Daily national Democrat., 1860-08-10
The Secession nt Rnltimore.

! states some iacts Regarding lhe Secession
Convention at Baltimore which ought to be
well considered by the people.
The sole pretext which the Secessionists
had for leaving the Baltimore Convention,
was the action Of that body in regard to the
delegations from Louisiana and Alabama
Anti Douglas delegates had been admitted
from other States, sometimes on their merits.
and olteEer on account of a disposition to
be extremely liberal on the part Of the act
ing majority in the Convention. Similar
questions had been decided at Charleston
There were eontesting delegations from New
York and Illinois, and the contest was deci-
ded by the Convention, without one word of
protest from the Seceders But, as soon as
it came to deciding in the case of Louisiana
and Alabama, by an exercise of precisely the
same authority as in all the other cases, why.
then it was an Outrage" which the Seceders
couldn't bear Very sincere individuals !
TO secede upon such pretext as this was to
show to the whole world that there was a
pre-determination to bolt the Convepdon for
certain purposes, in any event, With or with
out excuse.
After all secessiors, the Convention yet
retained 424 delegates, or 202 electoral votes
ten more than two thirds of the whole elec
toral vote of the Union. Some of these dele
gates refraned from voting. although recog
nizing the legitimacy of the Convention
Others, although authorized to cast the full
vote for their State, only cast such part of
the vote as they Individually could cast.
The ballot, after the boiling delegates had
lett, gave Donglas 1919 votes by States, lover
two thirds, by far of the delegates) Mr..
Breckenridge l0t, Mr.. Guthrie H.
1t being proposed to make the vote unani-
nous, and to declare Stephen A Douglas the
noniuee of two-thirds of all the electoral
votes of the States, the Chairman distinctly
requested any delegate who was not in favor
of its being thus declared, to express his dis
sent No dissenting voice was heard, and
the vote was made unanimous, thus giving
2l2 votes to Mr. Douglas, and nominating
him by two-thirds Of the electoral votes of
the Union.
The Seceders Convention was an ''assem-
blage Of odds and ends" without shadow of
authority from any State in the Union. Not
a solitary delegate was elected to attend such
a body. The whole number of votes cast in
that Convention was lO5, and this is a larger
number than the number of delegates re-
ported by the Committee on Credentials.
Thirteen States, to wit: Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jer-
sey, Delaware, South Carolina, Ohio, Indi-
ana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa,
had not one solitary delegate in the ConYen-
ton. Would you call a nomination made by !
such body national nomination? Hardly. |
Why, even the Chicago Convention had
better representation of States than this |
Among the Virginia delegates the vote Of
Mr.. Glass was counted, when he did not
act with the Seceders, although he retired
rom the Convention. &c eorgia was repre-
rented 6y thirty delegates. although that
state bad but ten votes: California, by ma
Jority or proxies, anu Drurymnd Dy a bare
majority of the delegation. Twelve indi-
viduals appear to have been present from
Pennsylvania, but only four votes were cast,
which shows that, in fact, there were but
eight seeeders in that delegation. North |
Carolina and Tennessee were represented by |
a majority of their respective delegations;
" Rrn l. y
gave him only four and a half votes of the |
twelve to which that State is entitled in the !
National Convention. Florida was repre-
sentel, and her three votes cast, by dele
CATION which was accredited only to the Sc
ceders' Convention at Richmond and which, |
by letter addressed to the regular Conven-
tion at Baltimore, refused to ask admission.
or to recognize that body in any way. Louis
lana and Alabama each appeared by dele
cations, which had been refused, as
we have already shown, admission to
the National Convention of the Democ-
racy--the latter having twenty-eight
delegates to cast nine votes Missouri, eni-
tied to nine votes, was represented by sin
gle vote. And yet a nomination, made by
fragments of delegations from some States.
pretended delegations from other States-as
Alabama, Florida and Louisiana, and by
not single delegate from thirteen States, is
national Thus California, with majority
OF proxies, Georgia, Mississippi, Oregon and
Texas, entitled iD all to twenty eight votes,
are the only States it can be alleged, with
shadow of evidence, or truth were in the
Seceders' Convention with a full or an un-
tainted delegation, The apparent vote by
which Breckenridge and Lane were nomina
ted Is los, from which. however, conceding
that which we do not concede-that all the !
votes which they received were regular
must be deducted, for reasons which we shall |
give: two votes from New York, one half of
one vote from Vermont, one and half votes
from North Carolina, one and a half votes
from Arkansas, and one half Of one vote from
Minnesota, in all six votes, which makes the
vote in the Seceder's Convention ninety nine.
or t'oo less than one third of the whole NUN
Der in the National Convention"
Augustus Schell and Mr. Bartlett affected
to represent New York. They were mem
bers ofthe regular delegation in the National
Convention, and bound by the following reso-
luton as passed by the New York State
Convention
REsoLvED, That the delegation to the Demo.
'ratc National Convention, to be appointed, is |
hereby instructed tn pttta hat
lnlt aud act aud vote as a unit, in accordance
with the will Of a maiDritY of the memhers thern |