The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-05-24

The question being on the auopuou Vi She
report IL was adopted unanimously, d, cd.
Mr.. Corwin of Ohio, moved to take the re.
port of the committee On Rules and t!rder of
Business from the table. Adopted. Mr.. Cor
win proceeded to read the rules:
LIST. That upon all subjects before the Con
vention, the States and Territories shall be
called in the following order:
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana,
Missouri, Michigan Illinois, Texas, Wiscon-
sin, Iowa, California, Minnesota, Oregon
observation-disclosures, Nebraska, District Of
Columbia.
On motion, the rule was adopted.
I'd. Four votes shall he cast by the dele
gates at large of each State, and each Con-
gressional District shall be entitled to two
votes, and the vote of each delegation shall be
reported by its chairman.
Mr.. Goodrich, of Minnesota moved to
amend that no delegation should cast great
err number of votes than there were delegates
in attendance. =,
Mr.. Sargent, of California. moved to further
amend by adding these words "provided that
this rule shall not conflict with any rule re-
ported by the Convention"
The rule as amended, was adopted.
3d.. The report of the Committee on Plat
form and Resolutions shall be acted upon be-
fore the Convention proceed to ballot for
candidates for President and Vice President.
4th. Three hundred and four votes being a
majority of the whole number of votes when
all the States in the Union are represented
in convention according to the ratio of repre-
sentation prescribed IN rule 2, shall be re-
auired to nominate the candidate of this con-
vention for the Office Of President and Vice
President. -..- .-
MINORITY REPORT.
d. That the majority of the whole number
of votes represented in this Convention, &C.
corIing to the ratio prescribed by the Indiana
rule, shall be required to nominate candidates
for President and Vice President
Kelly, of Pennsylvania, stated that the
Committee first asked themselves who ap-
pointed them to this Convention, and it was
answered the National Republican Convention
and the candidates were to be the candidates
of the National Republican party, and conse-
ouently the number of votes necessary to
nominate should be majority of the electo-
rial college; thereby forever shutting out the
charge of sectionalism. The call of the Con-
vention invited the people of the United States
and if any State is absent we count her as
present. They had been told that Kansas,
Nebraska and the District Of Columbus were
to be presented, IS they were constituted
States and had an ELECTORAL power behind,
and they, supposed that these men would be
admitted with the full ELECTORAL votes of
their States. He took the ground that Kan
sas was State, but the same ground could
not apply to Nebraska, and the Committee
saw that unless the rule was adopted it might
happen that the candidate would be nomina-
ted by less than a majority of the Convention.
Mr.. James. of New York, Chairman of the
Minority Committee, said that as there were
466 votes in the Convention, the majority
report is substantially twO-thirds vote, a
rule which has been adopted by the Demo
cratic party in ther conventions. No other
party ever adopted it, and that one only in
1874, when it became necessary that the slav-
cry minority should rule the majority.
Mr. Mann. of Pennsylvania, came from a
land where they acquiescsd in the will of the
majority, and he knew nowhere in Repub-
lican Convention where men were entitled to
vote by proxy.
The chair stated the motion. The roll was
called with the following result: Yeas, 1864,
nays, 944.
So the majority report was amended by the
substitution of the minority report.
The chair was informed that the Committee
on Resolutions and Platform were ready to
report.
Mr. Jessup; of Pennsylvania, then, reported
as follows:
THE PLATFORM.
Resolved, That we, the delegated represent
atiyes of the Republican electors of the United
States, in Convention assembled, in the dis
charge of the duty we owe to our constituents
and our country, unite in the following dec
laratione'
1st That the history of the nation during
the last four years, fully established the pro-
priety and necessity of the organization and
purpetuation Of the republican party; and
that the causes which called it into existence
are permanent in their nature, and now, more
than ever before, demand it's peaceful and
constitutional triumph.
g. That the maintenance of the principles
promulgated in the Declaration of lndepen l.
ence and embodied in the Federal Constitu-
ton is essential to the preservation of our
Republican institutions; and that the Federal
Constitution, the Rights of the States, aud tie
Union of the States must and shall be pre-
served.
8. That to the Union of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase in
population, its surprising development of ms
terial resources, its rapid augmentation OF
wealth, its happiness at home and its honor
for Disunion, come from whatever source they
may: and we congratulate the country, that
no Republican member Of Congress has utter
ed or countenanced the threats of Disuhion
go often made by Democratic members, with
out rebuke and with applause from their po-
litical associates; and we deneunce those
threats of Disunion, in case OF popular
overthrow of their ascendency, as denying
the vital principles Of a free government, and
as an avowal Of contemplated treason, which
il is the imperative duty of an indignant PEG
pie sternly to rebuke and forever silence:
4. That the maintenance inviolate of the
Rights of the States, and especially the right
of each State to order and control its own do.
nestle institutions according to its own judg-
ment exclusively, is essential to that balance
of powers on which the perfection and 'endu-
rance of our political fabric depends aud We
denounce the lawless invasion by armed force
Of the soil Of any State or Territory, no matter
under what pretext, as among the gravest Of
crimes.
s. That the present Democratic Admins
tration has far exceeded our worst apprehen-
sions, in its measurless subserviency to the
exactions of sectional interest, as especially
evineed in to desperate exertions to force the
infamous Lecompton Constitution upon the
protesting people of Kansas; in constituting
the personal relation between master and
servant to involve an unqualified property in
persons; in its attempted enforcement, every
where, on land and sea, through the interven
ton of Congress and # the Federal Courts
of the extreme pretentions ola purely local
interest; and in its general and unvaryine
abuse Of the power intrusted to it by con.
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