The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-06-11
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE.
The baltimore Convention Com
mia6ee wait on the President.

The Baltimore Convention Com
mislee wait on the Presloent'
WASHINGTON, June 9.-About o'clock
TO-DAY the Committee appointed yesterday
hv tho National Union Convention At i3al-
timOre to inform President Lincoln OF az
nomination by that Convention, rencheo
the White House. Gov. DennisOn, FreSi-
dent OF the Convention and Chairman OF
said Committee, then addressed the fresi-
dent as follows:
tion. which closed at Baltimore yesterday,
anpointed a Committee, consisting OF one
from each State and myself as Chairman,
To inform YOU of your unanimous nOml-
nation by the Convention for President.
That Committee, have the honor 70 IN
form you, is present, and on is DehalI
have the honor to present you WIN J"y
Of the resolutions or platform adopted ~
that convention rs expressive Of its sense,
and the sense of the country which II rep
resents. Of the principles and policy that
should characterize the administr alton. In
the present condition of the country, need
not say to you that the Convention, in thus
unanimously nominating, gave utterance
to the universal voice Of the people of the
country. To doubt your election would be
little short of abandoning the hope
Of final suppression Of the rebellion and
the restoration OF the government. Nnelther
the Convention nor those represented by
that entertain any doubt as to the final re-
suit under your administration, sustained
by the loyal people and by our noble army
and gallant navy. Neither did the Con-
vention nor Committee doubt the speedy
suppression of this most wicked and uA-
provoked rebellion.
A COPY Of the resolutions were then
handed to the President.
would add, Mr.. President, that it would
be the pleasure of the Committee to COM
municate to you within few days thro' one
Of its most accomplished members, Mr..
Curtis, by letter and ut more length. the
circumstances under which you have been
placed by the nomination for the Presi-
dency.
The Presiden: said Mr.. Chairman and
gentlemen Of the committee will neither
conceal my qualification nor restrain the
expression of my gratitude, that Union
people, through their convention, in the
continued effort to have and advance the
nation, have deemed me not unworthy to
retain my present position. l know no
reason to doubt that I shall accept the NOM
inatiOn rendered, and vet perhaps I should
not decided definitely before reading and
considering what is called the PLATFORM
I will say now, however, that approve
the declaration III favor Of so amending
the Constitution as 10 prohibit slavery
throughout the Nation. When the people
in revolt, with the hundred days explicit
notice that they could within those days
resume their allegiance without the over
throw Of their institutions, and that they
could not resume it afterwards, elected to
stand out.
Such an amendment of the Constitution
as now is proposed, becomes fitting and
necessary conclusion, tor the success OF
the Union cause. Such alone can meet
and cover all cavils. 1 now presume its
importance and embrace it in the joint
names Of Liberty and Union.
Let US labor to give it legal form, and
practical effect.
At the conclusion Of the President
speech, all the Committee shook him cor
daily by the,hand and offered their per-
sonal congratulations.
The members Of the National Union
League adjourned yesterday from Balti-
more to this city, and called upon the Pres
| ident this p. m. The Chairman Of the dep
| utation spoke to the President AS fellows:
| Mr.. President, have the honor OF intro
ducing you to the representatives of the
Union Leagues Of the loyal States, to con-
graduate you upon your denomination
and to assure you that we will not fail at
| the polls to give support,-your services in
the past are 80 highly deserving we feel
honored in doing SO, for we are assured we
are aiding in re-electing TO the proud po-
one so highly worthy of it. one among
not the least of whose claims is that he was
the enancipato- of 4O00, 900 bondmen.
The President replied as follows: Gentle
men. I candidly say in responseto the re-
marks of your chairman, am very CRATE
full for the renewed confidence which has
been accorded both by the Convention an.
by the National League. am not insen-
sible at all to the personal compliment
there is in this: yet do not allow myself
to believe that any but small portion is to
be appreciated as personal COM
pliment. The Convention and the
nation, am assured, are alike ami
mated by a higher view Of the interests
of the country for the present aud the
great future, and that part am entitled
to appropriate as o compliment, is only
that part which may lay hold Of rs being
the opinion Of the Convention and OF the
League, that I am not unworthy to
he entrusted with the place I have occu-
pied for the last three years. have no,
permitted myself, gentlemen. to conclude
that am the best man in the country,
but am reminded in this connection Of 4
story of an old Dutch farmer who remarked
to companion once that it was not best tc
swap horses when crossing stream.