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

ARKANSAS. s
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 10 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 oJrH nit resolution, they divided
the vote 81 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 OF the State,
And vet, after such high-handed procedure as
this, we are meekly told by the Douglas Com
mittee that - it 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!
In the case Of Georgia, the Douglas men
themselves called . 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 a 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 di-
viding the vote OF the State, giving One-half
to the regular delegates, and one-half TO the
bogus appointees of the IL 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 President Commenting
upon this action, the Douglas Executive Com
mittee characterize it as an ''extravagance of
liberality -
Thus was the Democracy of sovereign States
wantonly disfranchised in q National Con-
~vention, and thus were Democrats compelled
10 give up all fellowship with men so regard
ltNo VI llcAl ~ u" OAlt aiAA AAS NAAo h@AN@
unity OF The Democratic party.
Mr.. NOT NOMINATED By A TWO
THIRDS VOTE.
But It is claimed that Nh. DoaClas 77aS
nominated by a tlro-thirds rote. The Douglas
Executive Committee, in II recent address,
declare: is
"After all seCessions, as well as the refusal
Of certain delegates from Georgia and Arkan-
sas, 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. Rut some of
these delegates las in the case of Georgia re-
Trained from voting, the majority of the dele
CATION having retired others, (as in the case
Of Arkhnsas) although full delegations, and
authorized, in case of any secession, 10 cast
the whole vote of their State, preferred only
to cast that which would be u fair proportion
between the seceders and themselves and yet
others las in the case Of Delaware, and por-
lions of the delegates from Kentucky and
Missouri) declined to vote, but refused to
secede. This accounts for the fact that upon
the second ballet. By Stutes, Mr.sDouglas
received only 1914 votes Mr.. Breckinridge
receiving l0B, Mr.. Guthrie 4 votes, the States
of South Carolina (eight) and Florida (three)
having authorized no delegates to any Con-
yentiun at Baltimore. Here is the ballot as
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