Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1864-09-15
FoR REs1pIEe sEcRRTARIE

w. III. Simpson, of Maine; A. 5.
WAR, of New Hampshire; L. B. Painney
of Massachusetts; L. E. Partridge. of
Vermont F. L. Allen, of Connecticut
Thomas A. Reynolds. of Rhode Island;
James S .Thsyer, of New York; Joseph
D. RiddIe, of New Jersey. Edward l..
Martin, of Delaware; Frank Hutchinson,
of Pennsylvania; James L. Mcclure, Of
Maryland; James P. Barbour, Of Ken
lucky; E. b. Eshelmln. of Ohio; A T
Whiltesey, of Indiana; w. w. O'Brieni
of Illinois; Theodore J. Campau, of Mich
igan.
For reading Secretaries. E. o. Perrin
of New York; IssaaC L. Diller, of Hi.
nois: Moses M Strong, of Wisconsin.
The Committee on resolutions, is gen.
orally termed platform committee. and
rs charged with the important duty of
reporting platform of principles. Al
no time in our party history was this
duty so delicate and so fraught with good
or i'll as on this occasion. It's members
were-Maine, John w. Dana;, Edwin
Pearce; Massachusetts, George Lunl:
Connecticut: Charles r. IngersOll; Yer
mont, Timothy P Redfeld.
Hon. James Gutherie was Chairma n.
and when called upon TO report at The
morning session, he asked for the delay
until four o'clock in the afternoon. TIE
few Republicans who were looking on
at this iuncture, inwardly chuckled, say
ing to themselves that the tug. of war
had now come, that the Committee were
at a dead lock and would certainly return
majority and minority reports that would
split up the Convention. Some OF the
delegates themselves were little puzzled
and curions to know the cause of the de-
lay.
The, bones Of the one and the fears Of
Gutherie, Oh taking his seat at the head
of the Commitiee, recommended, as did
other Influential committeeman, that ev-
cry one should freely and fully express
his views, and if it was preferred, reduce
them TO writing in brief. comprehens i've
style. By this mode, every one had his
say" which of course occupied some
time. The whole were then collected
and placed in the hands of a sub Com
mitlee of seven, who reduced them TO The
magnificent and expressive vebal and
ideal form in which they went TO the
Convention. They were the work of
more hands and brains than one, and no
single member can claim the credit of
having devised or constructed them.
When The vote was put by Mr.. Gutherie
lwenIy-three persons SAID aye, only one
responding in the negative. The gen.
tleman who 80 found himself alone in
dissenting, soon afterwards requested the
Chairman TO tell no one tDat be had disa-
greed to them, and spoke olher wise on
the subject in forms which were equlva-
lent to recanting his position. Ii can.
be claimed, therefore, that tney went
oul of the Committee.
Their public presentation produced
scene which has no parallel in tins Con
Misunderstanding the nomination OF
General Nc Clellan-an which was
never equalled in any other deliberative
body 10 America. Mr.. Perrin, of New
York, one of the Secretaries, who has
a wonderful loud, clear and distinct voice,
advanced to the edge of the stage and
began their reading. The thousands
who composed the vast audience grew d:
still as death, something even to suspend
their very breathing for the OCCASION
The first resolution the audience respond
ed with applause in thunders that rolled
and roared through the building for a
full minute, but people did not generally
rise to their.feet. The second was read,
when Instantly nearly every one there
rose, as by an electric instinct, waved
hats and handkerchiefs, and sent up
peal after peal of huzzas, so long, so
loud, so simultaneous they seemed to
express the might,Of nation, The reso-
luton was as follows:
RESOLVED, That this Convention does
explicitly declare, as the sense of the
American people, that after fosr years of
failure TO restore The Union by the ex-
pertinent of war, during which, under
the pretence of a military necessity or
war power higher than the Constitution,
The Constitution itself has been disregar.
ded in every part. and public liberty
and private right alike trOdden down
and the material prosperity of the coun-
try essentially impaired-jusliee, human
ily, liberty, and the public welfare de-
mand hostilities, with . view to an ulti-