Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-08-20

stee!e-w. r. Kinyan, F: ". Fiskanay
A. HAdiey.
Miller.
Tod-W. Sturgis.
| Toombs-G. D. Redfsid.
Wab.shaw--H. C. Simpson. s. 8. Burle.
son, G. e. SpotsWood and w. w. Wright.
Wadena--W. Crooks.
| Waseca--E, A. Rice and Alex. johnson
| Washington-Go!ds +. Curtis. R.bar,
Dyson, John Moore, H. F. Noyes and 8. i
| Murdoch.
W,nona--C. w. Cotton, Joshua Birye
A. w. Webster, w. II. Dill, II. Il. Johns
ton and :. Melville.
Wrisht--William Shellew and Edward
uawley.
The report Of the Committe was accept
! After number Of motions had beer
made, proposition offered by Mr.. Var
/ r tea, that the delegates from the couatie;
enumerated in the call be admit, ed to seats
and that the Convention thus composed
shon;t' decide upru the claims Of other. ap
p'lcanis, was lost. The report Of the Com
mIttee, admitting al claimants to seats il
the Convention, was then adopted. +
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
The COMMITTEES ON Permanent .Orsaniza
ton reported be following permanent Off
GERS Of the Convention: f5t s3i
! President-Hon. Il. II. Johnston, of W,
mona county. .it..fss sss.l,
Vice PreSidesss--Ilon Martin M'Leod
|of Henne2'n, aud Hon. E. A. M,Nahon. o
Itllmsted. ssF ,-,-..rss- E ~ -
= Secretaries-J--J. Noah, of Ramey; Wm
Colvhl., IT., Of Goedhue and $. S. Burle
son. Of Wabashaw..
| Hon. II. II. johnson, the President wa
introduced to the Convention by the retiring
Chairman, Judge Eiger,on. On taking ht
1chiiE:S Mr.. y : thanked the Conversion sin.
cerety 10: the honor conferred in calling upor
him to preside =a~->a-s-
b 4 C5ihmst tee Oh Platform was then ap
pointed, when the Convention adjourned
until half pat nine on Thursday morning
as.fftf s. - SECOND DAY. -
The Convention assembled at 10 O'Clock
the President, lien. H. II. Johnston ia the
chair. a
Mr.. Caruthers moved that committee 81
one from each judicial district be appointed
tn report basis Of representation for future
conventions. Adopted and Messrs. Car.
uthers, Dean. Yates, Cowan, Brisbin and
Curtis, appointed. .6
Mr.. L'chren moved that committee Of
SIX he apponte1 to present the names o
lroper persons to constitute State Central
Committee. ~, G-fe
Mr Hall moved to amend that the Chair
appoint a State Conl1ni:tee t one from each
Senatorial iistrict. The motion was finally
amended, by authorizing the President 70
appoint State Committee oe six, on; from
each judicial district.
!. Mr.. Young moved the Convention pro-
ceed to the nomination of Governor 80
The motion was objected to, on ground
that the platform hal no, been reported, aud
no nomination should be made unit! such
report had been presented
Ihe motion to go into nomination OF
Governor was lost, ayes 122. NAYS Is. 7f5
Some considerable time elapsed before the
committee on resolutions made their appear
ance. This was consumed in various mo-
tons Of no public interest or importance. 70
THE PLATFORM. t=
MI IN Etten, from the committee on
platform, said he was prepared to report the
resolutions recommended. Considerable
discussion had arisen III commits ee, and as
he favored the utmost latitude and freedom
Of debate on the sshject, he would move
that the Convention resolve itself into !,
caucus Of the Democracy VI the State, for
the consideration of the report of the Co,u
mttec. $. G -f.ff y,f;Esf..-s,
The motion was adopted. and at IL a. NJ.
the Conven ion resolved Itself into a, eau Us,
excluding all persons but del gates and the
of the Denocra.ic press Of
the State. The caucus took up the plat
form, and discussed 1t for five hours, in an
amicable spiri The p,inci al bone II con
tentlun was the resolution on State policy.
which after several unsuccessful attempts
to amend it, was approved by the Caucus in
the manner it came from the committee.
At four O'clock the caucus, dissolved, the
doors were opened, and the Convention was
once more called to order
Dir. VAN ETTEN from the Committe on
he olutions pre>en ed the following plat
form: 81, -, 5sSS1st .t.s
PLATFrRM.
We, the Democracy of MINI sofa. bv our
Delegates in Convention ass embed, do af-
firm and resolve III s54iotY Ii tsiet nos
z First That the States of the Union are
md eqxsl: and thx gpoveis not ex
pressly delegated to the Federal .G,,yernment|
are rs..il.sA " The .pes,2le Of no States. :.
Seesnd-. That the people ofthe Terri
ries are justly eutileI 20 the unai,turbelI
regulation Of their local affairs, free from
Intervention BY Gong esq or by any State.
and sui. ject only o the Consti ui,n oof he
United Ii q - that, on attsin;nS the mum
Der 'ot lahahitants equal to- tie ratio lof req
reservations IN the lower house oi Congress,
ssch pepste have the right to organize 4
State Goveral4sat, aud demand admission
into the Federal Uui.n;, and that. in the
Of such 5 ate Government. the
People; BY the Will 81 The majority, fairiy1
expressed g the bal.ot -b6x,, have the tie ie.xiclu
siys right . iiaoppt any ccohsti,uti.,n which
d.'es' not conflict with . iitepubicsn form ID
GUvernufe {. aa5sSg rfasfz.:5 II III ar
g Third --srhs, Democracy OF MINNESOTA re
lterate, and fully endorse the s stionsl Dem,..
cratic Conventions al Cincinnati, in 1856,
AMI further decl re that the, Insulation. of
slavery under the Cons. tuition sof the
United States. Gun only become . per-
tlDent political question. within the State
or Territory where it is proposed tU,es ali
sis, retain, Or abolish it; ti,at the citizens u
such State or Territory, respectively: have
sxelaslv urissictiuu uf tue sstjs ta.s.er|
wlthss Us own limits; and itbat thsrefars,