Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-08-16

ing In Portland and headed by Governo-
Crosby, are entitled TO admission as the delr
egation from Maine. The delegates elected
at a meeting at Dover on the 28th OF July,
1866, are entitled to admission as delegates
from Delaware, and the persons chosen at
Wilmington on the I'd Of August, are to be
admitted TO honorary seats In the Conven-
tion. Gentlemen attending from the United
Service Society of Soldiers and Sailors of
New York, and those elected by the New
York delegation represented by Mr.. Sam
mtted to seats as honorary members.
In consequence Of the time that would
be occupied In reading the full list of dele
gates, its reading was dispensed with, and
under the previous question the report OF
the committee was agreed TO.
Much amusement was caused by the
Chairman inadvertently speaking of Gen.
Steedman as the Senator from Ohio, and the
slip of the tongue was characterized by
some gentlemen as prophetic.
| Mr.. Groesbeck, Of Ohio, as the organ of
the united delegation from that State, pre-
sented a letter of withdrawal from Mr.. Val
landigham, and asked that it be read to the
| Convention.
The Chairman intimated that that would
require unanimous consent, and asked
whether there was any objection.
| A delegate from New YORK rose and OBJ
jected. Loud cries of "Read 1t, read it, |
| Senator johnson, OF Maryland, moved
that the rules be suspended In order to al
low the letter to be read. The rules were
suspended and the letter was read by the
Secretary as follows:
GIRARD HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA,l
August To- 1866.
i IT, III fLa ATo,;o.,,J JT.,sa..
Ueaotorl, Philadelphia:
SIR-I have this day received from the
National Union Committee, through the
Hon. VIM. 5. Groesbeck, Chairman of the
joint Ohio delegation to your Convention,
ticket of admission as a delegate from
that State. The Hon. George w. McCook,
the Chairman of the Democratic delega-
tion from Ohio, has also communicated to
me the following resolution, this morning
adopted by that delegation:
=" ResOlUed unanimously, By the Ohio Dem
| ocratic Delegation, that we recognize the
right of Hon. Clement i. Vallandigham, a
| duly elected delegate from the Third Con-
| gressional District of Ohio, to hold seat
in that Convention; that we should regard
his exclusion from such seat as an unjust
and unreasonable infringement of the
rights of the Democracy of said District,
and are ready to stand by him in the asser-
tion of his rights and the rights of his con-
stituents; that we indorse most cordially
the purity and patriotism of his motives,
and his fitness In every way to a seat in
said Convention; yet, for the sake of har-
mOny and good feeling In the same, and in
the great ends for which 1t Is called, we
consent to his withdrawal from a seat in the
Convention, If in his judgment his duty to
| his constituents shall justify such with
drawal."
Yielding to my own deliberate convic-
tions of duty and right, to the almost
unanimous opinion and desire Of friends,
whose wisdom and soundness of iudg-
ment and sincerity and purity of mo-
tiVes l may not question, to the end
that there shall be no pretext from
any quarter for any controverted question
or disturbing element in the Convention,
to mar It's harmony or hinder in any way
the results to the cause of the Constitution,
the Union and public liberty which shall
follow from its deliberations and action,
hereby withdraw from the Ohio Democratic
delegation, and decline taking my seat in
the Convention. lam profoundly conscious
that the sanctity and magnitude of the in
terests involved in the present political can
vass in the United States are too immense
not to demand a sacrifice of every personal
consideration in struggle upon the issue
of which depends, as | most solemnly be-
lieve, the present peace and ultimately the
existence of free Republican Government
on this continent.
Trusting that your deliberations may be
harmonious, your proceedings full of wis
dom and patriotism, and its results crowned
with glorious and saving triumph in the
end, to the great cause in which every SYM
pathy of my heart is enlisted,
am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
| [Signedl G. l.. VALLANDIGHAM.
On motion of Senator Cowan, of Penn
| sylvania, committee of two from each
State and Territory was appointed to pre-
pare resolutions and an address.
The following was subsequently an
nounced as the committee:
Hon. Edgar Cowan, Chairman; Maine, r.
d. Rice and Geo. H. Weston; New Hamp-
shire, G. b. Bowers and Ii. Bingham; Ver-
mont, G. n. Davenport and j. II. Williams;
Massachusetts, Gen. ID. w. Couch and G. L.
Woodbury.; Rhode Island, VIM. Beach Law
renee and Thomas Stearne; Connecticut,
James Dixon and o. S. Seymour; New
York, Hon. II. J. Raymond and Hon. S. E.
Church; New Jersey, Col. Ingam COriell
and Abraham Browning; Pennsylvania,
Hon. Edgar Cowan and Hon. w. Bigley;
Delaware, Joseph p. Comegers and Jo-
seph Ayres St0ckley; Maryland, Hon. r.
johnson and Hon. John w. Prestield; Vir-
ginia, Hon. Richard III. Parker and John
| W. Marge: West Virginia, General John j.
Jackson, Parkersburg, and Daniel Lamb,
| Wheeling; North Carolina, Hon. VIM. A.
Graham and Hon. N. Dresden; South Car
olina, S. MCGOWAN and r. f. Perry; Geor-
| gia, b. w. Alexander and A. Il. Wright
Florida, Hon. VIM. Marvin and Hon. Mr..
wilkinson; Alabama, G. @. Langdon and
j. j. Foster; Mississippi, Hon. VIM. Tager
and Hon. A. Murdock; Louisiana, John
Ray and Judge Baker; Texas, B. H. Ep-
person and L. d. Evans; Tennessee, Hon.
John S. Breen and Hon. John Baxter; Arr
kansas, VIM. Byers and VIM. L. Bell; Ken
lucky, Hon. Garret Davis and Hon. L.
Keise; Ohio, Sol. Henkle aud Col. George
W. McCook; Indiana, John S. Davis and
Thomas A. Hendricks; Illinois, o. II.
Browning and s. 5. Marshall; Michigan,
W. b. McCreery and Hon. Charles E. Stew
A. BrOadhead; Minnesota, Henry M. Rice
and Daniel p. Norton; Wisconsin, G. A.
Eldridge and j. j. r. Pease; Iowa, Charles
Mason and I. II. Benton; Kansas, General
Charles w. Blair and W. G.. Mcdowell;
California, r. j. Walker and j. A. McDou.
gall Nevada, Gov. G. NJ. Beebe and Frank
HerfOrd; Oregon, G. L. Curry and e. NJ.
Barnum; District of Columbia, B. T. Swart
and DR.. Charles Allen; Dacotal, A "A. Folk;
Idaho, @. F. Powell and Henry w. Pugh;
Nebraska, Major H. II. Heath; New Mexico,
George P. Este; Washington, E. d. Sander;
Colorado, Milo Lee.
The Chairman then announced a tele-
graphic dispatch from President johnson,
and directed the Secretary to read it.