Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-02-02
WHOLE NO. 1856.

of my official duties.
Rev. Thomas H. Hume, of Norfolk, was invited
by the President to open the Convention with
prayer, which he did in most feeling and apprc-
pirate manner, invoking the blessings of Heaven
on the deliberations of the Convention.
Mr.. Gbbon, Of North Carolina, offered the fol-
lowing resolution
RESOLVED, That committee be appointed con
sisting of three delegates from each State repre-
sented in this Convention and three from the Dis
trict of Columbia, to whom all business and resc-
lutions designed for the Convention shall be Of
fered.
Gen. Green moved, as an amendment, that seven
delegates be appointed from Virginia
Mr. Lyons, of Richmond, opposed the amend
ment.
The question was then put, and carried in tho
affirmative, as was the resolutionsas amended-the
Virginia delegation declining to vote.
The President appointed the following gentle
men to constitute the above committee
Virginia-John B. Floyd, A. w. Mcdonald, i.
B. Deane Jr., Samuel Price, T. T. Hardy, j. r.
Anderson, and G. w. Russell
District of Columbia-Robert 0uld, Chas. Albert,
and s. III. Hill.
Missouri--Luther NJ. Kennett Hon. s. Caruth-
ers, and Hon. T. ID. Day
Maryland-A. B. Hagner, w. r. Barker, and
Thomas Fawcett
North Carolina-J. II. Gibbon, e. G. Hayward,
anu ~ 3. lHylOr.
Texas-W. A. Cazneau, 7. J. Green, and H. Nc
Lsod.
Louisiana. D. B. De Bow, Hon. j. P. Benja-
min, and Hon. j. G. Davidson.
President Tilghman, on learning that Governor
Wise, of Virginia, was in the house, invited him to
come upon the platform, and then escorted him to
a seat.
Mr.. Myer Myers, of Norfolk, offered the follow
ing preamble and resolutions, which were referred
to the committee on business etc.
Whereas, this Convention deem 1t indispensable
to the successful progress of Southern commerce
that line of first class steamers be established
between Hampton Roads and Liverpool; therefore,
Resotged, That we earnestly recommend the
Southern and Southwestern States to unite with
the State of Virginia in the establishment Of such
line, and that the delegates from those States in
the Convention, be requested to call the attention
OF their respective Legislatures to the importance
of the subject, and urge their cooperation.
General Green, of Texas, renewed the resoIr-
tions which had been offered and withdrawn by
Mr.. DeBow, and on his motion, they were referred
to the committee on business, etc.
Mr.. Charles Albert, of the District Of Columbia,
offered the following resolutions, which were re-
ferred to the committee on business, &c.
Resolved, That every effort made to extend the
commercial advantages of the South, and to de-
veope its internal resources, must inevitably en-
large the field of its labor excite its industry and
enterprise, draw out its capital augment its wealth
and promote its prosperity.
Resotued, That the sucocee md prosperity of
any one portion of our Union, While it need not
and should not conflict With the interests Of any
other portion, will more less, add to the homer
and welfare of our whole country.
Resolved That notwithstanding the baleful
opinions entertained and expressed by some of our
fellow-countrymen Of the North and the resistance
which has been sometimes We regret to say, effec-
tually made to "the supreme law of the land, y we
nevertheless feel devoted attachment to onr glc-
rious Union, and fixed determination that it shall
be preserved, and to this end we will direct our
most earnest prayers, and exert our most strenu-
GUS Efforts
Resolved That we have an abiding faith in the
heartfelt sentiments of the masses of the people
that they are radically Union, however, at times
they may be misdirected, misrepresented, by the
unscrupulously ambitious and designing. Tho
wrongs we have suffered, we trust are of a
transient nature and we feel that we corroborate
the fact expressed in our inspired Declaration Of
Independence, that all experience hath shown
that mankind are more disposed to suffer while
evils are sufferabe, than right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they have been ac-
customed;" and therefore, here on the soil which
gave birth to our Washington and our Henry, we
vow eternal fidelity to the Constitution and our
Union.
UeH. Urecn, OF IexdS, OHereu tne IOHOWlDB
resolution, which was adopted:
Resolved, That the members of the Senate and
House Of Delegates of the Virginia Legislature be
invited to attend the sessions Of this convention.
On motion, the President was requested to have
the presiding officer of each branch of the Virginia
Legislature furnished with copy of Gen. Green's
resolution.
The convention, after adopting the usual parlia-
mentary manual for its government during its sit
tings, then adjourned to meet again at 10 o'clock
| yesterday morning, at the African Church.
DECREASE or IMnGRArIos.--Som of the papers
are mourning over the great falling off in immi-
grafton, and are cursing the American party as
the cause of it. Perhaps that party is the cause
of it, and Il is by no means unwilling to have it
laid to its charge. 1t is very good thing to les
sen the number of foreigners that come here.
There are but two classes of men who ought to
regret this result. The first is composed of poll
ticians and priests who have always found it far
easier matter to make tools of foreigners than ol
Americans; and the second is composed of those
capitalists who delight to cut wage down to the
pauper standard, and who know that they could
once get foreigners to work at half the price that
they would have had to pay Americans, besides
being at liberty to maltreat them as much as they
pleased with impunty. These two classes do well
to weep over the falling off Of the foreign inn
portations" that were so beneficial TO them, but
the more they weep the more cause will the rest
of the American world have to laugh.
II Our PosrNAsTER.-It has been rumored In our
town for some time past, that our worthy post.
master, w. II. Randolph, would be removed from
Office We have heard of no petition in circula
ton for that purpose, and were disposed to beiev>
that such was the satisfaction which that gentle
man gave in the discharge of his official duties
that the most rabid politician would not demand
his removal. We are informed, however, that A
p. Wiley, ESQ.,, received letter from our worthy
Representative in Congress, Peter III. Bell, which
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