Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-06-23
Conrress shall exercise that poWer arhenerer sach

Congress shall exercise that power aCheneUer such
improvements are necessary for the common, defence
! or for the protection and facility of commerce
with foreign nations or among the States such i'm
provements being, in every instance, national and
general in their character.
7, The Federal and State governments are parts
of one system, alike necessary for the common
prosperity, peace and security, and ought to be
regarded alike, with cordial habitual and i'm
movable attachment Respect for the authority
of each and acquiescence in the constitutional
measures of each, are duties required by the plain
est considerations ofnatonal, of State and of ndi
| vidual welfare.
8. The series of Acts of the 31st Congress, COM
monty known the compromise or adjustment,
1.-THE act for the recovery of fugitives from labor
included received and acquiesced in by the
Wings of the United States final settlement
in principle and substance, of the subjects to which
they relate, and SO far as these acts are concern
ed, we will maintain them and insist on their strict
enforcement until time and experience shall de-
monstrate the necessity of further legislation to
guard against evasion Of the laws on the one hand
and the abuse of their powers on the other-not
imparing their present efficiency to carry out the
requirements of the Constitution, and we depre-
cate all further agitation of the questions thus
settled dangerous to peace, and will discoun
tenance all efforts to continue or renew such agI-
tation whenever, wherever, or however made
and we will maintain this settlement as essential
to the nationality of the Wing party, and the in
tegrty of the Union.
| These resolutions were adopted by vote of
yeas 227, nays &C, follows:
Yeas-Nlaine 4, New Hampshire 5, Vermont 5,
Massachusetts 10, Rhode Island 4, Connecticut 4,
New York 10, New Jersey 7, Pennsylvania 81,
Delaware 8, Maryland s, Virginia IS, North
Carolina 10, South Carolina s, Georgia 10, Ala
bama 9, Mississippi 7, Louisiana 6, Ohio 8, Ken
lucky 10, Tennessee -, Indiana Z, Illinois g.,
Missouri 8, Arkansas 4, Florida 3, Texas 4, Iowa
4, Wisconsin 4, California 4.-Tota 227.
Nays-Mane 4, Connecticut l, New York %,
Pennsylvania g. Ohio IS, Indiana 6, Illinois S,
Michigan 6, Wisconsin Total &C..
MIR. Jessup moved a resolution that this Con-
yention do proceed to vote for a candidate
for President of the United States, in the manner
following: That the Secretary of the Convention
shall call the several States, beginning with Maine,
and the chairman of each delegation, as they are
called, shall announce the person or persons for
whom the votes of said States shall be given,
which shall be recorded by the Secretary ma
ority of all the votes given shall be necessary to
a nomination The same course shall be observ-
ed in the selection Of a candidate for the Vice
Presidency.
This resolution was modified so as to require a
majority of the electoral college, 149 votes, to
nominate candidate. 1t was then adopted, and
the Convention proceeded to ballot Tor nominee
for the Presidency.
| The first ballot stood as follows:
For Fiilmore-Vermont l Rhode Island l, Con-
necticut l, New York I, PENNSYLVANIA l. Mary
land 8, Virginia -, North Carolina 10, South
Carolina 8, Georgia 10, Alabama 9, Mississippi 7,
Louisiana 6, Ohio l, Kentucky -, Tennessee II,
Missouri 9, Arkansas 4, Florida 3, Texas 4, Iowa
4, Wisconsin l, California Total 1873.
For Scott-Mane 8, New Hampshire l, Ver-
mont /, Massachusetts 2, Rhode Island l, Con-
necticut 2, New York "a, New Jersey 7, Penn
sylvania 26, Delaware 3, Virginia l, Ohio %, In
diana 10, Illinois IL, Michigan 6, Wisconsin l,
California 2-Total 131.
For Webster-New Hampshire 4, Vermont 3,
Massachusetts IL, Rhode Island 2, Connecticut 3,
New York 9, Wisconsin 3, California Total 20.
| On the Cd, Sd, 4th and 5th ballots there was no
material change, and the 9th was the same as the