The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-05-26

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Governor Cleveland. zof Conn.,. was not
satisfied with the remarks of Mr.. Blair,
and regarded this whole movement as per-
ilous. Maryland was entitled to afulI vote.
Without the aid of Henry Winter Davis,
the Republicans would have had no oppor-
tunity to investigate the frauds of the De-
mocracy. (Cheers.
The various motions to re-eommit were
lost by a large vote. s
On motion, of Mr.. Lowrey, the entire
report was then re- comnitted-2759 against
2n4.
AFrERNooN.-Th Convention assembled
with the largest number of spectators vet
present; every inch of room being filled.
The platform is further embellished with
large number of framed portraits of emil
nent statesmen. Under the portrait of
Broderick, draped in mourning, is the in
scription, "They have killed me because I
was opposed to slavery extension and
corrupt Administration
The Committee on Credentials again re-
ported. giving Virginia 93 votes, Kentucky
23, Oregon 5, Maryland 10, and Texas 6.
The report was adopted. The vote. in
these States is cot down below the full
double electoral vote. @
The report of the Committee on Business
Rules was then taken up, and the rule Civ
ing delegates at large four votes, and each
Congressional representative two votes, was
amended by providing that no more votes
shall be cast than there are delegates pres
ent, and adopted.
On the fourth rule being read, the minor
ity report to nominate by a majority of the
votes cast, was moved as an amendment.
After debate on this point, vote by States
was demanded. -sz ssa
! The vote was announced, and the minor
ity rule requiring only majority of the
votes cast to nominate, was adopted by 331
against 131. Loud applause.
The rules, as amended, were then adopted
Judge Jessup, of Pa, from the Commit
tee on Resolutions. reported that the histo
ry of the nation, during the last four years,
has fully established the propriety and ne
cessity of the preservation of the Republi-
can party, and that the causes which called
it into existence are permanent in their ma
ture, 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 I'M
ion of the States must and shall be preserv-
ed. That to the union of the States, this
nation owes its unprecedented increase in
population Its rapid augmentation of wealth
its prosperity at home and its honor
abroad. That we hold in adherence all
schemes for disuniou, come from whatever
source they may-that the maintenance of
the right of the States, and especially of
each State, to order and control its own do
mestic institutions, according to its own
Judgment, is essential to that balance of
power upon which the perfection and endu-
rance of our political fabric depends, and
we denounce the lawless invasion by an
armed force of the soil of any Territory,
no matter under what pretext, as one of the
greatest crimes. That the present Admin
istration has far exceeded our worst appre-
tensions in its subserviency to the exactions
OF sectional interest as evinced in its des-
perate exertion 10 force the iofan1oaSs.z-~
compton Constitution upon the protesting
people of Kansas, and in its abuse of the
power entrusted to it by confiding people:
That the people view with alarm the reck-
less extravaganza which pervades every de-
partment of the Federal Government, and
that relation to rigid economy and accoun-
liability is indispensable That the new
dogma, that the Constitution of its own
force carries slavery into the Territories, is
a dangerous political heresy at variance
with the explicit provisions of that instru-
ment, is revolutionary in its tendency, and
subversive of the peace and harmony of
the country. That the normal condition of
all the territory is that of freedom; that as
our Republican fathers, when they abolished
slavery in all our national territory, ordain-
ed that no person should. be deprived of
life, liberty or property without due pro-
cess of law, it becomes our duty by legis-
lation TO maintain this provision of the Con-
stitution against all attempts to violate it.
That Kansas should be admitted under the
Constitution recently formed and adopted
by her people and accepted by the House of
Representatives. That we demand the pass
age by Congress of the Homestead measure
which has already passed the House of
Representatives. That the Republican par
ty is opposed to any change in the natural
ization, and in favor Of giving full protec-
ton to the rights of all classes of cities.
That Pacific railroad is imperatiyely de-
manded by the interests of the whole coun-
try, and that the Federal Government ought
to render efficient aid in its construction,
and that as preliminary thereto, a daily over
land mail should be promptly established.
Curtiss, of N Y, moved to amend the
platform by adding the prelude to the De-
claration of Independence. Said this was
the second National Convention of the Re-
publieans, and aaked whether the party was
prepared to vote down words of the Declar-
alton of Independence.
After some discussion, the amendment
was adopted. and the resolution passed.
A scene of the widest excitement fol-
lowed !; the immense multitude rising and
giving a round of applause-Io , DOC voices
swelling into a deafening roar that for sew
eral minutes rendered every attempt TO re-
store order impracticable. .sI
Mr. Goodrich moved to go into ballot
for President. Much confusion and cries
of "ballot, ballot y amidst which motion
TO adjourn till 10 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing was carried. egassz-.