Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-08-18
Proceedings of the Democratic
State Committee.


The Democratic State Committee met
at Cresson, ngreeably to the call of the
Chairman August 6, 1860, and was call
cd to order by the Hon. VIM. II. Welsh.
The roll was called, when the following
members answered to their names, viz;
Robt. Anderson, Stephen D. Anderson,
j. Henry A,kin, Vincent l.. Bradford,
Hugh Barr, James p. Barr, W. II. Blair,
William d. Boas, John b. Bratton, Reu.
ben II. Brown, II. B. Burnham, Charles
w. Carrgan, John X. Chadwick. +. b.
Chase, James G. Clark, John W. Clark,
John Cummings, Alfred Day, John Davis
Henry l.. Dffenbach, G. NJ. Donovan,
Philip Dougherty, Henry Dunlap, William
II. Eckcls, Peter Ent, j, Alexander Full
ton, j. Lawrence Getz, Joseph Glenn,
Thompson Graham, II. A. Guernsey,
John Hamilton, Jr., j. II. Hobart, Chas.
II. Hunter f. NJ. Hutchinson, s. G. Hyde
Joseph S. Hyde, George w. Irwin, Robt
j. johnson, Reuben Keller, James W.
Kerr, j. Monroe Kreiter, George Lauer,
Isaac Leccb, Fl. r. Linderman, L. 2.
Charles d. Manly. Robert McCay, Thom-
as c. Mcdowell, John =. McFadden, Pc
ter Mcintyre. John +. Means, b. +. My
ers, o. II Meyers, Howard l.. Miller,
George w. Miller, William II. Miller, h.
c. Mitchell, Robert f. Monaghan, r.
Bruce Petrikcn, Frederick s. Pytcr, D. r
Randall, Bernard Reilly, Stokes i. Robert
David Solomon, j. b. SAMSON, Henry j.
Stable, Israel Test, Joseph NJ Thompson
VIM. G. Ward, Nelson Weiser, Jackson
Woodward, VIM H. Welsh, Chairman.
The Chairman then laid before the Com
mittee the replies Of the Electors to the
resolution adopted on the I'd ofJuy
Mr.. Fulton of Armstrong, offered the
following resolution, which, after conside-
ration and discussion, was adopted, as fol
lows, to wit -
ReSriuei, That the Democratic Electo
raj Ticket be headed with the name of
Stephen A. Douglas, or John G. Brcckin
ridge, as an Elector at Large, and in the
event of the success of said ticket, if the
greater number of votes shall have been
cast for Stephen A. Douglas, then the vote
of the Electoral College of the State shall
be cast for Stephen a. Douglas and Her
schell V. johnson for President and Vice
President, but if for John. y. Breck-
inridge then for John G. Brcckinrdg &c
and Jos. Lane for the same offices. 1T
the Vote OF Pennsylvania cannot elect the
candidates for whom the majority OF the
| votes are cast, and it can elect any man
, running for the Office of President of the
United States, claiming to be a Democrat
then the vote of the Electoral College shall
be cast for that candidate. If it will not
elect either of the Democrats for whom it
/ is cast, or any of the Democrats who are
voted for in the States then the vote shall
be cast for the candidate who has the Major.
ity of the votes of tue State and that the
Chairman of this Committee be instructed
to obtain from the gentleman on the Dem.
ocratic Electoral ticket of this State their
sevcIal and distinct pledges OF acquicscence
in the foregoing resolution, and to report
the result Of his action in the premise al
e the next meeting of the Commlttee,to be
held on the day of
A division of the question on the resolu
ton was demanded, the first part to in
!, clude all after the word ''resolved," to ant
I including the word "offices" The secont
part to include all after the word "otfices'
10 the word "candidatc." The third par
to include all after the word candi
dlte" to theend of thcr solution. Th,
9 first division was agreed to by yeas 40
u nays 20. The second division was agrcet
t to-yeas 45, nlys 27.
Third division was agreed to.
On motion of Messrs Lecch and John
son, it was
, R@oiced, That the Chairman of thu
: Committee be authorized to publish al
!, address to the Democracy of the State a
as early a day as practicable
On motion Of Mcssrs, kreiter and Da
:. Wis, the proceedings of the Committee wcr,
ordered to be published in the Democrats
d papers of the State.
On motion the Committee adjourned t
meet at the call of the Chairman
WILLIAM H. WELSH, Chairman.
H. B. BURNHAM,
e. w. CARRIGAN,
WIN. II. MILLER, cu.
: f. NJ. HUTCHINSON, 0O''e'"i'''
S H. r. LINDEaMAN,
! j. LAwR' nee GETZ,
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