The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-05-26

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to the merits of the case addressing himself the udg
mens of those whom he addressed In every town in
The State OF New York, committee was appointed oy
the annual meetings, whose duty it call the next
meeting The same arrangement prevailed IN he eouh,
ties and assembly districts In the congresslohal ana
senatorial districts, the organization hau ooaine
In reference State matters little OF that KIND had peeh
necessary. All the powers of the aPponneat haslg
been vested IN the hands OF the un,
ton of the new constitution. such an organization was
not needed for the State now carry III inc spring Oh
ls47, the legislature or democratic members OF e iegls
and Mace of the convention assembled and recommend
ed that convention of delegates should be held at SYRIA
cuse in September 1t was, among other things, to nom
mate lieutenant governor comptroller and other State OF
fcsrs also to transact such other business might
come before it, That call was generally published in all
democratic papers of the State On the Goth OF Sepem
the convention assembled all the counties being rep
resented except ene entitled to only one delegate They
came fresh from the people under the new consttuon
unsurpassed patience, listened to the speeches and com
plants OF the contendng delegations He would not say
enough to say that their fully examined and
the result WAS that, of the nine contested Seats they
were equally divided between the two parties; and the
result then that the party which he represented had
large majority, But no complaint then made OF
the regularity of the convention. II said that be-
cause MIR. Flagg was not nominated, although he was
therefore there fraud. But the action Of the con-
vention showed that he was not the choice OF large
majority of the people He had held office for twenty
five years He was, in many respects, faithful officer;
but the voice OF the people was in favor of change
The ticket OF that convention, too, notwithstanding all
the denuncatons against it, received 10000 votes from
the democracy Of the State. That enough. The
proceedings of the convention concurred in at the
time During the whole four days. the master spirit
John Van Buren-addressed the convention any other
member, I'LL the contest for seats was determined,
| That comfy extended to all, by arrangement.
The Wilmot Provso resolution was introduced out OF the
order OF business, and II laid the table There
was boiling there The contest for the two remain
ing seats went on and when decided, the tickets
baloed for till all was completed Then the address and
utIn ntaH hV mi
tee The resolutions read. The address was not
read but the committee assured the convention that
was IN accor lance with the resoluons and such was
the confidence in the committee that this statement was
taken on trust Among the resolutions was the one
appointing State committee 10 call State conventions
What next Then came up the Wmot Proviso again
amendment and heprevious question called for,
for the first time After the time had been occupied and
the business delayed by the speeches of the contestants,
that resolution laid on the table and was not
proper What right had any man to Introduce such
abstraction prohibiting the of slave from taking
that slave E,o any part OF the Unon in convention
assembled for local purposes entirely? He cared not
whether he was called "hunker" " conservative"
so long as he moved with the masses, bringing power
to them rather than taking it to distance from
them tApplause.] He begged that the house would
refrain from any demonstrations OF any kind, and give
him all its attention. The Atlas" and all the papers of
Mr. ?. KING Not the . St. Lawrence Republican"
| ANOTHER MEMBER Nor the Buffalo Republican"
MIR, FOSTER, Cannot any gentleman name another
A MEMBER: There were three that did not
Mr. FOSTER. Well, then, there were three excep
tons. He then went on to speak of the friendly spirit
which he and his associates had always manifested
wards their opponents Then he proceeded to argue in
defence of the appointment OF State committee to call
State convention and reviewed the action OF the SYRIA
cuse convention. The contestants went there with
perfect understanding that the State TO be reogan
lied. A resolution to that effect passed without
opposition Strike out, therefore, all the dongs of the
State central committee and they had the authority of the
convention for the organization When the
time that men should protest against fraud exists
Alter they had gone into the contest and the result turns
ia pS
topped by their act He had said all he desired
with regard to the regularity of the Syracuse proceedings
The first thing they said was that they repudiaed the
action of the Herkimer convention Yet they were all
the They participated S its % They were
convention. But they discarded the Herkmer
lon; He read from the "Albany Atlas call of the
regular, and placed il ahead of the call of the legis
latve caucus He also read editorial from the
paper in opposition, he conended, to the proceedings
Of the introduction OF the Wilmot Proviso resolution
He did not mean to impugn the motives of the contes
tants But there had been only convention hereto
fore in this country, which afforded parallel to the Her
kimer convention The only difference was that one
published Its proceedings to the world and the other
ceaed its treason within closed doorss IA VOICE Name
ond week of November; yet the called for
the 18TH He asked their attention TO the call for that
one publication, and stated merely that 'to trans
act such business should come before it." Judged,
then, by their own tests, he commended that their oppo
nents were not sustained by the regular usages OF the
party He contended that, notwithstanding the repuda
ton of the Herkmer convention by the Utica convention
they were Identical Their addresses from the
Inint-from the "Aas" Office The managers the |
same The Utica convention corner stone also had the
'Wilmot Provso" in it. 1t grieved him to say that the
chief orator on that occasion the of who
had received more from New York than it could ever
contribute to any other man, and who had himself re- |
ceved high legal office at unusually early period in
his life. He quoted from the speech of John Van Buren,,
and spoke of his having had great Influence
in defeating the party under the new organization. To
minor points which had been introduced he would not
allude. He had presented plain statement of facts
Surely the convention would send them back to New
York, with certainty of distraction? As Mr. Beers,
to whom allusion had been made, he was the mere |
tool OF the conservatives" as they chose to cali |
themselves AS for Colonel Young, he has placed !
himself the Wilmot Provso platform. He beg |
ged that the convention would not send them back
Already they had an electoral ticket in the field The
response had been received from all the electors that
they would abide by the decisions of the convention II
sent back, defeat in New York was certain The plat
form too for them to stand by their oppo-
nens 1t was too narrow it was not national They !
desired to stand platform wide enough for all the
democracy of the Union, north and south. Loud APP
plause.1
Mr.. STERIGERE asked if both caucuses were called
by the same legislature.
Mr.. FOSTER replied in the affirmative
MIR. PRESTON KING next addressed the convention
He said that the questions connected with the egu
arty OF the two delegations had been fully discussed
he would not dwell upon them 1t upon an issue OF
question was, are democrats or not Even if will |
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