Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-06-18

was greeted with dcaicnlhg applause, The
Convention aud audience rose TO their feet,
and amid the waving Of lals aud handker-
chiefs, the gallant parson BrownloG excused
himself from speech on account of Illness,
but proceeded 10 say there was one thing
ho heard Of when he came 10 town, and
that was you had some doubts in3our minds
about the proproty Of admitting The delega-
ton from Tcnncssee--a State in rebellion,
! hope you will pause, gentlemen, before
you commit so rash an net Ns that, and
thereby recognize secession, We don tree.
ogni2e it in Tennessee [ApplauSc We
deny that We are out Applause, We
deny that we have been out AppIapsc,
We maintain that the minority first voted
us ont and then u majority whipped the mi
norily out Of the State with buyoncts, aud
drove over n portion Of our men TO their
ranks But we are here TO participate in
your deliberations and tolls, The dcega-
tioh that our state sends up 10 you would
scorn 10 go 10 the Chicago Convention,
They would decline having anything 10
do with the late Cleveland Convention
Applause We are for the Bultimorc-Lin-
con-arming negroes Convention, APP
pluuse, We are for the Convention Of the
party that are resolved to put down this
wicked, this internal rebellion AZ all hazards
and at all cost of money and lives, and our
Convention instructed Us before we left home
10 advocate vote for Abraham Lincoln
first. last and all the time. GAppause I
And the idea suggest TO YOU as an induce
mcnt not to throw out our drlcration is.
that we mav take il into orr heads before
the thing isovcr 10 present II candidate from
that state i'm rebellion for the second Office
in the gilt Of the people. TAppausc. We
have a man down there whom it has been
my rood luck and bad fortune TO fght I'M
tiringly Tor the last twenty-five years
Andrew johnson IApplause For the
first time in the providence of God, three
years ago. we bug ht together on the same
platform. and wcarc now fighting the Devil.
Tom Walker, and jeff. Davis side by side.
rApplausc.1
After few more remarks Mr. Brownlow
closed and ON motion. the Convention ad-
iournca tin Wednesday morning.
BAIrluoRE June S.-The Convention re-
assembled III l0o'clock, President Dcnnison
in the chair,
After Draycr bv Ecv. Mr.. Gnddis of Ohio.
tI,e Committee ON Business rcportcd and
afro, cr,c,dn,cnt tho rcnort v.ns odoutnd
Mr.. King. of New York. Chairman Of the
Committee ON Credentials made n majority
r.nort thot fine Missouri Radicals he admit.
ted that the Arkansas DELEGATES he admit
ted 10 seats without the rirht of voting
that fine Soufh Carolina delegates he not nd.
mit,ed and the delegates from the District
~ CoI,n,Li, Ina odrSittod ia scote without
,.o,os
Tho r,inor;,,, made y rcnort which rom
c,r,rcd y;th that or tLn moio,,;tv, ovcnnt th.
oyclrs;n,, If thn Iolcgotcs Gnm Vr,inio
Arkansas and thc Territories of Colorado
| Nevada and Nebraska from tha rigbt of
VOTING
Tb9t n.rt of fine majority rerort that 70
lotod n uncor.c.tcd d"c1,,tions was odont-
cI
/ Several amendments rceordino lbo man
Nor Of admission nf thc Missouri dnlecotos
wore rcinctcd
rho Guestion tbor rocurrcd an the ,doy-
tion Of The majority rcnort
4 call for the vote by States was made.
aud resulted in the adoption Of the majority
report, admitting the radical delegation
/ from Missouri, hy ayes 40, nays 4.
After the admission Of the Missouri dele
gates, the remaining propo ,ition offered as
an amendment, by Mr.. King, that the del
egates from Tennessee Virginia, Florida,
Louisiana, Arkansas and all the territories
which the majority report proposed to ad-
nit to seats withoutth erigh to vote, should
have the right to vote was put to the Con-
vention.
Mr.. Lane asked division of the question
so as to vote as to the States first, and then
on the Territories
a second division was called for. and the
House asked to vote first as to Tennessee
having the right to vote. A call for Il vote
by States was made and the house voted,
ayes SO, nays 1853. The Convention next
voted as to the admission Of Arkansas and
Louisiana with the right to vote. The re
suit was announced. ayes aO7, NAYS 1871.