The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-07-08
Soldiers and Sailors Convention
Third Day.

New YORK, July s.-The Convention
adjourned on Monday to 10 o'clock this
morning. At the hour named a very
slim attendance was found, the prOba-
bility being that owing to the confused
debate which occurred at the time OF
adjournment on Monday the time to
which adjournment was made was mis-
understood by majority of the dele
gates. A motion of adjoxrnment until
II NJ. was therefore made and carried
with an amendment, providing that no.
tices of such adjournment be posted az
the entrance of the building for the in
formation of delegates.
On the previous day the various
State delegations had each appointed a
Serreant-at-Arms to meet immediately
after adjournment yesterday, and COM
plete arrangements for seating delegates
were made, and which were likely to
facilitate the proceedings of the Con-
yention. They consist of allotting seats
to each delegation, the location being
marked by guidons bearing the names
of the various States, the system being
the same rs that adopted by the Ma
tional Convention in Tammany.
At II o'clock it was announced by
Colonel O'Bierne that the Permanent
Chairman of the Convention, Major
General w. Il. Franklin, had been
compelled on account Of indisposition
to retire, and Major General j. w. Den
yer, of California, the first Vice Prcsi-
dent, was escorted to the Chair and
received with cheers.
General Slocum announced the fol-
lowing as the platform for the consid-
Grafton of the Convention:
WHEREAS, A nominal interchange of
views between the members of this
Convention and the delegates of
the National Democratic Convention
has fully confirmed us in, our previous
entertained opinfun OF the purity and
patriotism of that body, and fully
iustilies the belief that in the cleo
ton of candidates and the construc-
ton of platform, the Convention will
be governed by the spirit of the address
adopted by this body on the 9th inst:
therefore, relying upon this belief,
Rcsolrcd, That we will support the
nominees for President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, and that on
our return home we will indnce our late
comrades in arms to unite with rs in
yielding to them an earnest support.
A motion that the report of the com
mittee of resolutions be accepted was
debated at length. L. ....ssE
The call of States resulted as fol.
lows Yeas %; nays,7.
The first vote from the National
Convention was then received with en-
thusiasm.
General Ewing being called for APP
peared and read resolution favoring
the preservation of the integrity of the
national securities and the withdrawal
of the national currency, and the sub
stitution of greenbacks.
Col. Campbell, of Ohio, moved that
the committee on Resolutions be in
structed to report at once upon the res
olution offered by General Ewing, and
spoke at length in favor of his motion,
and called for the reading of the plat
form adopted by the National Conven-
ton.
The platform, as adopted by the Ma
tional Convention, was then read by
the Secretary, and its various provisions
applauded by the Convention.
a resolution accepting the platform
of the National Convention was unani-
mously carried.
The temporary chairman then intro
duced Major General Buckner, late Of
the Confederate army, His appearance
was greeted with cheers, and a speech
being called for be addressed the Con-
ventlon.
General Slocum then offered resolu-
ton affirming the continuance of the
confidence and leve entertained by the
Convention for General George b. Nc
Clellan, and appointing committee Of
five to convey that resolution to Cen
eral Mcclellan.
The resolution was received with
tremendous cheers, and the motion ito
suspend the rules to put it upon its i'm.
mediate passage was unanimously car
ried.
Pending the vote upon the above
resolution, another Was read approving
in the highest terms the action of Pres
ident Johnson in removing T.. NJ. STAN
ton from the office of Secretary of War
Both of the resolutions were unani-
mously passed under suspension of
the rules.
a motion to adjourn size die was then,
at four o'clock, unanimously carried.