Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-07
t5oIdiers' aud SafIors' Conyenfion
Second Days Proceedfngs.

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Second Days Proceedfngs.
NEW YORK, July 6.
Various delegations having paraded il
procession, as announced from their head
quarters at Moffatt Mansion. passed New
Tammany Hall to Cooper Institute ant
arrived ats the great hall of Cooper Unior
at quarter to twelve. Torn and tatterec
battle flags ON nearly every field of strift
of the late war were present, prefacing the
entrance of delegations, and In their real
arrived various delegations, rapidly filling
up the hall. During the filing in of del
egations and the taking of seat!
various bands, by concerted arrangement
played pot pourri Of music, consisting O.
Hail Columbia, Rally Round the Flag. &c
Cheers were given and shouts of applause
rent the air, and bedlam was epitomized
There was unanimity even in confusion
and such names as Mcclellan, Hancock
Packer. Slocum and Franklin were greeted
with invariable applause. S
( Precisely at noon the Chairman, Major
General William B. Franklin, of Connecti-
cut called the Convention to order by Wig
orous raps upon the Speakers stand.
The Secretary, Colonel O'Brien, then
read the rules of order as reported by the
committee on Resolutions. They provide
that resolutions offered by delegates shall
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committee on Resolutions; that the votes
should be by States and announced by the
chairman of each delegation. and votes tC
which it is entitled in the Electoral Col
lege.
General Pratt then offered a resolution tc
the effect that committee of one from each
State shall be appointed to decide upon the
expediency of making Presidential can.
didate for the consideration of the National
| Convention, Referred - E Ff'~F
A resolution was offered that all speech.
es, motions, &C., shall be made from the
floor, so as to avoid the undue prominence
gained by the members upon the platform
which, after being amended to officers OF
the Convention to speak from the platform
was carried.
General Slocum, of New York, from the
committee on Resolutions, reported that
that committee was not yet prepared to re
port its draft of platform, and reported
an address to the National Democratic
Convention in response to an invitation to
| the floor of that body, declaring the object
of the Soldiers and Sailors Convention to
be the same as those which animated them
during the war; deplOring radical legisla-
tion, denouncing the apostacy of men
who were once Democrats, censuring the
prescription of legal war at the South, and
declaring General Grant a renegade.
A motion was made that the report just
read should be accepted and a committee OF
'twenty-one appointed to present the same
to the National Convention. Unanimously
carried.
A motion to reconsider was lost and the
appointing of the committee left with the
chair, who named Slocum, Granger Pratt
Ewing, Mitchell, Averill, Brown, Kelley,
IcClernand, Walker, Kingsley, Bradbury,
Drake, Beime and Parker.
: A resolution indorsing the amnesty proc
fTOr n
Ohnson was referred to the committee on
resolutions; also resolution recommends
ig Gen. Hancock and Hon. Thos A. Hem
ricks fur candidates for President and Vice
resident of the United States, but pledging
leir support to whatever nominees the
National Convention select. .-..sr
A resolution expressing sympathy for
americans confined in foreign prisons, and.
emanding a settlement of the Alabama
lain were sent to the committee. This
solution was followed by a scene of much
infusion. Cries OF .'motion''] .'order"1
Mr.. Chairman"] &c, followed each other
riotous disregard of parliamentary rules,
mid which motion to adjourn was offer
!, upon which vote of the States was ia
en- and resulted in the motion being lost.
A motion that the chairman of Teach dele
alton appoint Sergeant-at-Arms to as,
st the chair In keeping order was carried
nder suspension of the rules.
General McQuade addressed the Conven-
lion, advocating order, deliberation and
ecorum, stating that there were doubtless
inen present who had been sent by organ
izations representing the opposite parties,
and whose sole object was to make dis
turbance. He therefore moved that the
call of States be made and resolutions
therefrom be read by their respective
Chairmen in their order and referred at
once to the committee, which motion was
unanimously adopted under a suspension
of the rules. 80 e ri..s.g
The call of States was then made for the
purpose of naming Sergeant-at Arms for
each delegation, and their names announ-
ced. III I-. .... .--.5 Z .
Then followed call of the States for
resolutions in accordance with General Nc
Quade's motion. Maine. Vermont and New
Hampshire had none to offer. Massachu-
setts offered resolution that no more than
one member from each delegation be al
lowed to speak upon any subject until
some other State had been heard frorr-
New York offered resolution decla Ing
the right of naturalized citizens of the
United States abroad to the protection of
the American Government; another pro-
testing against the uniform neglect with
which soldiers and sailors have been treat
ed in the distribution of civil offices, and
appointing committee to correspond with
diers and sailors share in the Government
patronage. From New Jersey, resolution
was read providing that the chairman des-
ignate place upon the floor for each dele
CATION, and that each sergeant alarms
shall control his own delegation. The
rules were suspended and that resolution
passed. New Jersey also offered resolu-
ton making the adjournmenr of the Con.
vention to 3 p. M. of the same day. Mary
land reported resolution that If green
backs were good enough for soldiers and
sailors orphans, they were good enough
for pampered bondholders. Delaware Of
fered a resolution declaring the apostacy
of the Republican party and the consequent
adherence of the soldiers and sailors to
the Democratic nomination. Ohio declared
its wish that 'peace might speedily be re-
stored by change in the dominant party"
Indiana, through the chairman of its dele
cation, stated it had had sarfeit of reso-
lutions and had none to offer. Illinois as
serted the wrongfulness of taxation with
out representation, as imposed upon the
Southern States by the present Congress;
and then resolution was offered, out of
order, that no more resolutions be offered,
and a suspension of the rules to allow its
passage proposed, but voted down. A re-
solution from Missouri naming Gen. Butler
was received with misses, and proved to be
a declaration that he should never be al
lowed to join the Democratic party.
was offered advocating the speedy
of national currency and the
of greenbacks. Kansas report
ed resolution favoring mass meeting of
soldiers and sailors for Tuesday evening.
and that the soldiers OF all the Confederacy
be invited to attend.
A resolution directing the various Ser
to report alter the close ofI
the Convention to Mr.. Eugine Dunning,
of the Convention, was
carried under suspension of the rules.
1t was announced that the committee to
present the address of the Convention to |
the National Democratic Convention would |
meet at MOffatt's Mansion, at $3.50 p. NJ, |