Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-05-24

FIRST BALLOT EOR VICE PRESIDENT.
Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine 194
John Hickman, of Pennsylvania 58
n. P. Banks, Of Massachusetts, 384
Cassius NJ. Clay, of Kentucky 10l
Governor Reeder, of Pennsylvania 81
Henry Winter Davis Of Maryland s
San Houston, Of Texas 6
VIM. l.. Dayton, of New Jersey 3
John NJ. Reed, of Pennsylvania /
Whole number of votes 2609
Necessary to choice 232
On the second ballot, Massachusetts with
drew the name of Banks, and cast 26 votes
for Hamlin.
Pennsylvania withdrew the name of Gov.
Reeder, and cast 81 votes for Hamlin
New York cast her 70 votes for Ham
lin.
The result of the second ballot was an
nounced as follows:
Hamlin 364
Clay Sc
Hickman I3
The result was received with tumutuous
applause, and the nomination was subse-
quietly made unanimous amid great enthus-
iasm.
Afterthe delivery Of congratulary speech
es by number of delegates, Joshua r.
Giddings moved the adoption of the follow
ing resolutions:
Resolced, That we deeply sympathize with
those men who have been driven, some from
their native States, and others from the States
of their adoption, and who are now exiled
from their homes on account of their opin-
ions and that we hold the Democratic party
responsible for the gross violation of that
clause Of the Constitution which declares that
the citizens of each State shall be entitled to
all the privileges and ia.i2unities of the cit
liens of the several States.
The resolution was adopted.
Judge Jessup from the committee on
Resolutions, reported the following:
Resolved, That we, the delegated represen.
tatives of the republican electors of the Uni
ted States, in Convention assembled, in the
discharge of the duty we owe to our constit-
uents and our country, unite in the follow
ing declarations:
Flrst-That the history Of the nation du-
ring the last four years has established the
proprlety and necessity of the organization
and perpetuation of the Republican party.
and that the causes which called it into exis
teuce are permanent in their nature, and now.
more than ever before, demand its peaceful
and constitutional triumph
Second-That the maintenance Of the Fed
eral Constitution is essential to the preserya.
ton OF our republican institutions. and shall
be preserved
Ihlrd-That to the union Of the States this
nation owes It's unprecedented increase in NON
uiatlon, It's surprising development Of mate.
flal resources, It's rapid augmentation of
-Wn
abroad; and We hold in abhorrence all
schemes for disunion, come from whatavar
source they may. And we congratulate the
country that no Republican member of Con-
sgress has uttered or countenanced threat of
elsunlon so often made by the Democratic
members OF Congress without rebuke. and
with applause from their political associates,
anu we denounce those threats of disunion
IN case Of popular overthrow of their oscen.
dency as denying the vital principles of free
government, and as an avowal of conteronla |
ted treason, which it is the imperative duty Of
an indignant people strongly to rebuke and
forever silence.
Fourth-That the maintenance inviolate of
tne rights OF the States, and especially the
rights OF each State to order and control its
own domestic institutions according to its own
: judgment exclusively, is essential to that hal
anee OF power on which the perfection and
endurance of her political faith depends.
And we denounce the lawless invasion of an
armed force, of any state or territory, no mat |
Ter under what pretext, as among the grayest
OF crimes.
Fifth-That the present Democratic Ad-
mlnlstration has far exceeded our worst an |
prehenslons, In its measureless subseryiencv |
70 the exacuons of sectional interest. as IS |
especially evident in its desperate exertio, |
10 Iorce the Infamous Lecompton Constitution |
upon the protesting people of Kansas-in |
oohe'I 9ins the personal relation between mas
GER ana servant to involve an unoualifiad nror-
erty in person-in its attempts at the enf nfnr.e.
nent, everywhere, on land and sea. thropgb |
the Intervention of Congress and the Federal |
Courts, OF the extreme pretensions of pure
iy local interest, and in its general and unya |
fying abuse OF the power entrusted to il bv n |
conhding people
SIxth-That the people justly view with |
alarm the reckless extravaganza which ner-
Vaaes every department of the Federal Gov
ernment. That a return to rigid ecenosny
ana accountability is indispensable to arrest
the system OF plunder of the public Treasury
py favored partisans, while the present start.
ns 9eEeiopments OF fraud and corruption at
'ne heoeral metropolis show that an entire
, change of administration is imnarat;voi1 da'
manded. NC
Seventh-That the new dogma that the
Constitution, OF its own force, carries Size,
into any or all the Territories of the Tnito3
ctates' Is dangerous political heresv. at va /
rance with the explicit provisions of that in.
strument itself, with its contemporaneous ex.
position. and with legislative and judicial pre-
cedent, IS revolutionary in its tendencies and
subsersIve of the peace and harmony of the
country.
,Eighth-That the normal condition of all