The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-06-24
AFTERNOON SESSION.

moved the reading be dispensed with
The committee on Permanent Or
ganization reported:
! President-R. S. Brown, OF jackson
Wee Preadeats-lst District, Henry
Wallace: I'd, J. B. Nay; Sd, Chas
Hooton; 4th, X. $. Northcott; 9TH
John r. Hutchison; 9th, A. j. Wood
eth, Jas. L. Mclean; Sth, Wm. Work
man. 9th, Sam Young; 10th, VIM. NJ
Welch; 1lth, Samuel Ridenour.
.Secretaries-Wm. P. Hubbard, X. II
Freer and j. g. Isenburg.
Mr.. Brown, on taking the chair
handsomely thanked the Convention
for the honor conferred. He said he
had attended every Republican Conven.
ton since the State had been formed,
and this was the largest one it had been
his pleasure to attend. lie had the
honor Of being personally acquainted
with hundreds Of those present, and he
knew them all to be true to the party
and country. lie said. We have met,
today, to nominate ticket to be elect
ed The eyes of the Republican party
of the nation are upon us Shall we
not justify their interest and good
wishes? But for or party. we would
have no State for the Democracy to
govern. Shall it be said that we can
not govern the State of our own Gre
alton? We must close up every chism
in our party, heal all chickering's, if we
would succeed Let us be just to all.
With justice inscribed upon our ban
ners, we must win. We must be Just
to the nation, to the President, to Con
gress, to old Virginia in bearing our
share of her debt, to the disfranchised
citizen to the colored citizen, to
all men, Be just and fear not. Let all
the ends thou aimst at be thy countrys.
Let us present an example OF union
and concord to the Democracy who
assembled at Charleston. Invoking
your indul gence and assistance, AS
sumo the duties of the Chair.
BASIS OF REPRESENTATION.
The committee on this subject re-
commended that each county he enti-
tied to twelve votes for each member it
has in the House of Delegates
George Edwards, of Marshall, offered
a substitute that the basis he a. follows: ::
Each county have five votes for each
Delegate and one vote for every fifty
cast for Governor Stevenson in 1868.
The motion was put and, after thun-
dering veil of aye and no, the chair
decided the substitute adopted. Mr..
Koonce, of Jeffersorr said that a mum
Der of boys and others not delegates
voted. He protested against the citi-
zens of Parkersburg and the boat load
from Wheeling deciding grave questions
merely by their numbers. Mr.. Stubbs,
of Jefferson, said Ohio county casts
some 300 Radical votes, vet the Dem
ocrats cast some 800 or 400 more, and
send three Democrats to the House Of
Delegates; while Jefferson casts but
about 600 Radical votes and always
sends one Senator and at least
one member OF the House of
Delegates. Yet under the ar
rangement proposed, Ohio county would
cast many more votes in this Conven-
ton than Jefferson. Were they to be
distranchised for being loyal, and up
holding the banner of the party? Mr..
Young offered a solemn protest against
the remote counties being voted down
bv 800 or 400 of the citizens of Par
kersburg. If this rule is to prevail he
wanted to he counted out, and so with
the entire border He appealed to
know if jOO Parkersburg men and boys
shall vote down whole counties? If
we are TO be yelled down 10y outsiders,
he wanted TO he counted ont. Much
more debate of the same character was
participatcdin by Stubs, kOOncc, Wis
ner and others, amid the greatest con-
fusion and discord. After several votes
had been taken 0t"d coce, and one 10y
tellers, the report OF the committee was
adopted 10y yeas, l04 noes, l3%.
REPORT or COMMITTEE on RESOLUTIONS.
Mr.. &. D. Hubbard Chairman of the
committee on Resolutions, reported the
following
By HE Rep.JEcaos Of West Iuyinio IN
Coarcntion assembled, be- Il reSolrcd,
First That the union of the States is
indissoluble and perpetual that the Con
stitution OF the United States, and the
laws of Congress in pursuance thereof,
are supreme constant and universal in
their obligation, and that ii is the high
est duty of every American citizen TO
maintain their paramount authority
against all their enemies.
Second. That it is essential 10 the
preservation of our republican lnStltu-
ttions that we uphold and respect the
principles promulgated in the Declara-
ton OF independence and embodied IN
the Federal Constitution, viz: that all
men are created equal: that they are
endowed with certain nalienahle
rights: that among these are life, lib-
ertv and the pursuit OF happiness, and
that to secure these rights, governments
are instituted among men, deriving
their just powers from the consent oi
the governed
Third. That the Fifteenth Amend
nent TO the Constitution of the United
States which forbids the exclusion OF
any class from an equal voice in the
government bv reason Of the accident
of race or color, orof the misfortune OF
previous oppression, accords with these
honored principles of the Declaration
OF independence, and is alike essential
to Justice between men, to the consist
cncv Of the Government and to the
harmonious relations Of the races with
in its jurisdiction.
Fourth. That we highly commend
the spirit of magnanimity and forgive
ness with which men who now frankly
and honestly co operate with us in re-
storing the peace of the country, upon
the basis of impartial Justice and equal