The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-06-11
From the Cincinnati Daily Enquirer.l
DEMOCRATIC
National Cow entiOn.
FIRST DAYS PROCEEDINGS.

CINCINNATI, nlOnuay june Snu,A leu.
AT twelve O'Clock. NJ, the delegates
to the National Democratic Convention
assembled in Smith & Nixon's Hall.
The body of the hall was we'll filed, and
the stand was crowded with reporters
and members of the press from various
parts of the Union.
Robert McLane, Maryland, as Chair
man of the National Executive Commit
tee, called the Convention to order.
W. A. Richardson, of ILL.,, arose and
proposed that the Convention, for tenn
ponary organization, should call Samuel
Medary, of Ohio, as President pro tenn.
Loud %applause.1 .
A delegate asked that before this was
done the call of the Convention should
be read, which was done by the Secreta-
~. It is as follows:
Voted, That the next Democratic Ma
tional Convention be held at Cincinnati,
in the State of Ohio.
Voted, That in constituting the future
National Convention, the Democratic
Committee, in order to secure the respcc-
tive rights of the States, each State shall
be entitled to twice the number of dele
gates it has in the Electoral College, and
no more and the Democratic Commit
tee, in making arrangements for the next
Democratic Convention, provide such
number of seats, and secure the same to
TO the delegates elect.
Samuel Medary was then escorted to
the chair, amid much applause. and ad-
| dressed the Convention in the following
terms;
| Mr.. Medary-I can only return
thanks to the Convention for the tempo
/ rary honor it has conferred upon me by
| selecting me to preside over its prelimi-
nary deliberations. All that 1 can offer
in return for the honor of the position in
| which you have placed me-, will be, to
the best of my ability, to preserve that
| order which is SO necessary on such &C.
c~ssions. While l am not a new visitor
to Conventions of this kind, 1 am yet
now to the position in which your kind
ness has placed me. I have been a del
| egate to National Conventions when the
Republic extended but little beyond the
city in which We arc now assembled.
/ Since the first time General Jackson was
| nominated for President l have been 4
] delegate to all the National Conventions
| that have been held. I was then, as
now, one of the representatives Of the
great Democratic party of the nation.
| 1t is now a grand party, grasping in its
arms the shores of the two great oceans
of the world. In this Convention dele
gates are present from the Atlantic slope
and the shores of the wide Pacific, thus
manifesting in an unmistakable form the
progress of Democratic institutions and
this the government which it is our mis-
sion to defend and maintain. 1 repeat
that, as long as we are governed by writ
ten constitutions and written laws, We
should observe hat department, both
personal and political, which will justify
tie expectation that We are capable of
self government. 1t is true that in gov
ernhlepts like ours We may expect tenn
porary ehullitions Of popular excitement.
Like the great ocean they cannot be al
ways stiIl. There cannot be a perpetu-
al calm. We may sometimes expect the
storms which purify the atmosphere.
Gentlemen, I will NOT detain you. I
can only say that my hig best purpose in
accepting This unexpected promotion is
to perform the duties which it imposes on
me faithfully and impartially to all.
And now, while there is a brief silence,
equal to the occasion, / Will introduce
20 you the Rev. Mr.. Nicholson, OF this
city, who will, for a few moments sd-
dress you.
The chairman stated that it had been
proposed that Judge Clitberall of Ala
bama, and Mr.. Richie, of Virginia, be
appointed temporary Secretaries. which
proposition was adopted and the Secre-
taries took their seats.
Thomas L. Harris, of Ill, then pro-
posed that q Committee of Creds ltisls,
to be composed of a delegate from each
State in which there is no disputed dele1
cation, to be chosen by the delegations,
be appointed, whose duty it shall be to
report to the Convention the delegates
that present the proper credentials, and
are entitled to take their seats in this
body. Adopted.
The several delegations Their gave in
the following names for the committee on
Credentials
Maine, Benjamin Virgins; New Hamshire.
job 81 George; Vermont, Bradley Barlow
Massachusetts,, James S Whitney; New Jer
seyJ G s Cannon; Pennsylvania, II d Wright;
Delaware, James A Bayard; Maryland, Ohio
Scott; Rhode Island. Henry A Burrill; Virgil
MIA, NJ r Garrett; Connecticut, Edward A
Phelps; North Carolina, r L Heap; Alabama,
William Aiken: California, J Lancaster Brent;
Mississippi, G Neal; Texas, Bryan; Louis
ana, T II Hatch: Ohio, James B Steedman;
Kentucky, John W Stevenson; Tennessee, Jas
II Thomas; Indiana, Samuel w Telford; Ar
kansas, Calvert Caldwell; Missouri, Albert W
Lamb; Georgia, James Gardiner; South Caro-
lima, Franklin J Moses; Illinois, Thomas L
Harris; Michigan, William Hale; Florida, Da
vid L Yulee; Iowa, Bernhart Hern; Wisconsin,
Paul Juno.
Mr.. Steednan, from Ohio, presented
an invitation from the Young Mems
Mercantile Library Association, tender
ing the use of their Hall and library to
the delegates of the Convention.
Mr.. McCook offered the following
resolution:
Resolved, That a committee Of one
from each State be selected BY the del.
egation, and whose duty it shall be to
select permanent officers of til, Conven.
ton. Adopted.
COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
Maine, ] @ Talbert; New Hampshire, II R
Rust; Vermont. Robert Harvey; Georgia, Al.
, fred II Holford; Massachusetts,, Isaac Davis
Alabama. John Forsyth; Rhode Island, A F
Gallup; Mississippi, E Barksdale; Connect
cut, II c Childs; New Jersey, Charles Bate
man.; Pennsylvania, JOHN L Dawson; Della
Ohio, CIV Dorsey; Kentucky, Ell Clark; Ten
nessee, ] K Walker; Maryland, JF Buchanan
Virginia, Paulus Powell; North Carolina, ia,
/ r Gordon. South Carolina Charles McBetb