The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-10 00:00:00

La., Wells Hubbard of Me., Alfred R. Field of
Mass., Hampton Briggs of Mich., P. C. Amberly
of Minn., C. E. Stevens of Nebraska, John
Bailey of N. 11., Thomas H. Bartlett of N. J.,
Hamilton Barris, of N. Y., William R. Meyers of
N. C., Israel Green of Ohio, James Horne of Pa.,
Lysander Flagg of R. 1., B. F. Whittemore of
S. C., L. C. Hank of Tenn., 11. H. Langley of
'lexas, William H. Grant of Vermont, and N. 11.
Peck of Nevada. Maryland declined to name a
committee man until her contested seats should be
settled. The committee on resolutions was as fol-
lows :—David C. Upton of Ala., William Morse
of Ark., J. W. Woodman, of Ct , C. S. Taylor of
Del., H. M'Coy of Ga., Herman Ruster of 111.,
Ried \V. Thompson of Ind., George M. Dodge,
of lowa, B. F. Simpson of Kansas, Charles Eger-
ton of Kentucky, W. B. Benson of Louisiana,
Eugene hall of Me., Francis W. Bird of Mass.,
M. 0. Holmes, jr., of Md., Robert R. Beach of
Mich., R. M'Laren of Minn., Robert T. Venhorn
of Miss., R. W. Turner of Nebraska, C. E. Delong
of Nevada, James F. Briggs of N. H., J. John
Davison of N. J., Charles Andrews of N. Y., L.
D. Hesse of N. C., John C. Lee of 0., 11. R.
Kincaird of Oregon, S. E. Dimick of Pa., Rowland
G. Hazard of R. 1., B. 0. Duncan of S. C., \Vm.
G. Elliott of Tenn., G. W. Paschall of Texas, W.
11. Johnson of Vt., Lysander Hill of Va., Robert
C. Brown of West Va., and Horace Rubles of
Wis. A motion to admit the Territories was op-
posed on the ground that committees that cannot
vote in the election ought not to nominate, and it
was referred to the Committee of Credentials.
When California was reached in the call of States
for the committee, Mr. Sears rose to make an ex-
planation, showing that the gentleman who con-
tested the seats of the Californian delegates voted
a Copperhead ticket at the last election in that
State. He and a few others had met in a back
room, and had selected delegates for the Conven-
tion. "We polled 40,000 votes and represent the
Union Republican party of California, while the
party this man represents only polled 2,000, out of
whom they could not find ten men to accept the
position he occupies. We ask this Convention to
give us our seats as they of right belong to us, and
not cast a stain upon us and raise this man to
the dignity of a contestant." The person alluded
to, B. R. Nickerson, of California, rose to reply,
stating that they were prepared to submit the ques-
tion to the Committee on Credentials, to whom it
was referred at the request of several delgates.
The rules of the House of Representatives were
adopted for the government of the Convention,
committees on permanent organization, resolutions
and rules were appointed, and a motion adopted that
all resolutions be referred without debate, after
which a recess was taken until 5 o'clock. At the
evening session, Hamilton Harris, chairman of the
committee on permanent organization, reported the
name of Joseph R. Hawley of Connecticut for per-
manent President, and the Convention received the
announcement with tremendous applause. The
President was conducted to the chair by ExsGover-
nor Solomon of Wisconsin and ex-Governor Brown
of Georgia, amid great cheering for Hawley, Brown,
and the retiring chairman. General Hawley ad-
dressed the Convention as follows :—" Gentlemen
of the Convention,—l tender you my most grateful
thanks for the high honour you have conferred upon
me. Deeply impressed by a sense of the responsibility
of the position, I earnestly solicit your indulgence
and your aid. We come together charged with the
momentous duty of selecting the chief rulers of the
great nation which leads the world in the pro-
motion of freedom and equal rights. (Applause.)
The indications of your purposes add spirit,
already given, assure us that you will maintain
the noble character of the Republican party. We
unavoidably recall at this time the Convention
of 1860, with its profound anxieties, its fresh, pure,
and glowing devotion to liberty, and its enthusi-
astic acceptance of the wager of battle, tendered by
slavery and secession. (Applause.) It now seems
clear to us that God then ruled our council. He
made our declaration of principles manly and severe.
He gave us Abraham Lincoln for President. (Tre-
mendous cheering.) God send us like- wisdom and
success to-day. He tested us in a manner and to
an extent which the liveliest imagination could not
have anticipated. Posterity, we hope, will decide
that we stood that test with the spirit worthy of a
free people. Countless treasure and 300,000 lives
offered were the evidence that we were solemnly in
earnest. We offered our lives and our property,
but it was not enough ; we laid our prejudices of
race and class on the altar ; and the consciousness
that we, at least, deserved success redoubled our
nerve. The same high resolve rules to-day, and
the honest men of this country are ready for equal
and even greater sacrifices, if they be indispensable
to the declaration on this continent of liberty and
equal rights to all. We learned the first lesson
when we found that we must make all men free and
call them to the battle-field. We learned the second
lesson when we found that we must still move and
give impartially to all men a part in the government
we were endeavouring to restore. (Great applause.)
\Vial a clear and fearless expression on the essen-
tial and important questions at issue, which the
people will understand, and no ingenious device in
words can obscure, or avoid, passing by all per-
sonal and temporary controversies, working in per
feet confidence that the American people mean to
do right and will do it in the end, we may feel sure
of triumph. The power of a nation of forty mil-
lions must be behind the just claims of the poorest
working man of whatever race, and to recover his
just wages its majesty must be felt wherever the
humblest loyal man appeals against personal vio-
lence and oppression. (Cheers.) Every dollar of
the national debt the blood of a soldier is pledged
for. (Enthusiastic cheering.) Every bond in letter
and in spirit must be as sacred as a soldier's grave.
(Renewed cheers.) We must win, gentlemen, and
we shall win. It is the old fight of liberty, equa-
lity, and fraternity, against oppression, caste, and
aristocracy. It is the old fight to make the world
better, with malice towards none and charity for
all. (Loud applause.) We may halt for a moment,
or change the direction, but the good cause
always goes steadily forward. It is related,
and whether true or not, the incident is well
invented, that on the evening of that awful
battle of the Wilderness, when the legions
of the Union army had fought all day,
rather by faith than by sight, in the wild, woods
and tangled brush, that some man asked General
Grant to step backward a little and reorganize, and
that he replied, "We have done very well. Gen-
tlemen, at half-past three in the morning, we move
forward." (Long-continued cheering.) We accept
his spirit and his words. Perhaps lam not antici-
pating in saying that we shall accept him again in
person as our leader. (Loud cheering.) Thanking
you again, gentlemen, very heartily, for the honour
conferred, I await the further pleasure of the Con-
vention. (Applause.) General Sickles, entering
Warner
the hall here, was received with cheers, and the
remaining
permanent organization
were then announced as follows :—Vice-Presidents
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Ala.te, WA. Donald of Ark.,
James Corey of Cal., J. B. Chaffee of Cal., W. F.
Pierson of Ct., Lewis Thompson of Del., 11. H.
Moody of Fla., Foster Bloddgett of Ga., Jesse K.
Dubois of 111., Walter J. Gresham of End., G. M.
Hendrick of la., S. S. Prouty of Kansas, Joshua J.
Speed of Ky., W. P. Kellogg of La., A. D. Fessen-
den of Me., Henry Stockbridge of Md., D. W.
Gooch of Mass., Henry Waldron of Mich., Horatio
P. Vanclerc of Minn., Thomas L. White of Miss.,
A. J. Harlan of Mo., B. Saunders of Nebraska, N.
Walker of Nevada, E. Gould of N. H., John S. Irick
of N.J., Chauncey M. Depew of N.Y., Albert
Dockery of N.C., N. C. I\l‘Farland of 0., J. Failing
of Oregon, J. K. Morehead of Pa., G. Green of R. 1.,
Carlos J. Stolbrand of S. C., T. A. Hamilton of Tenn.,
J. Burch, of Va. ; S. D. Karns, of West Va. ; and
Edward Solomon, of Wis. Secretaries—Thomas
D. Foster, V. Dell, C. B. Higby, F. B. Solomon,
B. Beal, Joshua T. Heald, J. Rhombeur, G. G.
Wilber, J. P. Root, C. R. Hogete, J. 11. Easton,
Lewis Viel, W. C. Goodlie, Col. C. W. Lowell,
Stephen D. Lindsley, E. F. Waters, George G.
Briggs, W. W. Scott, A. Worley Patterson, J. C.
S. Colby, L. Maxwell, G. N. Collins, Francis B.
Ayer, Robert C. Bellville, Luther Caldwell, J. W.
Holden, C. Kinney, M. Ramsey, A. C. Harmer,
Mr. Fahter, W. E. Rose, J. I. W. F.