The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-06-04
THE LATEST NEWS
..oCEEDINGs OF THE NATIONAL
nruuCRATIC CONVENTION.
TsEcokD DAY.
WEDNESDAY, June 2, | o'clock

1NlQF
ms were said TO be excluded.
A, the instance Of u gentleman from Massa-
.hnsetts. a call OF the States was made, and
.bree States we're ABSENT
per Mr.. plummer, Presbyterian, Of this
.;,y. delivered an appropriate prayer.
The President said The first business in order
uss the calling for reports
Wr. Burrows, Of Arkansas, offered the fol-
loAng resolutions
ReSolred That a committee OF one from
..,b S.sfe be appointed 10 report the resolu-
..n,s COMPOSING the Baltimore platform.
p,solrfd That the member from each State,
~, enid committee, he named by the delegation
~ tho S,ate ron which he shall be taken, and
,batsa,j committee have power to elect their
chairman. from their own body, or the body
Of the Convention.
Mr., Charhck, of New York. moved to strike
ont ore member from each State and insert
tso.
Mr.. Hallett made an explanation in relation
70 the arrangement of the bail, and proposed
10 admit the delegates in, awaiting at the door,
who had not received their tickets.
Some time was occupied in seating the dele.
gates when
The President stated the question TO be on
the motion OF Mr.. Charlck.
A. V. Brown, of Tennessee, offered the fol-
loving resolution as substitute:
That u committee OF one from each State be
appointed to whom all resolutions in relation
to The creed rpia,torm of the democratic party
shall Je referred on presentation, without de-
bate.
Mr.. Burrows said that gentlemen must be
in hot haste TO amend, and suggested that the
proposition OF the gentleman from Tennessee,
would cause more debate than the origina re.
solution, which was presented by the delega-
ton from Arkansas:
1t was not intended to be discussed at this
time; merely presepted TO lie over for the pre-
sent, and take 1t uFtor consideration at future
time.
The resolution with the pending amend
meRts, was laid on the table for the present
Mr. Borden, of Indiana, offered resolution,
that committee OF one from each State be
appointed 10 report persons to constitute the
Democratic General Committee. The resolu-
ton adopted.
Mr.. Charlick trusted that the States would
not be called until the afternoon session.
Nj. Bradley, of Iowa, after saying that it
would be wrong 10 appoint the committee un
III after the committee on credentials shall
have made Their report, moved to postpone the
consideration OF The subject until Tomorrow
and This was agreed 10.
Mr.. Phillips, OF Alabama, offered the follow
ing resolution:
Whereas-The several acts passed by the
thIrty-hrst Congress. known the Compro-
mise Acts, though received with disfavor by
large portions of the people of The Southern
and Southwestern States, have been acquies.
ced IN by the people of those States, in the
determination 10 abide by them, rather than to
hazard the peace and harmony of the Union.
And whereas also, the act passed at the same
session, amendatory of the act of1793, respect
ing "iugitlves from Justice, and persons escap-
ing from the service of their masters" consti-
tu1es an essential part of that series of meas
ures, which has been submitted to the country
as an adjustment or "inal settlement of
the slavery northumberland
ReSoLced, That the act herein referred TO,
and known as the fugitive slave act, is clothed
with the highest sanctions, and that good faith,
as we'll us legal obligations, demand its full
and faithful execution.
ResOtred, That she National Democratic
party is based upon the perpetuity of the States
and tie perpetGity OF their Union; it will
therefore Sternly resist all measures which tend
10 impair the one or destroy the other.
Mr.. Philips, with view of avoiding serious
objections, expressed the hope that the conven-
ton would agree TO have them printed and
made the special order for TO morrow at IL
o'clock. [Cres of agreed! agreed" Oh
no!"l
Mr.. Bright requested the Secretary to report
the resolutions from the centre of the room,
deemiag them second in Importance to the
Union tself
The President said they had a new Secreta-
Y-(W. ID. Wallach.l
This gentleman rad. in such loud tone as
TO receive the paudits of large portion of the
Convention.
delegate suggested that this subject should
be disposed OF, before the Convention was
called upon TO select their candidate for the
Presidency.
The Convention then ordered the resolutions
10 lie on the table aud be printed, and then
refused TO make them the 81 ecial order of The
day for TO morrow.
MIR. Charlick offered the following, viz:
ReSotred, That 1t is the daty of the Federal
Government, SO far as its power extends, to
secure to each section of the confe deracy the
undlsturbed enjoyment of its constitutional
rights, and that rigid and faithful enforcement
OF the act passed on the 18th September, A.
d., 1880, providing for the reclamation of fugi-
uVes from labor, is indispensably necessary
TO the perpetuity of the Union; that all at
tenpts to impair lis efficacy or weaken its guar
antees, should be discounlenanccd and resisted
by every wel-wisher of the Republic.
This was received with enthusiasm, and was
ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
A. V. Brown moved that the resolution Of
The gentleman from Arkansas MIR. Burrowsl
be taken up. Ii proposed TO raise committee
OF one from each State. to report the resolu
tons TO compose the Democratic platform.
MIR. Dobbin, of North Carolina, in rising TO
second the motion, said he desired TO construct
aplatform. He wanted to know on what plat
form they stood before proceeding to the nomi-
nation Of their candidates. [Applause.]
Mr.. Dunham, of Indiana, said he had been
informed that u resolution offered by his col
league, Judge Borden) providing for the APP
pointment OF Committee on resolutions had
been adopted, and that the motion providing
Tor the appointment of the committee by the
delegation from each State had been laid upon
the table.
Dir. Bsrten replied that his colleague was
laborng ander a misrepresentation. No motion
to appoint Il committee on resolutions, had
been adopted. His impression was the whole
subject had been laid upon the table for the
present, and that the resolution which he had
submitted, had re ference only 10 the appoint
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