. i O . ' ^‘ 1 - 77 " .F . ,'" \ 1 t '": " e gi fT : ' tgUltr. ‘. : fr 2 A=MOWW, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1860. PETER C. HUBER JOHN H. OLIVER AMITOSIS AND PROPSIIIIOII. TO ADVERTIBBRO. THE uLEHIGH REGISTER" HAS A LARGER CIRCULATION BY SEVERAL HUNDRED THAN' ANY.OTHER ENGLISH PAPER IN THE COUNTY. TOR. . FREUD/NT ABRAM LINCOLN, OF ILLINOIS. '7Ol YIOII passinixr : HANNIBAL HAMLIN, OF MAINE. ammo*. Col. Andrew G. Curtin*, OF CENTRE COUNTY. NOMINATIONS. We this day place at the head of our col ums the eiames of. ABRAM LINCOLN of Illinois, and HANNIBAL Hama' of Maine as the Re publican Candidates for the Presideicy and Vice Presidency. The proceedings of the convention, which placed them in nomination as well, as a brief account of the candidates themeelves, will be found in the present num ber of the Register. The Chicago Convention in point of the number of persons, which it served to draw together, the harmony of its proceeding, and the enthusiaem, whioh char acterized it throughout,: has had no equal in the history -of the politics of the country.— The Convention has adopted a platform, pois ed by a ,unanimous vote, to which none can take exception, and whioh all.members of the party most heartily endorse. The platform proves, that the Republican party is not, as its enemies would have the people to be lieve, an one-idea party. The party has taken a plain and . unmistakeable position upon the questions of Slavery, the Tariff, the Homestead Bill, the Pacific) Railroad. and in fact on all questions, which are the real, live questions of the polities of the day. The clause, endorsing a protective tariff, must give peculiar satisfaction to Pennsylvanians. Henceforth, the Republican party takes ite position by the resolutions of its National Con vention, as a Tariff party, aid wo betide the Democratic party of Pennsylvania, which hangs.on to the 'skirts of the Southern free tilde Democracy. In the selection of. candi dates the Convention has been peculiarly for tunate. On this score there were dangers to be apprehended and avoided. A sacrifice of principle for the sake of expediency would have deservedly defeated the party, whilst a wanton disregard of expediency might Itave proven equal &telly. The bominees are such as can be supported • enthusiaa , Wally by all branches of the great Opposition Party, which for the past two years has reigned in the doubtful States of New Jersey and Penn sylvania. The nomination makes the States sure for the Republican nominees. The can didates are men of distinguished ability, of unimpeachable character, and will be enthu siastically supported. The name of "Old hon est Abe Lincoln" will raise a fire on the prair ies of the West, which will sweep everything before it. No candidate, the Democracy can nominate, has the shade)* of a chance of an election, and it is a matter of indifference, to the Republican party, who that nominee may be. We hope, that the friend of Freedom, of Tariff, of an honest and economical adminis tration of the Government, and opposed to the scandalous corruption, which has disgraced urpresent administration and the government, will rally to the support of the nominations, so auspiciously made. Sketch of Abram Lino°la—The Chicago Nominee. ASIAN Luton's, who was on Friday last chosen by the Chicago Convention as its candi. date for the Presidency, was born in Hardin county, Kentucky, February 12th, 1809, and is, therefore, fifty-one years old. • His parents were of a Quaker stook that migrated from Pennsylvania to Virginia, whence his grand father removed in 1781-2 to Kentucky, and was there surprised and killed by Indians. while at work on his clearing. Like most pioneers, he left his family poor ; and his son also died prematurely, leaving a widow and several children, of whom Abram was then six years old. The family removed soon after to Southern Indiana, where young Lincoln•en joyed scarcely better facilities for schooling than in Kentucky. Probably six months in all, of the rudest sort of schooling compre hends the whole of his technical education.— But hard work and plenty of it, the rugged experiences of aspiring poverty, the wild sports and rude games of a newly And thinly peopled forest region—the education born of the log cabin, the rifle, the axe and the plow —made him. the man he has since proved himself. At twenty-one he pushed further west into Illinois, which has for the . last thirty years been his home, living always near and for , some years past In Springfield, the State Cap ital. He worked on a farm as hired man the first year in•lllingis ; the next year he was a clerk in a store ; then volunteered for the Black Hawk war, and was chosen a captain by his company; the next year was an unsuccessful candidate for the Legislature ; was chosen the next, and served four sessions with eminent usefulness and steadily inoroatingrepUtution ; studied law, meantime, and took his place at the bar; was early recognised as a most ef fective and convincing advocate before the people of Whig principles and the Protective policy, and of their illustrious .embodiment, Henry Clay; was a Whig candidate for Elec tor in nearly or quite every Presidential con test from 1836 to 1852 inclusive ; was •ohosen 'to the Thirtieth Congress from the Central IBstriot of Illinois, and served to its close, but walimot a candidate for re-election. Mitt congressional career presents no events of importance. His set speeches were in de fence of the policy of Internal Improvements; . in justification of his vote on the Mexican war, and on the general polities of the Taylor Pres-. idential Campaign. These may be found in the Congressional Globe, and will illustrate his opinions at that time. In the Presidential :canvass, of 1852 he labored very earnestly for General Scott, as the Illinois member of the Wbig, Contra Committee. Mr. Lincoln en -tared hiartily into the campaign for Fremont, alio in X 856 was an Eleotor on the RepubH aan ticket, And rendered essential service in WeiterwStotosi Down to this period, id . .140i 0 (• :' -',,, , ,-- , —7 — ten ' ''' to MilliartiwistOf the Ohi. IrkrarifiWrititie had not beoome.familiar to th . Lutem iit ti of if through thiwhole co - try. This Spas he eohroolial hi-kmam?* ' cco4it wttliPodge.464s*, foraeeat in' . United - States Senate; in• 1858. The campal ._ . lasiad from- the 'beginning 'of July until th • end of detober, during which time the en -‘• • State was traversed by both candidates, an. the party issues on the Territorial and Slave questions exhausted. The canvass was re ._ ed as so inipoitant that it attracted the atten Lion of the whole oountry, and the ,names o Linooln and Douglas thus became like house hold words. The result was singular, for while Judge Douglas had a majority of the Legislature, and thus secured his eleCtiOn as Senator, Lincoln's ticket had a plurality of th popular vote. The popular.result was as fol lows ' Miller, Republioan, Fimdey.,...Demoorat, Republican majority, Dante Democratic ticket, 5071. But through the peculiar apportionment of the Legislative Districts, the Legislature stood.. Democrat. 54 Republicans w 46 Douglas's majority, 8 As a lawyer, Lincoln ranks with the fore moat at the bar of Illinois. Being a man of clear bead, his treatment of his subject is lucid and methodical. His forensic efforts, how ever, . are more remarkable for strong good sense, and sturdy, vigorous expressioni than for elegance of style which, indeed, he never aims at. When addressing a popular assem blage, Mr. Lincoln indulges in quaint home thrusts and humorous remarks, and having extraordinary mobility of features, hie play of countenance gives a point to his illustrations they would not otherwise have. H 6 has con siderable force. and influence, as a popular speaker. In person, Mr. Lincoln is tall, square built, and angular. His manners,, plain and homely, and his general appearance that of a substantial well to do backwoodsman. Alto gether he is a true type of the sturdy pioneers whq settled the Western wilderness, and made it blossom like the rose. ' CHICAGO, Wednesday, May 16. The Republican National Convention assem bled to-day at the " Wigwam." ' The doors were opened at 11 o'clock. Long before that hour the concourse of peo ple assembled around the doors numbered many thousands more than could gain admit tance to the building. . As soon as the doors were opened the entire body of the Wigwam was solidly packed with men. The seats in the galleries were equally closelypaoked with ladies. Theinterior of the hall was handsomely dec orated with evergreen, statuary and flowers, and presented a striking appearance. There were not less than ten thousand per sons in the building, while the open doors dis played to view crowds in the streets unable to obtain more than a glimpse inside of the hall. * At 12 o'clock the Convention was called to order byGov. Morgan, of Nek-York, Chairman of the National Committee, as follows: On the 22d or December last the Republican Na tional Committee, at a meeting convened for the purpose in the City of New-York, issued a call for a National Copvention, which I will now read : " A. National Republican Convention will meet on Wednesday, the 16th day of' May next; at 12 o'clock, noon, for the nomination of can didates to be supported for President and Vice- AFTERNOON SESSION . President at the next election." He then read the call for the National Con- The "Wigwam" was again crowded to over vention, and continued as follows : flowing, a flood of people pouring in through in compliance therewith the people have every door as soon as they were opened, filling sent representatives hare to deliberate .upon m the hall almost instantly with a densely pack- easures for carrying into effect the object of ed mass from the platform to the doors. the call. Usage has made it my duty to take The galleries were also well filled with la the preliminary step toward organizing the dies though not so completely as at the mo rn- Convention, upon the proceedings of which, ing session. permit me to say, the most momentous results Mr. Lowry, of Pennsylvania, reported, that are depending. No body of men of equal the Board of Trade had prepared a large fleet numbers was ever clothed with greater respon- for an excursion on the lake, and would wait eibility than those now within the, hearing of till 6 o'clock for the Convention. He moved my voice. You do not need me ,to tell you, that the Convention attend the excursion at G gentlemen, what this responsibility is. While o'clock. Lost amidst applause from the body part of the adherents of the National Admin- of the hall. istration are endeavoring to insert a Slave-code Mr. Horton, of Ohio, from the Coinmittee on into the party platform, another portion ex- Permanent Organization, reported the name of presses its readiness to accomplish the same George Ashmun, of Massachusetts, for a per , result through the motion of the SUpreme Court manent President.. . of the United States—willing by indirection The report was received with loud applause. to do that which, if done directly, would bring Hon. Preston King, of New-York, and Carl a blush even to the cheek of modern Democ- Schurz, of Wisconsin, were appointed a CQm racy. While these and other stupendous mitten to conduct the President to the chair. wrongs, absolutely shocking to the moral son- Mr. Ashmun, on taking the chair, was greeted timent of the country, aro to be fastened upon with immense applause, the delegations rising the people by the party in power, if its lead- and giving him six hearty cheers. When* (w -ets are able to bring the factious elements that dor was restored, Ke spoke as follows: compose it into any degree of unanimity, there Gentlemen of the Convention, Republicans ' , seems left no ray of hope except in the good and Americans: My first duty is to express to sense of this Conventon. Let me then invoke you my deep sense of this distinguished mark you to act in a spirit of harmohy, that through of your confidence, and in the spirit in which the dignity, the wisdom and the patriotism it is offered I accept of it. I am sensible of displayed here, you may be enabled to enlist the difficulties which surround the position, the hearts of the people, and to strengthen but I am cheered and sustained by the faith them in the fact, that yours is the conetitu- that the same generosity which brought me' tional party of the country, and the only con- hero will carry me through the discharge of stitutional, party ; that you are actuated by my duties. I will not shrink from the position principle and that you will be guarded by the which is at the same time the post of danger light and by the example of the fathers of the as well as ofhonor. [Applause.] Gentlemen, Republic. Fortunately, you are not required we have come her to-day at the call of the coun to enunciate untried principles of government. try, front widely-separated homes, to fulfill a This has been well and wisely done by the great and important duty. No ordinary call statesmen of the Revolution. Stand where has brought us together. Nothing but a mo they stood, avowing and mafintaining the like mentous question would have called this vast Objects and doctrines, then will the end sought multitude together—nothing but the deep sense be accomplished, the Constitution and the of danger into which the Government is fast Union will be preserved, and the Government running could have rallied the people thus•in be administered by patriots and statesmen. this city to-day for the purpose of rescuing the Gov. Morgan then named Hon. David Wil- Government from the deep degradation into mot, of Pennsylvania, for temporary President. which ithas fallen. [Loud Applause.] We have [lmmense applause.] Carried unanimously. come here at the call of the country for the' The Chair named Judge Marshall, of Mary- purpose of preparing for the most solemn duty land, and Gov. Cleveland, of Connecticut, to that freemen can perform. We have here in conduct Mr. Wilmot to his seat. Judge Mar- our ordinary capacity as delegates of the people shall introduced Mr. Wilmot as the man who to prepare for the formation and carrying on dared to do right, regardless of consequence. of a new Administration, and, with the help of With such men there is no such word as fail. God, we will do it. [Loud Applause.] No Mr. Wilmot addressed the Convention brief- mere controversy about miser able abstractioos ly, returning thinks for the high and unties- Irought*us here to-day. We do not come here erved honor. He would carry the remem- on any idle question. The sacrifice which We brance of it with him to the day of his death, have made in an extended journey, and the It was unnecessary for him to remind the Con- time we have &sited to it, would not have vention of the high duty devolved upon them. been made, except on some solemn call. The A great sectional interest had for years dom- stern look which I see on every face, and the inated with a high hand over the affairs of the earnest behavior which has been manifested in country. It had bent all its energy to the ox- all the preliminary discussions, show that all tension and naturalization of Slavery. It is have a true and deep sense or'the solemn ob the mission of the Republican party to oppose ligations which are resting upon us. Gentle this policy, and restore to the Government the men, itdoes not belong to me to make any ex policy of the revolutionary fathers ; to resist tended address, but rather to assist in the de the dogma that Slavery exists wherever the tails of the business which belongs to the Con- Constitution extends ; to read the Constitution volition ; hut allow me to say I think we have as our fathers read it. That Constitution was a right here to-day, in the name of the Amor not ordained to embrace Slavery within all the ican people, to impeach the Administration of limits of the country. They lived and died in our General Government of the highest crimes the faith that Slavery was a blot, and would that can be committed against a Constitutional soon be washed out. Had they deemed that Government, against a free people, and against the Revolution was to establish here a great humanity. [Prolonged cheers.] The caUt- Slave Empire, not one would have drawn the 'ogee of its crimes it is not for me to recite— sword in such a cause. The battle was fought it is written on every page of the history of to establish Freedom. Slavery- is sectional : the present Administration of the Government, Freedom is national. [Applause.] He deem- and I care not how many paper protests the ed it unnecessary to remind the delegates of President may_ send in to the House of Repro the outrages and usurpations of the Democrat- sentatives . We, here, as a. grand inquest of is Party. Those outrages will not be confined the nation, will flud out for him and his con to the•limits of the Slave States if the. South federates not only a punishment, terrible and had the power, and the Free States require sure, but a remedy that shall. be satisfactory. that the Republicans should take the Govern- [Loud applause.] Before proceeding to bus ment and administer it as it has been admin- mess, the Convention will allow me to con isterd by Washington, Jefferson and Jackson, gratul a te you and the people on the striking even down to Van Buren, .and Polk, before features which I think must have been noticed these now dogmas were ingrafted in the Dem- by everybody who has mixed in the prelimi ocratio policy. He assumed his duties, ex- nary discussions of the people who have gatli hefting a spirit of harmony to control the ac- ered in this beautiful•eity : it is that brotherly tion of the delegates. kindness and generous emulation which have Mr. Spooner, of Ohio, moved the following marked every conversation and every discus es temporary Secretaries: sion, showing a desire. for nothing save the Fred. Hassaurek of Ohio, Theo. Pomeroy of country's good. Earnest, warm, generous pref. New-York, and Henry F. Blow of Missouri. erences are expressed, ardent hopes and fond Rev. Mr. Humphrey, of Illinois, then deliv- purposes are declared, but not during the ered the opening prayer. • three days I have spent among you all have I Mr. Judd, of Illinois, moved for a Commit- heard one unkind word uttered by one man toe of one delegate from each State and Terri- against another. I hail it as an augury of sue tory represented, to report officers for a per- cess, and if during the proceedings of the Con- manent organization. The following is the vention you will unite to perpetuate that Seel- Committee : ing and allow it to pervade all your proceed- Leonard Andrews, Me. Win. Ross, 111. big% I declare to you it will be the surest and H. H. Henry, Vt. Walter Murphy, Mich. Aaron 11. - Cragin, N. J. P. McGregor,• Wis. brightest omen- of our success, whoever may Maus B. Coming, Mass. Jas. F. Wilson, lowa, be the staodard-bearer in the great contest Arthur B. Califf, Conn. Simon Smith, Minn. that is pending. [Applause.] In that spirit, Simon H. Green, R. I. Adam Hammer, Mo. gentlemen, let us now proceed to business—to H. H. Van Dyer, N. Y. A. C. Wilder, Kansas: the groat work which the American people Ephraim Marsh, N. J. Bam. Bell, Cal. have wen into our hands to do. [Loud 8. J. Coffee, Penn. Frank Johnson, Oregon. cheers. Joshua F. Meal, Del. • A. A. Burton,Ky. Jaa Jeffreys, Md. M. K. Mener, Toxas, Mr. arch, from the Committee on Permit- R. M. Norton, Va. O. H. Irish, Nebraska, nent organization, reported the following as V. Burton, Ohio. G. B. Hall, D. C. Vice-PreSidenta and Secretaries , B. A. Huokleman, Ind. VICE-PRESIDISHTS. As each Southern State and Territory . rep- s. F. Hersey, Mo. . David Davis resented was called, loud cheers were given. Wm. Hail, N. If. ' Thomas W. Ferry, Mioh. When the list was concluded, on a suggestion Wm. Heberd, Vt. Hans Croaker, Wis. - the Delegates of the absent States were called, Ytl gn iltl e i l , i ;t gg i. Mass. tr n Yi P. Sohotte; lowa, Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina be • - 11®-At Norfolk, Va. — , on Tuesday, one hun- in received with hisses. Ewn•rmyF.:o:.l:geverl::.ojo.on. Henry T. Blow, Mo. Noyes, N. Y. W. D. Gallager, Ky. On motion of Mr. Benton, of New- Hemp - W. T. Chandler, Texas, deed guns were fired in honor of Heenan, and shire, a Committee on Credentials was appoint- Thaddens Stevens, Penn. A". A. Sargent, Cal. Marriage', "the traitor," was burned in effigy. ed. • John a Clark, Dell Joel Burlingame, Oregon, Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, the Chicago Honi- thee for Vice Presldea. HANNIBAL HAIILIN, was born in Paris, Ox-. ford county, Maine, August 27th, 1808, and is consequently in his fifty-first year. He was originally a printer and editor, but subsequent ly embraced the profession of law, and has always 'had the reputation of being a close student and an excellent counsellor and plead er. HQ: was elected a member of the Maine Legislature after an animated contest, in which he exerted himself upon the stump with mark ed effect, and served in that capacity from 1836 to 1840. He was extremely succesful in his entrance into public life, and by his pow ers of argument the leader upon the floor and was honored by being ()ailed upon to serve as Speaker of the House of Representatives of Maine in the years 1837 and 1840. He was elected Representative to the Twenty-eight Congress, and upon that enlarg ed theatre he displayed such signal ability that his constituents re-elected him to the Twenty-ninth Congress. Having completed the latter term he returned to his home intend ing to resume the practice of his profession, but he yielded to the solicitation of his friends and allowed his name to be used as a can didate for the House of Representatives of the State Legislature, to which position ho was elected in 1849. He was elected to the United States Senate May 26, 1848, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Fairfield. During the terth al laded to, his career in the Senate was attend ed with remarkable success,. and he stamped his views and opinions on the proceedings of that body, with eivelearness and force, that placed him in the front rank of the statesmen who have filled places upon that exalted stage. At the expiration of his term, in July, 1851, he was re-elected, for the full term of six years, and serve l until the 7th of January, 1857, when he was inaugurated as Governor, having been elected on the Republican ticket, resigning his •seat in the Senate on the same day. On the 16th of the same month, he was re-elected United States Senator for six years, and he resigned the office of Governor Februa ry 20th, 1857. He is at present a member of the Committee on Commerce, and the District of Columbia. Mr. Hamlin is a man of medium height, well and compactly formed, and of comely pre. mace. He is favored with a most amiable disposition and mild and agreeable manners. But these desirable . qualities do not detract from a strong individuality, for which he is also remarkable. No man is more decided in his opinions, or more firm and resolute in main laining them. With all this, Mr. Hamlift has, s duiing his long public career, preserved a reputation that has never been sullied by re proach. Mr. Hamlin acted with the Demo. °ratio party until 1854, when he became dis satisfied with the cdurse of his party friends on the Nebraska bill. Since then he has been in full and cordial union with the Republicans. COL. CURTIN'S Homs.—The result of the eleo tion in Bellefonte last week, must be satisfac tory to all who love Free Labor and Protection to American Industry. The People's ticket was elected by a very largely increased ma jority. As Belief Onto is the home of CoL Curtin, our gallant standard bearer, the elec tion was a triumphant vindication of the gen_ tleman's claims and plainly expressed the feeling prevalent throughout the whole court trY-' DODGING Tag TARINT QDISTION.—Hon. Wm. Dimmick, Democratic Congressman from the 'counties of Northampton, Carbon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne, failed to vote on the passage of Morril's Tariff bill. Doubtless he supposed, he could dodge for the purpose on the one hand of not offending his constituency, and on the other not conflicting with tho free-trade notions of Senator Douglas, in whose favor he has lately declared himself for the Presidency. IMB.The Proceeditigs of the Chicago Con vention which we. have deemed it proper to 1&y before our readers, has excluded our usual amount of Editorial and local matter, which we trust, ourreaders under the circumstance will readily. excuse. /The 113th annual convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Penn sylvania awl the adjacent States will be , e, in St. Paul's church, Philadelphia, on Tr inity Sunday, June 3rd, 1860. • CHICAGO op,vNTIoN• 50,p00 wawa, ilicotprorr.. GREAT ii-AtiotßY, ADOPTION or A: :PI MIME, NOMINATION OF 125,480 121,609 ABRAM LINCOLN, LEI OF ILLINOIS, FOR PRESIDENT, AND OF Hannibal OP XAIU, TOR ME VICE PRZOIDTROY. Great Enthusiasm upon the. Nomination. Committee ofonefix= h'State and i ,Terr a tory in' rttiorh' 04•,,order of 'business. Tor the Convention. .in fblhniting were appointed Maine, John :L. Wiens, Indiana, Walter Marks, • Vermont,. E. D. Mud% Idiobignn, D. O. Huoknaur, N. Hamp.ll..H. Martin, Einar; P. A. Marshall, Mass. EL Hooper; Wisconsin, E. Morrow, Connie. G. H. 'Nelda, Minnesota, G. B. Jones, R. Island, W. Durfee, lowa, Reuben Noble, N. York, A, D. James, Miss. T.G. Pletcher, • N. Jersey, H. N. Conger, California, '4 0. Hinckley, Penn., W: D. Kelley,. Oregon, Levilbsyer, Delaware, JO. Olark, Huns, A. G. Era:dor, Maryland, W. P.Ewing, Nebraska, B. H. Elbert, Virgin*, J. G.Jenkings, Diet. Colam.J. Dearbeart, Ohio, H. M. Corwin, Texas, G. Meyer. Ken. li.:EL Donbits, 'the rules of the Reuse of Representatives *ere adopted for the government of the' Con vention. Mr. Horace Greeley, delegate from Oregon, moved thatahe roll ot,Statei be called, ,and that the chairihiut of each present the credentleds thereof, and if there be any con tested, that the same be referred to the, Com inittee on Credentials._ - - - - Mr. Carter, of Ohio, moved to amend the proposition of the gentleman from Oregon—or New-York, he did not know wbich,-,tiaat the credentials be presented tq the Cominittee. Mr. Greeley-4 accept the amendment of the gentleman from Maryland—or Rhode Island, lam not particular which. [Loud laughter.] The motion was adopted. The Board of Trade having invited the dele gates to an excursion on Lake Michigan, at 5 o'clock P. M,, Judge Goodrich, of Minnesota, in moving• the acceptance of the invitation, paid a compliment to the people of Chicago for the liberality and enterprise displayed in the erection and decoration of a fine hall for the meeting of the Convention, An enthustastio delegate here proposed three cheers for the ladies of Chicago. The Convention compromised with one cheer. Mr. Carter, of Ohio moved for a Committee of one from each State and Territory on a plat form. After disettssions, the motion was laid on the table until 'the permanent organization .was °treated. A long discussion took place on a motion that when the Convention adjourn it be to b o'clock P. M., which eventually prevailed. Mr. Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio, was re ceived with loud cheers. Ho moved to recon sider the vote accepting. an invitation of the 'board of Trade, and called attention to the ac tion of another Convention, which had wearied the public mind with the length of their dis cussions. He hoped this Convention would finish all business by 3 o'clock to morrow after noon. [Loud applause.) ' The vote was re considered, and a Committee appointed to con fer with the Board of Trade and fix a future time for the excursion. - - The Convention then adjourned to 5 o'clock P. M. Rio • ard,Crawfind, a. Gee. liarrington,•D..o. OoorgiD; Bingen, Ohio, A. B:`,Daddiesk) Nebtiseka; Jobe, Beard, Ind. szonETAvinik • Mims/ /. Wing, Ste. S. Davis, El.' • Nathaniel Hubbard, NAT. Wm. L. Stonghtotri Mich. P. 411dissard, B I. ••• L. Y. Bristly, Wis: N. Starkweatber, Conn. W. R. Allison, lowa,. 0.0. Nelms. Mau. D. A. Sesomb, Minn. Theo. M. Pomeroy, N.Y. J. J. Kidd, Mo, Edward Battik N. J. John J. Haws, Ky. J. Ballerina Bell, Penn: Dunbar Henderson. Tex. Benj. 0. Hopkins, Del. D. J. Stapler, Cal. Wm. E. Coale, Md. Ell Thayer, Oregon, A. W. Campbell Va. John A. Martin. Emilie, Horace Y. Beebe, Ohio. H. P. •Hitolwoolt,'Neb. D. D. Pellet. -P Ind. The names of Messrs. Marshall, Noyes, BM veils; Crawford, 3)avie and Burlingame were received with loud cheeie. " Mr. Judd, of Illinois, on the part of C. Thomas, ,presented to theiChair a handsome gavel. He 'said it was not the wood, ivory and silver alone which made it valuable. It was precious in consequence of association, be ing a piece of oak frorn the flag-ship of the gallant Lawrence. Maoris.] It was an emblem of the Republican Party, strong and not noisy. The motto it bore was one which need not be urged upon Republicans, "Don't give up . the ship." He hoped that at the end of this conflict the Republicans would be able to say with anoth er great commander, "We have met the ene my and they are ours." [lmmense applause.] The President accepted the present on the partof the National Convention in a few grace ful remarks, declaring that the Republicans would observe the mottoes, and would never give up the ship. [Applause.] - Mr. Tracey, of Califcrrpia, moved for a Com mittee of each State and Territory •on resolu tions, and that the Illinois resolutions he re ferred to said Committee. Adopted - without debate. . The following Committee Was appointed. Maine, Geo. Ta'l64, lona , ddhn A. R a i son, N. ilampitirle, A. Tuck ) Minnesota Stephen Vermont, E. M. Briggs, Delaware N. ti..Sutithers, Geo. S. Boutwoll , Maryland, T. P. Blair. IL Island, B. T. Earner, Virginia, Alfred Caldwell, Conn., S. Wi Kellogg, Kentucky, G. T. Blakely, N. Y., Henry R. Belden, Michigan, Austin Blair, N.:Jersey T. S. Dudley, Missouri, O. M. Berne's, Penn., William Jessup, California, T, P. Tracy. Ohio, J. H. Barrett, Texas, J. Strauss, Indiana, Wtn. T. Otto, Dist. of C 01.., G. A. Hall. Gustavus Keeler, Nob.. A. 8. Bradlock. Wisconsin, Carl Schurz, Kansas, J. Hatterscherdt When the name of Horace Greeley, of Ore gon, was announced, it was racoitfed Itith loud cheers and laughter. Mr. Rollins, of Now Hampshire, moved that each delegation report the name of one person constitute a member of the Republican Nation al Committee for the ensuing four years. 'Car ried. Adjourned till 10 o'clock to-morrow SECOND DAY The proceedings of the second day commen ced with a debate n s to the delegations from the ,Slave States. The Credentials of these delegations were finally referred back to the appropriate Committee, who reported, the num ber of votes to which the States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Texas, wore entitled, being somewhat less than the electoral Votes. The Committee on Platform reported the following PLATFORM. Resolved, that we, the delegated representa tives of the Republican electors of the United States, in Convention assembled, in the die harge of the duty we owe to our constituents and bur country, unite in the following decla rations: First, That the history of the nation du• ring the last four years has established the propriety and necessity of the organization and perpetuation of the Republican party; and that the causes which called it into existence aro permanent in their nature, and now, more than over before, demand its peaceful and constitutional triumph. Sirond, That the maintenance of the Fede nil Constitution is essential to the preserva tion of our Republican institutions, and shall be preserved. Ihird, That to the Union of the States' this nation owes its unprecedented increase in pop ulation, its surprising development of materi al resources, its rapid augmentiltion of wealth, its happiness at home and its honor abroad; and we hold in abhorrence all schemes for dis union, come from whatever source they may ; and we congratulate the country that no Re publican member of Congress has uttered or countenanced a throat of disunion, so often made by the Democratic members of Congress without rebuke, and with applause from their political associates; and we denounce 4 those threats of disunion, in• case of a popular over throw of their ascendency, as denying the vi tal principles of a free Government, and as an avowal of contemplated treason, which' it is the imperative duty of an indignant people strongly to rebuke and forever silence. Fourth, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the rights of each State to order and control its owndomestic institutions, according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that bal ance of power on which the perfection and en durance of her political faith depends. And we denounce the lawless invasion by an armed force of any State or Territory, no matter un der what pretext, as among the gravestof crimes. Fifth, That the present Democratic Admin istration has far exceeded our worst apprehen sions in its measureless subserviency to the exactions of a sectional interest, as is especial ly evident in its desperate exertions to force the infamous Lecompton Constitution upon the protesting people of Kansas; in construing the personal relation between master and ser vant to involve an unqualified property in per sons; in its attempts at the enforcement every where, on land and sea, through the interven tion of Congress and the' Federal Courts, of the extreme pretensions of a purely local inter est; and in its general and unvaryhig abuse of the power entrusted to it by a confiding people. • Sixth, That the people justly view with alarm the reckless extravagance which pervades every department of the Federal Government ; that a return to rigid economy and accounta bility is indispensable to arrest the system of plunder of the public treasury by favored par tisans; while tho present startling develop ments of fraud and corruption at the Federal metropolis show that an entire change of ad- 1 ministratiol is imperatively demanded. Seventh, That the new dogma that the Con stitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the Guited States, is a dangerous political heresy, at var iance with the explicit provisions of that in strument itself, with its contemporaneous ex position, and with legislative and judiciallire cedent ; is rev olutionaryin its tendencies and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country. Eighth, That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of tree dom. That as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our National Territory, ordained that no person should be deplived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law it becomes our duty, by' legislation, whenever such legislation is ne cessary, to maintain this provision of the Con stitution against all attempts to violate it.— And we deny the authority of Congress, of a Territorial Legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any Terri tory of the United States. Ninth, That we brand the recent reopening of the African slave-trade under the cover of our National flag, aided by perversions of ju dicial power, as a crime against humanity, a burning shame to our country and age ; and we call upon Congress to take prompt and efficient measures for the total and final sup pressiOn of that execrable traffic. Tenth, That in the recent vetoes, by the Governors, of the acts of the Legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska, prohibiting slavery in those. Territories, we find a practical illustra tion of the boasted DOmocratic' principle of non-intervention and popular sovereignty, em bodied in the Kansas and Nebraska bill, and a denunciation of the deception and fraud in volved therein. Eleventh, That Kansas should, of right, be immediately admitted as a State, under the Constitution recently formed and adopted by her people, and aooepted by the House of Rep resentatives: "AVIVT - TM viE'l"%EUliio - fiditig -- re - venie or the suppott of the G eneral tiovernmenfj by du? ties upon imports, a sound polieysetitdie's such an adjustment of these imposts as •to ericour- - age the deielopment of the industrial interest of the whole countiji •and oommend that policy of national exchanges which secures to the working-men liberal to agriculture remunerating prices, to:mechanics and manu facturers an adequate 'reward for their skill, labor, and enterprise, and to the mation com mercial prosperity. and independence. . Thirteenth, That we protest against any sale or alienation to 6thers of the public lands held by acted settlers, and against any view of the free homestead policy - which regardi the set tlers as paupers or supplicants for public boun ty;.and we demand the passage ; by Congress of the complete and satisfactory homestead measure which has already passed the House. Pourieenth, That the National Republican party is opposed to any change in our natural ization laws, or any State legislation.by'which the-rights of citizenship hitherto accorded to immigrants from forliign lands:than be abridg ed or impaired, and in favor of giving a full and efficient protection to the right of all classes of citizens, whether native or natural ised, either at hoine or abroad. , , .Fifttenik, That appropriations by Congress for river and harbor improvements of a na tional character required for the acoommoda tion and security of our existing commerce, are authorized by the Constitution and justi fied by an obligation of the Government to protect the lives and property of its citizens. Sixteenth, That a railroad to the Pacific ocean. Is imperatively demanded by the inter . este of the whole country ; that the Federal Government ought to render immediate and efficient aid in its construction, and that, as a preliminary thereto, a daily. overland mail should be promptly established. Seventeenth, Finally, having thus set forth our distinctive principles and views, we invite the co-operation of all citizens, however differ ing on other question's, who substantially agree with us In their affirmance and support. When the Resolutions were read several elicited warm applause. The resolution in fa vor of protecting the tariff was received with unbounded 'enthusiasm by Pennsylvania and a large crowd of outsiders, tho whole delega tions and spectators rising and giving round after round of deafening cheers. Mr. Carter, of Ohio, said that he was confi dent all approved of the.resolutions, and, there fime, moved the previous question. Mr. Giddings, of Ohio, asked his colleague to withdraw the call for the previous question, in order to enable him to offer an amendment to their platform. Mr. Carter refused to withdraw.' Mr. Giddings. Does my colleague - desire to cut me off? Mr. Carter. You and all others. I desire toet a vote on tin) resolutions. After some skirmishing, the Convention re• fused to order the previous question by a vote of yeas 155, nays 301. Mr. Giddings of Ohio, moved to add to the first resolution the following: That we solemnly re-assert the self-evident truths that all aro endowed by the Creator with certain inalienable rights among which are those of life; liberty, and pursuit of happi ness; that Governments areinstituted among men to secure the enjoyment of those rights. Mr. Carter, of Ohio. I desire to move an amendment. Mr. Giddings. I have the floor, and hope my colleage will not ask it of me. Mr. Carter. Oh, no ,• I will not. . Mr. Giddings urged the adoption of his amendment. The great principle it embodied has been the foundation of freedom for two hundred years. The Fathers of the Republic hind embodied them in the. Declaration of In dependence, and he urged upon the Republi can party not , to recede frcim the position they had occupied at the first formation of the par ty, when they had based the fabric of freedom on these very words. He urged the amend- ment at some length. Mr. Carter said it was all gas that had been expended by his colleague on the amendment. It was unnecessary, as the substance of the words was embodied in the second resolution which he had read. Mr. Eli Thayer, of Oregon, said •the amend ment of the gentlomfin from Ohio certainly embodied great truths, but many great truths had been loft out of the Declaration of Inde pendence. He, Ifor one, believed in the Ton Commandments but he did not desire to see them embodied in the platform. [Applause.] Mr. Giddings' motion to amend was then lost by a large vote, Mr. Wilmot, of Pennsylvania, moved to strike out the 14th resolution, in relation to the naturalization laws, the words " or any State Legislature." Ho thought these words might he construed as an attack upon State rights. Mr. Goodrich, of Minnesota, denied that any State Legislature had any constitutional right to legislate on the naturalization laws.— That right belonged to Congress. Judge, Jessup of Pennsylvania, said that the resolutions had been carefully drawn. It was considered right, in view of the dissatisfac- tion existing among naturalized citizens with regard to some laws that had been passed.— They had asserted their right to set the Re publicans straight on this question of natural ized voters. Mr. Wilmot said he might have misunder stood the resolution. He thought that the res olution denied the right of any State to change their laws relative to the votes of naturalized citizens. It had been explained that this res olution did not deny the 'rights of a State to pass such laws, but only expressed opposition to such laws. Ho, therefore, withdrew the amendment. Mr. Carl Schurz said that, as the amend- Meat had been withdrawn, it was not necessa ry to make many remarks. The German Re publicans of the Northwest had given she Re publican party 300,000 votes; They asked this resolution in order to know when they can, with safety and self-respect, give it 300,000 more. At Philadelphia, they asked only one general declaration against any interference with the sights of naturalized citizens. But since it had been found dint State Legislatures passed laws assailing the rights of naturalized citizens and the Germans, it • was now asked that the Republican party should denounce such legislation. On the one side was right on the other was prejudice. Conld the party gain more from prejudice than from right?— [Great applause.] The German It!Vublicans . were disinterested friends of the principles of the party. They came to its ranks, not fur office or for profit, but for the love of liberty, and from a sense of the correctness of its prin ciples. Judge llassourck, of Cincinnati,'made an eloquent address, expressing his evotion to Republican principles and true Americanism: He had learned his love of liberty from the study of the life of Washington. his heart was imbued with American principles before his lips took the oath of allegiance to his adopt ed Government. His speech was arkient and eloquent, and was loudly applauded through out. Judge Jessup desired to amend a verbal mistake in the name of the party. It was print ed in the resolution National Republican party. He, wished to strike out the word national, as that was not the name by which the party was known. The correction was made. G. W. Curtis, of New York, moved to amend Carried unanimously. • the second resolution, by adding thereto the prelude to the Declaration of Independence. The Convention accepted the invitation to Eli Thayer reified the point of order that the excursions on the Rock Island, Chicago, and Galena Railroads. amendment had already been voted down, Mi. Ashley, of Ohio, then moved the fol- The President ruled the point of order well lowing resolution;. taken. • Francis P. Blair said that, if neccessary, he Resolved, That the Republican National Committee appointed by this Convention be, would appeal from the decision of the Chair. and they hereby are, instructed to prescribe The former amendment was made to the first resolution, while the proposition was . to amend uniform rules that shall operate equally in all the States and Territories ; whereby, in the secondresolution. the future, the wishes and preferences of the The Pp6sident. If such is the case, the electors in the Republican organization in the amen dment is in Order. choice of candidates for President and Vice Mr. Curtis said that this was the second President may bo fully ascertained; and that National Convention of the Republican party, the basis of the nominating vote be fixed as and ho asked whether the party was now pre- near as may be in proportion to the number of pared to vote down the words of the Declare- Republican electors found to reside at the last tion of Independence.. He cautioned them to general State election preceding the said nom beware, before here, in the broad prairies of 'nation in each Congressional district through the West, they receded from the position they out the Union. had occupied at Philadelphia, and refuse to After some skirmishing, thiti resolution 'Yell repeat the words of the Fathers of the neva laid on the table. ution as used in the Declaration of American olifiaWapci, 'Loud applause.] AtIVOYIetf of Indiana said that he belhned thii Declaration of Independence, bus, was it deiati siaehodte l to put it in the platform?' JLoud !!Yes—yes." . l He was told it was. Then he would say it was already in. [Cries Of "Put it in twice.l Ile thought it would be en prOper ,to put in the Bible, from the first chapter -to the last . ' • General-Nye now took. the floor, and was proceeding to speak, when several delegates from Pennsylvania cried out. " ut it in and say no more about it." General Nye. That, genn eme is all 7 rant, and I an. - lad that thr we an, _am glad that the fear oni speech from me has induced the gentleman to give way. [Laughter and applause.] The amendment was then adopted. _ The resolutipn as amended was passed imonsly. A' scene of the wildest exiiitement followed, . the immense multitude ri s ing tun! giving round after round of applause. Ten thousand Toiooll swelled into so deafening a roar, that for seve ral minutes every attempt to reidercrorder was hopelessly vain. .4 The multitude on the outside took up and re-echoed the cheers,'making the scene of en thusiasm and emitement nrippralled in any similar gathering.' 'Amidst the confusion, it was moved to ad . jourzi tin° o'clock to-morrow morning. Lost. Mr. Goodrich, of Minnesota, moied to.yro need to a ballot for President. Much confusion, and cries of "Ballot," en sued, amidst which The Piesident put the affirmative on tha mo tion to adjourn, and declared the Convention adjeurried till 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. THIRD DAY. • Carexao, May 18.—This morning, after the Convention was called to order, Nontgomery Blair, of Maryland, announced that the Mary land Delegation had filled up the full number of delegates, and asked leave to present the credentials of .five new delegates, to complete the representation from that State. This was objected to unless the vote of Maryland was restricted to eleven, as settled yesterday. The admission of these new delegatds would have increased the vote of . Maryland to sixteen, but the additional members would have voted against Seward. The motion to admit them was therefore lost. Some confusion-then arose by the Pennsyl vania and Ohio delegations announcing that they wore crowded out of their seats by. per sons not delegates. It was then stated that the Sewardites as soon as they got into the Wigwam passed their tickets out of the win dow to their outside friends. Win. 11. Seward, of New York, Edward Bates, of Missouri, Abram Lincoln, of Illinois, William L. Dayton, of New Jersey, Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, Benjamin P. Wade, of Ohio, Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio, and John McLean, of Ohio, wore then nominated, and the Convention proceeded to a ballot. The re sult was as follows : • FIRST BALLOT. Seward, 1734 Chase, 9 I Lincoln, 102 Wade, 3 Dates, 51 I Dayton, 14 Cameron, 50 Read, 1 McLean, 12 Fremont, 1 The Pennsylvania delegation on the first ballot voted as follows : Cameron, 47McLean, Lincoln, 4 I Seward, SECOND BALLOT. 1844 I Lincoln, THIRD BALLOT. Seward, 181 I Lincoln, Pennsylvania voting for Lincoln The city is alive with excitement this after noon. Speeches are being delivered from the balconies of the principal hotels. Bands of music are parading the streets. The Wigwam is jammed inside, and a tremendous crowd is gathered outside. , _.., , The friends of LinColn say that if Douglas gets the Democratic nomination, Lincoln will beat him by fifteen thousand votes in Illinois. This morning, before the Convention met, the Seward outside pressure, over four thousand strong, paraded the streets, with two bands of' music. This was their last effort. The Lin coln outsidepressure filled the inside of the Wigwam beitme the Sewardites reached it. The following persons were placed in nom ination for Vice President :—Hannibal Ham lin, of Maine ; Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky ; John Hickman, of Pennsylvania ; N. P. Banks, of Massachusetts ; A. IL Reeder, of Pennsyl vania ; John M. Read, of Pennsylvania; Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland ; William L. Day ton, of New Jersey ;•Sam Houston, of Texas. When California voted on the first ballot, the Chairman of that delegation. said that Cali fornia remembers' David Broderick and votes for John Hickman. . FIRST BALLOT FOR"V/Cll PRZSIDINT. Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine,• -- 104 John Hickman, of Penttlylvania, 58 N. P. Banks, of Massachusetts. 881 Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky, 101 Governor Reeder,"of Pennsylvania, 11 Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland, 8 Sam Houston, of Texas, 6 Wm. L. Dayton, of New Jersey, • 3 •Jobn M. Read, of Pennsylvania, • 1 Whole number of votes • 2804 Necessary to a choice , 283 On the second ballot, Massachusetts , with drew the name of Banks, and cast 26 votes for Seward, Hamlin. Pennsylvania withdrew the name of Gover nor Reeder, and cast 54 votes for Hamlin. • . New York cast her 70 votes for Hamlin. The result of the second. ballot was an nounced, 'as follows: Hamlin 864 Clay 66 Hickman 13 The result was received with tumultuous applause, and the nominations was subsequent ly made unanimous amid great enthusiasm. After the delivery or congratulatory speech es by a number of delegates, Joshua R. Gid dings moved the adoption of the following res olution : Resolved, That we deeply sympathise with those men who have been driven, some from their native States, and others from the States of their adoption, and who are now exiled from their homes on account of their opinions, and that we hold the Democratic party responsible for the gross violation of that clause of the Constitution which declareirthat the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privr ileges and immunities of the citizens of the several States. . The resolption wad adopted. Mr. Tuck, tir Now Hampshire, moved that the President of this Convention, and the eltirtimiL.of the several delegations, be ap pointed a committee to inform ldessrs.Lincoln and Hamlin of their nomination. Adopted. -- Mr. Lane, of Indiana. took the floor, and made an eloquent speech in favor of the whole ticket, pledging Indiana, for 10,000 majority. Cries were made for Horace Greeley, which• were met by . applause and hisses. Mr. Goodrich, of Minnesota, announced that a triumphal procession would parade the streets to night, and march to the Wigwam, where a grand ratification meeting will be hold. The announcement was greeted with loud cheers. 1 1 Mr. Goodrich, moved that the thanks of the Convention ho.tendered to the ladies and gen tlemen of Chicago, for the liberality displayed in building and decorating the Wigwam.— WI
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