Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-05-03

Mr.. johnson replied that Maryland had nev.
er countenanced and encouraged resistance Il
| the Fugitive Slave Law, and had maintained
national position in the Union. - M
| Mr.. Butler would say that Massachusetts, had
never been under a rule that prevented a mar
| from voting his sentiments for fear of the blnd
geon or the bullet. GLong and continued ap.
| plause.
Mr. johnson desired to reply, but Mr.. But
Ter would not yield, saying, that he did moi
| blame the Democratic party for this condition O
affairs. He knew they did all they could tt
| resist it.
Mr.. Butler concluded with an appeal to lei
well enough alone, and the Convention took .
recess until o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention -eassembled at clock this
P NJ.
Mr.. Bayard of Del, presented another series
Of resolutions, as follows
The first afirms the Cincinnati platform.
| The second declares that territorial govern
ments are provisional and temporary, and that
during their existence all citizens of the United
States have an equal right to settle in the Ter
| ritories without the rights of either person OF
property being destroyed or impaired by Con-
gressional or Territorial Legislation.
The third declares that it is the duty of the
Government TO protect the rights of persons and
property on the high seas, in the Territories, OF
| wherever its constitutional authority extends.
The fourth declares that when the settlers in
a Territory have adequate population to form a
State Constitution. the right OF sovereignty be-
| ing consumated, by their admission into the
| Union, they stand upon an equal footing with
the citizens of other States, and that State
| thus organized is to be admitted into the Union
slavery or no slavery.
| MIR. Barksdale, of Miss, proceeded with yio-
lent, but eloquent Southern speech. He de-
clared that when the Democratic party dies the
Constitution will die with it. That if the par.
| ty failed in its duty now it will be more deal
than if defeated at the polls.
| Gov. King, of No., addressed the Convention
in favor of harmony and Cancellation. Dele.
gates came here instructed TO the best thai
could be done for the Democratic party. The
majority report has sting of death in it, and he
would vote for the minority report as a substi.
tute. Ali the people want is Cincinnati plat
form without any tail to it. He spoke Of the
Black Republicans as about as sharp as men
usually get, and said they would ridicule theil
majority platform as Janus-faced and contradic-
tory. So far as Missouri is concerned. they can
carry it, even clogged with this deadly sting, a:
| they always 90 it blind for the Democratic
nominee; burhe could plainly see that his Dor.
der neigbbors would be completely destroyed
| by its venom.
| Mr.. King alluded in the course vf his argu.
ments to the distinguished statesman of Illinois
and each time was greeted with deafenlng ap
plause. The Northern Democracy have be.r
stricken down because it stood by the South
and now the taunt is thrown at them that they
cannot promise their electoral vote to the nom
inee with any certainty. This majority Plat.
form would nominate Seward and make hin
President. If a few Southern States abandon
| this Convention, its nominee will gain State
| for State from the North for their nominee
They would regret that they should leave
but they must stand by the ship TO the last
The Democrats would feel that they were whip
ped before the battle, if you force this Platform
upon them.
| Mr.. Yaney, of Ala, took the floor amidst
immense applause and cheering, and proceeded
to reply to Mr.. King, styling his speech as re-
| markable and unnatural, as coming from a
| Southern man. He pronounced the charge that
| there was any disunionists in the Alabama del
| egation false. He spoke nearly two hours
| His extreme doctrines were very weakly ap-
plauded, even by the gallery. He was very
severe on Douglas in connection with Kansas
affairs. The acts of the North, he said, had
made many persons at the South believe that
| the South and her institutions was no longer
safe in the limits of the Union. He denied
| that Alabama had attempted to dictate to this
Convention. The instructions to her delegates
were merely for their guidance, and had it not
| been for the Omnipotent finding out by the
press no one but her delegates would have
| known of their existence.
Mr.. Yancy speech was most able, eloquent
~f,1 Ia L.. Al.
southern delegates to be true TO their Consiitu-
tsonal duty, and not to lend themselves te
a wrong to obtain party victory. If they
allow themselves to be made fool OF, they
should be hung on a gallows higher than was
eyer built for Haman.
Ms. ugh of Ohio then took the floor to reply
lfa Mr. Nancy, at half past seven. He was
glad to hear one southern man speak out plain
| iy and boldly and tell us what t-be really does
want. He then read the resolution adopted
by the Alabama Democratic Convention four
years ago, as reported by Mr.. Yancy himself,
in favor of Intervention, and the same time
instructng the delegates from that State to leave
the Convention if they were not acceded to-
ALBANIA did not ask then what she now asks
for, nor did the gentlemen then demand what
he now demands. His (Pughs) remarks were
OF the most scathing character, such rs were
never before heard in Charleston on that side Of
the subject. Bold, fearless and powerful, he
continued for an hour, and gave way for recess
for an hour.