase, it was not, in my judgment, originated with any such pur-\\npose\\nThe room mates, the pleasure of whose society I have the pleasure\\nof enjoying, were in magnificent condition last night. They were\\nglorious, o er all the ills of life victorious, and, to use the ex-\\npression which is here in every body s mouth every minute, they were\\nirrepres.sible until a late liour. And this morning I was aroused by a\\nvehement debate among them, and rubbing my eyes, discovered that\\nthey were sitting up in bed playing cards to see who should pay for gin\\ncock -tails all around, the cock-tails being an indispensable prelhuinary to\\nbreakfast.\\nThe badges of different candidates are making their appearance, and\\na good many of the dunces of the occasion go about duly labeled. I", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "12a\\nsaw an old man this morning with a wood-cut of Edward Bates pasted\\noutside his hat. The Seward men have badges of silk with his likeness\\nand name, and some wag pinned one of them to Horace Greeley s back\\nyesterday, and he created even an unusual sensation as he hitched about\\nwith the Seward mark upon hira.\\nThe hour for the meeting of the Convention approaches, and the agi-\\ntation of the city is exceedingly great. Vast as the wigwam is, not one-\\nfifth of those who would be glad to get inside can be accommodated.\\nFIRST DAY.\\nOFFIClJL ROLL OF THE CONVENTION.\\nThe following is the Official Roll of the delegates admitted to seats\\nin the Convention\\nPRESIDENT.\\nHon. GEO. ASIIMUN, of Massachusetts.\\nVICE-PRESIDENTS.\\nCalifornia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A. A. Sargent.\\nConnecticut\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0. F. Cleveland.\\nDelaware John C. Clark.\\nIowa\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H. P. Scholte.\\nIllinois David Davis.\\nIndiana John Beard.\\nKentucky\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W. D. Gallagher.\\nMains\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Samuel F. Ilersey.\\nMaryland\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wm. L. Marshall.\\nMassachusetts\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ensign H- Kellogg.\\nMichigan\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas White Ferry.\\nMinnesota\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Aaron Goodrich.\\nMissouri\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Henry T. Blow.\\nNew York\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wm. Curtis Noyes.\\nNew Jersey\u00e2\u0080\u0094 E. Y. Rogers.\\nNew Hampshire Wm. Uaile.\\nOhio\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Geo. D. Burgess.\\nOregon Joel Burliugame.\\nPennsylvania\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thad. Stevens.\\nRhode Island\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rowland G. Hazard.\\nTexas\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wm. T. Chandler.\\nVermont Wm. Hebord.\\nVirginia R. Crawford.\\nWisconsin Hans Crocker.\\nNebraska\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A. S. Paddock.\\nKansas\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W. W. Ross.\\nDistrict of Columbia- Geo. Harrington.\\nSECRETARIES.\\nCalifornia D. J. Staples.\\nConnecticut\u00e2\u0080\u0094 II II. Starkweather.\\nDelaware B. J. Hopkins.\\nIowa\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William B. Allison.\\nIllinois 0. L. Davis.\\nIndiana Daniel D. Pratt.\\nKentucky Stephen J. Howes.\\nMaine C. A. \\\\\\\\iug.\\nMarylaxid William E. Coale.\\nMassadRusetts\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles 0. Rogers.\\nMichigan\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W. S. Stoughtoa.\\nMinnesota D. A. Secombe.\\nMissouri J. K. Kidd.\\nNew Yprk\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Geo. W. Curtis.\\nNew Jersey Edward Brettle.\\nNew Hampshire Nathan Hubbard.\\nOhio\u00e2\u0080\u0094 N. J. Beebe.\\nOregon Eli Thayer.\\nPennsylvania J. B. Serrill.\\nRhode Island R. R. Hazard, jr.\\nTexas Dunbar Henderson.\\nVermont John W. Stewart.\\nAVisconsin L. F. Frisby.\\nKansas John A. Martin.\\nNebraska U. P. Hitchcock.\\nDELEGATES.\\nMAINE EIGHT VOTES.\\nAt Large.\\nGeorge F. Talbot, M.achias.\\nM illiam H. McCrillis, Bangor,\\n.lohn L. Stevens, Augusta.\\nKensellaer Cram, Portland.\\nDistricts.\\n1 Mark F. Wentworth, Kittery.\\nLeonard Andrews, Biddeford.\\n2 Charles J. Oilman, Brunswick.\\nSeward Dill, Phillips.\\n8 Nathan G. Ilichborn, Stockton,\\nGeorge W. Lawrence, Warren.\\n4 C. A Wing, Winthrop.\\nJ. S. Baker, Bath.\\n5 Samuel F. Ilersey, Bangor.\\nGoing Ilathoru, Pittsfield.\\n6 John West, Franklin.\\nWashington Long, Fort Fairfield.\\nNEW HAMPSHIRE FIVE VOTES.\\nAt Large.\\nHon. Edward H. Rollins.\\nHon. Aaron H. Cragin.\\nHon. William Ilaile.\\nHon. Amos Tuck.\\nDelegates\\n1 Nathaniel Hubbard.\\nGeorge Matthewson.\\n2 B. F. Martin.\\nF. H. Morgan.\\n3 Jacob Benton.\\nJacob C. Bean.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "12#\\nVERMONT\u00e2\u0080\u0094 FIVE VOTES.\\nAt Lnr^e.\\nK. N. Briggs, Hraiidoii\\nPeter T. Washlmrn, Hood^tock.\\nE. D. Masoii, liii liinonJ.\\nE. 0. Kediugton. St. .Joljnsbury.\\nDiftricts.\\n1 John W. Stewart, Middlebury.\\nE B. Burton, Manchester.\\n2 Hugh II. Henrv. ihester.\\nWill. Hebord, Chelsea.\\n3 Wm. Clapp, St Albans.\\nE. B. Sawyer, Uydu Park.\\nMASSACHUSETTS THIRTEEN VOTES.\\nA Large.\\nJohn A. Andrew, Boston.\\nEnsign II. Kellogg IMrtsfield.\\nGeorge S. Boutwell. Groton.\\nLinus B. Comius, lioston.\\nDistricts.\\n1 Jo.seph M. Pay, Barnstable.\\nJonathan Bourne, jr New Bedford.\\n2 Robert Davi.s, Kail iJiver.\\nSeth Webb, jr., Siituate.\\n.3 Edward L. I ierce, Milton.\\nWilliam ClaHin, Newton.\\n4 Charles Hogers. Boston.\\nJosiah Dunh.am, Boston.\\n5 Samuel Hooper, Boston.\\nGe Tge Willi.im .MeLellan, Cambridge.\\n6 Timothy Davis, Gloucester.\\nEben i\\\\ Stone, Newburyport.\\n7 George Cogswell, Bradford.\\nTimothy Winn, U oburn.\\n8 Theodore H Sweetser. Lowell.\\nJohn S. Keves, Concord.\\n9 John D. Baldwin, Worcesler.\\nEdward B. Bigelow, Grafton.\\n10 John Wells, Chicopee.\\nErastus Hopkins, Northampton.\\n11 John H. Coffin. Great Barrington.\\nMatthew D. Field, Southwick.\\nRIIODE ISLAND FOUR VOTES.\\nAt Large.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2lames F. Simmon?, U. S. Senate.\\nNathaniel B. Durfee, Tiverton.\\nBenedict Laphain. Centreville.\\nW. II. S. Bayley, Bristol.\\nDistricts.\\n1 Benjamin T. Eames, Providence.\\nRowland U. Hazard, jr., Newport.\\n2 Rowland G. lliizard, Peacedale.\\nSimon Henry Greene, Phenix.\\nCONNECTICUT SIX VOTES.\\nAt Large.\\nGideon Welle. Hartford\\nKleazer K. Foster, Nevv Haven.\\n(!hauiicey V Cleveland, Hampton.\\nAlexander II. Holley, Salisbury.\\nDi-^tricts.\\n1 Sanuel Q. Porter, Unionville P. 0.\\nlicverett E. I e.ape, Soniers.\\n2 SUiphen W. Kellogg, Waterbury.\\nArthur B Calef. Middletown.\\n3 David Gallup, Plaiiifield.\\nHenry H Starkweather, Norwich.\\n4 Edgar H. Twe.dv, Danbury.\\nGeorge U. Noble, New Miiford.\\nNEW YORK TniRTV-MVB VCTB3.\\nAt Lnri.e,\\nWilliam M. Evarts, New York.\\nPreston King, Ogdensburgh.\\nJohn L. Schoolcraft, Albany.\\nHenry U. Selden, llochcster.\\nDistricts.\\n1 George W. Cnrtis, New York.\\nRobert L. Weeks, Jamaica, L. I.\\n2 James S. T. Stranahan, Brooklyn.\\nHenry A. Kent, Brooklyn.\\n3 John A. Kennedy, New York.\\nJohn A. King, Jamaica\\n4 Owen W. Brennan, New York.\\nRobert T. Haws, New York.\\n5 Thomas Murphy, New York.\\nCh.arles M. Briggs, Williamsburg.\\n6 Joseph C. Pinckuey, New York.\\nMarshall B. Blake, do\\n7 Daniel D. Conover, do\\nJohn Keyserjfc do\\n8 Wm. Curtis Soyes, do\\nJames W. Nje, do\\n9 Edmund J Porter, New liochelle.\\nJohn G. Miller, Carmel.\\n10 Ambrose S./Murray, Goshen.\\n0. V R. Liyddingtou, Moniicello.\\n11 Peter Crispjell, jr.\\nHeni-y Green.\\n12 Albert Van Kleeck, Poughkcepsie.\\nJohn T. Hogeboom, Ghent.\\n13 Jonathan W. Freeman.\\nGideon Revnolds, Troy.\\n14 H. H. Van Dyck, Albany.\\nHenry A. Brigham, West Troy.\\n15 Edward Dodd, Argvle.\\nJas. W. Schenck, Glensfalls.\\n16 Orlando Kellogg.\\nWm. Iledding.\\n17 John H Wonster, Newport.\\nA. B. James, Ogdensburgh.\\n18 Henry Churchill, Gloversville.\\nThomas R. llorton, Fultouville.\\n19 Horatio N. Buckley, Delhi.\\nSamuel J. Cooke.\\n20 I almer V. Kellogg, Utica.\\nHenry H. Fish, Utica.\\n21 Giles W. Ilotchkiss, Binghamton.\\nBenj. S. Rexford, Norwich.\\n22 Samuel F. Case, Fulton.\\nRobt. Stewart, Chitten ngo.\\n23 Isaac H. Fiske, Watertown.\\nIlinim Porter, Louisville.\\n24 Vivus W.Smith, Syracuse.\\nD. C Greenfield. Baldwinsville.\\n25 Alex B. Williams, Ljons.\\nTheodore M. Pomeroy, Auburn.\\n26 Obadiah B. Latham. Seneca Fails.\\nCharles C. Shepard, Penn Van.\\n27 Wm. W. Shepard, Waverly.\\nGeo. W. Schuyler, Ithaca.\\n28 Wm. Scott, Geneseo.\\nStephen T. Hayt, Corning.\\n29 D. D. S. Browne, Rochester.\\nAlexander Babcock, Rochester.\\n30 Joshua H Darling, arsaw.\\nJohn H. Kimberly, Batavia.\\n31 Wm. Keep, Lockport.\\nNoah Davis, jr.. Albion.\\n32 Alexander \\\\V. Harvey, Buffalo.\\nJoseph Candee, do\\n33 Alonzo Kent, Ellicottville.\\nDoles E. SUI, do\\nNEW JERSEY SEVEN VOTES.\\nAt Large.\\nJames T. Sherman. Trenton.\\nThomas H. Dudley, Camden.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": ":1I5\\nEdward Y. Rogers, Kahway.\\nEphraiin Miirsli. Jersey City.\\nF. T. Frelinjjluiyseu, Newark.\\nJonathan Cook Trenton.\\nDudley S. (i; fgnry, Jersey City.\\nJoliu J. Blair, lUaiitown.\\nDistricts.\\n1 Providence Ludlam, Bridgeton.\\nRobert K. Mattock, Woodbury.\\nEdward Brettlc, Camden.\\nJonathan D. li.gham, Salem.\\n2 Archibald R I liaro, Tuckerton.\\nStephen B Smith. Pennington.\\nAnizi C. McLean, Freehold.\\nBernard Connolly, do\\n3 A. P. Bethonde, Washington.\\nA. N. Voorhees, Clinton.\\nWm. D. Warciinan, Janesville.\\nMoses F. Webb, New Brunswick.\\n4 Henry M Low, Paterson.\\nWm. Ci. Latlirop, I oonton.\\nThomas Cununiug, Kackensack.\\nHenry B. Cro^by, Paterson.\\n5 Hugh H. Bowne. Rahway.\\nH. N. Cougar, Newark.\\nMarcus L Ward, Newark.\\nDenning Duer, VVeehawken.\\nPENNSYLVANIA\u00e2\u0080\u0094 TWENTT-SEVEN VOTES.\\nAt Large.\\nDavid TTilmot, Towanda.\\nSamuel A. I urviance. Pittsburgh.\\nThaddeus Stevens, Lancaster.\\nJohn II. Ewing, Washington.\\nIlenrj D Mouie, Philadelphia.\\nAndrew H Keoder, Easton.\\nTitian J Colfee, Pittsburgh.\\nMorrow B. Lowry, Erie.\\nDistricts,\\n1 John M. Butler, Philadelphia.\\nElias Ward, do\\nJ. Money, do\\nWm. Elliott, do\\n2 Geo. A. ColTee, do\\nRichard Elli. do\\nFrancis Blackburn, do\\nJohn M. Piimroy, do\\n3 Wm. B. Mann, do\\nJames M Manus, do\\nBenj. U. Brown, do\\nGeorge Read, do\\n4 A. C. r.obert.^, do\\nWm. H Kirn, do\\nWm. D. Kelly, do\\nM. S. Buckley, Richmond.\\n5 James Hooven, Norristown.\\nDr. C. M. Jackson, Philadelphia.\\nWilliam B. Thomas, Philadelphia.\\nGeorge W. Pnmroy, Philadelphia.\\n6 John M. Broomal, Chester.\\nWashington Townsend, West Chester.\\nJoseph .J Lewis, West Chester.\\nJacob S, Serrill, Darby.\\n7 Caleb N. Ta.\\\\ lor, Bristol.\\nJoseph You ig, .\\\\llenTown.\\nGeorge Bei.sel, Allen Town.\\nHenry J. Sae);er, Allen Town.\\n8 Isaac Eckert, liedding.\\nDavid E. Stout, Uedding.\\nJ. Kuabb. Kedding.\\nJ. Bowman Hell. Redding.\\n9 0. J. Dicke\\\\ Lancaster.\\nC. S. KautTiiiau, Columbia.\\nSamuel Scoch, Columbia.\\nJos. D. Powiiall, Christiana.\\n10 G. Dawson t oleman, Lebanon.\\nLevi Kline, Lebanon.\\nJos Casey, Harrisbnrg.\\nWm. Cameron. Louihurg;.\\n11 Robert M. Palmer, Potisville.\\nJacob Q. Krick, Pottsville.\\nS. A. Bergstres. er, Elysburg\\nWm. C Lawson, iMiltoti.\\n12 W. W. Kctclium, W iike.-b arre.\\nP. M. Osterlunit, Juiiklianuijck.\\nFrank .Stewart, Bei wick.\\nDavis Alton, Caibondale.\\n13 Chas. Albright, .Mauch Chunk.\\nWm. Davis, iStroud.-buig.\\nW. II. Armstrong, Eis-on.\\nSam l E. Diunnick, llonesdale.\\n14 H. W. Tracy, -tiiiuiii,^ one.\\nHon Wm. jessup, Montio.se.\\nF. E. Smith, Tio^a I oint.\\nDr. Abel llumphre.vs, Tioga Point.\\n15 Wm. Butler, LewisKin\\nB. Rvish I eterkin. L ckliaven.\\nLindsay Mihallev, .Ne i crry.\\nG B. Overton, oiidcr-pdrt.\\n16 Kirk Haines, .MilliTsio^ n.\\nW. B. Irvin, Meclianicsburg.\\nAlex J. Frey. Yoik.\\nJacob S. Haidcman. N ew Cumberland.\\n17 Wm. M Clellan. (.bambersbuig.\\nD. MCaiinagby, Gett.\\\\shurg.\\nJohn J. Patterson. .Acadeniin.\\nFrancis Jordan Bedf rd.\\n18 A. A. Barker, El e i biirg.\\nS. M. Green, bailey s Forge.\\nL. W. Hall, Altoi.na.\\nWm. H. Koons, Somerset.\\n19 W M. Stewart. Imlinna.\\nDarwin E. Phelps. Kittaning.\\nAddison Lench, Leeclibuig.\\nD. W. Shryok, Gr e sburg.\\n20 Andrew Stewart, Uniimlown.\\nSmith Fuller. Uniontown.\\nAlex. Murdoch, Wrishington.\\nWm. E. Gapen, Wayne-burg.\\n21 Wm. H. Mersh, Pittsburgh.\\nCol. James A. Ekin Klizabeth;\\nJohn F. Hravo McKeesport.\\nJ. J. Siebeneck, Pittsburgh.\\n22 D. N. White, ^ewick ev.\\nStephen H. Guyer, Alletrhany City.\\nJohn N. Purviance Butler ciiuuty.\\nW. L Graham, Butler county.\\n23 L. L. Mcliuffin, New Ca tle.\\nDavid Craig New astle.\\nWm. G. Brown, Mercer.\\nJohn Allison, New Brighton.\\n24 Henry Souther. Ridgway.\\nS. P. Johnston. Warren.\\nJas.S Mcvers, Franklin.\\nD. C. Gillaspie, Brooklyn.\\n25 B. B. Vincent, Erie.\\nThomas J. Devore, Brie.\\nJ. C. Hayes. Mead vi lie.\\nS. Newton Pettis, Mea lville.\\nDELAWARE THREE VOTES.\\nNathaniel B. Smitli. rs, Dover.\\nJohn C. Clark, Delaware City.\\nBenjamin C. Hopkin Vernon.\\nLewes Thompson, 1 lea aiit Hill.\\nJo.shuaT. Heald, Wilmington.\\nAlfred Short, Miltord.\\nMARYLAND\u00e2\u0080\u0094 IIGHT VOTES.\\nAt Large.\\nFrancis P Blair, Wa-iiiogton, D. C.\\nWm. L. Marshall. i;..ltimore.\\nDistricts.\\n1 James Bryan, Cambridge.\\n2 James Jetlery, Cuurcuville.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "126\\nWm. P. Ewinp. Flkton.\\n3 KrancisS Corkrau, Haltimore.\\nJaiiu s F. Wagner. Raltiinore.\\n4 Wm. E. Coale. Baltimore.\\n5 Clias. Lee Annnnr, Frederick.\\n6 Montgomerv Blnir, Washington, D. C.\\nD. S. Oram, Church Creek.\\nVIRGINIA FIFTEEN VOTES.\\nAt Large.\\nAlfred Caldwell, Wheeling.\\nK. M Norton, do\\nW. W. Gitt, Montgomery Co. Court House.\\nJ. C. Underwood, Clark Co. do\\nDistricts.\\n1 Jacob Hornbrook, Wheeling.\\nJ. (J. .Jacob, Wellsburgh.\\nJoseph Applegate, Well.sburgh.\\n2 A. G. Robinson, Wheeling.\\nR. Crawford, do\\n3 Tho.s. Hornbrook, do\\nJ. M. Pumphrey, do\\n4 R. H. Gray, Lynchburg.\\nF. U. Norton. Wheeling.\\n5 John Underwood. Prince William Court H.\\nJ. B. Brown. Alexandria.\\nG W. J. Blackwood, Clark Co. Court House.\\nJ. T. Freeman, Hancocl^ Court House.\\n7 A. W. Campbell. Wheeling.\\nD. W. Roberts, Morgantown.\\n8 W. E. Stevenson, Parkersburg.\\nS. M. Peterson, do\\nS. H. Woodward, Wheeling.\\n9 James Wilson, do\\nOHIO\u00e2\u0080\u0094 TWENTT-THREE V0TB8.\\nAt Large.\\nHon. n. K. Cartter, Cleveland.\\nHon. V. B. Horton, Pomeroy.\\nHon Thomas Spooner, Redding.\\nHon. Conrad Broadbeck, Dayton.\\nDistricts.\\n1 Benj. Eggleston, Cincinnati.\\nFred. Hassaureck, do\\n2 R M. Corwine, do\\nJoseph H. Barrett, do\\n3 Wm Becket, Hamilton.\\nP. P. Lowe, Dayton.\\n4 G. D. Burgess. Troy.\\nJolin E. Cummings, Sidney.\\n.5 David Taylor, lleRance.\\nE. Graham, Perryburg.\\n6 John M. Barrere. New Market.\\nReeder W. Clarke. Batavia.\\n7 Hon. Thoa. Corwin, Lebanon.\\nA. Hivling, Xenia.\\n8 W. K. West, Bellefontaine.\\nLevi Geiger, Urbana.\\ny Earl Bill, Tiffin.\\nD. W. .Swigart, Bucyru.s.\\n10 J. V. Robinson, ir.. Portsmouth.\\nMilton L. Clark. ChiUicothe.\\n11 N. H. an Vorbees, Athens.\\nA. C. Sands, Zelnski.\\n12 Willard Warner, Newark.\\n.Jonathan Renick, Circleville.\\n13 John J. Gurk-v. Mt Gilead.\\nP. N. Schuyler, Norwalk.\\n14 James Monroe, Oberlin.\\nO. U. Harn. Wooster.\\n15 Hon. Columbus Delano, Mt. Vernon,\\nR. K. Enos, Mlllersburg.\\n16 Daniel AiiplcKate. Zanesville.\\nCaleb A. Williams, Cliesterlield.\\n17 0. J. Allbright, Cambridge.\\nWm. Wallace, Martin s Forry.\\n18 M. Y. Beebe, Ravenna.\\nIsaac Steese, Massillon.\\n19 Robt. F. Paine, Cleveland.\\nR. Hitchcock. Painesville.\\n20 Joshua R. Giddings, Jefferson.\\nMilton Sutliffe, Warren.\\n21 Samuel Stokely, Steubenville.\\nD. Arter, Carrollton.\\nKEKTUCKT TWELVE VOTES.\\nAt Large.\\nGeo. D. Blakey, Russellville.\\nA. A. Burton, Lancaster.\\nWm. D. Gallagher, Pewee Valley.\\nCharles Hendley, Newport.\\nDistricts.\\n1 Abner Williams, Covington.\\nH. G. Otis, Louisville.\\n2 Fred. Frische, Louisville.\\nE. H Harrison, McKee.\\n3 Joseph Glazebrook, Gla.sgow.\\nJos. W. Calvert, Bowling Green.\\n4 John J. Hawes, Louisville.\\n5 H. D. Hawes, Louisville.\\nLewis M. Dembitz, Louisville.\\n6 Curtis Knight, King.^ton.\\nJoseph Rawlings, White Hall.\\n7 A. H. Merriwether, Louisville.\\nHenry D. Hawes, Louisville.\\n8 H. B. Broaddus. Ashland.\\nL. Marston, Millersburg.\\n9 Edgar Needham, Louisville.\\nJ. S. Davis.\\n10 Jas. R. Whittemore, Newport.\\nHamilton Cummings, Covington.\\nINDIANA THIRTEEN VOTES.\\nAt Large.\\nWilliam T. Ott, New Albany.\\nDaniel D. Pratt, Logansport.\\nCaleb B. Smith, Indianapolis.\\nP. A. Hackelman, Rushville.\\nDistricts.\\n1 James C. Veatch, Rockport.\\nC. M. Allen, Vincennes.\\n2 Thos. C. Slaughter, Corydon.\\nJ. H. Butler. Salem.\\n3 John R. Cravens, Madison.\\nA. C. Vorhies. Bedford.\\n4 Geo. Holland, Brookville.\\nJ. L. Yater, Versailles.\\nb Miles Murphy, Newcastle.\\nWalter March, Muncie.\\n6 S. P. Oyler, Franklin,\\nJohn S. Bobbs, Indianapolis.\\n7 Geo. K. Steele, Rockville.\\nD. C. Donohue, Green Castle.\\n8 John Beard, Crawfordsville.\\nJ. N. Simms, Frankfort.\\n9 Chaa. H. Test, Mudges Station.\\nD. H. Hopkins, Crown Point.\\n10 Geo. Moon, Warsaw.\\nGeo. Emmerson, Angola.\\n11 Wm. W. Connor, Noblesville.\\nJohn M. Wallace, Marion.\\nMICHIGAN SIX VOTES.\\nAt Large.\\nAustin Blair, Jackson.\\nWalton W. Murphy, Jonesville.\\nThos. White Ferry, Grand Haven.\\nJ. J. St. Clair, Marquette.\\nDistricts.\\n1 J. G. Peterson, Detroit.\\nAlex. D. Crane, Dexter.\\n2 Jesse G. Beeson. Dowagiac.\\nWilliam L. Stoughton, Sturgis.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "127\\n3 Francis Quinn, Niles.\\nErastus Hussey, Battle Creek.\\n4 D. C. BuckUinit, rontiac\\nMichael T. C. Plessncr, Saginaw City.\\nILLINOIS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ELEVEN VOTES-\\nAt Large.\\nN. B. Judtl, Chicago.\\nGustavus Koerner, Belleville.\\nDavid Davis, Blooinington.\\n0. H. Biowuing, Quinuy\\nDiatriets.\\n1 Jason Marsh, Bockford.\\nSolon Cumraings, Craud de Tour.\\n2 George Schneider, Chicago.\\nGeorge T. Smith, Fulton.\\n3 B. C. Cook, Ottawa.\\n0. L. Davis, Danville.\\n4 Henry Grove, Peoria.\\nE. W. Hazard, Galesburg.\\n5 Wni. Boss, PittsBeld.\\nJames S. Erwin, Mt. Sterling.\\n6 S.T. Logan Springfield.\\nN. M. Knapp, Winchester.\\n7 Thos. A. Marshall, Charleston.\\nWm. I Dole, i aris.\\n8 F. S. Kutherford, Alton.\\nD. K. Green, Salem.\\n9 James C. Sloo, Shawneetown.\\nD. L. Phillips, Anna.\\nWISCONSIN FIVE VOTES.\\nAt Large.\\nCarl Schurz, Milwaukee.\\nHans Crocker, Milwaukee.\\nT. B. Stoddard, La Crosse.\\nJohn P. McGregor, Milwaukee.\\nDistricts.\\n1 H. L. Rann, Whitewater.\\nC. C. Sholes, Kenosha.\\n2 H S. Gibson, Hudson.\\nJ. R. Bennett, JanesviUe.\\n3 Elisha Morrow, Green Bay.\\nL. F. Frisliey, West Bend.\\nMINNESOTA POUR VOTES.\\nAt Large.\\nJohn W. North, Northfield.\\nD. A. Secombe, St. Anthony.\\nStephen Miller, St. Cloud.\\nS. P. Jones, Rochester.\\nDistricts.\\n1 A. H. Wagerner, New Ulm.\\nAaron Goodrich, St. Paul.\\n2 John MeCusick, Stillwater.\\nSimeon Smith, Chattield.\\nIOWA EIGHT VOTES.\\nAt Large.\\nWm. Penn Claik, Iowa City.\\nL. C Noble, West Union.\\nJohn A. Kasson. Des Moines.\\nHenry O Conner, Muscatine.\\nJ. F. Wilson, Fairfield.\\nJ. W. Rankin, Keokuk.\\nM. L. Mcl herson, Wintersett.\\nC. F. Clarkson, Metropolis.\\nN.J. Rusch, Davenport.\\nH. P.Scholte, Pella.\\nJohn Johns, Fort Dodge.\\nDistricts.\\n1 Alvin Saunders, Mount Pleasant.\\nJ. C. Walker, Fort Madison.\\n2 Jos. Caldwell, Ottumwa.\\nM. Baker, Congdou.\\n3 Beuj. Ut clor, Sidney.\\nGeo. A. Hawley, Leon.\\n4 H. M. Hoxie, Des Moines.\\nJacob Butler, Miiscatine.\\n5 Thos. Seeley, Guthiie Centre.\\nC. C. Nourse, Des Moines.\\n6 VVm. M.Stone, Knoxville.\\nJ, U. (irinnell, Griniii U.\\n7 Wni. A. Warren, Bellevue.\\nJohn W. Thompson, Davenport.\\n8 John Shane, Vinton.\\nWm. Smyth, Marion.\\n9 Wm. B. Allison. Dubuque.\\nA. F Brown, Cedar Falls.\\n10 Reuben Noble, McGregor.\\nE. G Bowdoin, Rockford.\\n11 W. P. Hepburn, Marshalltown.\\nJ. J. Brown, Eldora.\\nMISSOURI NINE VOTES.\\nAt Large.\\nFrancis P. Blair, jr., St. Louis.\\nB. Gratz Brown, St. Louis.\\nF. Muench, Marthasville.\\nJ. O.Sittou, Hermann.\\nDistricts.\\n1 P. L. Toy, St. Louis.\\nC. L. Bernays, St. Louis.\\n2 A. Krekle, St. Charles.\\nA. Hammer, St. Louis.\\n3 N. T. Doane, Trenton.\\nAsa S. Jones, St. Louis.\\n4 H. B. Branch, St. Joseph.\\nG. W. H. Landon, St. Joseph.\\n5 Jas. B. Gardenhire, Jefferson City.\\nB. Bruns. JelTerson City.\\n6 J. K. KiddjLinn.\\nJ. M. Richardson, Springfield.\\n7 Jas. Lindsay, Ironton.\\nThos. Fletcher, DeSoto.\\nCALIFORNIA FOUR VOTES.\\nAt Large.\\nF. P. Tracy, San Francisco.\\nA. A. Sargent, Nevada.\\nD. W. Cheeseman, Orville.\\nJ. C. Hinckley, Shasta.\\nChas. Watrous, San Francisco.\\nSam. Bell, Mariposa.\\nD. J. Staples, Staples Branch.\\nJ. R. McDonald, Haywards.\\nOREGON FIVE VOTES.\\nJoel Burlingame, Scio, Oregon.\\nHorace Greeley, New Yoik City.\\nHenry Buckingham, Salem, Oregon.\\nEli Thayer, House Rep s, Washington, D. C.\\nFrank Johnson, Oregon City.\\nTEXAS SIX VOTES.\\nAt Large.\\nD. C. Henderson, Austin.\\nG. A. Fitch, Austin.\\nJames P. Scott, San Antonio.\\nA. A. Shaw, Little Elm.\\nDistricts.\\n1 Gilbert Meyers, Galveston.\\n2 M. S. C. Chandler, Galveston.\\nKANSAS.\\nA. C. Wilder, Leavenworth.\\nJohn A. Martin, Atchison.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "128\\nWm. A. Phillips, Tawrence.\\nWW R ss. T( |.eka.\\nA. G. Proctor, ICiiiporia.\\nJohn P. Hatiirscliicdt, Leavenworth.\\nNEBRASKA SIX VOTM.\\nO. W Irish. Nebraska City.\\nS. W. Elliert. I lattsmouth\\nE. D. W ebster, Omaha.\\nJohn R. Meredith. Omnha.\\nA. S Paddoeli, Koi t C^.lhcun.\\nP. W. Witchcock, iinialia.\\nDISTRICT OF COLOMBIA..\\nGeo. Harrington, \\\\Va.-l]ingt n.\\nJoseph Geihavdt, Washington.\\nG. A. Hall, Washington.\\nJ. A. Wyse, Washington.\\nThe Hon. Edward T). Blorgan of Now York, Chairman of the\\nNational Kcpaiilican Executive Conmiittoe, called the Convention to\\norder, and read the call under which it had been summoned. He con-\\ncluded by nominating the Hon. David Wilmot for temporary President.\\nMr. Wilmot, upon tuking the chair, made a very positive anti-slavery\\nspeech. A committee on Permanent Organization was constituted as\\nfollows\\nMaine Leonard Andrews.\\nVermont Hugh L. Henry.\\nNew Hainpshifc Aaron H. Cragin.\\nMapsachii.setts Linus tS. Comius.\\nConnecticut Arthur B. Calef.\\nRhode Island Sim. on H. Greene.\\nNew York Htnry II. Van Dyck.\\nNew Jersey Ephraiiii Miirsh.\\nPennsylvania T. J. Cotley.\\nDelaware Josluia T. Heil.\\nMaryland\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jiinies Jtftiies.\\nVirginia Edward M. Norton.\\nOhio\u00e2\u0080\u0094 V. B. Honon.\\nLidiana P. A. llackleman.\\nIllinois William Ross.\\nMichigan Walter VV. Murphy.\\nWisconsin John P. McGregor.\\nIowa James F. Wilson.\\nMinnesota Simeon Smith.\\nMissouri Allen Hammer.\\nKansas\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A. C. Wilder.\\nCalifornia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Samiifl Bell.\\nOregon Grant Johnson.\\nKentucky Allen J Bristow.\\nTexas\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. S. C. Chandler.\\nNebraska\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0. H Irish.\\nDistrict of Columbia Geo. A. Hall.\\nA delegate frona Kentucky Mr. President, I would suggest that\\nthe names of all the States be called. [Applause.]\\nThe Chair Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi [great laughter], Lou-\\nisiana, Alnltama [laughter and hissing], Georgia, South Carolina\\n[laughter]. North Carolina. [Feeble hisses and much Lughter.] I\\nbelieve that includes the names of all the States.\\nThe couniiittee on Credeutials was made up as follows\\nMaine Renssellaer Cram.\\nNew Hampshire Jacob Benton.\\nVermunt I Alwanl C. Redingtou.\\nMassachuseil.s Timothy Davis.\\nConnecticut E. K. Foster.\\nRhode Island Benedict Lapham.\\nNew York\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Palmer V. Kellogg.\\nNew Jersey Moses .M. \\\\V( b)).\\nPennsylvania\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J. N. Purviauce.\\nD luware Lewes Thompson.\\nMaryland \\\\Vm. E. Cole.\\nVirginia Jacob Hornbrook.\\nKentucky Cliarles Ilendley.\\nOhio Samuel Slokeley.\\nIndiana John E. Cravens.\\nIllinois Stephen T. Logan.\\nMichigan Francis Quinn.\\nWisconsiu H. L. Ranu.\\nIowa C. F. Claik. ~on.\\nMinnesota John McGuisick.\\nMissouri James B. Gird uhire.\\nKansas Win. A. I liillips.\\nNebraska John R. Mncdith.\\nCalitbraia Chas. Watrous.\\nOregon Joel Burlingame.\\nTexas\u00e2\u0080\u0094 D. C. Henderson.\\nDistrict of Columbia James A. White.\\nWhen the roll was called on this committee, three names were received\\nwith great applause Greeley of Oregon, Carl Schurz, and Francis\\nP. lilair. Sen. Greeley had the greatest ovation, and though there is\\naa impression to the contrary, those who know him well, know that", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "129\\nnobody is more fond of the breath of popular favor than the philosophic\\nHoraoe.\\nThe committee on Business was constituted as follows\\nMaine John L. Stephens, Indiana Walter Marks.\\nNew Hampshire B. F. Martin. Micliiy,an\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Austin lilair.\\nVeruiout Edwin D. Mason. Illinois\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thos. A. Marshall.\\nMassachusetts\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Saml. Hooper. Wisconsin Elisha Morrow.\\nConnecticut Geo. H. Noble. Minnesota S. I Jones.\\nRhode Island Nath. B. Durl ee. Iowa Reuben Noble.\\nNew York A. B. James. Missouri S. G. Letcher.\\nNew Jersey H. N. Cougar. California J. C. Hinckley.\\nPennsylvania Wm. I). Kelly. Oregon Eli Thayer.\\nDelaware John C. Clark. Kansas A. G. Proctor.\\nMaryland\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wm. P. Ewing. Nebraska Samuel W. Elbert.\\nVirginia John G. Jenks. District of Columbia Jo Gerhardt.\\nOhio R. M. Corwine. Texas G. Moyers,\\nKentucky Louis M. Dembitz.\\nThe Convention had proceeded thus far with its business, when a\\ncommunication, inviting the Convention to take an excursion on the\\nlake, was received and accepted, and then indefinitely debated, much\\ntime being frittered away. The question as to whether it would be\\nproper to constitute the committee on Platfurm, before a permanent or-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ganizution was effected, was also discussed. Convention adjourned\\nuntd 5 P. M.\\nUnon reassembling, the report of the committee on Permanent Or-\\nganization was in order and made. The Hon. Geo. Ashmun, the pre-\\nsiding officer, was escorted to his chair by Preston King and Carl\\nSehurz,.th(! one short and round as a barrel and fat as butter, the other\\ntall and slender. The contrast was a curious one, and so palpable that\\nthe whole multitude saw it, and gave a tremendous cheer. Mr. Ashmun\\nwas speedily discovered to be an excellent presiding officer. His clear,\\nfull-toned voice was one refreshing to hear amid the clamors of a Con-\\nvention. He is cool, clear-beaded and executive, and will despatch bus-\\niness. He is a treasure to the Convention, and will lessen ami t-hortea\\nits labors. His speech was very good for the occasion, delivered with\\njust warmth enough. He was animated, and yet his emotions did not\\nget the better of him. In conclusion he referred, as if it were an un-\\ndoubted fact, to the brotherly kindness he had everywhere seen dis-\\nplayed. He had not heard a harsh word or unkind expression pass\\nbetween delegates. Now, the gentleman must have kept very close, or\\nhis hearing is deplorably impaired. He certainly could not stay long\\namono- the Seward men at the Richmond House, without hearing unkind\\nand profane expressions used respecting brother delegates of conserva-\\ntive notions, tie would very frequently hear brother Greeley, for\\nexample, who is hated intensely by them, called a d d old ass.\\nIndeed, that is a very mild specimen of the forms of expression used.\\nMr. Ashmun was, however, as nearly correct in his statement of the\\ncase, as Caleb Cusbing was at Charleston in adjourning the Conven-\\ntion, in praising it for unexampled decorum. It is worthy of remark,\\nthat he had nothing directly to say of the nigger. The Hon. David\\nWilmot had attended to that department sufficiently.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "130\\nA gavel was presented in behalf of the mochanles of Chicago, by\\nMr. Judd, to tlie presiding officer. It was made of the oak of the\\nflag-t hip of Com. Perry, the Lawrence Don t give up the ship.\\nMr. Judd said\\nThere is a motto, too, adopted by that mechanic, which should be a\\nmotto for every Kepublican of this Convention the motto borne upon\\nthe flag of the gallant Lawrence, Don t give up the ship. [Great\\napplause.] Mr. President, in presenting this to jou, in addition to the\\nmotto furnished by the mechanic who manufactured this, as an evidence\\nof his warmth and zeal in the liepublican cause, I would recommend to\\nthis Convention to believe that the person who will be nominated here,\\ncan, when the election is over in November, send a despatch to Wash-\\nington in the language of the gallant Perry, We have met the enemy,\\nand they are ours. [Ten ific cheering.]\\nThe committee on Resolutions was appointed\\nMaine\u00e2\u0080\u0094 George F. Talbott. Indiraia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wm. T. Otto.\\nNew Hampshire Amos Tuck. Michigan Austin Blair.\\nVermont Ebenezer M. BriggB. lUiuois Gustavus Kocuer.\\nMassaciiusetts George S. Bouivvell. Wisconsiu Carl Schurz.\\nRhode Island Benjamin T. Eames. Minnesota Stephen Miller.\\nConnecticut S. W. Kellogg. Iowa J. A. Kasson.\\nNew Yorli II. R. Selden. Missouri Chas. L. Bernays.\\nN(nv Jersey Thos. H. Dudley. California F. P. Tracy.\\nPennsylvania William Jessup. Oregon Horace Greeley.\\nDelaware\u00e2\u0080\u0094 N. B. Smith. Texas\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H. A. Shaw.\\nMaryland\u00e2\u0080\u0094 F. P. Blair. D. of Columbia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 G. A. Hall.\\nVirginia Alfred Caldwell. Nebraska A. Sidney Gardner.\\nOhio Joseph H. Barrett. Kansas John P. Hatterschtcdt.\\nKentucky George D. Blakey.\\nThe Convention adjourned without transacting any further business.\\nThe question on which every thing turns is whether Seward can be\\nnominated. His individuality is the pivot here, just as that of Douglas\\nwas at Charleston.\\nHorace Crecley and Eli Thayer have agreed upon the following res-\\nolution, which Greeley is at work to make one of the planks in the plat-\\nform\\nResolved, That holding of liberty to be the natural birthright of every human\\nbeing, we maintain that slavery can only exist where it has been previously es-\\ntablished by laws constitutionally enacted and we are inflexibly opposed to its\\nestablishment in the Territories by legislative, executive, or judicial interven-\\ntion.\\nThe first part of this resolution is Greeley s, the latter part Thayer s.\\nIt is the nearest right of any platform resolution anywhere adopted or\\nproposed, being nearest to real popular sovereignty, and Greeley thinks\\nhe can carry it through the Platform committee. It is called the Ore-\\ngon Platform.\\nThe scenes when the doors of that part of the Wigwam set apart for\\nthe masculine public in general, are opened, are highly exciting and\\nMr. firepley did not HccompUsh hia purpose rpfrardin^ this resolution. But it will be found,\\nopon exainin.iUoii of tlio Kepublicaii I latform, tliat it does uot assert the duty of Congress to\\niulorvcne iu llic Turriturien to oxoliide Slavery.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "131\\namusino This afternoon the rush for places was tremonrlons. Three\\ndoors about twenty feet wide each, were simultaneously thrown open,\\nand three torrents of men roared in, rushing hcaillong for front posi-\\ntions. The standing room, holding four thousand five hundred per-\\nsons, was packed in about five minutes. The galleries, where only\\ngentlemen accompanied by ladies are admitted, and which contains\\nnearly three thousand persons,, was already full. There was a great\\ndeal of fun, and some curious performances, in filling the galleries.\\nLadies to accompany gentlemen were in demand school-girls were\\nfound on the street, and given a quarter each to see a gentleman safe\\nin. Other girls, those of undoubted character (no doubt on the sub-\\nject whatever), were much sought after as escorts. One of them being\\nasked to take a gentleman to the gallery, and offered half a dollar for\\nso doing, excused herself by saying she had already taken two men in\\nat each of the three doors, and was afraid of arrest if she carried the\\nenterprise any further. An Irish woman passing with a bundle of\\nclothes under her arm was levied upon by an irrepressible, and see-\\ning him safely into the seats reserved for ladies and accompanying gen-\\ntlemea, retired with her fee and bundle. Another irrepressible\\nsought out an Indian woman who was selling moccasins, and attempted\\nto escort her in. This was a little too severe however. He was in-\\nformed that she was no lady and the point was argued with considera-\\nble vehemence. It was finally determined that a squaw was not a lady.\\nThe young Republican protested indignantly against the policeman s\\ndecision, claiming equal rights for all womankind.\\nThe Repuldieans have all divided into two classes, the irrepressi-\\nbles and the conservatives.\\nThe favorite word in the Convention is solemn. Every thing is\\nsolemn. In Charleston the favorite was crisis. Here -there is\\nsomething every ten minutes found to be solemn. In Charleston there\\nwas a crisis nearly as often. I observed as many as twenty-throe in\\none day.\\nA new ticket is talked of here to-night, and an informal meeting\\nheld in this house since I have been writing this letter, has given it an\\nimpetus. It is Lincoln and Hickman. This is now the ticket as\\nagainst Seward and Cash. Clay.\\nThe Ohio delegation continues so divided as to be without influence.\\nIf united it would have a formidable influence, and might throw the\\ncasting votes between candidates, holding the balance of power between\\nthe East and the West.\\nSECOND DAY\\nRkpubucan Wigwam, I\\nChicago. May 17, 18fi0.\\nMasses of people poured into town last night and this morning,\\nexpecting the nomination to be made to-day, and desiring to be present.\\nAll adjectives might be fairly exhausted in describing the crowd. It i^", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "132\\nft\\nmighty ami overwlidming it can only be numbered by tens of tliou-\\nsands. The press abi)ut the hotels this nioniiiig was crushing. Two\\nthousand persons t )()k breakfast at the Treniont House.\\nMany of the delegates kept up the excitement nearly all night. At\\ntwo o clock this morning part of the Missouri delegation were singing\\nsongs ia their parlor. There were still a crowd of fellows caucusing\\nand the glasses were still clinking in the bar rooms and far down the\\nstreet a brass band was making the night musical.\\nThe Seward men made a demonstration this morning in the form of\\na procession. The scene at the Richmond House as they formed and\\nmarched away after their band of music the band in splendid uniform\\nand the Sewarditcs wearing badges was exceedingly animating and\\nsomewhat picturesque. The band was giving, with a vast volume of\\nmelody, -0 Isn t he a darling V the procession was four abreast,\\nfilino- away in a cloud of dust and one of their orators, mounted upon\\na door-step, with hat and cane in bis hands, was haranguing them as a\\ncaptain might address his soldiei S marching to battle. The Reward\\nprocession was heedless of the dust as regular soldiers, and strode on\\nwith gay elasticity and jaunty bearing.\\nAs they passed the Tremont House where the many masses of the\\nopponents of Old Irrepressible were congregated, they gave three\\nthroat-tearing cheers for Seward. It will be a clear case if he is not\\nnominated, that the failure cannot be charged to his friends. Few men\\nhave had friends who would cleave unto them as the Sewardites to their\\ngreat man here.\\nThe Pennsylvanians declare, if Seward were nominated, they would\\nbe immediately ruined. They could do nothing. The majority against\\nthem would be counted by tens of thousands. New Jerseyites say the\\nsame thing. The Indianians are of the same opinion. They look\\nheart-broken at the suggestion that Seward has the inside track, and\\nthrow up tlieir hands in despair. They say Lane will be beaten, the\\nLegislature pass utterly into the hands of the Democracy, and the two\\nRepublican Senators hoped for be heard of no more. Illinois agonizes\\nat the mention of the name of Seward, and says he is to them the sting\\nof political death. His nomination woulil kill off Trumbull, and give\\nthe Legislature into the hands of Democrats, to make the next Con-\\ngressional apportionment. Amid all these cries of distress, the Sew-\\nardites are true as steel to their champion, and they will cling to Old\\nIrrepressible, as they call him, until the last gun is fired and the big\\nbell rings.\\nThe crowd in the Wigwam this morning is more dense than ever.\\nThe thing was full yesterday, but it is crammed to-day.\\nThe following communication was read\\nTo the IIononMe PreMdent of the National Rqmhlmm Convention:\\nSir Can yuu not arrange to send out some effective speaker, to\\nentertain twenty thousand Republicans and their wives, outside the\\nbuildmgV\\nThere were many expressions of a desire to proceed at once to busi-\\nness. But the moment the connnittee on Rules reported, it was seen\\ntliat there was to be an irrepressible conflict raging through the day,", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "183\\nm\\nabout preliminary matters. The majority reported that a majority of\\nthe votes of the whole Electoral College ot the Union, t-lloiild be\\nrequired to nominate candidates for President and Viee-l^re.sident.\\nThe minority report was that a niajdrity of the voles in the Convention\\nonly, should be required to nominate.\\nThe fourth rule as reported by the majority, was a follows\\nRule 4. 304 votes, beinu; a majority of the whole number of votes\\nwhen all the States of the Union are represented in this Convention,\\naccording to the rates of representation presented in Rule 2, shall be\\nrequired to tiominate the candidates of this Convention for the offices\\nof President and Vice-President.\\nThe Convention was proceeding into battle on this subject, when\\nCartter of Ohio suggested that they were about to undertake the serious\\nbusiness without the report of the committee on Credentials. War\\nthen took place about credentials. The anti-Seward men were anxious\\nto put out Virginia and Texas, particularly Texas, fearing that those\\nStates would decide the contest in favor of Seward. A great deal of\\nspeech-making followed. David Wilmot made an attack on delegations\\nfrom slave States that had no constituencies. A Marylander replied to\\nhim with great force, sneering at the Pennsylvanians as too cowardly\\nto bear the Republican banner, and so docile as to sneak under the flag\\nof a People s Party. First blood for the delegate from Maryland.\\nThe name of the young man who drew it was Armour. I have seldom\\nheard so plump a speech. Every sentence was a blow straight from\\nthe shoulder, and when he left the floor the author of the Wilmot\\nProviso had gone to grass and come to grief. The next thing was a\\nspeech from Dr. Blake.-ly of Kentucky, who mentioned that Kentucky\\nbad voted for Wilmot for Vice-President in 1856, in the Philadelphia\\nConvention. He inquired whether he could be forgiven for that sinf\\nCries of Yes, and he sat down. First knock-down blow for old\\nKentucky. There was at last a vote on the recommitment of the\\nreport of the comniittee on Credentials. The following was the vote\\nStates. 3\u00c2\u00ab/s. Kai/s. States. Yeas. Nays.\\nMaine 3 V.i Ohio 46\\nNew Hampshire 9 1 Indiana 26\\nVermont 9 1 Missouri 4 14\\nMassachusetts 13 9 Michigan 12\\nRhode Island 8 Illinois 22\\nConnecticut 10 2 Wisconsin 10\\nNew York.... 1 69 Iowa 8\\nNew Jersey 14 Californa 4 2\\nPennsylvania SS^ Minnesota 8\\nMaryland 4 6 Oregon 5\\nDelaware 1 5\\nVirginia 30 275J 172^\\nKentucky 24\\nThis was not a test vote, but it worried the Seward men exceedingly,\\nas it looked to the exclusion of the delegates from Texas.\\nThe debate preceding was really entertaining and full of fire. There\\nhas not been in any previous Republican Convention sharp-shooting so\\nkeen, and sarcasm so bitter and incisive. The Conveutioa is very like", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "No. of\\nNo. of\\nNo. of\\nElectl\\nStales.\\nDele-\\nEled l\\nvotes.\\ngates.\\nvotes.\\n8\\nIndiana\\n26\\n13\\n5\\nMissouri\\n....18\\n9\\n5\\nJVIiehigan\\n....12\\nG\\n13\\nIllinois\\n....22\\n1]\\n4\\nWisconsin\\n...10\\n5\\n6\\nIowa\\n,...8\\n4\\n35\\nCalifornia\\n....8\\n4\\n7\\nMinnesota\\n8\\n4\\n27\\nOregon\\n5\\n3\\n8\\nTerritories.\\n3\\nKansas\\n6\\n15\\nNebraska\\n6\\n12\\nDistrict of Columbia.,\\n2\\n23\\n134\\nthe old Democratic article. We only occasionally hear the sentimental\\ntwang, the puritanic intonation that indicates the ancient and savory\\narticle of anti-shiveryi.sm. The truth is the Republican party is rapidly\\nbecoming; Democratized in its style of operations.\\nThe Convention took a recess.\\nUpon reassembling, the committee on Credentials reported, through\\nits chairman, that it found gentlemen entitled to seats in the following\\nStates, and each State to the following number of delegates\\nNo. of\\nStates Dele-\\ngates.\\nMaine l(j\\nNew Hampshire 10\\nVermont 10\\nMassachusetts 2(i\\nRhode Island 8\\nConnecticut 12\\nNew York 70\\nNew Jersey 14\\nPennsylvania 54\\nMaryland 11\\nDelaware 6\\nVirginia 23\\nKentucky 23\\nOhio 46\\n[Criesof Texas, Texas. The chairman, Mr. Benton of New\\nHampshire, said The committee have considered the question in re-\\ngard to the representation from the State of Texas they have given to\\nthe examination all that care which they were able to, and which the\\ntime from tlie adjournment of the Convention this forenoon would allow,\\nand they have instructed me almost unanimously, with a solitary vote\\nas an exception, to report that Texas be allowed six votes in this Con-\\nvention. [Tremendous applause and cries of Good, good. It\\nwas proved before the committee that the Convention which elected the\\ndelegates from Texas resident delegates who are here in attendance,\\nwas a mass Convention that it was called upon a petition signed by\\nsome three hundred of the legal voters of Texas. [Applause.] That\\nthat call was published in some two of the German papers published in\\nthe State that written notices and advertisements were posted up in\\nvarious parts of Texas, where there is any number of people in favor\\nof the principles of the Republican party, and the committee were al-\\nmost unanimously of the opinion that these delegates, elected under\\nthese circumstances, were fairly entitled to act as the representatives of\\nthe Republican })arty of the State of Texas. [Prolonged applause.]\\nThe question being on the adoption of the report, it was adopted\\nunanimously amid great cheering.\\nThe report of the committee on Rules was taken up, and after inter-\\nesting speeches made on both sides, the fourth rule of the majority re-\\nport was amended l)y substituting the minority report, which was that a\\nsimple ni ijority should nominate the following was the vote on the\\nsubstitution", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "136 ^V^\\ntA\\nStates.\\nYeas. Naf/ti.\\nStates.\\nYeas\\nNays.\\nMissdviri\\nMichi :;in\\nIllinois\\n..r2\\n7\\n18\\n3\\n4\\nTexas\\nWisconsin\\nf!\\n10\\nA\\nIowa.\\n5\\n3\\nCalifornia\\n8\\n8\\n3\\n6\\n1\\nG\\nn\\nMinnesota\\nOr son\\nTerritories.\\nKansas\\n1\\n8\\n9\\n9\\n1\\nNebraska\\nDistrict of Columbia.\\n6\\n2\\n358i\\nMaine Ifi\\nNew Hampshii-e 10\\nVermont 10\\nMassachusetts 22\\nRhode Island 4\\nConnecticut 8\\nNew York 70\\nNew Jersey 12\\nPennsylvania 385\\nMaryland 5\\nDelaware 6\\nVirginia 13\\nKentucky 10\\nOhio 32\\nIndiana 25\\nThe platform was now reported. The platform was received with\\nimmense enthusiasm. Several sections, at the demand of the audience,\\nwere read twice. Pennsylvania went into spasms of joy over the\\nTariff Plank, her whole delegation rising and swinging hats and\\ncanes.\\nMr. Cartter Mr. Chairman That report is so eminently unques-\\ntionable from beginning to end, and so eloquently carries through with\\nit its own vindication, that I do not believe the Convention will desire\\ndiscussion upon it, and I therefore call the previous question upon it.\\n[Applause, and mingled cries of Good, good, and No, no.\\nMr. Giddings I arise, sir, solemnly to appeal to my friend. [Great\\nconfusion; cries of Withdraw the previous question. Al voice\\nNobody wants to speak, but we don t want to be choked off, etc.]\\nMr. Cartter I insist upon the previous question.\\nMr. Giddings I arise, and I believe I have the right, with the leave\\nof my colleague, to offer a short amendment before the previous question\\nis called.\\nMr. Cartter T did it to cut you off and all other amendments, and\\nall discussion. [Great confusion, and cries of Giddings by the audi-\\nence.]\\nAfter further discussion and confusion, a vote was taken on sustain-\\ning the call for the previous question, resulting as follows\\nStates. Yeas.\\nMaine 1\\nNew Hampshire\\nVermont\\nMassachusetts 4\\nRhode Island\\nConnecticut 1\\nNew York 25\\nNew Jersey 12 J\\nPennsylvania 5\\nMaryland\\nDelaware 4\\nVirginia 17\\nKentucky 10\\nOhio 28\\nIndiana 20\\nNays.\\n14\\n10\\nStates.\\nMissouri\\nMichigan\\nYeas.\\n8\\nNays.\\n18\\n4\\n10\\nIllinois\\n..14\\n8\\n21\\n8\\nTexas\\nWisconsin\\n8\\n6\\n2\\n11\\nIo%va\\n2\\n6\\n45\\nCalifornia\\n8\\nu\\n8\\n53^\\n2\\n2\\nn\\n2\\nTerritories.\\nKansas\\n6\\n6\\nNebraska\\n2\\n4\\n10\\n18\\n6\\nDistrict of Columbia.\\n155\\n2\\n301", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "136\\njMr. Cidilinps ^Ir. Prci^itlent, I propose to offer, after tlie first reso-\\nlutiun as it stands hero, as a declaration of principles, the following\\nThat we solt. innly reassiTt thn solf-cvident triitlis that all men are ciidowecl\\nby tbeir Creator with certain inalienaltlf rights, among- which are those of life,\\nliberty and the pursuit of happiness [cheers] that governments are instituted\\namong men to secure the enjoyment of these rigbts.\\nThe first resolution was as follows\\nEeH)lved. That we, the delegated representatives of the RepnVilican electors of\\nthe United States, in Convcntinn assembUd. in discharge of the duty we owe to\\nour constituents and our country, unite in the following declarations.\\nThe second sectioQ of the Platform as originally reported was in\\nthese words\\n2. That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of\\nIndepcndi ucc and emlxidii d in tht Fi di ral Constitution, is essential to the pre-\\nservation of our R( publican institutions and that the Federal Constitution,\\nthe rights of the States, and the Uuion of the States, must and shall be preserved.\\nMr. Giddings made a short speech in favor of his amendment, con-\\ncluding\\nNow, I propose to maintain the doctrines of our fathers. I propose\\nto nuiintain the fundamental and primal issues upon which the govern-\\nment was founded. I will detain this Convention no longer. I offer\\nthis because our party was formed upon it. It grew upon it. It\\nhas existed upon it and when you leave out this truth you leave out\\nthe party.\\nMr. Cartter called for the rending of the second section of the plat-\\nform. It was read. Giddings s amendment was voted down. The\\nold mnn quickly rose, and made his way slowly toward the door. A\\ndozen delegates begged him not to go. But he considered every thing\\nlost, ev(n honor. His Philadelphia Platform has not been reaffirmed.\\nThe twin relics were not in the new creed. And now the Declara-\\ntion of Independence had been voted down He must go. He got\\nalong as far as the New York delegation, where he was eonifoited by as-\\nsurances that the Declaration would be tried again but he left the Con-\\nvention actually seceded in sorrow and anger.\\nMr. Wilmot of Pennsylvania I move that the resolutions be adopt-\\ned separately. [Cries of No, and Take them in a lot, etc.] I\\nhave an amendment to offer which I believe will commend itself to the\\ngood sen.se of every gentleman here. The amendment is this In the\\nfourteenth resoluti(/n we say that the Republican party is opposed to\\nany clumge in our Naturalization Laws, or any State legislation by\\nwhich the rights of ciiizcnship hitherto accorded to immigrants from\\nforeign lands sbyll be abridged or impaired and in favor of giving a\\nfull and efficient proteciion to the rights of all ela.sses of citizens,\\nwhether native or naturalized, both at home and abroad. My amend-\\nment is to strike out the words State legislntion, because it conflicts\\ndirectly with the doctrine in the fourth resolution, which reads thus\\nThat the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and\\nespecially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "137\\ninstitutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to\\nthat balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our\\npolitical fabric depends and we denounce the lawless invasion, by\\narmed fi rce, of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what\\npretest, as among the gravest of crimes.\\nThe resolution would then read, That the Eepuhlican party is op-\\nposed to any change in our naturalization laws, by which the rights of\\ncitizenship hitherto accorded to immigrants from foreign lands shall be\\nabridged or impiaired.\\nIt being explained that Mr. Wilmot was mistaken, in presuming that\\nthere was any assault on State Rights meditated, he withdrew his amend-\\nment. Carl Schurz however made a speech on the subject. Tie had\\ninsisted on having the very words in the platform that ^Vilmot had ob-\\njected to. He said:\\nIt has been very well said that it was not the purpose of this resolu-\\ntion to declare that no State has the right to regulate the suflfrage of its\\ncitizens by legislative enactment, but it was the purpose to declare that\\nthe Republican party, in its national capacity, is opposed to any such\\nthing in principle.\\nMr. Hassaureck of Ohio made a thrilling little speech.\\n]\\\\]r. Curtis of New York obtained the floor and said\\nI then offer as an amendment to the report, as presented by the com-\\nmittee, the following That the second clause of the report shall read,\\nThat the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declara-\\ntion of Independence and embodied in the Federal Constitution and\\nthen, sir, I propose to amend by adding these words, That all men\\nare created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain\\ninalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of\\nhappiness that to secure these rights, governments are instituted\\namong men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the gov-\\nerned then proceed is essential to the preservation of our Re-\\npublican institutions and that the Federal Constitution, the Rights of\\nthe States, and the Union of the States, must and shall be preserved.\\n[Great applause, and many gentlemen struggling for the floor.]\\nA point of order was raised that this amendment had been once\\nvoted down. The chair, under a misapprehension, sustained the point.\\nMr. Blair of Missouri proposed to appeal from the decision of the\\nchair, but whereas it appeared that the amendment offered by Mr.\\nGiddings had been the first clause, and that this amendment was offered\\nto the second clause, it was pronounced in order.\\nMr. Curtis made a short speech. He said\\nI have to a k this Convention whether they are prepared to go upon\\nthe record and before the country as voting down the words of the\\nDeclaration of Independence? [Cries of No, no, and applause.]\\nI ask gentlemen gravely to consider that in the amendment which I\\nhave proposed, I have done nothing that the soundest and safest man\\nin all the land might not do; and I rise simply fur I am now sitting\\ndown I rise simply to ask gentlemen to think well before, upon the\\nfree prairies of the West, in the summer of ISGO, they dare to wince\\nand quail before the men who in Philadelphia, in 1770 in Philadel-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "138\\npbia, in llio Arch-Keystone State, so amply, so nobly represented upon\\ntbis piatlorui to-day before thoy dare to shrink truni repeating ibe\\nwords that these great men enunciated. [Terrific applause.]\\nThis w.is a strung appeal and took the Convention by storm. It was\\na great personal triumph for Cuitis. His classical features, literary\\nfame, piea ing style as a speaker, and the force of his case, called at-\\ntention to hiui, and gave him the ear of the Convention, and gave hitn\\nthe triumph. And the Declaration again became part of the platform\\nof the Republican party.\\nTHE PLATFORM\\nnow stood\\nRcxolved, That we, the delegated representatives of the Republican electors of\\nthe rniicd Slates, in Convention assemblid, in discharge of the duty we owe to\\nour constituents and our country, unite in the following declarations\\n1. That tlie history of the nation during the last four years, has fully estab-\\nlished the propriety and necessity of the organization and perpetuation of the\\nRepublican party, and that the causes which called it into existence are perma-\\nnent in their nature, and now, more than ever before, demand its peaceful and\\nconstitutional triumph.\\n2. That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of\\nIndependence and embodied in the Federal Constitution. That all men are\\ncreated equal that thty are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable\\nrights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that to\\nsecure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just\\npowers from the consent of the governed, is essential to the preservation of\\nour Republican institutions; and that the Federal Constitution, the Rights of\\nthe States, and the Union of the States, must and shall be preserved.\\n3. That to the Union of the States this mition owes its unprecedented increase\\nin population, its surprising development of material resources, its rapid aug-\\nmentation of wealth, its happiness at hoiue, and its honor abroad and we hold\\nin abhorrence all schemes for Disunion, come from whatever source they may:\\nAnd we congratulate tlie country that no Republican member of Congress has\\nuttered or countenanced the threats of Disunion so often made by Democratic\\nmembers, without rebuke and with applause from their political associates; and\\nwe denounce those threats of disunion, in case of a popular overtlnow of their\\nascenihmey as denying the vital principles of a free government, and as an\\navowal of contc tnplated treason, which it is the imperative duty of an indig-\\nnant People sternly to rebuke and forever silence.\\n4. That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially\\nthe right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions ac-\\ncording to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance ot powers\\non which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends and we\\ndenounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Terri-\\ntory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.\\nh. That the present Democratic Administration has far exceeded our worst\\napprehensions, in its measureless subservi ;ncy to the exactions of a sectional\\ninterest, as especially evinced in its desperate exertions to force the infamous\\nLecompton Constitution upon the protesting people of Kansas in construing\\nthe personal relation between master and servant to involve an unqualified\\npropi rty in p -rsons in its attempted enforcement, eve ry where, on land and sea,\\nthrough the intervention of Congress and of the Federal Courts, of the exir me\\npretensions of a purely local interest; and in its general and unviuying abuse\\nol the power intrusted to it by a confiding people.\\nfi. That the people justly view with iUarm the reckless extravagance which\\npervades every department of the Federal (iovernmeut that a return to rigid\\neconomy and accountability is indispensable to arrest the systematic plunder of\\nthe public treasury by favored partisans while the recent startling develop-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "139\\nments of frauds and corruptions at the Federal motropolis, show Uiat an entire\\nchange of administration is imperatively d mandid.\\n7. That tlie in w doi;nia that the Constitution, of its own force, carries shivery\\ninto any or all of the I erritories of the United States, is a dangerous politrcaTher-\\nesy, at variance with the explicit provisions of that instrument itself, with con-\\ntemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent is revo-\\nlutionary in its teudeacy, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the\\ncountry.\\n8. That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that\\nof freedom That as onr Republican fathers, when they hud abolished slavery\\nin all our national territory, ordained that no person siionld be deprived of\\nlife, liberty, or property, without due process of l.tw, it become s our duty, by\\nlegislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of\\nthe Constitution against all attempts to violate it and we deny the authority\\nof Congress, of a Territorial Legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal ex-\\nistence to slavery in any Territory of the United States.\\n9. That we brand the recent re-opening of the African slave-trade, under the\\ncover of our national flag, aided by pervensious cf judicial power, as a crime\\nagainst humanity and a burning shame to our country and age; and we call\\nupon Congress to take prompt and efficient measures for the total and tinal sup-\\npression of that execrable traffic.\\n10. That in tha recent vetoes, by their Federal Governors, of the acts of the\\nLegislatures of Kansas and Nebraska, prohibiting slavery in those Territories,\\nwe lind a practical illustration of the boasted Democratic principle of Non-in-\\ntervention and Popular Sovereignty embodied in the Kausa -Nebraska bill, and\\na demonstration of the deception aud fraud involved therein.\\n11. That Kansas should, of right, be immediately admitted as a State under\\nthe Constitution recently formed and adopted by her people, aud accepted by\\nthe House of Representatives.\\n12. That, while providing revenue for the support of the General Government\\nby duties upon imports, sound policy requires such an adjustment of these im-\\nposts as to encourage the development of the industrial interests of the whole\\ncountry aud we commjud that policy of national exchanges, which secures to\\nthe working men liberal wages, to agriculture remunerating prices, to mechan-\\nics and manufacturers an adequate reward for their skill, labor and enterprise,\\nand to the nation commercial prosperity and independence.\\n13. That we protest against any sale or alienation to others of the Public\\nLauds held by actual settlers, and against any view of the Free Homestead pol-\\nicy which regards the settlers as paupers or suppliants lor public bounty and\\nwe demand the passage by Congress of the complete aud satisfactory Home-\\nstead measure which has already passed the House.\\n14. That the Republican party is opposed to any change in our Naturaliza-\\ntion Laws or any State legislation by which the rights of citizenship hitherto\\naccorded to immigrants from foreign lands shall be abridged or impaired and\\nin favor of giving a lull and efficient protection to the rights of all classes of\\ncitizens, whether native or naturalized, both at home and aliroad.\\n15. That appropriations by Congress for River and Harbor improvements of a\\nNational character, required for the accommodation and security of an existing\\ncommerce, are authorized by the Constitution, and justified by the obligation of\\nGovernment to protect the lives and property of its citizens.\\nIG. That a Railroad to the Pacific Ocean is imperatively demanded by the in-\\nterests of the whole country that the Federal Government ought to render im-\\nmediate and efficient aid in its construction and that as preliminary thereto, a\\ndaily Overland Mail should be promptly established.\\n17. Finally, having thus set forth our distinctive principles and views, vre in-\\nvite the co-operation of all citizens, however differing on other questions, who\\nsubstantially agree with us in their affirmance and support.\\nSo it was adopted. The vote was taken about six o clock, and upon\\nthe announcenient being made a scene ensued of the most astounding\\ncharacter. All the thousands of men in that enormous wigwam com-\\nmenced swinging their hats, and cheering with intense enthusiasm, and", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "140\\nthe other thousnnfls of ladies waved their handkerchiefs and elapped\\ntheir hands. The roar that went up from that mass of ten thousand\\nhuman beings under one roof was indeserihahle. Such a spectacle as\\nwas presented for snnie minutes has never before been witnessed at a\\nConvention. A herd of buffaloes or lions could not have made a more\\ntremendous roaring.\\nAs the great assemblage poured through the streets after adjournment,\\nit .seemed to electrify the city. The agitation of the masses that pack\\nthe hotels and throng the streets, and are certainly forty thousand strong,\\nwas such as made the little excitement at Charleston seem insignificant.\\nThe Convention adjnunied without taking a ballot lor President, as\\nthe tally-sheets were not prepared.\\nThe tactics of the Seward men in convention today were admirable.\\nTliey made but one mi take, that of voting against the recommitment of\\nthe report of the committee on Credentials. They made a beautiful\\nfight ay;ainst Wilniot s proposition to examine into the constituencies of\\nslave State delegations, putting forward men to strike the necessary\\nbh)ws who were not suspected of Sewardism. There was also a splen-\\ndid fight on the sulject of the two-thirds rule (as it was in effect),\\nwhich was .sought to be used to slaughter Seward. So perfect were the\\nSeward tactics, that this rule, which his opponents had hoped to carry,\\nwas made odious, and defeated by a two-thirds vote. Then Giddings\\nwas anxious, beyond all description, to have the initial words of the\\nDeclaration of Independence in the platform. In attempting to get\\nthem in, he was snulbed by Seward s opponents most cruelly. He\\nhad been working against Seward, and was not without influence.\\nNow a New York man took up and carried through his precious amend-\\nment. So confident were the Seward men, when the platform was adopt-\\ned, of their ability to nominate their great leader, that they urged an\\nimmediate ballot, and would have had it if the cltMks had not reported\\nthat they were unprovided with tally-sheets. The cheeiing of the\\nthousands of spectators during the day, indicated that a very laro-e\\nshare of the outside pressure was for Seward. There is somethino al-\\nmost irresistible here in the prestige of his fame.\\nThe New lorkers here are of a class unknown to Western Republi-\\ncan politicians. They can drink as much whiskey, swear as loud and\\nlong, sing as bad songs, and get up and howl as ferociously as any\\ncrowd of Democrats you ever heard, or heard of. They are oppos-\\ned, as they say, to being too d d virtuous. They hoot at the\\nidea that Seward could not sweep all the Northern States, and swear\\nthat he would have a party in every slave State, in less than a year,\\nthat would clean out tlie disunionists, from shore to shore. They slap\\neach other on the back with the emphasis of delight when they meet,\\nand rip out How are you? with a How are you hoss? style, that\\nwould do honor to Old Kaintuck on a bust. At night those of them\\nwho are not engaged at caucusing, are doing that which ill-tutored youths\\ncall raising li 1 generally.\\nWherever you find them, the New York politicians, of whatever party,\\nare a peculiar people.\\nThe Scward men have been in high feather. Tbey entertain no par-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "141\\ntide of doubt of bis nomination in the morning. Tlioy bave a cbam-\\npagne supper in their rooms at the llichmond 11 luso to-night, and bave\\nbands of music serenading the various delegations at their fjuarters.\\nThree liundred bottle.- of champagne arc said to have been craekod at\\nthe llichnioiid. This may be an exaggerati(m, but I am not inclined to\\nthink the quantity overstated, for it flowed freely us water.\\nThe delegation here is a queer compound. There is a party of toler-\\nably rough fellows, of whom Tom Hyer is leader, and there is Thurlow\\nWeed (called Lord Thurlow by his friends), Mose-* II. Grinnell, James\\nWatson Webb, Gov. Morgan, Gen. Nye, George VV. Curtis, and others\\nof the strong men of the rftate, in connnerce, political jobbing, and in\\nliterature first class men in their respective positions, and each with\\nhis work to do according to his ability. In the face of such irrepress-\\nibles, the conservative expediency men Greeley, the Blairs, the Re-\\npublican candidates for Governor in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Illi-\\nnois are hard pressed, sorely perplexed, and despondent.\\nTHIRD DAY.\\nProceedings opened by prayer by the Rev. Mr. Green of Chicago.\\nMr. Green said\\n0, we entreat thee, that at some future but no distant day, the evils\\nwhich now invest; the body politic shall not only have been arrested in\\nits progress, but wholly eradicated from the system. And may the pen\\nof the historian trace an intimate connection between that glorious con-\\nsummation and the transaction of this Convention.\\nAfter adjournment on Thursday (the second day), there were few\\nmen in Chieago who believed it possible to prevent the nomination of\\nSeward. His friends bad played their game to artmiration, and had\\nbeen victorious on every preliminary skirmish. When the platform had\\nbeen adopted, inclusive of the Declaration of Independence, they felt\\nthemselves already exalted upon the pinnacle of victory. They re-\\njoiced exceedingly, and full of confidence, cried in triumphant tones,\\nCall the roll of States. But it was otherwise ordered. The chair\\nannounced that the tally-sheets had not been prepared, and that it\\nwould subject the clerks to great inconvenience to proceed to a ballot at\\nthat time. The Seward men expressed themselves greatly di.sgusted,\\nand were still unwilling to adjourn. A motion was made to adjourn,\\nhewever, and after an uncertain response, very little voting being done\\neither way, the chair pronounced the motion for adjournujenr carried.\\nThe Seward men were displeased but not disheartened. They consid-\\nered their hour of triuiuphing with brains and principle, over pre-\\nsumptions of expediency, as merely postponed. They did not fear the\\nresults of the caucusing that night, though they knew every hour would\\nbe employed against them. The opponents of Mr. Seward left the\\nwio-wam that evening thoroughly disheartened. Greeley was, as has\\nbeen widely reported, absolutely terrilied. The nomination of Sew-\\nard in defiance of his influence, would have been a cruel blow. He gave", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "ll2\\nup the ship, as appears from the following despatch to the New York\\nTribune\\nGOV. SEWARD WILL BE NOMINATED.\\nCnrcAGO, Tliurs-day, May 17 11:40 P. M. My conclusion, from all that I can\\ngatbcr to-nij:lit, is, tiiat the opposition to Gov. Seward cannot concentrate on\\nany candidate, and that ho will be nominated. h. g.\\nI telegraphed, ahout the same time, the same thing to the Cincinnati\\nCommercial and ever} one of the forty thousand men in attendance upon\\nthe Chicago Convention will testify that at midnight of Thursday-Fri-\\nday night, the universal impression was that Seward s success was cer-\\ntain.\\nThe New Yorkers were exultant. Their bands were playing, and the\\nchampagne flowing at their head-quarters as after a victory.\\nBut there was much done after midnight and before the Convention\\nassembled on Friday morning. There were hundreds of Pennsylvanians,\\nIndianians and Illinoisans, who never closed their eyes that night. I\\nsaw Henry S. Lane at one o clock, pale and haggard, with cane under\\nhis arm, walking as if for a wager, from one caucus-room to another,\\nat the Trcmont House. He had been toiling with desperation to bring\\nthe Indiana delegation to go as a unit for Lincoln. And then in con-\\nnection with others, he had been operating to bring the Vermonters\\nand Virginians to the point of deserting Seward. Vermont would cer-\\ntainly cast her electoral vote for any candidate who could be nominat-\\ned, and Virginia as certainly against any candidate. The object was\\nto bring the delegates of those States to consider success rather than\\nSeward, and join with the battle-ground States as Pennsylvania, New\\nJersey, Indiana, and Illinois insisted upon calling themselves. This\\nwas finally done, the fatal break in Seward s strength having been made\\nin Vermont and Virginia, destroying at once, when it appeared, his\\npower in the New England and the slave State delegations. But the work\\nwas not yet done. The Pennsylvanians had been fed upon meat, such\\nthat they presented themselves at Chicago with the presumption that\\nthey had only to say what they wished, and receive the indorsement of\\nthe Convention. And they were for Cameron.* He was the only man,\\nthey a thousand times said, who would certainly carry Pennsylvania.\\nThey were astonished, alarmed, and maddened to find public opinion\\nsettling down upon Seward and Lincoln, and that one or the other must\\nbe nominated. They saw that Lincoln was understood to be the only\\nman to defeat Seward, and thinking themselves capable of holding that\\nbalance of power, so much depended upon, and so deceptive on those\\noccasions, stood out against the Lincoln combination. Upon some of\\nthe delegation, Seward operations had been performed with perceptible\\neffect. The Seward men had stated that the talk of not carrying Penn-\\nsylvania was all nonsense. Seward had a good Tariff record, and his\\nfriends would spend money enough in the State to carry it against any\\nDemocratic candidate who was a possibility. The flood of Seward\\nTt hati since aiippared from a spepoh clcHvered by Mr. Cameron at Harrisbur^, that Pew-\\nar.l wnK liis (ir-t rhoice, and in his oi iuion could carry Pennsylvania. Notliiiig of the kind\\nwas heard of at Chicago.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "143\\nmoney proniisod for Penn?ylvania was not without efficacy. Tlie plirase\\nused Was, that Seward s friends would spend oceans of vronnj.\\nThe Wade movement died before this time. It had a lirilhant and\\nformidable apitearance for a while; but the fact that it originated at\\nWashino-ton was against it, and the bitterness of those delegates from\\nOhio, who would not in any event go for any man from that State other\\nthan Chase, and who declared war to the knife against Wade, and as a\\nsecond choice were for Lincoln or Seward, stifled the Wade project.\\nIt does not appear by the record that old Ben. Wade ever stood\\na chance for the place now occupied by old Abe Lincoln. If his\\nfriends in Ohio could have brought the friends of Mr. Chase to agree,\\nthat the delegation should vote as a unit every time as the majority\\nshould direct. Wade might have been the nominee, and instead of hear-\\nino- so much of some of the exploits of Mr. Lincoln in rail-. ^plitting,\\nwhen a farmer s boy, we should have information concerning the labors\\nof Ben. Wade on the Erie Canal, where he handled a spado. While\\ntouching the Wade movement as developed in the delegation from Ohio,\\nit is proper to give as an explanatory note the fact, that at least six\\no-entlemen from Ohio, who were engaged in it, were understood to have\\naspirations for the Senate, and to be regarding Mr. Wade s chair in the\\nSenate-chamber with covetous glances. These gentlemen wore D. K.\\nCartter, Joshua R. Giddings, C. P. Wolcott, William Dennison, jr.,\\nTom Corwin, and Columbus Delano.\\nThe cry of a want of availability which was from the start raised\\nagainst Seward, now took a more definite form than heretofore. It was\\nreported, and with a well-understood purpose, that the Republican can-\\ndidates for Governor in Indiana, Illinois and Pennsylvania would re-\\nsign, if Seward were nominated. Whether they really meant it or not,\\nthe rumor was well circulated, and the effect produced was as if they had\\nbeen earnest. Henry S. Lane, candidate in Indiana, did say something\\nof the kind. He asserted hundreds of times that the nomination of\\nSeward would be death to him, and that he might in that case just as\\nwell give up the canvass. He did not feel like expending his time and\\nmoney in currying on a hopeless campaign, and would be disposed to\\nabandon the contest.\\nThe Chicago Press and Tribune of Friday morning contained a last\\nappeal to the Convention not to nominate Seward. It was evidently\\nwritten in a despairing state of mind, and it simply begged that Seward\\nshould not be nominated. The Cameron men, discovering there was\\nabsolutely no hope for their man, but that either Seward or Lincoln would\\nbe nominated, and that speedily, and being a calculating company, were\\npersuaded to throw their strength for Lincoln at such a time as to have\\ncredit of his nomination if it were made. There was much difficulty,\\nhowever, in arriving at this conclusion, and the wheels of the machine\\ndid not at any time in Pennsylvania run smooth. On nearly every\\nballot, Pennsylvania was not in readiness when her name was called,\\nand her retirements for consultation became a jwke.\\nThe Seward men generally abounded in confidence Friday morning. S\\nThe air was full of rumors of the caucusing the night befoie, but the\\nopposition of the doubtful States to Seward was an old story and after", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "1*44\\nthe distress of Pennsylvania, Indiana fc Co., on the sul joct of Seward s\\navailibility, had been so freely and ineffetually expressed from the\\nstart, it was not iniajjined their protests would suddenly become effective.\\nThe Sewardites marched as usual from their head-quarters at the Rich-\\nmond House after their magnificent band, which was brilliantly uni-\\nformed epaulets shining on their shoulders, and white and scarlet\\nfeathers waving from their caps marched under the orders of recog-\\nnized leaders, in a stylo that would have done credit to many volunteer\\nmilitaiy companies. They were about a thousand strong, and protract-\\ning their niarch a little too far, were not all able to get into the wigwam.\\nThis was their first misfortune. Tfiey were not where they could scream\\nwith the best efFjct in responding to the mention of the name of Wil-\\nliam H. Seward.\\nWljen the Convention was called to order, breathless attention was\\ngiven the proceedings. There was not a space a foot square in the\\nwigwam unoccu[)ied. There were tens of thousands still outside, and\\ntorrents of men had rushed in at the three broad doors until not another\\none could squeeze in.\\nThe first tbinij of interest was a fio;ht regardino; the Maryland deleo a-\\ntion. A rule had been adopted that no delegation should cast more\\nvotes than there were duly accredited delegates. The Maryland dele-\\ngation had not been full, and Mr. Montgomei y Bhir of that Siate now\\nwanted to fill up the delegation. Three of the delegates, who were\\nSeward n)ei), opposed filling up the ranks with men, as one of them said,\\nGod Almighty only knows where they come from. Here was\\nanother Seward triumph, for the Blairs were not allowed to add to the\\nstrength of their Maryland delegation. It might be said of the Blaii-s\\nand the Maryland delegation as Thaddeus Stevens said of the Union\\nand Constitutional Convention at Baltimore, It was a family party\\nit 10 as all there.^\\nEvery body was now impatient to begin the work. Mr. Evarts of\\nNew York nominated Mr. Seward. Mr. Judd of Illinois noiriinated\\nMr. Lincoln. Mr. Dudley of New Jer. ey nominated IMr. Dayton.\\nMr. Reeder of Pennsylvania nominated Simon Cameron. Mr. Cartter\\nof Ohio nominated Salmon P. Chase. Mr. Caleb Smith of Indiana\\nseconded the nomination of Lincoln. Mr. Blair of Mis.souri nominated\\nEdward Bites. Mr. Blair of Michigan seconded the nomination of\\n^Villiam H. Seward. Mr. Corwin of Ohio nominated John McLean.\\nIMr. Schurz of Wisconsin seconded the nomination of Seward. Mr.\\nDelano of Ohio secoiuled the nomination of Lincoln. The only names\\nthat produced tremendous applause, were those of Se\\\\ \\\\ard and\\nLincoln.\\nEvery body felt that the fight was between them, and yelled accord-\\ningly-\\nThe applause, when IMr. Evarts named Seward, was enthusiastic.\\nWhen i\\\\Ir. Judd nan)ed Lincoln, the response was prodigious, rising and\\nraging far beyond the Seward shriek. Presently, upon Caleb B. Smith\\nseconding the nomination of Lincoln, the response was absolutely ter-\\nrific. It iKiw became the Seward men to make another effort, and when\\nBlair of Michigan seconded his nomination,", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "14^\\nAt once thoro rose so wild a yell,\\nWithin that dark and narrow dell\\nAs all the fiends from heaven that fell\\nHad pealed the banner cry of hell.\\nThe effect was startling. Hundreds of persons stopped their ears in\\npain. The shouting was absolutely frantic, shrill and wild. No Ca-\\nmanches, no panthers ever struck a higher note, or gave screams with\\nmore infernal intensity. Looking from the stjige over the vast amphi-\\ntheatre, nothing was to be seen below but thousands of hats a black,\\nmighty swarm of hats flying with the velocity of hornets over a mass\\nof human heads, most of the mouths of which were open. Above, all\\naround the galleries, hats and handkerchiefs were flying in the tempest\\ntogether. The wonder of the tiling was, that the Seward outside\\npressure should, so far from Now York, be so powerful.\\ni^Now the Lincoln men had to try it again, and as Mr. Delano of f\\nOhio, on behalf of a portion of the delegation of that State, sec-\\nonded the nomination of Lincoln, the uproar was beyond description.\\nImagine all the hogs ever slaughtered in Cincinnati giving their death\\nsqueals together, a score of big steam whistles going (steam at IGO lbs.\\nper inch), and you conceive something of the same nature. I thought\\nthe Seward yell could not be surpasserl but the Lincoln boys were\\nclearly ahead, and feeling their victory, as there was a lull in the\\nstorm, took deep breaths all round, and gave a concentrated shriek that\\nwas positively awful, and accompanied it with stamping that made\\nevery plank and pillar in the building quiver.\\nHenry S. Lane of Indiana leaped upon a table, and swinging hat\\nand cane, performed like an acrobat. The presumption is, he shrieked\\nwith the rest, as his mouth was desperately wide open but no one will\\never be able to testify that he has positive knowledge of the fact that\\nhe made a particle of noise. His individual voice was lost in the ag-\\ngrej^ate hurricane.\\nThe New York, Michigan and Wisconsin delegations sat together,\\nand were in this tempest very quiet. Many of their faces whitened as\\nthe Lincoln yawp swelled into a wild hozanna of victory.\\nThe Convention now proceeded to business. The New England\\nStates were called first, and it was manifest that Seward had not the\\nstrength that had been claimed for him there. Maine gave nearly half\\nher vote for Lincoln. New Hampshire gave seven out of her ten votes\\nfor Lincoln. Vermont gave her vote to her Senator Collamer, which\\nwas understood to be merely complimentary. It appeared, however,\\nthat her delegation was hostile or indifferent to Seward, otherwise there\\nwould have been no complimentary vote to another. Massachusetts\\nwas divided. Rhode Island and Connecticut did not give Seward a\\nvote. So much for the caucusing the night before. Mr. Evarts of\\nNew York rose and gave the vote of tliat State, calmly, but with a\\nswelling tone of pride in his voice The State of New York casts her\\nseventy votes for William H. Seicardf The seventy votes was a\\nplumper, and there was slight applause, and that rustle and vibration in\\nthe audience indicating a sensation. The most significant vote was that\\nof Viro-inia, which had been expected solid for Seward, and which now\\ngave him but eight and gave Lincoln fourteen. The New Yorkers\\n10", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "146\\nlooked siirnilifantly at each other as this was announced. Then Indiana\\no-ave her twenty-six votes for Lincohi. This solid vote was a startler,\\nand the keen li ttle eyes of Henry S. Lane glittered as it was given.\\nHe was responsible for it. It was his opinion that the man of all the\\nland to carry the State of Indiana, was Judge John ^McLean. He also\\nthouo-ht Bates had eminent qualifications. But when he found that the\\ncontent was between Seward and Lincoln, he worked for the latter as if\\nlife itself depended upon success. The division of the first vote caused\\na fall in Seward stock. It was seen that Lincoln, Cameron and Bates\\nhad the strength to defeat Seward, and it was known that the greater\\npart of the Chase vote would go for Lincoln.\\nFIEST BALLOT.\\nStoics.\\nS\\n10\\n1\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2zi\\n70\\nih\\ns\\n5\\nn\\ni\\n10\\n2\\n8\\n8\\nC\\n2\\n2\\na\\no\\no\\na\\n6\\n7\\n4\\n2\\ni\\n8\\n2t)\\n22\\n2\\ni\\na!\\n3\\na\\nO\\ni\\ndi\\ni\\n7\\n8\\nis\\n2\\ni\\n5\\na\\n5\\ni\\n4\\ni\\n6\\nCD\\nOS\\ni\\n1\\n2\\nb\\n?A\\ni\\n2\\np\\n14\\na\\n,S\\na\\na\\ni\\no\\nMaine\\nNew Hampshire.\\nVermont\\nMa. ^sachusetts\\nRhode Island\\nConnecticut\\nNew York\\nNew Jersey\\nPennsylvania\\nMaryland\\nDelaware\\nVirginia\\nKentucky\\nOhio\\nIndiana\\nMissouri\\nMichigan\\nIllinois\\nTexas\\nWisconsin\\nIowa\\nCalifornia\\nMinnesota\\nOregon\\nTerritories.\\nKansas\\nNebraska\\nDist. of Columbia\\nThe Secretary announced the vote\\nWilliam II. S( ward, of New York 173*\\nAbraham I.,incoln, of Illinois 102\\nEdward Bates, of Missouri 48\\nSimon Oamiron, of Pennsylvania OJ\\nJohn McLean, of Ohio 1^\\nSalmon P. Chasi;, of Ohio 49\\nBenjamin V. Wade, of Ohio \u00c2\u00ab5\\nWilliam L. Dayton, of New Jersey 14", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "Ul\\nJohn M. Reed, of ronnsylrania 1\\nJacob CoUamcT, of Vermont 10\\nCharles Sumner, of Massachusetts 1\\nJohn C. Fremont, of California 1\\nWhole number of votes cast, 465 necessary to a choice, 233.\\nThe Convention proceeded to a second ballot. Every man v?a,s\\nfiercely enlisted in the struggle. The partisans of the various candi-\\ndates were strung up to such a pitch of excitement as to render them\\nincapable of patience, and the cries of Call the roll were fairly\\nhissed through their teeth. The first gain for Lincoln was in New\\nHampshire. The Chase and the Fremont vote frem that State were\\ngiven him. His next gain was the whole vote of Vermont. This was\\na blighting blow upon the Seward interest. The New Yorkers started\\nas if an Orsini bomb had exploded. And presently the Canien.n vote\\nof Pennsylvania was thrown for Lincoln, increasing his strength forty-\\nfour votes. The fate of the day was now determined. New York saw\\ncheckmate next move, and sullenly proceeded with the gan)e, as-\\nsuming unconsciousness of her inevitable doom. On this ballot Lin-\\ncoln gained seventy-nine votes Seward had 184^ votes Lincoln 18L\\nSECOND BALLOT.\\nStales.\\nin\\n10\\n1\\na\\no\\no\\nc\\nG\\n9\\n10\\n4\\n3\\n4\\na3\\n2\\na\\nO\\nn\\nOS\\no\\no\\nca\\nO\\nc\\ni\\no\\nd\\nMassachusetts\\n22\\n3\\n2\\n4\\n2\\n70\\n4\\n3\\nNt-W Jersey\\nPenusylvauia\\n10\\n6\\n14\\n9\\n14\\n26\\ns\\nn\\n8\\n7\\n6\\n29\\nOh in\\n18\\n12\\n22\\nTexas\\n6\\n10\\n2\\n8\\n8\\n5\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2I\\n5\\nTerritoiies.\\nKansas\\nNebras^ka\\nDistrict of Columbia\\n6\\n3\\n2\\n2\\n(Great confusion while the ballot was being counted.)\\nThe Secretary announced the result of the second ballot as follows", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "148\\nFor William H. Seward of New York, 184| votes. [Applause.]\\nFor Abraliani Lincoln of Illinois, 181 votes. [Tremeudous ap-\\nplause, checked by the Speaker.]\\nFor Edward Bates of Missouri, 35 votes.\\nFor Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, 2 votes.\\nFor John McLean of Ohio, 8 votes.\\nFor Salmon P. Chase of Ohio, 42d votes.\\nFor William L. Dayton of New Jersey, 10 votes.\\nFor Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky, 2 votes.\\nWhole number of votes cast, 4U5 necessary to a choice, 23.3.\\nIt now dawned upon the multitude, that the presumption entertained\\nthe night before, that the Seward men would have every thing their own\\nway, was a mistake. Even persons unused to making the calculations\\nand considering the combinations attendant upon such scenes, could not\\nfail to observe that while the strength of Seward and Lincoln was al-\\nmost even at the moment, the reserved votes, by which the contest\\nmust be decided, were inclined to the latter. There, for instance, was\\nthe Brites vote, thirty-five; the McLean vote, eight the Dayton vote,\\nten all impending for Lincoln and forty-two Chase votes, the greater\\npart going the same way.\\nTUIKD BALLOT.\\nStaies.\\ncs\\n4)\\na;\\n6\\na\\no\\no\\na\\n6\\n9\\n10\\n8\\n5\\n4\\nn\\n03\\na\\na\\nOS\\nd\\nMaine\\n10\\n1\\nNew Hampshire\\nVtTinout\\nMiissacbust tts\\n18\\n1\\n1\\n70\\n5\\nRhode Island\\nI\\n1\\n2\\n1\\nCoanecticut\\n1\\nNew York\\nNew JiT.sey\\n8\\n52\\n9\\n6\\n14\\n13\\n29\\n26\\n2\\n1\\nPennsylvaQia\\nMaryland\\n2\\nDelaware\\nVirginia\\nS\\n(i\\nKentucky\\n4\\n15\\nOliio\\n2\\nIndiana\\nMissouri\\n18\\nMichigan\\n12\\nIllinoi.-^\\n22\\nTexas\\nC\\n10\\n2\\n8\\n8\\n1\\n6\\n3\\n2\\n180\\nWisconsin\\nIowa\\n1\\n2\\n5i\\nCalifornia\\nMiinu sota\\n(Jre^on\\n4\\nTerritories.\\nKansas\\nN-ltraska\\n2\\n1\\nDistrict of Columbia\\nTotal\\n22\\n24.J\\n231^\\n5\\n1\\n1", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "149\\nWhile this ballot was taken amid oxcitomcnt that tester! the nerves,\\nthe fatal defection from Seward in New England still further appeared\\nfour votes going over from Seward to Lincoln in Mat-saelui.-etts.\\nThe latter received four additional votes from Pennsylvania and fifteen\\nadditional votes from Ohio. It was whispered about Lincoln s the\\ncoming man will be nominated this ballot. When the roll of States\\nand Territories had been called, I had ceased to give attention to any\\nvotes but those for Lincoln, and had his vote added up as it was given.\\nThe number of votes necessary to a choice were two hundred and thir-\\nty-three, and I saw under my pencil as the Lincoln column was com-\\npleted, the figures 2315 one vote and a half to give him the nomina-\\ntion. In a moment the fact was whispered about. A hundred pencils\\nhad told the same story. The news went over the house wonderfully,\\nand there was a pause. There are always men anxious to distinguish\\nthemselves on such occasions. There is nothing that politicians like\\nbetter than a crisis. I looked up to see who would be the man to give\\nthe decisive vote. The man fur the crisis in the Cincinnati Conven-\\ntion all will remember was Col. Preston of Kentucky. He broke\\nthe Douglas line and precipitated the nomination of Buchanan, and\\nwas rewarded with a foreign mission. In about ten ticks of a watch,\\nCartter of Ohio was up. I had imagined Ohio would be slippery\\nenough for the crisis. And sure enough Every eye was on Cartter,\\nand every body who understood the matter at all, knew what he was\\nabout to do. He is a large man with rather striking features, a shock\\nof bristling black hair, large and shining eyes, and is terribly marked\\nwith the small-pox. He has also an impediment in his speech, which\\namounts to a stutter; and his selection as chairman of the Ohio delega-\\ntion was, considering its condition, altogether* appropriate. He had\\nbeen quite noisy during the sessions of the Convention, but had never\\ncommanded, when mounting his chair, such attention as now. He\\nsaid, I rise (eh), Mr. Chairman (eh), to announce the change of four\\nvotes of Ohio from Mr. Chase to Mr. Lincoln. The deed was done.\\nThere was a moment s silence. The nerves of the thousands, which\\nthrough the hours of suspense had been subjected to terrible tension,\\nrelaxed, and as deep breaths of relief were taken, there was a noise in\\nthe wigwam like the rush of a great wind, in the van of a storm and\\nin another breath, the storm was there. There were thousands cheer-\\ning with the energy of insanity.\\nA man who had been on the roof, and was engaged in communicating\\nthe results of the ballotings to the mighty mass of outsiders, now de-\\nmanded by gestures at the sky-light over the stage, to know what had\\nhappened. One of the Secretaries, with a tally sheet in his hands,\\nshouted Fire the Salute Abe Lincoln is nominated As the\\ncheering in.side the wigwam subsiided, we could hear that outside, where\\nthe news of the nomination had just been anuounced. And the roar,\\nlike the breaking up of the fountains of the gieat deep that was heard,\\ngave a new impulse to the enthusiasm inside. Then the thunder of the\\nsalute rose above the din, and the shouting was repeated with such tre-\\nmendous fury that some discharges of the cannon were absolutely not", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "150\\nheard by those on the stage. Puffs of smote, drifting by the open\\ndoor.s and the smell of gunpowder, told what was going on.\\nThe moment that half a dozen men who were on their chairs makino-\\nmotions at the President could be heard, they changed the votes of\\ntheir States to Mr. Lincoln. This was a mere formality, and was a\\ncheap way for men to distinguish themselves. The proper and orderly\\nproceeding would have been to annouce the vote, and then for a motion\\nto come from New York to make the nomination unanimous. New\\nYork was prepared to make this motion, but not out of order. Mis-\\nsouri, Iowa, Kentucky, IMinnesota. Virginia, California, Texas, District\\nof Columbia, Kansas, Nebraska and Oregon, insisted upon casting\\nunaiiimous votes for Old Abe Lincoln before the vote was declared.\\nWhile these votes were being given, the applause continued, and a\\nphotiigraph of Ahe Lincoln which had hung in one of the side rooms\\nwas brought in, and held up before the surging and screaming masses.\\nThe places of the various delegations were indicated by staffs, to which\\nwere ^.ttached the names of the States, printed in large black letters on\\npasteboard. As the Lincoln enthusiasm increased, delegates tore these\\nstandards of the States from their places and swung them about their\\nheads. A rush was made to get the New York standard and swing it\\nwith the rest, but the New Yorkers would not allow it to be moved, and\\nwere wrathful at the suggestion.\\nWhen the vote was declared, Mr. Evarts, the New York spokesman,\\nmounted the Secretaries table and handsomely and impre.ssively ex-\\npressed his grief at the failure of the Convention to nominate Seward\\nand in melancholy tones, moved that the nomination be made unani-\\nmous.\\nMr. Andrew of Massachusetts seconded the motion in a speech, in\\nwhich his vanity as a citizen of the commonwealth of Massachusetts\\nwas ventilated, and he said it had not been for old Massachusetts to\\nstrike down William Henry Seward, concluding by a promise to give\\nthe nominee of that Convention one hundred thousand majority.\\nCarl Schurz, on behalf of Wisconsin, again seconded the motion, but\\nnot so effectively in his speech as his reputation as an orator would have\\nwarranted us in expecting. There was a little clap-trap and something\\nof anti-climax in shouting Lincoln and victory, and talking of de-\\nfying the whiile slave power and the whole vassalage of hell.\\nM. Blair of INIichigun made the speech of the hour. He said:\\nMichigan, from first to last, has cast her vote for the great States-\\nman of New York. She has nothing to take back. She has not sent\\nme forward to worship the rising sun, but she has put me forward to\\nsay that, at your behests here to-day, she lays down her first, best loved\\ncandidate to take up yours, with some beating of the heart, with some\\nquivering in the vc ins [much applause] but she does not fear that the\\nfame of Seward will suffjr, for she knows that his fame is a portion of\\nthe history of the American Union it will be written, and read, and\\nbeloved long after the temporary excitement of this day has passed\\naway, and when Presidents them-elves are forgotten in the oblivion\\nwhich comes over all teniporal things. We stand by him still. We", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "161\\nhave followed him with an eye sinj^le and with unwavering faith in tiraea\\npast. We miutial now behind him in the grand column which shall\\ngo out to battle for Lincoln.\\nAfter a rather dull speech from Mr. Browning of Illinois, respond-\\ning in behalf of Lincoln, the nomination was made unanimous, and the\\nConvention adjourned for dinner. The town was full of the news of\\nLincoln s nomination, and could hardly contain itself. There were\\nbands of music playing, and processions marching, and joyous cries\\nbeard on every hand, from the army of trumpeters for Lincoln of Illi-\\nnois, and the thousands who are always enthusiastic on the winning\\nside. But hundreds of men who had been in the wigwam were so pros-\\ntrated by the excitement they had endured, and their exertions in\\nshrieking for Seward or Lincoln, that they were hardly able to walk to\\ntheir hotels. There were men who had not tasted liquor, who sta :gered\\nabout like drunkards, unable to manage themselves. The Seward men\\nwere terribly stricken down. They were mortified beyond all expres-\\nsion, and walked thoughtfully and silently away from the slaughter-\\nhouse, more ashamed than embittered. They acquiesced in the nomi-\\nnation, but did not pretend to be pleased with it and the tone of their\\nconversations, as to the prospect of electing the candidate, was not\\nhopeful. It was their funeral, and they would not make merry.\\nA Lincoln man who could hardly believe that the Old Abe of his\\nadoration was really the Republican nominee for the Presidency, took a\\nchair at the dinner-table at the Tremunt House, and began talking to\\nthose around him, with none of whom he was acquainted, of the great-\\nness of the events of the day One of his expressions was, Talk of\\nyour money and bring on your bullies with you the immortal princi-\\nples of the everlasting people are with Al)e Lincoln, of the people,\\nl3y Abe Lincoln has no money and no bullies, but he has the\\npeople by A servant approached the eloquent patriot and asked\\nwhat he would have to eat. Being thus recalled to temporal things he\\nglared scornfully at the servant and roared out, Go to the devil\\nwhat do I want to eat for? Abe Lincoln is nominated, G d it;\\nand I m going to live on air the air of Liberty by But in a\\nmoment he inquired for the bill of fare, and then ordered a great deal\\nof everything saying if he must eat he might as well eat the\\nwhole bill. He swore he felt as if he could devour and digest an\\nIllinois prairie. And this was one of thousands.\\nDuring the dinner recess a caucus of the Presidents of delegations\\nwas held, and New York, though requested to do so, would not name a\\ncandidate for the Vice-Presidency. After dinner we had the last act in\\nthe dratna.\\nThe nomination of Vice-President was not particularly exciting.\\nCassius M. Clay was the only competitor of Hamlin, who made any\\nshow in the race and the outside pressure was for him. At one time\\na thousand voices called Clay Clay to the Convention. If the\\nmultitude could have had their way, Mr. Clay would have been put on\\nthe ticket by acclamation. But it was stated that Mr. Hamlin was a\\ngood friend of Mr. Seward. He was geographically distant from Liu-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "152\\ncoin, and was once a Democrat. It was deemed judicious to pretend\\nto patronize tlie Democratic element, and thus consolidate those who\\nwere calling the Convention an old Whig concern. They need not\\nhave been afraid, however, of having it called an old Whig affair, for\\nit was not eminently respectable, nor distinguished for its dignity\\nand decorum. On the other hand, the Satanic element was very\\nstrongly developed.\\nFIRST BALLOT FOR VICE-PRESIDENT.\\nStates.\\no\\n.2\\nc\\no\\nP5\\nd\\nS\\nH\\n.S\\na\\n16\\n10\\n10\\n1\\n8\\n5\\n35\\n6\\n11\\n8\\n2\\nJ:\\ns\\nMaine\\nNew Hampshire\\nVermont\\nMassachusetts\\n20\\n1\\n1\\nRhode Ishmd\\nConQocticut\\n2\\n9\\n1\\n4.1\\n2\\n3\\n23\\n23\\n18\\n1\\n4\\n2\\n7\\n24\\n2\\n11\\nY\\n1\\n1\\nNew York\\n1\\nNew Jersey\\nPennsylvania\\n8\\nMaryland\\nDelaware\\nVirginia\\nKentucky\\nOhio\\n46\\n8\\nIndiana\\nMissouri\\n9\\n9\\nMichigan\\n4\\n2\\n8\\n2\\nIllinois\\n10\\n2\\nTexas\\n6\\nWisconsin\\n5\\n5\\n6\\nIowa\\n1\\n3\\n6\\n5\\nCalifornia\\nMinnesota\\n1\\ni\\n6\\n1\\nOregon\\nTerritories.\\nKansas\\nNebraska\\nI\\n2\\n10 hi\\nDistrict of Coluinl)ia\\nTotal\\n38i\\n51\\n58\\n194\\n1\\n8\\n8\\n6", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "153\\nSECOND BALLOT FOR VICE-PBESIDBNT.\\nSiai.es,\\na\\nw\\nk;\\n10\\n10\\n2(i\\n,s\\n10\\n7U\\n11\\n54\\n10\\n(i\\ni\\no\\nS\\no\\nc3\\nNew Hampshire\\n2\\nNew York\\n1\\nDelaware\\n23\\n23\\nii\\n5\\n4\\n2\\n6\\n5\\nOhio\\nAd\\n12\\n13\\n8\\n20\\n5\\n8\\n7\\n7\\n3\\n2\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n2\\n3\\n6\\n2\\n367\\nTotal\\n86\\n13\\nDuring this ballot the name of N. P. Banks was withdrawn. As\\nthis was done, Gen. Nye of New York cried out, That s a good thing\\ndone one of. the conspirators gone to h thank God\\nThe fact of the Convention, was the defeat of Seward rather than\\nthe nomination of Lincoln. It was the triumph of a presumption of\\navailability over pre-eminence in intellect and unrivaled fame a suc-\\ncess of the ruder qualities of manhood and the more homely attributes\\nof popularity, over the arts of a consummate politician, and the splendor\\nof accomplished statesmanship. _\\nNow that the business of the Convention was transacted, we had the\\nusual stump speeches, and complimentary resolutions, and the valedic-\\ntory from the chairman, and the three times three upon adjournment\\nfor the candidate.\\nThe city was wild with delight. The Old Abe men formed pro-\\ncessions, and bore rails through the streets. Torrents of liquor were\\npoured down the hoarse throats of the multitude. A hundred guns\\nwere fired from the top of the Tremont House. The Chicago Press and\\nTribune office was illuminated. That paper says:\\nOn each side of the counting-room door stood a rail out of the", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "154\\nthree thousand split by honest Old Abe thirty years ago on the\\nSangamon Eivcr bottoms. On the inside were two more, brilliantly\\nhung with tapers.\\nI left the city on the night train on the Fort Wayne and Chicago\\nroad. The train consisted of eleven cars, every seat full and people\\nstanding in the aisles and corners. I never before saw a company of\\npersons so prostrated by continued excitement. The Lincoln men were\\nnot able to respond to the cheers which went up along the road for\\nold Abe. They had not only done their duty in that respect, but\\nexhausted their capacity. At every station where there was a village,\\nuntil after two o clock, there were tar barrels burning, drums beat-\\ning, boys carrying rails; and guns, great and small, banging away.\\nThe weary passengers were allowed no rest, but plagued by the thun-\\ndering jar of cannon, the clamor of drums, the glare of bonfires, and\\nthe whooping of the boys, who were delighted with the idea of a can-\\ndidate for the Presidency, who thirty years ago split rails on the Sanga-\\nmon River classic stream now and for evermore and whose neighbors\\nnamed him honest.\\nCONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION AT\\nRICHMOND.\\nThe address issued by distinguished Southern Congressmen, urging\\nthat the Kiehmond Convention should not transact any business, but\\nadjourn to Baltimore and make there a final effort to preserve the har-\\nmony and unity of the Democratic party by the defeat of Mr. Douglas,\\nhad the effect of preventing a large representation of the Southern\\nwing of the party at Ilichmond. Instead of attempting to make the\\nRichmond Convention an affair of substantive importance, the aim of\\nthose who had it in charge, was to so manage the preliminaries that it\\nshould transact no business. The people of Richmond were not much\\ninterested in it, and no preparations whatever were made for it until\\nthe Saturday before the Convention assembled, when a hall was engaged.\\nFIRST DAY.\\nThe Convention assembled at Metropolitan Hall at noon on Monday,\\nthe 11th of June. Lieut. Gov. Lubbock of Texas was called to the\\nchair, as temporary chairman. He acknowledged the compliment in\\nbecoming terms said they met in the same spirit in which they had\\nmet in (Jliarlestim. lie said\\nWe have met here to-day, as we did there, to carry out our princi-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "155\\npies, whatever may be the result. [Applause] I trust we have come\\nhere for no compromises of the Conntitutioii. [Applause.]\\nIf we cannot succeed in sustainini\u00c2\u00bb tliose pruiciples, we must create\\nno, we will not create a new Democratic party, but we will\\nsiiniily declare ourselves the true Democratic party, and we will unfurl\\nour banner, and go to the country upon true Democratic principles.\\n[Applause.]\\nThe States were called for delegates, and New York answering by a\\nyoung man in a corner, produced a sensation. The following are the\\ndocuments presented by the State of New York, and they arc curiosities\\nin their way\\nNew YoiiK, .Tune 8, 1800.\\nTbis is to cm-tify, that at a meetins; of the Trustees of the National Demo-\\ncratic Hall of the State of New York, held in the city of New York, they\\nrecomineaded to the association the following names as delegates and aUevnat(!8\\nto represent theiu at the Richmond Convention, for the nomination of candidates\\nfor resident and Vice-President of these United States, with power to add to\\ntheir nnmljer, or till vacancies\\nDdeg:ites Col. Baldwin, Isaac Lawrence, Jas. B. Benael, Jam^-s Villiei-s.\\nAUermlcs Neare Drake Parson, James S. Selby, M. Dudley Bean, Alfred W.\\nGilbert.\\nNew York, Jane 8th, 18(50.\\nThis is to certify, that Hon. Gideon J. Tucker, and Dr. Charles Edward Lewis\\nStuart, were, at a meeting of the above association, made delegates at large from\\nthe association.\\nSamuel B. Williams, Chairman of Trustees.\\nWm. Beach Lawke.nce, Jr., Chairman of Ex. Com.\\nToADDEUS P. MoTT, Chairman of Assoc.ution.\\nSecretary of Trustees, M. Dudley Bean.\\nSecretary of Executive Committee, Jas. B. Bexsel.\\nSecretary of Association, J. Lawrexce.\\nMr. Fisher of Virginia responded for that State, producing loud\\napplause. He was the only Virginian who seceded, and hence was a\\nlion at that moment.\\nA despatch was received, saying Florida delegates were coming.\\nThe following is the list of delegates made out this day by the Secre-\\ntaries\\nAlabama.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A. B. Meek, W. L. Yancey, D. W. Baine, F. S. Lyon, R. G. Scott,\\nJ. W. Portis. N. H. R. Dawson, T. J. Burnett, Eli S. Shorter, D. W. Williams, J.\\nC. B. Mitchidl, Wm. C. Penick, A. S. Van Degraaf. John Erwin. John E. Moore,\\nE. W. Kennedy, Robt. T. Scott, R. Chapman, Winfield Mason, W. P. Browne, D.\\nW. Bozeman.\\nMississippi.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Geo. H. Gordon, E. Barksdale, W. F. Barry, H. C. Chambers,\\nJos. R. Davis, Beverly Matthews.\\nLouisiana.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A.. Martin, John Tarleton. Richard Taylor, Emile LaSere, F. H.\\nHatch, E. Lawrence, A. Talbot, B. W. Pearce, R. A. Hunter, D. D. Withers,\\nCharles Jones, J. A. McHutton.\\nSouth Ckmoxa^k.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Principals Hon. R. B. Rhett, Hon. A. C. Garlington, Hon.\\nJ. J. Middleton. A. Bush, J. A. Dargan, Col. W. S. Mullins. Gen. W. E. Martin,\\nC. M. Furraan, Gen. D. F. Jamison. Col. A. P. Aldrich, W. D. Simpson, D. B.\\nWaldo, Hon. A. P. Calhoun, William Choice, Col. E. Jones, Maj. A. H. Boykin.\\nAUernates: Hon. W. D. Porter, Col. John S. Sloan, Col. Allen McFavlan, Hon.\\nG. A. Trenholm, Henry Mclvor, J. G. Pressly, Hon. J. E. Carew, S. W. Barker,", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "156\\nHon. J. Townsend, Hon. E. Martin, J. D. Nance, D. W. Aiken, W. K. Easolyi\\nGeu. S. R. Gist, R. A. Springs, Maj. N. R. Eamt s.\\nGKOKGiA.-Hi nry L. Benning, Nelson Filt, E. J. McGcehce, Jolin A. Jimes,\\nJolin C. Nichols.\\nTexas.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 G. M. Bryan, F. S. Stoclidale, H. R. Runnels, J. F. Crosby, F. R.\\nLubbock.\\nIMr. Mott of New York undertook to explain to the Convention the\\nposition of the delegation from that State. He said the National Dem-\\nocratic Asi^ociation of New York had held a meeting, and appointed\\nthem delegates and alternates, and that fifteen out of sixteen ftiembers\\nof the State Central Committee were in favor of a representation of the\\nDemocracy at Kichmond. He cloHcd, according to the custom of the\\ncountry, with something about the Union. His remarks were received\\nrespectfully, but incredulously. It was singular that a delegation\\nshould arrive from New York, when such a thing as a movement in\\nthat State regarding the Richmond Convention had not been heard of.\\nMotions were carried to form committees on Organization and Creden-\\ntials. Those committees were organized as follows\\nCommittee on Pekmanent Organization Mississippi, W. L.\\nBarry Louisiana, R. A. Hunter; Alabama, Eobt. G. Scott Tennes-\\nsee, W. T. Helms Texas, J. F. Crosby Georgia, John A. Jones\\nVirginia. M. W. Fisher South Carolina, A. P. Calhoun Arkansas,\\nVan H. Manning; New York, Thaddeus P. Mott.\\nCommittke on Credentials South Carolina, John J. Middleton\\nTennessee, George W. Brodfield Alabama, D. W. Bain Georgia,\\nDr. Edmund J. McGeehee Louisiana, F. H. Hatch Texas, T. S.\\nStockdell Mississippi, Beverly Matthews Arkansas, Van H. Man-\\nning.\\nSECON D DAY.\\nMr. Smith of Alabama desired to have his name recorded. Agreed\\nto. The Florida delegates had now arrived. Mr. Calhoun of South\\nCarolina ^on of John C. Calhoun chairman of the committee on\\nOi ganization, submitted the following report\\nYour committee respectfully report the name of the Hon. Jobn Erwin of\\nAlabama as permanent President of your Convention, and the following named\\npersons as Vice-Presidents\\nH. R. Runnels of Texas, W. S. Featherston of Mississippi, M. W. Fisher of\\nVirginia, Hon. R. G. Scott of Alabama, N. B. Burrows of Arkansas, B. F.\\nWardlaw of Florida, Gen. A. C, Garlington of South Carolina, D. H. Cum-\\nmings of T^ unessee, P. Tracy of Georgia, E. LaSei c of Louisiana.\\nAnd the ibllowing as Secretaries\\nH. H. Tyson of Mississijipi, Dr. A. C. Smith of Virginia, G. W. Bradfield of\\nTennessee, A, S. Vaiiiltigiall of Alabama, Chas. Dyke of Florida, Jolm Cobb\\nof Georgia, Henry Mclver oi South Caroliiui, D. D. AVilhers of Louisiana,\\nVan H. Manning of Arkansas.\\nThe committee would further reconunend the rules adopted at Ciuciunati in\\n185(), as the rules for the government t)f this Convention.\\nYour committee beg leave to report, as a basis of representation, that where\\na State is represented as a whole, the delegation present shall cast the entire", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "157\\nvote of said State, accordint^ to the Congi-essional basis; and in such cases a?\\nthere are delejratos from a district of the State present, said delegate or dele-\\ngates shall be entitled to cast the vote of said district.\\nANDREW i. CALHOUN.\\nMr. Erwin upon taking the cbair made a brief speech. lie said they\\nwere there to vindicate the Constitution and assert tlie rights of the\\nSouth under it. He said further\\nAt Charleston we exerted ourselves assiduously, earnestly, for days\\nand weeks, hoping that we miglit agree that we might concur with tlie\\nmajority of that body that they would concede to us what seemed, to\\nour apprehension, to clearly belong to us. But, governed l)y ohjects of\\nself of personal aggrandizement they sternly refused. ^Ve had no\\nalternative left but to pursue the course that we did pursue, and we are\\nhappy now to announce that our conduct has been approved by our con-\\nstituents. [Great applause.]\\nIt is proposed here, as I understand, that we shall not act definitely\\nthat we shall make one more attempt at reconciliation. Gentlemen,\\nI neither commend nor condemn that course. Every gentleman will be\\ngoverned by his own views of what is right. But we must yield noth-\\ning, whether we remain here, or whether we go elsewhere. Wherever\\nwe go, we must demand the full measure of our rights. [Applause.]\\nThe serpent of Squatter Sovereignty must be strangled. [Vehe-\\nment applause.] What are we to be told that we are not to go into\\nthe Territories and enjoy equal rights, when that principle has been\\nsettled by the Supreme Court of our country?\\nMr. Middleton of South Carolina stated the case of the Xew York\\nCommissioners. He said\\nMr. President, in going into this matter the committee was informed\\nthat the gentlemen therein named did not claim seats in this body as\\ndelegates and alternates, but came here simply as commissioners to ad-\\nvise with this body as to the course of its proceeding.\\nThis it was proclaimed was done in entire courtesy, but it was a\\nquiet way of getting rid of the New Yorkers who were now, by resolu-\\ntion, invited to take seats upon the floor of tha Convention.\\nMr. Hatch Mr. President, after consulting with the large number\\nof delegates from the different States, I beg leave to offer the following\\nresolutions, which, I believe, will accomplish the general purposes and\\nwishes of this Convention\\n1. Resolved, That as the delegations from all the States represented in this\\nConvention are assembled upon the basis of the platform recommended \\\\)j a\\nmajority of the States at Charleston, we deem it unnecessary to take any further\\naction upon that subject at the present time.\\n2. ReHolved, That when this Convention adjourn, it adjourn to meet in this\\ncity on Monday, the 25th inst. provided that the President of this Convention\\nmay call it together at an earlier or later day, if it be deemed necessary.\\nAn attempt was made to have it declared that that Convention in-\\ndorsed the majority report of a platform made at Charleston, but this\\nwas overruled, on the ground that it had, upon consultation by an in-\\nformal committee, been determined to take no action whatever. A mo-\\ntion to raise a select committee to consider what should be done, was", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "158\\nmet by the nssnranee that an infornuil committee had gathered the sense\\nof the Cdnvention, and that it was agreed nothing was to be done.\\nMr. Hunter of Louisiana said in this connection, upon the proposition\\nto indorse the niiijority platform n ported at Charleston\\nI was desirous that not one word should be said upon this subject,\\nwhen the resolutions were reported, but that we should accept them in\\nthe spirit of harmony which has characterized our deliberations so far.\\nI hope tlie amendment will not be pressed. There is no difficulty ex-\\ncept upon one point, and I hope that amendment will not be pressed,\\nfor we desire earnestly that no discussion should take place in regard to\\nthe matter. We are satisfied with the resolutions, and will accept them\\nwe do not desire to go fuither.\\nSome conversational debate occurred on the proposition to give the\\nPresident of the Convention discretionary power in calling it together\\nupon adjournment. Mr. Jones of Georgia, in the course of a speech,\\nsaid\\nWe want other States to come in with us and have their voices\\nheard in this important matter we ought not to preclude them by any\\ndeclarations in advance. That is all. What is fair, is fair. We ask\\nVirginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Tennessee and Kentucky to come\\nin here.\\nA Voice Missouri and Delaware.\\nMr. Jones Yes, Missouri and Delaware unite with us in counsel.\\nThe first resolution was agreed to, and 31r. MuUins of South Caro-\\nlina moved that the second resolution be amended by striking out\\n25th and inserting 21st. South Carolina called for the vote by\\nStates that that State might appear upon the record as opposed to ad-\\njournment. He withdrew his call, however, and the resolution was\\nadofited by actdamation.\\nThe committee on Credentials was now called upon for a report, and\\nreported that the following States and districts are represented in this\\nConvention, to wit\\nAlabama, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, South\\nCarolina, Florida, Second Congressional District of Tennessee, Seventh\\nElectoral District of Virginia.\\nThe Convention was proceeding to adjourn, when Mr. Baldwin of\\nNew York, an elderly gentleman with immense green-goggles, beo-oed\\nto be allowed to state the true position of New York in that Convention.\\nHe caused a very florid and inconsequential letter to be read. It con-\\ncluded as follows\\nHere as Commissioners of Conference on a mission for party peace,\\nand in national love, we are also here to give the assurance that should\\nthe crisis arise to test us, you may reckon on noble evidence, in the\\nEmpire State, of a loyalty which cannot be shaken in its alli giance to\\nthe Golden Rule of Democracy, and can never be corrupted in the\\ngood faith which should ever bind the true of the North to the true of\\nthe South.\\nHe proceeded to talk of the great danger in which the country found\\nitself, and was doing tolerably well in the way of a union speech, when\\nhe was called to order for talking on matters that the delegates had de-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "159\\nclined to talk about. He said he was (hero at tlie merc-y of tlio Con-\\nvention, and was told to go on. He was again talking of. tin; lionors\\nof diisuninn, when Mr. Barry of Mississippi called him to order hy say-\\ning he had abused the courtesy of the Convention; and wliile the com-\\nmissioner was begging forgiveness in the niObt abject manner, the\\nConvention adjourned.\\nNATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION AT BALTIMORE.\\nThe Democratic politicians assembled in great force in Washington\\nCity the week before the Convention was called to meet in Baltimore,\\nand caucused the matter in the usual way.\\nOn the Saturday before the meeting of the Convention, the politicians\\nconcentrated in Baltimore, where a much greater crowd than that at\\nCharleston came together. It was not, however, numerically so great,\\nby many thousands, as that at Chicago. The weight of the outside\\npressure was for Mr. Douglas. The talk about the hotels was princi-\\npally favorable to Mr. Douglas, whose friends were full of confidence\\nand determination. It was evident that he could not be nominated\\nwithout the division of the party, and placing two tick^ ts in the field\\nyet his friends gave no symptoms of flinching from taking any respon-\\nsibility. The hostile feeling between the factions of the Democracy\\nwas even more embittered than at the time of the adjournment at\\nCharleston, and the more the points of difference were caucused, the\\nmore intense was the warfare. The debate in the Senate during the\\nrecess the speeches of Douglas and Pugh on the one hand, and Ben-\\njamin and Davis on the other had served to deepen and exasperate\\nthe controversy, and make it more personal in its nature, and therefore\\nmore incapable of compromise. The friends of Mr. Douglas, encour-\\naged by the presence and support of Soule of Louisiana, Forsyth of\\nTexas, and other strong Southern men, assumed an arrogance ot tone\\nthat precluded the hope of amicable adjustment of diflici.l :es. As at\\nCharleston, every person and passion and prejudice was for or against\\nMr. Douglas. The opinion was almost universal that the friends of\\nfMr. Douglas would be able to nominate him, and they were certainly\\nresolved to give him the nomination at any hazard or sacrifice. There\\nwas no question, however, that the New York delegation had the fate of\\nI the Convention in its keeping; and while it was unders;o)d that the\\nstrength of Mr. Douglas in the delegation bad been moreased, during\\nthe recess, by the Fowler defalcation (the substitute for Mr. Fowler\\nbeing reported to be a Douglas man), and by the appearance of regular\\ndelegates who were for Douglas, and whose alternates had been against\\nk", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "160\\nhim at Charleston, it was obvious that the action of the politicians of\\nNew York could not be counted upon in any direction with confidence.\\nliumors were circulated before the meeting of the Convention, that a\\nnegotiation had been carried on in Washington, by the New Yorkers\\nwith the South, the object of which was to sell out Douglas, the South-\\nerners and the Administration offering them their whole strength for\\nany man New York might name, provided that State would slaughter\\nDouglas. On the other hand, it appeared that Dean Richmond, the\\nprincipal manager of the Now Yorkers, had been engaged in private\\ncousultatioiis with Mr. Douglas and his fast friends, and had pledged\\nhimself, as solemnly as a politician could do, to stand by the cause of\\nDouglas to the last.\\nFIRST DAY.\\nMORNING SESSION.\\nThe Convention assembled at ten o clock, in the Front Street Theatre,\\nthe parquet and stage having been fitted up for the delegations, the\\ndress circle reserved for the ladies, and the upper circles assigned to\\nspectators, who were admitted by tickets, of which each delegation had\\na supply in proportion to its numbers. There was some delay about\\ncalling the Convention to order, owing to a misunderstanding as to the\\nhour of meeting.\\nThe delegates entitled to seats all presenting themselves at a quarter\\npast eleven o clock, the Convention was called to order by the President,\\nand opened with prayer by the Rev. John McCron, whose prayer was\\nvery touching and beautiful.\\nTHE president s ADDRESS.\\nAt the conclusion of the prayer, the President stated the condition\\nof business before the Convention in a clear, sharply-defined address,\\nspeaking so distinctly that every man in the Convention heard every\\nword. He said\\nGrENTLEMKN OF THE CONVENTION Permit me, in the first place, to\\ncongratulate you upon your being reassembled here for the discharge of\\nyour important duties in the interests of the Democratic party of the\\nUnited States and I beg leave, in the second place, to communicate to\\nthe Convention the state of the various branches of its business, as they\\nnow come up for consideration before you.\\nPrior to the adjournment of the Convention, two principal subjects\\nof action were before it. One, the adoption of the doctrinal resolu-\\ntions constituting the platform of the Convention the other, voting\\nupon the que^^tion of the nomination of a candidate for the Presidency.\\nIn the course of the discussion of the question of a jdatform, the\\nConvention adopted a vote, the effect of which was to amend the report\\nof the majority of the committee on the Platform, by substituting the\\nreport of the minority of that committee and after the adoption of\\nthat motion, and the substitution of the minority for the majority re-\\nport, a division was called for upon the several resolutions constituting", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "161\\nthat platform, being five in number. The 1st, 3i], 4th and ilth of tlioso\\nresoUitions were adupterl by the Conventicm, and the 2 l was rejected.\\nAfter the vote on the adoption of the 1st, 3d, 4th and 5th of tho e res-\\nolutions, a motion was made in each case to reconsider th(! vote, anil to\\nlay that motion of reconsideration upon the table. I5nt neither of those\\nmotions to reconsider or to lay on th(! table was put, the putting of these\\nmotions having been prevented by the intervention of questions of priv-\\nilege, and the ultimate vote competent in such case, to wit, of the\\nadoption of the report of the majority as amended by the report of the\\nminority, had not been acted upon by the Convention. So that at the\\ntime when the Convention adjourned, there remained pendino- before it\\nthese motions, to wit To reconsider the resolutions constitutini the\\nplatform, and the ulterior question of adopting the majority as ameruled\\nby the substitution of the minority report. Those questions, and those\\nonly, as the chair understood the motions before the Convention, were\\nnot acted upon prior to the adjournment.\\nAfter the disposition of the intervening questions of privilege, a mo-\\ntion was made by Mr. McCook of Ohio to proceed to vote fof candi-\\ndates for President and Vice President. Upon that motion the Con-\\nvention instructed the ch lir (not, as has been erroneously supposed, in\\nthe recess of the Convention, the chair defermining for tlie Convention,\\nbut the Convention instructing the chair) to make no declaration of a\\nnomination except upon a vote equivalent to two-thirds in tlie Electoral\\nCollege of the United States, and upon that ballo ing, no such vote\\nbeing given, that order was, upon the motion of the g nitlrman from Vir-\\nginia (Mr. Russell), laid on the table for the purpose of enabbnof him\\nto propose a motion, which he subsequently did, that the Conventioa\\nadjourn from the city of Charleston to the city of Baltimore, and with\\na provision concerning the filling of vacancies embraced in the same\\nresolution, which resolutiori the Secretary will please to read.\\nThe Secretary read the resolution, as follows\\nResolved, That when this Convention adjourns to-day, it adjourn to reassemble\\nat Baltimore, Md., on Monday, th(! 18th day of .Tune, and that it be respecttully\\nrecorameiidcd to the Democratic p:irty of the several StaU S t makj pt-o\\\\ision\\nfor Rupplyitig all vacancies in their respective delcgatioas to this Goaveution\\nwhen it shall reassemble.\\nThe President The Convention will thus perceive that the order\\nadopted by it provided, among other things, that it is respectfully re-\\ncommended to the Democratic party of the several States to make pro-\\nvision for supplying all vacancies in their respective delt gations to this\\nConvention, when it shall reassemble. What is the construction of that\\nresolution what is the scope of its application is a question not for\\nthe chair to determine or to suggest to the Convention, but for the Con-\\nvention itself to determine.\\nHowever that may be, in the prepiratory arrangement for the pre ent\\nassembling of this Convention, there were addressed to the chair the\\ncredentials of members elected, or purporting to be elected, affiirned\\nand confirmed by the original Conventions, and accredited to this Con-\\nvention. In three of those cases, or perhaps four, the credentials were\\nauthentic and complete, presenting no question of controverting dele-\\n11", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "162\\ngates. In four others, to wit, tbe States of Georgia, Alabama, Lou-\\nisiana and Delaware, there were contesting applications. Upon those\\napplications the chair was called to determine whether it possessed any\\npower to doterniine prima facie membership of this Convention. That\\nquestion was presented in its most absolute and complete form in the\\ncase of Mississippi, where there was no contest either through irregu-\\nlarity of form or of competing delegations, and so also in the cases of\\nFlorida, Texas and Arkansas. In those four States, there being an\\napparent authenticity of commission, the chair was called upon to deter-\\nmine the naked abstract question whether he had power, peremptorily and\\npreliminary, to determine t!io prima facie membership of alleged mem-\\nbers of this Convention. The chair would gladly have satisfied himself\\nthat he had this power, but upon examining the source of his power, to\\nwit, the rales of the House of Representatives, he was unable to dis-\\ncern that he had any authority, even prima facie, to scrutinize and\\ncanvass credentials, although they were such as, upon their face, were\\nfree from contest or controversy either of form or of substance, and\\ntherefore he deemed it his duty to reserve the determination of that\\nquestion to be submitted to the Convention. And in due time the\\nchair will present that question as one of privilege to this body.\\nAnd now, gentlemen, having thus presented to you the exact state of\\nthe questions pending or involved in the action of the Convention when\\nit adjourned, the chair begs leave only to add a single observation of a\\nmore general nature. We assemble here now at a time when the ene-\\nmies of the Democratic party when, let me say, the enemies of the\\nConstitution of the United States, are in the field [applause] with their\\nselected leaders, with their banners displayed, advancing to the combat\\nwith the constitutional interests and party of the United States and\\nupon you, gentlemen, upon your action, upon your spirit of harmony,\\nupon your devotion to the Constitution, upon your solicitude to main-\\ntain the interests, the honor and the integrity of the Democratic party\\nas the guardians of the Constitution upon you, gentlemen, it depends\\nwhether the issue of that combat is to be victory or defeat for the Con-\\nstitution of the United States. [Renewed applause.]\\nIt does not become the chair to discuss any of the personal or politi-\\ncal demands of that question. It may be permitted, however, to ex-\\nhort you in the spirit of our community, of party interests, in the faith\\nof our common respect for the Constitutim, in the sense of our common\\ndevotion to the interests and honor of our country I say to exhort you\\nto feel that we come here this day not to determine any mere technical\\n(Questions of form, not merely to gain personal or party triumphs, but\\nwe come here in the exercise of a solemn duty, in a crisis of the condi-\\ntion of the affairs of our country such as has never yet befallen the\\nUnited States. Shall we not all enter upon this duty in the solemn\\nand profound conviction of the responsibilities thus devolved upon us,\\nof our high duty to our country, to ourselves, and to the States of this\\nUnion V [Applause.] Gentlemen, the Convention is now in order for\\nthe transaction of business.\\nThis is an admirable statement of the condition of the business be-\\nfore the question.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "163\\nMr. Howard of Tennessee introducecl the following resolution:\\nResolved, That the President of this Convention direct the Sergeant-at-ArniP\\nto issue tickets of admission to the delegates ol the Convention as ori;, inally\\nconstituted and organized at Charleston.\\nMr. Cavanagh moved to lay the resolution on the table, and called\\nthe vote hy States.\\nMr. Russell of Virginia wished to inquire of the chair what he had\\ndone in the way of determining the rights of delegations to scats.\\nThe President The chair will then state, m response to the inquiry\\nof the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Russell), that the chair did not\\nundertake to judge any thing, neither to decide that there were or were\\nnot vacancies. AH the chair undertook to say, was, that the gentlemen\\nborne upon its roll as members of this Convention at the time of its ad-\\njournment at Charleston, were entitled to recognition of membership\\nprecisely to-day as they would had the Convention adjourned yesterday.\\n[Applause.] To have gone beyond this point would have been to enter\\ninto the canvass of conflicting credentials upon new elections of mem-\\nbers. The chair was thoroughly convinced that he had no power to\\nenter into that inquiry of conflicting credentials of persons alleging to\\nhave been elected to this Convention by State Conventions bekl since\\nthe adjournment of this Convention at Charleston. The chair will sug-\\ngest to the gentleman from Virginia that the question did not present\\nitself in the form of simplicity and unity in which bis inquiiy would\\nsuppose, inahmueh as several States to which he refers, did assume that\\nthe resolution in the adjournment created vacancies to be filled V)y new\\naction of the respective States; and if the chair had entered into any\\ninquiry of the new credentials, as, for instance, to discriminate upon the\\nquestion whether the.se credentials came from a new State Convention\\ncalled anew, and that Convention vacating anterior commissions or\\nwhether they emanate from a Convention called anew and simply con-\\nfirming anterior commissions in either case, if the chair had gone into\\nthe question, it would have been necessary for him to hold hearings and\\ninvestigations of credentials and of facts in regard to eight States of the\\nUnion, as to which he had no more power under the rules of the House\\nof Representatives than any other member of the Convention.\\nWhilst the chair is disposed to exert the whole power, in any contin-\\ngency, of the Speaker of the House of Representatives having en-\\ntered upon the discharge of this most unwelcome and responsible duty\\nwith a determination to act without favor and also without fear yet the\\nchair knows that it is impossihle that he shall maintain order in this\\nConvention, that the deliberations of this Convention shall go on in any\\nsystem of regularity, unless the chair takes care to walk carefully and\\nrigorously in the simple line of routine and of technical authority.\\n[Applause.] Within the line of technical authority, and upon the rules\\nof the House of Representatives, as constituting the guide of the chair,\\nthe chair will take leave to decide all questions as they may arise, in or\\nout of the Convention. But the chair does not propojie to assume any\\njudicial or quasi-judicial authority in regard to tlie canvass of creden-\\ntials and the authenticity of membership an authority manifestly not\\nconferred upon the presiding officer, according to precedent and the uni-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "164\\nfoira usnge of the two houses of the Congress of the United States,\\nnever pieiiuiiaarily determined by the presiding officer of either house\\nof Congress. In issuing tickets to the gentlemen borne on the roll of\\nthe Convention, ah-eady sufficiently authenticated by the proceedings of\\nthe Convention itself, at tlie time of adjournment, the chair did that at\\nleast which was in the sphere of the duties of the chair and in doing\\nthat he in no degree involved or prejudiced the question of what was\\nthe right of any gentleman that depending upon the action of this\\nConvention. The chair, as he before* iniimated, will now make this,\\nthe first question, a question of privilege, that the Convention may in-\\nstruct the chair regarding his duty concerning the delegations of ihe\\nother States.\\nMr. Church of New York offered the following resolution, as an\\namendment to that of Mr. Howard Mr. Cavanagh, who had moved to\\ntable Howard s resolution, yielding for that purpose\\nResolved, That the credentials of all persons claiming .seats in this Convention\\nmade vacant by the secession of delegates at Charleston, be referred to the com-\\nmittee on Credentials, and said committee is hereby instructed, a,s soon as prac-\\nticable, to examine the siune and report the names of persons entitled to such\\nseats, with the district understanding, however, that every person accepting a\\nSeat in tliis Convention is bound in honor and good faith to abide by the action\\nof this Convention, and support its nominations.\\nThe re.solution was received with shouts of tumultuous applause,\\noriginating with members of the Convention, and taken up and repeated\\nby the spectators in the galleries.\\nIt was erroneously understood at this time, that the resolution of Mr.\\nChurch, was the proposition of a majority of the New York delegation,\\nand the sensation was very great. The applause in the galleries caused\\nthe chair to become indignant, and he fiercely stated his purpose of\\npreserving order and prevent the galleries from participating by indica-\\ntions of approbation or disapprobation in the proceedings.\\nAn uninqjortant debate on points of order followed. Mr. Church\\ncalled tlie previous question on his resolution. Durnig the conversa-\\ntional di,scussion\\nMr. Russell of Virginia I ask that this Convention will allow me to\\nmake a friendly, candid and sincere appeal to the gentleman who made\\nthe call fur the previous question (Mr. Church of New York) to with-\\ndraw ids call.\\nThe Presirlent Tlie chair has no authority over that question.\\nMr. llussell I ask the chair to appeal to the gentleman to allow fair\\nplay in this Convention.\\nMr. Stuart of Michigan I insist that the chair preserve order.\\nThe President The gentleman from Virginia (.Mr. llussell) is not\\nin order.\\nMr. Russell If we are to be constrained to silence, I beg gentle-\\nmen to consider the silence of Virginia as somewhat ominous. [Ap-\\nplause and hisses.]\\nThe question was stated to be upon seconding the demand for the\\nprevious question. Being taken vica voce,\\nThe President stated that the noes appeared to have it.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "165\\nMr. Kichnrdson of Illinois douhtcd the annonnooiiifiit, mid nskcd\\nthat the vote be taken by States, which was oiilered.\\nMr. Brodhead of Pennsylvania stated tliat the {^cntleniaii from Now\\nYork (Mr. Church) was willing to withdraw his call fur the previous\\nquestion.\\nj\\\\Ir. JMontrronicry of Pennsylvania The vote having been ordered\\nto he taken by States, it is not now in order to withdraw the call for\\nthe previous question.\\nA motion was made to adjourn until four o clock. A call for the\\nvote by States was made. While this was being taken, a controversy\\noccurred in the Minnesota delegation, a part of which has become hos-\\ntile to Douglas, a fact which irritates his friends beyond measure. Af-\\nter consuming nearly an hour s time of the Convention, the delegation\\ntemporarily settled the difference.\\nThe vote on adjournment was:\\nYeas Maine li, New Hampshire i, Connecticut 1, New Jersey 5,\\nPennsylvania G, Delaware 3, Maryland 6, Virginia 15, North Caroli-\\nna 10, Mis.souri (d5, Tennessee 8i, Kentucky 3, Minnesota 1|, Cali-\\nfornia 4, Oregon 3 73-|-.\\nNays Maine Gj, New Hampshire 4^, Vermont 5, Massachusetts 13,\\nRhode Island 4, Connecticut 5, New York 35, New Jersey 2, Penn-\\nsylvania 21, IMaryland 2, Arkansas 1, Missouri 2i, Tennessee 3^,\\nKentucky 9, Ohio 23, Indiana 13, Illinois 11, Michigan 6, Wisconsin\\n5, Iowa 4, Minnesota 21 178^-\\nSome of Douglas s friends here absurdly claimed the nays to indicate\\npositively their strength.\\nThe Convention now refused, objection being made, to hear a com-\\nmunication from the State of Mississippi.\\nThe question was then taken on seconding the demand for the previ-\\nous question, upon the proposition of Mr. Church. It was not agreed\\nto. Yeas 107i, nays 140^, as follows:\\nY^EAS Maine 6, New Hampshire 5, Vermont 4|, Massachusetts 4|,\\nConnecticut 35, New Jersey 2^, Pennsylvania 9|, Maryland 2, Mis-\\nsouri 2^, Tennessee 3, Kentucky Is, Ohio 23, Indiana 13, Illinois 11,\\nMichigan 6, Wisconsin 5, Iowa 4, Mmnesota 2^ Wlh\\nNays Maine 2, Vermont -J, Massachusetts 4^, Rhode Island 4,\\nConnecticut 2 one absent, New York 35, New Jersey 4^. Pennsylva-\\nnia 16^, Delaware 2, Maryland 6, Virginia 15, North Carolina 10,\\nArkansas 1, Missouri 6^, Tennessee 8, Kentucky IO5, Minnesota U,\\nCalifornia 4, Oregon 3 1405-\\nOn calling the roll, the New York delegation asked permission to re-\\ntire for consultation, and during the interim there was an entire cessa-\\ntion of business. The power of the State of New York was made\\nquite apparent in this vote, and it also appeared that the course she\\nwould take was among the uncertainties. Some considered the vote to\\nindicate the determination of New York not to sustain^Douglas. There\\nwere evidences, however, that it was a piece of New York tactics not at\\nall incompatible with friendliness toward Douglas. New York judged\\nit unwise to stifle debate that was all.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "166\\nTli(3 qupstion was then stated to be upon the amenclment to the\\namendment.\\nMr. Gihnor of Pennsylvania offered the following amendment to Mr.\\nChurch s resolution\\nRevoked, That the rresidcnt of the Convention be directed to issue tickets of\\nadmission to seats in tlie Convention to the dele.fiates from the States of Texas.\\nFlorida, Mississippi and Arkansas, in which States there are no contesting dele-\\ngations.\\nA motion to adjourn to ten o clock, Tuesday, was now negatived by\\na vote of 35 to 216. A motion to take a recess until five o clock in\\nthe evening, was carried viva voce.\\nEVENING SESSION.\\nThe chair gave notice of the possession of documents regarding con-\\ntested scats.\\nMr. Gihnor has his amendment read again, having slightly modi-\\nfied it\\nRexoh cd, That the President of the Convention be authorized to issue tickets\\nof admission to seats in this Convention to the delegates from the States of\\nArkansas, Texas, Florida and Mississippi, in which States there are no contest-\\ning delegations, and tiiat in those States, to wit, Delaware, Georgia, Alabama\\nand I.ouisiana, where there are contesting delegations, a committee on Creden-\\ntials shall be appointed, by the several delegations, to report upon said States.\\nMr Clark of J^Ii.ssouri obtained, after encountering some objections,\\nthe reading for information of a proposition which he considered of im-\\nmense altitude.\\nIt was: Strike out the proviso in the amendment of Mr. Church of\\nNew York, and add the following:\\nResolved, Tliat the citizens of the several States of the Union have an equal right\\nto settle and remain in the Territories of the United States, and to hold therein,\\nunmolested by any legislation whatever, their .slaves and other property and\\nthat this Convention recognizes th( opinion of tlie Supreme Court of thi United\\nStates in the Dred Scott case as a true exposition of tlie Constitution in regard\\nto the rights of the citizens of the several States and Territories of the United\\nStates upon all subjects concerning wliich it treats and that the members of\\nthis Convention pledge themselves, and require all others who may be author-\\nized as delegates, to make the same pledge, to support the Democratic candi-\\ndates, fairly and in good faith, nominated by this Convention according to the\\nusages of the National Democratic party.\\nThe debate now opened upon the proposition of Mr Gilnior, Mr.\\nRandall of Pennsylvania obtaining the floor. Mr. R inlali however ad-\\ndressed himself to the amendment of Mr. Church. lie s^iid\\nThe amendment of the gentleman from New York itnftoses a condi-\\ntion upon the returning members of the several States that seceded at\\nCharleston. I deny the power of this Convention to impose any such\\ncondition. The right of their constituents is unqualified, and beyond\\nthe power of this Convention, to send their representatives to this body\\nwithout condition and without limitation. [Applause and hisses.] It\\nis an intereference with the right of the constituents of seven seceding", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "1G7\\nStates to impose any qualification upon the roprcscntativcp of this hofly.\\nI deny its equity or its justice.\\nIt is said in the amendment tlmt it is understood. Utiderstnod\\nan npology for the hroad declaration of a naked invasion of the ri;;hts\\nof freemen. Not that the meiiii)ers of this body thus ailmitted h;ivc\\ndenied the right, but it is understood that they are pledged to do what\\nother members are not pledged to do to conform to the decision of the\\nmajority. Mr. President and gentlemen, I invoke you to look at the\\ninjustice of every such qualification a qualification which no honorable\\nman, except under very peculiar circumstances, could ever submit to\\na qualification which it is known that the representatives of these seven\\nseceding States will never submit to. [Applause and hisses.] But,\\nMr. President and brethren of the great Democratic family, who are\\nnow contending for the success of the Democratic cause, I ask you to\\nhalt, not simply upon the ground of right and justice, but of policy.\\nNot a member of this body but knows that the representatives of those\\nStates will not give any such pledge [applause and hisses] that it is\\ntantamount to a declaration of expulsion from the body. [Applause\\nand hisses.]\\nMr. Hoag of Virginia\\nI rise to a question of privilege. I desire to ascertain, once for all,\\nwhether, when a gentleman like that from Pennsylvania is addressing\\nthe Convention, he is to be exposed to the cowardly insult of hisses\\nfrom the gallery? [Applause, and calls to order by the chair.] I ask\\nif citizens of Virginia are to endure the ignominy and insult of hearing\\nhonorable gentlemen hissed from the galleries for uttering sentiments in\\naccordance with our own If there is to be an outside pressure\\nbrought to bear upon this body, I, for one, will deem my personal\\nhonor sacrificed if I remain here without being protected against the\\noutrage and insult of these his.ses. [Applause.]\\nThe chair was properly indignant at the outsiders. Mr. Randall\\nmade the usual appeals for harmony (which meant the sacrifice of\\nDouglas) and the preservation of the unity of the party and the integrity\\nof the Union.\\nMr. Richardson of Illinois replied. He was opposed to the adop-\\ntion of the amendment of Mr. Gilmor. He said\\nIt declares that the President of the Convention shall issue his tick-\\nets to the delegates from Florida, Mississippi, Texas and Arkansas.\\nTalking, the other day, in the city of Washington, with a delegate\\nfrom the State of Florida, who was at Richmond, I learned from him the\\nfact that they were not accredited to this Convention. The gentleman\\nfrom Pennsylvania proposes by bis amendment to elect delegates from\\nthe State of Florida, that the people have not accredited. To that I\\nam opposed. We are not so hard driven yet as to be compelled to\\nelect delegates from States that do not choose to send any here. It is\\ntrue, the delegate with whom I talked, said to me that if this Conven-\\ntion invited them I believe his words were, extended the olive\\nbranch to them they would come here. I want no delegates here\\nwho have not been accredited here. I do not propose to sit s .de by\\nside with delegates who do not represent the people; who a;e not\\nbound by any thing, when I am to be bound by every thing. [Applause.]", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "168\\nI know, so fur as I have heard, that there is no contest about the\\nseats f -iiin ^Mississippi. By placing them here, in connection with the\\nothers, it is impossible that the sense of this Convention can be fully\\nexpressed, fl shall vote against the amendment, because it brings del-\\negates in here who have not been sent here because it decides a con-\\ntroversy in another State without a hearing; because I have not heard\\nwhether in the State of Missi.-sippi they have been sent here or not. I\\nthink that in all these cases the usages of the Democratic party require\\nthat they should be investigated by a committee before any of them are\\nadmitted upon this floor. [Applause\\nMr. Richardson s speech received the most marked attention, for the\\nreason, he was known to be peculiarly the spokesman of Douglas. He\\nwas always deeply in earnest, and his tone was that of the utmost de-\\ngree of resolution.\\nJMr. Cochrane of New York made a speech, quite impressive in voice\\nand manner, but not containing much matter. He was not in favor of\\neither proposition before the house in its integrity.\\nMr. Kussell of Virginia made a speech in which he said that Virginia\\nintended to cling to the Democracy of the South, and see that they had\\nfiiir play at least. He hi;d seen that day she would have ftiir play.\\nHe urgently appealed for the admission of Southern delegates, regard-\\ning whose seat there was no contest. As to the merits of the proposed\\ntest, he said I suppose we all come here to be bound by the obliga-\\ntions of gentlemen. If we are not gentlemen if we are such knaves\\nthat we cannot trust one another we had better scatter at once, and\\ncease to make any effort to bind each other. [Applause.\\nMontgomery of Pennsylvania now made his sensation speech.\\nMr. Montgomery of Pa. I regret that the previous question was\\nnot sustained this morning. I regret that the time of this Convention\\nhas been taken up in this discussion but as it has progressed thus far,\\nit is due to those who are opposed to the resolution offered by my col-\\nleague, that they should exjiluin their views upon it. My colleague\\n(Mr. Eandall) has said that we are under no pledges. I differ with\\nhim. There is not a Democrat upon this floor who is not under the most\\nsolemn pledges of his honor as a man, and of his integrity as a Demo-\\ncrat, to abide by the nominations that we may make. [Applause.]\\nAnd 1 say to my colleague that if he thinks that he is not bound by\\nthose honorable obligations, the sooner he retires from the Convention,\\nthe sooner he will relieve the Democracy from the imputation which he\\nhas slight to cast upon it. Any man who ctmes into the Convention\\nof a party is bound by its decisions. You turn the party back into\\nchaos if you do not acknowledge that obligation. [Loud applause.]\\nNow what is it we propose that these delegates shall do It is simply\\nthat they shall give that honorable pledge, and declare, in taking their\\nseats, that they will not countenance a Seceders Convention in another\\nplace. [Enthusiastic applause, in which the galleries participated.]\\nThe President The g ntlenien will suspend. The proceedings of\\nthe Convention have again been interrupted by loud clapping and noises\\nfrom the gallery.\\nMany Voices Ou the floor.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "169\\nA Delegate And in the gallery.\\nThe President And in the gallery also, distinctly seen and licard\\nby me.\\nMr. Johnson of Maryland As a delegate from Maryland, I ask\\nthat representatives of tliis State may be cleared from the imputation\\ncast upon them by the disorder in the gallery. Tiiose joining in the\\ndisorder there are not the people of IJaltimore. I ask of the chair that\\nthe gallerie.s may be cleared. [Cries from all parts of the house\\nNo, No, No and hisses.\\nMr. Montgomery We have heard this before at Charleston. I have\\nhad to sic silent when an honorable delegate from the far South was\\nhissed by a whole gallery for casting his vote as he had the right to do\\nas the representative of a sovereign State, and the indignation ami mani-\\nfestation of feeling as exhibited here to-day nowhere exhibited itself\\nthen. [Applause.] I do not justify the applause, but I am here in\\ndefense of my rights, as that man was there in defense of his. Let us\\nhave even-handed justice.\\nTlie President The chair begs leave to remind the gentleman from\\nPennsylvania that on that occasion the hissing was about to produce a\\nclearing of the gallery, and it was at the special request of Mr. Perry\\nof South Carolina that the Convention desisted from that act.\\nMr. Wright of Pennsylvania We were hissed time and again at\\nCharleston.\\n[The manner of Mr. Montgomery in referring to the hissing of Mr.\\nPerry from the Convention at Charleston, was perfectly ferocious. A\\ngrizzly bear could not have presented a more formidable appearance, or\\ngrowled with more ravenous rage.]\\nWo are situated, peculiarly, Mr. President. We are situated to-day\\nas no Democratic Convention has never been in before, in the history of\\nthe party. From the day that the first Democratic Convention assem-\\nbled, up to this hour, we never have had a scene presented to us like\\nthis. i^^For the first time in the history of the Democratic party, a num-\\nber of delegations of sovereign States relinquished and resigned, by a\\nsolemn instrument in writing, their places as delegates upon the floor of\\nthe Convention. They went out with a protest, not against a candidate,\\nbut against the principles of a party, declaring that they were not their\\nprinciple-^ that they did not hold them, and they would not indorse\\nand support them. There, sir, was the divorce of which my colleague\\nhas spoken, They declared it. It was not our act, but theirs. They\\nput themselves from us, and not we from them. And not onlj^that,\\nbut they called a hostile Convention, in the city of Charleston, and sat\\nside by side with us, deliberating upon a nomination of candidates and\\nthe adoption of a platform. Principles hostile to ours were as.serted,\\nand a nomination hostile to ours was threatened. Our Convention was\\ncompelled, under the circumstances, in order to have those sovereign\\nStates represented, to adjourn. We did adjourn. What became of the\\ngentlemen who seceded V They adjourned to meet at Richmond^at an-\\nother time. They did meet at Richmond. It is said by honorable\\ngentlemen that they seek to come back and sit upon this floor with us.\\nNow what did they do at Richmond They adjourned that Convention,", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "170\\nand to-(l:iy they hold it in terrorem over us if we do not come to their\\nterms. [Applau^^e.]\\nWe adjiiurned for wh:it? For the purpose of enabling thnse States\\nin the South, whot^e delegates had seceded, to fill up the phifes of those\\nwho had left us. Now, 1 appeal to the magnanimity, to the Democracy,\\nto the manhood of any delegate here, if such was not your declaration\\nsent greeting to all those States? We told them Fill up your dele-\\ngations and send us back new men. They have filled them up, and\\nthey have sent delegates who claim to represent the people of those\\nStates.\\nBut the gentleman from Virginia tells us that from the State-of\\nFlorida tlje delegates have come to inform us that they have their original\\nauthority which constituted them delegates to the National Convention\\nat Charleston. But he forgets that these same delegates, by a paper\\nwhich remains on file in this Convention, resigned their places and aban-\\ndoned them. They declared that they were no longer delegates to this\\nConvention, and they filed a protest against its proceedings. And not\\nonly that, they were now in a hostile organization to ours. Now, I am\\nin favor, under these circumstances, and their peculiar situation (one\\nwhich has never existed before), of requiring that those delegates shall\\ndeclare, when they are admitted to seats upon this floor, that they are\\nhonorably bound by our action, and by the nominations that we may\\nmake. We owe that to ourselves, to the party, to the country, and to\\nthe Union, which they tell us is to be preserved by the action of those\\nvery delegates. Do we require it of one side Not at all but of all\\nsides. My colleague (Mr. Randall) says he is in favor of perpetuating\\nour glorious Union. So am I. God knows I love the Star Spangled\\nBanner of my country as dearly as he can, and it is because I love the\\ncountry and the Union that I am determined that any man who arrays\\nhimself in hostility to it shall not, by my consent, take a seat in this\\nConvention. [Applause.] I am opposed to disunion, and I am op-\\nposed to the advocates of it. [Applause.] And I am opposed to se-\\ncession, either from this Union or from the Democratic Convention,\\n[Applause.] But when men take this responsibility upon themselves\\nwhen they file among the records of this Convention their determination\\nto have nothing more to do with its action when they make speeches\\nin our hearing, declaring that the principles of the party are not their\\nprinciples, and that they will not be bound to support them then I say\\nit is high time, if they ask to come back, that they shall declare that\\nthey|J}ave changed their minds. [Applause.] What is the history of\\nthe past? Is this a novel feature in the proceedings of National Con-\\nventions? No, sir it is a part of the history of our party that in all\\nsuch contests we have always required such pledges. The gentleman\\nfrom New York (Mr. Cochrane) felt the pressure of this same practice\\nwhen he referred to his own delegation. Only at your last National\\nConvention in Cincinnati, a contest existed between the two wings of\\nthe party in the State of New York. And it was required of the dele-\\ngates from that State, befoi e they had an examination upon their cre-\\ndentials, that they should pledge themselves to abide by the action of\\nthe Couventioa and support the nominees of the Convention. [Ap-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "171\\nplause.] Are you going to insult the empire State of New York t Are\\nyou willing to make an exception against New York in favor of the\\nSouth V [Cries of No no Even-biinded justice is all I am\\nasking for. I ask that we shall adhere to the precedents of the past.\\n[Ajiplause.]\\nThis was the speech of the day. It was considerably more tlian red\\nhot, and by the time he had concluded, the political atin )Sphere was at\\nthe temperature it reached in Charleston just before the explosion.\\nThe speecfi was that of a bold man with a rude sort of ability, and zeal\\ndeveloped out of proportion to his discretion. Still it rai.sed every body s\\nestimate of Bill Montgomery.\\nMr. Ewing of Tennessee\u00e2\u0080\u0094I ask you, gentlemen of this Democratic\\nConvention from all portions of this country, what do you mean Have\\nyou no enemy in front? Have you any States to spare? Have you\\nany States to give up? If you have, I have not yet learned it from\\nthe history of the past, or from the position of parties and of men at\\nthe present moment. We are pursued in front bv a remorseless enemy,\\nadvancing step by step, squadron by squadron, until the field is almost\\nirretrievably lost. And yet from all quarters and all sides of this Con-\\nvention come exclamations of bitterness and words that burn, with a\\nview to open the breach in our ranks wider and wider, until at last,\\nCurtius-like, vye will be compelled to leap into it to close it. What\\nadvantage will this give you? Who will be benefited l)y it?\\nAnd so on, begging for conciliation which means, cut the throat of\\nDouglas He said\\nIt seems to me that gentlemen forget that this is a voluntary Conven-\\ntion for the purpose of selecting a Democratic candidate for the Presi-\\ndency. And how do you expect to succeed Suppose, you Democrats\\nof the North, you nominate your candidate, do you expect to receive\\nthe votes of Florida, Mississippi, Texas and Arkansas, by keeping them\\nout of this Convention, and keeping up a constant fire of invective and\\nreproach upon them Can you affijrd to lose their votes\\nI invoke this Convention to admit Florida, Mississippi and Texas\\nstrike out Arkansas if there is any contest and if there is to be a com-\\nmittee on Credentials, let them report, let the Convention ilecide, and then\\nwe will be prepared to go on with the nominations. But as matters\\nnow stand, the Convention is losing its whole power and frittering away\\nits time upon these little and formal technicalities. I tell you that if\\nthis Convention does not nominate before long within a few days I\\nbelieve that we shall become utterly and irretrievably demoralized and\\nlost.\\nMr. Loring of Massachusetts, who had not been at the Charleston\\nConvention, his substitute being there, said\\nNow, as I surveyed the doings of this Convention at Charleston,\\nwhat did I see? When the platform of principles was discus.sed there,\\nI saw a portion of my party driven, honestly driven, by the declarations\\ntherein made, from that Convention, to take their stand upon what they\\nbelieved to be their constitutional rights. [Applause.]\\nAnd when I come here to-^^ay what do I see? Why, I see these\\ngentlemen presenting themselves here, and, as I insist, only claiming", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "172\\nthose ri2;hts wliich tboy have no power to resign to this Convention.\\nThey claim their right to sit here as members delegated by their sover-\\neign States, and answerable to their sovereign States for their doings\\nhere. Is that not so? Has this Convention any power to expel or re-\\ntain, to bind or loose? Has it any power to accept my resignation\\nAm I not answerable to my constituency, and to them alone to the\\nparty organization that sent me here And when T see those gentle-\\nmen presenting themselves at the doors of this Convention, the first\\nimpulse of my heart is, not to stand here quibbling upon questions of\\ntechnical right, but to open my arms and welcome them in here [ap-\\nplause], and congratulate the Democratic party of this country.\\nNow, sir, wlien I hear judgment passed here upon any one of these\\nStates; when I hear it said that delegates from any one of these States\\nhave seen fit to present themselves at the doors of another Convention\\nwhen I hear the judgment passed upon them that they have not been\\nreaccredited to this Convention, I am astonished I am appalled. I do\\nnot understand such a position. I say that these delegates do not need\\nany reaccrediring. The power they formally possessed is still theirs,\\nand I beg and implore this body to give them their seats here, cordially\\nand freely, and receive them here as members of this body. Sir, what\\nis your nomination without that I have heard, for the first time in a\\nDemocratic Convention, declarations made that there are sections in this\\ncountry. I had thought I must go elsewhere for that. I have heard\\nenough of that in Massachusetts.\\nI beg this Convention to interpose no obstacle to the admission of\\nthese gentlemen. I beg this Convention to invite and assist them to\\ncome back and let me not be compelled now to vote upon a question\\nwhich by a single technical point can in any way throw obstacles in their\\nway. I never wish to vote upon it but it must come. If I must cast\\nmy vote upon it, it shall be for that proposition, whatever it may be,\\nwhich shall open the doors of this Convention, and allow our brethren\\nfreely to come in. [Renewed applause.]\\nGentlenjen, let me tell you, that if the declaration I have\\nheard here this afternoon, that the State of Florida presents no dele-\\ngates to this Convention, is carried out by a vote of this body, and if\\nit is made in that way a represensation of only a portion of the States\\nof this Union, I will resign my seat, and never be bound by its action.\\n[LQud applause from Southern delegates.]\\nMr. King of Missouri made a sensation speech the most unreserved\\nyet in handling delicate subjects. He said\\nAn amendment is offered by the gentlemen from Penn.\u00c2\u00abylvania to\\nselect some four States, in which he says there is no contest, and to\\ngive to delegates of those States certificates accrediting them to this\\nConvention on an equal footing with other delegates. Now, I deny\\nthat that is democratic. If there never had been a whisper that these\\nmen have a roving commission in their pockets to go liore or yonder,\\nand play fast and loose with this Convention [laughter] if they came\\nhere with clean papers, and nobody disputing that they were delegates,\\ntheir credentials ought to go to a committee. That is the usage of the\\nparty.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "173\\nIf I find, from the report of the coimiiitteo, that they are accredited\\nto a Convention antagonistic to tliis and if 1 find tliey liavo been there\\nand elected their officers and taken a recess, and have come here like\\nthe man who went to a camp-meeting becau.se he had the right to go\\nthere, then the amount of it is that they are not entitleil to seals here.\\nTbey have come here for mischief. [Applause.]\\nNuw, if I have no authority, still i verily believe that they intend,\\nif they cannot have things as they want them here, to go hack to ilich-\\nmond, and the powers of heaven and earth will be invoked to bring\\ninto condemnation the acts of this Convention. And they intend to\\nput in nomination some man who has neither heels nor bottom enouo h\\nto get the nomination here, and put him up against tlie nomination of\\ntlie Democratic party. [Applause.] And if it turns out, as 1 believe\\nthe facts to be, in reference to their credentials, that they have no ri^bt\\nhere, so help me God, they will never get my vote. [Applause.] But\\nif the majority of the Convention overlook all that, and let them in, I\\nwill greet them, because they are entitled to my rej-pect.\\nNow, as regards Florida, they throw themselves upon their dignity,\\nlike South Carolina. [Laugbter.] They scouted the idea of coming\\nhere, and they are not accredited to come, and yet these gentlemen\\nwant to bring them in. I say it is the height of absurdity. iSouth\\nCarolina, I am sorry to have it to say, is the only State that has pre-\\nserved her dignity. [Laughter.]\\nLet any man study the history of Barnwell Khett and his coadju-\\ntors lu the days of Jackson, and he will find that they would rather\\ndissolve the Union than keep it together. [Applause.] Look at the\\ntone of the Charleston Mercury since the Charleston Convention. It\\nis independent enough to tell the truth, and it does tell the truth.\\nThose delegates who come here from the seceding States are the asso-\\nciates of those men who say that while the Democratic party has kept\\nits organization together nationally it was a stumbling block to disunion.\\nI wonder, when they come to Richmond, if they will try to keep them-\\nselves from being made an entering wedge to render it asunder. I do\\nnot know, but 1 trust they will indulge ni no such scheme.\\nBut: these secessionists tell us that Virginia will go, and then as a\\nmatter of course, her daughters, Tennessee and North Carolina, would\\nfollow their mammy. And even Kentucky, Maryland and ^Missouri\\nwould take the same course. They then say, if you nominate Douglas\\nit will be a sectional nomination as much as that of Seward or Lincoln^\\nand it would not be long before you would call us Free-Soileis, and even\\nthe veriest Abolitionists. Even now it is said that we are a bogus Con-\\nvention. High legal authority at Washington (the Attorney General,\\nI suppose), [laughter], says we are functus officio. Sq^ I suppose if\\nthey do not succeed in disorganizing us, and go to Richmond, then\\nthey will call us a bogus concern. In conclusion, he called upon the\\nConvention to hold on to the national organization. He did not believe,\\nif eight or ten men could destroy the Union, it was worth preserving.\\n[Applause]\\nHe further remarked, that if the delegates from Southern States who", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "174\\nwould not aliiile the decision of the Convention were to go out, there\\nwere other men from the same States just as good, ready to come in.\\nMr. West of Connecticut proceeded to review the speech of Mr.\\nLoring\\nf; A portion of delegates have seceded, have withdrawn. Has a man\\nfrom Connecticut V has a man from New England i has a man from the\\nNorth declared that if certain things were not done they would with-\\ndraw from the Convention V No, sir not one. We come here in good\\nfaitb, with our preferences, it is true, and determined to vote and act\\nlike freemen. If you vote us down we will go home and hurrah for\\nyour candidate the best we can. [Applause.]\\nDcleo-ates have withdrawn the Hon. gentleman from Massachusetts\\n(Mr. Loring), with whom I have not the honor of an acquaintance,\\nsays that they were driven from this Convention. I ask, in the name\\nof God, how driven Has any thing been done here that has not been\\ndone in accordance with the principles and usages of the party Yet\\nthese gentlemen have left upon the records of this Convention their sol-\\nemn protest when they withdrew. And for what did thej Avithdraw\\nSimply because the majority would not bow down and give them the\\nplatform they desired such a platform, too, as four years ago they did\\nnot ask. [Applause.] I ask the indulgence of this Convention while\\nI read a single sentence from the protest of the Mississippi delegation,\\nalthough the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Loring) rises in his\\nplace and informs the members here that those delegates were driven\\nout of the Convention\\nAs the representatives of Mississippi, knowing her wishes; as hon-\\norable men regarding her commands we withdraw from the Conven-\\ntion, and, as far as our action is concerned, absolve her from all connec-\\ntion with this body, and all responsibility for its action.\\nWho did that Did the North do it\\nYou came together with us in common council in Cincinnati, and\\nthere you gave your unanimous vote for the platform adopted there.\\nFour short years have gone their round, and now you ask us to turn\\nabout and place ourselves in a position which would be absolute death\\nto our whole Democratic party of the North. [Applause.] We have\\nfouo-ht the IMa(.-k Republicans at home we have been denounced from\\nthe pulpit and from the press, and been hissed in the street. And now\\nwhen we come here and ask you to reaffirm the same principles which\\nevery leading man of your party in Congress in the House of liepre-\\nsentatives and the Senate of the United States have proclaimed, you\\neven turn around and taunt us with being Black Republicans. That\\nis too true, and applause.]\\nGentlemen talk of the vote of the South being necessary to carry\\nforward and elect the candidate for President. Are not also the votes\\nof the North necessary to do that? Change places with us let us\\nmake our platform, revive us with life, being and vigor, send cur repre-\\nsentatives to Congress, return our Senators and elect Governors while\\nyou go down and tight the enemy, as we have done, and see how you\\nwould like it. [Applause.]\\nIf you are determined to rend this party and the Union, our homes", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "175\\namid the hills of New England are as safe and as sacred as yours upon\\nyour sunny plains with your thousands of slaves around you. [Ap-\\nplause.] And we simply ask that you shall not take a po ition, and\\nforce use to take a position, which will be tantamount to absolute ruin\\nwhen we return to our constituents. As to your taunts and threats we\\nheed them not.\\nThe gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Loring) asks, Will you\\nbe bound? Certainly; shackle us by your party trammels make\\nyour decrees here, simply give us the right to speak when we have that\\nrio ht give us the right to vote in common with you, and i pledge you\\nmy word you will never hear the word secession from the North.\\n[Applause.]\\nAn old-fashioned gentleman from Missouri, Mr. Hunter, now gave\\nhis colli-ague, Mr. King, some attention. Mr. Hunter stated that Gov.\\nKino- was not a Democrat, but a sort of Benton man. Mr. Hunter\\nfurther remarked\\nWhen he was told, in Charleston, that Mr. Douglas would not\\nstand upon a certain platform, he had said this Union could get\\nalone just as well if five hundred Douglases were dead and out of the\\nway. [Applause.] If Mr. Douglas were to die to-night, there were\\nfive hundred men in the Democratic party who would make just as good\\na President as he. Mr. Douglas had done and was doing exactly what\\nBenton had done for the party in Missouri divided and broken them\\nup. The contest between Benton and the people of Missouri, had beea\\nupon the -Jackson resolution. His colleague (Mr. King), was Governor\\nof Missouri when that resolution was first introduced, and was supposed\\nto be in favor of it. But before the end of the session, he turned\\nagainst it, and has been with Col. Benton ever since.\\nThe old gentleman s quaint remarks put the Convention in a good\\nhumor.\\nMr. Avery of North Carolina The remarks that have fallen from\\nthe gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Montgomery), and from Illinois\\n(Mr. Merrick), require a reply at my hands. The speeches of the\\ngentlemen, I suppose, indicate the sentiments of their hearts, a senti-\\nment I would not entertain toward my Northern brethren to be Presi-\\ndent of the United States. It looks to us at the South as if it were\\nthe settled purpose to drive us from this Convention. But there is got\\nto be more said than has been said, before they can drive me from this\\nConvention.\\nMr. Avery was but very imperfectly heard, but the spirit of his\\nremarks was such as to irritate the Convention again.\\nMr. Atkins of Tennessee appealed for harmony in the usual way, and\\nwith the common meaning, and called the previous question. The call\\nwas sustained by an almost unanimous vote, only Illinois and Michigan\\nvoting against it. The Convention then adjourned.\\nIt was felt at the close of this long and warm debate (it occupied\\nnear sis consecutive hours), that the general effect had been to damage\\nMr. Douglas, whose enemies took courage. The friends of Mr. Doug-\\nlas, however, gathered in great strength with their bands of music\\nabout the streets, and concentrated iu front of the residence of Hon.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "176\\nReverdy Johnson, one of th\u00c2\u00abir head-quarters, with their bands of\\nmusic, and there were soon many thousands packed together there.\\nThe first speech was by Mr. Powell of New York, who was for\\nDouglas. But a large portion of the crowd was against Douglas, and\\nswayed over toward the Gilmore House, where deafening and persistent\\ncries of Yancey, Yancey, were raised. Ex-Senator Soule was the\\nprincipal speaker from the steps of Mr. John-on s house, though\\nClaiborne of Missouri made a violent speech Judge Meek of Ala-\\nbama and Barry of Mississippi spoke to the Southern crowd. So there\\nwere two mass meetings of the Democracy side by side, both in full\\nblast for about three hours, and the speakers of each substantially ia\\neffect, and sometimes in express words, reading the opposing crowd out\\nof the party. The Southerners were the longest winded, and kept up a\\ntorrent of speaking and roar of shouting for four hours. It was sur-\\nprising to see that so much of the outside pressure was against Douglas.\\nThere was such a tremendous and incessant yelling for Yancey, that a\\nfew minutes before twelve o clock, that gentleman appeared and made\\none of his handsome silver-toued speeches, which sati?fied the -crowd.\\nFor the last hour of the Southern meeting, the Douglasites congregated\\non the opposite side of the square, and gave three cheers for Douglas\\nat short intervals and kept a band of music playing lively airs. This\\nconflict of jurisdiction was for the most part good-humored. There\\nwas a surprising number of people in the streets during the early part\\nof the night the strangers in the city being numbered by tens of thou-\\nsands, whilst citizens swarmed forth enjoying the pleasant air, the\\nexcellent music discoursed by half a dozen hands, and the excitement\\nof the politicians who were in fervent heat and violent commotion.\\nSECOND DAY\\nTuesday, June 19tli, 18G0.\\nConvention met, with the expectation on the part of those who had\\nnot been informed as to the action taken in caucus, of proceeding at once\\nto vote upon the amendment of Mr. Gilmor. Mr. Church a. ~ked unan-\\nimous consent for the purpose of making a motion that would harmonize\\nthe Convention. It was given. Mr. Church had had a consultation\\nwith Mr. Gilmor and said\\nMr. Gilmor of Pennsylvania has consented to withdraw entirely\\nbis amendment, to my amendment, to Mr. Howard s original resolution,\\nand 1 am prepared to do away with the latter portion of my amendment\\nas offered yesterday, and make it only a reference to the connnittee on\\nCredentials.\\nMr. Gilmor of Pennsylvania arose and announced in person that he\\nwould withdraw his amendment.\\nMr. Church again arose and withdrew the latter portion of his amend-\\nment, a^king that it be read by the Secretary as modified.\\nThe Convention now came to a vote upon the naked proposition to\\nrefer all contested seats to the committee on Credentials, and there was", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "177\\nno dissenting voice. The resolution as amended and adopted is as fol-\\nlows\\nResolved, That the credentials of all persons claiming seats in this Convention,\\nmade vacant by the secession of delegates at Charlc;ston, be referred to the com-\\nmittee on Credentials, and said committee are hereby instructid. as soon as\\npracticable, to examine the same, and report the names of persons entitled to\\nsuch seats.\\nSome changes were announced by the various delegations in the com-\\nmittee on Credentials, which committee is constituted as follows\\nMaine C. D. Jameson.\\nNew Hampshire A. P. Hughes.\\nVermont Stephen Thomas.\\nMassachusetts Oliver Stevens.\\nRhode Island George H. Brown.\\nConnecticut James Gallagher.\\nNew York-Del. De Wolf.\\nNew Jersey A. R. Speer.\\nPennsylvania H. M. North.\\nDelaware John H. Bradley.\\nMaryland\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W. S. Gittings.\\nVirginia E. W. Hubbard.\\nNorth Carolina R. R. Bridges.\\nSouth Carolina G. B. F. Perry.\\n(Jeorgia Vacancy.\\nFlorida do.\\nAlabama\u00e2\u0080\u0094 do.\\nLouisiana Vacancy,\\nMississippi do.\\nTexas do.\\nArkansas do.\\nMissouri Judge Crum. Chairman.\\nTennessee W. H. Carroll.\\nKentucky\u00e2\u0080\u0094 G. F. Wood.\\nOliio Mr. Stecdman.\\nIndiana S. A. Hall.\\nHlinois W. Allen.\\nMichigan J. G. Parkhurst.\\nWisconsin Mr. Sniitii.\\nIowa Mr. Finch.\\nMinnesota\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H. II. Sibley.\\nCalifornia Mr. Gregory.\\nOregon Gov. Stevens.\\nThere was some difference of opinion as to the time to whicli an ad-\\njournment should be taken, there being, of course, no business which\\ncould be transacted in the absence of the committee on Credentials,\\nwith the cases of half a dozen delegations pending. An adjournment\\nwas carried to five o clock.\\nEVENING SESSION.\\nA great deal of difficulty was experienced by the delegates in obtain-\\nadniission to the Convention. A new set of tickets had been issued,\\nbecause the old ones had been counterfeited, and crowds obtained ad-\\nmission who had no business among the delegates. But the two sets\\nof tickets were greatly mixed. A good many delegates had not under-\\nstood the order for a change of tickets, and there was an immense\\namount of trouble and botheration outside. When the Convention was\\ncalled to order, Mr. Fisher of Virginia rose to a question of privilege,\\nand denounced the trained bands at the doors of the Convention and\\nthe officers of the Convention. He talked of secession from the Con-\\nvention and a dissolution of the Union, in case delegates were not better\\ntreated. Mr. Stetson of New York quietly ridiculed the gentleman of\\nVirginia for his portentous speech about a small matter. The chair\\nstated the imperative necessity that existed for guarding the doors. A\\ncommunication from the committee on Credentials was read. It was\\nbadly written and badly read and as read, it desired the Convention\\nto continue its sessions. The chair said he would state the substance\\nof the communication and this was received with roars of laughter.\\n12", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "178\\nThe communication was, of course, that the committee wanted time,\\nand that it iv^quested to be permitted to continue its sessions. There\\nbeing no business before the Convention, it adjourned in good humor.\\nDuring the evening the politicians were full of excitement about the\\nproceedings in the committee en Credentials, a personal diflficulty be-\\ntween Messrs, Hindmaa and Plooper of Arkansas, having given them\\na high flavor.\\nAt the time the Convention adjourned there was a heavy shower, and\\na great many people remained in the theatre there were several persona\\ncalled out to amuse the crowd. Mr. Fisher of Virginia was called out\\nby Marshal Rynders, who led the foolishness. Mr. Fisher got along\\ntolerably well until he pronounced emphatically emfat a-li something\\nbeing troubling his vocal organs. Upon this he was cheered down.\\nThen citizen Work of Mississippi known here as the man with the scar-\\nlet vest was called out, and had much to say of this degenerate age.\\nEven the Democracy was degenerating. The old gentleman swung his\\nhat and cane about his head, scattering his papers fi.r and wide, and\\ntold of his fiiendship for Andrew Jackson, making mention of the fact\\nthat there were no Jacksons in this dejirenerate age.\\nTHIRD DAY.\\nWednesday, June 20th, 1860.\\nThe theatre was greatly crowded this day, and thousands swarmed\\nabout the various public places of the city, discussing the ciisis. There\\nwas a slight controversy between Messrs. Clark and King, of Missouri,\\nabout Col. Benton s democracy; and a communication was read from\\nthe Florida delegation, protesting that they were not seeking admission\\ninto the Convention. [The fact is they were waiting to be asked, and\\nrather solicitous than otherwise on the subject of an invitation.]\\nMr. Ludlow of New York stated the committee on Credentials\\nwould not be ready to report until 5 o clock in the afternoon, and the\\nConvention took a recess until that time, when Mr. Stuart of Michi-\\ngan stated the committee would not be able to report until next day;\\nand the Convention adjourned. The city was meanwhile full of rumors\\nabout the action of the committee on Credentials, and probable results;\\nand the controversies between the opposing factions were becoming more\\nembittered every hour.\\nFOURTH DAY.\\nThursday, Juno 21st, ISGO,\\nThere was an immense crowd in attendance upon the Convention\\nthis day. All the circles of the theatre were densely filled, and the\\nfloor allotted to delegates was encumbered by outsiders. Soon after the", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "179\\ncall to order, the floor in the centre of the Convention jjave wny. The\\naccident wis not serious in itself, but the piinie w;is diin^^erons. Dele-\\ngates rushed in masses to the windows, and clinihed. niiutily as tnon-\\nkeys, over the chairs of the reporters seeking, accordinjo; to appear-\\nances, to place themselves under the protection of the President. As\\nsoon as quiet was restored, another sensation was produced hy a person\\nin the gallery spreading his utnhrella, and suspending it over a chan-\\ndelier in which the gas was burnino;, as the day was quite dark. There\\nwas danger that the umbrella would take fire; and in case it did, all\\nfelt that a dreadful alarm would spread throughout the building. A\\nhundred voices ordered the man with the umbrella to withdraw it from\\nthe gas, but he stretched bis neck to see what the row was about, and\\nwas astonished to sec every b dy looking at him. He heard the call\\nat last, and obeyed the multitudinous commandment. The Convention\\nnow took a recess of an hour for the repair of the floor. Delegates\\nwere ordered to give up their tickets upon re-entering the ball, that the\\nmasses of intruders could be kept out.\\nUpon reassembling, the repnrfs were received from the committee on\\nCredentials. Mr. Krum of Missouri presented the majority report, as\\nfollows\\nMAJORITT REPORT.\\nTo the rrmdent of the National Democratic Convention\\nSir\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The committee upon Credentials rei-pccUuily report, that prior to the\\nadjournment of this Convention at Charleston, ou the 3d of May last, the fol-\\nlowing: resolution was adopted\\nResolved, That when this Convention adjourns to-day, it adjourn to reassem-\\nble at Baltimore, Md., on Monday, the 18lh day of June, and that it be respect-\\nfully recommended to the D; mocratic pany of the several States to make\\nprovision lor supplying all vacancies in their respective delegations to this\\nConvention when it shall reassemble.\\nOn the reassembling of this Convention at Baltimore, the following resolution\\nwas adopted i- i\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0FeMdved, That the President of the Convention be authorized to issue tickets\\nof admission to seats in this Convention to the delegates Irom the States of\\nArkansas, Texas, Florida, and Mis.\u00c2\u00abissippi. in which States there are no contesting\\ndelegations and that in those Stales, to wit, Delaware, Georgia, Alabama, and\\nLouisiana, where there are contesting delegations, a committee on Cr\u00c2\u00ab deutials\\nshall be appointed, by the several delegations, to report upon said States.\\nBy the further order of the Convention, the claims of all other pi rsone\\nclaiming seats were also referred to your committee. Your committee, thus\\ninstructed, have proceeded to examine the claims of all persons \\\\\\\\hich have\\nbeen broat -ht before them. Your committee found that the delegations ot the\\nseveral States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Morica bad\\nbecome wholly vacant by reason of the secession of the entire original d^ legar\\ntions from this Convention the delegations of the States of Georgia, Arkansas,\\nand Delaware had become vacant in part only from the same cause. In no other\\nState had there been any secession but individual seats were contested in the\\ndelegations from the States of Massachusetts and Missouri.\\nAside trom the above, no question contesting the seats of delegates was\\nbrought to the notice of your committee. After patient and full luvestigatioQ,\\nyour committee arc of opinion that the persons hereinafter named in tie fa-\\ntions. which are herewith submitted as a part of this report, are severally enttled\\nto seats as delegates in this Convention, and they respectfully recommend that\\nthey be so received by this Convention.\\nFrom the State of Florida, no credentials of any dtdcgates were presentc d_ to\\nyour committee. From the States of Missi\u00c2\u00bbiippi and Texas, no coutesting", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "180\\nclaimants appear. From Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, and Arkansas, there\\nappeared contesting claimantH for all the vacant seats. Of the four votes to\\nwhich the State of Arkansas is entitled, the now sitting delegates represent and\\nvote one. The seats representing the remaining three votes had become vacant\\nby the secession of the original delegates. These seats were all contested, one\\nset of contestants consisting of six persons, and the other set consisting of three\\npersons. Your committee are of opinion, that all of these contestants should be\\nadmitted to seats as delegates, with the power of voting as hereinafter declared\\nin the resolution herewith reported in that behalf.\\nIn the Fifth Congressional District of Massachusetts, it appears that B. F.\\nHallett and another person were appointed as delegates to this Convention, and\\nK. S. Chattee and another person were appointed suljstitutes. That Mr. Hallett,\\nnot being al)le to attend at Charleston, notified Mr. Chaft ee of that fact, who\\nthereupon proceeded to Charleston, presented his credentials, and was duly ad-\\nmitted to his seat, which he continued to fill at the time of the adjournment of\\nthis Convention to Baltimore. At the reassembling of the Convention at Balti-\\nmore, Mr. Hallett appeared, claimed the seat which had been awarded to Mr.\\nChaffee, and receiving the entrance ticket from the chairman of the Massachusetts\\ndelegation, actually took possession of the seat. Your committee were of\\nopinion that, when Mr. Hallett had notified Mr. Chaffee that he could not fulfill\\nhis duty as delegate, and Mr. Chattee, repairing to Charleston, had been duly\\nadmitted to this Convention, his rights to his seat became absolute, and not sub-\\nject to be superseded at the pleasure of Mr. Hallett, and that Mr. Chattee is now\\nthe rightful delegate to this Convention.\\nIn the Eighth Electoral District of Missouri the facts are precisely parallel to\\nthe above Massachusetts case. The only ditterence is in terms, Johnson B.\\nClardy having been elected delegate, and John O Fallau, Jr., having been elected\\nalternate. Your committee, for reasons above stated, are of opinion that Mr.\\nO Fallau is now the rightful delegate.\\nIn regard to the contesting claimants from Georgia, your committee have to\\nreport that the evidence adduced before your committee by the respective parties\\npresented a great variety of novel as well as complexed facts and questions,\\ntouching the rights of either parties to seats. Your committee, in attempting\\nto solve these difficulties, encountered embarrassments on every hand. After a\\nmost patient consideration of the whole matter, it seemed to your committee\\nthat the only way of reaching a satisfactory adjustment, is to admit to seats both\\ndelegations, with power to each of said delegations to cast one-half of the vote\\nof the State, in the manner expressed in the resolution herewith submitted.\\nThis solution seems equitable to your committee, and therefore they recommend\\nthe adoption of said resolution. All of which is respectfully submitted.\\nJOHN W. KRUM, Chairman.\\n1. Resolved, That George H. Gordon, E. Barksdale, W. F. Barry, H. C. Cham-\\nbers, Joseph R. Davis, Beverly Matthews, Charles Clark, Wm. L. Featherstou,\\nP. F. Slidell, C. G. Armistead, Wm. F. Avant, and T. J. Hudson are entitled to\\nseats in this Convention, as delegates from the State of Mississippi.\\n2. Resolved, That Pierre Soule, F. Coltman, R. C. Wicklifie, Michael Ryan,\\nManuel White, Charles Brenveneau, Gustavus Leroy, J. E. Morse, A. S. Herron,\\nM. D. Colmar, J. N. T. Richardson, and J. L. Walker are entitled to seats in this\\nConvention, as delegates from the State of Louisiana.\\n3. Resolved. That R. W. Johnson, T. C. Hindman, J. P. Johnson, Leroy CaroU,\\nJ. Gould, and John A. Jordan be admitted to seats, as delegates from the State\\nof Arkansas, with power to cast two votes and that Thos. H. Bradley, M.\\nHooper, and D. C. Cross be also admitted to seats, as delegates from the same State,\\nwith power to cast owe w^ i; and in case either portion of said delegates shall\\nrefuse or neglect to take their said seats, or to cast their said votes, the other\\nportion of said delegatt*, taking seats in this Convention, shall be entitled to\\ncast the entire three votes of said State. v\\n4. Resolved, That (iuy M. Bria^i, F. R. Lubbock, F. S. Starkdale, E. Greer, H.\\nR. Riinn.ls, Thos. P. Ochiltree, M. W. Cov Wm. H. Parsons, R. Ward, J. F.\\nvCrosby. B. Burrows, and Van U. Manning are entitled to seats, as delegates from\\nTexas.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "181:\\n5. Eexolved, That James A. Bayard and Wm. G. Wliitoloy are entitled to seiit!\\nfrom the county of New Gastle, Delaware.\\nti. A esolved, That R. L. Challee, who was duly adiniltiMl at Charleiston as a\\ndelegate Ironi tht! Filth Uonf;ressional District ot Mas^sachuHett.-*. is slill entitled\\nto said seat in this Convention, and that Benjamin F. Hallett, who has assumed\\nsaid seat, is not entitled thereto.\\n7. K olied, That John O Fallon, Jr., who was duly admitted at Charleston as\\na delegate from the Eighth Congressional District of Missouri, is still entitlid to\\nsaid seat in this Convention and that John B. Clardy, who has assumed said\\nseat, is not entitled thereto.\\nS. Resolved, That R. A. Barker, D. 0. Humphrey. John Forsyth, Wm. Garrett,\\nJ. J. Seivels, S. C. Posey, L. E. Parsons, Joseph (J. Bradley, Thomas B. C(joper,\\nJames AVilliams. 0. H. Bynum, Samuel W. Wheatley, L. V. B. Martin, Jolin W.\\nWarrack, W. R. R. Wyatt, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas M. Mathews, and Nur-\\nment McLeod are entitled to seats in this Convention, as delegates Irom the\\nState of Alabama.\\n9. Resolved, That the delegation from the State of Georgia, of which H. L.\\nBenning is chairman, be admitted to the Convention, with power to cast one-half\\nof the vote of said State and that the delegation from said State, of which Col.\\nGardner is chairman, be also admitted to the Convention, with ])ower to cast\\none-half of the vote of said State and if either of said delegations refuse or\\nneglect to cast the vote as above indicated, that in such case the delegates pres--\\neut in the Convention be authorized to cast the full vote of said State.\\nMr. Stevens of Oregon presented the\\nMINORITY REPORT.\\nTo llie PreJiident of Ihe Democratic National Convention\\nSir\u00e2\u0080\u0094 We, the undersigned, members of the committee on Credentials, feel\\nconstrained to dissent from many of the views and a large portion of the action\\nof the majority of the committee in respect to the rights of delegates to seats\\nreferred to them by the Convention, and to respectfully recommend the adoption\\nof the following resolutions\\n1. Resolved, That B. F. Hallett is entitled to a seat in this Convention as a\\ndelegate from the 5th Congressional District of Massachusetts.\\n2. Resolved, That Johnson B. Clardy is entitled to a seat in this Convention as\\na delegate from the 8th Congressional District of the State of Missouri.\\n3. Resolved, That James A. Bayard and W.G. Whiteley are entitled to seats in\\nthis Convention as delegates from the State of Delaware.\\n4. Resolved, That the delegation headed by R. W. Johnson are entitled to seats\\nas deleuates in this Convention from the State of Arkansas.\\n5. Resolved, That the delegation of which Guy N. Bryan is chairman, are en-\\ntitled to seats as delegates in this Convention from the State of Texas.\\nti. Resolved, That the delegation of which John Tarleton is chairman, are en-\\ntitled to seats in this Convention as delegates from the State of Louisiana.\\n7. Resolved, That the delegation of which L. P. Walker is chairman, are en-\\ntitled to seats in this Convention from the State of Alabama.\\n8. Resolved, That the delegation of which Henry L. Benning is chairman, are\\nentitled to seats in this Convention from the State of Georgia.\\n9. R Qlved. That the delegation from the State of Florida, accredited to the\\nCharleston Convention, are entitled to take seats in this Convention, and cast\\nthe vote of Florida. ,.141,\\nThe principles involved in these resolutions, and the facts on which they rest,\\nare of such gravity and moment, that we deem it due to the Convention and to\\nourselves to set them forth with care and particularity. We diller radically\\nfrom the majority of the committee, both in much of the action we reciunmend\\nto the Convention and the principles which should control such action. It is a\\nquestion not simply of the integrity, but the existence of the Democratic party\\nin several States of this Union. It is a question whether the Democratic party\\nin said States shall be ostracised and branded as unworthy of alHluUion with the\\nnational organization.\\nIt is a question whether per.sous irregularly called, or withdrawing from the", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "18^\\nregular ConvonHon, shall have the panction of the National Convention to raise\\nthe tia^r of rchi llioii against their respective State organizations. It is aques-\\ntioii whether the tlonvention itself shall repudiate its own deliberate action at\\nClrarlestor). We do not magnify the importance of these questions when we as-\\nsert that upon their proper solution depends the fact as to whether there shall\\nbe a x\\\\atioiKil Democratic party or not. The ta-k will not be difficult to show\\nthat the action recommended by the majority of the committee is grossly incon-\\nsistent, and should be reprobated and condemned by this Convention. But to\\nthe task, without further preamble.\\nReserving to the closing portion of this report the cases of contested seats in\\nthe Massachusetts and Missouri delegations, we come at once to the eases of the\\ndelegates who withdrew from the Charleston Convention. This Convention, on\\nthe eve of its adjournment at (Charleston, and in the great cause of the restora-\\ntion of harmony to our distracted party, respectfully recommended to the\\nDemocratic party of the several States to make provision for supplying all va-\\ncancies in thi ir respective delegations to this Convention when it shall reassem-\\nble. We call particular attention to the wording of the resolution. Certain\\ndelegates had withdrawn. They had placed on the Convention the reasons of\\ntheir withdrawal.\\nThey still, however, were the representatives of the Democratic party of their\\nseveral States. Their withdrawal was not a resignation. It was not so considered\\nby the Convention. The vacancies referred to had reference to the contin-\\ngency of vacancies at the time of remsemUing, and the resolution proposed to pro-\\nvide for supplying them. The Convention did not presume to touch the ques-\\ntion as to whether the withdrawal of the delegates constituted a resignation,\\nnor had it any right to interfere in the matter. A resignation must be made to\\nthe appointing power, and to be complete and final must be accepted liy the\\nappointing power. It was well known on the adjournment of the Convention at\\nCharleston, that the withdrawing delegates de sired the instruction of their sev-\\neral constituencies before deciding on their future course.\\nSuch was the spirit and purpose of their deliberations at Charleston. They\\nconsulted their respective constituencies. In every case except the case of\\nSouth CaroliTia, their constituencies directed or authorized them the vacancies\\nbeing tilled as contemplated in the resolution of the Convention to repair to\\nBaltimore, and there in earnest efforts with their brethren of the Convention, to\\nendeavor once more to unite their party, and prumote harmony and peace in\\nthe great cause of their country. The resolution of the Convention did not pre-\\njudge the qu(!stion, since so strenuously raised, that their withdrawal was a re-\\nsignation, but left the whole; question to the said delegates, and their respective\\nconstituencies, to the end that every State of this Union might be represented\\nin Baltimore.\\nThe committee has passed resolutions, declaring by a vote of 1(1 to 9, that the\\ndelegation from Louisiana headed l y Pierre Soule, by a vote of 14 to 11, that\\nthe delegation from Alal)ama headed by Parsons, by a vote of 13 to 10, and that\\nhalf of each delegation claiming seats from Georgia, are entitlid to scats in the\\nConvention. The resolutions recommended by the undersigned to the Conven-\\ntion, declare the riglit of the delegations elected to Charleston, with vacancies\\nsupplied, as contemplated in the resolution of the Convention to which refer-\\nence has been made, and accrt dited to Baltimore, to said seats. The committee\\nwhich thus recommend tlu irregular delegates from these three States, have re-\\njected the irregular delegates troin Delaware, and admitted the Charleston dele-\\ngates.\\nIt has admitted irregular delegates from Arkansas, and rejected a portion of\\nthe Cliarleston delegates, as modilied by the tilling of vacancies. It has admit-\\nted the (Charl(!ston) delegates from Mississippi, by a vote of 23 to 2, and the\\n(Cliarleston) delegates from Texas, by a vote of 1!) to 6. The fact that delega-\\ntions are not contested, does not establish tlu; right to seats in the Convention.\\nThere may be irregular delegates without cont(^st, and there may be a contest\\nbetween two sets of irregular delegates. The right of persons to seats as dele-\\ngates is to be det(!rmined by the fact us to whether they were appointed by the\\nconstituency which they claim to represent, and appointed according to the\\nusages of said constituency. Wanting these essential prerequisites, they are not", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "183\\nentitled to scats, oven if there be no contestants and liaviriR Ihi sc, lliiir right\\nto scats is not impairtd or afl cctcd by contestants.\\nThe committee, in deciding- by a vote of 23 to 2. (hat the Charleston delegates\\nfrom Mississippi are entitled to seats in the Baltimore Convention, iiavc d\u00c2\u00abcid(d\\nrightly, just because tliey were duly accreditid to luuleston. liave ncvtr since\\nresigned, and hav(! received instructions from (lie State of Missi-^sijipi. Ilircaigh a\\nConvention called of the Democratic Executive Committee of tliu State, to re-\\nturn to Baltimore.\\nThe Charleston delegates, both from Alabama and Georgia, stand in precJBcly\\nthe same position. They were also duly accredited to Charleston. They with-\\ndrew, and never resigned. They returned to their respective constituencies.\\nThe Executive Committec^a in these States, as in the case of Missis^ippi. called a\\nConvention of the party. The Conventions met. Tiie delegates, as in the case\\nof Mississippi, submitted their action to tlie Conventions, and these Conventions\\napproved their course, continued their powers, and accredited them to Baltimore.\\nTheir rights stand on precisely the same basis, and are sustained by the same\\nauthority, as in Mississippi. The contestants were appointed by nobody author-\\nized to meet according to the usages of the party in these States, and are not\\nentitled to any consideration whatever.\\nIn the case of Alabama, the Convention assembled on the call of the Demo-\\ncratic Executive Committee (addressed to the Democracy of the State), was very\\nlargely attended, nearly every county in the State having been represented. A\\nsmall numl)er of persons, however, issued a notice, which was pul)iislied in only\\nthree newspapers in the State in two papers the notice was without signers,\\nand in the third paper (Mol)ile Register), it was signed by John Forsyth and\\nthirty-five others. The notice in one paper called upon all Democrats and all\\nother pa-son. in the second paper upon Democrats and all conservatives, and in the\\nthird paper (Mobile Register), upon the peojjle of Alabama to hold county meet-\\nings and send delegates to a State Convention to be held in Montgomeiy or\\nSelma, the -Ith day of June, to appoint delegates to Baltimore. Twenty-eight\\ncounties only out of fifty-two were represented.\\nIt was the coming together of persons from all parties outside of the regular\\norganization to striixc down the Democracy of the State. It was a call without\\nany official authority whatsoever. We thus find the Democracy of the State as-\\nsembling in Convention according to the usages of tlie party, and we find at the\\nsame time persons assembling at the call of unauthorized individuals. In the\\nformer case the whole State was represented. In the latter about half of the\\nState. Yet the majority of the committee have indorsed the action of the De-\\nmocracy of Alabama and have repudiated, contrary to all pr(cedent. usage,\\nright and justice, the action of the former; not only this, they have n pudiated\\nthe principles of their own action in the case of the Mississippi delegation.\\nBut the action of the majority of the committee in the case of Georgia has\\ngone one step further in its disregard of the acknowledged principles of the\\nparty. The Convention which the committee put on an equality with the regu-\\nlarly authorized Convention, consisted in great part of persons who just parti-\\ncipated in the regular Democratic Convention of the State. The regular called\\nConvention consisted of nearly four hundred delegates, representing nearly all\\nthe counties of the State. The resolutions of the Convention having been\\nadopted by a vote of 290 to 41, these latter withdrew from the Convention and\\norganized anew. Thus the majority of your committee have exalted the pre-\\ntensions of less than one-eighth of the delegates ol the State Convention to an\\nequality with the rights of seven-eighths of the Democracy of the State.\\nIn the case of Louisiana, the old Convention, which originally appointed the\\ndelegates to Charleston, was reassembled, on the call of the Executive Commit-\\ntee of the State, and by a decisive majority accredited the (Charleston delegates\\nto Baltimore. The reasons for this action have their parallels in the case of\\nTexas and Delaware, which have received the sanction of the committee. In\\nTexas, the delegates come back accredited by the Democratic Rxeeutive Commit-\\ntee simplv it being a manifest impossibility, from want of time, to assemble\\nthe party in a State Convention and in Delaware, under the usages and rules of\\nthe party, the old Convention was reassembled. In Loui-iana there was time to\\nassemble the old Convention, but not to order an election of delegates in the", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "184\\nseveral parishes to meet a new Convention. The Executive Committee did\\nevery thing; it eoiihi to cjct the expression of the views of the State. It reas-\\nsembled the old Convention, nearly every parisli in the State being represented,\\nand accredited the Charleston delegates to Baltimore.\\nBut the Convention whose delegates to Baltimore have been indorsed by the\\nm;iJority of your CDnimiltee. was calhd tit the instance of two local organizations,\\nand of Dr. Cottmaa, a former member of tiie National Executive Committee of\\nthe party. The calls were somewhat conflicting. The notice did not reach\\nmany parishes in the State. Only twenty parishes out of thirty-nine are pre-\\nteiidid to be represented, and in several of these there is no reason to doubt the\\nfact that the delegates did not leave behind them a single constituent agreeing\\nwith them in sentiments. In not a single pari.sh was this call res^ponded to by\\na majoritj- of tlie Democratic voters. The Convention only represented a very\\nsmall portion of the party it was totally irregular, besides.\\nThe majority of the committee object to the action of the old Convention on\\nits reassembling at the call of the Executive Committee, on the ground that it\\nwas defunct and could not be brought to life. Yet it indorses the action of the\\nother Convention on the call in part of the equally defunct member of the\\nNational Committee, Dr. Cottman. Following the usage of Delaware, by the\\nExecutive Committee of Louisiana, though manifestly a necessity for the reasons\\nstated, has no weight as a precedent with this majority. Conceding their ground\\nof its being irregular, seats as delegates should be given to the body called by\\nthe regular authority and not to the body assembled by no responsible authority\\nwhatever, and especially when the former represented the great body of the par-\\nty and the latter did not. All these considerations, however, have been disre-\\ngarded by the majority of the committee, who have persisted, by a vote of 16 to\\n9, to award the seats as delegates to the representatives of the disorganizing mi-\\nnority Convention.\\nIn the case of Arkansas, the majority of the committee propose to divide out\\nthe seats to all applicants. In this State the Democratic party were about as-\\nsembling in their District Conventions, consisting of delegates from the several\\ncounties of the State, for the nomination of members of Congress, when their\\ndelegates return d from Charleston. As in Texas, there was not time for the as-\\nsembling of a Stale Convention. In these District Conventions, delegates were\\nselected to represent the party at Baltimore. A call was however issued in a\\nMemphis paper, without any signature whatever, calling upon the people of the\\nNorthern District to assemble in mass meeting at Madison, to elect delegates to\\nBaltimore.\\nSome four or five hundred men from ten to twelve counties thus assembled and\\nappointed three delegates to Baltimore. The majority of the coiumittee pro-\\npose to allow these men to vote in the Convention. There are twenty-seven\\ncounties and twenty-five thousand voters in the district. Col. Hindman, a dele-\\ngate, elected by the District Convention, to Baltimore, was elected to Congress,\\nin 1858, by eighteen thousand majority, and was unanimously renominated by\\nthe Convention which selected him as a delegate to Baltimore. These facts show\\nthe significance of the action of the District Convention in electing delegates to\\nBaltimore as representing truly the sentiment of the Democratic party of the\\ndistrict, and they exhibit the utter insignificance of the anonymously called\\nConvention, for it will be borne in mind that it was held at a central point, at\\nthe western terminus of the railroad from Memphis, and where several stage and\\nwagon routes mei t. They were elected as delegates generally from the State to\\nthe National Convention, with the hope that they might get in without any defi-\\nnite claim.\\nIn Massachusetts and Missouri, the contest is between principals now holding\\ntheir seats and substitutes who held their places at Charleston. In each case\\nthe principal was detained at liome by sickness in his family. In each case the\\nprincipal gave notice to his substitute that hei*hould take his seat at Baltimore.\\nThe majority of the committee liold that the principals, elect(;d as such Ijy the\\nproper Conventions, are not entitled to their seats and luive reported according-\\nly. U e hold that a substitute is appointed .simply to act in the absence of the\\nprincipal, and that Iiis authority ceases whenever ilie principal makes his app ar-\\nance and takes his seat. We emphatically declare that such has been the iuva-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "18$\\nriablo usa^o in all Conventions of the party, wlictbcr National or State, and\\nthat it is based on reason and the repressentutive prineipU\\nAH which is respectfully submitted,\\nIRA AC i. STKVRNS. Orejron.\\nA. R. SPHKFJ. New Ji rsey.\\nH. M. NORTH. Pcnnsvlvania.\\nJNO. II. liKWLEY. Ihlaware.\\nE. W. IIUHBARn. Virsjiiiia.\\nR. R. BRIDGERS. North Carolina.\\nVVM. H. CARROLL, Tennessee.\\nGEO. II. MORROW, Kentucky.\\nD. S. GREGORY, California.\\nIn the points of ditference between the majority and minority reports of the\\ncommittee on Credentials, I concur in the conclnsions of the minority report in\\nthe cases of Georgia, Alabama, Missouri and Massachusetts.\\nAARON V. HUGHES, New Hampshire.\\nMr. Stevens It will be observed that the committee are nearly\\nunanimous, and the two reports agree in the ca.se of Texas, Missouri\\nand Delaware. I am requested to state that the delegate from Tennes-\\nsee dissents from a portion of the conclusion of the committee, but votes\\nunder instruction of his co-delegates; also that the gentleman from\\nNew Hampshire agrees with the report of the minority, in the case of\\nGeorgia, Alabama, Massachusetts and Missouri.\\nMr. W. S. Gittings of Maryland also made a report, which he sub-\\nsequently withdrew. Mr. Krum took the floor, and after a few remarks\\nyielded it to Mr. Stevens. He was appealed to, at this moment, to\\nmove the previous question on the report. The question then was\\nwhether he had yielded temporarily or entirely to Mr. Stevens, and\\nwhether he could resume the floor. There was a long contest on the\\npoint of order, ending by Mr. Stevens moving the previous question.\\nHe could well afford to do this, as his report was universally acknowl-\\nedged to be a remarkably strong document, presenting the case of the\\nseceders in the clearest possible light and with singular skill. It at\\nonce became evident that New York was shaky. Several of her dele-\\ngates made appeals for an adjournment, that New York might have time\\nfor consultation While the Convention was struggling toward an ad-\\njournment, Mr. Butler of Mass. announced that the tickets furnished\\ndelegates had been forged, and that crowds of intruders admitted by\\nforged tickets were on the floor of the Convention.\\nIn order to accommodate New York, the committee took a recess until\\nhalf-past four o clock. The demand of New York for time to consider,\\nwas a surprise, as it was known that she had been in caucus on the\\nvery point regarding which she was undecided, and had concluded, by a\\nsmall majority, to .sustain the majority report. At the hour to which\\nthe Convention took a recess, the theatre was crowded in every part\\nexcept the seats of the New l^orkers, which were vacant. Mr. Ludlow\\npresently appeared and apologized for New York, and asked more time.\\nIn a hopeless sort of way the Convention adjourned. The Douglas\\nmen were rather disheartened. They would have voted against an ad-\\njournment, but it would have been useless. New York was profoundly\\nanathematized for her dishonest and cowardly procrastination. The\\nimmediate impression was that the New Yorkers were at the last mo-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "ment proposinoj to slaughter Douglas. The streets were full of excited\\nmen, and the atmosphere electric with a personal war-spirit. Ju^t before\\nthe a(ijf)urnniont, Mr. Montgomery, mejnber of Congress from Penn-\\nsylvania, miule a disturbance about tickets of admission to the hall, and\\nMr. Randall of Pa., questioning his statements, he spoke of Mr. Ran-\\ndall in a very sneering way as This poor old man. A sensation\\nscene followed. After adjournment, a son of Mr. Randall wiiited for\\nMr. Montgomery on the street, and rushini; up, dealt him several severe\\nblows in the face, causing the blood to flow profusely. Montgomery,\\na powerful man, recovering from the shock of the assault, knocked\\nRandall, a slender little fellow, down. The crowd then separated them.\\nThere was inten.^e excitement throughout the evening. Rumors as to\\nthe action of the New York delegation were constantly circulated.\\nAbout nine o clock it became understood that New York had agreed to\\nsustain the mnjority report. Her delegation had divided upon the sev-\\neral propositions of the report, and had sustained them all by a consider-\\nable majority. This news greatly reassured the friends of Mr. Douglas,\\nand they became exultant. They had been, however, gradually for a\\ncouple of days thinning out, and the outside pressure turning against\\nthem. However, tliey rallied as usual in Monument Square, and were\\nmore noisy and arrogant than ever. The Southerners also congregrated\\nand, according to custom, cried Yancey, Yancey. The Plugs\\nalso turned out strong, and diversified the exercises by many times\\ngiving Three cheers for Bell and Everett.\\nThese mass meetings at night did much to exasperate the pending con-\\ntroversy. They were held side by side, and the prevailing sentiment in\\neach was hostility to the other. The friends of Douglas denounced\\nthe others as disorganizers, bolters, traitors, and disunionists. The\\nSoutherners called the Douglasites a sneaking species of Abolitionists.\\nDouglas delegates from Pennsylvania declared that, if any of the dele-\\ngation from that State, or any other Northern State, refused to confirm\\nthe nomination of Douglas, or joined the Seceders Convention, they\\nwould not dare return to their families. At the steps in front of the\\nresidence of Reverdy Johnson, the true test of Democracy would ap-\\npear to be devotion to Douglas. At the balcony of the Gilniore House,\\nthe test seemed to be hostility to Douglas. It was the habit of hun-\\ndreds of noisy fellows to appear every night in the square and cry\\nYancey, Yancey, at the top of their voices for hours. Yancey on\\ntwo occasions responded. He said he was neither for the Union per se,\\nnor against it per se, but he was for the Constitution. He denounced\\nthe friends of Douglas as small men, with selfish aims as corrupt and\\nabolitionized. They were ostrich-like their head was in the sand of\\nsquatter sovereignty, and they did not know their great, ugly, ragged\\nabolition body was exposed.\\nMr. Hunter of Louisiana, in announcing the action of the committee\\non Credentials, said there were men on that connnittee who should not\\ncross his threshold and a lady of his family should not speak to them.\\nThey were men without honor or decency. The Douglas men had blowed\\nand bragged about their honor, and in so doing they lied, and now\\nthey lied. They talked of carrying the cotton States. The Louisiana", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "187\\ndelegation was reacly to enter into bonds to bet one million of dollars that\\nDouglas could not carry one of those States. He dared Douglas men\\nwho had tulked of betting to face the music of that proposition. He\\nspoke of Douglas and his followers as bankrupts in porket and\\nprincij)le, as profligates and impostors and cowards. The Douglas\\noratois were all the while proclaiming the greatness and honor of their\\ncandidate and assuming that all opposition to him was treason to the\\nparty, and must be ranked as Southern disunionisin or Northern Aboli-\\ntionism. On the outskirts of the mass meetings every evenit:g were to\\nbe seen scores of groups of men, crowding close and talking, imt loudly,\\nbut with deep emphasis, every group concentrating and intensifying the\\ngreater antagonism of the mass meetings. The Southerners would be\\nclaiming all the rights of the slaveholding States as co-eijual States,\\nand the Northerners by turns beseeching their opponents for a living\\nchance for success, and threatening them with an Aboliiion President.\\nThe controversies would become personal. A Douglasite would sneer-\\ningly ask What office has old Buchanan given you-V And the\\nresponse would be: What office has Douglas promised you?\\n31eanwhile personal difficulties were occurring at short intervals, and\\nthe cauldron boiled and bubbled more and more. There was the\\nHindman and Hooper difficulty, the Whiteley and Townsend difficulty,\\nand the Montgomery and llandall difficulty, and fitty others of less\\nnote.\\nFIFTH DAY\\nB.A.LTIMORE, Friday, June 22d.\\nDefinite action was expected this morning, and there was an immense\\ncrowd in the circles of the theatre, while the floor, by the adoption of\\nprecautions against interlopers, was tolerably clear.\\nThe President stated that the Convention had, on the previous day,\\nordered the main question to be now put. The majority and minor-\\nity reports from the committee on Credentials were now read. Mr.\\nGittings of Maryland withdrew the report which he had offered. Mr.\\nKrum of Missouri, as chairman of the committee on Credentials, was\\nallowed to close the debate upon it, and made a reply to Stevens s\\nminority report. It was ineflfectual, however, entirely fjiiling to break\\nthe force of the document by the gentleman from Oregon.\\nThe Hon. Bedford Brown of North Carolina now attempted a speech.\\nHe said it would give him infinite pleasure to pour oil upon the\\nagitated waves when Mr. Gorman of Minnesota called him to order.\\nMr. Stevens of Oregon wished to utter a single sentence, but Stuart of\\nMichigan objected, and insisted upon proceeding to business.\\nThe first question was upon the proposition of Mr. Stevens of Oregon,\\nwhich was moved as a substitute for the report of the committee. Just\\nhere occurred an illustrative specimen of the style of ruling by Mr.\\nGushing. On the motion of Mr. Stevens, the chair said\\nThe chair understands that motion to be equivalent to a motion to", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "188\\nstrike out and insert, and although the chair feels that there may be\\nsome doubt as to what should be the construction of a case like this, of\\nindeed what is the true construction of the universal rule that a motion\\nto strike out and insert is indivisible, without going into the question\\nwhether that universal declar-itiou applies to that motion itself or what\\nis behind the motion, the chair has on reflection come to tlie conclusion\\nto rule that this motion to strike out and insert is indivisible, and there-\\nfore unless overruled by the Convention, he will be prepared to pui the\\nquestion to the Convention upon the series of resolution in block.\\nHaving come to that conclusion upon of courje a prima facie reflec-\\ntion upon the subject, subject to being overruled, the chair had conceived\\nthat if the resolution oflfered by the gentleman from Oregon should be\\nadopted on a motion to strike out and insert, then they would be divisi-\\nble, and the separate propositions contained in the report of the minority\\nwould be susceptible of being voted upon separately; or if the motion\\nof substitution should be rejected, then upon the Convention being\\nbrought to a vote upon the resolutions presented by the gentleman from\\nMissouri (Mr. Kruin), those propositions would be separable.\\nMr. Cochrane of New York appealed from the decision of the chair\\nand made a speech on the point, and then withdrew his appeal. There\\nwere now loud cries of Question, question. The vote was taken\\non the substitution of the minority for the majority report. At this\\nmoment the chair made a suggestion, that in the declaration of the vote\\nbeing of a momentous character in its party relations, involving\\nmuch interest and emotion, there should not be any manifestations of\\napprobation. The chair remarked\\nIf the Convention will itself set that example of dignified decorum\\nin the gravest of all possible questions in which any of us can be\\nplaced, it will be surely for the advantage of the Convention and of our\\ncommon public interests.\\nThe vote was as follows\\nAyp:s Maine 2|-. New Hampshire k, Vermont I5, Massachusetts\\n8, Connecticut 2i, New Jersey 4, Pennsylvania 17, Delaware 2, Mary-\\nland 65, Virginia 14, North Carolina 9, Arkansas k, Missouri 5, Ten-\\nnessee 10, Kentucky 10, Minnesota 1|, California 4, Oregon 3 100^.\\nNavs Maine 5^, New Hampshire 4^, Vermont 85, Massachusetts\\n5, Rhode Island 4, Connecticut 3^, New York 35, New Jersey 3,\\nPennsylvani i 10, Maryland Ik, Virginia 1, North Carolina 1, Arkan-\\nsas Missouri 4, Tennessee 1, Kentucky 2, Ohio 23, Indiana 13,\\nIllinois 11, Michigan 6, Wisconsin 5, Iowa 4, Minnesota 2;| 150.\\nWhile the States were called on this vote, there was the most pro-\\nfound and solemn silence. The decisive vote of New York was given\\npromptly, and caused a fluttering, as it was known to decide the result\\nof the contest at that point.\\nThe resolutions of the regular report of the committee were now\\nreported and read by the Secretary in their order.\\nThe vote was then taken on the first resolution admitting the regular\\ndelegation from Mississippi, and it was adopted by ayes 250, nays 2^.\\nThe nays were, Pennsylvania 2, Iowa", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "189\\nMr. Rynders of New York Mississippi Viaving been admitted, I ask\\nif she is not entitled now to vote V\\nMr. Cochrane of New York said that until the last branch of the\\nresolutions had been disposed of the whole question liad not been put\\nand determined.\\nThe vote was then taken on the second resolution, admitting the\\nLouisiana contestants, and it was adopted by yeas 153, nays 1)8, as\\nfollows\\nYeas Maine 51, New Hampshire 4k, Vermont 3^^. Massachusetts\\n5. Rhode Island 4, Connecticut 3^, New York 35, New Jersey 2|,\\nPennsylvania 10, Maryland 2h, Vn-ginia 1, North Carolina 2, Arkan-\\nsas h, Missouri 4, Tennessee 2, Kentucky 2, Ohio 23, Indiana 13,\\nIllinois 11, Michigan 6. Wisconsin 5, Iowa 4, Minnesota 2| 153.\\nNays Maine, 2i, New Hampshire -J, Vermont Massachusetts 8,\\nConnecticut 2^, New Jersey 4^, Pennsylvania 17, Delaware 2. Mary-\\nland 55, Virginia 13, North Carolina 8, Arkansas 5, Missouri 5, Ten-\\nnessee 10, Kentucky 10, Minnesota 11, California 4, Oregon 3 98.\\nThere was no longer any doubt about the disruption of the Conven-\\ntion. It was merely a question of time, and the time short. Some of\\nthe delegates seemed singularly pleased their good humor was admira-\\nble. Others took it hard, and pursed up their brows, twisted their\\nmouths in the firmest possible attitude, and looked at once fierce and\\nsad. Dean Richmond was the pivotal personage. There was not a\\nminute but some one was whispering in his ear. Peter Cagger found\\nsomething funny all the while, and laughed until his face was red as the\\nheart of a beet.\\nThe vote having been declared in the Louisiana case, the third reso-\\nlution was read as follows\\nResolved, That R. W. Johnson, T. C. Hindman, J. V. Johnson. De Rosey Car-\\nroll, J. Gould, F. W. Hoadley and John A. Jordan be admitted to seuts as dele-\\ngates from tht! State of Arkansas, with power to cast kvo votes, and that Thomas\\nH. Bradley, M. Hooper and D. C. Cross be also admitted to seats as delegates\\nfrom the same State, with power to cast one vote and in case either portion of\\nsaid delegates shall refuse or neglect to tal e their said seats or to cast their said\\nvotes, the other portion of said delegates taking seats in this Convention shall\\nbe entitled to cast the entire three votes of said State.\\nThe question was then taken on the first part of the resolution, ad-\\nmitting R. W. Johnson and five others of Arkansas, to seats in the\\nConvention, with power to cast two votes, and it was adopted by yeas\\n182, nays 69, as follows\\nYeas\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Maine 5^ New Hampshire 5, Vermont 5, Massachusetts 13,\\nRhode Island 4, Connecticut 6, New York 35, New Jersey 7, Penn-\\nsylvania 10, Delaware 2, Maryland 2^, North Carolina 1, Missouri 9,\\nTennessee 11^, Ohio 23, Indiana 13, Illinois 11, Michigan (i, Wiscon-\\nsin 5, Iowa 3^, Minnesota 4 182.\\nNays\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mame 2^, Pennsylvania 17, Maryland 51, Virginia 15,\\nNorth Carolina 9, Tennessee 1^, Kentucky 12, Iowa 1^, California 4,\\nOregon 3\u00e2\u0080\u009469.\\nThe vote was then taken on the second branch of the resolution, and\\nresulted ayes 150, nays 100^, as follows", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "190\\nYeas Maine 65, New Hampshire 5, Vermont 4^, Massacliu\u00c2\u00abetts 5,\\nRhode Island 4, Connecticut 0^, New York 35, New Jersey 2k, Penn-\\nsylvania 10, Maryland 2, Virginia 1, North Carolina 1, Missouri 4,\\nTennessee 2, Kentucky 2, Ohio 23, Indiana 12, Illinois 11, Michigan\\n6, AVisconsin 5, Iowa 4, Minnesota 2^ 150.\\nNays IMaine 2k, Vermont Massachusetts 8, Connecticut 2^,\\nNew Jersey i^, Pennsylvania 17, Delaware 2, Maryland 6, Virginia\\n14, Nortii Carolina 9, Missouri 5, Tennessee 11, Kentucky 10, Min-\\nnesota .i, California 4, Oregon 3 100^.\\nArkansas declined to vote.\\nThe remainder of the resolution v^ as adopted without a vote by\\nStates.\\nThe 4th resolution was read, which is as follows\\nResolved, That Guy M. Bryan. F. R. Lubbock. F. S. Stockdale, E. Greer, H. R.\\nRunnels. Tlios. P. Ochiltree, M. W. Covey, Wni. H. Parsons, R. Ward, J. F.\\nCrosby, 11. Burrows and Van H. Manning are entitled to seats as delegates from\\nTexas.\\nThe resolution was agreed to yeas 250, nays 2|.\\nThe 5th resolution was read as follows\\nResolved, Tliat James A. Bayard and Wm. G. Whiteley are entitled to seats\\nfrom the conuty of New Castle, Del.\\nIt was adopted.\\nThe 6th resolution was then read, as follows\\nResolved, That R, L. Chaffee, who was duly admitted at Charleston as a dele-\\ngate from the Fifth Congressional District of Massachusetts, is still entitled to\\nsaid seat in this Convention, and that Benjamin F. Hallett, who has assumed\\nsaid seat, is not entitled thereto.\\nThe question being taken upon this resolution by States, it resulted\\nyeas 138, nays 112^ as follows:\\nYkas Maine bk, New Hampshire 2^, Vermont 3, Massachusetts 3,\\nRhode Island 4, Connecticut 3^, New York 35, New Jersey 1^, Penn-\\nsylvania 0^, IMaryland 21, Missouri 4, Ohio 23, Indiana 13, Illinois\\n11, Mtchigan 6, Wisconsin 5, Iowa 3^, Minnesota 21 138.\\nNays Maine 25, New Haiupshire 23, Vermont 2, Massachusetts\\n8^, Connecticut 2^, New Jersey 4^, Pennsylvania 171, Delaware 2,\\nMaryland 5^, Virginia 15, North Carolina 10, Arkansas 1, Missouri\\n5, Tennessee 12, Kentucky 12, Iowa 1-^, Minnesota 1^, California 4,\\nOregon 3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 112^.\\nThe resolution was accordingly adopted.\\nMr. Stuart of Michigan I move to reconsider the vote just taken,\\nand to lay that motion upon the table.\\nThe Presiilent The chair will receive and enter the motion, to be\\ndisposed of at a future time.\\nMr. Stuart make the saine motions upon each of the other votes\\nthat have preceded, including the vote upon the minority report, in or-\\nder that the motions may be entered as distinct motions.\\nThe Piesideut The chair receives the motions to reconsider and to", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "191\\nlay on the table, and the Secretary will enter thein, and note the propo-\\nsitions to which thoy !ii\u00c2\u00bbply-\\nThe 7th resolution was then read, as follows\\n7. Reaolved, That John O Fallon, Jr., who was duly iHlmitti d at Charleston as\\na delegate! from the Eighth Congressional Dislricl of Missouri, is still entitled\\nto said seat in this Convention and that Jolin IJ. Clardy, who has absumed\\nsaid scat, is not entitled thereto.\\nThe question being then taken by States upon the resolution, it re-\\nsulted yeas ISSI, nays 112 as follows:\\nYkas Maine 65, New Hampshire 21, Vermont 3, Massachusetts 5,\\nRhode Island 4, Connecticut 85, New York 35, New Jersey H. Penn-\\nsylvania 10, jMaryland 2^, Arkansas h, Missouri U, Ohio 23, Indiana\\n13. Illinois 11, Michigan 6, Wisconsin 5, Iowa 3^, Minnesota 2^\\n1381.\\nNays Maine 11, New Hampshire 2^, Vermont 2, Massachusetts 8,\\nConnectieut 2.2, New Jersey 5|, Pennsylvania 17, Dehiware 2, Mary-\\nland b\\\\, Virginia 15, North Carolina 10, Arkansas H, Missouri 6,\\nTennessee 12, Kentucky 12, Iowa Minnesota 1^, California 4, Or-\\negon 3 112.\\nThe resolution was accordingly adopted.\\nMr. Cessna of Pennsylvania moved that the vote just taken be re-\\nconsidered, and that the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table.\\nThe motion was received and ordered to be entered upon the journal.\\nThe 8th resolution was then read, as follows\\n8. Befolved, That R. A. Barker, D. C. Humphrey. John Forsyth, Wm. Garrett,\\nJ. J. Seivels, S. C. Posey. L. E. Parsons, Joseph C. Bradley. Thomas B. Cooper,\\nJames Williams, 0. H. Bynum, Samuel W. Wheatley. L. V. B. Martin, John W.\\nWarrack, W. R. R. Wyatt, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas M Mathews and Nor-\\nment McLeod, are entitled to seats in this Couventioa as delegates from the\\nState of Alabama.\\nThe question being then taken by States upon this resolution, it re-\\nsulted yeas 148^, nays lOli as follows:\\nYeas Maine fti, New Hampshire 2i, Vermont 4^, Massachusetts 5,\\nRhole Island 4, Connecticut 3^, New York 35, New Jersey 3, Penn-\\nsylvania 10, Maryland 2, Virginia i, North Carolina U, Arkansas\\nMissouri 4, Tennesssee 2, Kentucky U, Ohio 23, Indiana 13, Illinois\\n11, Michigan 6, Wisconsin 5, Iowa 4, Minnesota 2^ HB^.\\nNays Maine 2^, New Hampshire 2, Vermont Massachusetts 8,\\nConnecticut 2^, New Jersey 4, Pennsylvania 17, Delaware 2, Mary-\\nland 6, Virgirna 14i, North Carolina 8^, Arkansas i, 3Ii souri 5,\\nTennessee 10, Kentucky 10^, Minnesota li, California 4, Oregon 8\\nlOU.\\nNew Hampshire declined voting.\\nThe resolution was ace-ordingly adopted.\\nMr. Cessna of Pennsylvania moved to reconsider the vote just taken,\\nand that that motion be laid upon the table.\\nThe motion was received and ordered to be entered upon the journal.\\nThe 9th and last resolution of the series was then read, as follows:\\n9. Resolved, That the delegation from the State of Georgia, of which H. L.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "192\\nBenning is eliairman, be admitted to the Convention, with power to cast one-\\nbait of the vote of said Slate and that the delegation from said State, of which\\nCol. Gardner is chairman, be also admitted to the Convention, with power to\\ncast our -lialf of the vote of said State, and if either of said delegations refuse\\nor neglect to cast the vote as above indicated, that in snch case the delegates\\npresent in the Convention be authorized to cast the full vote of said State.\\nThere was a contest as to whether this resolution was divisible. The\\nchair ruled that it was divisible.\\nMr. Atiiins of Tennessee I trust the Convention will proceed to\\nconsummate its work. [Applause.] We have nearly completed this\\nwork, and I hope that no gentleman opposed to these resolutions will\\ninterpose any thing to delay the work of this Convention. [Applause\\nand hisses.] The man that hisses is a viper and a coward. [Applause.]\\nMr. Seward of Georgia attempted to obtain the floor, and presented a let-\\nter which he wished read. Objections were made and it was not read.\\n[It was understood that the letter was from Col. Gardner, the chair-\\nman of the contesting delegation from the State of Georgia, notifying\\nthe Convention that they withdrew from all further contest.]\\nMr. Jones of Tennessee At the request of several gentlemen I\\nwithdraw my call for a division of the question.\\nThe President stated the question to be upon agreeing to the entire\\nresolution, as originally reported by the Secretary to the Convention.\\nThe question being then taken by States upon the resolution, it was\\nrejected yeas lOH-^, nays 145 as follows\\nYeas Maine 4, New Hampshire 2, Vermont 85, Massachusetts 5,\\nRhode Island 4, Connecticut 3i, New Jersey 2, Pennsylvania 9^,\\nMaryland 2, Virginia 1, North Carolina 1, Arkansas i, Missouri 4,\\nOhio 23, Indiana 13, Illinois 11, Michigan 6, Wisconsin 5, Iowa 4,\\nMinnesota 2^ 106i-.\\nNays Maine 4, New Hampshire 3, Vermont li, Massachusetts 8,\\nConnecticut 8|, New York 35, New Jersey 5, Pennsylvania 17^, Del-\\naware 2, Maryland 6, Virginia 14, North Carolina 9, Arkansas Mis-\\nsouri 5, Tennessee 12, Kentucky II5, Minnesota 1-|, California 4,\\nOregon 3 145.\\nDuring all this voting the Convention wa.s strangely silent. Not a\\ndrum was heard, nor a funeral note. There was not a rattle of ap-\\nplause nor a hiss for an hour and a half.\\nThe vote of New York thirty-five no, in the case of Georgia,\\ncaused a buzz of astonishment.\\nMr. Church of New York said his delegation had no opportunity to\\nvote on the admission of delegates from Georgia, as they deemed right,\\nand they now proposed to make a motion that the delegates from Geor-\\ngia, of which Mr. H. L. Benning is chairman, be admitted to seats in\\nthe Convention.\\nMr. Hallett of Massachusetts (author of the Cincinnati Platform)\\ngot the floor and made a speech, though Stuart of Michigan raised\\npoints of order on him. The parliamentary contest was highly interest-\\ning. Mr. Hallett had, however, voted with the majority on the ninth\\nproposition, and had moved to reconsider. In the midst of the confu-\\nsion, the main question wss put on the resolution admitting the delega-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "193\\nt on, of which Mr. Benning of Georgia was chairman, to seats, and it\\nwas adopted.\\nMr. Hallett was again recognized on the floor, and made his speech,\\nexplaining the circumstances of the contest for his seat. He entered\\ninto the general subject, saying\\nAnd you are now upon the eve of what After having severed your\\nConvention from eight of the Southern States, you are now upon the\\nvery verge are about to consummate that blow which shall send out\\nthe other six or seven States, and then what is this Convention V Nay,\\nwhat is the great Democratic party of this Union Nay, in God s\\nname, what is the Union itself?\\nHe appealed to New York to come forward and save the country.\\nHe said\\nWhen the great question is, shall you have any Union to which we can\\ngive a President, and shall you have any Democratic party to elect a\\nPresident, why not then come forward, young men, and sustain this\\nmeasure of reconciliation and sustain the Union Let it not be broken\\nup. I say to you this is no light matter. I say to you the impending\\ncrisis is only the more awful because it is silent. It is hushed, it is\\ntrue, but it is here all around me. You know, sir, every honorable man\\nknows, that if the resolutions of that committee which I am now desir-\\ning to be reconsidered prevail in this Convention, that you have a dis-\\nsevered Convention. The States that are standing knocking at your\\ndoors will never come in and pass under the yoke. Southern chivalry\\nwill prevent that, [xipplause.] The States that are here now will ad-\\nhere to the Democratic Union, or they will adhere to their own South.\\nThey will never stay here to the disgrace of their brother States outside.\\n[Applause.]\\nAnd then what will you do Make a nomination V a nomination\\nwhich, tendered to any man, is but the ruin of that man, and the ruin\\nof that party which desires it. I stand here to-day a personal friend\\nof the man whose friends are about to sacrifice him, as I view it.\\n[Laughter and applause.] Ah, I would rather see him elevated to the\\nPresidency than any other man in this Union, if it could be done with-\\nout the destruction of this party without the dissolution of this Con-\\nvention. But no men here say, let us have this man or none; we\\nwill have no other but him. Where is the discriminating justice which\\nshall impel you to the adjustment of this great question\\nMr. Hallett moved that the Convention take a recess until five o clock.\\nMr. Stuart of Michigan moved to lay the motions to reconsider upon\\nthe table. This was a movement to consummate the action of the Con-\\nvention on the report from the committee on Credentials.\\nMr. Russell, chairman of the Virginia delegation Mr. President, I\\nwish, before the Couvention adjourns, to make an announcement in be-\\nhalf of the Virginia delegation. I wish to do it at the proper time.\\n[Sensation.]\\nThis was the announcement of Virginia that she was about to lead\\nthe column of the new secession.\\nA motion, that when the Convention adjourn it be to meet at five-\\n13", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "194\\no clock in the aftornooo, was put, the vote taken by States, and lost\\nyeas S2i, nays 168.\\nMr. Cessna of Pennsylvania called up the several motions to recon-\\nsider, with the accomf)an)ing motions to lay on the table.\\nThe President stated the first question to be upon layino; upon the\\ntable the motion to reconsider the vote by which the Convention refused\\nto substitute the resolutions reported by the minority of the committee\\non Credentials for those reported by the majority of said committee.\\nUpon this question the State of Tennessee demanded a vote by States,\\nwhich was ordered.\\nThe question being then taken by States, the motion to lay on the\\ntable was not agreed to yeas 1131, nays 138^ as follows\\nYeas Maine 5^, New Hampshire 3, Vermont 4|-, Massachusetts 5,\\nRhode Island 4, Connecticut 3^, New Jersey 3|, Pennsylvania 10,\\nMaryland 2, North Carolina 1, Arkansas Missouri 4^, Kentucky 2,\\nOhio 23, Indiana 13, Illinois 11, Michigan G, Wisconsin 5, Iowa 4,\\nMinnesota 2i 113^.\\nNays Maine 2i, New Ilampshire 2, Vermont i, Massachusetts 8,\\nConnecticut 2^^, New York 35, New Jersey 3i, Pennsylvania 17, Del-\\naware 2. Maryland 6, Virginia 15, North Canjlina 9, Arkansas Mis-\\nsouri 4^, Tennessee 12, Kentucky 10, Minnesota 1^, California 4,\\nOregon 3 138^.\\nAnd so at the last moment New York flinched from the consumma-\\ntion of the work preparatory to the division of the Convention. Her\\nvote, cast in the negative on this ballot, left the question still open, that\\nis, the action taken by the Convention might be reconsidered. There\\nwas an intense sensation in the Convention, and a recess until seven\\no clock in the evening was immediately taken.\\nDuring this recess, the interest of the thousands of politicians con-\\ncentrated in Baltimore, and indeed of the whole country within\\nreach of the telegraph, was wrought up to the highest pich. The\\nNew York delegation was denounced on every side as composed of\\ntricksters and barijainers. The fiiends of Douglas lost faith in them,\\nand emulated the Southerners in showering epithets upon them.\\nA rumor of a despatch f om Djuglas to Dean Richmond, virtually\\nwithdrawing his name, leaked out. Its existence was fiercely denied\\nby the stiaight Douglas men. Richardson was very emphatic in say-\\ning there was not one word of truth in the report and many disbe-\\nlieved it, because they belie vexl Richardson to be the only medium\\nthrough which Douglas would communicate with the Convention.\\nFrienils of Richardson said it would be a personal insult to him, if\\nDoug as should despatch fo Dean Richmond. There was a despatch,\\nhowever, as afterward appeared. It was as follows\\nW.s riNOTOx J mu 22d\u00e2\u0080\u0094 9J A. M.\\nTo Dean RrcuMONi). Chairman of Delecration. lialtiniore\\nThe steadi uss willi which N w York has smtaiiied in; will justify a word of\\ncouasel. The f-affty of the cause is the paramount duty of every Democrat.\\nThe unity of tb p.irly and the mainteuance of its [)riiic!iiles inviolate are more\\nimportant than the election or defeat of any individual. II my eiiemies are\\ndctermimd to divide and destroy the Democratic parly, and. jjeilinps, the coun-\\ntry, rallier t aau see me elected, aud if the uaity of the party caa be preserved,", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "195\\nand its a,\u00c2\u00abcondancy porpetiiatod by drnppinp: m) name arul unitinp; npnn porno\\nothiT r. liiilili! Non-iiitcrvoriMoii and Uiiion-loviiij;- Democrat. I hcscicli yon. in\\nConsiiltLitioii with onr friends, to jjiirsiKi that course which will sav(? th- party\\nand the conntry, without regard to my individnal iiitcrests. I mean all this let-\\nter implies. Consult freely and act boldly for the right.\\n(Signed) S. A. DOUOLAP.\\nIt would appear that this was sent to Richmond, because a letter con-\\ntaining similar sugizestions, had been forwarded to Riehiird on, who kept\\nit in his pocket. Douglas finding that Richnrd.-on would not coimnu-\\nnicate his wish to withdraw to the Convention, telegraphed to Ilichniond,\\nwho suppressed the despatch, as Richardson had suppressed the letter.\\nIt was a-^serted in Baltimore, and believed in political circles, that\\nduring this recess New York offered to reconsider her vote on the Lou-\\nisiana case, and make up the Convention out of the original materials,\\nwith the exception of the Alabama delegation. They could not agree\\nto admit Yancey Co. But the seceders and their friends would not\\nhear to any such proposition. They scorned all compromise, assuming\\nthat their rights were undoubted and their title clear; they would not\\nbargain away any portion whatever of their claims.\\nEVENING SESSION.\\nThe long looked-for Crisis a hundred times postponed, arrived at\\nlast. The Convention was called to order a few minutes after t:even\\no clock.\\nThe President stated the pending question to be upon reconsidering\\nthe vote by which the Convention refused to substitute the resolutions\\nsubmitted upon the part of the minority of the committee on Creden-\\ntials in place of the resolutions submitted by the majority of said com-\\nmittee.\\nThe question being taken by States, the motion to reconsider was not\\nagreed to yeas 113, nays 139 as follows:\\nYeas Maine 2^, New Hampsliire 2, Vermont 1, Massachusetts 8,\\nConnecticut 2^, New Jersey 4^, Pennsylvania 17, Delaware 2, Mary-\\nland 6. Virginia 15, North Carolina 9, Arkansas i, Missouri 4^, Ten-\\nnessee 10, Kentucky 10, Minnesota H, California 4, Oregon 3 113.\\nNays Maine 5|, New Hampshire 3. VermonJ. 4, Massachusetts 5,\\nRhode Island 4, Connecticut 3^, New Yoik 35, New Jersey 2i, Penn-\\nsylvania 10, Maryland 2, North Carolina 1, Arkansas i, Missouri 4^,\\nTennessee 2, Kentucky 2. Ohio 23, Indiana 13, Illinois 11, Michigan\\n6, Wisconsin 5, Iowa 4, Minnesota 2^, 139.\\nNew York s Thirty five votes no given in the quick sharp tones\\nof Peter Cagger, settled this as all other con esfed questions. The\\nmotions to reconsider the votes by which the resolutions of the majority\\nreport had been adopted, and to lay those motions on the table, were\\nnow in order. Upon those motions being carried the action in each\\ncase was final and irrevocable.\\nThe motion to lay on the table the morion to reconsider the vote by\\nwhich the Convention adopted the re olution of the inaj rity report of\\nthe committee, on the State of Mississippi, was carried without a divis-\\nion.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "196\\nThe next question was upon the motion to lay upon the table the\\nmotion to reconsider the vote by which the Convention adopted the\\nmajority resolution in relation to delegates from Louisiana.\\nThe question being taken by States, the motion to lay on the table\\nwas agreed to yeas 150^, nays 99 as follows:\\nYeas Maine 5i, New Hampshire 4^-, Vermont 4^, Massachusetts 5,\\nRhode Island 4, Connecticut 3^, New York 35, New Jersey 2^, Penn-\\nsylvania 10, Maryland 2, North Carolina 1, Arkansas i, Missouri 4,\\nTennessee 2, Kentucky 2, Ohio 23, Indiana 13, Illinois 11, Michigan\\n6, Wisconsin 5, Iowa 4, Minnesota 2i 1501.\\nNays Maine 2i, New Hampshire 1^-, Vermont i, Massachusetts 8,\\nConnecticut 2i, New Jersey 4i, Pennsylvania 17, Delaware 2, Mary-\\nland 6, Virginia 15, North Carolina 8^, Arkansas Ih Missouri 4i,\\nTennessee 10, Kentucky 10, Minnesota U, California 4, Oregon 3\\n99.\\nThe next question was upon laying upon the table the motion to re-\\nconsider the vote by which the Convention adopted the majority resolu-\\ntion in relation to delegates from Arkansas.\\nThe question being taken, the motion was agreed to.\\nThe next question was upon same motion in relation to Texas.\\nThe question being taken, the motion to reconsider was laid upon\\nthe table.\\nThe next question was upon the same motion in relation to Delaware,\\nand the motion to lay upon the table was agreed to.\\nThe same with regard to the resolution in relation to Massachusetts,\\nand the resolution in relation to Missouri.\\nThe next question was upon the motion to lay upon the table the\\nmotion to reconsider the vote upon the resolution in relation to Ala-\\nbama the motion was agreed to.\\nThe same with regard to the vote of the Convention, rejecting the\\nresolution of the majority in relation to Georgia.\\nThe same with regard to the resolution of Mr. Church of New York,\\nadmitting original delegation from Georgia.\\nMr Cessna of Pennsylvania I now offer the following resolution\\nResolved, That this Convention do now proceed to nominate candidates for\\nPresident and Vice-President of the United States,\\nAnd on that resolution I call the previous question.\\nMr. Stansbury of Maryland moved to adjourn sine die.\\nMr. McKibben of Pennsylvania seconded the motion. New York\\ndemanded a vote by States. The motion was withdrawn.\\nMr. Russell of Virginia had been for some time standing, very pale,\\nnervous and solemn, in his chair, and now obtained the ear of the chair\\nand the Convention, and desired to make an announcement, Mr.\\nGorman of Minnesota objected to the gentleman s proceeding, and\\nemphatically refused to withdraw his objection. The President desired\\nto hear what proposition it was that the gentleman from Virginia had\\nto make. Mr. Ku.ssell at length said\\nI understand that the action of this Convention upon the various\\nquestions arising out of the reports from the committee on Credentials,", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "197\\nhas become final, complete and irrevocable. And it has become my\\nduty now, by direction of a lar^c; majority of the delejration from Vir-\\nginia, respectfully to inform this body tliat it is inconsistent with their\\nconvictions of duty to participate longer in its deliberations.\\nThere was a mingled din of applause and hisses, cries of order, of a\\nhighly sen.\u00c2\u00abational character. The greater tumult, so far as the galleries\\nwere concerned, seemed to be that of approbation the Douglas out-\\nside pressure having for some days subsided rapidly. The chair ordered\\nthe galleries cleared. He did not, however, attempt to enforce the or-\\nder. The disorder lasted some minutes.\\nMr. Russell remained standing, and when his voice could be heard,\\nsaid that all of the delegates to whom tickets of admission had been is-\\nsued, who were regarded as National Democrats by the Democracy of\\nVirginia, would refuse to enter the hall. The reasons which impelled\\nthe representatives of the State of Virginia to leave the Convention,\\nwould he rendered to the Democracy of Virginia, and to them alone.\\nThe V^irginians, with a few exceptions, when Mr. Russell ceased speak-\\ning, rose in a body, and passing into the aisles, proceeded to leave the\\ntheater, shaking hands and bidding personal friends good by, as they\\nretired.\\nMr. Moffatt, one of those who remained, commenced a speech, but\\ngave way to Mr. Lander of North Carolina, who announced that eight\\nout of the ten votes of that State retired. He said\\nThe rights of sovereign States and of gentlemen of the South, have\\nbeen denied by a majority of this body. We cannot act, as we con-\\nceive, in view of this wrong.\\nMr. Ewing of Tennessee announced that ten out of the twelve votes\\nof that State retired to consult. He spoke of the disposition of the\\nTennessee delegation to harmonize. They were the first, when the\\nmajority platform was not adopted, to seek for some proposition for\\ncompromise something that would enable us to harmonize. They have\\na candidate that was dear to them. They cast away his proi^pect for\\nthe sake of harmony. They have yielded all that they can.\\nCol. Caldwell, chairman of the Kentucky delegation, asked leave to\\nretire to consult. Mr. Stuart of Michigan ohjected, for the reason that\\nbusiness could not be transacted while a State was absent by permis-\\nsion of the Convention. It being understood that the delegation\\nwished to retire but for a few minutes, Mr. Stuart withdrew his ob-\\njection.\\nMr. McKibben Mr. President, I want to understand if the gentle-\\nman from Michigan is the manager of the theatre [Laughter.]\\n[The point of this inquiry was the fact that the Douglas men fol-\\nlowed implicitly the directions and suggestions of Mr. Stuart, who was\\nso sharp a parliamentarian and adroit manager, that even the chairman\\n(Cushing) was believed to regard him with something of dread. It is\\ncertain that 3Ir. Cushing always gave attention to Mr. Stuart, and\\nusually yielded to him on contested points. Mr. Stuart s points of or-\\nder were almost always admirably taken.]\\nMr. Johnson of Maryland made a speech withdrawing half the dele-\\ngation from that State. He said", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "198\\nWe have made all sacri6ces for the grand old Democratic party,\\nwluse mission it. has been to preserve the Constitution and to care for\\nthe Kepulilic for more than sixty years, until it now seems as if you\\nwere going to substitute a man in the place of principle. [Calls to or-\\nder.] I desire to be respectful. I desire to say that the action of the\\nmajnrity of the late Convention a majority created by the operation of\\na technical unit rule imposed upon the Convention, contrary to Demo-\\ncratic precedent and usage States have been disfranchised and dis-\\ntricts deprived of their rights, until, in our opinion, it is no longer con-\\nsistent with our honor or our rights, or the rights of our constituents, to\\nremain here.\\nMr. Glass of Virginia withdrew himself from the Convention.\\nMr. Waterson of Tennessee, one of the delegates from that State\\nwho had declined to secede, said there were some gallant spirits from\\nthe land of Jai;kson who would remain. He had no fears that the Con-\\nvention would refuse to indorse the Cincinnati Platform.\\nMr. Jones of Tennessee hoped that the delegates of that State who\\nhad retired to consult, would tind their way back into the Convention.\\nMr. Jones said he bad been a Democrat ever since he first drew milk\\nfrom his mother s breast.\\nJMr. Smith of California said\\nWhile I cannot say with the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Jones)\\nthat my Di-mucracy dates back to that time of which I have no recollec-\\ntion, yet I can say that it is as unspotted as the vault of heaven. Cal-\\nifornia is here with melancholy faces. [Laughter.] California is here\\nwith a lacerated heart, bleeding and weeping over the downfall and de-\\nstruction of the Democratic party. [Applause and laughter.] Yes,\\nsir, the destruction of the Democratic party, consummated by assassins\\nnow grinning upon this floor. [Loud cries of Order, order, Put\\nhim out, and great confusion.]\\nMr. Smith, in no spirit of i)raggadocla, said that if any one\\ntook exceptions, he knew his remedy. He proceeded\\nThis Convention has properly been held in a theatre, and upon that\\nstage a play has been enacted this evening that will prove a tragedy of\\nwhich the Demo-ratic party will be the victim. [Mingled hisses and\\napplause.] I then do state that there have been wrongs perpetrated\\nupon the Democracy of that deep and damning character that it does\\nnot permit California longer to participate in the proceedings of this\\nirregular organization. [Laughter.] Irregular! and why irregular\\nIrregular because there has not been a single afBrniative proposition\\ncarried through this body that has not been done through a resolution\\nthat cannot be characterized by any other term than that used by a del-\\negate from Illinois a trick. [Loud cries of Order, order, and great\\nconfusion.]\\nMr. Merrick of Illinois demanded the name of the delegate referred\\nto from that State, and what he said. After a protracted scene of con-\\nfusion, Mr. Smith remarked that the Convention acted very much like\\na child taking medicine. He said\\nI will repeat, without the fear of the slightest contradiction, that the\\nresolution passed at Charleston, known as the Cessna resolution, by", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "199\\nvirtue of wliicli the minority of tliis Convention have been ennhled to\\ncast tho majority vote, and thus heating down or carryin*^ tlirongh and\\nenactini every measure thiit has been so repul.-ive to the deh p;iifes who\\nhave withdrawn I say that that resolution was acknowledged in sub-\\nstance to me to he a delil)i rate, willful, premeditated trick.\\nThis was received with roars of disorder. There was wild excite-\\nment, and a tempest of calls to order. Mr. Smith yelled that he would\\nsay what he had to say, and the Convention should hear him. Mr.\\nMerrick of Illinois was upon a chair, crying, Name the delegate from\\nlUinoi.s tell us what he said. Tho chair declared Smith out of\\norder. His time under the fifteen minute rule had expired. He in-\\nsisted that, the time taken up in interruptions should not come out of his\\ntime. He was as hard to choke off as a bull-dog, but all the Douglas\\nmen in the house, aided by the President, succeeded in getting him\\ndown, when he retired at the head of the Oregon delegation.\\nMr. Stevens of Oregon rose. He had a most melancholy duty to\\nperform. He had not allowed his feelings to get the belter of his\\njudgment. He concluded by saying\\nWe did hope, when this Convention reassembled at Baltimore,\\nthat it would bring together the Democratic party in every sovereign\\nState.\\nWe find ourselves grievou.ely mistaken. By your action to-day,\\ngentlemen as much entitled to seats as ourselves, in our opinion, are\\nexcluded from the floor. We do not mean to impugn the motives of\\nothers, but are conscious that a most grievous wrong and insult has been\\ngiven to sovereign States. These States are the weak parties in this\\ncontest, and we have resolved to stand by them and assert their rights.\\nI now announce that the delegation from Oregon have come to the con-\\nclusion to withdraw from the deliberations and take no further part in\\nthem.\\nMr. Moffat of Virginia, who had sought the floor for some time, now\\nobtained it. He made an eloquent speech, saying of the representa-\\ntives of Virginia We were thirty when we came in now we are but\\nfive. He said he would stand by that Convention through weal and\\nthrough woe. He said\\nI am an out-and-out pro-slavery man. I believe in the institution all\\nthe time. I believe it is right morally, socially and politically. I have\\nfought in my State for the extension of pro-slavery views. lama\\nSouthern man, and interested with the people of Virginia in having pro-\\ntection for our property. I ask you who are true to us in the North,\\nnot to desert us, but to stand by and defend us henceforth as you have\\ndone in times past [voices, We ll do it, and so help me God, I\\nwill defend you as long as I have confidence in you. [Loud applause,\\nand cries of Good, good. I will never fight my friends.\\nIn the name of common sense, have not we enough of higher law,\\nrevolutionary, abolition scoundrels in the North to fight, without fighting\\nour friends V [Applause.] Must we fight the men who stood on the\\nplatform at Cincinnati in 1856, and kick them off and break up the\\nDemocratic party\\nMr. Davis of Virginia made a speech. He was a Henry A. Wise", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "200\\nman. He said he eoulrl not see how Judgje Douglas could be the\\nnominee of the Convention. He came to Baltimore to try to prevent it,\\nat any rate. He meant to fight inside the Domocratio party. He be-\\nlieved Gov. Wise, if nominated, could carry Virginia by 30,000 votes.\\nHe would be for Wise first, last, and all the time, if he were permitted\\nto present his name, but he was not so authorized.\\nHere a motion was made to adjourn and a vote by States called on it.\\nAyes 18d\u00e2\u0080\u0094 nays 2101\\nMr. Cessna of Pennsylvania I now ask the chair to ascertain from\\nthe Convention whether or not there is a second to my demand for the\\nprevious question upon the resolution to proceed to ballot for candidates\\nfor the Presidency and Vice Presidency.\\nMr. Clark of Missouri asked permission for a portion of the delegation\\nof that State to retire and consult. He also a.^ked for an adjournment.\\nMr. Cessna of Pennsylvania was willing to adjourn when the previ-\\nous question on bis motion should be seconded and the main question\\nordered to be now put.\\nAfter some consultation, it was concluded that the demand for the\\nprevious question had been seconded. This was a mistake, but it made\\nno difference as it was received as authority by common consent.\\nMr. Craig of Missouri said he was not willing to follow his distin-\\nguished friend Clark out of a Democratic Convention. Whereupon Mr.\\nClark announced that his purpose was fixed to remain in the Convention.\\nSenator Saulsbury of Delaware was instructed by the delegation of\\nthat State to announce that they desire to be excused from voting on any\\nfurther ballots or votes, unless circumstances should alter this determi-\\nnation. He said It is our desire to be left free to act or not act, our\\ndesire being to leave the question open for the consideration of our con-\\nstituents after we return home.\\n]Mr. Gaulden of Georgia made his Charleston slave-trade and slave-\\nbreeding speech again. He announced himself a slave breeder. He\\nhad not joined his fortunes to either the house of York or the house of\\nLancaster. He said\\nI have felt that the experiment of man for self-government was about\\nto prove a failure here, and that the genius of liberty was about\\nshrieking to leave the world.\\nI am an advocate for maintaining the integrity of the National Demo-\\ncratic party I belong to the extreme South I am a pro-slavery man in\\nevery sense of the word, aye, and an African slave-trade man. [Ap-\\nplause and laughter.] This institution of slavery, as I have said else-\\nwhere, has done more to advance the prosperity and intelligence of the\\nwhite race, and of the human race, than all else together. I believe it\\nto be founded upon the law of nature and upon the law of God I be-\\nlieve it to be a blessing to all races. I believe that liberty would not\\ntruly exist in this Western World except by maintaining the integrity\\nof the oreat National Democratic party. [Applause.]\\nHe spoke of the slave-breeding and slave-trading State of Virginia,\\nwhen a delegate from Vir!);inia called him to order fur cast iig an iinpu-\\ntatidu u[( )ii the State of Virginia. Gaulden thought he had been pay-\\ning Virginia a high couipliment. He said:", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "201\\nWell, I will say the slave-breeding State of Georgia, then. I j^l^i^y\\nin beino- a slave-breeder myself. [Loud laughter.] I will face the\\nmusic myself, and I have got as many negroes as any man from the State\\nof Virginia. And as I invited the gentlemen of this Convention at\\nCharleston to visit ray plantation, I will say again that if they will come\\nto see me, I will show them as fine a lot of negroes, and the pure Afri-\\nan, too, as they can find any where. And I will show them as hand-\\nsome a set of little children there as can be seen [laughter], and any\\nquantity of them, too. [Renewed laughter.] And I wish that Vir-\\nginia may be as good a slave-trading and slave-breeding State as\\nGeorgia and in saying that, I do not mean to be disrespectful to Vir-\\nginia, but I do not mean to dodge the question at all.\\nI think I shall live to see the day when the doctrines which I advo-\\ncate to-nio-ht will be the doctrines of Massachusetts and of the North,\\nfor\\nTruth crushed to earth will rise again,\\nThe eternal years of Gorl are hers\\nWhile error, wounded, writhes in pain\\nAnd dies amid her worshipers.\\nI say I go for non-intervention in the broadest sense of the term.\\nMr. Gaulden s speech was generally laughed at, but he was in sober\\nand resolute earnest. He is quite a Yankee in appearance, tall, straight,\\nsharp-nosed and keen-eyed, and vigorous as a black-snake. Nothing\\ndelights him more than to tell of the swarms of young niggers on his\\nplantation.\\nMr. Ewing of Tennessee here announced Mr. President, the ma-\\njority of the delegation from Tennesssee, who asked the indulgence of\\nthis Convention to retire for consultation, have done so, and as the\\nresult of their deliberations I have to announce that nineteen out of\\ntwenty-four representatives have decided to retire, and five to remain.\\nMr. Steele of North Carolina had not seen cause for going out of the\\nConvention.\\nMr. Claiborne of Missouri made a speech. He said\\nTo-day, for the first time in the history of Democracy, I have seen\\nthe mother of States starting madly from a National Convention. I\\nam a Southern man, born and raised beneath the sunny sky of the South.\\nNot a drop of blood in my veins ever flowed in veins north of Mason s\\nand Dixon s line. My ancestors for 300 years sleep beneath the turf\\nthat shelters the bones of Washington, and I thank God that they rest\\nin the graves of honest slaveholders. [Applause.]\\nHe had once in his life bolted from a Convention, and it came very\\nnear proving his political death. He found that he had fallen about\\nseventeen hundred feet in the estimation of his constituents when he re-\\nturned home, and he predicted that a similar fate awaited all who should\\nsecede from this National Convention.\\nHe spoke in the most enthusiastic manner of Mr. Douglas. He\\ntalked of the Scottish Chieftain, Lord James of Douglas, carrying to\\nthe man of Palestine the heart of Bruce encased in a golden box,^ throw-\\ning -it into the ranks of the enemy and fighting his way to it. Even so\\nStephen A. Douglas, with the Constitution, would go into the ranks of\\nthe enemy. He said Sir, if there is any thing the Southern Democracy", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "202\\ndit^like, it is the fossil remains of Wliiggery and Know-Nnthingism\\n[laughter] and I tell you when it is known to the people of the South\\nthat it is the design of the Seceders to defeat the old time-honored\\nDetnocracy in tliis way, they will dodge them as they dodge lightning.\\n[Laughter.] He promised twenty-five thousand majority for Douglas\\nin Missouri.\\nAfter some remarks by Mr. Clark of Missouri, who wished to con-\\nsult, there were cries of question and the motion, Shall the main ques-\\ntion be now put, to go into a nomination of candidates for President\\nand Vice-President, was carried.\\nThe President The motion has been carried. Will the Convention\\nnow vote upon the main question\\nMr. Cessna of Pennsylvania I move an adjournment.\\nCries of No, no.\\nMr. Clarke I will claim the right to make the statement I proposed\\nin the morning.\\nThe President A motion to adjourn has been made. All who are\\nin favor of it will vote aye, etc.\\nThe vote being taken viva voce, the President decided that the ques-\\ntion had been determined in the affirmative, whereupon the Convention,\\nat 10:30 P. M., adjourned.\\nSIXTH DAY.\\nBaltimore, June 23d.\\nWe had from this time forth a divided Convention one sitting in\\nthe theatre, and one in the Maryland Institute. Both claimed regulari-\\nty, and to be the National Democratic Convention. The controversy\\nwas animated as that respecting Townsend s Sarsaparilla. Perhaps the\\nrecord will show the facts. There seemed to be a lull in the excitement\\nafter adjournment on the fifth day. The deed was done. The disrup-\\ntion of the Convention was a fixed fact. The case was beyond the\\npower of medicine or surgery. Consequently there was a comparative\\ncalm.\\nThere was the usual double-headed mass meeting in Monument\\nSquare, but its spirit had evaporated. The private cursing was not\\nloud but deep. Tiie public speaking was rather loud than deep. The\\nmeeting was adjourned by a crowd of Baltimoreans with Three cheers\\nfor Bell and Everett.\\nIN TIIE THEATRE\\nThis morning, tlie first thing in order after prayers, was the report of\\nthe decision of the Kentucky delegation. Col. Caldwell stated the de-\\ntermination arrived at in very gentlemanly and re.-pectful terms, and\\nwithdrew the name of James Guthrie. A communication from Mr.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "203\\nJames G. Leach of Kentucky was road. It stated liis reasons for with-\\ndrawiiiir, and was couched in terms that reflected severely upon the ac-\\ntion ot the Convention.\\nMr. Payne of Ohio considered the communication insulting. Several\\nother o-entiemen thought the Convention had been insulted.\\nMr. Leach said he had intended no disrespect to the Convention, and\\nhe thought it a morbidly sensitive liody to take off nse.\\nThe following gentlemen from the Kentucky delegation, N. W. Wil-\\nliamson, G. A Caldwell, delegates for the Slate at large, W. IJradley,\\nSamuel B. Field, Thos. J. Young, presented a series of resolutions, set-\\nting forth that without intending to vacate their seats, and hoping;, for\\nthe restoration of unity and harmony, they would decline to partieipatc\\nlonger in the actfon of the Convention and would not hold themselves\\nor constituents bound by its action.\\nThe following was also presented\\nResolved. That the chairman of our delegation be instructed to inform the Con-\\nvention in our belialf that iu the present condition of that body we deem it ia-\\nconsistent with our duty to ourselves and our constituents to participate further\\nin its deliberations. Our reasons for so doing will be given to the Democracy\\nof Kt utucky.\\nJno. Dishman, L. Guekn,\\nJ. S. KiNuuicK, K. M Johnson,\\nJos. B. Beck, Cat.. Botler,\\nI). W. Qiiari.es, R. McKee,\\nColbeut Cecil, Jas. G. Leach.\\nMr. Reed of Kentucky was happy to say there were nine delegates\\nfrom that State, who saw no cause for the disturbance of the harmony\\nof the Convention. He said\\nI read in the history of the ancient city of the plain that an angel of\\nthe Lord was sent to inquire whether there were any righteous men to be\\nfound that that city might be saved, the promise being that if five could\\nbe found it should not be destroyed, [.ipplause.] I am happy to say\\nthat from Kentucky there are not only five but nine men who will stand\\nby this Convention. [Applause.] It is a Democratic Convention. It\\nbelongs to the Democratic party. We, of Kentucky, stand here op-\\nposing secession and sectionalism North and South. We will stand\\nwith you as a wall of fire in opposing both extremes. I am not going\\nto abandon the Convention because it is apparent that one of our glori-\\nous chieftains is not likely to receive the nomination. [Applause.]\\nNo, I have gratitude in my heart to the man whose pathway from the\\ncity of Washington to his house in the far West is lighted by his own\\neffigies. [Applause.] We in Kentucky owe to him, and to the North\\nand West, our homes and firesides. Gentlemen who own a hundred\\nslaves each, say I am right. I will go home to my constituents and to\\nthe campaign, and camp-fires will be lighted in the mountains and val-\\nleys, and in less than seventy days you will hear a shout that will turn\\nthe course of affairs and set things right. [Applause.] We will take\\nthis matter out of the hands of politicians and the Administration and\\nreturn it to the people. He concluded by putting in nomination again\\nMr. Guthrie, Kentucky s favorite son.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "204\\nMr. Clark of Missouri announced that two of the delegation of that\\nState had concluded to retire from the Convention. Mr. Clark reiterated\\nhis fixed purpo.se of remaining in the Convention, if it followed in its\\naction the usages of the Democratic party.\\nMr. Hill of North Carolina retired from the Convention, because he\\nheld a seat under the same circumstances as Mr. Hallett of Massachu-\\nsetts had held his. As Mr. Ilallett had been ousted, he could not in\\nhonor remain, though his alternate did not claim his seat.\\nMr, Moore of Delaware was anxious to make some remarks.\\nMr. McCook of Ohio objected.\\nMr. Jones of Tennessee said that instead of 19 only 13 of the dele-\\ngates from that State had retired from the Convention.\\nSeveral leading Douglas men now insisted upon choking off debate,\\nand as the main question had been ordered to be now put, nothing could\\nbe said without general consent. The President had received two pa-\\npers, and deemed it his duty to communicate them to the Convention.\\nOne paper was signed by Mr. Stirman of Arkansas. The other was\\nfrom the delegation of Georgia.\\nMr. Stirman of Arkansas desired to state why he retired from the\\nConvention. Objection was made and insisted upon.\\nMr. Cessna of Pennsylvania called for the vote upon his resolution\\nto ballot for candidates for President and Vice-President.\\nThe President Gentlemen of the Con.vention, a motion has been\\nmade by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Cessna), to the consid-\\neration of which the chair will now proceed.\\nBut before doing so, I beg the indulgence of the Convention to say\\nthat whilst deeply sensible of the honor done me by the Convention in\\nplacing me in this chair, I was not less deeply sensible of the difficul-\\nties, general and personal, looming up in the future to environ my path.\\nNevertheless, in the solicitude to maintain the harmony and union of\\nthe Democratic party, and in the face of the retirement of the delegations\\nof several States, I continued at my post, laboring to that end, and in\\nthat sense had the honor to meet you, gentlemen, here in Baltimore.\\nBut circumstances have since transpired which compel me to pause.\\nThe delegations of a majority of the States of this Union have, either\\nin whole or in part, in one form or another, ceased to participate in the\\ndeliberations of this body. At no time would any consideration of can-\\ndidates have affected my judgment as to ray duty. And I came here\\nprepared, regardless of all personal preferences, cordially to support the\\nnominations of this Convention, whosoever they might be. But under\\nthe present citcumstances I deem it a duty of self respect, and I deem\\nit still more a duty to this Convention as at present organized I say I\\ndeem it my duty in both relations, whilst tendering my most grateful\\nacknowledgements to gentlemen of all sides, and especially to those\\ngentlemen who may have differed with me in opinion in any respect,\\nwhilst tendering my most grateful acknowledgments to all gentlemen\\nfor the candid ami honorable support which they have given to the chair,\\neven when they differed in opinion upon rulings, and whilst tendering\\nalso to tlie gentlemcm present my most cordial respects and regards, not\\nknowing a single gentleman upon this floor as to whom I have other", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "205\\nthan sentiments of cordiality and friendship I deem it my duty to re-\\nsign my scut, as presiding officer of this Convention. [Applnuse.] I\\ndeem it my duty to resign my place as presiding officer of this Conven-\\ntion in order to take my seat on the floor as a member of the delegation\\nof Massachusetts, and to abide whatever may be its determination in\\nreo-ard to its further action in this Convention. And I deem this above\\nall a duty I owe to the members of the Convention as to whom my ac-\\ntion would no longer represent the will of the majority of the Conven-\\ntion.\\nWhen Mr. Gushing used the words but before doing so the\\nwhole Convention knew what was coming, and every word he uttered\\nwas heard by all. The occasion was a severe trial for even the well-\\ntrained nerves of Mr. Cushing, and there was, for a moment, slight\\nembarrassment of manner. The North-western delegates cheered him\\nviolently as he retired from the chair, and hundreds of spectators cheered\\nhim also. The North-westerners wished to express their joy in getting\\nrid of him. The spectators desired to show that they approved his\\ncourse.\\nGov. David Todd of Ohio, one of the Vice-Presidents, took the chair,\\nand as he rapped to order, the friends of Mr. Douglas, seeing their way\\nclear (through the Convention), cheered enthusiastically. Gov. Todd\\nsaid, as soon as he could be heard\\nAs the present presiding officer of this Convention by common con-\\nsent of my brother Vice-Presidents, with great diffidence I assume the\\nchair. When I announce to you that for thirty-four years I have stood\\nup in that district so long misrepresented by Joshua R. Giddings, with\\nthe Democratic Banner in my hand [applause], I know that I shall re-\\nceive the good wishes of this Convention, at least, for the discharge of\\nthe duties of the chair. If there are no privileged questions interven-\\nin\u00c2\u00bb, the Secretary will proceed with the call of the States.\\nMr. Butler of Massachusetts was now anxious to obtain the floor, the\\nobject being to withdraw the majority of the delegation of his State.\\nThe Douglas men flew into a tempest of passion, and shouted order,\\nand object. Todd thought it his business to force a vote instantly,\\nand insisted that the Secretary should proceed to call the Slates con-\\nsequently the Secretary shrieked out the names of States, in the din of\\nan indescribable confusion. There were partial responses from some of\\nthem which could hardly be heard, and the Convention seemed rapidly\\nbecoming a roaring mob. Gavit, chairman of the Indiana delegation,\\njumped up and moved that the Convention give Massachusetts leave to\\nretire, and give her three cheers for going.\\nWhen the State of Massachusetts was called for a vote, however,\\nMr. Butler had the opportunity of stating the desire of the majority of\\nthe Massachusetts delegation to withdraw. He said\\nWe have not discussed the question, Mr. President, whether the ac-\\ntion of the Convention, in excluding certain delegates, could be any\\nreason for withdrawal. We now put our withdrawal before you, upon\\nthe simple ground, among others, that there has been a withdrawal in\\npart of a majority of the States, and further (and that, perhaps, more per-\\nsonal to myself), upon the ground that I will not sit in a Convention", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "206\\nwbere tlie African ?lavetraf1e wbieh is piracy by tbe laws of my coun-\\ntry is approvingly advocated.\\nTbe Convention hinghed at tbe virtue of Mr. Butler on tbe subject\\nof the t-bive trade. He pass-ed out shaking bands right and left, and\\nwas b)U(lly cheered on his way. A good many bard things bad been\\nsaid of Mr. Butler, but he had provided himself with a body-guard in\\nthe person of Price, the Boston prize-fighter, who stood near with a buU-\\ndo\u00c2\u00bb expression of countenance, while Mr. Butler was striving for the\\nfloor, and speaking.\\nMr. Stevens, one of the remaining delegates of Massachusetts, said\\nit was bis conviction that be could not leave that Convention without\\nmeeting tbe deepest reprobation of bis constituents.\\nMr. Brent of Maryland had something to say. Mr. Jones of Penn-\\nsylvania insisted sharply, when Mr. Dick of North Carolina commenced\\na speech, that gentlemen should not make stump speeches in explaining\\ntheir votes. Dick said his constituents bad sent bini there, knowing\\nthat be would vote for Douglas. Speaking of the parties opposed to\\nthe Democracy, be said\\nTrue, one is but a small army, with no ammunition, and with old\\nrusty guns- long since condemned. [Laughter.] But the other is a\\nfoe to be dreaded. They are falling into line and advancing. They\\nhave an expi-rienced chieftain, and above their beads waves the banner\\nof treason and disunion, stained with the bluod of V ^irginia s sons.\\n[Applause.]\\nA point of order was raised on Mr. Dick by Mr. Jones of Pennsyl-\\nvania.\\nMr. Yost of Virginia threatened to leave tbe Convention, as a\\nDouglas man, if Southern delegates were not allowed to explaia their\\nvotes, and make a record to go before their constituents upon.\\nThe Pre.sident ruled that Mr. Dick eouLl proceed in spite of objec-\\ntion. It Was explained that Mr. Dick was a District Attorney of the\\nUnited States. Mr. Dick concluded his speech, and cast one vote from\\nNorth Carolina fur Douglas.\\nMr. Gaulden of Georgia read a card from the Georgia delegation,\\nstating that be (Gaulden), in assuming to act as a delegate from the\\nState of Georgia, has violated the instructions of his State, and his\\npersonal pledges to bis colleagues, and bus caused mortidcation and\\ndisgust to the delegation from Georgia. Mr. Gaulden had as much\\npity and contempt for them, as they could possibly have fur him. In\\nconcluding, Mr. Gaulden excused himself from voting.\\njMr. Parsons of Alabama, in casting the vote of Alabama, said\\nYou will find a response come up from tbe Gulf States the Cotton\\nStates such as never before has been beard since this Republic was\\nestablished. [Applause] You have been told by distinguished gen-\\ntlemen from our State that we do not speak the sentiments of our peo-\\nple. W(! appeal to the verdict of the ballot-box. We made the issue\\nwith them in 1850 and 1851, and we tell them to take warning from\\ntbe result of that issue.\\nI ierre Soule now made the speech of tbe Convention, His rolling,\\nglittering, eagle eye, Napoleonic head and face, sharp voice, with a mar-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "207\\ngin of French accent, and piercing, intense earnestness of manner,\\ncominand(Ml profourKJ attention, and fa^cinuted ail wlio saw and heard.\\nHis sjjeocli was a brilliant and noble eff )rr, and was rapturously ap-\\nplauded to tlie echo. The effect of this speech was to greatly animate\\nand reassure the friends of Douglas. He said\\nI have not been at all discouraged by the emotion which has been\\nattempted to be created in this body, by those who have seceded from\\nit. We from the furthest South were prepared wo had heard around\\nus the rumors which were to be initiatory of the exit which you have\\nwitnessed on this day, and we knew that conspiracy which had been\\nbrooding for months past, would break out on this occasion, and for the\\npurposes which are obvious to every member. Sirs, there are in politi-\\ncal life men who were once honored by popular favor, who consider that\\nthe favor has become to them an inalienable property, and who cling to\\nit as to something that can no longer be wrested from their hands\\npolitical fossils so much incrusted in office that there is hardly any\\npower that can extract them. [Applause They saw that the popular\\nvoice was clearly manifesting to this gluriuus nation who was to be her\\nnext ruler. More than eight or ten months before this Convention as-\\nsembled, the nauie of that future ruler of these States had been thrown\\ninto the canvass and was before the people. Instead of biinging a can-\\ndidate to oppose him instead of creating before the people issues upon\\nwhich the choice of the nation could be enlightened instead of prin-\\nciples discussid, what have we seen? An unrelentiug war agjiinst the\\nindividual presumed to be the favorite of the nation [iipplauscj a war\\nwaged by an army of unprincipled and unscrupulous puliticians, leagued\\nwith a power which could not be exerted on their side without dis-\\ngracing itself and disgracing the nation. [Renewed applause]\\nMr. Soule declared secession meant disunion. He said, however, the\\nSouth had backed out from its threat made on the Califurnia question.\\nHe said fun her\\nJohn C. Calhoun, when the famous compromise tendered by Mr.\\nClayton of Delaware was being di cussed in the United States Senate\\nJohn C. Calhoun considered that the proffer to place in the bands of one\\nfederal tribunal the question of the extent of power in the Territories\\nwas to the South a sufficient guarantee to ni:ike acceptable the compro-\\nmise tendered and where Calhoun could stand a Southern man need\\nnot fear to stand.\\nHe declared the people of the South would not respond to the call\\nmade upon them by ttie Secessionists. He said Louisiana was unwilling\\nto risk her future, and the future of the Union, upon impracticable issues\\nand merely theoretical abstractions.\\nMr. Stirman of Arkansas here withdrew from the Convention. He\\nwas sorry to go, but under his instructions, had no alternative.\\nMr. Flournoy of Arkansas explained how he happened to be instruct-\\ned to vote for Breckenridge. He then proceeded ni the following, elo-\\nquent strain\\nI am a Southern man, born and reared amid the institution of sla-\\nvery. I tir.-t lc:irnt! l to whirl the top and bounce the liall with the\\nyoung Afiican. Every thing I own on earth is the result of blave labor.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "208\\nThe bread that feeds my wife and little ones is produced by the labor\\nof slaves. They live on my plantation with every feeling of kindness\\nas between master and slave. Sir, if I could see that there is any thing\\nintended in our platform unfriendly to the institution of slavery if I\\ncould see that we did not get every constitutional right we are entitled\\nto, I would be the last on earth to submit in this Union I would my-\\nself apply the torch to the magazine and blow it into atoms before I\\nwould submit to wrong. [Applause.] But I feel that in the doctrine\\nof non-intervention and popular sovereignty are enough to protect the\\ninterests of the South.\\nMr. Dodge of Iowa made a speech in which he praised Judge Doug-\\nlas and Col! Richardson extravagantly, and wondered at the hostility\\ndisplayed toward them by the South.\\nBefore the result of the ballot was announced, Mr. Stoughton chal-\\nlenged the vote of Vermont. He had declined to vote, and yet the\\nwhole vote of the State had been cast. Mr. Smith of Vermont con-\\ntended that, according to instructions, he had the right to cast the whole\\nvote of the State.\\nAs the name of Horatio Seymour had been mentioned and a vote cast\\nfor him, Mr. Bissell of New York withdrew the name of Seymour,\\nreading a letter of declension from that gentleman. Mr. Seymour said\\nin his letter\\nI do not suppose my name will be presented on that occasion, but\\nif it is I request that you will, as a delegate from this district, withdraw\\nit from their consideration. I cannot, under any circumstances, be a\\ncandidate for the office of President or Vice-President.\\nMr. Bissell said\\nIt is due to Mr. Seymour to say that he has ever expressed to me,\\nhis neighbor and friend, the same feeling. Gentlemen have entertained\\ndifferent views and a paper in New York (I regret to pollute my lips\\nwith its name), the New York Herald, has insisted all the time that\\nMr. Seymour was not honest but, as his friend and neighbor, I with-\\ndraw his name.\\nA Maryland delegate withdrew his vote for Breckenridge and declined\\nto vote.\\nRESULT OF THE FIRST BALLOT.\\nThe Secretary here announced the result of the first ballot as\\nfollows\\nWhole vole cast 190^\\nFor Douglas 173i\\nFor Guthrie 9\\nFor Brcckonridgo 5\\nFor Seymour 1\\nFor Bocock 1\\nFor Wise 2\\nFor Dickiuson 2", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "209\\nKIKST BALLOT.\\nStates\\n1\\nbe\\nS\\no\\nQ\\na;\\na\\no\\nP5\\nc\\nm\\na\\n5\\n3\\ne\\nCA\\nNew Hampshire\\n5\\n5\\n10\\n4\\n3.^\\n35\\n2 J\\n10\\n?i\\n1\\n9\\n6\\n1\\n4 4\\n3\\nNew York\\n3\\n,1\\nAlabama\\nn\\nH\\n23\\n13\\n11\\n6\\n5\\n4\\n21\\n173J\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a25\\n5\\n1\\n1\\nJ\\n1\\n10\\n1\\nMr. Church of New York offered a resolution. Objections were\\nmade. Many delegates wanted another ballot before a resolution was\\nintroduced. The resolution was read as follows\\nResolved. That Stephen A. Douglas, of the State of Illinois, having now\\nroceiA-ecl two-t birds of all the votes given in this Convention, he is hereby\\ndeclared, in accordance with the rules governing this body and in accordance\\nwith the uniform custom and rules of former Democratic National Conventions,\\nthe regular nominee of the Democratic party of the United States for the office\\nof President.\\nMr. Church made a speech in favor of his resolution. He said\\nWe have yielded every thing but personal honor in order to heal up\\nthe divisions of this Convention. One question after another has been\\npresented to us, and we have been asked to yield this point, and that\\npoint, and the other point, and we have never failed to respond when-\\never we have been asked until we were required to yield up every thing\\nwhich distinguishes our manhood nay, more, every thing which distin-\\nguishes the manhood of the 200,000 Democrats behind us. [Ap-\\nplause.] When we came to that point though we say it with pain,\\nand sorrow, and anguish when we were asked to admit, without ques-\\ntion or examination, the whole body of seceders who came here to our\\ndoors not repentant, not determined to abide by our action, but\\ndemanding the surrender of our principles into their hands when we\\n14", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "210\\nwere asked to do that, and, besides, to give up our candidate and the\\ncarididiite of the choice of the Democracy of New York a candidate\\nwho will sweep New York as with a whirlwind [applau-^e] when we\\nwere asked to do all that, we said firmly we cannot in honor comply with\\nyour fJemands.\\nMr. (Church said of the adoption of the two-thirds rule in the shape\\nit touk in Charleston, that it was outrageous, undemocratic, despotic,\\nwrong but New York had submitted to il for the sake of harmony.\\nMr. Gittings of Maryland rose to most solemnly protest against the\\nproposed action. He said\\nThe gentleman from New York (Mr. Church), says in one breath\\nthat New York has always desired to offcir the olive-branch and in the\\nnext breath he throws a tire-brand in the midst of the Democratic party\\nwhich will create a flame no power on earth can quench. The two-\\nthirds rule is one of the cardinal principles for the government of Dem-\\nocratic; Conventions; and better not make a nomination at all than\\nrescind a rule for the purpose of making any one man a candidate.\\nAfter some further debate, Mr. Church withdrew his resolution for\\nanother ballot.\\nMr. Flournoy of Arkansas voted for Douglas this time.\\nMr. 13ecker stated that himself and two of his colleagues had come\\nto the conclusion to withdraw from the Convention. They were ready\\nto meet all the responsibility for so doing. The following is the result\\nof the\\nSECOND BALLOT.\\nSlates.\\nO\\nMaine\\nNew Hampshire.\\nVermont\\nMassachusetts.\\nRhode Island...\\nCoauecticiU\\nNew York\\nNew J. i sey\\nPennsylvania.\\nMaryland\\nVirginia\\nNorth (Jaroliua\\nAlabama\\nfiOiiisiana\\nArkansas\\nMissouri\\nTennessee\\nKentucky\\nOhio\\nIndiana\\nIllinois\\nMichigan\\nWiscouHin\\nIowa\\nMinucsota\\ni\\n10\\n4\\n35\\n2.\\n2.\\n3\\n1\\n9\\n(i\\n4},\\na\\n2:5\\n1:5\\n11\\nG\\n5\\n4\\n4\\n2i\\nTf f al I8U 7k 5^", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "211\\nWhole number of votes, 1942.\\nThe increas-ed vote on this ballot was from Pennsylvania.\\nMr. Iloge of Virginia wanted to nuive the uriaiiiinous nominntion of\\nDouglas. Mr. Clark of Missouri, who had voted against Dnu.dis, siiid\\nit was his purpose to second the motion of Mr. Ilogo. IMr. II. now\\nsaid\\nI now beg leave to submit the following n-solution, being the same as\\nthat off^ red by the gentleman fmrn New York (Mr. Church), with a\\nslight niodification that he and I have made\\nRexolced unnnimousb/, That Stephen A. Doujilas, of the State of Illinois, having\\nnow received two-thirds of all votes given in this Convention is hereby dicliired,\\nin accordance with rules governino; this body, and in accordance with the; uni-\\nform customs and rules of former Uemocratic National Conventions, the regnlar\\nnominee of the Democratic party of tlie United States for the office of President\\nof the United States.\\nMr. Sayles of Rhode T. -land made a speech about the late Democratic\\nvictory in that State, and said he had been told in Charleston that they\\nweie hardly l)etter than Black Republicans.\\nMr. Seymour of New York enthusiastically indorsed Douglas, though\\nbe had heretofore opposed him.\\nMr. Mason of Kentucky made a speech, in which be doubted whether\\nthe fires would blaze so high upon the mountain-tops as had been assert-\\ned. He thought the resolution of Mr. Church injudicious, and pro-\\nposed an amendment as follows\\nNow, if you will not say in the resolution that this is the rule which\\nhas heretofore governed the Democratic party because you voted at\\nCharleston, that it was not, and for our accommodation if you will not\\nmake this new construction, but simply declares that, under all the cir-\\ncumstances, Mr. Douglas ought to be the unanimous nominee of this\\nparty. I should not be surprised if the State of Kentucky would agree\\nwith you, and that quite likely you may get the vote of that State,\\nthough I cannot say it with certainty.\\nMr. Richardson of Tllinoi.s There has never been a nominat on for\\nPresident under any other construction than that made by my fi lend\\nfrom New York in his resolution. It is true you agreed at Charleston\\nthat you would not do it this time, but always heretofore you have\\nnominated the candidate by a two-third vote. Mr. Stevenson of Vir-\\nginia, in 1848, when the New York delegation was excluded, and Gen.\\nCass was nominated, declared that 170 votes were two-thirds. The\\naction of the Convention has been uniform upon this subject.\\nMr. Craig of Mi.ssouii Is there any obj. cfion to withdrawing the\\nresolution and declaring the nomination unanimous by a big, old-fash-\\nioned Democratic yell V [Laughter and cries of Question, ques-\\ntion.\\nThe question being taken on the resolution of Mr. Church, it was\\nadopted by an unanimous aye.\\nNow a storm of cheers went up. The banner of the Keystone State\\nwas hung out from the upper jiallery, and K)mel ody produied on the\\nstage a flag on which it was written Pennsylvania giod for 40,000\\nmajority for Douglas.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "212\\nThe President said: Gentlemen of the Convention, as your presid-\\ning officer I declare Stephen A. Doughis, of Illinois, by the unanimous\\nvote of this Convention, the nominee of the Democratic party of the\\nUnited States for President. [Here Captain Rynders led off with\\nthree hearty cheers.] And may God, in his infinite mercy, protect\\nhim, and with him this Union!\\nMr. Dawson, chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation, was called\\non for a .speech. The following paragraphs embody its substance\\nMr. President and gentlemen of the Convention, it is scarcely neces-\\nsary for me to say that, at no time during the sittings of this body, did\\nJudge Douglas receive the united vote of the delegation from Pennsyl-\\nvania. And, I may further add, that in the consideration of a plat-\\nform a majority of us united with oar Southern friends, ready to give\\nthem all that we believed them entitled to under the Federal Constitution.\\nIn our judgment they asked for nothing more, and we were not willing\\nto give them less. [Applause.] In our actions then we have been over-\\nruled by a decided majority of this body, and, for Pennsylvania, I am\\nfree to say that, attached as we are to the Democratic party, its princi-\\nples, its discipline, its organization, standing true forever, in the elo-\\nquent language of the President in his opening speech at Charleston,\\nStanding as perpetual sentinels upon the outposts of the Constitution,\\nwe will, I trust, abide by its decisions and support its nominees. [Cheers.]\\nJudge Douglas is a man of acknowledged talent, and everywhere\\nregarded as the accomplished statesman, skilled in the art of ruling.\\nBorn under a New England sun, yet by adoption a citizen of the West,\\nhonored and cherished in the valley of the Ohio and on the slopes of\\nthe Atlantic, he now should be of the whole country. [Cheers.] Un-\\ntrained, to some extent, in early life, in the learning of the schools, the\\ndeficiency, if any exists, has been largely compensated by the generous\\nmeasure in which nature has bestowed upon him her choicest gifts of\\nintellect and character. [A|)plause.] Like Henry of the Ptevolution,\\nlike Peel of England, these noble qualities have made him the architect\\nof his own fortune. [Cheers.]\\nMr. Shepley of Maine spoke next. He had not been for Douglas\\nat first, but he indorsed his nomination and said, in concluding h-s\\nremarks\\nI have only one word to say in conclusion. We represent 55,000\\nDemocrats in the State of Maine, and although it has been urged here\\nthat there is no Northern Democracy in the coming election, we will\\nshow those men of the lowlands who have said it, that\\nThere are hills beyond Pentland,\\nThere are friths beyond Forth.\\nIf there are Ior(l.s in the Southland,\\nThi^re are chiefs in the North.\\nMr. Cochrane of New York made a handsome harmony speech. He\\nhad been against Douglas, but now congratulated the Convention and\\nthe whole country. lie said\\nBut the time has arrived when these differences of opinion are to be\\nmerged in the authoritative decree of the great Democratic party, and\\nas that decree is here announced to the people of the United States, I\\nfor one, lead the feeble volume of my voice to those ws^s and currents", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "213\\nthat are now bearing to every portion of tlic Union the lionorod, illus-\\ntrious, impregnable name of Stephen A. Douglas. [Loud cheers.]\\nHe declared further that the reluctance of the past should be\\ncompensated by the cordiality of the future, and said in conclusion\\nPatriotism and honesty require that tho-:e who have been sent here as\\ndelegates are in strict honor bound by the action of this Convention.\\n[Applause.] But above and beyond the obligations of honor there is\\na volition that will expand from these walls to the whole country, which\\nwill resound in huzza upon huzza for Stephen A. Douglas.\\nThe Convention took a recess until seven o clock in the evening.\\nEVENINO SESSION.\\nThe first thing was an explanation from Mr. Harrington of Illinois,\\nwho was the man alluded to by Mr. Smith of California as having\\nacknowledged that the Cessna resolution was a trick. He said that, on\\nthe contrary, he had denied that that resolution was a trick. He ac-\\ncounted for Mr. Smith s statement by saying that he (Smith) had been\\nalmost insane from excitement.\\nThe following was named as the National Executive Committee\\nSylvanus R Lyman, of Portland, Maine; Alfeus F. Snow, of Clare-\\nmont, New Hampshire; Charles G. Eastman, of Montpelier, Vermont;\\nFrederick C. Price, of Boston, Massachusetts; Jacob Babbitt, of Bris-\\ntol, Rhode Island; Wm. F. Converse, of Norwich, Connecticut; Au-\\\\\\nguste Belmont, of New York, New York; Jacob Van Nosdale, of New-/\\nark. New Jersey; Richard Haldeman, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania;\\nThos. M. Lanahan, of Baltimore, Maryland; John A. Harman, of\\nStaunton, Virginia; Rob t E. Dick, of Greensborough, North Carolina;\\nWm. B Gaulden, of Huntsville, Georgia; W. W. Moore, of Jackson-\\nville, Florida; Oatley H. Bynimi, of Portland, Alabama; Thos. Cott-\\nman, of Donaldsonville, Loui.^iana; Thomas Flournoy, of Arkansas;\\nJames Craig, of St. Joseph s, Missouri; C Knox Walker, of Memphis,\\nTennessee; Henry C. Harrison, of Covington, Kentucky; Hugh J.\\nJewett, of Zanesville, Ohio; H. W. Harrington, of Madison, Indiana;\\nMurray McKunnel, of Jacksonville, Illinois; Benj. Follett, of Michi-\\ngan; John K. Sharpstein, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Wm. H. Mer-\\nIj^ ti^., of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Henry H. Sibley, of Minnesota; James\\nA. McDougal, of San Francisco, California.\\nMr. Gaulden of Georgia desired to decline, but was not allowed to do\\nso, and accepted as a private citizen of Georgia.\\nIn the report of the committee on Rules and Regulations, it was pro-\\nvided that the place of holding the next National Convention should be\\nin the discretion of the National Committee.\\nMr. Sibley of Minnesota said: It was held by the presiding officer\\nthat the term of office of the National Executive Committee expired\\nupon the assembling of the Convention, and serious inconveniences\\nhave resulted in consequence of that ruling. I now move that the\\nExecutive Committee shall remain in exi.^tence and continue its func-\\ntions until its successors are elected and qualified.\\nThe motion was agreed to.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "214\\nAfter it had been provided that Mr. G. Parkliurst, Recording Secre-\\ntary, should prepare tiie proceedings for publication, and cause 10,000\\ncojdes to be printed,\\nMr. Jones of Tennessee said Mr. President, the Southern dele-\\ngates in their Convention have conferred tt^getberand have agreed unan-\\niniou. ly to nominate for Vice-Pre.-ident of the United States the Hon.\\nBeiijuiiiin Fitzfiatiick, of the State of Alabama. [Applause.]\\nMr. Clark of Mo. seconded the nomination. He .said that a better\\none could not have been ma le, and that the name of Mr. Fitzpatrick\\nwould be a tower of strength.\\nTelegraphic despatches were read announcing the reception of the\\nnomination of Douglas at various points.\\nTlie President (after calling the Convention to order repea(odly)\\nGentlemen, you all know that the chair feels so much disposition to\\njoin in these yells that he can t keep order.\\nAt the call of States for the vote on the Vice-Presidential nomina-\\ntion, Mr. Fitzpatrick received 198^ votes, and one vote was given\\nWilliam F. Alexander of New Jersey. Mr. Alexander s name was\\nauthoritatively withdrawn when it was mentioned a delegate from\\nPennsylvania voting for him by Mr. Whitburn of New Jersey.\\nTtie following committee, upon motion of Mr. Ludlow, was appointed\\nto in brm Messrs. Douglas and Fitzpatrick of their nomination W^ill-\\niara H. Ludlow of New York, J. L. Sevvard of Georgia, J. L. Dawson\\nof Pennsylvania, Robert C Wickliffe of Louisiana, W. A. Gorman of\\nMinnesota, T. V. Flournoy of Arkansas, A. A. King of Missouri, Bi-\\non Bradbury of Maine, R. P. Dick of North Carolina.\\nMr. Payne of Ohio It is generally understood that the platform was\\nadopted at Charleston. I understand a distinguished member from\\nLouisiana (Mr. Wickliffe) desires to present a resolution relating to\\nthe pbtform, and I hope he will be allowed to do so.\\nGov. Wickliffe of Louisiisna In belialf of the committee on Reso-\\nlutions, I beg leave to present the following. The adoption of it will\\ngive to Stephen A Douglas forty thousand votes in two of the South-\\nern States of this Union\\nEewlved, That it is in accordance with the interpretation of the Cincinnati\\nPlatfortn. that durini^- tlie exist(, uce of the Tci-ritorial Governments the measure\\nof restriction, wbatever it may he, imposcrl by the Federal Constitution on the\\npower of the Territorial Lfi isl-,Uuie over the subject of the domestic reUitions.\\nas the same has becui or shuU iieri^after be finally determined by the Supreme\\nCourt of the United States, should be respected by alt good citizens and en-\\nforced with promptness and lidelity by eveiy branch of the General Government.\\nThe resolution was received with loud expressions of approbation.\\nMr. Payne Mr. President, I undertake to say that no fair-uiimled\\nman, North or South, can find fault with one word of that resolution.\\n[Several voices, Not a word.\\nMr. Payne moved the previous question. Mr. Davis of Virginia\\nrose with excitement, said it was unfair, and wanted to be heard. Mr.\\nPayne withdrew the previous question.\\nMr. Davis thought the subject of a platform was already sufficiently\\ncomplicated. He did not want Fitzpatrick sacrificed by the inlroduc_", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "215\\ntlon of that resolution, pjirtifularly as it did not mean any tiling at all.\\nHe was for the Cineiniinti l^latforin alone. Ho said\\nIf we Can t get wliat we want, let us have nothing but the Cincinna-\\nti Platform and al)ido by that and wait our time. ]Jy and by tin; Dem-\\nocratic; party will give piotection, I believe, and that is the reason why\\nI was elected as a protective man. I am a protective man here to-day.\\nI^thitdv we have got one protective man on the ticket. If not, I am\\nterril)ly deceived. I don t want him sacrificed by the introduction of\\nthis resolution. You won t hear me to-night. I stand ready to refute\\nthe fallacy of squatter or popular sovereignty whenever I can be lis-\\ntened to. All I will say here then is that this resolution coniplicates\\nthe suliji ct and involves the South wor. ^e and worse, and I protest, in\\nthe name of my constituenc^y, against its adoption.\\nThe resolution was adopted viva voce, with one or two dissenting\\nvoices.\\nThe Hon. William A. Richardson made a short speech reviewing the\\ncontrovert^y between those who had seceded from, and those who re-\\nmained in the Convention. He said\\nI am going to make an announcement that will account for the cur-\\nrency of a rumor prevalent here the other day. Judge Douglas will\\naccept the nomination. [Loud cheers and applause.] But Judge\\nDouglas was prepared, for the harmony of the party, for the success of\\nthe party, for the preservation of the government, always and at all\\ntimes, to withdraw his name from the Ccmvenfion. [Applause.] I\\nmean those gentlemen shall meet that issue when they go home. I\\nhave had in my possession, since the session of this Convention here,\\nhis authority placed in my hands to withdraw his name, to be used by\\nhis friends whenever they deemed it necessary to do so. [Great ap-\\nplause.] And I now send to the Secretary s desk a letter which,\\nthough marked private, I ask may be read to this Convention.\\nIn this letter Mr. Douglas reiterated his doctrine of Non-inter-\\nvention, and said\\nBut while I can never sacrifice the principle, even to attain the Pres-\\nidency, I will cheerfully and joyfully sacrifice myself to maintain the\\nprinciple. If, therefore, you and my other friends, who have stood by\\nme with such heroic firmness at Charleston and Baltimore, shall be of\\nthe opinion that the principle can be preserved and the unity and as-\\ncendancy of the Democratic party maintained and the country saved\\nfrom the perils of Northern abolitionism and Southern disunion by\\nwithdrawing my name and uniting upon some other non-interveutioa\\nand Union loving Democrat, I beseech you to pursue that course.\\nThe action of the Charleston Convention in sustaining me by so\\nlarge a majority on the platform, and designating me as the first choice\\nof the party for the Presidency, is all the personal triumph I desire.\\nThis letter is prompted by the same motives which induced my despatch\\nfour years ago, withdrawing my name from the Cincinnati Convention.\\nMr. Richardson resuming, said\\nSo anxious was my friend, the nominee of this Convention, that this\\nshould be impressed upon the minds of all his friends here that he tele-", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "216\\ngraphed the gentleman from New York (Mr. Richmond) on yesterday,\\nT believe, to the srinie effect. I trust that no person who knows ine be-\\nlieves that I would be guilty of manufocturing evidence for an occasion\\nof this sort. [Cries of No, no. I have borne this letter with\\nme for three days, but those gentlemen who have seceded from this\\nConvention placed it out of my power to use it. And the responsibili-\\nty, therefore, is on them.\\nWe in the North have one sectional party to fight, and intend to\\nwhip them. You have an equally sectional party to fight in the South,\\nand we expect you to whip them. When the election conies on in No-\\nvember next, we shall carry a majority of the electoral vote of the\\nNorth, and we expect you to carry a majority of the electoral vote of\\nthe South.\\nMr. Cessna of Pennsylvania We were informed upon the opening\\nof this Convention in this city, by our late highly respected and most\\nlamented presiding officer [laughter], that when we adjourned at\\nCharleston there were pending three motions to reconsider, and three\\nmotions to lay those motions to reconsider on the table. I move that\\nthe question be now taken upon those motions.\\nThe motion was agreed to, and accordingly the several motions to re-\\nconsider were laid on the table.\\nThe usual votes of thanks were passed. Hon. David Todd was\\nthanked. Railroads were thanked for half-fare tickets. The police of\\nBaltimore were thanked.\\nThen Mr. Warwack of Alabama returned thanks for the nomination\\nmade for Vice-President, and pledged the electoral vote of Alabama for\\nthe nominees of the Convention. It was here announced that four\\nStates had seceded from the Seceders Convention. The announcement\\nwas received with much applause. It was, however, a mistake. No\\nsuch secession had occurred.\\nMr. Stuart of Michigan proposed to adjourn, go into the field\\nwhere the enemy were and conquer them in a hand-to-hand fight.\\nThe President returned thanks for the vote of thanks, and con-\\ncluded\\nWe have only to continue firmly, nationally, sternly, fairly, honora-\\nbly in the discharge of our duties, as we have done since we met at\\nCharleston, to crown our efforts with entire success.\\nWishing you all a safe return to your homes, to your wives and chil-\\ndren, and God grant that you may all have them at home waiting for\\nyou, I now declare this Convention adjourned, and bid you adieu.\\nThe hour was fifteen minutes to ten P. M.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "217\\nINSTITUTE HALL SECEDERS CONVENTION.\\n%A\\nAfter the retirement of Mr. Gushing from the Presidency of the Con-\\nvention in the theatre, the public lost interest in that body. There\\nwere several sensation scenes in the morning, the most remarkable of\\nwhich was Mr Cushing dropping the gavel and leaving the chair, and\\nMr. Todd taking his place, with the Convention cheering heartily. But\\nwhen it was evident to all that the Convention would nominate Douglas,\\nas soon as the remaining delegates should exhaust them.selves in speech-\\nnlaking, the public turned toward the Maryland Institute (or Market)\\nHall. The Hall is three hundred and twenty feet long, and seventy\\nbroad, with galleries running entirely around, and contains, when full\\nin every part, eight thousand persons. The galleries, and the space\\non the floor set apart for outsiders, were quite full when the Conven-\\ntion was called to order.\\nThe Baltimore Sun says of the feeling of the Seceding delegates, in\\ncoming together The members of the respective delegations entered\\nfreely into conversation. All restraint of feeling had disappeared, and\\na spirit of the most cordial unanimity and harmony characterized every\\nman and every feature. The change of manner, expression and senti-\\nment was complete, and would have been striking and remarkable, but\\nthat it was consistent with general experience, in a Democratic Conven-\\ntion undisturbed by factitious influences. None could poj^sibly fail to\\nrealize the perfect restoration of that geniality of intercourse which is\\nalone the earnest of a harmonious result.\\nMr. Ewing of Tennessee called the Convention to order, and an-\\nnounced Mr. Russell of Virginia as temporary chairman of the Con-\\nvention. Messrs. Featherson of Mississippi and Stevens of Oregon\\nwere appointed a committee to escort Mr. Russell to his seat. Mr.\\nRussell made a speech, in which he said\\nThe Convention assembled elsewhere, and from which you have with-\\ndrawn, has lost all title to the designation of national. [Applause.]\\nIt cannot longer continue to perform the functions of a National Dem-\\nocratic Convention, and every one believes that all true Democrats will\\nunite to declare it unsound in national relations. You and those who\\nyou represent are a majority of the people of the Democracy and of the\\nDemocratic States. [Applause.] They will look to you to perform\\nthe functions of a National Democratic Convention, and you will be so\\nrecognized alike by the North and the South, the East and the West,\\n[Cheers.]\\nOn motion of Mr. Ewing, Messrs. Crosby of Oregon and Johnson of\\nMaryland were selected as temporary Secretaries.\\nMr. Walker of Alabama moved the appointment of a committee of\\n15 on Permanent Organization. Carried unanimously.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "218\\nSenator Eayard of Delaware moved reconsideration, as the number\\n(15) looked sectional. At his suggestion, the committee was made 5\\ninstead of 15.\\nThere was some talk about filling up the delegates seats, there being\\na good many more chairs than delegates. This was quieted, however.\\nThe followuig was re/^ortcd as the cnmmittee on Organization\\nWalker of Alabama, McHenty of Pennsylvania, Srevens of Oregon,\\nWilliams of Massacliu^etts, and John Dishman of Kentucky.\\nThe Convention took a recess, and there were cries among the spec-\\ntators for a speech from Yancey.\\nEVENING SESSION.\\nThe chairman of each delegation was requested to hand to the Sec-\\nretary a list of the delegates from his State.\\nThe Secretary proceeded to call the roll of the States, when the fol-\\nlowing responses were made\\nMaine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Ohio, Indiana,\\nIllinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minpesotu no delegates.\\nVermont One delegate.\\nMa.ssachasetts S xfeen delegates. [Immense cheering.]\\nNew York Two delegates. [Cheers.]\\nPennsylvania Please pass Pennsylvania for the present she is\\nhere. [Cheers\\nNew Jer.sey No representative.\\nDelaware is here pass her for the present.\\nVirginia She is here with twenty-three delegates.\\nNorth Carolina She is here with sixteen delegates. [Applause.]\\nAlabama is here with a full delegation thirty-six delegates.\\nMississippi A full delegation of fourteen.\\nLouisiana A full delegation fourteen.\\nTexas All here eight delegates.\\nArkansas A full delegation, nine in number.\\nMissouri Two delegates.\\nTennessee We have nineteen delegates here.\\nKentucky Ten delegates.\\nIowa Mr. H. H. Heath presented a document with relation to a\\nrepresentation of that State on the floor of this Convention. [Cheers.]\\nCalifornia The entire delegation of that State is here as a unit.\\nOregon She is here as a unit.\\nMaryland Maryland is here with nine of her delegation.\\nSouth Carolina No representatives.\\nFlorida Six delegates. [Applause.]\\nMr. Johnson stated he was authorized to state in behalf of the Hon.\\nSenator Bayard of Delaware, who was called to Wasliington on press-\\ning business, that he was with this Convention in sentiment and heart,\\nand wiiuld cordially sustain its nominee. [Applause.]\\nThere was so nuieh confusion in the hall, that the process of calling\\ndelegations was tedious. There were many prominent Souihern men in\\nthe hall, among them Senator Toombs, whose dark, lowering face seemed", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "219\\nfor once lit up with gond clieer. The leading Soutliorners of tlie dele-\\ngations sniilt d radiantly. T had not seen them look so hn|)py during\\nthe sixteen weary days of the Convention, and the two days episode at\\nKieliniond. Yancey, who always wears a surface smile, twisted about\\nin his seat with the unrest of intolerable felicity, laid his head first upon\\none shoLikh r and then upon the other, and glowed with satisfaction.\\nGarnett, of Virginia, whose countenance is usually grave as Don\\nQuixote s, seemed pleased as a school-boy with new l)oots. The great\\nbody of those collected as spectatois were manifestly favorable to the\\nmovement. The same public feeling apparent at Charleston in favor of\\nthe Soceders, came out in less degree here. It was a feeling of sec-\\ntional pride, and a loyalty to the Southern leaders, thiit is superior to\\nconvictions of either principle or expediency.\\nMr. Walker of Alabama, from ttie committee on Organization, was\\nauthorized to report the following as the permanent officers of this Con-\\nvention\\nPRESIDENT.\\nHon. CALEB GUSHING, of Massachusetts.\\nVICE-PRESIDENTS.\\nV. L. Bradford, Pennsylvania. H. E. Stonshton, Vermont.\\nO. R. Fiiiisten, Virginia. M. J. McP^Uianey. Missouri.\\nA. P. Deiiison, Oregon. Richard Tayler, Louit^iana.\\nJ. E. Uresl)it, California. R. G. Scott, Alabama.\\nJ. C. Atkins, Tennessee. Jo^iah Gonld, Arkansas.\\nJ. S. Keinick. Kentucky. W. P. Bowie, Mr.ryland.\\nBrad lord Brown, North Carolina. W. H. Ross, Delaware.\\nW. F. Featherston, Mississippi. H. M. Kunnels, Texas.\\nH. S. Beuning, Georgia. B. F. Wardlaw. Florida.\\nSecuetakies\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W. H. Crosley, Oregon; W. P. Cooper, Virginia; E. S. F.\\nHardcastle, Maryland N. H. R. Dawson, Alabama Thos. P. Ochiltree, Texas\\nJ. J. Williams, Florida F. West, Georgia F. W. Hoadhy, Arkansas W. G.\\nWhiteley, Delaware; David Fist, Pennsylvania; C. J. Armistead, Mississippi;\\nS. W. Humphrey, North Carolina; D. D. Withers, Tennessee.\\nThe name of Caleb Cushing was received with applause that remind-\\ned me of Chicago Hat-s and handkerchiefs were waved all around the\\ngreat circle of the galleries, and over the heads of the crowds upon the\\nfloor. A committee was appointed to wait upon Mr. Cushing. The\\ncommittee did not have far to proceed to find that gentleman, and in a\\nfew minutes were seen escorting him down the long passa :e, fenced\\nfrom the multitude with settees leading from the door to the seats re-\\nserved for the delegates and the platform. Cushing s person has, du-\\nring his Presidency over the deliberations of the Convention, become\\nvery well known. He was therefore instantly recognized by hundreds,\\nand his familiar blue coat and brass buttons, his Webstcrian garments\\nand Caj-arian head, were hailed with extraordinary acclamation. He\\nmarched through a lane of yelling Southciners, hats whirling, and\\nhandkerchiefs waving over his head, while the occupants of the galleries\\nleaned forward, and shouted and clapped their hands, swung their hats,\\nfluttered handkercheifs, and as he mounted the platform, Mr. Russell\\nof Virginia took him by the hand, the Convention and crowd gave him", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "220\\nthree clieorss, and Mr. R. mentioned that he resumed^ h\\\\s seat as\\nchairman of the National Democratic Convention.\\nMr. Caching, after anxiously inquiring of the Secretaries how many\\nStates were repre.^ented, said\\nGentlemen of the Convention we assemble here, delegates to the\\nNational Democratic Convention [applause], duly accredited thereto\\nfrom more than twenty States of the Union [applause], for the purpose\\nof nominating candidates of the Democratic party for the offices of\\nPresident and Vice-President of the United States for the purpose of\\nannouncing the principles of the party, and for the purpose of continuing\\nand re-establishing tiiat party upon the firm foundation of the Constitu-\\ntion, the Union and the co-equal rights of the several States. [Applause.]\\nGentlemen, the Convention is in order for business.\\nEvery word rung through the immense hall, and the familiar sound\\nof his voice certainly gave the Convention the tone of regularity.\\nMr. Loring of Massachusetts moved that a committee of one from\\neach State be appointed as a committee on Credentials to decide the\\nqualification of members to seats on this floor.\\nMr. Johnson of Maryland moved as an amendment, that the creden-\\ntials be referred to the committee on Credentials as that committee\\nstood at the last meeting of this Convention. [Applause.]\\nMr Loring I accept the amendment. I had forgotten. I move,\\ntherefore, that the committee on Credentials be requested to examine\\nand report on the credentials of members.\\nA coiiiniunication was received from H. H. Heath of Dubuque, Iowa,\\nand John Johns of Davenport, Iowa. These gentlemen were desirous\\nthat the National Democracy of Liwa should have a representation on\\nthat floor. Tliey did not claim to be regular delegates, but asked seats\\non the floor with the right of mutual conference and consultation.\\nThe document was referred to the committee on Credentials.\\nMr. Atkins of Tennessee wanted business despatched. There was\\nno reason why all the busine. ^s could not be accomplished before ad-\\njourning.\\nMr. Butler of Massachusetts moved that the members of the com-\\nmittee on Resolutions be requested to report a platform forthwith. He\\nresigned his pluce on the committee, and Hon. B. F. Ilallett Author\\nCincinnati J*latform was substituted.\\nMr. John. ^on of Maryhmd moved the adoption at once, without refer-\\nence to a committee, of that which was known as the majority platform\\nreported at Charleston.\\nMr. Lubbock of Texas deprecated these hasty proceedings. The\\ncommittee on Credentials had not reported- Care should betaken to\\ndo the work well. He conscientiously believed the nominees of that\\nConvention would be elected President and Vice-President of the Un-ited\\nStates.\\nMr. Hunter of Louisiana presented the following resolution\\nlie-solved. That the delegates to the Richmond Convention be requested to\\nunite will) thiir brethren of the National Democratic Convention, now a.^scnibled\\nat the Maryhuid Institute Hall, on tl)e same platform of principles with them-\\nBclves, if they feel authorized to do so.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "221\\nMr. Lnring of Massachusetts moved that the resolution be amended\\nso as to read the delegates from Suuih Carolina :itid Florida accredited\\nto Richmond, and he did so at the request of those delegates. [Ap-\\nplause.]\\nMr. Russell suggested a committee of one from each State, to name\\ncandidates for President and Vice-President, to be voted for by the Con-\\nvention.\\nMr. Howard of Tennessee objected and Mr. Russell withdrew his\\nmotion.\\nMr. Fisher of Virginia offered the following resolution\\nResolved, That a committee be appointed by the President of the Convention,\\ncousifsting of live members, to address the Democracy of the Union ui)on the\\nprinciples which have governed this body in maliiiig the nomination of Presi-\\ndent and Vice-President, and in viudiciition of the principles of the party.\\nMr. Howard of Tennessee moved that the President of this Conven-\\ntion be chairman of that committee. 31r. Howard put the question, and\\ndeclared it carried unanimously. [Applause.]\\nThe President I will appoint the committee at my earliest conveni-\\nence.\\nIt was suggested, that while the report of the committee on Creden-\\ntials was being prepared a little business might be done. 80 it was de-\\ncreed that a National Executive Committee of the Democratic party\\nshould be appointed, and that the next Convention should be held in the\\ncity of Philadelphia.\\nMr. Stevens of Oregon, chairman of the committee on Credentials,\\nreported the following duly accredited members as in attendance\\ncolleagues have left the city, and as they\\nfeel themselves precluded by the unity rule\\nof their State Convention, tney do not feel\\nauthorized to participate as delegates in the\\nproceedings of this body.]\\nVIRGINIA. I\\nCharles W. Russell, Arthur R. Smith, John\\nJ. Kindred, M. W. Fisher, George Booker, i\\nJames Barbour, John Seddon, Lewis E. liar-\\nvie, William F. Thompson, Henry P. Gar-\\nnett, Win A. Buckuer, John Blair Hoge, O.\\nR. Funston, Walter D. Leake, Wm. P. Cecil,\\nRobert Crockett, John Brannou, Henry Fitz-\\nhugh, Robert A. Coghill, P. B Jones, E. W.\\nHubard, Walter Coles, Wm. H. Clark, R. H.\\nGlass.\\nHenry R. Jackson, J. T. Irwin, Henry L.\\nBanning, Solomon Cohen, John W. H. Un-\\nderwood, Frederick H. West, T. Butler King,\\nJulian Hartridge, Hugh M. Moore, John A.\\nJones, James M. Clark, Nelson Tift, T. J.\\nIUcGehee, J. C. Gibson, P. Tracey, E. L. Stro-\\nhecker, Thomas W. O. Hill, Wm. Phillips,\\nJames M. Barnwell, G. J. Fain, Lewis Tum-\\nlin, James Hoge, Mark Johnston, H. B. Thom-\\nas, James Jackson, James A. Sledge, Osborn\\nT. Rogers, John A. Cobb, David C. Barrow,\\nM. C. Fulton.\\nNEW YORK.\\nAugustus Schell, Bartlett.\\n[Note.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 *Several of the delegates from the\\nState of New York are in attendance, in cor-\\ndial sympathy with the objects and course\\nof this Convention but as many of their\\nCALIFORNIA.\\nAus in E. Smith, D. S. Gregory, John A.\\nDreibilbis Chas L. Scott, proxy for G. W.\\nPatrick; R. F. Langdon, proxy for L. R. Brad-\\nley; G. L. Dudley, proxy for John Rains;\\nCalhoun Benham, proxy for John S. Dudley.\\nJohn Bidwell appointed S. J. Hensley his\\nproxy, but neither of them are here.\\nMARYLAND.\\nWiUiam T. Hamilton. John Contee, Levin\\nWoolford, John R. Emory, E. L. F. Hard-\\ncastle, Daniel Fields, Bradley T. Johnson,\\nWilliam D. Bowie, Harville Stansbury.\\nPENNSYLVANIA.\\nW. M. Reilly, V. L. Bradford, Geo. M. Hen-\\nry, E. C. Evans, Geo. H. Martin, H. A. Guen-\\nsey, H. Laner. H. H. Dent. A. J Glossbren-\\nner, Arnold Plummer, H. B. Swarr, David\\nFister.\\nLOUISIANA.\\nR. A. Hunter, Richard Taylor, E. Lusen,\\nJohn Tarleton, F. H Hatch, D. D. Withers,\\nR. C. Downs, J. G. Pratt, F. H. Knapp, J. H.\\nNew, B. Milliken.\\nThis IS the note of the Reporter of the Baltimore American.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "222\\nMISSISSIPPI.\\nGeorpe II. Gord in, Diaries Clark, E. Barks-\\ndale, W. S. Bvrry, W. S. Wilson, W. S.\\nFeatherstoii, H. C. Chambers. Joseph W.\\nMathews, C. G Arrriistead, B. Matthews, P.\\nF. Liddell, Josei)h R. Davis, Wirt Adams\\nAlexander M. Clayton.\\nLansing^ Stout, J. F. Lamerick, Isaac Ste-\\nvens. Justis Steinberger, H R. Crosbee, A.\\nP. Dennison.\\nMINNESOTA.\\nR. M. Johnson.\\nNORTH CAHOLINA.\\nWm. Landis, W. W. Avery, Lotte W.\\nHumphreys, John Walker. Samutl Hargrave,\\nJames Fulion Samuel P. Hill, T. J. Oreen,\\nColumbus Mills, W. S Ashe, C. H. Foster.\\nBedford J. Brown, R. R. Biidges, W. A.\\nMoore, W. S. Steele.\\nJames B. Owens, W. D. Barnes, Joseph\\nJohn Williams, B. F. Wardlaw, Geo. W. Call,\\nCharles E. Dyke, N. Bdker.\\nTENNESSEE.\\nSamuel Milligan, Wm. A. Quarles. J. D. C.\\nAtkins, W.L. McClellatjd. Alfred Robb, James\\nD. Thomas. Daniel Donelson. Thomas Men-\\niers, John D. Riley. J. B Lamb, H. F, Cum-\\nmins, R. Matthews, F. C. Dunnington. John\\nMcGavoch, H. W. Wall, Andrew Ewing, R.\\nD. Powell, John K Howard, C. Vaughne.\\nMASSACHUSETTS.\\nCaleb Cashing, James S. Whitney, W. C.\\nN. Svrlft. P. W. Leland, Alexander Lincoln,\\nBradtord L. Wales. Isaac H. Wright. .lames\\nRiley, Benjamin F Ilallett. George B Loring,\\nE. S. Williams, George Johnson, Benjamin\\nF. Butler. Abijah W, Chapin, David W. Car-\\npenter, Reuben Noble.\\nARKANSAS.\\nJ. P. Johnson, De Rosig Carroll, Robert\\nW.Johnson, T. C. Hindman, John A.Jor-\\ndan, John J. Stirman, Josiah Gould, Van H.\\nManning, F. W. Hoadley.\\nKENTUCKY.\\nRichard M. J. Mavon, Lafayette Green,\\nJames G. Leach. John Lishman, Cclbert Ce-\\ncil, James B. Beck, D. W. Quarles. Robert\\nGale, Robert M. Kean, John S. Kendicks.\\nALABAMA.\\nL. p. Walker, A B. Meek. H. D. Smith, W.\\nL. Yancey. F. S Lyon, W. M. Brooks, R. G.\\nScott, J W. Portis, N. H R. Dawson, T. J.\\nBurnett, Eli S Shorter, J C. B. Mitchell, W.\\nC. Penick, A. S. Van de Graff L M. Stone,\\nJohn Erwin, G. D. Johnston. F G. Norman,\\nJohn E. Moore, E. W Kennedy, Robert T.\\nScott, R. Chapman, Winfield Mason, Alex-\\nai der Snodgrass, J. T. Bradtord, AV. P.\\nBrowne, W. H. Forney, D. W. Bozeman.\\nGuv M Brvan. H. R. Runnels, F. S. Stock-\\ndale. F. R Lubbock. J. F. Crosby, Tom. P.\\nOchiltree.\\nMISSOURI.\\nC. J. Carwin, W. J, Mclihiney.\\nIt was recommended that the delegates from Iowa have compliment-\\nary tickets to the Convention, without leave to participate in itb proceed-\\ning. The Credential report was adopted unanimou ly.\\nMr. Avery of North Caiolina, from the committee on Platform, re-\\nported the following, being the majority Platfoim of the Cliaileston\\ncommittee\\nResolved, That the platform adopted by the Democratic party at Cincinnati, be\\naffirmed, with the following explanatory resolutions:\\n1st. lifHulred, Thai, the government of a Territory organized by an act of Con-\\ngress, is provisional and temporary and during its existence all citizens of the\\nUnited States have an equal right to settli; with their property in the Territory,\\nwithout their rights either of person or property being destroyed or impaired by\\nCongrc ssional or TiTiitorial legislation.\\n2d. lic-iohed, Tliat it is the duty of the Federal Government, in all its depart-\\nments, to protect, wlii/n necessary, the rights of persons and properly in the Ter-\\nritories, and wherever else its constitutional authority extends.\\n3d. Ikfiolced, That when setllirs in a Territory liaving an adequate popula-\\ntion, fonri a State Con.stltution, the rights of sovereignty commend .s. and, being\\nconsummati d by adinis.-^ion into the Union, they stand on an iqnal footing with\\nthe pfopic of oth -r States and the State thus organized ought to be admitted\\niiiio llie Fed Tal Union, whether its constitution prohibits or recognizes the insti-\\ntAitioii of slavery.\\n4lJi. Jlesulved, That the Democratic party are in favor of the acquisition of the\\nIsland of Cul)a, on such terms as shall be honorable to ourselves and just to\\nSpain, at the earliest jiraeticable moment.\\n.5th. Resoloed, That the enactments of State Legislatures to defeat the faithful", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "223\\nexecution of tbe Fugitive Slave law, are hostile in character to and subversive of\\nthe Constitution, aiui revolutionary in their effect.\\n(ill). AV.Ww/, That Ihe Dtinocracy ijf the United States reeopnizrs it as an\\nimperative duly of this (Government to protect naturalized citizens in all their\\nrights, whether at home or in foreign lands, to the same extent, as its native-born\\ncitizens.\\nAnd whereas, one of the greatest necessities of the age. in a political, com-\\nmercial, piist; l and military point of view, is speedy cunmiunication between\\nthe Pacitic and Atlantic coasts, therefore be it\\n7th. Eemlved, That the National Denmeratic parly do hereby phdge them-\\nselves to use evd-y nu ans in their power to secure the passage ol kiuk! bill to\\nthe extent of the constitutional authority of Congress for the construction of a\\nPacific Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, at the earliest\\npracticable moment.\\nMr. Avery moved the previous question upon this platform, and it\\nwas adopted without dissent.\\nMr. jMathews offered the followLng resolution, which was adopted:\\nThat the National Committee shall not issue tickets to the floor of the Con-\\nvention in any case where there is a bona jide contestant.\\nMr. Greene of North Carolina moved That all Constitutional Dem-\\nocrats of such States as are not at present represented, be toquested to\\nunite in the organizition, and form an Electoral College in favor of the\\nelection of the nominees of this Convention\\nMr. Henderson moved to strike out the word Constitutional, and\\nsubstitute National, which was agreed to.\\nMr. Barksdale moved to proceed to the nomination of candidates for\\nthe Presidency and Vice-Presidency.\\nSo the Convention went on, harmoniously as a Kepublican Conven-\\ntion where the party is in a minority. The pressure to tiansact busi-\\nness was overpowering.\\nIf a delegate spoke for five minutes, he would see many anxious in-\\ndications of impatience, that would not long tolerate him. The only\\nclog upon business was a difference of opinion as to the casting of\\nvotes. The question was whether a delegate from a Congressional\\nDistrict, whose colleague was absent, should cast one vote or one-half a\\nvote.\\nThe rule of voting adopted at Charleston and Cincinnati prevailed.\\nThe President stated that a telegraphic message had just been put\\ninto his hands from the members of the State of Minnesota at the\\nCharleston Convetition, desiring that Richard M. Johnsiai should east\\ntheir vote. The despatch was signed by Messrs. Baker and Egerton.\\nThe committee on Credentials had recommended that the rules\\nand regulations adopted by the National Democratic Convention of\\n1852 and 1856, be adopted by this Convention for its government,\\nwith tliis qualification that no nomination shall be considered as made\\nunless the candidate receives two-thiids of the votes of the States rep-\\nresented by this Convention.\\nThe committee had further recommended that each delegate cast\\nthe vote to wliich he is entitled in this Convention, and each State shall\\nonly east the nutnber of votes to which it may be entitltd by actual\\nrepresentation in this Convention.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "224\\nUnder these rules the Convention^ proceeded to the nomination of\\ncandidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency. Mr. Lorinc of\\nMassachusetts made a speech. He said\\nWe have scon tlie statesmen of Mississippi coming into our own bor-\\nders, and fearlessly defending their principles, aye, and bringing the\\nsectionalism of the North at their feet by their gallantry. We have ad-\\nmiration for this courage, and I trust to live by it and be governed by\\nit. Among all these men to whom we have been led to listen, and ad-\\nmire, and repeat, there is one standing pre-eminently before this coun-\\ntry a young and gallant son of the South.\\nAnd he named John C. Breckenridge, which name was received\\nwith a grand uproar of applause that signified his nomination.\\nMr. Denny of Pennsylvania seconded the nomination.\\nMr. Ward of Alabama begged leave to put in nomination a distin-\\nguished son of the old commonwealth of the State of Virginia R. M.\\nHunter as our representative man. He has fought the battle for\\ntwenty-five years, and has stamped the impress of principle upon the\\ngreat Democratic party of his country.\\nMr. Ewing of Tennesse put in nomination Daniel S. Dickinson of\\nNew York, and said\\nMr. Webster, who was opposed to him, said he could not leave the\\nSeniite without paying a tribute to the patriotism and dignity of charac-\\nter, as a gentleman and as a statesman, of Mr. Dickinson. Webster\\nnow sleeps with his fathers, but his judgment remains, and it was the\\nimpartial judgment of a man who was able to judge, and who was an\\nopponent.\\nMr. Stevens of Oregon named the Marion of the Mexican War.\\nHe said\\nWe have tried him, and know him as a statesman and as a man\\nof honor we know him as a man of experience, and we know him as a\\nman ruled by the Constitution under which we live. I beg leave,\\ntherefore, to present to this Convention the name of General Joseph\\nLane of Oregon.\\nMr. Matthews of Mississippi spoke of the orator, warrior, states-\\nman and lawyer, Jefferson Davis, but for the sake of harmony with-\\nheld his name.\\nMr. Kussell of Virginia, after consulting with his delegation, re-\\n([uested Alabama to withdraw the name of Hunter.\\nMr. Ward of Alabama complied, expressing his profound admira-\\ntion for the bearing of Virginia.\\nThe roll of States was then called. The result was\\nFor Breckenridge Vermont A, Massachusetts 8, Pennsylvania 4,\\nMaryland 1^, Virginia 111, Georgia 10, Florida 3, Alabama 9, Louis-\\niana G, Mississippi 7, Texas 4, Arkansas 4, Kentucky 4d, Minnesota 1,\\nCalifornia 4, Oregon 3 81.\\nFor Dickinson New York 2, Maryland 3, North Carolina 8|, Mis-\\nsouri 1, Tennessee 9;] 24.\\nThe States that had voted for Dickinson one afrer another changed\\nto Breckenridge, who was then declared unanimously nominated.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "I\\nDuring the lallot for a candidate for tlio Presidency, Mr. Bartlett\\nof New York said\\nI came into the delegation of the State of New York, under the\\nrule passed by the Democratic State Convention of that State. But it\\ndid not take me long to discover what the game was, after one day s\\nsession in that delegation. I was satisfied in my own mind that the\\nslate had been filled, and, therefore, I was placed, like many others of\\nmy colleagues, in the minority of that delegation and upon all ques-\\ntions, and especially upon the adoption of the majority report on Cre-\\ndentials, in which we had a long contest, the line was strictly drawn,\\nand there was thirty on one side and forty on the other.\\nHe also made an eloquent appeal for the Union.\\nMr. Green of North Carolina rose and proposed Hon. Joseph Lane\\nof Oregon, as Vice-President, which was seconded by the California\\ndelegation, and, on a call of the States, unanimously agreed to.\\nWhen the cheering subsided, there was a general call for Yancey\\nYancey and that gentleman stepped forward upon the platform,\\nand had a reception of the most flattering character. He is a square\\nbuilt middle-sized gentleman, with a decided stoop in the shoulders.\\nHis hair is a light brown, and his eyes large and gray. His face is pe-\\nculiar, and without striking features, though closely observed it is seen\\nto be the face of an inten.se and powerful man, having an expression of\\nconcentration, and a good-natured sort of pluck. His style of dress is\\nthat of a tidy business man, and his manners frank and unassuming as\\nthose of a boy. There is not the slightest symptom of the fanatic\\nabout him. His convictions are evidently not disturbed for a moment,\\nnor is his confidence in himself by any means depressed by the vicisi-\\ntudes of a doubtful controversy. In the midst of the most exciting\\nscenes he is placid in appearance and so thoroughly conversant with his\\npurpose, that he is at perfect ease. The smile that he wears amid the\\nacclamations of a multitude of admirers would hardly darken a shade\\nat the hootings of an exasperated mob. But you do not know him\\nuntil you have heard him speak. His voice is clear as a bugle-note,\\nand at the same time singularly blended with its music is a sharp high\\nmetallic ring, like that of a triangle of steel. This peculiar voice, al-\\nways clear and sharp, pierces to a great distance, and would instantly\\ncommand attention in any assembly. He speaks with great animation\\nof gesture with his arms, meanwhile walking quietly up and down the\\nplatform. Upon commencing a particular branch of his subject, he\\nstraightens himself with an effort, stands perfectly erect, and pulls up\\nhis coat-sleeves. As he proceeds in the demonstration, he moves toward\\nthe edge of the platform and leaning forward, indicates the progress he\\nis making by exclamation points given with the index finger of his right\\nhand upon the palm of the left. As he clinches the proposition he\\nleans forward until poised upon the toes of his boots, his right arm ex-\\ntended and pointing into the heart of the matter, and then usually as\\nhe rebounds, he throws off sportively as it were a graceful climax of\\nrhetoric and is ready for the next point.\\nMr. Yancey commenced his speech on this occasion, by saying: Mr.\\nPresident and Gentlemen of the Convention The storm clouds of faction\\n15", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "226\\nhave drifted away, and the sunlight of principle, under the Constitution,\\nand of the Union under the Constitution, shines brightly upon the Na-\\ntional Democracy. He declared that the Democracy, the Constitution,\\nand tlirough them the Union, were yet safe. In defining his position in\\nregard to the Union, he said I am, however, no worshiper at the\\n.shrine of the Union. I am no TTnion shrieker. I meet great questions\\nfairly, on their own merits. I do not try to drown the judgment of the\\npeople by shrieking for the Union. I am neither for the Union nor\\nagainst the Union\u00e2\u0080\u0094 neither for disunion nor against disunion. I urge\\nor oppose measures upon the ground of their constitutionality and wisdom\\nor the reverse.\\nHe said of Mr. Douglas But I will let Mr. Douglas rest where his\\nfriends have placed him, contending, however, that they have buried him\\nto-day beneath the grave of squatter sovereignty. The nomination that\\nwas made (I speak it prophetically), was made to be defeated and it\\nis bound to be defeated.\\nMr. Yancey reviewed very clearly, the scriptural and historical refer-\\nences made in the Douglas Convention by Mr. Green of Ky., respecting\\nthe few righteous men of Sodom, and by Mr. Claiborne of Missouri, who\\nintroduced the story of Lord James Douglas and the heart of Bruce.\\nAnd with all Mr. Yancey s power, it is due the truth to say that he\\nwas guilty of that terrible offense on such an occasion too much speak-\\ning and contrived to use up very handsomely the brilliant reputation\\nwith which he came to Baltimore, as an orator of the first order, and a\\nman of wonderful ability, perfect tact, and fascinating address. He has\\ngreat and glittering qualities, but the Baltimoreans had over-estimated\\nhim. His speech was a disenchanter. He was not calculated to assist\\nhis party at all, but rather to place embarrassments in its way. He\\ndenied being a disunionist, but his talk respecting the Union did not in-\\ndicate any warmth of affection for our common nationality. It was very\\ncalculating, and to the man who loves the Union for itself, and entertains\\na sentiment of national pride, which has its origin rather in the warm\\nemotions of the heart, than the cold reason of the head, was offensive and\\ndistressing. He proceeded to elaborate the same argument made by\\nMr. Stevens in his minority report, and did not improve it at all by his\\nredundancy of words. He had the bad taste, too, to enter largely into\\nAlabama politics, and gave details of matters purely local in their nature.\\nThe people left the hall by hundreds yet he spoke on, as if unconscious\\nthat instead of captivating the multitudes he was boring them. Cushing\\nbecame uneasy, nervous and fidgety. Yancey was speaking the people\\nout of the hall, and using up all the time with Alabama matters. It\\nhad been intimated that Burnett of Kentucky should respond to the\\nnomination of John C. Breckenridge, but now there was no time for\\nBurnett. Y^ ancey was interrupted once, delicately as possible, to attend\\nto some necessary business, but he could not or would not take the hint,\\nbut resuming, talked on and on most injudiciously irritating the nerves\\nof the people, and tampering with the patience of all who would have\\nbeen glad to have heard all he had to say on another occasion. He was\\ndoing another thing that was undesirable. By talking so loud and long\\nthen and there, and putting himself and Alabama so prominently for.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "227\\nward, lie was identifying his name, and the ultraism of Alabama, too\\nintimately and conspicuously with the movement represented in that\\nhall. When he concluded it was evident that there would not be any\\nmore speech making. If the eloquence of Yancey had become a weari-\\nness, who should dare propose to stand up before the jaded crowd,\\nsick, as all were, of the very sound of the human voice.\\nMr. Avery of North Carolina offered a resolution of thanks to Mr.\\nGushing, who, on rising to acknowledge the compliment, was received\\nwith extravagant applause. He said\\nGentlemen of the Convention I beg you to accept the expression of\\nmy heartfelt acknowledgment of your thanks. I do not intend to\\nsay any thing more, except to congratulate you upon the most felicitous\\ntermination of your labors, l)oth in the adoption of platform, and in the\\nnomination of your candidates.\\nA motion, by Judge Meek, that the President have power to appoint\\ncommittees, was adopted. And at eleven o clock the Convention ad-\\njourned sine die.\\nTHE CONTEST AT BALTIMORE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 THE SPIRIT OP THE\\nSPLIT.\\nWhen the Seceders appeared at Baltimore, pursuant to the programme\\nof the Southern Congressmen, advertised in their manifesto and perfect-\\ned at Richmond, the contest between the antagonisms which had been\\nfully developed at Charleston, resolved itself into a simple one on cre-\\ndentials, between the original Charleston delegates, and the delegations\\nfrom several States, provided to fill up the gaps caused by secession, with\\nthe deciding vote in the hand of Dean Richmond, chairman of the New\\nYork delegation. Richmond Co., while able to say whether the Con-\\nvention should be consolidated by admitting the original Southern dele-\\ngates, or disrupted by excluding the seceders, could not say, in case of\\nconsolidation, who should be the nominee. The friends of Douglas were\\nwithout confidence in Richmond the Dean and were only pre-\\nvented from denouncing him, by the appreciation of their dependence\\nupon him. If he slaughtered Douglas, they had the power and the will\\nto slaughter his man, and would have prevented the nomination of any\\ncandidate for whom he, in connection with the South, might have thrown\\nhis influence. Hence the hesitation of New York her long consulta-\\ntions her vascillation, and retrograde movements. She struggled for a\\ncompromise, but both sides were so fierce that compromising was out of\\nthe question. The Southerners thought they had compromised enough in\\ncoming to Baltimore, and condescending to ask admission into the Con-\\nvention from which they had seceded. The friends of Douglas could\\nnot be expected to throw away the last chance for their candidate, by\\nmaking up the Convention, so far as possible, out of its original materials.\\nSuch a compromise as that would have been, not a capitulation, but a\\nsurrender at discretion. They did, at the solicitation, indeed the dicta-\\ntorial demand of New York, back out from two propositions, and were", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "228\\nsorry for it afterward. They had taken the ground that no delegate\\naccredited to the Kichmond Convention, should be allowed to enter that\\nat Baltimore. They were drawn from this point by the strong case of\\nMississippi. They had also declared the necessity of a pledge or under-\\nstanding, that all delegates entering the Convention, should make or\\nassent to, to the effect that they would support the nominees of the Con-\\nvention. After urging this for a few hours, and observing the explosive\\nexcitement engendered by it, they withdrew it. They also, or rather\\nNew York, succumbed respecting their delegation from Georgia. Yet\\nit was impossible to satisfy the demands of the South and preserve the\\nunity of the Convention, without passing under the yoke of Yancey, and\\nthey could not consent to that humiliation.\\nThe friends of Mr. Douglas finding their boasted availability in can-\\ndidate and platform repudiated, and themselves treated as property,\\nrather than Sovereign, became infuriated. They were animated by pas-\\nsions whose force is terrible. There was in the first place an unappeas-\\nable hungering for the spoils, common, I suppose, to all politicians.\\nThey had long been placed on short allowance. In yielding to the de-\\nmands of the South, and following their leaders ambitious of national\\neminence, they had been deserted by the greater portion of the people\\nof their own localities. They had long been stung by the taunts of\\ntheir Republican neighbors, that they were serfs of Southern masters,\\nand in the new demands and arrogant intolerance of the South, they\\nfelt that they were regarded as inferiors, and treated accordingly. They\\nhad assumed that the South was under obligations to them for fighting\\nbattles for Slavery, and were exasperated upon discovering that no such\\noblifi ation was recognized as having existence. They found, in short,\\nthat they could not be sound on the slavery question, without yield-\\ning up their most profound convictions, and all manly instincts. They\\nwere prepared to say that slavery should be tolerate^d they could even\\ngo so far as to say that they did not care whether it was voted up or\\ndown in or out of a Territory but they were not billing to vote it\\nup, and glorify it as a good thing, and especially acknowledge its politi-\\ncal pre-eminence. And behind all this, they represented the purpcses\\nof Mr. Douglas, and had taken up his quarrel with the Lecompton wing\\nof the party, and it became their fixed resolution to use every atom of\\npower they could acquire, to vindicate the position of Mr. Douglas and\\nhis regularity in the party, and if possible, to assert by authority his\\ncontrol over the organization.\\nThey proceeded to Baltimore in a state of stimulated enthusiasm, and\\npartial blindnes.s. They did not know the power and desperation of the\\nSouth, and were foolish enough to believe the opposition to them in that\\nquarter would quietly subside. They were, however, met in a spirit\\nmore intolerant than their own. Virginia, upon whom they had de-\\npended to give Douglas the nomination, in the spirit of harmony and\\naccording to Democratic usages, was the first to make threats, and\\nfinally led the seceding column the mother of Democracy thus becom-\\ning chief of the seceders.\\nThe appearance of the Seceders at Baltimore, and their evident pur.\\npose and power to control the Convention or destroy it, produced ex", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "229\\ntremely hostile feeling on the part of the North-west. The immediate\\nfriends of Douglas became rancorous. Their temper was not improved\\nby the fact that in the most conspicuous case, and on the vital point,\\nthey were manifestly worsted in argument. The report of Mr. Ste-\\nvens of Oregon from the committee on Credentials, displays the strength,\\naccording to the usage of the party, of the case of the seceders. There\\nwas no way of proceeding to business, which to them had a single point\\ntlie nomination of Douglas but to blow up the Convention. If a sin-\\ngle one of the Douglas delegations from the Gulf States should be ad-\\nmitted, the explosion would take place just as if all were admitted.\\nThe compromising and trading New Yorkers found an absence of avail-\\nable material for obtaining advantages in political stock gambling.\\nThey were alternately bulls tossing up the Douglas stock and bears\\ntearing it down, and yet, through all the liuctuations, they were unable\\nto make a sale or a purchase on which any thing could be realized.\\nThe North-west was as determined and impracticable regarding one\\nscheme as the South was regarding another. The Democracy of the\\nNorth-west rose out of the status of serfdom. There was servile in-\\nsurrection, with attendant horrors, and Baltimore became a political St.\\nDomingo.\\nThe South was amazed to hear its favorite threat of secession despised\\nand hooted at. The seceders were sneeringly asked why they came\\nback and told that they had no business there that llichmond was\\nthe place for them. Yancey had said it would be dishonorable for se-\\nceders to sneak back and beg to be allowed to re-enter the Convention.\\nNow, why were they sneaking back i What had they done with their\\nhonor V The double-headed mass-meetings held every night for a week,\\nconstantly inflamed every antagonism within the party. Every old fe-\\nverish sore was rent open by speakers from one stump or the other, and\\nthe want of unity in the party was so manifest that feeble efforts to\\nmake speeches in the old time strain of conciliation, harmony, every\\nthing for the man, nothing for the principle, were received with deris-\\nion and remarks abundantly garnished with profanity, that there was no\\noccasion for that sort of twaddle.\\nJust in the crisis of the Convention Mr. Douglas lost his nerve, and\\nwrote by mail and telegraph to his most confidential and influential\\nfriends, beseeching them to save the party, if it could be done by with-\\ndrawing his name from the contest. It was too late, however. He was\\nthe implement of a revolution, and it was necessary that he should be\\nused. He had raised a greater tempest than he had imagined. He\\nhad stirred up the storm but could not control the whirlwind.\\nAfter the Conventions, the feeling between the people of the Theatre\\nand those of the Institute was so fiercely belligerant, that they could\\nnot talk in good humor. The fact that a family quarrel is of the most\\nremorseless character, was manifest in the conversation of every group\\nof ten persons to be seen on the streets or about the hotels. Each fac-\\ntion accused the other in the most harsh terms, of being factionists, bolt-\\ners, traitors, incendiaries, etc., etc. epithets conveying imputations\\noffensive, in a political sense, being exhausted in vain efforts on both\\nsides to do justice to the subject.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "230\\nThe North-western delegates, on their return home, congratulated\\nthemselves upon the presumption, that if they had ripped up the Dem-\\nocratic party, tlioy had shown the Republicans that they, as Democrats,\\nwere not doughfaces. The reflection that they were no more to be\\nreproached as serfs of the South, seemed sweet and ample consolation\\nfor all the struggles and perils through which they had passed, and the\\npangs they had suffered in the dissolution of the party. They talked all\\nthe way over the mountains to this effect Well, there is one thing of\\nwhich we can t be accused any more. There was not a doughface\\nshown in the North-west. The fact is the South was never before quite\\nso well matched in her own game of brag and intolerable arrogance.\\nThey never before met in Convention face to face, with oath to oath, anil\\nmenace for menace, and told with as much vehemence as they threaten-\\ned to secede, that they might do it and be d d.\\nI shared a railroad .seat, when crossing the mountains, with a North-\\nwestern delegate, one of the most zealous of the partisans of Douglas.\\nHe was in a bad humor with the South. I asked what was the matter.\\nHe said I have been vexed. After all the battles we have fought\\nfor the South to be served in this manner it is ungrateful and mean.\\nHe wanted the South to be made sweat under an Abolition President.\\nHe was glad Seward was not the Republican candidate, for he would\\nbe too easy on the South. He hoped Lincoln would make them sweat.\\nThe Southerners had been ruling over niggers so long they thought they\\ncould rule white men just the same. The South should not go out of\\nthe Union either. The would stay in and sweat. The fugitive slaves\\nmight go to Canada or to the devil in welcome, and their masters after\\nthem. He never would trouble his head about them any more. He\\ndid not care whether the Fugitive Slave law was enforced or not. He\\ndeclared the South had alienated her best friends forever, and must now\\ndo the best she could for herself. He was also disposed to disparage\\nthe Southern country, depreciate the resources of the South, and mag-\\nnify the evils that beset her.\\nAnd this conversation, I am convinced, represents the feeling with\\nwhich the North-western delegates crossed the mountains returning\\nhome. The extent and bearings of the political revolution, of which\\nthis is one of the indications, may be further illustrated from the bar-\\nroom talk at Baltimore. One delegate from Indiana was happy to tell\\ntlie Seceders that the valley of the Wabash was worth more than all the\\ncountry between the Potomac and the Rio Grande, niggers included.\\nAnd then an Ohioan boasted that there was one town in a corner of\\nOhio, called Cincinnati, worth more than the whole d d State of Ala-\\nbama. Another assured the Seceders that he thought more of Black\\nRepublicans than of such fellows as they were, and that if there was to\\nbe a fight between sections, he was for his own side of the Ohio.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "281\\nTHE SECOND RICHMOND CONVENTION.\\nDuring the session of the Baltimore Convention, the South Carolina\\ndelegates remained at Richmond, and after the 21st, the day to which\\nthey had adjourned, they adjourned from day to day.\\nOn the evening of Tuesday, the 2Gth, a number of the Southern\\ndelegates were in the city, among others, Messrs. Seott and Yancey of\\nAlabama, and the Convention assembled in Metropolitan Hall. Col.\\nIrwin, the President, called the Convention to order.\\nMr. Middleton of South Carolina made a report from the committee\\non Credentials on the New York case (the New York Commissioners).\\nThe committee found that those commissioners had been duly elected\\nas delegates from the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth Con-\\ngressional Districts of New York to the Richmond Convention.\\nAfter some discussion the whole matter was laid on the table by the\\nfollowing vote\\nAyes Virginia d, South Carolina 7^, Florida 3, Alabama 9, Mis-\\nsissippi 7 27.\\nNoes North Carolina South Carolina -I, Georgia 10, Louisiana\\n6, Texas 4\u00e2\u0080\u009421.\\nMr. Dara:am of South Carolina then offered the following resolution\\nResolved, That this Convention approve of the Platform of Principles recom-\\nmended by the majority report at the Charlesto.i Convention.\\nThe question was put, and the resolution was adopted unanimously,\\namid loud cheering.\\nMr. Furman of South Carolina, on behalf of his delegation, offered\\nthe following resolution\\nResolved, That John C. Breckenridge of Kentucky, and Joseph Lane of Oregon,\\nare, and they are hereby declared to be the choice, unanimously, of this Conven-\\ntion, for President and Vice-President of the United States.\\nThere were a few votes of thanks, as usual on such occasions, and\\nthe Convention adjourned sine die.\\nThe Richmond Enquirer says\\nThe galleries during the session were thronged, and whilst there was\\ngreat enthusiasm, there was no one occasion, in the slightest degree, to\\ndisturb good order. All the proceedings were conducted with a calm-\\nness, dignity and decorum which we have never seen excelled.", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "oo.O\\nThe lesson to the Nation of the Presipential Caucuses of 18G0\\nis the necessity for the abolition of the Caucus System, which, in\\nwhatever party organization operative, is a system of swindling, by\\nwhich the people are defrauded out of the effective exercise of the right\\nof suffrage. There is no honesty in caucuses, no sound principle or\\ng )od policy, except by accident and the accidents that furnish the\\nexception are rare indeed.\\nThe revenues of King Caucus are corruption funds and his gov-\\nernment costs the country at least fifty million dollars annually his\\nplatforms of principles are elaborations of false pretenses his nominees\\nare his obsequious viceroys and he is the power behind the chairs of\\nour chief magistrates, and under the tables of our cabinets, far more\\npotent than those who visibly assume authority.\\nIf a Republican form of government is to be preserved in our con-\\nfederacy, the people must make a bonfire of his throne.\\nThe official reports from wliich this compilation has been largely\\nmade up, appeared in the following journals The Mercury and the\\nCourier of Charleston; the Press and Tribune of Chicago; the Balti-\\nmore Clipper (for the Constitutional Union Convention); the Balti-\\nmore American and Sun, for the National Democratic Conventions\\nand the Richmond Enquirer for the Convention held in that city.\\nERRATA.\\nPage 9, first liae, second paragraph, for Magmlia Hall read Mbertm\\nPage 31, last line, read equivocal for equivalent.\\nPage 101, last line of page, read leonine instead of canine.\\nH94 75 i", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^o\\nV^\\no\\n-n^\\n0\\n.C\\na\\n0^ i- J.\\n4^ ^-^.-n^\\n^O^ ov^^\\n.V\\n^^r\\n.v^.\\nX --^^viv y\\n,v\\no V", "height": "3432", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "caucusesof1860hi00lchals_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "^o.\\n.0^ V\\n/4/*^\\nV.\\nc\\nA\\nV\\n-it.\\n.r\\n.0\\nkV\\no\\n.0\\nV\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^/^^J^^-/\\nii-dfu^.\\nO N O\\nV\\nftp--\\n.^4*\\n?^r\\nfe\\nNO^ 74\\nf! 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