Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-05-24

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l. Massachusetts, Ayes, l3 Nays, 9. Rhode
Island, Ayes, 8. Connecticut, Ayes, 10 Nays,
2. New-York, Ayes, l Nays, SO. NewJersey
Ayes, IA. Pennsylvania, Ayes, 50 l-2 Nays,
l l-2 Delaware, Ayes, l !; Nays,5. maryland,
Ayes, 4 i; Nays, g. Virginia, Ayes, 80. Ohio,
Ayes, 46 Kentucky, Ayes, "a. Indiana, Ayes,
25 Michigan, Nays, l2. Illinois, Ayes, %.
Wisconsin, Nays, 10. Minnesota, Nays, s.
Iowa, Ayes, g. Missouri, Ayes, 4 Nays, IA.
California, Ayes, Mays, 3. Oregon, Nays, 5.
This vote created great interest and excite
ment 1t was not, however, regarded as test
Vote as the Southern States voted aye because
of the delicacy of their position.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention reassembled, with the larg-
est number of spectators yet present, every inch
of room being filed in every part of the build
ing,
The platform was further embelshed with
large number of framed portraits of eminent
patriots and statesmen, and the handsome ban
ners of the Young Mems Republican Union of
NewYork and the Ward Republican Clubs of
Chicago.
Under a portrait of BRoDERIcK, draped in
have killed me because | was opposed to the
extension of Slavery and to a corrupt Admin
istration"
At 6 l2 o'clock the Convention was called
to order.
The President announced that there were
twice the number of honest hearts outside who
had, through q committee, requested Gov.
RANDALL, of Wisconsin, to address them on the
political questions of the day. Loud APP
plause.
Mr.. BENTON, of New Hampshire, from the
Committee on Credentials, again reported, Civ
ing the State of Virginia % votes, Kentucky
80, Oregon 5, Maryland l / and Texas G. In
regard to the organization in Texas, the Com
mittee reported that the delegates were elect
ed at mass meeting called by notice 10 all the
papers favorable to Republican principles, and
were entitled to seats
The report was adopted amidst applause.
The vote in these States is cut down below
the full double electoral vote.
The report of the Committee on Business
and Rules was then taken up
The second rule, giving delegates at large
four votes, and each Congressional reprcsen-
sentation two votes, except as modified by the
Committee on Credentials, was amended bv
providing that no more votes shall be cast than
there are delegates present, and adopted
On the fourth rule being read, which pro-
videS that 304 votes, being majority Of the
whole double electoral vote, shall be necessary
to nominate candidates, the minority report,
to nominate by a majority of votes cast, was
moved as an amendment
Judge JAMES, of New ork, on the part Of
the minority, said a rule had already been ad-
opted by the Convention which gave 446 votes
as full vote of the Convention. The maiOri-
ty was, therefore, substantially a two-third
vote-304 being only votes short of two
thirds. This was the rule of Democratic Con
yentions, and had been suggested in order to
carry out the Democratic policy of allowing
the minority to rule the majority. Great APP
plausc. If the majority report, giving mega
tive votes to absent Southern States, should
be adopted, the same policy would be initiated
here, and to this he was opposed. Loud ap-
plause.
The vote was then annouHnced, and the
minority rule was reported by Judge JAMES re-
quiring majority of the votes cast only to
nominate, was adopted, 33I Ayes, l3O Nays.
[ Loud aud prolonged applause.
THE PLATFORM
The rules, as amended, were then adopted
Judge JEssUP, from the Committee on Re
solutions, reported the following:
Resolred, That we, the delegated represen
tatives of the Republican Electors of the Unit
ed States, in Convention assembled, in the dis
charge of the duty we owe to our constituents
and our country, unite IN the following deca-
rations
First: That the history of the nation during
the last four years has fully established the
prOprety and necessity of the organization and
of the Republican party. and that
the causes which called it into existence are
permenent in their nature, and now more than
ever before demand its peaceful and coastitu-
tional triumph
Second: That the maintenance of the prn-
ciples promulgated in the Declaration of indie
pendence, and embodied in the Federal Con
essential to the preservation of our
republican Institutions that the Federal Con
the rights of the States, and the
Union OF the States, must and shall be preServ.
ed and that we reaSscrt these truths to be
" selfevident, that all men are created equal ::
" that they are endowed by their Creator
" with certain unalenabe rights that among
" these are life, liberty, and the pursuit Of
happAess That to. secure these rights, gov
" ernments are instituted among men, deriving
" their just powers from the consent of the
" governed"
Third: That to the Union of the States
this nation owes its unprecedented increase in
population its surprising development of ma
terial resources its rapid augmentation of
wealth ; its happiness at home and its honor
abroad and we hold in adherence all schemes
for diSunior, come from whatever source they
may ; and we congratulate the country that no
Republican Member of Congress has uttered or
threat of dsunion, so often
made by Democratic Members of Congress
without rebuke and with applause from their
nOlitical aSsnciafes and We dannnnnn thncn