The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-08-20
CHARLOTTESVILLE CONVENTION.
SECOND DAY.

rh. ConS.ntion Assem- bled ct 10 O'Clock,
the President IN the chair. Additional del
epates reported their names
The resolution of Mr.. Tyler, offered yester-
sav was reconsidered, and he offered the fol-
lowing:
Rssolysd, That committee Of be ssP appointed n ed
BY the chs to tbs pssVa1ib namber an Of Vs
ON motion of Geo. L. Gordon, OF Lonisa,
the Hon. r. M. T. Hunter, was invited to ad-
dress the Con ventio in the Armory, o-nlgnt,
tomorrow morning. Adopted by acclama-
ton. .
ing all resolutions Iitroouceo III tnis OoIten
ton to be referred 10 the Committee on ReSo-
lutions without debat g, was repeated
The President annou. uced the committees
MIR, Cooke of Wythe, previous to oferinga
series of resolutions, ad dressed the Conyen-
tioa in advocacy of the sa me, and his remarks
emphatically brought down Tue mouse. w hie
he was Democrat and woulo surrender no
principle, he was anxious ~ ueieat Alncoln
and Hamlin, and he wished Ihe Vote OF tlr-
einia to be so cast as to effect that object Mr..
Dickinson, of New York, was his nrst cholce
over all men for the Presidency, ana mad been
for ten years past. His second mao been Ste
nhen A. Douglas; but Vermont and Michigan
Shall not make a nom ination for him. Weafe
here said Mr.. O., the Tepresen tatlNes OF tiie
masses of the Democr acy or Virginia, ana are
going to vote for the cal ,didates of the Institute
Hall whether the noI uiEa ations We're regular
or not He wanted All the Douglas men
brought back into the party. He wanted har-
mony but he would not bate one Jot or one
tittIe of principle to effect that object. There
| is only one question that ivides the Democ-
racy-Squatter Sovereignty. lie gave an en-
phaic denial to the charge tnat the advocates
of the election of Breckinri 1ge and Lane We're
disunionists. He did not believe there were
one hundred men in the Stat OF Virginia for a
dissolution of the Union. 'reckinrldge and
Lane were not nominated b. oisunion men,
nor were they disunionists. The election OF
Lincoln would lead 10 dia solution of the
Union He had no use for Bell He believed
| that Democrat could always do httie better
| than a Wing. He would go for 'recklnrldge,
| but Douglas was better than Be H. 10 save
| the Union he would take Bell, or douglas, and
| even the devil hims elf before Linco In
Mr.. Wallack, editor of the Washington Star,
| addressed the Convention in opp,osi tlon TO the
| resolutions of Mr.. Cooke Ex-Go v somlth fol-
| lowed III favor Of the resolution "; horace
Lacey Mr.. Sibert, Mr.. Hamlin and sVnloughby
Newton addressed the Convention. the lat
| ter gentleman said he dis oasonist /;
but he gave several reasons to show IL at a dis
| solution of the Union would make to TIE ad-
vantage Of Virginia and her people.
The resolutions of Mr.. Cooke were as 1ol-
lows:
lst. Rs,olrsd. That the course of the majority Of
he vrgna 70 me edx Safr
lts orsanlzati, n was competed, at Baltimore, IN
June last, deserves and receives The hearty com
mendation and approval OF the Democracy of Vlr-
I'd. RESOLVED, That the pretended nomination of
| Democratic Convention, after the withdrawal OF
the Delegates from Virginia and her sister South
ern and Democratic States. was wholly unwar-
ranted by justice, right or Democratic authority;
that it was irregular and deceptive. it was and
usur patton and DEGRADATION, and an act the valid
ity and obligation OF which the Dem -cracy Of Viz
| gina disowns and repudiates
the settler Territory to establish organic law.
commonly known as Squatter Sorsretgnty, is an
| odious, perncious, and dangerous political here
sy, which we can never sanction.
4th. Resoiusd, That IN John c. Breckinrldge and
the support, not only Of Democrats, bu, Of the
Whole people Of the United States and We do cor
18th. 9th. % Rssolosa That the aiIesstion. come from
| what quarter 1t may, that those who nominated
are enemies to the Union OF tho States as esis.,
anu advocates of a. dlsmemberment of the Union,
| charge the truth of which we repel and deny.
9th. Kesolrsd, That the DemocratIc Electors for
! the State of Virginia be, and they are hereby
quested and SO far as this body oan do so, are in
sructed to cast the electoral vote OF the state for
by in aay event. be stfsoted bu. # they ascertain
| tina: such election cannot, under any clrcum
of Wirginia as to effect the defsat of Lincoln and
Hamiln. the Black Republlcan esndidates. to pro,
| honest men ought to act in concert,
| Ex-Gov. Smith offered the following a
subs titute for the 9th resolution cf Mr.. Cooke ::
sRssolysd, That the DemSScra.io State Electors
Of Virginia should vote for breokinrldge and Lane
| foes for which they have, heen respectively
nominated; but, should It 10 ascsrta!ned that
hsy shall s as cast ss o the
and Lane f BY asn w psss Ss ok
one Of the three highest to be voted for as Presi
dent. or Lane before the Senate as one of the TIVE
reached, then the said Electors shall vote in their
election Of Lincoln and HamIin. Their election,
in the opinion Of this Convention, threaten the
and cherished Union