Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-03-07


sphere. aynr, 10 ilIuuIinc and mrart its geniu
warmth 10 the shole system. SO with the Sc
ccded States; they may pace onward for Z while
Lu. they will soon return if Virginia holds .!
TO her position.
Nv voice is failing. sir and shall be com
pelled TO coue 70 close. | wish 20 say, before
| do SO, that Twill not discuss hat conceive
to be the remedy for our ills, simply from tht
fact that believe it would he improper for nj,
to do so. being member Of the Committee or
Federal Relations, having that matter in hand
We're | to Go SO, It may look like seeking tC
iorestal the judgment Of this Convention
which ! have no desire nor intention Of doing
shall, therefore, AVOID any argument or eX
preston which might have any such tendency
Allow me, Mr. President, again 10 tender lt
you ard this Convention, iay most cordial arc
hearty thanks for the attentive manner If
which, ms remarks hare been listened 10; the
attention and courtesy manifested were beyont
their merits, far, very fir indeed.
PGRsoSaL EXPLANATION
Mr. BAYLOR, G Augusta--Mr. President,
rise to make personal explanation. lwan'
10 put myself right upon the record thought
the other day th.t made myself understood
upon une thing sacn attempted 10 make !;
speech here. E.;sss$ir seems that iailed 10 &C
so. iGd in newspaper Of this morning n
short sketch relcrri"s 10 those remarks which
shall read:
I'm the debate Of Friday last Mr. BAYLOR,
from Augusta. undertook nstusely TO defend
the Black Republican payty trc:n the charge oi
responsibility for the JonH BEowS RAID. Mr.
BAYLOR appealed lriumphantiy to the Chicago
platform fpr evidence that the Black Republican
party not only gave no countenancc to, buI
openly rrprIr.tcd the raid
SAID the other day that the Black Repnhli,
can party. organized rs party under the Chi
caeo platform, did not cndtrse the JOHN Brown
rand did not say that the Black Republicans
were rot responsible ipr the John Brown raid,
said that the Chicago platform, under which
they had organized and upon when they
placed Abraham Lincoln, did not endorse the
JaLn Brown raid, but on the contrary that il
distinctly denounced it. Now, SIR, want to
read that Clause Of the Chicago platform and
sou will >ee that il viii be found to sustain the
remarks which made, that the Black RepubIi
can party rs i party. is not responsible !"r ihe
John Brown ra.l 1t reads as io!lows:
Fourth, That the maintenance in"lo!atc Of
the rights of the Satcs, and especially the
rights Of each State, 70 order aDd control It's
own domestic institutions according to its own
Judgment, exclusively, is essential to the bal
ancc Of power on which the perfection and the
endurance oi hsr political faith depends. And
we denouncc the lawiess invasion by an armed
force from any State or territory, TO matter
under what prc,eXt, as among the greatest Of
crilncS.'
There, sir, is what the Baci: Republicans
state us L party when they organized themselves
rs party. / did not say Black Republican
luen wcra not To lie held responsible for the
John Brown raid | say farther, il they had
adopted such resolution, that is resolution
giving counlcEance to the John Brown raid,
and placed Mr.. Lincoln, or anybody else, upon
il, that q minority Of the Black Republicans
never would lave endorsed the John Brown
raid and succeeded in electing their candidate,
as they have done.
|. is said and have seen it in the 'Enqui-
Ter," that no man will endorse the propositions
of the Peace Conference, unless he be himself
Back Republican. endorsed those propc-
sitinns the other day, and | want 10 tell that
print that am TO more Elack Republican
than the Enquirer" itself. am Shareholder,
| live in slave-holding county, and we arc not
10 BE- denounced as Black Republicans, because
We intend to endorse tho compromise measures
proposed to US by ;hc Peace Conference.
ii.e-e are other rc:narss which desire 10
make, and which, / shall teke the liberty OF
making now in reference to 4 few unmpoftant
errors wiicL have been committed in the re.
rort Of my specch. do rot complain Of the
Reporter, fer know it IS very hard matter
20 he understood in this nall. shall detain
The Convention hut noment.
III the rcpor, arn made TO say "when look
back To the early history Ct my couatry-and
| must be rerG.ttrd TO say here that the .trst
pu6iic meeting that / srer attended was when
| WAS boy Ii; school.
said thal the first reading | ever did was
the early history OF my country when ~as
boy as school.
There is another correction | desire to make.
IL The report the following language is used:
II desire to have this question to so to the
people o! all the States, and want them to
elect members 10 their Legislatures, who will
ns!; Congress TO cali constitutional CoDYrn'
zion, ard then, in that event, Congress woul!
feel itself bound to call such Convention ]
vii! not DC satisfied about hct."
What did state was that will not be salts
fed short OF that" instead Of about that
COMMITTEE oS REPORTING CONTRACT.
The PRESlDENr-l will Ho~ announce the
committee ordered yesterday, on the resolution
of.vIcd by the gentleman from Henrico, (Air.
WlcIHAM) relative to the reporting contract
will. the "EnGnircr:" Mcssrs WIcxuAM,
RICHARDSON, HuGnEs, STAPLES Of Patrick,
Dent and MONTAGUE.
RECORDING OF VOTE.
SIR. MGSTAGrE.--i rise for the purpose Of
asking the Convention 10 permit me to record
my name upon the record, i'll connection with
the vote taken TO day upon the question Of
laying the resolution on the table, whether a
certain number Of copies Of the addresses oil
the Commissioners from the Southern seeding
States shall be printed. ! am sure that when
| state the reason Of my absence, the Conven-
tion will readily cuncede 10 me the privilege
which ask. / was absent to-day in the &c.
nate Of Virginia, with which. as you know,
am connected, npon very peculiar occasion.
Resolutions relating to the death Of the Hon.
George ". Hopkins, were introduced in that
body, and ':eemed it my duty TO be present.
With this brief explanation Of the cause OF my
absence, will ask OF this Convention the pri.
yilcgc of recording my name upon the motion
to which | have Just referred, and, with the
permission Of the Convention, shall vote in
ine negative upon that proposition.
The PRss,DEST-Thc CHAIR will regard it as
the sense of the Convention that the gentle
mar sha! have permission to record his vote,
ami he will accordingly instruct the Secretary
to 10 so in tic nlanHcr indicated BY the gentle
man himself
ADDRESSES OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr.. BRANCH This morning fell into an
error, which desire to correct. voted with
the majority on tho resolution of the gentle
man from Ohio. (Slr. HUBsARDD and l desire
now to have it taken Up. was here last Tues.
DAY week, and | heard the address delivered
bv the Hon. Mr.. Preston, the Commissioner
from South Carolina; and | heard also the ad'
dresses OF the other Commissioners. They
were all requested By resolution Of this body
to give u their addresses for publication
now move that the resolution, which was
laid on the ,nble, be taken up, in order TO en.
able Inc to offer All amendment to it lPresume