The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-05-30
EVENING SESSION.

votes for South Carolina, being the onl
Delegate from that State. The report o.
Credentials was then received and laid on tn
table.
A resolution was ofereda following two mem
ber of each of the contesting parties to ad
dress the Convention tomorrow before tn
final decision, and pending discussion Oh
this question, the Convention adjourned till
o'clock tomorrow morning.
During the afternoon, which was mostly occu
pied with uninteresting speeches concerning
the rival contestants from New York, grea
crowds were gathered outside the Church, anG
sundry stump speeches were made.
THIRD DAY-MORNING SESSION.
The Convention assembled at o'clock, on
Wednesday morning.
After some discussion about the admission
of Democratic members of Congress TO seats,
Mr.. Cameron, of Pa. proposed that all revolu-
tionary soldiers in the city, should be admitted
to seats on the floor. Carried.
Mr.. Boys of North Carolina introduced a
resolution to admit both Barnburners and
Hunkers.
At the request of the mover it was laid on
the table, to be hereafter called up.
The Convention then proceeded to the con-
sideration of the order of the day, it being the
defence of the opposing New York Delega-
tons by those chosen as speakers on the re-
spective sides.
Hon Mr.. Dickinson appeared on the side of
the bunker section, and assembled the stand
and opened the discussion.
He commenced by rcmarking on the neces-
sity and utility Of strict party organization,
and laid down the proposition that the delega-
| ton with which he was associated represented
the organizing Democracy of the State of New
York. They had been charged of degrading
themselves by subsisting TO test in the con-
vention of pledge to support the nominees of
the Convention before their particular claims
were acted upon. He would to God that all
Democrats might never be degraded by sub
hitting to such tests 1t was Democracy. 1t
was Constitutional and all Democratic and
Constitutional usagcs were in its favor.
The Speaker then went into an extended
history of the party difficulties in the State of
New York. The cause of its existence and
disastrous effects to the party it had produced.
He contended that he bunker delegation
represented great majority of the Democra-
cy of the State, and that the Barnburners and
those that were represented had gone out from
the party without just cause of complaint.
| He said that the great and existing cause Of
disunion had been laid on the table at the Sy
racuse Convention by a decided majority OF q
resolution proposed and supported by those
who afterwards formed the Convention at Her
kimcr and Utica, declaring in strong and en-
phatic terms against the extension of Slavery
in new States and Territories
At the expiration of the hour allotted to tho
LII Al
the spirited argument, Mr.. Smith rose OIL. the
opposite side and proceeded to address the
Convention.
Mr.. Smith said tie first cause of division
| in the party, grew out of the efforts of the
| Iiunkers to keep Offices at the expense and
credit of the State. He said that his party
granarv hence their name of Hunkers was
given the other party, who hankered after Of
flee He said the gentleman who had preccd-
ed him, had said that there was no degradation
in the test exacted. 1fgentlemen did not con-
slider it degradation he doubted if they had
sufficient moral sense to discover what degra-
dation was. Kisses" and cheers" He shd
that he had been admitted to the Democratic
church long since and would not now submit
to degrading and invidious test in Conven-
ton that nominated Silas Wright. The test
applied between two parties, and Mr.. Wright
was nominated by triumphant majority. At
the death of the lamented Wright, the, Conser-
,atiye faction again raised its head, and at the
Syracuse Convention old Canal Commission
ers and broken down oflice-holders were the
controlling influence to PROSTATE Mr.. Flag,
as a candidate for Canal Commissioner, con-
sistent Democrat and warm pcrsoDal friend of
Gov. Wright. They obtained by fraud
working majority. The Convention disre-
garded the rights Of the minority, and by the
aid of Democratic Convention usage accom-
plishcd its design. 1t was not till then there
WAS first heard the design of separate organ
ization. The Herkimer meeting did not pro-
fess to be a regular meeting Of the Democracy
of the State but only of those persons indig-
nant ut the conduct of the Syracuse Conven-
ton. The party, then divided as a consoato-
nv movement, and in conformity with party u
sage, call for Convention was made, for
the nomination of State Officers and to con-
sider other matters. The Speaker then went
into the minutin of the dispute, and said that
the IIerkimer and Syracuse men both went
into the Legislative caucus, and Convention
was called at Utica for the purpose of COM
promise, and to enable parties to unite and Or
ganize on old ground. His party was stigma
tlzed to prejudice it with the South, on GER
tain grounds charged against it. The Herki-
m.r platform was abandoned after the Legis-
lative caucus, calling Convention in Utica.
The Syracuse men went into two Legislative
caucuses and were out-voted at each. They
had no right to dispute the authority of either.
He and his PARTY were no Abolitionists.-
They regarded political Abolitionists as foes.
No set of men could stand up frmer for State
rights and State institutions than the Demo-
Gratis of New York. Blu. they were in favor
of exteEding to all new States and Territories
the provisions of the ordinance framed by
Thomas Jefferson, and extended over the
Northwest Territory.
If we are not accepted, said he, we shall not
90 out conquered, but with banners flying with
the principles of Jefferson inscribed upon them.
After farther remarks OH each side, the
Convention adjourned till evening.
AT the evening session, it was finally voted