Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-30

The Convention reessembled at 4P. N.

-.' AFTERNOON bESSIoN.
The Convention reassembled at 4P. NJ.
The Committee on Platform said that they
would not be ready to report until halfpast
Mr.. Avery, of North Carolina, repofted
from majority Of the Committee, and IN
doing so urged upon Northern delegates TO
recollect that the slaves who now grow cot
ton in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, are
children of slaves who were formerly Slaves
in their own States. s-int rl'l
The report Of the majority is a combination
of those of Messrs. Bayard, Of Delaware
Oochrane of New York, and Bigler, Of Penn,
sylvania. ris' H io = Nl Tl
Mr.. Samuels, of Iowa, presented II, esehew.
ing Congressional Intervention, and declsT-
ing that whether Congress or the Territorial
Legislature have the power to interiors; de-
pends upon the decisions Of the Supreme
Courts Of the United States, which decision
they pledge the Democratic party to sustain
and abide by. He proceeded at some length
10 address Southern members appealing 10
them not to persist in demanding en- obstrue-
ton that will drive one-half of the Democ-
racy of the North into the arms of the Black
Republicans
His speech was n powerful, earnest and
effective appeal free from all bitterness, and
was listened TO with the most marked inter-
est and attention by the Southern members
When Mr.. Samuels had concluded, NJ
Butler, of Massachusetts,, presented another
minority report, signed by Illinois, Mime
sofa, Massachusetts and Indiana, consisting
of the Cincinnati Platform pure and simple,
which he offered rs substitute for both thu
majority and minority reports. jse- -ir.. o
Mr.. Stevens, of Oregon, then obtained the
floor, amid the struggle Of a hundred con-
testarts, and proeeededto give his reasons for
sustaining the report of the majority.
1 DAl1a Il wf
| ground that although he was opposed TO
1 squatter sovereignty, be must still, IS mat
ter of policy, sustain the position Of non-in-
teryention. Four years ago tho South de-
manded this principle offnOn-intervention,
and why do they come here and demand this
! surrender Of principle2 He cautioned them
upon the result of their extreme views; they
could lead to nothing but the election Of a
Black Republican President. .g .H
Mr.. Burrows, of Arkansas, followed in q.
| speech on the Southern side of the question,
| commencing at twenty minutes TO eight
o'clock He, maintained that the South
| had upheld the Democratic party from tho
| beginning Of the Government to the present
day; that the South had been foremost in
! fighting the battles of the country, and that
in fact the Democratic party owes every
thing TO the South. The South has extended
the boundaries of the country, and has fur
debts of the country. His remarks were OF
the most violent and inAammatory character,
\ andlin the impatience to come to vote, the
noise and confusioni clapping and stamping,
was so great that lie could scarcely DO heard
beyond the rostrum. He continued, despite
the noise, to speak at the hight Of his
| voice. -.i..saa.fasi efl.r .Ifur 3aI trII saf
He considered the Northern Democrats as
worse than the Black Republicans. Hs did
not care whether the Black Republicans
4 whipped them, or they whipped the Black
Republicans. OF the two, he considered the
i Black Repsblieena es the IlNest, epep ans
manly foes OF the South. Is to Douglas, h'
would not support him even If he is nomi
mated. He considered him as great an en-
emy to the South as the traitor (Seward
was. ..t...f ,.,..-r-.ta
!, Mr.. Claiborne, of Ark, obtained the floor
and said he had intended TO address tho Con
I ,vention tonight, bnt he had now come to tht
Z beonelusion that this debate was causing l
wider breach instead Of producing harmony
( IF continued, it win inevitably result in th
Tdisruption of the Convention. He, Therefore
called the previous question. .a
1Io Mr.. Jackson, of Ga, meyed an adlourn
ment. ..-.....- -
Ohio demanded that the vote on States B
taken by States which resulted as fsllowt
Ayes 91 Nays 200. b oa1 81 2aiog .rii (,
The Douglas men voted agaiAst the aa
! journment, and the opposition OF Douglas 1
favor of it. iH 3aA '-t ''4i h''" .i
lowing to trouble on the lines south Z
/, Washington, the report here closed.-RnP.l