The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-06-27


Mr.. SANpKRsos appealed from the decision Of tn.
time, the appeal was withdrawn. After further
conversation,
| The CHAIR announced the vote to DO upon the
/ previous question.
/ Mr. SANDERsoN hoped the Chair would explain
the effect Of this vote
| The CHAIR said that the effect of the vote would
be to cut off all debate and to bring the convention
directly TO vote upon the resolutions offered by
the committee, TO the exclusion Of all amcndm ants.
MIR. SANDERsos called for the ayes and noes, aud
the result was, u to AZ in favor OF the previous
| question.
tit seems that mere majority Is sufficient for the
| previous question, in Pennsy lvania
Ihe CHAIR stated the question TO be on the reso-
buttons.
A volcE-Well. call the ayes and noes |
can't vote for such compromise with free soil as
| that.
The question was taken, and the resolutions were
passed, w to "a.
Mr.. LOOMS, Of the committee, announced that
the Governor would wait upon the convention at
eight o'clock.
The convention then proceeded to receive nomi-
nations for Canal Commissioner. and five Supreme
Judges.
NIGHT MEETINa-sPEEcH OF GOV. JOHNSTON.
At eight o'clock, the convention adjourned to
meeting out of doors, in front Of the Court House,
with the Governor. He was mounted upon plat
FORM and at once procee led to speak to the people,
there being some three or four thousand of them in
the street. The Governor is consistent. 1t was
the exact substance of most of his speeches for the
last three years He urged the i'm portance of good
men for Canal Commissioner and Judges he de-
Tended his oTn State policy, came down particularly
heavy upon the ruinous INEXPENSIVE tariff act Of
lS46; and on the Compromise measures, he admit
ted his objections to the Fugitive Slave law; and
while he should respect it the Law, he looked for
ward with confidence to its modification. II was
not, OF necessity, perfect law; but, like many
other laws, 1t was subject to amendment. There is
law of Pennsylvania to prevent kidnapping which
operated. of course, to the advantage Of runa way
slaves. This law the Legislature at the last session
repealed; but the Governor failed to sign the bill.
lie said il was because 1t was not presented to him
until the last hour Of the session. but he did not say
whether he had time enough or in that last hour,
to sign it. The failure has, doubt, been to his
advantage with the free soil peoples and, in fact, it
occur before he be called upon again to sign it.
Upon the whole, the position Of Governor Johnston
about the same or not much better, than that of
Seward; for If the former is not SO ultra against
slavery be Is far moro impractcable on the tariff
question, being just about 20 years behind the time
Mr.. OoLE, after the Governor, made another
very happy speech, and was followed by Mr.. Kill
inger, in very shrewd and earnest exhortation.
lie declared that Scott was nominated by the wings
to counteract the influence Of Mr.. Buchanan in this
State election, in behalf the democrats He (Mr.
BuchaDan) was at the bottom of all tho domscratc
nomnatiuns he is understood to have cast his for
tunes into the issue of this State election. We
have determined to meet him; and the contest not
only involves our State ticket, but our candidate
for the Presidency. We believe that we can carry
Scott, and that Scott can carry u.s. Such, substan-
TALLY, were the remarks Of Mr.. killinger.
JUNE 25, 1851.
The convention to-day were occupied almost OK.
clusivey in the selection Of candidates for Canal
Commissioner and the five Judges. John Strshm, of
Lancaster, for the Canal Commissioner defeated the
original caucus candidate of the Scott majority Mr.
Lawrence; and the East against the West were also
victorious uIon the Judges especially upon the fifth,
bei dow IN nd
burlington, in which, after a very tight fit, the
Western man, Burlington, was defeated. A motion
to strike out the sixth resolution-that is pressing
general acquescence in the measures Of the slavery
adjustment-was made, but not agreed to. Several
free soilish wing delegates defined their opposition
to the resolution expressing the greatest conf ience,
at the same time, in Scott and Johnston, and the
other nominations; and that was the end Of the
business on the slavery and Presidential question.
The administration is complime nted over the left
Webster gets the go-by-Scott is nominated on
non-c Ommittal principles, to help Johnston out in
his election-the Fugitive Slave law is substantially
repudiated-and the President and his cabinet in
the South, may make the most Of it, Thegreat OBJ
ject here is to save Pennsylvania. That's all.
LANCASTER, June n, 1851.
The Uhg Conrcntion and its Doings-Adriaistra-
tion Politely T'yleisei-Ree establishment of Gen.
Tayto's Platform the Slavery Question En-
husiasm for Scott, &c. S-c.
will, doubtless, very considerable futtering
at Washington. The wing party Of Pennsylvania
have virtually, under cover of back-h handed COM
pliment, Tylerzed the administer dicarded the
Fugitive Slave law, and nominated Con- Scott upon
the noncommittal platform Of Gen. Taylor. But,
in every other respe,t, and particularly upon the
tariff question, the declaration Of whig prnci-
pies, State and national is fully up to the standard
Of Henry Clay. IT lisa stiff rigid, whig platform,
upon the old model of that of 1874. with the ad-
dition Of a free soil application of the Fugitive
Slave law.
The nomination Of Gov. johnson for reelection,
to day, was truly enthusiastic and una nmous there
Is no question Of his being, by all odds, the most
available man for the wings. The reception of tho
name Of Gen. Scott was, also, considerably uproar-
ious, there be any mistake about his being
the man Ter Pennsylvania, above all other men, for
the grand set-to of the presidential canvass.
The resolutions from the committee on the sub
ject, were, Of course, cut and dried; but, when re-
ported, 1t appeared that the most important one at
this crisis endo, s,ng and fully Pledging the whg
law, had been suilocated In committee. IL was not
dgestible; 1t was tso much-entirely too much for
the convention to swallow, especially when IL placed
Gen. Scott and Gov. johnson both in n very awk-
ward predicament Mr.. Scott, Of Philadelphia in
convention, made very bold attempt to restore
the resolution to the catalogue; he pleaded hard for
standing up to the constitution, explicitly and
frankly, and without equivocation; but it was no
| go IL was not the thing. Mr.. Scott, Mr.. Sander
son, and their Philadelphia detach nent Of Custom
House conservatives. were put to silence by the argu
ment OF LOOMS, Darragh and others, showing that
the resolutions Of the committee covered everything
and that to descend to the particular specification
Of obedience to the Fugitive Slave Law, wouli be
basely trucking TO the South. The Fugitive Slave
resolution was, therefore, ruled out by the previous
I'M ffaa ftaue
were adopted, ~ to "a about the proportion be-
tween the friends Of Scott, and Of Fillmore and
Webster.
The wing platform Of Pennsylvania, for 1852 in
cludes Gen. scott, high protective tariff, and hos
tiliiy to the Fugitive Slave law. The three four
thousand abolitonists in the State had 70 be APP
poased, the non oommittal policy slavery worked
handsomely in lsis, as did also the high protective
policy in Pennsylvania. Why not again, particu.
larry when the sheriff Is ut large selling out the iron
Furnaces, oundrics and FORCES all over the State on