Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-06-16

from Tennessee, State in rebellion. | hope
you will pause, gentlemen, before you commit
SO rash an act as that and thereby recognize
secession. We don't recognize 1t III Iennes-
see. (Applause.l We deny that we are out.
(Applause.) We deny that we have been out.
(Applause.) We maintain that the minority
first voted US out, and then majority whip
ped the minority out Of the State with bay
onets and drove over a portion OF our men
to their ranks But we are here to partici-
pate in your deliberations and tolls.
The delegation that our state sends up to
you would scorn to go to the Chicago Con-
thing to do with the late Cleveland Conven-
ton. (Applause) We are for the Baltimore
Lincoln-Arming- of Negroes Convention. Gap
plause.) We are for the convention Of the
party that are resolved to put down this wick
ed this Internal rebellion at all hazards and
all costs of money and lives, and our conven-
ton instructed us, before we left home, to
advocate and vote for ty.aham Lincoln, first,
last and all the time. (Applause.l And the
idea | suggest to you as an lnducement not to
throw out our delegation is that we may take
1t into our heads before the thing is over to
present a candidate from that state in rebel
lion for the second office in the gift Of the
people. (Applause.)
We have a man down there whom it has
been my good luck and bad fortune to fight
untiringly for the last twenty-five years-An-
drew johnson. (Applause.) For the first
time, in the providence of God, three years
ago, we got together on the same platform,
and we are now fighting the Devil, Tom
Walker and JEFF. Davis side by side. (Ap-
plause.)
After few more remarks Mr.. Brownlow
closed.
The Convention then adjourned till We'd
nesday morning.
BALTIMORE, June s.
SECOND DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
The Union Convention re-assembled at 10
a. m. President Dennison in the chair.
Prayer was offered by Rev. Mr.. Gaddis, of
Ohio The committee on the order of bust
ness made report, which, after amendments,
was adopted
Mr.. King of New York, chairman of the
committee on credentials made a majority
report that the Missouri radicals be admitted;
that the Arkansas delegates be admitted
to seats without the right of voting; that
the South Carolina delegates be not admitted,
and that those from the District of Column
bia be admitted to seats without votes.
The minority made a report which con-
Cured in that of the majority, except the
exclusion of the delegates from Virginia and
Arkansas, and the Territories of Colorado,
Nevada and Nebraska, from the right of
voting.
That part of the majority report that re-
lated to uncontested delegates was adopted
Several amendments regarding the manner
Il
were rejected.
The question then REQUIRED on the adop-
ton Of the majority report. A call for a vote
by States was made, the vote resulting in
the nearly unanimous adoption of the major
ity report, admitting the radical delegation
from Missouri, by yeas 44O, nays4.
After the admission of the Missouri dele
gates the remaining proposition-offered as
an amendment by Mr.. Lane, that the dele
gates from Tennessee, Florida, Virginia, Lou
isiana, Arkansas and all the Territories which
the majority report proposed to admit to
seats without the right to vote, should have
| the right to Vote-was put to the Conven-
! ton.
| Mr. Lane asked for a division of the ques-
| ton so as to vote as to the States first, and
| then on the Territories
| \ second division was called for, and the
J House asked to vote first us to Tennessee's
! having the right to vote.
A call for vote by States was made, and
| the Convention voted ayes 310,noes, SO.
| SION Oh aih"Iio."-- GOVT voted on the admis-
to vote. The result was announced ayes a,J,4
nays 167.
The report of the committee on credentials
was then adopted as amended.
| Mr. Raymond of New York, from the com
mlttee on resolutions, reported the following
resolutions:
! RcS0lced, That it is the highest duty of every
American citizen to maintain against their enemies
| the integrity of the Union and paramount author
| lty OF the Constitution and Laws of the United
states, and that, laying aside all difference of DO
htlcal opinions, We pledge ourselves as Unto, men
| animated by common sentiment and aiming at .
common object, to do everything in our power to
| ad the Government in qurlling by force of arms
the rebellion now raging against its authority an
| bringing to the punishment due to their Grim s
the rebels and traitors arrayed against it, pro
! ionged applauseI
| ReSolred, That We approve the determination IF
| the Government of the United States not to com
promise with rebels to offer any terms of Deaca
except sueh as may be based upon uncondition-
al surrender OF their hostilities and a return to
their just allegiance to the Constitution and Laws
OF the united States; and we call upon the Govern
ment to maintain this position and to nrosacnto
the war with the utmost possible yigor to the com
plete suppression of rebellion, in full rehanc e unon
the set-Saerltcng patriotism and the heroic valor
anu uhuyluS ueFoIlon OF the American people to
their country and its free institutions
ReSOtued, That as slavery was the cause and now
constitutes the strength of this rebellion and as it
must be always and everywhere hostile to the prin
cples of a Republican government Justice to the
national safety demands its utter and complete
eAtlrpatlon from the soil of the Republic and
that We uphold and maintain the act of the proc-
lamation, in which the government in its own de-
tense has aimed death blow at this gigantic evil
We are in favor, turth ermore, OF such an amend
ment to the Constitution, to be made by the peo-
pie in conformity with its provisions, as shall ter
inmate and forever rohbit the existence of slay-
cry within the limits jurisdiction of the United
States. (Repeated applause0
ResotCed, That the thanks of the American pco.
pie are due to the soldiers and sailors of the army
and navy who have periled their lives in defense of
the country and in Vindicaion of the honor of the
hagj that the nation owes to them some permanent
recognition of their yalor, and ample and perma-
nent provision for those of their survivors who
have received disabling and honorable wounds In
the service of their country and the memories of
those who have fallen in its defence shall be hold
in grateful and everlasting remembrance 1Loud
applause.)
RESOLVED, That we approve and applaud the prac.
teal wisdom, unselfsh patriotism, and unsweryipp
fidelity to the Constitution and the principies Of
American liberty with which Abraham Lincoln
has discharged, under circumstances of unparalleled
ed difficulty, the great duties and RESPONSIBILITIES
of the presidential office; that we approve and en-
dorse, as demanded by the emergency and essential
to the preservation of the nation and as within
the Constitution, the measures and acts which he
has adopted to defend the nation against its omen
and secret foes that approve, especially
the proclamation of emancipation and the EN-
ployment as Union soldiers of men heretofore held
IN slavery, and that we have full confidence in his
determination to carry these and all other con-
sttutlonal measures essential to the salvation of
the country into full and complete effect. [Great