Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-05-09


Mr.. Dickinson 4, and Mr.. Davis II. North-C Caro-
lima voted unit twelve times for Mr.. Hunter. On
the morning of the ID, being the ninth day, North
Carolina voted twelve times for Lane, then one time
for Hunter, and then for Dickinson for six or
seven ballots after which, until the adjournment,
or as long the Convention voted, she adhered to
Gen. Lane of her votes being cast for Douglas.
On the thirty third ballot Mr.. Douglas received 1924
votes, being majority of the entire Electoral Col
lege, the Convention having determined that vote
less than two-thrds of the whole College should
nominate Gen. Lanes vote did not at any time
exceed 2O1, Mr. Hunters did not exceed 40, Mr..
Guthrie's did not exceed 661, Mr. Johnsons did not
exceed 12 and Mr.. Dckinsons did not exceed IA.
On the 57th and last ballot the vote Stood Douglas
1919, Guthrie 65a, Hunter is, Lane IA, Dickinson
4, Davis /. After the withdrawal of the name of
Andrew johnson, Tennessee voted eleven Tor Guthrie
and one for Douglas.
On the morning of the Sd, being the tenth day of
the Convention, Mr. Russell, of Virginia rose under
instructions from his delegation to adjourn
ment of the Convention to the City of Baltimore.
| We copy from the Courier:
"Mr. Russell desired to make motion and on
privileged question, asked leave to make few re-
marks 1t was stated in the morning papers that
Mr.. Howard of Tennessee had offered resolution,
which appears in print and had stated that other
States including the State of Virginia, concurrcd
in recommending its adoption. The resolution as
published was not the one agreed on by the Virgin
ia delegation. That resolution was as follows:
Resolred, That the citizens of the United States
have equal right to settle in the Territories of the
United States, and that under the decisions of the
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cognized as correct exposition of the Constitution
of the United States, neither the rights of persons
or property can be destroyed or impaired by Con-
greseional or Territorial Legislation.
All the Southern States, he believed, had agreed
on this and he understood the State of New York
had given her assent to its adoption. He now offer
ed the following:
Resolred, That when this convention adjourns to-
day, it adjourn to re-assemble at Baltimore, Nd,
| on Monday the 18th day of june, and that it be
respectfully recommended to the Democratic party
of the several States to make provision for supply
ing all vacancies in their respective delegations to
this Convention when it shall re-assemble. Ap-
plause.
The resolution providing for adjournment to
Baltimore was carried, yeas 1876, nays 55-North-
Carolina voting in the negative. We copy from
the Courier as follows ..
"The President Gen. Caleb Gushing, before put
ting the final motion to adjourn requested for few
moments the attention of the Convention.
Order being restored, the President said
Gentlemen Of the Convention: Allow me, before
putting the question of adjournment to address to
you parting word.
desire, first to say and in saying it. to bear tes
timony to " our constituents and to the people Of
the United States that, considering the numerous.
ness of the assembly, the important interests in
volved in its deliberations and the emotions thus
naturally awakened in your bosoms; considering all
this, say your sessions have been distinguished by
order, by freedom from personalities, by decorum,
and by observance of parliamentary method and
law. In the competitions for the floor in the zeal Of
gentlemen to promote their respective opinions by
motions objections to motions, in the lassitude Of
protracted sittngs occasions have occurred of appa
rent, but only apparent, confusion But there has
been real confusion, no deliberate violation of
order I arm better able than any other person to
speak knowingly on this point and to speal i'm
partially, and say it with pride and pleasure,
thing especially proper for to say from the Chair.
desire further to say for and in behalf of myself
that also know by the knowledge of my own heart
and conscience that in the midst Of circumstances
always arduous, and in some respects of peculiar
embarrassment it has been my steady purpose and
constant endeavor to discharge impartally the duties
of the Chair. If in the execution of these duties it
shall have happened to me to address any gentleman
abruptly, not to have duly recognized him, beg
pardon of him and of the Convention.
Finally, permit me to remind you, gentlemen, that
not merely the fortunes of the great Constitutional
party which you represent but the fortunes of the
Constitution also, are at stake on the acts of this
Convention. During the period now of eighty four
years. we the States Of this Union, have been asso
ciated together in form another for objects Of
domestic order and foreign security. We have ira
versed side by side ofthe Revolution and 9TH
er and later wars. Through peace and war; through
sunshine and storm, we have held our way manfully
on, until we have come to be the Great Republic
Shall we cease to be such? will not believe it;
will not believe that the noble work of fathers
is to be shattered into fragments; this great Repub
lie to be but a name history of mighty people
once existing but existing no longer save as sha-
dowy memory, or as a monumental ruin by the side
of the pathway of time. fondly trust that shall
continue to march on forever-the hope of nations,
: as we'll in the Old World as in the New-like the
bright orbs of the armament which roll on without
rest because bound for eternity without haste, be-
cause predestined for eternity; so may it be with
this glorious Confederation of States
I pray you, therefore, gentlemen, in your return
to your constituents and to the bosoms of your fam
lies to take with you as your guiding thought the
sentiments of the Constitution and the Union And
with this, cordially bid you farewell until the pre-
: scrbed re.assembling of the Convention.
The address was received with loud applause, and
at its close the President declared that the Conven
ton stood adjourned until the 18th of june then to
meet at 70 o'clock noon, in the City of Baltimore.
: The final fall of the hammer was the signal for
general stampede and the Delegates rushed from the
> Hall to their hotels with much eagerness to seize
upon their baggage and turn their faces homeward
though life and fortune depended upon their reach
ing the depots in time for the first trains out"
J, We have thus given brief, but we trust a cor
rect sketch of the main features of the CoRventon
l. We have no room to-day for comments. Il
Va The disruption of the Convention will be every
s where regarded by considerate and patriotic
IS national calamity. It is sad thing to witness
% the severance of any great national tie. The las
link that bound the States together has been tempo
Z rarily or apparently broken; but we indulge tn
70 hope-and in this hope we are Joined by millions o