Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-06-12
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
. THE NOMINATIONS.

sidency, and the Hon. JOHN c. BREcKEN-
RIDGE, of Kentucky, on the Cd ballot, for
the Vice Presidency.
The following comprises the different bal
lots for the various candidates.
First Buchanan 1876; Pierce 1872
Douglas 43; Cass 5.
Second Ballot-Buchanan 139; Pierce
119; Douglas 81; Cass 6.
Third Ballot buchanan 139; Pierce 119;
Douglas 80; Cass 5.
Fourth Ballot-Buchanan al; Pierce
119; Douglas 80; Cass 5.
Fifth Ballat-Buchanan 40; Pierce 119;
Douglas 81; Cass 5.
Sixth Ballot-Buchanan 155; Pierce 1O7;
Douglas %; Cass g..
Seventh Buchanan 143; Pierce
50; Douglas So; Cass 5.
Eighth Ballot buchanan 1877; Pierce 81;
Douglas Sc; Cass 5,
Ninth Ballot-Buchanan 146; Pierce 81;
Douglas sc; Cass 5.
Tenth Ballot-Buchanan $50; Pierce 80;
Douglas SO; Cass 5.
Eleventh Ballot-Buchanan 147; Pierce
so; Douglas 60; Cass S.
Twelfth Ballot-Buchanan AS; Pierce 10;
Douglas 90; Cass 5,
Thirteenth Ballot-Buchanan $50; Pierce
II; Douglas 50; Cass 5.
Fourteenth Ballot-Buchanan 152; Pierce
70; Douglas SO; Cass 5.
Fifteenth Ballot-Buchanan 1853; Pierce
3; Douglas 11S; Cass f. Mr.. Pierce was
withdrawn by the New Hampshire delega-
ton.
Sixteenth Ballot-Buchanan 1853; Doug
las 121; Cass 6.
Seventeenth Ballot-Buchanan Goethe
total vote Of the Convention.
The first ballot for Vice President result
as follows: Breckenridge, of Kentucky, IS;
Quitman SO; Boyd 33; Fitzpatrick II;
Brown 20. Herschel johnson 81; Rusk 3;
Bayard 81; Polk 5; Dobbin Is. The Sc
cond ballot was unanimous for Hon. J. C.
Breckenridge, Of Kentucky, and he was ac-
cordingly the choice of the Convention.
Mr.. B. was a member of the last House of
Representatives.
Mr.. Buchanan received on the first ballot
1876 votes, of which 101 were from the Free
States, and 81 from the Slave States, Gen.
Pierce received on the same ballot "a votes
from the Slave States, and only SO from the
Free. On the same occasion, Judge Doug
las received 81 votes in all-namely, 20
votes from the Slave States, and II from the
Free, while General Cass received five votes
in all, and from Free States.
PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES.
The Committee on Resolutions, on the
third day ofthe Convention, submitted their
report, which was finally adopted. The
first part embraces the general principles
of the last Convention, and reafirms the
Baltimore platform of 1852. It then pro-
ceeds as follows:
And Whereas, since, the foregoing de-
claration was uniformly adopted by our pre-
decessors in National Conventions, an ad-
verse political and religious test has been
secretly organized by party claiming
to be exclusively Americans, and it is
proper that the American Democracy should
clearly define it's relations thereto There
fore
Resolvcd, That the foundation of this
Union Of States having been laid in it's pros
perity, expansion, and pre-eminent exam
pie in free government, built upon entire
freedom in matters Of religious concern,
and no respect of persons in regard to rank
or place Of birth, no party can justly be
deemed national, constitutional, or in ac-
cordance with American principles which
bases its exclusive organization upon reli-
gious opinions and accidental birth place
That we reiterate with renewed energy
of purpose the well-considered declarations
of former Conventions upon the sectional is
sue of domestic slavery, and concerning the
reserved rights Of the States, and that we
may more distinctly meet the issue on which
sectional party, subsisting exclusively on
slavery agitation, now relies to test the f.
deity of the people, North and South, to
the Constitution and the Union
Resozved, That, claiming fellowship with
and desiring the cooperation of all who re-
gard the preservation of the Union, under
the Constitution, as the paramount issue,
and repudiating all sectional parties and plat
forms concerning domestic slavery, which
seek to embrol the States and incite to trea-
son and armed resistance to law in the Ter
ritories, and whose avowed purposes, if con-
summated, must end in civil war and dis
union, the American Democracy recognise
and adopt the principles contained in the
organic laws establishing the Territories Of
Kansas and Nebraska as embodying the only
sound and safe solution Of the slavery ques-
ton upon which the great national idea OF
the people Of this whole country can repose
in its determined conservatism of the Union,
non-interference by Congress with slavery
in States and territories that this was the