Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-08-17
Virginia DELEGATION.


Virginia Delegation.
We have glanced at the Richmond En-
qairer containing the proceedings Of the
Virginia Delegation, and wish to supply an
omission which we presume resulted from
the absence of Mr.. Tyler during portion
Of the sittings if- Baltimore. We do this
from desire to place all the facts connect
ed with the secession from the Convention
fairly before the people.
Upon the assembling Of the delegation in
Baltimore, a meeting was called early on
Monday morning, when Mr.. Harvic offered
a resolution to the effect that Virginia de-
manded the immediate admission of all the
seeding delegations, and coupling this de-
mand with an ayowal that refusal to ad
NIT the seceders would be regarded by the
Virginia delegation as an outrage. and as
Reorganization of the Democratic party =
We state the substance of Mr.. Haryie's
proposition, which was subsequently modi-
fed at the request of Mr.. Barbour, by the
omission Of the latter part of the resolution.
The resolution. as amended, passed by the
entire vote Of the seeding portion of the
delegation, with perhaps one or two excep-
tons, and was opposed by five or six of the
delegation. Wcregarded it at the time as
the most remarkable proceeding we had ever
witnessed in any deliberative body, and it
was opposed by both DR.. Moffett and the
writer, as utterly at variance with the prin-
ciples of Conventional usage. That the Va.
delegation, in advance, before any Of the
facts in regard to the contesting delegations
we're ascertained or any reliable data ill their
possession upon which to form an opinion.
should undertake to decide that certain DEL
egations should be admitted and recognized
as the representatives Of the National De-
mocracy without any investigation, and
without reference to the Committee on
Credentials stagger the belief Of the
most credulous. Yet such is the fact. The
resolution was passed, but it never was pre-
sented in the Convention.
The delegates from this district denounc-
ed the resolution. They opposed it as in
volving the Virginia delegation in the alb
surdity of deciding case before hearing
the evidence, and in advance of all the usu-
al forms Of procedure in such cases. We
commended in the delegation that the whole
subject of disputed seats should be referred to
the Committee on Credentials, and then SUBJ
jected to rigid investigation. This course
afterwards was advoca ted by the Chairman
of the Virginia delegation, Notwithstanding
| the remarkable resolution which was adopted
in the delegation We believe that resolu-
| ton never afterwards saw the light-at
least it was never publicly introduced. We
desire all the facts connected with this un-
justi6able secession to be fully exposed
We want the people to see for themselves
the devious and uncertain pathway which
has been trod by those leaders they are IN
vited to follow We want them to fully
understand the tone and temper Of tn Vir-
gia Seceders-their hot haste to make a de-
claration that the secession element should
be at once-and unquestioned- taken back
into the councils of the party they were at
tempting to destroy. Above all, we want
the Virginia Seceders held fully up to the
responsibility they have taken upon them
selves, and every step Of their career care
fully inspected by the people Of Virginia.
We shrink from no investigation, and most
cheerfully invite the people of this District
and of the State to scan every act commit
ted by the delegates from this District.
Richmond Enquirer.
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