Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-07-11
Boilers Call a National Convention,


BALTIMORE, July 1O.-At the Opera
House, the delegates were generally in
their seats 10y 10 O'clock.
A second brass band which was located
in the upper gallery, entertained the au-
dience with various airs, of which Dixie,
Maryland and Yankee Doodle were equal
Iy applauded.
At quarter past ten Chairman Doolittle
announced that the hour to which they
had adjourned had arrived. and called the
convention to order.
Rev. DR.. Legburn, of Baltimore, was
called upon, and addressed the throne OF
Grace.
The chair announced for the convenience
Of the members of the Convention and
press, that every person rising to make
motion or speak shall announce his name
and State.
Cabell, of Arkansas, asked for seats, by
courtesy, for five delegates from Arkansas,
in excess of their regular number. Agreed
to.
Burr, of Connecticut, announced that
the Committee on Resolutions was ready
to report. At his request, the reading
clerk, Perrin, read the report, which re-
commended the adoption of the resOlu-
tions already adopted by the Liberal Re-
publican Convention at Cincinnati
7Cheers.) In order that there should be
no misapprehensiOn as to these resOlu-
tions, Burr called for their reading in full
to the Convention, which was done, each
plank in the platform being received with
applause. The one term plank was es-
pecally well received. A call for three
cheers at the close elected partial re-
spOnse. Burr explained that the rcsOlu-
tions were the Cincinnati platform eX-
actly, nothing added-nothing excluded
This platform was adopted on the commit
tee by all the States, except Delaware, Or
egon Mississippi and Georgia. He then
moved the adoption of the report and also
moved the previous question.
Bayard. of Delaware, inquired whether
the previous question, another name for
gag law had become the law of the
Democratic Convention without notice to
the delegates.
The chair said that the Convention had
adopted the rules of the House of Repre-
sentatives, so the motion of Burr was in
order and not open to debate.
Various gentlemen appealed for with
drawal of the motion in order to allow a
short debate. Burr said he felt compelled
to decline. a scene of great confusion en-
sued, with calls of question, debate, &c.
On motion to sustain the previous ques-
ton a call of States was ordered, and being
taken resulted: yeas, 553 nays, 176. Hoff-
man, in casting the united vote of New
York in the affirmative, said some of the
delegates, himself among the number, were
opposed to the previous question. Hanck,
of Ohio. denied the right of his delegation
to cast the vote as unit, and asked to have
his vote recorded mo"
The chair announced that Burr, of Con-
necticut, was now entitled to one hour to
debate the resolutions. Also that the gen.
tleman from Delaware, Mr.. Bayard, ap-
pealed for ten minutes. Burr conceded
this request, as Bayard is a member of the |
Committee on Resolutions.
Bayard took the platform and said !:
While there was no disposition to carp at
and oppose men because of former political |
opinions. he hoped the great Democratic |
organization would be allowed to have in |
dependent expression Of its honest s9nti- |
ments. [Cheers.
Why take, cut and dried, the resolutions |
Of another organization? TAppllause.7 |
Why havo the opinion of other men not |
chosen by us forced down our throats as
our expression. 1t is proposed here that |
we shall 90 before the country for the first |
time without our own Independent express
sion of principles. 1t is not just or wise
to ask us to go into this campaign under |
the clothing of a minority. [Calls of time! |
time
The Chair announced that Burr, out of |
respect for the minority, had conceded to |
Bayard ten minutes more
Another Connecticut delegate objected 10 |
any man occupying the time of the con-
VehIlon III that way. Applause and his |
seS.
The Chair called to order, and reminded
the deleSaUeS Ihat THIS is deliberative as
semblay, and urged the respectful hearing
of any one who occupied the floor r,wbetheT
they approve his sentiments or not
Mr.. Bayard finally resumed, arguing the
necessity for some expression of opinion
upon the question of the exercise of Fed
g al military power under color of legisla-
ton to enforce the Fourteenth and Fif-
teenth Amendments to the Constitution
If the convention failed in this there
would be serious disappointment. In con-
clusion, he entered his protest against the
pending motion to adopt the report as a
whole, and asked for separate vote Oh the
several distinct propositions pending.
O'COnner, Of South Carolina, regretted
that there should have been any difference
of opinion here. All other issues should be
merged in the single one of defeating the
reelection of the present national admin
istratiOn. He said the reconstruction acts
and the 18th, 14th and 18th Constitutional
amendments had been accepted, but that
public opinion was higher than the gov
crnments and superior to any declarations
by Conventions. Applause There was
nothing left as an issue now, but to save
the nation from destruction by corruption.
He reviewed and criticised the Foreign
policy of administration, and urged a
union of the whole nation to defeat the un-
hailowed purposes and shftliess policy of
the present government. An allusion to
the prospective election of Greeley, was re-
ceived with great applause. AS to the 18th
amendment he would be the last man to
attempt to wrest from the four millions of
freedmen the right of suffrage. [Great
applause.l
The nays on ordering the previous uues-