Gazette and sentinel., 1860-09-01
ARKANSAS.

In the case Of Arkansas, the Congressional
Conventions of the State which nominated the
Democratic candidates for Congress. reap
pointed the delegates to Baltimore. Yet this
Convention deliberately voted out the regular
delegates so elected in the First District ::
while they declared that the regular delegates,
elected M the same manner, in the Second Dis
trict, were entitled to their seats and then in
defiance of the resolution of the Democratic
State Convention Of Arkansas instructing the
delegates TO vote as a unit, and in utter viola
ton of their olca nat resolution, they divided
the vote Of the State, giving the bogus dele
gates from the First District the right to cast
one vote. and the regular delegates from the
Second District two votes nay, they even
went further, and resolved that, in case the
regular delegates from the Second District did
not vote, the bogus delegates from the First
District were to cast the full vote u the State.
And yet, after such high-handed procedure as
this, We are meekly told by the Douglas Com
mittee that : 1T must be conceded that the re-
port of the Committee on Credentials was so
liberal and conciliatory toward the seceders
and their friends as to be hardly just 10 the
representatives of the National Democracy
from this State -
GEORGIA.
III IL a : I IL. Ut DOlSAdS tlttl
themselves called a State Convention for the
purpose of having the seeding delegates re-
pudiated by the Democracy of that State.
Every shade of the Democratic party of the
State participated in the election of delegates.
The Convention met. and upon taking a vote,
the seeding or regular delegates were sent
back to Baltimore, by n vote of 299 TO IL.
The forty-one Douglas delegates then bolted,
and also appointed delegates. Yet the Doug
las Committee on Credentials at Baltimore, in
defiance again of the resolution Of the Georgia
Convention instructing their delegates to vote
rs a unit, and in utter violation Of their own
rule upon the subject, reported in favor of d.
viding the vote of the State, giving one-half
to the regular delegates, and one-half to the
bogus appointees of the Al boilers, But this
was too great an outrage even for this con-
v%ention, and thus placed the brand of bogus
upon-the brow of II. V. johnson, the Douglas
candidate for Vice Presidentl Commenting
upon this ~setion, the Douglas Executive Com.
mittee characterizes it as an ''extravagance of
liberahty -
Thus was the Democracy of sovereign States
vantonly d~isfranchised in a National relIod
%veniion, and thus were Dema9qq66en so regard
10 gl.e up al lellGws .ar, aud the welfare and
unity of thr Democratic party.
MD r,CGLAs NOT NOMINATED BY A TWO
THIRDS VOTE.
But it is claimed that Mr.. Douglas 1cGs
nominated bv a tlCo- thirds rotc. The Douglas
Executive Committee, in Il recent address,
latter all secessions, as we'll as the refusal
of certain delegates from Georgia and Arkan-
ms. together with the entire delegations from
Texas and Mississippi to occupy their seats,
our National Convention at Baltimore yet
retained 424 delegates, or 2l2 electoral votes
being ten more than two-thirds of the cleo
toral votes of the whole Union. Eut some OF
these delegates las in the case of Georgia. re-
Trained from voting, the majority of the dele
CATION having retired others, las in the case
of Arkansasl although full delegations, and
authorized, in case of any secession, to cast
the whole vote of their State, preferred only
to cast that which would be a fair proportion
between the seceders ard themselves and yet
others las in the case of Delaware, and por-
tions of the delegates from Kentucky and
Missouri) declined to vote, but refused to
secede. This accounts for the fact that upon
the second ballot, By States, Mr.. Douglas
received only 1917 votes Mr.. Breckenridge
receiving I0j, Mr.. Guthrie 4 votes, the States
Of South Carolina (eight) and Florida three
having authorized no delegates to any Con-
ventiOn at Baltimore. Here is the ballot as
recorded; .-. g..
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