Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-06-11
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Of the Court-House 10 endorse the action Of
the delegates from this District at Charleston,
and to give an expression Of the views Of the
Democracy Of Montgomery Ss TO the course
proper to be pursued by the delegates at the
coming Baltimore Convention.
The meeting, In point Of numbers and en-
thusiasm, far exceeded any yet held in this
city, during the present campaign, by the op-
position Cannon were fred, bonires blazed,
and bands Of music headed the professions
as they marched to the point Of meeting. The
Democracy Of Dayton are determined, aud
viii do their whole duty in the approaching
canvass
After the crowd had assembled, the meeting
was organized by the appointment of the fol
lowing officers;
President-Judge MORSE
Vice President-FINDLY JOHNSON, Esq.
of Van Buren, township
Secretaies-Dr. wM EeRY and THoxAs f.
THREsHER, Esq
Committee on Resolations-A. V. HORN,
A. CAmLL, JAS II BAG0OrT b NJ AYRrs and
Dr. JAMES, Of Centreyille
After organizing, Hon. Gro. W HouK, one
Of the Delegates from this District, addressed
the meeting Owing to the inconvenience OF
reporting, at an outdoor meeting, the report
is not so perfect as might be desired, yet we
think It will, in the main, be found correct:
Mr. HouK commenced by saving that if he
had more vanity he might feel like regarding
this large and enthusiastic demonstration as
personal compliment TO himself He was
aware, however, that il was rather TO be un-
derstood as a manifestation of the general in
terest felt in the present crisis of the Demo
cratic organization, and in the fortunes OF
that courageous statesman who has been the
unconquered and is the unconquerable cham
pion of our principles.
Mr. H. proceeded with few preliminary
remarks in relation to his own views in refer
ence to the institution of slavery, promising
that no one in this community at least, would
attribute any structures he might take occa-
sion TO make on the conduct of the South at
the Charleston Convention TO any anti-slayery
proclvities, for he had long regarded slavery
as pre-eminently q physical question meas
ureably beyond the influence or control of
Legislation, whose existence or non-existepce
is always mainly dependent on physical cir.
cumstances.
The speaker then contrasted the condition
of the Democratic party in 1856, after it had
passed, by unanimous vote, the platform of
principles at Cincinnati, recognizing and
adopting distinctly the doctrine of Congress-
ional non-intervention with slavery in the
Territories, with its condition now--its present
temporary dismembermeAt resulting from the
refusal of the Charleston Convention to repu-
diate the same doctrines upon which the cam
paign of 1856 was carried to a triumphant
issue. He said the State of Alabama had led
off in the late act of secession-the same Ala
bams that in 1856 instructed her delegates to
Cincinnati to require the National Convention
to recognize and adopt distinctly the doctrine
of Congressional non-intervention, as q condi-
ton of her participation in its deliberations
In 1860 this same State passed resolutions in
her State Convention requiring her delegates
to withdraw from the Charleston Convention
unless the principle of Congressional INTER
vENTIoS TO protect slavery in the Territories
should be distinctly endorsed And because
the National Convention chose to abide by the
principle adopted in 1856, and refused to eat
its own words, and stultify itself before the
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States saw fit to break off from the Democratic
organization. For himself, said Mr.. H. all
who chose to secede from the Convention MP
on such grounds, might seeede as far as Cape
Horn, and he never would attempt TO entice
them back by any promised compliance with
their demands.
1t was evident to all that a deep settled per
sonal hostility to Judge Douglas was at the
| hottppn Of ha uvhnla Tho ctkor
Southern States that remained in the Conven-
ton requested time for consultation, with a
view to determine whether to retire or not,
but came back with the proposition that the
two-thirds rule should be so construed as to
require two-thirds Of the phoIe electoral Uote
TO nominate a candidate, instead of i'two-thirds
of the votes given" The Charleston Mercu-
ry, edited by an outspoken, able and honest
man, though disunionist, came out in an
editorial the succeeding morning, stating that
the object Of this proposed amendment was "to
make IL impossible to nominate Mr. Dou-
gldS." That undoubtedly wdS its object The
Douglas men, all, with the exception of the
State of New York, voted against it, as an
atrocious perVersion of . plain rule to effect a
vindctive personal result But New York vo-
ted for the proposed construction, and il was
carried The other States Of the South, feel
ing that they could control .ffty-One votes at
least out of the two hundred and ffty-two
votes that remained in the Convention after
the secession of their brethren deigned to re-
main 1t therefore became necessary for Mr..
| Douglas TO receive TWO HUNDRED AND TEN
VOTES out Of two hundred and ffty-two before
he could be nominated So that under the
construction of the wo-thirds rule adopted, it
was requisite that the successful candidate
should receive .fourjftfhs of the whole number
of votes given instead of twothirds Yet the
| friends of Mr.. Douglas quietly sat in their
seats and balloted ffty-seyen times, Mr.. Doug
las receiving upon the very first ballot one
jority Of nineteen over all the other candi-
dates before the Convention, and continuing
to hold throughout the whole contest the same
predominance-indeed receiving upon five or
six successive ballots ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY.
rwo VOTES, being clear majority Of the
whole Electoral vote, including the votes that
had gone out of the Convention, as well as
those that remained in
| 1t was under these circumstances (continu-
ed Mr. II. that we were told that the minority
had the pooer to preDent Mr. Douglas nOhai-
nation, and that they were determined 10 ex.
ercise il. | for one felt determined (said Mr.
| II. 10 answer that we had the power too to
prevent the nomination of any other man
THAN Mr.. Douglas, and that ace would exer-
else it,
The delegates from the Northern States
were told that it was our only duty to accept
and receive the platform that had been made
by the majority of the Committee-that we