Gazette and sentinel., 1860-09-01

Virginia apDearcs 10 nave given 'oec' WI
Mr.. Douglas, when only five of her delegates,
entitled to 2! votes, remained in the conven-
ton.
North Carolina had but one delegate, entitled
to cast one-half a vote in the Convention, yet
he is recorded as having cast one vote.
Tennessee, with only five delegates IN the
Convention, is put down as 8 instead of q.
Ne,o York is put down at 35 votes, when it
is well known that two of her delegates with
drew from the Convention, and joined the
other Convention.
These make a total of IL votes, which added
TO the Is bogus delegates from Alabama, the
II bogus delegates from Louisiana, and the 3
bogus delegates from Arkansas, counting l63
votes, make u total of % votes to be subetract-
ed from the 1919, leaving the vote of Mr..
Douglas at only l54!
FORCED VOTES.
But even this was q forced vote-forced
by a violation of the usages Of the Demo-
cratic party, by which the votes of 81 dele
gates from New York, in addition to the two
above alluded to, II from Ohio, and 9 from In
diana, making a total of so delegates entitled to
% votes, hostile to the nomination of Mr.. Doug
las, were voted for him. Subtract these from
l54, and it leaves l2S, as the actual strength
of Mr.. Douglas in the Convention!
Had the rules and nsages of former conven-
tons, whereby the vote of each State was to
be determined by the majority of the dele
gates, been followed, Mr.. Douglas would have
gained | vote in Maine, p votes in Connect
cut, and lost 10 in Massachusetts, % in New
Jersey. 10 in Pennsylvania, q in Maryland,
3 in Virginia, l in North Carolina, II in Ar
kansas, Al in Missouri, 8 in Tennessee, 3 in
Kentucky, making a net loss of S7k to which
ada the votes of Alabama 9, and Louisiana 8,
--..-z-.l l..lo l.-,a lal.rata= xrhn v-pttlA
not then have gained admission into the con-
~vention, and we have 521 votes to be deducted
from 1914 leaving l29 as the true vote under
the rule of former conventions, really cast for
Mr.. Douglas in the convention.
CONVENTION AT THE MARYLAND INSTITUTE.
1864 votes were cast for President, to which
must be added vote from Minnesota, 3 votes
from Delaware, and 8 from South Carolina,
who took no part in the nomination of Mr..
Douglas, and who before either convention
adjourned endorsed the action of the Mary
land Institute Convention, making in all III
votes.
This number has been since largely increased
by the endorsement of delegates after the ad-
iournment of the conventions, who took no
part in the proceedings of either. or who, hsv-
ing taken part in the Douglas Convention,
have since repudiated its action.
Thus neither Convention has presented q
canuiusVe onan,nNai n IWh;Sh .ho.a'
80 an,i,Iad 90 ar %, 81 ,ha namoo-
oo = . ~ nmhaJ;mon pf ;,s nr;nn;,Ios and
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oSuS
Phi oo nm have ran-r.5
charge that we are the disunion party, and
- ,ha rI.,form. of he rp onvont;ons and
make sona ;nouiriss into the antaeedents Of
"a. oonS;da,.. IA srnnor,ors
PLATFORMS OF THE TWO CONVENTIONS IN RE
GARD TO sLAvEKY
The platform of the MARYLAND Institute
Convention, endorsed at Charleston by seven.
teen sovereign States, is as follows:
R,,,r.d Tbs, the eovarnmen,o of. rerri,orv oryanizet
by an fct of Conge-l , provisional ara temporary, tlc
during I; existence Ell c, zens o. the = ed states baye al
withou. Iseir rights, e,aer Of person or property. peinSS
destroyed or impaired 10y Congressional or Territorial
legislation. - . -
in all ia depar,mests to project. when n ceSsary. n,
rights Of persons and properly in the Territories, ant
wherever else IT'S rs constitutional Insult ao.,,m authority extends;
ADEQUATE eoo,atioa form 4 state Const,udoS' he right, o
sovereignty commence, and being contaminated by an ad
ms aon mint INTO 81 1e s Union, they stand s. !. on an sSual footing wnl
ought 10 be admitted into the Federal TIion. whether n
OOssttutiOn prOGiSits or recognizes the insuiu,ion .
slavery
That Of the Front Street Theatre Conven
ption. is Us follows:
Resolved, That we, the Democracy of tn
Union in convention assembled, hereby declar'
our affirmation 81 the resolutions upanimousl,
adopted and declared as q platform of princi
piles by the Democratic Convention at Cincin
natl, In the year 1896, believing that Demo
cratic principles are interchangeable in thei
meter
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