The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-09-02
GOV. SEYMOUR OF NEW
YORK PRESIDENT.
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN
NOMINATED FOR
PRESIDENT.
Especial TO PIOneerD
CHICAGO, AUG. 81.
General Mcclellan was Nomi-
mated on First Ballot. G..
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION,

THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.-The proceedings were
opened by Bishop Whtehouse, who first read
from the Psalms of David, following with an
impressive prayer-the delegates and audience
standing
The Committee on Credentials reported
against the admission of delegates from the
Territories or District of Columbia; also to ad
NIT both delegations from Kentucky: each dele
gate to have half vote. Reports adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Cox, Hon. Amos Kendall
had leave to present communication.
The proceedings and action of the Conserva-
tive Union National Convention held in this
city or the 9th, when Secretary Reeds resO-
buttons recommending the nomination of Nc
Clellan Cthe widest applause went up, many
delegates standing and cheering.)
MIR. Cox moved that the communication be
referred to the Committee on Resolutions.
Mr.. Wilder moved to amend, so that the
communication be made part of the minutes
of the Convention.
The Chair stated that the communication
would be entered on the minutes of the course
Mr.. Odds said that another body, the Sons
of Liberty now In session here might have
communication to make to the Convention,
and if this is put upon the minutes theirs
ought to be received.
III,
The communication was accepted
The report of the Committee on Organiza.
ton was read as follows and adopted by accla-
nation:
The Committee on Permanent Organization
and Rules for the government of the Demo-
cratic National Convention now in session, re-
specttuly report that they recommend to the
Convention for their selection the following
officers:
For President
His EXcellency HORATIO SEYMOUR
For Vice Presidents.
Joseph Chase, Maine.
J. W. Williams New Hampshire.
E. d. Beach, Massachusetts.
ID. II. Smalley. Vermont
Geo. TAYLOR, Connecticut
Alfred Anthony. Rhode Island.
Andrew j. Cobb. New Jersey.
L. X. Tucker, New York.
Asa Packer, Pennsylvania
j. F. Robinson, Ohio.
s. w. Gibson, Indiana. g..
E. B. Fisklin, Illinois. ..
John s. Barry, Michigan
John N. Phelps, Missouri.
j. Fl. Peckham, Minnesota.
VIM. Patterson. Iowa.
John s. Berry, California. e..
VIM. McMuller. Oregon.
D. JONES' Maryland.
DIR. John Merritt, Delaware.
Recording Secretaries II. Simpson, of
Maine; Jno. Fl. Woolf, of New Hampshire !:
N. B. Phinney, of Massachusetts, L s. Pat
fridge. of Vermont; F. L. Allen, of Connecti-
cut; Thos. A. Reynolds of Rhode Island; JAS
]. Thayer. New York Jas. D. Biddle, New
Jersey; Edward L. Martin, Delaware; F, L..
Maryland; Jas. P. Barbour, Kentucky; E. B.
Echelman, Ohio; A. T. Whittlesey, Iowa; w.
w. OBrien, Illinois; T. j. Camper. Michigan:
Jas. Billings, Missouri; Jno. II. Mckinney,
Minnesota; Philo Orion, Wisconsin; Jno. Cur
rim, Iowa; VIM. j. Whipple, California; F. P,
Fitzwilliam, Kansas; VIM. Beebe. Oregon.
Reading Secretaries-O. A. Perrin. New
York; Isaac r. Dill, Illinois; Moses VI. Strong,
Wisconsin. -...... .t#..
The committee further recommend that the
rules and regulations adopted by the Demo-
cratic National Convention of 1860 be adopted
by this Convention for its government.
CHICAGO, Aug. 29-At the close of Mr.. Bel
mOnt's remarks he nominated Ex-GOv. Bigler,
of Pennsylvania, for temporary President
which motion was carried unanimously
When the cheers which greeted Gov. Bigler
has subsidized, he said:
SPEECH OF MIR. BIGLER. F..r
Gentlemen of the Conventional am greatly
honored in your selection of me to preside over
the preliminary deliberations of this body. NV
acknowledgements for this high compliment
and for the kind greeting just extended to me
by this vast assembly of my fellow-citizens will
be best manifested by proper discharge of the
duties of the position to which you have called
me. 1t is not expected nor would it be befit-
ting in one assuming the mere temporary pres
idency of the Convention that he should enter
upon any general discussion of the many topics
suggested by the unhappy condition of our
country. ..
A brief allusion to the occasion and purposes
of our assemblege is all that will be necessary
No similar body ever assembled in America
with mightier objects before them or to which
such vast proportion of the American people
looked with such profound sOlicitude for
measures to promote the welfare of the coun-
try and advance their individual happiness.
The termination of Democratic rule in this
tween the States and the people. The eleva.
ton of sectional party to authority at WASH
ington,-the elimination of o long INDUCED
and acrimonious war of elimination and re-
elimination between extreme men at the North
and South, was promptly followed by dissolu-
ton and civil war; and in the progress of that
war even the bulwarks of civil liberty have
been disregarded and imperilled, and the whole
1aorlc brought to the very verge of destruc-
ton. And now, at the continuance of more
than three years OF war unparalleled in mod
ern times for its magnitude and for its barbar-
GUS desolations; after more than two millions
OF men have been placed in the field on our
slde alone AFTER the land has been literally
drenched in fratricidal blood, and wailing and
lamentations are heard in every corner Of our
common country, the hopes of the Union, our
chosen object, are in nowise improved.
The party now in authority have q feud
which they have long maintained with violent
and unwise men at the South, because of a
blind fanaticism about an institution of some
duties to perform, and NO responsibilities
and are entirely incapable of adopting the
proper means to rescue our country. our
whole country. from its present lamentable con.
dition. ~" 9'4 t@
Then gentlemen. it is apparent that the first