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toward Disunion of the States.NOMINATION OF DOUGLAS.After all secessions, as well as the refusal of certain delegates from Georgia and Arkansas, together with the entire delegations from Texas and Mississippi to occupy their seats, our National Convention at Baltimore yet Ye-tained 424 delegatee, or 212 electoral votes; being ten more than two-thirds bf the electoral votes of the wholo Union. But some of these delegates (as in the case of Georgia^ refrained from voting, the majority of the delegation having retired; tjthers, (as in the case of Arkansas) although full delegations, and authorised, in case of any secession, to cast the whole vb'to of their State, preferred only to cast that which would be a fair proportion between the seoeders and themselves; and yet others (as in the case of Delaware and portions of the delegations from Kentucky and Missouri) declined to vote, but refused to secede. This accounts for the fact that upon the second ballot, by S/afcs, Mr. Douglas received only 181J votes;-Mr. Breckinridge receiving 101, Mr. Guthrie 4 votes, the States of South Carolina (eight) and Florida (three) having authorized no delegates to any convention at Baltimore. Hero is the ballot as ro-corded:Breckinridge. Out brio. Douglas.Maine------- ..New Hampshire.... . . 5Vermont.... __5Massachusetts ..... - . 10Rhode Island ....... .. 4Connecticut........ k -- 3 4New York ---.. -- 35New Jersey ... .. .. 21Pennsylvania 10 2 J 10Maryland ____ -- 21Virginia ....... .. 3North Carolina-----Alabama. ... .. .. 9Louisiana ----- -- -- 6Arkansas,... __.. 1}Missouri ---- -- -- 41Tennessee ...... -- 3Kentucky......... .. 11 3Ohio............... .. 23Indiana. ---- -- 13Illinois ----- -- 11Michigan ____... -- 0Wisconsin..------- -- 5Iowa............... -- 4Minnesota________- .. -- 4On motion of Mr. Clark, of Missouri, at thlt; instance of Mr. Hoge, of Virginia, the ques tion was then propounded from the Chaii whether the nomination of Douglas shoulc or should not be, without further ceremony the unanimous act of the convention, and o all the delegates present; tho Chairman dis tinetly requesting that any delegate who ob jected (whether or not having voted) shoulc signify his dissent. No delegate dissented and thus, at last, was Strpiien A. DoUGLAi unanimously nominated in a convention repro senting more than two thirds of all the electo ral votes, as the candidate of the Democrats party for the Presidency of the United StatesWas it irregular thus to propose a candidate If so, Lewis Cass was irregularly nominated,a Baltimore, in 1848—which no man ever ore tended—for the same method was adopted ii his case.Subsequently, Governor Fitzpatrick of Ala bama having declined the nomination for Vic« President, tho Democratic National Commit tee (in pursuance of authority conferred upoi it) tendered that position to an eminent son o Georgia, Hebscuel V. Johnson, who accept
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Ashland Union
Ashland, Ohio, US
Wed, Aug 08, 1860
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