The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-06-26

afternoon, and that the balloting for candidates
for President and Vice President be postponed
until Thursday morning.
The resolution was received with marks of
approval and disapprobation, in the midst of
which Judge Hosdly, of Cincinnati, got the
floor. He said:
My friends here, on my right, are ready to 90,
not into an informal ballot, but into a formal
ballot. Cheers. Sir, tell you the moment
that passes, the harmony of the meeting is dis
turbed, cheers; but tell you that the sooner
that this ballot is taken, the better it is for the
peace of those present. Cheers. The course
which has been taken by some delegations
honestly, doubtless, but unadvisedly-has pro-
duced a feeling deep and earnest, and which,
fear, will produce fatal results. No, no, no. |
No-I'n take that back. [Cheers But
mean to say that they will cause our fires to
burn coldly, instead of ardently and warmly,
as they otherwise would. A voice: Take that
back, too. l move to amend, by striking out
the word " informal"
DR.. Elder, of Pennsylvania, next addressed
the meeting. He said:
Mr.. President, / have stood in storms be-
fore until dripped with its spray and its waves,
and was not overwhelmed. Cheers i have
stood by the side of John Van Buren, laugh
ter in the Chinese Museum, amid dssensions,
and we overpowered them. This is not hsrmo-
ny; it is the effervescence of mighty spirit,
just crystalliziDg into a glorious form. Pro-
longed cheers. If there is a man here now
who would mar the movement in the end, In the
words of Mantalini / would say, Z" He is so
demned, that he can't be any demnder." Loud
laughter and cheers. This Convention, by
its terms and its etymology, means a coming
together We come together for a conference.
But the form in which the conference has been
suggested, does not exactly suit me. 1t is not
open enough. | would like to have a confer
ence face to face with each man. 1 confess
that l do not know the facts with sufficient
ciearness to determine my conduct. We want
each State to take its sister State into the en-
brace OF a bed-fellow conference. Laughter.
We want TO extract all the love stories from
each others bosom. Mr.. Greeley suggested
yesterday that we should have an open Con-
vention and Conference, in which each State
should speak for itself, avoiding defamation
and effects, and with the request that there
should be no appreciation or disapprobation,
but that we sit as a court and jury, each men,
Der to judge of the necessities and probabilities.
Cheers. We have host of men in the Key
stone State who will unbosom themselves to
you as if you were their father confessors.
IeHnS1lFdiild Is calleu the hey-
stone State, L believe, because it carries the
keys, cheers, not because she is the centre of
the arch. | would press this substitute merely
to get an expression of public sentiment upon
this point. | hope that each member who de-
sires may have the courtesy extended them,
they being as brief as possible, and avoiding
that which cannot avoid on account of rush
of blood, and my being little oratorical.
Laughter. l know it is misfortune, but no
man can excuse it better than you, Mr.. Presi-
dent. Renewed laughter. But in the words
of the Declaration of Independence, let US swear
by our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred hon.
ors, that we will tell the truth to day. Cheers.
Mr.. Frey, of Ohio, next made few remarks.
Several members next attempted to secure
the floor, in the midst of which Judge Spalding,
of Ohio, introduced Charles Francis Adams, of
Mass. Mr.. Adams was received with loud cheers,
and he addressed the Convention as follows:
l have listened Mr.. President, to this discus
sion with great deal of apprehension and pain.
came here with the earnest desire to contribute
my mite to the harmonious action of this Con-
ventlon. did suppose that gentlemen, such as
l see here, would endeavor as far as possible to
remember that the enemy is listening, and that
We have got to exercise great deal of forbear-
ance to get along and arrive at any result.
Cheers. | have listened to the motions that
have been made, with much attention, and with
desire TO do everything in my power that
should be conciliatory to the gentlemen who
wish anything Of the Convention. But, Mr..
President, we have something to do, and we did
not expect, any of US, that we would be great
while doing it. We have been circulating here
since we arrived, and if we do not now know
each others opinions, do not know when we
shall. Cheers. You are set of practical men,
vvhn know ybat hu - nd L hoxu
difficult it is at best to carry on this Convention
without great deal of disorder, and you know
very well that the delegations cannot come up
here and tell their different stories and impress
siOns without producing, not more harmony, but
great deal more discord. Let all this talking
be done outside but in the Convention let us
act Cheers. | do not know how others may
think, but | think that we are more likely to
keep in harmony with our constituents, the
sooner rather than the later we separate.
Cheers. Men who come fresh from the people,
they keep In their minds what the people want.
Cheers. But when they come here, or to
Washington-tor the application is good there
they are subjected to process of manipulation
which carries them further from the popular
sentiment, than nearer to it. am now prepared
to express my own choice, and if that choice is
not the choice of the Convention, am ready,
at the moment that choice is expressed, to con-
cur in 1T with heart as earnest as any man
here. Prolonged cheers.
MIR. Root of Ohio, succeeded in obtaining the
floor. He said be was as anxious as any man
here to finish up what they had come for, in
order to go home. Ifyou can give us any light,
he said, we will receive it; but of all the light
that has come here, that from Washington is
the most suspicious. Laughter. Do you sup
pose 1t would be fair to put backwOodsman
against you in making speeches? No, sir; we
we will 90 in where we can have fair game,
and that is in voting. That, gentlemen, is all
l have to say. Loud and prolonged cheers.
Ex-Gov Ritner, of Pennsylvania, said that
while he believed that Pennsylvania stood erect,
thank God she was now represented in Congress
by men who will not basely bow the knee to the
dark spirit of Slavery. Loud cheers He
believed that there would be nothing lost by an
adjournment to this afternoon, when he hoped
they would then be united.
motion to adjourn was then put and lost.
ExGov. Patterson, of New York, said rise
here to say to you that there is a man, alluded
to yesterday, whose nomination and whose elec-
ton would be more acceptable to the people l
represent than any other living man. allude
to William 81. Seward. Protracted cheers Sir,
IN the intercourse we of the State of New York
nave had, the question came up, what name
should be presented to this Convention as the
favorite of the State? And with one accord,
with single solitary exception, W. III. Seward
was declared to be the choice of the delegation.
Sir, nothing would give me, and the State of
New York, greater pleasure than to do Justice
to her honored son. He has done good and
great service to his State while he was the Elk.
ecutive. Cheers. In lS49 he was the candi-
date of his political party for Senator of the
United States, and he received in the caucus
that nominated him SO out of the 100 votes
given, and was declared to be the nominee of