Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-06-19
Glddlngs ON the Chicago Con-
VenttOn and Its Nominees.

Glddlngs ON the Chicago Com
venttOn and Its Nominees.
The Republicans of Ashinbula county held
n meeting at jefferson, on Friday the 9Th Of
June, 1860, to ratiiy the nominations of Lax
coin and HAMIN JosmUA r. GmpNGs was
the speaker upon the occasion From his
speech, rs published in the Sentinel, we make
the following extracts, which we commend to
the perusal Of the voters of Montgomery Mr.
GIDDINos, our readers will remember, was
prominent member Of the Convention which
nominated LINCOLN, as also member of the
Convention which nominated Fremont
What he Shore" icith him to Chicago.
~ bore with me to that Convention. the
deep and settled conviction that your desires
and wishes were far deeper and stronger in
regard to the maintatn0nce Of the doctrines
enUncidfed at Phiiddeiphia than for the Sc
lection Of any particular individual to carry
them ont Your devotion to those doctrines
was known throughout the country | had
received letters from nearly every free State,
saying there was an effort TO be put forth in
favor of abandoning the great primal truths
enunciated ut Philadelphia, and declaring if
that effort should succeed, men who abandon
cd the Wing and Democratic parties when
they abandoned the support Of human rights,
would not follow the Republicans if they sece-
ded from the support Of those selfevident
truths which constituted the life-giying prin-
ciples Of our organization.
To those letters / uniformly replied, there
was no probable danger Of such a selEshiii-
fcdtioR Of oar pdrtN / had information that
even timid and faint-hearted members of Con
gress, who since the organization of our party
had eXerted whatever influence they posses
sed TO induce our friends TO bow down before
the insolence of the slave power had despair
ed of success in that direction, and with hated
breath declared that the popular rOice tcOuld
compel them to stand by The ragged issue " "
What he discorered after getting there
twas under these circumstances, that soon
after reaching Chicago, discovered there was
~ lsHstSmufio S6Ort making 10 stf1ke from oar
g,ldtform 'the self evident truths, on which
the Republican party had based its claims to
public favor / do nof think an individual
engaged in this effort to change our doctrines,
would have openly desired the existence Of
man inalienable rights, nor would he have
decided that they are derived from the Creator,
or human governments are instituted to Sc
cure their enjoyment.
What the Committee on Platform done.
II wish TO place record the historic fact,
that the committee appointed TO revise our
platform struck out ofit the assertion of man $
inalienable right to life, liberty and happin-
ess; struck ont of it the assertion that these
rights are deriped from the Creator, struck
out Off the assertion that the primary object
and nlterior design Of oar Federal Gore1w-
ment rdS to secure those rights To all persons
Within its ercirsire jurisdiction,
He feH The bIoic, and what he done 10 dre,t H.
u felt deeply the blow thus aimed (unin-
tentionally trust) at the very existence of
the party knew or thought knew, that
half a million of electors in the free States
would not for q moment remain with any par
" that thus ignored the essential principles
which lie al the basis of all free government
] hastily drew up an amendment embracing
those points, and presented it 10 the considera-
ton Of the Convention with but few words of
explanation Its adoption was opposed BY
our members upon the assumption that the
reference made to the principles of the De
claration Of Independence in the report of the
committee was a substantial reiteration of its
doctrines. Another member admitting the
doctrine was not embraced in the report CON
tended it was properly omitted To these ar
guments no reply was made by me, as deem
ed reply unnecessary, and ! presume others
neglected to answer those suggestions for the
same reason, and the Convention unexpected
ly voted down the amendment which had of.
fered II were useless TO speak of my own
emotions on that occasion. may, however
remark, that the vote gave me more mental
pain than any event had ever Witnessed In
Il saw, or thought | saw, that subservieney
10 the slave power which like the hemlock
l. L. 4 .
through all the veins and arteries Of our or
ganization, paralyzeits energies and soon pro-
duce death and decomposition
He ledres the CoageRtion.
81 felt that for me 10 remain in convention
for the purpose Of further deliberation or fur
ther action after that vote, would do great in
Justice to you, and would be Inconsistent with
my entire political life As was about to
leave the hall, friends objected, appearing to
think | was acting hastily | assured them
was aetuated by no impulse Of feeling, but
from the conviction Of my judgment, founded
upon the experience and observation of my
life"
Upon iohat terms he toiH rettyn
"As I was passing out met my old friend
Preston King, of New York / knew him
we'll we had stood together in many conflicts,
maintaining the doctrines now apparently dis
carded by the convention He had right to
advise, TO counsel me He desired me to re-
main, saying that the pote Icds fatal one
If not corrected that it had been taken with
out an appreciation of its effect that the en-.
tire delegation from New York coincided with
him in opinion. Indeed, one of the most dis
tnguished members from that State, showed
me an amendment which he had prepared in per-
feet accordance with that which | had offered
But after further reflection, inasmuch as the
record then showed, that the Contention by.
its pOte had rejected the proposition 10 insert
in uanltstakdble language an expression Of
Its depohon 10 human rights, / concluded L
was due TO you and to myself that the same
record should show that as your representa-
tive, could not longer act NTH them. | re.
tired, saying to my friends. that If the Con
venaioH should gefnSsl 70 The support Of THOSE
primal truths, should with great pleasure
rejoin and act with them 'ha