¥ erence of slavery, ; . faw remarks, _ conciliate, by a little concession, both. on bul porel, and produce enthusiasm and un- » better platform than'he had ever expected mr = Free Democratic National Convention. ( Concluded.) The report was received with great ap- lause--especially those on land reform, intervention, abolition and the fugitive law. i On a motion to accept, Erastus Hopkins moyed to adopt it, but withdrew the mo- tion, and the report was accepted. A motion to adopt was made, when Gerret Smith arose (amid loud applause) and read a report from the minority of the committee, which he moved as a_substi- tute j%stating, however, that there were many resolutions reported by the majority, in which he heartily concurred. MINORITY REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. 1. Resolved, That inasmuch as the long continued servility to the slave power has at last become so boundless and shame- less, as utterly to forbid all. hope of the reformation of the great political parties, we are compelled to organize a new, inde- pendent and permanent political party. 2. Whereas inasmuch as it will doubt less prove itself to he emphatically and re eminently Democratic, it is desirable at ECR patty should indicate its characteristic principles by its name, there- fore, Resolved, That for this purpose, and also to distinguish it from that sham De- moeracy called the "Democratic party," we give to our new party the name of the " Democratic League." ' 8. That'our new party, inasmuch as its aim will be the impartial and full realiza- tion of the idea of a just civil government, will faithfully endeavor, to the extent of its jurisdiction and power, to protect. all persons (irrespective of sex or eolor,) in the enjoyment of their political rights. 4. That not only do we contemn and trample 'upon the enactment called the « Fugitive Slave Law," and upon every Other enactment for Slavery--but we hold all forms of piracy, and especially the most atrocious and abominable one of Slayery to be entirely incapable of legalization. 5. That, inasmuch as all the nations and races of men constitute but one bro- therhood, we offer our fraternal sympathies to the oppressed, not only of our land, but of every other land--to those for whom Kossuth so eloquently pleads, as well as to the Ametican slave. _ 6. That we should rejoice to have De- moeratic Leagues organized in every part of the world to' co-operate with our own D mocratic League in bastening the bless- e day when there shall no longer be any tyranuy to be pitied. "7. "that the free access of the landless to the publicrlands, is one of the righteous measures called for by the great and good cause of land "reform which justly claims, that the right to the soil is the right of all men. 4 - ©©8ioThat the Democratic principles de- mand that Postmasters be elected by the people. 9. That the reduction of postage, both by "land and sea, to the lowest rates at which it can possibly be afforded, would add greatly to the public happiness. 10. That for the Federal Government to tax commeree, and at the same time to neglect the condition of harbors and rivers ¢onnected with foreign or inter-state eom- merce, is neither wise nor honust. 11. That 'no civil government which permits dram shops to multiply paupers and madmen, protects' its subjects to the extent to which it is bound to protect them. - J. WW. Foster moved to lay both on the table till the afternoon, print them, and proceed to a nomination. J.C, Vaughan willed. for, division of the question. Mr, Axelsey of Illinois moyed to refer both to a Special committee, which he withdrew. _Mr. Go of Phila. offered a substitute which was declared out of order. Me. 'Poster withdrew the last clause of his mo- tion, relative to proceeding to a nomina- 'tion.. The question was divided--and that to lay on the table until the afternoon session, was lost by a large majority. , The motion to print was also lost. - Athaltpast two the Convention again convened, when Mr. Payne of Wisconsin, (one of the minority committee,) spoke in defence of their report, and contended there was ground for despondency. Had "not the infamous slave law passed, and as far as human legislation could enact wrong, was it not lata --alleged by many, among them some clerey, to be binding on the "onseience? Was this "prowress?? (A Delegate replied that it was--tfor it would "bo put down, and the old law of 1793 would go with it!) He denied that legal enactment could make a wrong, malum in +e, intoa law, and maintained his position atsome length, and opposed the majority report on the ground that in three or four places, it acknowledyed the leval exist- «>, Lewis Tappan, of New York, made a He had a sttong desire to ight and theileft, " this family *quar- animity. The mojority report was a vastly to see--it Was an improvement onthe re- solutions adopted at Worcester, He pro- which had met with appproval from both sides of the house, as follows : Resolved, That as American slavery is a sin against God and a crime against man, itis in the highest sense inyalid, illegal, and nor Law, either diyine or human, and it is therefore utterly void and of no FoRCE before God and man, He also wished to strike out the fourth resolution. entirely, and also offered the following substitute to the eighteenth re- solution, on the subject of imprisoning colored seamen : Resolved, That by the Constitution "the citizens of each State shall be en- titled to all privileges and immunities of vitizens in the' several States," the prac tice of imprisoning colored seamen of other States, while the vessels to which they belong lie in port, and refusing the exercise of the right to bring such cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, to test the legality of such pro- ceedings, is a flagrant violation of the Constitution and an inyasion of the riglits of the citizens of other States, utterly in- consistent with the profession made by the slave holders, that they wish the pro- visions of the Constitution faithfully ob- served by every State in the Uuion, Joshua R.iGiddings said that he, and those with him, were agreed to those a- mendments. The Chair ruled this out of order, until Mr. Smith withdrew his minority report, proposed as a substitute. Mr. Smith had objections to the land reform, being in favor of recognizing " the natural right to the soil." He © did not want the rights of women ignored--but could not oppose it on this account, as the motion of Mr. Tappan would render it unobjectionable as regards slavery. Mr. Hawley, of Connecticut, protested against compromise of principles, and moved to recommit the resolutions. Dr. Snodgrass said the southern dele- gates had been consultsd, and favored the tecommitment, Charles F. Adams was in favor of the majority report, with Mr. Tappan's amend- ments, but found many opposed to a change of one iota in their report. He looked at this as a national platiorm--and the position of Southern anti slavery men should be regarded ; and their increase not retarded by unnecessary violence on our part. For this reason he opposed the resolution of the minority, denouncing slaveholders as " pirates"---men. with whom our Southern delegates must meet every day. He wished something practi- eal--something productive of good. , He desired to meet Mr. Smith on one plat- form,--that he should no longer labor witha very few hundreds in New York ; but was not that gentleman endeavoring to break down the bridge between them, or force them to go over to them, in- stead of taking one step towards him. He however, earnestly and anxiously de-|: sired that gentleman's co-operation--his strong arm and strong voice in the cam- paign. It would be cheaply purchased by giving up even three resolutions ! Let us agree on these amendments, nomi- nate candidates, and go home! (Cheers.) Mr. Hawley, overborne, but not con- vinced, withdrew his motion to re-com- mit. Dr. Snodgrass disagreed with Mr. Adams, as to purchasing even such sup- port at the price of "three resolutions" --he would never sell his principles. He is here asked, as a Southerner, that slaye- ry cannot be legalized; he might as well say that table did not stand on four legs, before the chairman. 'The whole statute- book was covered with "black Jaws'-- slavery was an actwality. He had met in a room with Southerners, and openly consulted with "fanaties'--and they had gone as far as they could go, in agree- ing with the resolution of the. platform. The substitute, coming from a conyen- tion of what are called "fanatics," would in the South receive a false construction. The South were not all lawyers, and woul assuredly put a false construction on the resolution, and it would place them in a false position, C. Vaughan reluctantly called. the gentleman to order, but time pressed. Dr. S. continued: As a reprsentative from the South, do not compel him to en- ter a protest against a singe resolution, A. W. Linn, of Ky., thought the anti- slavery men of Kentucky, would agree to the stronger resolution of the minority, but trusted the resolution of Mr. 'Tappan would be adopted. Gerrit Smith, for conciliation, with- drew his minority resolutions. Judge Sqaulding moved to re-commit, to the Chairman, with instructions to re- port them with Mr. Tappan's amendments, HL. J. Clark, of Michigan, moved to also instruct him to srike out the words "or human" trom the substitute of Mr. 'Tappan, --After an explanation from Mr, Tappan, Mr. Clark replied. Mr, Lovejoy, of Illinois, was opposed to both amendments and re-committal. Ife dissected the resolution of Mr, 'Tap- pan, which he seemed to consider non- sence. Slavery did lecally exist, and it was folly to resolve it did not--for the Pond to strike out the fourth resolution of mapority on slavery, and insevt another, purpose of catching a few votes 80 many depended on this, why did the gentleracn from New York get them in his cause? He gave the old anti-slavery principles--among them "that slavery was the creature of law, depended upon yotes, and therefore the North was re- sponsible." He supported the majority platform as reported, in an able speech, which was interrupted with cheers, calls to order, and the rising of other speakers. Mr. Willey, of Maine, one of the Com- mittee, thought all was conceded which should be, in the majority platform, and the further we departed from it the more we drifted to sea. The only merit of the amendment was its ambiguity--it could be constructed so many ways. What does 'in the highest sense,' in that con- nection, mean? that slavery is no law, at all, any way ? 'rot. Binney, of Cleveland, thought there had been a mistake among anti- slavery men always. If the minority did not get all they asked, from the majority they would not go together, even so far as they Jid agree--and seceded. There should be no secession, except on a fund- amental principle, or where conscience was involved. He then discussed the meaning of the term "legalized," as ap- plied to slavery, Some say that slavery can never be right--and therefore can never be lawful. We all agree slavery is wrong, but if we say it can never be "leoalized," we will be understood to at- firm that it cannot be enacted, sustained and enforced by human government when the fact is as it is, been has and will be. We agree that no human legislation can make slavery right. Do not Jet us wran- ele, and mistake our wills for our consci- ences--adhere to the "thirty-nine arti- cles" we favor, and let the slave bleed on. Adopt either, and he should blush to secede, and sacrifice the cause of the slave. Emulate the example of the South; they unite to sustain--do let us unite to put down slavery. After withdrawing pending motions a yote was taken on striking out the fourth resolution of the majority platform, and re- sulted as follows, yeas 134, nays 79. Yeas. Nays | Yeas. Nays. Maine, 2 6 | Indiana, 0 18 N. Hampshire, 1 4 | Illinois, 4 4 Vermont, 1 4 | Michigan, 8 7 Massachusetts, : 9 4 | Iowa, 0 Connecticut, 5 1 | Wisconsin, 3 Rhode Island, 2 2 | Kentucky, 10 New York, ° 28 7 |) Dalaware, 3 Pennsylvania, 13 9 | Maryland, 8 New Jersey, 7 0 | Virginia, 15 Ohio, 20 8 | o--: ie = 70, The) 18th resolution was struck out, aud Mr. Tappan's subst.tute adopted. Mr. Booth proposed, (as an amendment to Mr. Tappan's substitute for the 14th resolution,) the original resolution, amend- ed by striking out the words "the en- ormity of ;" also striking out "sanction or mitigate,' and inserting instead of the words "make right"'--make it read as follows : 14. Resolved, That slavery is a sin a- gainst God, and a crime against man, which no law nor usage can make right, and that Christianity, Humanity and Pa- triotism alike demand its abolition. The previous question was moved and sustained. Mr. Booth's amendment was adopted --but there being misapprehension, by gen- eral consent the yote was again taken, and resulted in the same way, by a large ma- jority. The 14th resolution, amended, was then passed, with few dissenting votes. The whole matter coming up, Gerrit Smith moved the minority report as an a- mendment to the whole. The chair decided this out of order-- the previous questions having been sustain- ed--from which decision Mr. Noble, of New York, appealed, and the decision of the chair was sustained. The yote on the platform, as amended, was then taken by the States, and resulted as follows : Yeas. Nays. Yeas. Nays. Maine, 8 0 | Maryland, 8 0 N. Hampshire, 5 0 | Ohio, 23 0 Massachusetts, 13 0 | Illinois 9 2 Vermont, 5 0 | Michigan, 6 0 Connecticut, 6 0 | Jowa, 4 0 Rhode Island. 4 0} Kentueky, 12) 0 Pennsylvania, 27 0} Wisconsin, 5 0 New York, 20 6} Virginia, 7 q New Jersey, 7 0} Indiana, 13 0 Delaware, 3 0 Sate BOD) Lo, G. Smith moved the adoption of the minority report, to relieve it from the re- sponsibility of withdrawing: it. Many objecting to vote directly against the report, a motion to lay Mr, Smith's re- solutions on the table, was almost unan- imously adopted. Mr. Booth offered the following resolu- lion on Land Reform, (prefaced by a few pertinent remarks,) which after some dis- cussion, was adopted unanimously. Resolved, That all men have a natural right to a portion of the soil, and that as the use of the soil is indispensable to life, the right of all men to the soil is as sacred as their rights to life itself. Gerrit Smith said its passage would go very far towards making this platform per- fect. Land monopoly was the parent of slavery. Mr, Hopkins moved to proceed to bal- lot for President and Vice President, which Was unanimously agreed to. é John 'P. Hale, of New Hampshire, Silmon BP, Chase, of Ohio, Stephen C. ooouned Phillips, of Salem, Massachusetts, and Charles Durkee, of Wisconsin, were plac- ed in nomination, when the vote resulted as follows: For Joux P. Harz, of New Hampshire, received the follow- ing :--Maine 8; New Hamp- shire 3; Vermont 9; Massa- chusetts 8; Rhode Island 3 ; Connecticut 6; New York 24 ; Pennsylvania 27; New Jer- sey; 7; Maryland 8; Del- aware 3; Ohio 28; Indiana 13; Illinois 11; Kentucky 10; Virginia 16; Michigan 8; Wisconsin 5; and Iuwa 4 - 192 votes. For S. P. Case, of Ohio re- ceived 2 from Massachusetts, and three from New York - For Cnarurs F, Apams, of Massachusetts, 1 from New York, 2 from Massachusetts, 3 ee For Gerrit Smirn, of New York, 8, from New York, - - = $8 a For Witr1am Goopet., of New Y., 2 from New York, - - 2 ic For Cartes Durer, of Wis- consin, 1 from New York, - 1 i For Srernen Paivures, of Mas- sachusetts, one from Massa- chusetts, - - - = - = I fe For Thomas H. Bryron, of Missouri, 1 from New York, 1 " Whole number - - - - 208. (Wisconsin and Maryland at first threw thirteen votes for Charles Durkee--but afterwards changed their vote, casting it for John P, Hale.) The chairman announced that JOHN P. HALE, of New Hampshire, was duly nominated the candidate for President of the United States--and on motion of Mr. Rogers, the nomination was declared w- nanimous, amid deafening and long con- tinued cheering. The Convention proceeded to nominate for Vice Presidency, when the first ballot resulted as follows : For Georer W. Jurran, of Indiana, 104 For Samuet Lewis, of Ohio, ' 835 lor Gnorcr H. Evans, of N. Jersey, 3 For Jossua R Gipprves, of Ohio, 16 For J. H. Coxttxs, 3 For CuAr.es Durker, of Wisconsin, 1 Whole vote Necessary to a choice, 106. There being no choice, Mr. Lewis, of Ohio, said he had been placed in an awkward position. THe never wished an office, and (after giving' his reasons there for, and recommending Mr. Julian's nomi- nation) respecifully but positively declin- ed the nomination. J. C, Vaughan followed in favour of Mr. Lewis, as a friend of the principles, and a pioneer in the cause of education in the West--but would yield himself for the young standard-bearer in Indiana. Another Ohio delegate said some of them were unwilling to vive up their ven- erable father forthe younger man, who could afford to wait. Judge Spaulding protested against Mr. Lewis' nomination after his declination. Mr. Brisbane, as chairman of the Ohio delegation, expressed a readiness to give up Mr, Lewis, if they consented--but was met by eties of "no." 'The chairman of the Indiana delegation (which voted for Lewis, said they had heard of no other man for the office till they came here, but he would follow that geutleman's advice and vote for Julian. A motion to suspend the rules, and vote by acclamation, was lost. Mr. Lewis was surry so much had been said on a matter which he supposed would have been settled by his previous remarks --He was not a candidate, would not ae- cept--aud every vote for him would be thrown away. ON SECOND BALLOY: Geo. W. Julian, of Ind., had 187 votes. Samuel Lewis of Ohio, ga are Whole number 22U--necessary to a choice 11. The Chair annonneed that GEORGE W. 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