Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-09-08

here TO lndlct him..
A delegate-I call him to order
Mr.. President said he hoped there was no
man present who would deny the right o!
free speech; certainly no Democrat will At
! the same sime he hoped that no delegate
would feel called upon to pursue course OF
remarks so offensive as to interfere with the
harmony of the Convention.
Mr.. Harris read McClellan's order of arrest
OF the Maryland Legislature and proceeded
| TO comment on the same, but the confusion
was so great that the speaker could not be
heard except to say that all the charges of
usurpation and wrong that can be brought
| against Lincoln and Butler, he can make and
| substantiate against Mcclellan Misses and
cheers, and cries Of "yote for jeff Davis"1
| The President insisted that the Conven-
ton should come to order. "There is no ut
| tack made but can be made elsewhere, and
the friends of the gentleman against whom
these charges are being made desire that
they shall be made here so that they can
meet and satisfactorily explain them. These
Interruptions do injustice to yourselves to
the speaker and to the distinguished general
against whom they are made. Let the gen
tleman have full hearing, and afterwards
hear the other side from gentleman who is
able and ready TO make full explanations"
Kisses.
Mr.. Harris proceeded to say that Mcclellan
was the assassin of State rights, the usurp-
er of civil liberty, and that if he is nominal
ed he will be beaten everywhere as he was
at Antietam. He added that he could not 90
home and ask the members of that Legisla-
ture to vote for such man. He would not
himself vote for him. Kisses.
Mr.. Carrigan, of Pennsylvania, raised a
point of order, that the gentleman, having
said that he would not vote for Mcclellan,
had no right to take part in the proceedings
OF the Convention.
The President decided that the point of Or
der was well taken, and amid the widest con-
fusion MIR. Harris retired from the stand.
Mr.. Carrigan said that for many years
the relations between the gentleman and
himself had been intimate and of the most
friendly character, but in view of the abso-
lutte necessity for preserving the morale of
the Convention, he felt bound to raise the
point OF order which he had. He now moved
that he be allowed to proceed in order.
Gen. Morgan, as a fellow-soldier of Nc
Clellan, could not remain silent when the
name and fame of that distinguished General
| were so shamefully impugned The charges
are untrue. The MARYLAND Legislature was
In session at Annapolis; Gen. 10. Johnston,
of the rebel army, was there; conspiracy
was formed, and certain members of the
Legislature were the conspirators they in
tended that the State should secede; an Or
dinance of secession was framed MARYLAND
was to be invaded overwhelmingly by the en-
envy, and taken out of the Union. What did
Gen. Mcclellan do! He simply took the best
precautions in his power to prevent the trea-
sonable scheme, and had he not done so he
would have been guilty of the vilest treason.
The man who says that Gen. Mcclellan is
tyrant does not know him. He is thorough
soldier, with the genteness of woman and
the courage of lion. No Drawer man, and
no more amiable, kind and generous hearted
gentleman exists on the face of the earth :;
and no greater libel was ever uttered than
when such man is called a tyrant. APP
plause.
Mr. Harris, of Maryland, said that what he
had said was that he could not go before the
people of Maryland and ask the members
of that Legislature to vote for Mcclellan
He did not doubt that they would vote for
him. He held himself bound to vote for the
candidate of the Convention.
The name of Governor Powell was with
drawn.
Mr.. Wicklife, withdrew the name of Frank
lin Pierce.
Mr.. Jones, of Maryland, regretted that the
gentleman who took the stand for the de-
Tense assumed the ground that he was justif-
ed, because of collision between the men,
bers of the Legislature and General in the
rebel army, and had he put it on the ground
that he acted on credible evidence, he
might have remained silent, but now he
could not permit the Legislature 10 stand I'M
der such a falsehood.
Gen. Morgan explained that he intended to
hot oil cd on aSt I'd
ed az reliable.
Mr.. Jones, said that so far from being cred
ible it has ever been pronounced by the vic
tins of the action an utter falsehood. The
Legislature had no power to pass an ordi-
nance of secession. Their case demanded
immediate trial, even by drum-head court
martial, but instead of giving that which the
law guaranteed to them, they were told that
they could have their liberty by giving their
parole. Some worn out by the fatigues of
imprisonment, did finally give their parole,
but others proposed to yield their lives rather
than submit to the humiliating test that was
required of them. They suffered long and
hard To this day they know not their accu-
sers. Still he believed that Mcclellan was
90 much Of gentleman and Christian to act
as he did unless On what he deemed credible
evidence.
Holman, of New Jersey, said that the de-
bate on candidates should be closed and NOV
ed the previous question.
Mr.. O'Brien, of Illinois, on behalf of
portion of the Illinois delegation, and as he
believed Of majority of the delegates of
the great Northwest, nominated Horatio
Seymour. Prolonged cheers.
The President: "The motion is out of Or
| der"
Motions to adjourn were made, but declar-
| ed out of order.
Mr.. Long, of Ohio, took the stand in oppo-
sition to Mcclellan. He said that Lincoln
| had been guilty of interfering with the free
dom of speech, the freedom of elections, and
of arbitrary arrests and in your resolutions
YOU have arraigned him before the people of
| the country for these tyrannies and usurpa-
tions; and yet you propose to nominate a
man for the support of the Democracy, man
who has gone even farther than Lincoln has
gone in the preparation of similar tyrannical
measures upon the sacred privileges and
rights of the people. Mcclellan is guilty of
the arrest of the Legislature of sovereign
State. He has suspended the writ of
ha5eas corpus and helped to enforce the
| odious emancipation proclamation of Lin
coln-the willing instrument of corrup-
and tyrannical administration, aiding, while
possessing military power, all its efforts to
strip American freemen Of their dearest lib
critics. Will you so far stultify yourselves as
to make him the standard bearer Of be De-
mocracy? With all his heart he hoped not.
He had never done otherwise, and as between
Lincoln and Fremont and any man calling
himself even half Democrat, he would have
choice and would be found voting with his
friends, but he begged the Convention not to
nominate Mcclellan. Almost any other man