The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-05-19
THE PLATFORM IN FULL.

GREAT EXCITEMENT.
THE PLATFORM IN FULL.
THE ANTECEDENTS OF THE NOMINEES.
CHICAGO, May lS.-The Convention met at ten
o'clock; the Wigwam was on the previous day
| packed to its utmost capacity.
The platform as reported Yesterday was taken
up, and after being slightly amended was adopted
unanimously.
On motion being made to proceed to ballot
Mr. Blair, OF Maryland, announced that in conse-
quence of the adoption of the rule restricting the
| vote of Maryland to the number of delegates pre-
sent, that delegation had filled up its number, and
asked leave to present the credentials of five new
| delegates.
MIR. Sargent, of California inquired whether five
additional delegates would increase the vote of the
delegation to sixteen or leave it eleven the actual
number present; If so, he opposed it. ...
| Mr.. Cole, of Mary land, said the delegation had
power to fill vacancies and having done So claimed
| the right to cast the full vote.
The President said he understood the rule as
limiting Mary land to eleven votes and an additional
| number of delegates did not entite the delegation
| to greater vote.
| Mr.. Blair desired to correct the error of the
Chair. The delegation had filled its vacancies to
comply with the rule adopted Yesterday.
| Mr.. Armour, of Maryla protested against the
reception of the credentials. He said that eleven
| representatives only were present from his State.
| The delegates had met without his knowledge
| without the knowledge of at least more than one
delegate, and filled up their numbers with men
| who lived God only knows where. resident
| of the State had been refused admission to the
delegation, and what object his colleagues have in
| filling the delegation with non Presidents he did
| not know, but he hoped the motion would be
| voted down.
The question was then taken, and the motion to
admit the extra delegates lost. The result was
greeted with applause.
The Convention then proceeded to ballot for a
| candidate for the Presidency:
THE FIRST BALLOT
Resulted as follows:
Seward 173; Lincoln 102; Bates 81; Cameron so:
Mclean II; Wade 3; Dayton IA.
Whole number of votes 404. Necessary to a
choice 203.
SECOND BALLOT
The second ballot was as follows:-Seward lS41%;
Lincoln l8l1a, scattering 38.
THIRD BALLOT.
Seward lSl; Lincoln 22S, being three more than
a majority.
During the preliminary proceedings Lincoln's
friends exerted their lungs to the utmost, and
showed noisy predominance Stewards
friends.
On the first ballot, when Maryland was called, the
chairman OF that delegation cast the vote of the
State for Bates, but two delegates claiming their
right to individual votes, after discussion the
Convention rejected the vote as cast by the chair
man and decided to receive the vote of each dele
gate separately
On motion of Mr.. Evans, of New York, the
nomination of Mr.. Lincoln was made unanimous.
The Convention then at = O'Clock adjourned till
B O'Clock amidst the greatest excitement.
HOW THE NOMINATION WAS RECEIVED.
CHIcAGo, May lS.-The intelligence of the nomi-
nation, when conveyed to the people outside the
Wigwam, created Of the widest excite
ment which beggars description. Cheer upon
cheer rent the air, while cannon set forth their
roar after roar. At least thirty thousand people
participated in the excitement.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At O'Clock the Convention re-assembled.
On motion it was determined to proceed to bal
lot for candidate for the Vice Presidency.
The first ballot was foows:-Hannibal Ham
lin, of Maine, l94; John Hickman, of Penn, 5S;
N. p. Banks, of Mass, 3s1%; C. NJ CLAY. of Kv.
of Md. s. Sam Houston, of Texas, G; w. l..
DAYTON, of N. j., 3; Reed, of Pa, 13 No choice
On the second ballot Senator Hamlin was nomi-
mated.
THE PLATFORM, AS ADOPTED.
ReSOired, That we, the delegated representatives
OF the Republican electors of the United States in
10 @ in the diseharge Of the duty
in the following declarations:
First, That the history of the nation during the
last four years has established the propriety and
necessity of the organization and perpetuation of
the Republican party; and that the causes which
called it into existence permanent in their ma
ture, and now, more than ever before, demand its
peaceful and constitutional triumph.
second, lndJ the maintenance OI the Federal
Constitution is essential to the preservation of our
Republican institutions, and shall be preserved -
That we solemnly reassert the self-evident truths
that all endowed by their Creator with certain
inalienable rights among which are those of life,
liberty and the pursuit Of happiness; that govern
ments are instituted among men to secure the en-
joyment of these rights.
Third, That to the Union of the States this na-
tion owes its unprecedented increase in population,
its surprising development of material resources,
its rapid augmentation of wealth, its happiness at
home and its honor abroad; and we hold in abhOr-
renee all schemes for disunion, come from what
ever source they may; and we congratulate the
country that no Republican member of Congress
has uttered or cOuntenanced threat of disuniOn,
so otter made by the Democratic members of Con-
gress without rebuke, and with applause from their
political associates; and denounce those threats
of disunion, in of popular overthrow of their
ascendency, as denying the vital principles of a
free Government, and as an avowal of contemplated
treason, which it is the imperative duty of an in
dignant people strongly to rebuke and forever
silence.
Fourth That the maintenance nviolate of the
rights of the States, and especially the rights of
each State to order and control its own domestic
institutions according to its own Judgment exclu-
sively, is essential to the balance of power which
the perfection and endurance of ser political faith
depends. And we denOunce the lawess invasion
by an armed force from any State Territory,
matter under what preteXt as among the
gravest of crimes.
Fifth, That the present Democratic Administra-
tion has far exceeded worst apprehensions in
its measureless subserviency to the exactions of
sectional interest is especially evident in its des
perate exertions to force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of Kansas;
in constituting the personal relation between master
and servant to involve an unqualified property in
persons; in its attempts at the enforcement every
where, on land and sea, through the Intervention
of Congress and the Federal Courts, of the extreme
pretensions of purely local interest; and, in its
general and unvarying abuse of the power en-
trusted to it by confding people.
ISirth, That the people justly view with alarm
the reckless extravaganza which pervades every
department Of the Federal Government; that a
return to rigid economy and accountability is in
dspensable to arrest the system of plunder of the
public treasury by favored partisans; while the
present startling developments of fraud and cor
ruption at the Federal metropolis show that an
entire change of administration is imperatvely
demanded
Serenh, That the new dogma that the Constitu-
ton, of its force, carries slavery into any or
all of the territories of the United States, is dan
gerous political heresy, at variance with the
plict provisions of that instrument ITSELF with its
contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative
and judicial precedent is revolutionary in its ten
denotes and subversive of the peace and harmony
of the country.
Eiqhh, That the normal condition of all the
territory of the United States is that of freedom.
That as our Republican fathers, when they had
abolished slavery in all national territory, Or
daned that person should be deprived of life,
liberty or property, without due process of law,
it becomes our duty, by legslati m whenever such
legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision
of the Constitution against all attempts to violate
it. And we deny the authority of Congress, of
Territorial Legislature, or of any individuals, to
give legal existence to slavery in any territory of
the United States.
Ninth, That we brand the recent re-Opening of
the African save-trade under the cover of our Ma
tiona flag, aided by perversions of judicial power,
as a crime against humanity, burning shame to
our country and age; and We call upon Congress to
take prompt and efficient measures for the total and
final suppression ofthat execrabe traffic.
Tenth, That in the recent vetoes, by the Cover
nors of the acts of the Legislatures of Kansas and
Nebra aska ibiting slavery in those Territories,
we find practical illustration Of the boasted Dem
Ocrat;c principles of non-interventiOn and popular
sovereignty, embodied in the Kansas and Nebraska
BILL and denunciation Of the deception and fraud
involved therein.
diatey admitted as State, under the Constitution
recently formed and adopted by her people, and ac
cepted by the House of Representatives.
Ticeitth, That while providing revenue for the
support of the General Government, by duties up
on imports, sound policy requires such an ad lust
ment of these imposts to encourage the deve lop
ment of the industrial interest of the whole coun-
try; and we commend the policy of national ex
changes which secures to the working men liberal
wages, to agriculture remunerating prices,
to mechanics and manufacturers ade-
quate reward for their skill labor, and enterprise,
and to the nation commercial prosperity and inde-
pendence.
Thirteenth That we protest against any sale
alienation to others of the public lands held by
actual settlers and against any view of the free