The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-08
TuERUmMERs, CONvENTION

NEW YoRK, July 7.-At 12 o'clock il
WAS announced by Col. o'Brien thai
the permanent Chairman of the Con.
vention, Mai. Gen. w. B. Franklin had
been compelled to retire on account ol
indisposition.
Maj. Gen. j. w. Denver, of Calaior-
MIA, the first Vice-P resident, was escort
ed to the Chair and received with
cheers.
Gen. .Slocum announced the following
as platform for the consideration oi
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 previously
entertained opinion OF the purity and
patriotism of that body. and fully JUS
titles the belief that in the selection OF
candidates and the construction of a
platform the Convention will be gov
erned by the spirit of the address
adopted by this body on the 9th inst.
therefore, relying on this belief,
Resolved, That we will support the
nominees for President and Vice Presi-
dent OF the United States, and that on
our return home we will induce our
late comrades in the army TO unite with
us in yielding to them an earnest sup
port.
A motion that the report of the Com
mittee on Resolutions be accepted was
debated at length. a call of the States
resulted as follows Yeas 2s7s nays Z.
The first vote from the national Con-
Vention was then received with enthu-
siasm.
Gen. Ewing being called for appeared
and read a resolution fayorlng the
preservation of the integrity of ma
tional securities and the withdrawal of
the national currency and the substitu-
ton of greenbacks as being a policy
favoring the few as against the many,
and tending to induce reputation. The
resolution was referred to committee.
Col. Campbell of Ohio, moved that
the committee on resolutions be in
structed to report at once upon the
resolution offered by General Ewing,
and spoke at length in favor of his mo-
tion, and called for the reading of the
platform adopted by the National Con-
Vention.
The platform as adopted by the Ma
tional Convention was then read by the
Secretary and its various provisions
applauded by the Convention.
The resolution accepting the platform
of the National Convention WAS unani-
mously carried.
The temporary chairman then intro.
duced Maj. Gen'l Buckner, of the late
confederate army. His appearance
was greeted with cheers, and speech
being called Tor he addressed the Con-
ventiop.i
General Slocum then offered resoIu-
ton affirming the continuance of the
confidence and love entertained by the
Convention for General George B.
Mcclellan, and appointing a Commit
tee of five to convey that resolution to
General Mcclellan. This resolution
was received with tremendous cheers,
and motion to suspend the rules to
put it upon its immediate passage was
unanimously carried.
Pending the vote upon the above
resolution, another was read APPROX
ing in the highest terms the action of
President Johnson in removing f. NJ.
Stanton from the office of Secretary of
War. Both of the resolutions were
unanimously passed under q suspen-
sion of the rules.
A motion to adjourn sine die was then
at o'clock unanimously carried.