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THE PRESIDENCY. Headlong Charge of the Unter- rified at Baltimore. Greeley and Brown Nominated. JHE FIRST BALLOT 686 TO 47. Extraordinary Enthusiasm for the Chappaqua Chopper. Old Party Walls Battered Down---The Union Before Sections. THE CINCINNATI PLATFORM ADOPTED. Bayard Keeping Out the Tide with a Delaware Pitchfork. Bourbonism Squelched, Hissed and Laughed Out of Hearing. —_——— Connor, of South Carolina, Cham- pions the White Coat. CALLING THE ROLL OF THE STATES. ‘A Scene of Unparalleled Jubilation. Tribute to the Empire and Beaver States. A Plain American Citizen, Not a Soldier, for President. Adjournment of the Conven- * ‘tion Sine Die. THE WASP’S NEST. The Present and the Future Denounced by Ghosts of the Past. Augustus Schell Chairman of the National Committee. THE PRESS ON THE EDITOR CANDIDATE. Bejoicing, Gun-Firing, Speechmaking and Delight Through the Nation. VIVE LE CHAPEAU BLANC! BALTIMORE, July 10, 1872. One of the episodes of this Convention has been the gathering of liberal republicans, revenue re- formers, &c., at the city of Washington, and yester- day Mr. Whitelaw Reid, of the New York Tribune, departed, accompanied by Horace White, Colonel Grosvenor and others, and 1t was generally ‘thought that the design was tu hold a séance with Hon. Charles Sumner to induce him to suspend the passive policy and give open support to Mr. Greeley. Your Washington correspondent will probably give you prompt advices on this head, and there is little doubt that a {yll talk was had with Mr. Sumner. last night by the gentlemen in question. Such a complimentary visit, or rather ‘a series of such visits, were found highly effective about three weeks ago in the case of Mr. Schurz, who held out against Greeley until the last moment, and was the subject of anxious prayer. Mi, SUMNER’S DISPOSITION 18 TO GO CAMPAIGN, but his Massachusetts friends keep him under vigi- Jant consideration. and probably no one has as much influence with him as Mr. George F. Hoar, of Springfeld. Until within a few weeks past Judge Hoar, formerly President Grant's Attorney Gen- eral, had been supposed to favor President Grant's @efeat; but it now seems to be the case that the Supreme Justiceship of * the United States is still held in the mar- ket as a good bait to aspiring publicists and political attorneys, and there is a correspond- ing enthusiasm for Grant among all gentiemen who bave been named in that connection. ONE OF THE MOST LUDICROUS FEATURES OF THE DEMOCRATIC GATHERING in Baltimore has been the utterly insignificant and unprecedented attitude of the ten or fifteen ir- reconcilables who sit up in the hotel basrooms as Jong as the last loiterer can keep awake to insist that at Louisville there shall be a grand gathering of the unterrified for the purpose of exterminat- ing both Grant and, Greeley. This small as- semblage of gentlemen is led by Brick Pomeroy and abetted mainly by Congress- man Davis, of West Virginia, who was opposed to the repeal of the test oath and in favor of the infa- mous system of disfranchisement adopted there as ® radical measure, with the object of holding the State hereditarily in the hands of the Unionists. THE STATE OF THE WEATHER AND THE FEELING OF * ‘THE GATHERING. ‘This morning there is a good breeze stirring in Baltimore. The sun is out warm and radiant, and everybody is in good temper over yesterday's ami- cable understanding. The city newspapers have given very full and interesting accounts of the Convention, ana, as yesterday, Mr. Greeley’s fron- tispiece is paraded everywhere, the gorgeous sys- tem of fans representing his lineaments being fur- ther ornamented with white side-whiskers, made of wool. It isinevitable that a political campaign begun with such spontaneity fora political opponent must result logically in the extinguishment of what have been hitherto called democratic principies, THE GREAT STUMPERS OF THE PARTY are now getting ready to shriek for freedom, and judging from yesterday's proceedings, they have acquired all the stock phrases hitherto employed ‘by the republicans, and can fairly meet them on their own ground as the identical party which gave the Colored man his rights and restored the Union, ONE OF THE BOLTERS. George C. Bates, one of the bolters who raised echoes in the Maryland Institute, ts a small, itiner- ant butcher at the hamiet of Jenkintown, Pa., who has a chronic love of notoriety, and several years ago made torchlight endeavors to have @ certain John T. Smith made INTO THIS NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY U1, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. President of the United States by stumping for him on the vacant lots of Philadelphia, It seems that Smith had gone on some bond of Bates’, as Horace Greeley had gone on the bond of Jeff. Davis. DEMOCRATIC REFORMERS. All these appearances are very ludicrous—Mark Pomeroy as the democratic reformer, and Van Allen as a tough and influential statesman. Bolting propo- sitions are doomed in this campaign, and General Grant’s organs have NO TIME TO LOSE upon dividing the democratic vote, but ought to go vigorously to work to save the republican constit- uency intact. DELAWARE FACTIOUS, In the Delaware delegation it is evident that Bayard and Saulsbury must either lose their grip altogether or come into the Greeley movement, as the lesser politicians of the State are anxious to precede them in influence, and about one thousand republicans, who will join the Greeley moveme nt, also propose to compete for this pocket borough. The electoral vote of the State is of small conse- quence any way, and it has been pretty generally hissed by the Convention as factious and imperti- nent. The Democratic Convention concluded its work to-day, between the hours of ten and half- past one. To Mr. Doolittle is owing very much of that mingled good temper and energy which held the minority io check. He made the rulings in favor of Mr. Greeley’s friends, while occasionally giving some little outburst of apparent equity for Greeley’s opponents, and on the whole vindi- cated himself as a superb managing politician and one of the leading authorities and popes in the ensuing campaign: Every attempt to head a bolt, or get up ill feeling here has been steadily resisted by nearly the united South, seconded by the power of New York State and the Northwest. FUSSY LITTLE DELAWARE. The State of Delaware made for itself a great deal of that kind of glory which a Frenchman might de- scribe as superb, and yet not war; but the Tes sive and steadfast demeanor of nine-tenths of the delegates had even the effect to intimidate these agricultural gentlemen and proprietors of the Dela- ware pocket borough. BAYARD’S PLEA. Mr. Bayard asked permission to make a plea of ten or fifteen minutes, and had it stingily accorded, Had he been a man of commanding presence and effective in speech he might have made some little diversion, but the liberal republicans and other friends of Greeley who sat in @ nervous state of mind, listening to his effort, were satisfied in two or three minutes that a very small portion of the house could hear him at all, and that of those who did no great number were disposed to fall into his line of prejudice. Moreover, his colleagu in the Delaware delegation were guilty of the sub- sequent bad management of nominating his father, one member of the inevitable Bayard family, for President, as against Mr. Greeley. This led to a general rumbling of talk and exclamations of sur- prise that nothing within the le of the demo- cratic party was not to be coveted by the said Bay- ards and Saulsburys. Mr. Gove Saulsbury sat be- side Mr. Bayard with that hard, inflexible face which he has carried for several years as the head of the reigning family, but not being much of a talker he did not come forward nor make any demonstration. Tom Bayard was listened to for about ten minutes, and then there were loud cries of “Time!? and an indisposition to give him further opportunity. He rallied after this long intertude of noise and outcries and said two or three very plucky gentonces rien in some measure recovered good feeling fo him. TELLING SPEECH OF A SOUTH CABOLINA IRISHMAN, A South Carolina Irishman, by the name of O’Connor, was at once recognized by Doolittle, and he came forward and took the stand for about twenty minutes, and madcaspeech such as few members of the Cincinnati Convention would have had the pluck to do, He said, relative to the blacks in the State from which he came, that qeeody was anxious to také their hard earned and hard won ballot from them, and at these sentences, to the surprise of the ‘whole Convention, the galleries rose up and gave one of the loudest yells yet raised in the Presidential nomination. OGonnor is a stout, prompt and florid debater, full of action, and he made one of the great successes of the day. GOVERNOR HOFFMAN'S MOVEMENT. Another ingenious movement was that of John T. Hotfman in presenting a petition, signed by 15,000 Germansof the State of New York, insisting that Mr. Ottendorfer and the two or three men who at- tended the Fifth Avenue Conference on their behalf had no rie to speak for German Americans; but that, on the contrary, Mr. Greeley would get nearly the solid vote of that large element. As few per- sons knew the contents of this memorial there was very profound silence until the purport of it was discovered, and then the House rose up and gave another of those extraordinary yells of approbation which showed that the fight was won before it was quite begun. PRESENCE OF LIBERAL REPUBLICANS. There were a large number of liberal republicans upon the stage and in the private boxes, including General Kilpatrick, John Cochrane, Theodore Til- ton, Colonel McClure and several of the immediate body cohort of Mr. Greeley. None of these were given any opportunity to feel embarrassed in their new associations. THE NEW DEPARTURE was shown to be fully accomplished, not only for the success supposed to be inherent in it, but the better class of the Southern men take stock no longer in what has passed away,and have shown that clever management which has undoubtedly put them at the head of the conservative party of the nation again. : THE ATTITUDE OF THE NEW YORK DELEGATION was remarkably handsome. They enclosed the pit, ov lower floor of the theatre, filling the whole of the encircling row of seats in what ts sometimes called the \prb aroed circle, When the delegation was culled all these seventy odd delegates stood up, and at once the house was in @ jubilee. After they had resumed their seats GOVERNOR HOFFMAN, still standing, with a fan in his hand made one of those pretty and confident speeches, which was heard in every part of the theatre and was both argumentative and popular in its character, Mr. Doolittle, who seemed to give the liberals all the chance they wanted, made no objection to Hoffman continuing as long as he pleased, and the flexible and genial Governor addressed himself at once to the Delaware delegation, urging them to take no step backward, and, at the same time, he romised that New York would give a greater ma- jority for Mr. Greeley than Missouri, which had made a adie boast to that effect, would cast votes in the campaign. It was very palpable here that the New Yorkers and Hoffman held the para- mount influence, their perfect accord being in marked contrast to the discord and timidity in THE PENNSYLVANIA DELEGATION. At the same time, if the curtain could be raised on the naked facts, it might appear that the Penn- sylvanians were at heart more earnest for Greeley than the New Yorkers. New York moved like a great corporation up to the work, and nobody in- truded his private grievance into the action of the State, while the Pennsylvanians were privately saying all manner of good things around the streets and hotels for Greeley, and urging that their simulated opposition had the basis of od management and would yet be appreciated. Frey were anxious to have the other States take the re- sponsibility of the new departure and bring them in their Congressional districts no upbraidings. AFTER MR. GREELEY HAD BREN NOMINATED by the most unanimoas vote passed by a Demo- cratic Convention for any candidate, William A. Wallace was quick to climb the platform and put Pennsylvania in accord with the party throughout the country. Wallace is a type of the Scotch and Scotch Irish hereditary politicians of the Key- stone State—a wiry, bony man, with a long neck and a sort of cartilagenoug head and the florid complexion of the Gaeliic race. He is an old mant- pulaton of the interior vote of Pennsylvania, and made a speech perfectly guarded at all points, which was designed to have the largest amount of effect in the Keystone State. He nid credit to the conservatism and prejudices of those who wanted a straight nomination, and then said that general buncombe about the great democratic party which will strike the average Berks county men. AN ANTI GREELEY MAN IN A ROW WITH GEORGE N. SANDERS. During the Convention to-day a small,live man by the name of Duncan McRae, of Tennessee, made humerous persistent efforts to get the floor and make a protest against the nomination of Greeley. Nearly the whole of his delegation were against him, and the galleries were uproarious that he should not be recognized. After the Convention was over it is said that Mr. McRae visited the rooms of Geo. N. Sanders, at the hotel, and reminded him of some animadversions which the latter had made ae him some time before the war of the rebellion, A cutting affray of the old democratic stamp followed, but Sanders escaped without injury. Sanders, of course, is the same who was long a naval officer of New York city, and who resided in Charleston when the attack was made on Sumter, and sent that celebrated despatch to the Northern democrats saying thi With cannon, mortar and petard We tender you our Beauregard, At the close of the war Sanders remained in Paris and abetted the Maximilian conquest of Mexico.’ He has always had a private liking for Greeley, and bas been working up that woodciop- per's interests here. With the exception of this collision and some bantering on the part of @ few Greeley men, good humor prevailed over the city. Arrangements are on loot to-night for large DEMONSTRATIONS IN GREELEY’S FAVOR. Some of the liveral republicans have been in- vited by the democrats to occupy their seats, and it is rumored here that on Friday, July 12, there is to be a general conjunction accom lished between the liberal and democratic campaign committces. It is thought that Mr. Greeley will in person take the head of his nomination. HANGING OUT THE BANNERS, The New York delegation brought down here banners which were Immediately unfurled at the mention of Greeley’s name, and before the States were polled a large white banneret was unfurled from the gallery of Ford’s Theatre be: only the name ‘of Greeley for President, but of Gratz Brown, while nearly at the same time a drop seene fell im the rear of the stage showing the White House at Washington, with the stavwe of Thomas Jefferson in the front of it. Nearly at the same time an enormous network banner was hung across the street in front of the theatre, with pictures of Greeley and Brown, and the motto of “The '8 Choice,” with Gree- ley’s tions in the rim, of “One Country,” “One Term,’ “Universal Amnesty,” “Tmpartial 8 1 Great efforts will be made for the ensuing week or two to show that there is some DEFECTION IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO GREELEY'S NOMINATION, but it seems to be quite apparent here that these movements have no strength whatever, being ee manipulated by politicians of the George cis Train order, and suspiciously Cn goo y the administration newspapers. Dick Merrick, of Washington city, sai to your cor- respondent to-day that ‘nobod: seemed anxious to have the democra' party reserved except General Grant and his lends.”? Colone! Philip, of bahecrope te city, and who is the trustee and conducto of the Washing- ton Daily said to your Correspondent that he pro} ito “come out at once and give Greeley efficient Ly gt The whole panoply of opposition to Greeley has “folded its tents, like the Arabs, and silently passed away.’’ The Delawareans were interviewed to-day at the close of the Someniiony aac said that they should imitate the Pennsyival policy—that is, go home and say, “This was not our work, but we cannot afford to be bolters.” On the other hand, the Greeley men show good management in refusing to entertain ill will against soruaey who has opposed their candidate, even up to the last moment, The TRIUMPH OF THE LIBERAL REPUBLICANS to-day was as complete as such a queer revolu tion could have bappened in the history of politics. The few liberal republicans who occupied the plat- form were perfectly serene and comfortable during the whole affair, and there would seem to be very little doubt but that the whole democratic vote of Se comary will be cast for Greeley. Conversing THE BALTIMOREANS, they generally say, “It isa bitter pil) to take, but jave made up our minds to take it,” after which there are witticisms, and the remark is apt to be dropped that “nobody ever took a@ pill but for his own good,” Avery prominent remark shrieked to-day from all parts of the house when obnoxious people rose up opposing Greeley. It was the short and pithy expletive of “DRY UP.” There was & universal desire that everybody should “dry up” except the Greeley men. Dela- ware Was at first hissed for its foolish attitude, but in a minute or two the generosity of the Conven- tion was exhibited, and the Bayards and the Little Diamond State got good-humored and compas- sionate cheers, When Mr. Brown came to be voted for as Vice President it was seen that THE GAME WAS UP. He led Mr. Greeley by some forty votes; but at this time the whole body was in a state of collapse. The heat was intense, and portions of the galleries were entirely vacant. Vhoever should say that this thinning out resulted from any indifference to the candidates would not be esteemed a good critic by those who watched the Convention. The whole fight was really over endorsing Cincinnati, both as to its platform and its leading candidate; and when these points had been gained there was little else to occupy attention. This Convention shows that hereafter no great ue, can afford to wait until nearly the middle of july to take action for a Presidential campaign. The heat of the city is intense, and everybody is perfectly tired out, and the trains to-night are jacked With folks who are anxious to shake the dust of Baltimore from their feet, and, after a little lease of leisure, quietly resume the contest in their Bi seb States. There is very little of the ancient democratic party in the whole work of to-day. What the demo- crats added to THE CINCINNATI PLATFORM makes just twenty-six words, and money: can make Ay tt out of these twenty-six words ex- cept that the party retains some notion of what is essential to Just government, Your correspondent has now attended the three eat conventions of this campaign, and, as he egun at Cincinnati, is satisfied to leave off at Baltimore with the few men who went out to the Queen City in the spring of the year and made the political contest of 1872. That Convention has cap- tured the whole democratic party of the country, and made the “new departure” as men like Vallan- digham had only dreamed it, The whole interest 1 now centre in THE NORTH CAROLINA CAMPAIGN, and it is the opinion of the shrewdest Greeley men in that State that he cannot carry it by more than five thousand majority, and that three thou- sand will be nearly the probable measure, unless an unusual effort is made 1 some of the mountain districts there. Mr. Samuel Cary and others are to leave to-night to take up the Greeley banner and carry it in tl Commonwealth. PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION. MEL A a EEE Batrimorg, Md., July 10, 1872. At a quarter after ten o'clock Mr. Doolittle called the Convention to order, and requested per- sons jn the hall to be seated, and the Rev. Dr. Ley- burne, of Baltimore, offered THE OPENING PRAYER, the Convention rising and remaining standing in respectful silence. Almighty and Most Merciful God, Thou art the God of nations as well as of individuals, Thou art a God who rulest among the armies of heaven, as among the inhabitants of earth, and we desire to feel this day, when we come into hes A cat that promotion cometh neither from the North nor from the South, nor from the Kast nor from the West, but that God alone raiseth up one and casteth down another, We would recog- nize in Thee the God of prosperity, the God of advancement, the God of wisdom, the God of success in all our undertakings and enterprises, and we desire to rejoice that Thou hast given us so much page oeengd to expect Thy favoring provi- dence in the future, as we have received it in the ast. It has pleased Thee to give us our heritage in a broad and goodly land. It has pleased Thee to give us our existence in an epoch of the world’s story that is full of promises and full of resources for a vast and glorious future. And, Almighty God, as we are assembled here to-day, representatives from all parts of this great nation, we desire to ask of Thee that wisdom which is requisite and neces- sary in the present exigency. We pen, that ‘Thy servant who presides over this Conven- tion may have guidance from on _ high in order that he may rightly administer his posi- tion. We pray that in all the efforts that are made here this day, in all the speaking, and In all the de- vices and designs that are entered upon here, there may be given such unanimity and such wisdom of counsel a8 that they shall issue in a decision that shall be for the best interests of this great republic. Almighty God, we pray that harmony may not only prevail in these counsels, but that harmony may be thereby diffused over all this land, and that from this ~~ forth we may enter upon a new and a happier and better epoch even than those who have passed into the previous history of the land; that there may be no North, no South, no East, no West; but that, all gathered together in one common brotherhood, in one noble manhood, we may be permitted to enjoy ourselves and to perpetuate for our posterity these institu- tions which Thou hast conferred upon us in our heritage, all of which we ask only through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. PHE PLATFORM REPORTED. A. E. Burr, of Connecticut, of the Committee on Resolutions, announced that the committee were ready to report, and asked the Clerk to read in the first place the introductory paragraph of the report. The Clerk read as follows :— The Committee on Resolutions submit the following the demeratic electors of the United States, in C bled. resent the following princip Mr. BuRR—In order that there may be no misap- prehension in regard to the platform I now ask the Clerk to read the entire report, The Clerk then read the resolutions adopted by the Cincinnati Conventton of liberal republicans, the reading being frequently interrupted by ap- The resolutions are as follows THE CINCINNATI PLATFORM. First—We recognize the equality of all men before the law, and hold that tt ix the duiy of government in its dealings with the people to mete out equal and exact jus- tice to all, of Whatever natlvity, race, color or persuasion, religious or political. Secou—We piedge ourselves to maintain the union of these States, emancipation and entranchisement, and to oppese any reopening of the questions settled by the thir- teenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the con- stitation, Third—We demand the immediate and absolute removal of all disabilities imposed on account of the rebellion, which was finally subdued seven vears ago, believing that universal amnesty will result In complete pacifica- ton in all sections of the country. Fourth—Locat maiceovern ea ae impartial soffrage, will guard the rights of all citizens more securely than ower. The public welfare requires the cy of the civil over the military authority, and of person under the protection oi the habeas cor- We demand for the individual the largest liberty consistent. with public order, tor the State self-yovern- ment, and for the nation @ return to the methods of peace and the constitutional limitations of power. h—The civil service of the government has become a were instrument of pariisan tyranny and personal ambt- tion and an object of selfish gread. | Itin a scandal and re- plause. m civil service ag one of t presing hour; that honesty, capacity and fidelity constitute the only Valid claims to’ public employnient; that the oitices of the government cease to be & matter of arbitrary favoritism and patronage, and that public station bscome 4 post of honor, ‘To this end it is linperatively } shed ‘that no President shail be # candidate for re- election. Sixth—We demand a system of federal taxation which shall not unnecessarily intertere with the industry of the people, and which shall provide the means necewary to ‘ay the expenses of the government economically adinin Hittreds te Yebt and the pensions, the interest on the pul te am reduction annually of the principal thercot ; and, reeogulzit the it honest but irreconcilable regard to the Fespective ayatems of protection and free trade, we remit the discussion of the gulject to ve people in ‘their Con- gressional districts and to the decision ire ss there. on, wholly tree from Executive interterence or dictation. Seventh—The public it must be sacredly maintained, and we denounce repidiation in every form and guise. Kiahth—& «peedy return to specie payment js demande: alike the highest considerations of commercial Spates poe ot fe rei r ra sacrifices of the soldiers and sailors of the republic, and No act of ours shall ever detract from their justly earned fame ar Re full reward of their patriotism. fe are Y osed to all further grants of lands to railroads or other corporations. The public domain should be held sacred to actual settlers. Bleventh—We it it is the duty of the government {n Its intercourse with foreign natio to cultivate the ship of, “by, eating with all on talr and equal ter regarding it ke dishonorable either to demand what ls not right or to submit to what is wrong. For the promotion and success of these vital Hari iples and the support of the candidates nominated y this Convention, we invite and cordially welcome the co-operation of all patriotic citizens, without regard to previous aMillations, Mr. BURR—Mr. Chairman, these resolutions em- brace the Cincinnati platform, word for word. Nothing taken from it, nothing added, except the short ‘eenhie. the resolutions were adopted by every State in this Union except four, viz:—Dela- ware, Mississippi, Georgia and Oregon. Having been adopted with that unusual degree of una- nimity, Mr. President, I move the adoption of the resolutions as a whole, and on that motion I move the prev:ous question, The PRESIDENT—Mr. Burr, of the Committee on Resolutions, reports from that committee a plat- form and moves its adoption, and on that motion he asks the previous question, GREAT DELAWARE GAGGED, Senator BayArpD, of Delaware—I rise to a question of order. Haa the previous question—another name for -law—become the law of @ democratic oon- vention, without notice to the delegates? (Loud cries of “No,” and cheers and Itisses.) The PResipENt—The Chair overrules the point of order. The pending question is not debateable, but the Chair deems it rover 69, state that the Convention has adopted, by unanimous vote, as the rules to payers, its proceedings, the rules of the House of Representatives. ie motion for the pre- vious question is in order under one of those rules, which are essential to the transaction of business in large bodies of men. Senator BayarD, of Delaware—I ask that the chairman withdraw his call for the previous ques- tion for the period of at least ten minutes. that the minority may be heard. (Cries of ‘ No,” and much confusion.) The PRESIDENT—The appeal is made by the gentle- man from Delaware to the chairman of the com- mittee on resolutions and not to anybody else. Mr. BAILEY, of Pennsylvania—I second the appeal in behali of the delegation from Pennsylvania. (Cries of “ Question.”’) Mr. BuRR—I would concede what the gentleman asks with the greatest pleasure, but I am under in- structions from the committee and cannot yield the point, and must insist upon the motion I make. Senator BAYARD—I wish to appeal to the sense of manhood of the democratic party and appeal to their self-respect, ARE YOU DEAF TO THR VOICE OF REASON? (Confusion.) The PRESIDENT—The gentleman from Delaware will come to order. Hon. G. Sautseury, of Del.—I say this proceeding is unfair, It is unjust to the democracy of this count! ry. The PiesiENt—The question is, Will the house sustain the previous question? (Cries of “Yes” ana “No.”) A DELEGATE—Call the roll of States. The PRESIDENT—The Secretary will call the roll. ae roll was then called, with the following re- sult;— alee, Yeas. Nays. Louisiana Maine. Maryland. iyi Mi husetts. Delaware........ (When Delaware was call- ed, Mr. Saulsbury said, “We vote ‘No,’ sir, now and for- 10 — ever.") — 16 Florida. 2 ua 26 4 Georgia. 21 Nebraska... 6 = Mlinois. — Nevada....... - 6 Indiana, — New Hampshi 10 - lowa. — New Jerse: - 18 i New York being called, Governor HOFFMAN said :— New York votes aye, but mot asaunit. Several of the delegation vote no, and I am one of them. The CHAIRMAN—The Chair has received a state- ment from one of the delegation in the house stating that in consequence of some noise or dis- order they do not understand the question which is now before the house. Therefore, the Chair inter- rupts so far as to state what the pending question is. It is whether the previous question shall be sus- tained, and the effect of the motion is this:—If the house vote to sustain the previous question then the chairman of the Committee on Resolutions has one hour in which he can debate the question, or may allow other gentlemen to debate it. Its etfect is to ABSOLUTELY CONFINE DEBATE upon the pending proposition to one hour, but the chairman of the committee has the right to ad- dress the Convention, and he can yield part of his time to other gentlemen who may desire to speak for a very brief period. The question now is, whether the previous ques- tion suall be sustained, and limit any debate which may occur to one hour. The call will proceed. A DELEGaTR—I *yish to put the question whether, if the previous question be sustained, there will be any opportunity of moving any amendment to the resolutions ? The PRESmENT—There will not be. Governor Horrman—After the explanation made By the er New York votes 70 ayes. (Ap- plause. Davip A. Houck, of Ohio—Suppose in the call of the States the Convention does not sustain the previous question, will the debate on the resolu- tions be contined to an hour? The PREsIDENT—Unless the motion is sustained the debate will be unlimited. Mr. Houcgk—I trust the Convention will not sus- tain the previous question, (Cries of ‘Order, order !’’) The PRESIDENT—The gentleman 1s not in order; be rose to ask a question, but he has no right to go on with the debate. Mr. Hovck—Let me ask another question. Will it not be in order to suspend the roll call and con- fine the debate to one hour, The PRksIDENT—It is not in order. ‘The roll call was then resumed as follows :— Yeas, Nays. | States, Year. Nays. 20 Tennessee... m South Carolin Totals. = 4&8 604 x 159 573 The PRESIDENT having announced the result as above, Mr. Hovok, of Ohio, said :— ONE SPARTAN AT LEAST. I rise to a question of privilege. The Ohio delega- tion, voting in accordance with the rule adopted by our delegation, that all votes shall be cast as a unit, have voted through ita chairman as a unit on this question. It was not the resolution adopted by the delegation. I ask that my vote, one vote of the Ohio delegation at least, be recorded no. The CHAIRMAN—The question has already been decided in the affirmative. The gentleman from Connecticut, the chairman on resolutions, has the floor for one hour. The gentleman from Delaware, Mr. Bayard, appealed to the chairman of the com- mittee to be permitted to address the Convention for ten minutes, Mr. BurR, of Connecticut—The gentleman from Delaware is a member of the Committee on Resolu- tions, and I concede to him ten minutes. Hon. THomas L. Bayarp, of Delaware—Mr. Presi- dent and Gentiemen of the Convention—If I know anything of the organization of human opinion it is that parties have no justification ex- cept that they are means to an honest end. If ever there was need for organization for the purpose of REACHING HONEST ENDS in this country God knows it is now. (Applause.) Ifever the country needed the honest outspoken sentiment of her people, it is now. If ever she needed men to rise above the petty call of party it is now, and therefore, you show in this assembly no disposition to carp at'men for former political ait- ferences. You desire to elevate honesty and capa- bility instead of insensibility and utter civil inca- pacity. (immense applause.) And how do you pr e todo it? Is it not by an — to all that is high and noble and honest in human nature? If you do not do so you are unworthy of the occa- sion to which you are called. Now, I tell you that THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS THE ORGANIZATION which the sense of mankind in this country will point out as the best means through which and by which the salvation of our country can be wrought, (Applause.) Yet, upon this occasion, what have we witnessed? Not a shrinking of life-long democrats from clasping hands with honest men of the liberal republican party. You have not witnesred that. On the contrary, you have witnessed a willingness scarcely attempted to be suppressed, and a desire to forget the past political and party differences in favor of a great, present and noble and almost holy object. Now, gentlemen, 1 ask you in all fairness, shall this great organization, dignified by years and dignified by sacrifices ior the sake of patriotic feeling, not be allowed to have an independent expression of its own honest sentiment, (Applause and cries of “Yes!’) What, then, can be said in favor of the fact that cut and dried we shall, without crossing a t or dotting an 1, VOTE DOWN OUR THROATS WITHOUT MASTICATION or digestion the action of other men who have not been called into our counsels, however much they may desire to act with us reference to the common object? (Cries of No! no!") It may be proper for me to state that of the minority of the committee who voted against the adoption of the resolutions 1 was one. am glad, for the sake of my own conscience, that I was one of the mi- nority who opposed the adoption of the Cincinnatl platform, @ platform containing many things that we respect and adhere to, but much that we desire to m and correct, But I think it becoming the dignity of this ey national organization of nearly three millions of freemen, or those who deem themseives freemen, that we should at ‘ast be permitted to have aa unrestrained, moderate, straightforward expression of our own opinions without having the words of other men, unchosen by us, forced down our throats, (Cheers and hisses.) Now, gentlemen, I ask you, will not the democratic masses of the couutry demand of this Convention that the expression which you shail give shall not be merely the cut and dried language of another, but that it shall be THE BXPRESSION OF THE UNTERRIFTIED, the clear, outspoken wishes of the democratic party itself? Are we not entitied to it? 1 consider that we are, and for bs ad reason [ did constantly move amendments, sh were utterly rejected. The technicalities of parliamentary law were adopted to exclude them, and we stand here to-day and shall, probably, according to the expression of this pasewably, ao @ the country without, fos the amendment ie naught, because all first time in the Lary de our ent expression of its cherished sen’ Convention ready for it? im existence. The hopes of my youth, the of my man- hood and best exertions of my heart pupport, {Appiaase,)” I donot wien’ to-abanion, su) i . jo not abandon, Td not wish to see the great majority merged in the voice and clad in the garb of that which is after ail a small minority, compared to our own force. It is not just; it is not to ask it; and | teil you, gentlemen of the Convention, that your con- stituents will demand from you why you have not expressed your sentiments by your own voice, ir, Bayard was about to retire from the platform when there were loud cries of “Go on,” mingled with applause. Mr. Burk (to Mr. Bayard)—Go on, as long as you please. The Presipent—The Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions states that he does not himself de- sire to take up any time in discussion. (A voice— “Nor anybody else.”’) But he is willing, out of re- spect to the minority, to allow Mr, Bayard to OCCUPY TEN MINUTES LONGER, iments. “fete Tam not, When I was (Applanse). r. JAMES GALLAGHER, of Connecticut—As a mem ber of this Convention, I object to Mr. Bayard or any other man undertaking—— ‘he PRESIDENT (interrupting)—The gentleman from Connecticut is out of order. Mr. GALLaGHyER—I rise to a question of privilege. PRESIDENT—=The gentleman from Connecticut is not in order, The gentleman from Delaware will proceed. (Confusion). The Crare will remind the Convention that this is a delegated deliberative body, and when men rise to address such a body, and are entitled to address it, they should be respectfully heard, even if we do not agree with their sentiments, (Applause). Let the Convention be in order and hear the gentleman from Delaware without interruption. GALLAGHER, THE GASBAG. Mr. GALLAGHER—I submit to the decision of the Chair, but give notige that I shall myself ask to big) a few minutes. A DELEGATE (name not announced) —Let the gen- tleman from Delaware state one point wherein the resolutions reported by the committee age undemo- cratic or improper. He has not done that yet. Mr. BAYARD—I propose to conduct any discussion here not by mere favor. I have no favors to ask of the Convention. (Applause.) I propose to use my time for discussion in my own way, and not to ve catechized by any member of the Convention. (A voice—"That is right.) I speak here for the people of my tate. I will try to rep- resent them, I am_ here to give my best judgment for the benefit of my country, Itisonly by conflict of honest opinions that justice and good sense can be wrought out. Therefore, I say that I think this Convention would do much more wisely to express its own senti- ments, and not, as I have sald, adopt cut and dried, without mastication or digestion, the sentiments of others. Now, Mr. President, look at the facts be- fore the country. What is It that to-day puts us mor- ally in chains ? Is it not the interference by the fede- ral government in the local concerns of the States? Is it not Arran and usurpation, which, tnder the garb of constitutional amendments, under the garb of statutes passed in alleged accordance with those amendments, throttle to-day the voice of the American people? I ask you—how came it that MEN-OF-WAR, WITH GUNS READY SHOTTED and run out for action, were placed at the foot of your peaceful streets two years ago in the day of your election? What brought the vessels-of-war, with that American flag of which we are so proud at the masthead ? What brought them at tne foot of your peaceful streets, ready to sweep trom the highways of your city citizens engaged in their peaceful and orderly avocations should the word of command be given What bronght a military ex- pedition, with all the formality of war, with mu- nitions, fixed and unfixed, and with rations for 80 many days, with all the prov cranny of a hostile military expedition? What brought that into the heart of the great city of New York two years ago? I will tell you: It was the exercise by Congress of a pretended power under the four- teenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitu- tion of the United States that was intended to crush the South, and it reacted upon the North, and ‘THE NORTH MUST BE STRICKEN DOWN by the same power that has prostrated the un- happy South in the dust. Gentlemen, I appeal to you on this subject. There should be some expres- sion of our Own upon the subject. If feeling for our Southern brethren will not tempt you to it, let human selfishness dictate to you that you must take care of them in order that you may guard yourselves, Why 18 there not some expression upon this subject by this assembly? After all, is this not the great int’ Give us a free election, an election undis- urbed by federal money, by federal threats, by federal officials, by federal bayonets. Unchain the great heart of the American people and let them vote freely and then we will have rulers who shall Lettie peace and put an end to those questions which are now agitating the country. (appianse.) Why do you seek to enter upon past issues? Your platform does so, You are asking men now to deny the votes that ey gave two and three years Fo, on the subject of these amendments, Why ask it ¥ Why insist upon it’ If the issues are settled, as your Chairman has declared, why do you rescuscitate them and put them forward for the purpose of dis- turbing a plain, straightforward I88UK BETWEEN TYRANNY AND FREEDOM, between limited government and unqualified despotism? (Applause.) Mr. President, I wish some one in better physical health than Iam would urge this view upon you, for I have broken down very much, and, I say it proudly, have broken down in public service, and from no other cause. (Ap- plause.) I know there is little time or opportunity within this hour for the discussion of the great rinciples to which I have .barely adverted. But I do say it was becoming, it was right and proper, that this Convention of the democratic party should speak with its own voice and tor itself, and I believe there will be grave disappointment on the cat of the great constituency we here represent f this expression shall not be given. if your judgment is inst it I must yield to that judg- ment, though | cannot give my formal assent to it. Lalso demand of this Convention that THE QUESTION SHALL BE PUT SEPARATELY upon these various articles upon which we are called to vote. I do not propose to detain this Con- vention, As I have said, the condition of my health forbids it. But I desire to enter my protest against this adoption of the language of a platform framed by other men not of the same political faith with the Convention. (Applause.) ot O'ConNoR advanced to the platform and said GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION—I profoundly regret that there should be any division of opinion, either upon the platform of principles or upon the candidates, in this solemn juncture of ournational affairs, The whole nation is at present in a crisis when all issues should be mre in one great and greener ioe. issue—the defeat of the present national administration, that the republic may no longer suffer any detriment. (Applause.) Mr. President and gentlemen, the great changes which have taken place in the last eight years, TENDING TO THE GRADUAL CENTRALIZATION of this government in all its departments, invite an unscrupulous Executive to commit acts of usurpa- tion and peed that now endanger the very ex- istence of American liberty. In the rapid march of those events many of the ancient landmarks of all political organizations have been swept away and entirely foi pet while many others of those landmarks have been comparatively modified and changed. The constitutional amendments which were by this. Convention denounced as un- constitutional and revolutionary and void have been accepted by _ nearly all the State conventions as fixed facts and accepted by the organs of all shades of political Dy jon throughout the country. press) e = fifteenth constitutional amendment— the amendment which decreed universal suffrage; that amendment which was felt more Le abate) in our State than in any other—I say 1) amendment, which was at first threatened to be obliterated, has now been acqui- esced In as a public expression of the public will; and I say CP jae that it never can be sucessfully controverted, and never will be. (Loud cheering.) Mr. President, PUBLIC OPINION 18 HIGHER THAN ALL GOVEKN- MENTS, and higher than all conventional principles, and before its ising tide old landmarks must disappear and new ones be established. (Cheers.) Isay itis just as impossible to establish a government over men as it is in nature to create men without pass- ing from infancy to manhood, and without being conscious of the growth of public opinion as of the changes of the stations; and here is the great democratic party to-day, with {ts glorious associa- tions clinging to her e and her character, and the whole nation beyond and outside of her appeal- ing to her to lay upon the altar of a common country all past antagonisms. (Loud applause.) We have not come here to organize a movement for a single State or a single section, but to organize a movement for the salvation of the whole country. (Great cheering.) Though South Carolina may be crushed almost to annihila- tion by the mass that is yen her down, and big | sister States of the South may be exhausted by the oppressions of a radical fap adehcl we ‘will hope for better things. What is the picture of to-day ’ We have a President who does not present himself in the guise of a simple civilian, but arrays himself in the epaulets of @ general; who one da: thrusts his offensive threats in the face of Englan and the next ignominiously STRIKES THE AMERICAN COLORS; who one day truckles to Granville and Gladstone and the next orders his General Sickles to threaten the weak government of Spain. (Hisses.) Isay to yon that these great, these tremendous issues are sufficient to unite the whole nation in one body and invincible alliance to defeat this un- hallowed government, I fear that I have tres- passed almost too much upon your time—(‘Go on, go on!) —but L beg leave to say for South Carolina that she hopes to be able to clasp hands with the North over the bloody chasm left by the war, and she expects to do it the election of Horace Greeley. Let me say this to the gentleman from Delaware:—The thirteenth the States have The fourteenth consequence of: je @ complete ratified the abolition of Blavery. amendmunt is a practical nullity in the late Amnesty act, and will nulli Al 8 soar sa tne Hiveenth amendmen jause, And as e eke 'o the gentleman from Delaware thal say le our State has to endure what he so much ob- jects, tonnogro su! , &c.—I Would be the last mi nd I deprecate the day when any party in public willever enrol upon its banner the wrest from the 400,00) Africans that this Brow wnugh bas been given +0 shew vo-day.” (Ap plause.) Let them have it, and let them kee; and. we will accommodate ourselves to “i present situation. Have patience. This great ty is gong into wer, and we wilk ve @ government which will give equal laws and will deal exact and equal justice to allmen, (Ap- lause.) Of all the measures of this administra- jon that we have felt most pocatinnsy hard has been the act by which the President the United States was given the power to SUSPEND THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS. Our State—our _ pook State of South Carolina—the Treland of America—South Carolina, almost broken upon the political wheel of fortune—I say that, as far as she is concerned, when I think of the manner in which that act has been carried out, if mem could realize it, it would shock the sense of the whole civilized world. I have nearly exhausted the Convention and myself and I will close. (Applaase.J Mr. Mckakr, of Tennessee—I ask the courtesy which has been extended to the gentiemen frou other sections of the country for the section from which I come. If we are not permitted to vote according to our own consciences in our delegas tion, and if we have not been permitted to vote like freemen, I hope we will have freedom of utters ance in a Democratic National Convention. Here the speaker was called to order from all rts of the house, He attempted to continue, ut was in stopped with calls of order. During the confusion the Chairman rose and said that the floor had been ceded to JUDGR REAGAN, OF TEXAS. Judge REAGAN said:—Mr, President and gentie. men of the Convention—It is not by any desire of my own that I bo before you, butitis by the special request of the delegation of Texas and some others that I appear on the stand fora mo- ment for the purpose of saying that the people of Texas, rodes. their delegation, have come to thia Convention for the purpose of mane this offering, in common with the offerings of the delegates mal other States, for the good of the people from al portions of the United States, The committee a) Rapes by this Convention have reported to the ‘onvention a declaration of principles, being th rinciples of the Cincinnati Convention. Whethe: it be proper for us to adopt the report of that co! mittee depends precisely on the circumstances 1 which we are involved. ‘The time which has_bee! granted by the Convention is not suficient for full a discussion of the question as could be desire At this point Judge Reagan, who spoke in @ ver’ low tone, became so inaudible that his langu: could not be followed at the reporters’ table, “i argued in favor of the endorsement of the Cincin4 | Dati platform as the best means of restoring peacel to the Southern section of the country—especially| the State oi Texas. Judge Reagan closed with am appeal for the endorsement of the thirteenth, four. teenth and fifteenth amendments. Mr. Burr, of Connecticut—I now propose, de+ mand a vote on the main question, as the hour hai nearly expired, Mr. BARKSDALE, of Mississippi—I do not propose to’ enter upon any discussion of this question in view. ot the present temper of the Convention. It has been announced that the State of Mississippi, through her delegate on the Committee on Resolu- tions, voted against the adoption of the report. Now, I wish to ask if it is not admismble, under the rules which govern the Convention, for tha vote to be taken separately on the resolutions? Tne CHAIRMAN—The previous question having! been ordered by the House, it is NOT CAPABLE OF DIVISION. Mr. BARKSDALE—Then I ask the unanimons con sent of this Convention that it allow the vote to be taken on the resolutions separately. Mr. Mapican, of Maine—After the gentlemam from Connecticut (Mr. Burr) has given away hit full time is it not fair play that the same oppor- tunity should be given to the gentleman (Mr. Gal-| lagher) that has been given to other delegates won this foor? (Cries of ‘No! no!’’) Mr. GALLAGHER—I am extremely obliged to my friend from Maine for his courtesy to me, but [see such entire unanimity here in favor of adopting this platform as a whole that I GIVE UP THE IDEA OF SPEAKING on the subject. (Applause.) The PRESIDENT—The question will now be put, and the roll of the States called. ir, MCKAE, of Tennessee—I rise to a question of Lee ont T insist upon eee heard. It is a ques- ion of privilege. (Cries of “Sit down!” “Shut up!") ‘What is the gentleman’s ques hen I was in the last Democratic Convention in 1860-—— (Cries of “Sit down; that be- longs to the past”). ‘he question is this:—I want to offer my protest against this centralization through the {instrumentality of a committee, by which free thought and free utterance in a demo- cratic assembly, composed of representatives from’ all parts of the country—— ir, FAULKNER, of New York (interposing)—U rise to a point of order. It is not a question of, privilege for a gentleman to enter a protest under the form of ee question that is closed, The PReSIDENT—The gentleman from Tennessee is out of order. Mr. McRax—I want to say another word on this question of privilege. (Loud cries of ‘No! no!*’) The PresipEnt—The Secretary will call the roll. ‘The Secretary then called the roll of States upon the motion for the adoption of the report of the See on Resolutions, with the following result :— ‘States. The PRESIDEN’ tion of privilege’ States, Fear. Na 2B "% Alabama _- spon or 2 % o 2 - 9 =. = 6 = 7 = a fsachusetis,... 28 = — Virginia = Michigan 22 = West Virginia: Fy Minnesota : 10 = Wisconsin. aa Mississippi. 9 _ Total. a So the report was adopted. When the vote of Delaware was cast unanimously in the negative there was a good deal of hissing and confusion in the hall, whereupon said ‘The PRESIDENT—I appeal to the Convention as a deliberative body to let each State vote its own opinion without demonstration either for or against. (Cries of “Good! 1") It is disre- spectful to make such demonstrations when the vote of a State is declared. Mr, GALLAGHER—The demonstrations come from the gatleries, and not from the delegates. The PresipENT—Let the galleries understand that while voting is proceeding in this body they have no voice whatever, and should make no on- strations until our proceedings are closed. Mr. McRag, of Tennessee—When called by the rule of our delegation a be att 4 of the delega- tion casts the vote as a unit on all questions upon which there is a call of states. Under that rule the majority of our delegation has cast the entire vote of the State im favor of sustaining the previous question. Under the same rule a very large ma- jority of the delegation vote for the platform as a whole. Mr. Nee.ey, of Virginia, when his State was called, said :—I rise to a question of privilege. The chairman of the Virginia delegation has cast the entire vote of our State “aye” upon the question. That has been done, as I understand, ae toa rule established by the delegation, that a’ ‘THE VOTE OF THE DELEGATION , should be cast as aunit. I desire to state that at the time the rule was sappeed I was not in attend- ance upon the session of the delegation, because I. was unabie to be inthe city. (Criés of “Order.”) 1 desire to say, further, that, while would have felt yself bound “by the action of the delégation, had Thad an opportunity to ex- Libre my voice &t the time the rule was adopted, do not, under the circumstances, feel myself so bound, and I desire that ay vote on this motion shall be entered in the negative, Unanimous consent was given Hon. EL 8. pebitain of Alabama, to explain the vote of that ate. He satd:—Before I cast the vote of Alabama upon the adoption of the platform, L-observe that if the question were upon the adoption of the rinciples announced 80 frankl in the etter of Horace Greeley—(loud Sanna the vote of Alabama would be unanimous, but there are some statements in the platform which Southern men cannot afford to adopt without— seemingly at least—stultifvying themsecives, and E only desire to make this statement so that we may be understood before the country. But we are here for the purpose of doing all that may be in our power to promote x PEACE AND HARMONY and to secure success in the great cause in which we are now all engaged, and I therefore ask leave to change the vote of the State of Alabama to twenty ayes. _ (Applause.) The Secret then announced the vote as already ven, and the Chair declared the report of the committee on Resolutions adopted. Governor HorrMax, of New York—I desire to present a petition. It relates to the candidates. and is signed by about fifteen thousand German citizens of the United States residing in the city of New York—(cheers)—and I ask that the Secretary may read the heading of it for the information of the Convention. (Cries of “Read It.’’) ‘The PRESIDENT—Let the Convention be in order} while this report is read, that we may learn whether the Germans of New York are for us or against us, (Applause, ‘ the ‘secretary read the paper, a8 follows :— PETITION OF THE GERMANS. \ Ata meeting of prominent German democrats held June 25 the following resolutions were sented by Magnus Gross and unanimously adiopeed. ‘A special committee was, on motion, the chairman to set the resolutions into effect. following Cia were in uence attached to the circulars sent through the rent wards of, the city, endorsing the sentiments therein ex- pressed. Only one-fourth of the gent out could, for want of time, be collect at. tached to this memorial, The sentiment of the German democracy will be unanimous for Greeley and Brown in case of thelr nomination by the National Democratic Convention :— Whereas, at a conference of a number of citizens ors of's Towa Yn dst on the nh snd fit of June, & w men, without thority whatever, assumed 'to pg yd meee a mocwet icaealee eee eee Maat eae aa es ee een CONTINUED ON TENTH PAGE, eenti- by tho ‘coun. m Pe mee MT