Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-06-19

vention, they entitled to vote until the contested
question should be decided ft'hy-
The PREsmEsr decided that il the sitting delegates had
credentials they entitled to vote until their right
to seats should be determined S.f
Mr.. MORGAN, Of Maryland, desired that nothing but
Justice should be done and that every should have
equal rights and privileges He held in his hand docu-
ments from the third eighth NINTH eleventh, twenty-se
venth and thirty districts Of New York. in which
sets of delegates had CREDENTIALS and accord
ing the Presidents decision both sets would be entitled
to seats.
The PRESIDENT Thoughts it would save great deal of
time if the six contestants should be allowed to record
their votes. 1t would not change the result.
Mr.. DUKE, Of New York. If six votes are taken
from side and placed the other, what will be the
result [Roars Of laughter and applausel
The PRESIDENT. The Chair has already announced that
the amendment is adopted.
The resolution as amended then read, follows
Resolud That the members Of the committee shall be
ected by the delegation from each State each State repre-
sented appointing its member and the committee to APP
point its own chairman and in the said committee each
member be authorized the number of which
said State is entitled in the Electoral College, 'h
Mr.. EWING moved to amend the resolution as amended
by substituting in lieu thereof the following:
That the committee shall consist of delegate from
each State, selected by the delegation from each State
Mr. E. said he looked upon this the most important
vote the Convention had yet TAKEN and it for that
that he had risen to make single remark upon
the amendment he had just offered If the various deega
tons through in that committee could
vote districts they did in the Convention the
erof States New York. Pennsylvania and Ohio well
Of other large States would in be
teracted by divisions in those States they in the
House of Representatives But independent Of this con-
sderaton it species of tyranny allow commit
tee man, representing the principles and sentiments Of
bare majority and it might by chance not even be that
to cast the whole thryfve votes of the State of New
York. or the whole twenty votes of the State of
Pennsylvania, upon side overwhelming half dozen
of the smaller States which unanimous in their
tments. He thought the smaller States ought to be
titled to the weight in these matters other States
He objected to the amendment which had just been
toned bya of the Convention, being departure
from the welsetted precedents of other Conventions.
Mr.. DICKINSON, of New York. protested against the
cepton of this amendment II was not in order because
it was precisely the the original resolution with
the exception that the word chairman not in It.
He in favor of the amendment of the gentleman from
Pennsylvania gave every delegate equal
weight. He did not wish to be confined to the
policy laid down in the original resolution by which the
State Of Louisiana with her six electoral votes would
have voice equal to New York. with her thirty cleo
tora votes He did not think the amendment of the gen.
tleman from Kentucky Mr. EwISe was properly decided
to be in order and he hoped would be voted down.
Mr. MORTON, Of Florida said II apparent that the
Convention not prepared for any harmonious action
until the report of the Committee Credentials had been
received and the Convention had acted upont In order
therefore, give that committee time for its debera
ton he moved that the Convention adjourn till eleven
o'clock tomorrow.
The motion was not agreed to.
A motion then made that the Convention adjou
till six o'clock in the evening the upon which
taken by States, and decided in the affirmative
And the Convention accordingly adjourned.
AFTERNOON SESSION-THURsDAY, JUNE IL.
The PRESIDENT called the Convention to order at six
o'clock.
The proceedings of the morning session read and
approved after having corrected the vote cast by yr
gnia from fifteen fourteen. The vote correctly
published in report.
The President announced the first business in order to
be the consideration of the substitute offered by Mr.
EWING Of Kentucky, the second resolution Of Mr. Dun
CAM of Louisiana as the latter had been amended
ton of Mr.. JEssuP, of Pennsylvania.
Mr.. JEssuP, Of Pennsylvania, moved to amend the SUBJ
sute by adding thereto the clause which, his
motion was added to the resolution Of Mr. DUNCAN
follows:
"And that each member Of said Committee Resou-
tons shall be entitled to vote many votes the
Der which the State he represents is entitled to in the
Electoral College"
Mr. JRssup said: wish to state In q very few words,
the reasons which operate upon my mind in moving this
amendment am convinced that the best interests Of
the great Wing party demand that the amendment should
be carried believe that the great State Of Pennsylva
mia is entitled to reasonable share such is assigned
her by the Federal Constitution in Congress- in the de-
hberaons Of this body believe there is for
doubling the attachment Of Pennsylvania to the COnsu
ton to the compromises Of the Constitution, and to oil
legitimate laws enacted under those compromises.
venture to AFFIRM for the delegation this floor, that
there no set Of in this Union who resolved to
60 further support Of all the ensctments Of thc Gene
raj Government than the delegation from Pennsylvania
Tremendous applause and cheers.
am permitted say, further, that the Wing party in
the State Of Pennsylvania have been grossly misrepre
sented They have not been understood Their conser
vative position has been misconstrued They have been
attempted to be broken down. because they have not been
understood and their conservatism not appreciated
My motive In offering this amendment a deep
vcon that we ought to have presented to this Conven
ton set Of conservative resolutions adapted to
IRENE merdians on the side or the other feared
that II the original resolution succeeded there might be
introduced resolutions which would be Of character cal
culated to create difficulty, to create hearburnncs to
create still further evils which do not desire TO contem
plate submit that the construction Of the committee
upon the plan proposed Of proper in that
committee might bring and would bring before the Con-
vcntion such series Of resolutions IL any be deemed
psdient 10 be presented viii unite in adopting them
by q unanimous "aye" and that contamination, IL we
are to have resolutions hope yet to accomplished by
the labors Of that committee
believe that the delegation from Ohio and the delega
ton from New York have been misrcpresentcd and mis-
understood ~ much asI believe the delegation Of Penn