Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-05-23

D called, and the motion 10 rec0mmlt was
carried by a vote of275i to 1924.
r AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention re-assembled, with the
largest number Of spectators yet present
J every inch of room being filled.
The platform is further embellshed with
a large number Of framed portraits of emf
nent statesmen.
Under the portrait of Broderick, draped
in mourning, is the inscription: "They
have killed me because | was opposed TO
the extension of slavery, and to a corrupt
Administration"
At half.past 3 o'clock, the Convention
was called TO order.
Mr.. Benton, OF N. H., from the commit
tee on credentials again reported giving
Virginia % votes, Kentucky %. Oregon 5,
Maryland IL, and Texas 6.
In regard to the organization in Texas.
the committee reported that the delegates
were elected at mass meeting called by a
notice in all the papers favorable to Repub
lican principles. and are entitled to seats.
The report was adopted amidst sp
plause.
The vote in these States is cut down be-
low the double electoral vote.
The report of the committee on business
and rules, was then taken up, and the rule
giving delegate at large votes. and each
Congressional representative 2 votes, was
amended by providing that no more votes
shall be cast than there are delegates pres
ent-adopted.
On the fourth rule being read the minor
ity report to nominate by a majority of
the votes cast was moved as an amend
ment.
After debate op this point. vote by
States was demanded.
When Pennsylvania was called she asked
for time.
Mr.. Goodrich Of Mimi. asked that the
representatives of the Peoples party of Pa.
be excused from voting.
Cries of order and Kisses.
Mr.. Reeder Of Pennsylvania said that
delegates from Pennsylvania had found il
necessary to retire to consult. He under
stood some person TO say that the peoples
party of his State had no right to vote
He desired to know the name Of that gen.
tleman.
fCheers and cries of order.l
The vote was announced, and the minor
ity rule requiring only a majority Of the
votes cast to nominate, was adopted by
331 against I30
Loud applause
The rules as amended were thed adopted
Judge Jessup, of Pa. from the committee
on resolutions. reported that the history Of
the nation during the last four years has
fully established propriety and necessity
of the prosperity of the Republican party,
and that the causes which called it into
existence are permanent in their nature,
and now, more than ever, demand its
peaceful and constitutional triumph; that
the maintenance of the principles promul
gated in the Declaration of Independence,
and embodied in the Federal Constitution, /,
is essential to the preservation of our Re
publican Institutions, and that the Federal
Constitution, rights of the States, the
unien of the States must and shall be pre-
served; that to the union of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase in
population; its rapid augmentation Of
wealth, its happiness at home and its
honor abroad, and We hold in adherence
all schemes for disunion, come from what
ever source they may.
That the maintenance inviolate of the
rights of the States, and especially of each
State to order and control its own domestic
institutions according to its own judgment
is essential to that balance of power upon
, which the perfection and endurance of our
political fabric depends; and we denounce
the lawless invasion by armed force Of the
, soil of any State or Territory, no matter
, under what pretext, as one of the greatest
crimes ;that the present Administration has
, far exceeded our worst apprehensions in
its subserviency to the exactions of Sec
5 tional interest, as evinced in its desperate
exeriions to force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people ol
e Kansas.
3 And in its abuse Of the power entrusted
to it by confiding people; that the peo-
, pie view with alarm the reckless extrava
gahce which prevails in every department
: of the Federal Government, and that re-
: turn to rigid economy and accountability
is indispensable; that the new dogma, thai
e the Constitution of its own force, carrie;
l slavery into any or all the Territories, is q
0 d angerous political heresy, at variance
J. with the explicit provisions Of that instru
a ment. is revolutionary in its tendency and
Y subyersive of the peace and harmony of th'
: CO untry; that the normal condition of al
the Territory is that Of Freedom; that a,
our Republican fathers, when they had
4 abolished slavery in all our National Ter
ritory, ord dained that no person should b,
A deprivep Of life, liberty, or prperty, with
out due process OF law. 1t becomes ou
II duty by Legislation to maintain this provi
n sion of the Constitution against all at
v tempts to violate it; that Kansas should b.
: admitted under the Constitution recently
formed and adopted by her people aud &C
q cepted by the House Of Representatives
r. that we demand the passage, by Congress
. Of the Homestead measure, which has al
II ready passed the House, tnat the Rspubli
v can party is opposed TO any change in tn
q naturalization laws; in favor Of givini
e full protection to the rights Of all classes o
citizens; that Pacific Railroad is impera
Il lively demanded by the interests Of th
a whole country. and that the Federal Gov
n srnment ought to render efficient aid in it
X construction, and that as prelim mary there
TO, a daily Overland Mail shO uld be prompt
II ly established.
E The resolutions wind up with an invita-
y ton for CO operation Of all citizens howev
'e er differing in other questions TO agre