The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-06-05
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONyEN.
TION.

from Cincinnati under date of Monday evening:
Wisconsin,. and Connecticut have resolved to
support the New York hards and reject the softs.
Both delegations win have seats till the report Of
the Credentiai Committee is made. @s
Tom Benton Is here and pronounced this morn
ing in favor of Buchanan. He says that all the
trouble in the country has been made by Pierce
and Douglas, and that Buchanan Ia the only man
that settle the sectional difficulties. Betting
to-day 10 even on Buchanan against the field
The delegation from Massachusetts met this
morning and decided to cast their votes not as
unit. The Pierce men have majority Buchanan
viii have nine votes on the first ballot Pierce
will get the remainder.
The kentucky delegation are also divided be
tween Buchanan. Douglas and Pierce; they will
Lot vote q unit
The committee on credentials ono from each
State. are supposed to be favorable to the softs-
The New Workers, immediately after the adjourn
ment. retired from the Hall. and under
stand. are now having very animated and ex.
citing debate-both hards and softs seem to be in
good spirits
Missouri, in forcing their way into the Convention
win operate unfavorably to them. No one SEEM
ed to approve their course-they will be rejected.
They are acting under the advice Of Mr.. Benton,
who is now here.
A majority of the Convention are in favor of
adopting the plstform before they make nomina-
tion. This movement was suggested by the Bu-
ehanan men, rs it was thought that it would oper-
ate favorably for him.
The Douglas men decided this morning not to
withdraw him from the field. They are going to
stand by him to the last
Col. Orr, who seemed to be the unanimous
choice Of the Convention for Chairman has not yet
arrived-therefore, they will select new man.
The Buchanan men to-day are very sanguine of
success, while Douglas and Pierce men say they
are gaining on "nld Buck" every hour
1t is thought that the adoption of the platform
will give rise to considerable debate The Buchan-
an men will strenuously oppose debate
list OF some fifteen hotels is given, at which
the arrivals from Saturday morning to Sunday
morning ranged from so to 327 Among the stran.
gers were Col Benton, of Mo, Hon. John Apple
don, Col Parker H. French, the rejected Minister
from Nicaragua, Col. Ben Mccullough, the Texan
hero, MIR. Brooks, of South Carolina and various
Others, including Capt Rynders and Thos Hyer
The Cincinnati Columbian says:
"The Burnet House is the grand focus of Demo.
cratic sleeping. eating and caucussing--we were
going to say drinking, but, looking into the sa-
loon in the afternoon, opinion of the delegation
was much Heightened by finding it almost deserted.
Here are posted up notices of the head quarters
of the different States, some in rooms in the house,
and some at locations in other hotels States free
and slave, Western and Northern, Southern and
Eastern, are jumbled up on complicated anti
principles, within wonderfully short
space A gentleman pokes his nose out of Illi-
nois' and cracks joke with another gentleman in
-
fers to liquor with delegate in South Carolina
New York has two apartments-one, on the ground
floor bears notice to the effect that the Hards'
can be found at 81, up stairs"
The President of the Convention, John Ward,
of Ga is said 10 be Buchanan man. The follow
ing is list of Vice Presidents:
j Smith, Me- L Woodbury., H. j Kidder, Vt;
N FL Childs, Mass; w Gardiner, RI; j G Pratt,
Conn; John l. Hutchinson, Pa John l. Darcy, N
II H.. nol. r
Tenn; r X Banks, Va; B Brown, N c; B Wilson,
S G; J w Lewis, Ca X Chapman, Ala; Bal
four, Miss; Alex Morton, La; w Beiden, Ohio;
N Crawford, Mich; Levi Y Tyler, KY; w Roch-
ell, Ind; joel Mattison, I'll; j Roane, Ark; D
ID Berry, Mo; S Mallory, Fla; Matt Ward, Tex
as; FL L Walling, Iowa; Nelson Dewey, Wis; Ii
Hill, Cal; and thirty-on secretaries. fstt
The announcement of the Presidents name was
received with applause. The committee also recon.
mended the adoption of the rules of the last Ma.
tional Convention for the government of the pre-.
sent Convention. :, t }s
On motion of Mr.. Rockhill, the report was unan-
imously adopted.
MIR. John t. Dawson then conducted the Presi-
dent to the chair.
On taking the chair Gen. WARD said The sum
mons to preside over the deliberations of the
Convention was as unexpected as the honor was
undeserved. The distinguished gentleman who
Yesterday presided-the connecting link between
the past and the present-had carried them back
to the period when the Democratic party was ac-
to go forth to battle with great, noble,
gallant party. That party. with the issues that
divided us, has passed away The great leaders
of that party have one by one stolen away to
their silent resting place, filed with years and
honors and mourned by their political friends; tor
How sleep the brave who sink to rest,
With all their country's honors blest"
Those of that noble band who still survive are
with only to take part in our deliberations and
go forth with to battle for the Constitution and
the Union. IL
But this great party passed away. We find
ourselves surrounded by dangers before unknown,
and our land from end to end convulsed with fac
tions On one side are men who will admit foreign
born citizens among us only on the condition of
scrfdom. They would dictate laws that power
should be held only by those who bow before the
same shrineias themselves; they hold that they
only are fit for power who approach the throne
of grace after the fashion they themselves pre-
scribe
On the other sideis faction only more nu-
merous than the first--a faction with liberty on
their tongues, but with treason fostering at their
hearts; who profess love for the Union only that
they may bury in the ruins of the Union the gori-
GUS memories of the past and hopes of the future.
This faction is formidable only in case of the sue
cess of its attempts TO unite against the Demo.
cratic party with the first.
The National Democratic party have met to-day
to appoint standard bearers carry on war against
these factions Let us then come together like
band of brothers. to lay on the altar of patriotism
and of the Union willing sacrifice of personal pre-
ferences and sectional feeling, and, above ALL OF
private dissensions. Let our deliberations and
actions be sanctioned by higher and purer motives
LIE, our preferences for persons be lost in desire
to protect and save the Constitution of the coun.
try. With an abiding confidence that the kind
nesss which summoned me to this place will bear
with me in the performance of its duty, and that
the kndness will pardon any errors may unin.
tentionally commit, l enter upon the discharge OF
the trust. 4 80
A motion made to admit the delegates from the
District Of Columbia to the floor, was debated
Mr. Bander of Indiana, protested against ad'
hitting more than two delegates from the District
He said the object In taking the Convention from
Baltimore was to get clear of Congressional iniu.
enee and he was opposed to admitting delegates
from the District to the galleries without limit.
Mr.. Petit, of Indiana, was also opposed to all
motions to ill the galleries even with ladies' but
would certainly prefer to see them filed with be-
ings wearing pantaloons than those with petit
coats Es1
The Vice President declared the motion to be to
lay the motion on the table
: "A call by States was demanded and resulted
yeas l59 nays 81. So the motion prevailed
Al long debate on the question of tho admission
of outsiders ensned, and everalresolutions having
that object in view, were tabled amidst the direst
confusion
1On motion, the Committee Of Arrangements was
authorised to appoint sergeantatarms and two
assistants ass 81
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