The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-18

Sherman, Way and Others withdrew. all object
ing to taking the vote directly by the Convention
on the report which was then unanimously
adopted. Loud applause.
The Chair requested the Hon. j. NJ. Clayton
and Hon s. f. Vinton, of Ohio, to conduct the
President TO the chair. These gentlemen per-
formed the duty assigned them, and the Hon
J. G. Chapman, on taking the chair, was greeted
with loud applause and cheers. He addressed
the Convention as follows
GEN cHAPmAN's SPEECH,
Gentlemen Of the Wing National Conven-
tion---I tender you my most profound acknowl-
edgments for the honor which you have confer
red upon me in calling me to preside over the
deliberations of this most dignitied, august and
patriotic body,
Gentlemen, we meet here IA Wings we meet
here as brothers. Applause We meet here
with one common object-with but one purpose
to achieve-and could but wish, gentlemen,
that you had conferred on some other member
of this assembly the duties and responsibilities
of presiding over the deliberations of this body.
feel, gentlemen, that these duties would have
been more ably and efli,iently discharged by the
distinguished and able gentleman who has been
the temporary chairman gentleman whom
have, Tor many years, recognised as being among
tie most distinguished patriots of this nation
gentleman whom | am proud to call my per-
sonal friend and political brother. Applause
Gentlemen, | feel that | possess but some
Htle parliamentary experience, and that bring
TO the discharge of the duties OF the position
but few of the qualifications which a presiding
officer of such an assembly should possess.
However, gentlemen, | bring the disposition
to discharge my duty with single eye to the
IF oil tha - and inf of
this broad nation with single eye TO protect
the honor, interests, and happiness of this peo
Pile, living under Constitution of which we
profoundly boast--adopted by those who per
lied their lives and shed their blood to establish
the happy government under which We live.
bring this disposition to the chair, and mean
to discharge my duty without fear or favor
Gentlemen, we meet here as brothers. know
no sectional feeling. | know no South or North
East or West. Applause know but the
country, the interests and happiness, as identih
ed with the great Wing party of the country.
believe that, on the maintenance of Wing prin-
ciples, depends the honor and happiness of the
people at home, and our independence and ele
waited character abroad, and throughout the
world.
We meet here as brothers from the North,
East, South, and West. Let kindness, harmony,
aud pence characterize our proceedings as they
should the Wing party, the great conservative
party of the country.
do pray, and invoke you, as the sonserva.
tive party of the country, to meet and unite
here in our deliberations, entertaining the same
feelings of harmony and kindness which think
have heretofore characterised the action of the
Wing party. invoke you, gentlemen, 10 look
to the great interests involved in the election,
I'D Of ar,Ii
date whom you may present for the suffrage
of the Wings of the Union. invoke you to
meet here 10 that spirit, and discharge our du.
ties as become Wings and brethren, having but
one common purpose to observe
Gentlemen, we may differ as to men, but we
do not differ as to principles. Our purpose is
to carry out the principles of the Wing party,
and those principles which when administered
under Wing rule, have so materially contributed
to place this country in the proud position which
| it now holds among the nations of the earth.
We have no personal preferences to subserve.
| myself know no man or men in the discharge
of duty | look singly and solely to the well
fare of the country and the prosperity and happi-
ness of the people who live under the happy
form of government which has been ordained
for us by men who were at least as wise and
polite as we are. Sirs, with the Union and the
Constitution, and with the policy which is
known to be identifis sd with the whole Wing
party, | have no doubts about the success of the
nominee whom we may present to the purity
throughout the Union. Applause.
If we agreeas we should, and come together
in spirit of harmony, determined to sustain
those principles, have no doubt our candidates
will be elected almost by reclamation. APP
plause.
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them, and, like patriots, look TO the interests of
the entire country, from the st. Lawrence to
the Gulf of Mexico, and from the Atlantic to
the Pacific
Gentlemen, I again beg leave to tender my
ackno wedgments for the distinguished honor
which you have conferred upon me, and | ask
you to maintain spirit of kindness and forbear.
ance, that orr deliberations may lead to success
fu terminton; and undertake to say that the
country will prosper hereafter under Wing
adminisLra ton. Applause
The vice presidents then took their seats n
the platform.
The President suggested that there was
minister of the gospel present and that he be
invited to ask the blessing of God on the Con-
vention.
The Rev. Thomas H. Stockton then delivered
an appropriate prayer, in which he affection
ately alluded to the Hon. Henry Clay.
A member said that the committee on Gre
dentials had an onerous duty to perform, and
would not be able to complete their labors be.
fore IL o'clock to moro v, to which hour, at
half past o'clock the Convention adjourned
SECOND DAY--MoRNING SESSION
BALTIMORE June ITO A NJ.
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