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SOUTHERN PRESS. Washington city. THl'RSSDAY, JUNK 3, 186:2. "Tl? !? helere the teuutry." Under thin caption the Union of Tuesday kiiakM ?n editorial in which tlie confession is ! r? trunk J > that the great living issue now before the country is the slavery question. This great truth which we have so long been reviled and denounced for openly proclaiming, is now admitted at the eleventh hour by the chief of our detainers and assailants, and the hypocrisy which so long cloaked and concealed it, now stands stripped and nakod to the eyes of all men. A candid confession is good for the soul, and even a tardy penitence has its merits. No even st this late hour there is s saving grace in those admissions of the Union, though wrung from it with pangs equal to those of parturition. Listen how it echoes the very doctrines so long denounced as "treasonable," and "factious," and "sectional," when uttered through the Southern Prtis. Listen, too, to its admissions as to the effects of "the plan of pacification"?"the ad juslinent"?"the settlement." There can ho no better evidence than States' evidence the vol. untary oonfstsion of acceaaories before the fact. If we required any justification for our previous and present course, in regard to that "plan," we would find it in this death-bed confession. Hut the facte and events have justified and will jus. tify us. Thus speaks the Union : "In the absence of all excitement in regard to the old points of dilference between the two great parties, a brief examination of the main issue before the country, and an inquiry into the relations which those parties respectively bear towards it, would not seem at the present moment inappropriate or ill timed. "Strive to conceal it as wo may (litter ourselves as we are inclined to do, that nil is peace and tranquility, and that the noble and beneficent institutions we enjoy are established upon a foundation that cannot be overthrown it cannot be denied that danger has existed, does ex ist, and will continue to exist, as long as the elements out of which it grows are permitted to combine with our political action, and enter into the composition of the public sentiment which it produces. "Gradually and slowly, but steadily and surely, the great question of the day has for years been increasing in importance, until it bus at length concentrated tho interest and riveted the atten tion of the whole people of the United Slates upon one particular point of issue, upon the do cision of which depend not only their peace, prosperity and happiness, but their very existence as a nation. We are not, it is true, called upon as yet peremptorily to reply to the query, Snail there be peace or war??shall the integrity of the Union bo preserved or its bonds at once be severed, and civil strife and internecine slaughter take the place of fraternal good will and friendly domestic relations ? The enemies of the per mantney of our institutions are not quite prepared as yet for a resort to the ' ultima ratio' of republics as well as kings; they are not yet ready to draw the sword or point the gun upon the defenders of the Union and the Constitu tion. But the question before us is preliminary, and necessarily so, to the last terrible demand which fanaticism thrcutenato make upon patriot, ism; and upon the nature of the answer given to that question depends whether that demand will ever be made, and one portion of the confederacy be compelled to surrender its rights or stand to its arms. "It is unnecessary for us at this time to do more than merely allude to the alarming progress of anti-slavery sentiment in the North. To adduce facts in proof of its prevalence, or to use arguments for the purpose of showing the dangerous character of its pretensions arid designs, would be labor thrown uway. The noire of their captains and the shoutings are borne to us on every Northern breeze." * * * * "Anti-slavery agitation is to be continued? continued, too, in defiance of each one and all of the interests of the country, in oppo ition to sentiment political or purely patriotic- carried on and carried out without regard to consequences, however momentous or resultB, however appal ling. Mark, too, the extent to which the designs thus announced are made to reach. Anti slavery agitation is no longer to be confined to purposes of excluding the South from the territories, ruling out the admission of more slave States to the Union, and abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia. The termination of its exist ence in the country is the end now aimed at an end whicli no sane man'can contemplate with out being conscious that it would be the end of the Constitution the|end of the republic. This, then, is the issue. Shall agitation for euch an end bo permitted shall anti-slavery agitation in any ehupe be any longer tolerated ? For to the same result it would lead, no matter what the professed purpose of those who com mence it or continue it. One would suppose that to such a question the American people would find no difficulty in returning a speedy and decided answer. Critical, indeed, must be the crisis overwhelming the evidences of this feeling when the organ pipes such a strain, after its antecedents and protracted denunciation of this paper for sternly and unwaveringly declaring the same truth when it was not so popular or so prudent to do so as now, when it can neither bo disguised nor denied. Why, then, persist in the repetition of the stale slang of the " finality" of a series of measures of pacification, which have resulted in such peace as that one of its chief organs bo pathetically pictures. It lias" striven to conceal" this fact too long?it has " flattered" itself and the North too long that "all is peace and tranquility"?and its penitence now is almost too late, unless tho merciful spirit of the old creed be extended towards it, as in the case of the old sinner, when " Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, JVferey he sought and mercy found." Important Decision on the Revenue Laws ?The United States Supreme Court, just previous to its recent adjournment, decided that the 58th and 59th sections of tho act of tho 2d March, 1799, as regards rates of tare and allowance for leakage, are not in force under the tariff act of 1846. The National Intelligencer Hays: " Under this decision, in future, no allowance beyond actual tare can be made in estimating the quantity subject to duty of any weighable article, and the allowance of two percent, on liquids for prospective leakage will also be disallowed, but any leakage duiing the voyage of importation will still be subject to deduction from the dutiable value. "The same decision also declares that the construction put by the Treasury Department upon the revenue laws, as regards the imposition of duty, is binding until reversed by judicial proceeding": and that no claim can be made for a return ot duties under such treasury construction unloss the parties, at the time of entry, made a protest specially stating the ground of objection." Pbemdkhthl. Democratic National Convention, Baltimore, - June 1. Whig National Convention, Baltimore, " 16. Nativist " " Trenton, July 4 Freesoil " " Cleveland. Aug. 4 Liberty Party ' " Buffalo, Sept. I j Proceeding* of (he Democratic It at tonal ' Contention. Our telegraphic despatch of yesterday gate the subalance of the proceedings on that day From the Sun of yesterday we extract the fol- , lowing detailed account of the first steps to- i wards organization : I AFTERNOON SESSION. The chairman railed the Convention to order at half-past live o'clock, and said : I "I have been requested by the committee of; arrangements to state tlmt they have not been able to do anything during the recess, hut they i propose to extend the plaltorin still further, as I they hope, for the accommodation of all the members." This announcement was follow ed by applause, j There was a long interval, members coming in and finding some difficulty in getting seated. ! Much confusion prevailed. The chairman inquired whether any of the committees were prepared to report. Mr. HARRIS, of Illinois, as a member of the committee on credentials, said he had been requested to say they were not yet ready to make their report. Mr. THOMPSON, of Miss., said the committee on organization met immediately after the recess and proceeded to discharge their duty. Their report was not yet complete, in consequence of a misapprehension us to whether the subject of rules was referred to them. This, however, was not tho cuse, and ho moved to take up that resolution for adoption. A delegate cried out in a loud vniee "W can't hear u wordand "order," "ordor," re- i sounded throughout the spacious hall. A crowd of spectators at this point began to crowd into the galleries, thus increasing the , confusion which pruvailed. There were many voices "Read the resolu , tion." "It should be read from the middle of the room!" "Goon!" Read, read!" "Order, i order!" | The secrclary read as follows: I "Resolved, That the committee on organiza- | tion be instructed to report rules for the gov- \ eminent of this Convention." I Cries of "Louder!" "Louder!" "Let the , Secretary tuko a place in the centre of the room!" i The chairman remarked that it wus a simple , one for the government of the Convention. Renewed voices?"We can't hear?it is ut- , tcrly impossible!" The resolution was finally adopted, not half the Convention seeming to understand its purport. A motion was bore made to adjourn until tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Deafening and tremendous was the negative sound, which was followed by hearty and long prolonged laughter. So dense was the crowd of delegates that it was next to impossible to send a messenger to ascertain the names of all the speakers. A member from Connecticut moved the appointment of a special committee to procure another room for the meeting of the Convention. A voice : "You could not get a finer room." Mr. McRAK, of North Carolina, resisted the motion of the gentleman from Connecticut, stating that the motion was in its character a reflection upon the committee of arrangements j and the citizens of Baltimore, whereas they, had untitled themselves to the warmest thanks of the whole Convention, for the kind, hospitable and complete arrangements they had made for the Convention. [Applause ] Air. McRaf. concluded by moving to lay the motion on the table. The member from Connecticut, desiring to explain, the motion was withdrawn, and he said: "So far as that, I don't cast any reflection on the committee of arrangements. So far from that, the committee ore entitled to the thanks of the Convention for their admirable arrangcmcnta. 1 am for paying a just tribute of gratitude for their services. It was said the room was too lurge; and hence the difficulty." The motion to lay 011 the table wus then carried with enthusiasm. ' This matter was clnaed bv an announcement that after the adjournment the platform would he removed to the centre of tho hell, where all ran hoar and see, and that, if necessary, by order of the Convention, all who have not business here can be requested to go away. It wua suggested that the committee on organization could make a partial report, when Mr. WISE said the nomination of utHcora waa not completed, and before doing so it was necessary to act upon the rules. Voices: "The resolution was adopted." " "It was carried." Mr. WISE then requested the committee to retire, and said they would report back almost instantly. And the committee on credentials likewise retired. After a short interval, JACOB THOMPSON returned with the committee on organization, and submitted the following report: president : Hon. JOHN VV. DAVIS, Indiana. vice presidents: John Irwin, Alabama. Samuel C. Roane, Arkansas. Henry A. Lyons, California. James T. Pratt, Connecticut. Charles Wright, Delaware, John Branch, Florida. Joseph Dav, Georgia. James B. Foley, Louisiana. Dr. Charles Johnson, Illinois. * George Gillespie, Iowa. Levi Tyler, Kentucky. Emilie La Sere, Lousisiana. Amos W. Roberts, Maine. Edward Lloyd, Maryland. Henry H. Childs, Massachusetts. Elon Farnsworth, Michigan. John B. Nevitt, Mississippi. V. A. Jamea, Missouri. Samuel Tilton, New Hampshire. David S. Craig, New Jersey. Zadoch Pratt, New York. Weldon N. Edwards, North Carolina. Wm. Medill, Ohio. David Lynch, Pennsylvania. Welcome B. Sayles, Rhode Island. C ive Johnson, Tenneaseo. Ashbel Smith, Texan. David A. Smallie. Vermont. Charles Yancey, Virginia. Wilson Dewey, Wisconsin. SECRETARIES. Edmund C. Went, New York. S. C. llovatt, Tennessee. E. Barksdale, Mississippi. Wm. Stewart, Indiana. Patrick Crittenden, Connecticut. Wm. A. I locker, Illinnia. Edward II. Barlctt, Kentucky. Lucius Y. Luak, Louisiana. Samuel H. Ayre, New Hampshire, Oliver S. Dewey, North Carolina. Samuel D. Patterson, Pennsylvania. C. I'ryor, Virginia. David Noggle, Wisconsin. RULES. Resolved, That the rules of the House of, Representatives, as far as applicable for the gov- i eminent of the convention, he adopted as the rules of this convention. Resolved, That two thirds of the whole num. | bor of votes given, shall bo necessary to a nnm ination of candidnR s for President and Vice j President of the United States by this convention. Resolved, That in voting upon any question which may arise in the proceedings of this con i I vention, the vote shall be taken by States, at I the request of any one State, each State to be entitled to the number of votes to which each State ' is entitled in the next electoral college, without regard to the number of delegates in attcn i dance?the manner in which said vote is to be enst to be decided by the delegation of each ' Stale by itaelf. 1 After the reading of the report, ?|| of it with I the sacsplion of that portion relative to the two i thirds rule, waa, on motion of Mr. ATOSftTos I coin Hired in A. S. PRA rT, of Ohio, aatd lliat tills rule waa I adopted at the last Democratic; convention, and I now it ia proposed to force it upon llui in derogation of th?- right thut the majority shall rule < As long, he said, ua we have the two thirds rule. I i minority can piny round until they force the < najority into their views. For this reason I I nude the motion to reject it. I A motion was made and carried, to lay the i notion of the gentleman from Ohio, upon the I .utile. Anil llie two uiirus ruie wiu men uuupi id. This whs succeeded by lon>r continud updause, ai d deafening huzza*. j i In pursuanee of a motion that a committee ! < tie appointed to wuit upon the President ot the i SOnveiition and inform liim of his selection, tin 1 i 'hair appointed the following named gentlemen , I for that purpose, namely : Messrs. Htki'hknu, of Kentucky, Wise, of Virginia, und Tuomi'vin, of i Mississippi. j 1 They quiekly discharged tlieir duty, and ' Hon. Jons W. Davis having reached the plut- I form, he was received with demonstrations of' ipplause. i Mr. DAVIS spoke as follows : M Centlemen of the Convention I return my ! ' sincere und .cordial acknowledgments for the j I honor conferred by culling me to preside over pour deliberations. Although not altogether ; i unused to the duties of the chair, I approach ii i 1 nn this occasion with great doubts as to my < success in presiding over so large an assembly. < But in my attempt to discharge the arduous iluties, 1 ask you to bear in mind that good old | maxim, "Order is Heaven's first law." [Ap- 1 plauso.] 1 shall call largely for your foibear- i mice. May I not say I ask for the exercise of i higher and purer Christian virtue, called "forgiveness," not only towards the chair but to- < wards ono another ? i ask also, and conjure pou as fellow Democrats, emb irked in the great lause of Democracy, to remember that obliga- 1 lions rest upon you as a party to promote bar- 1 tnvny, conciliation and compromise everything for principle, nothing for men. I again thank you, gentlemen. [Renewed applause suertneded.I The PRESIDENT. If it is your pleasure, the same committee will wait upon the Vice Presi- 1 dents and conduct them to their places. JACOB-THOMPSON,said: "The Vice Presidents will pleifse present themselves., It is impossible to find them out; there are so many of them." [Laughter. | Amid much contusion tho Vice Presidents wended their way through the dense crowd, and at last got Hnugly sealed upon the platform. E. CREIGHTON moved a reconsideration of the vote by which tho two-thirds rule was adopted. A motion was made to lay that upon the table. ELIAS BRO WN, in tho name of Maryland, moved that the vote be - taken by the States ; and this proposition mot a wurm reception. The PRESIDENT, in reply to a question, said that those who voted "uy" would vote to retain the two-thirds rule. The confusion broke out afresh, amid which the vote was taken. The States were then called, with the followin result, viz: Ayes. Nays. Maine, 8 New Hampshire, 5 Vermont, 5 Massachusetts, 13 Rhode Island, 4 Connecticut, 6 New York, 31 3 New Jersey, 7 Pennsylvania, 27 Dele vare, 3 Maryland, 8 Virginia, 15 North Carolina, 10 S. C. (Gen. Commander) 1 Georgia, 10 Alabama, 9 Mississippi, 7 Louisiana, 6 Ohio, 11 10 Kentuckv. 12 Tennessee, 12 Indiana, 13 Illinois, 11 Missouri, 9 Arkansas, 4 Michigan, 6 Florida, 3 Texas, 4 Iowa, 4 Wisconsin, 5 California, 4 273 13 As the votes were announced, clspping of hnnds and stamping of feet succeeded, shaking the building to its foundations. Much merriment was occasioned when General Commander (wo believe) cast his one vote in the affirmative for South Carolina. A voice " Good for him." The vote for South Carolina was afterwards said to be a joke, there being no one present from that State, though General Commander is in the city. Tho Presidnet stated the result yeas two hundred and seventy-three, nays thirteen. There was renewed demonstrations of joy. A motion was made and enrried that a committee of five be appointed to act, in conjunction with the committee of arrangements, with a view to the better accommodation of delegates; and, in pursuance of the resolution, the President appointed Messrs. Hat.let, Van Dyke, Sayles, Pratt, and Welch, of Pennsylvania. The Convention, at seven o'clock, adjourned until Wednesday morning at ten o'clock. second day horning session. Wednesday, June 2, 1852. The Convention was called to order at 10 o'clock by the President. Dr. PLUMER, a minister of tho Presbyterian church, offered up a prayer. " The immense hall was crowdod to suffocation with spectators. They have grent difficulty in sealing members. At 11 o'clock the entire delegations from four Stales were not in the hall." Older was finally obtained; when Mr. Burrows, from Arkansas, offered a resolution to ap point a committee of one from each State to report resolutions composing tho Democratic I latform. This was laid on the table for the present. On motion, it was ordered to appoint a committee of one from each State to designate the Democratic National Committee. The appointment of the committee was deferred till the afternoon session. A. V. BROWN, of Tennessee, offered the following resolution as a substitute: Thai a committee of one from each State be appointed, to whom all resolutions in relation to the creed or platform of the Democratic party shall be referred on presentation, without debate. Mr. BURROWS said that gentlemen must be in hot haste to amend, and suggested that the proposition of the gentleman from Tennessee, would cau-e more debate than the original resolution, which was presented by the delegation from Arkansas. It was not intended to be discussed at this time; but merely presented to lie over for the present, and take it up for consideration at a future time. The rcsolotion, with the pending amendments, was laid on the table for the present. Mr. BORDEN, of Indiana, offered a resolution, that a committee of one from each State he appointed to r> port persons to constitute the Dcmoaratic general committee. The resolution was adopted. ' Mr. CHAR LICK trusted that the States would j aot be called until the afternoon session. Mr. BRADLEY, of Iowa, after saying that it would be wrong to appoint the committee until tiler the committee on credentials shall have ? ? made Ihvi.- report, moved to postpone the con-11 tideraliou of the subject until to-morrow; and j1 Hint * an agreed to. : 1 Mr. I'lIILUI'S, of Alabama, submitted the . J following preamble and resolution*, which wore ' laid ou the table and ordered to he printed : Win-Men, the several acts passed by the 31st 1 LVigress, known us the <'omproiniae acta, though received with disfavor by large portions jf th< people of Southern and Southwestern State*, have been acquiesced in by the people of ( those Stales in determination to ubide by them. | ' 'tiler than hazard the pence and harmony of i I... IT....... A. I ..I . . I.... II... ..I I ! s?iv 1 iiiuii j\ i hi wm*i< -o, nnu, wuu jvi J'?o<jou , | >t the same session, aim-fidatory of tho act of t 1793, respecting fugitives from justice, and pernios cm-ailing iroui the service of their musters, t ooalituUs uo essential part of that series of measures which has heeti suhmitted to the i ountry us un adjustment or final settlement of I the slavery agitation : Therefore, I Hf.sttlvfd, That the ar t herein referred to and known as the fugitive slave act, is clothed with | die highest sanctions, and that good faith us i woll us legal obligations d' inuiui its full and faithful execution. t KmiilieJ, That the national Democratic party s based upon tho perpetuity of the States and f the perpetuity of their unipn ; it will, therefore, t sternly resist all measures which tend to impair t the one or destroy the other. Mr. PHILLIPS, with the view of avoiding ae- t rious objections, expressed the hope that the Convention would agree to have them printed I rnd made the special order for to morrow ut 1J , o'clock. Mr. BRIGHT requested the secretary to report the resolutions from the centre of tho room, teeming tliuin second in importance to tho Union itself. A delegate suggested that this subject should be disposed of before the Convention shall be 1 led upon to select thoir candidate for the Presidency. The Conventon then ordered the resolutions to lie on the (alio and be printed ; arid then re fused to make iheui tho special order of tho day for to-morrow. Mr. CHARLOCK, of New York, offered the following, viz: $ Resolved, Tint it is the duty of the federal government, so far as its power extends, to secure to each section of the confederacy the undisturbed enjoynent ot its constitutional rights; and that a rigid and faithful enforcement of the [ act passed on the 18th of September, A. I), r 1850, providing for tho reclamation of fugitives from labor, is indispensably necessary to the \ perpetuity of Die Union ; that all attempts to I impair its ifficicy or weaken its guaranties be c discountenanced and resisted by every well a wisher of the lepubiic. i This wus received with enthusiasm, and or- a dered to lie on the table and be printed. i Mr. A. V. BLOWN moved that the resold- t tion of the gen leman from Arkansas [Mr. Bob- c rows] be taken up. It proposed to raise a i committee of one from each State, to report I the resolutions to compose tho Democratic plat i form. ? There was n necessity for this. As resolu- t tions are presented, let them be referred without ( debate. The committee could report on a plat r form, and this could then lie discussed and * considered, and made satisfactory to tho great " Democratic triumphant party. t Otherwise, gentlemen would say, "Hero is i my platform," and want to make a speech. Thus, I instead of one day being thus consumed, one ' month would ho occupied. Therefore, ho made ? the motion. ? Mr. DOBBIN, of North Carolina, in rising to c second tho motion, said he desired to construct t a platfc in. lie wanted to know on what platform they stood before proceeding to tho nouii 1 nation of their candidates. | Applause. J * Yesterday, he remarked, wo hud a platform, n i material platform. That was constructed before those who were to stand upon it came hither. | It was, however, understood to bo too small, I and had to bo enlarged to accommodate the 1 crowd. Now, I want, not a material platform, but one of principle ; not a platform to suit the candidates, but one to suit the principles. [Renewed applause.] The canditate should hold in one hand the Constitution of our country, Rncred and untouch < ed; and in the other hand the flag, not of New York, North Carolina, or Florida, hut the flag of the glorious Union of the States. [Deafening applause.] I want placed upon the platform a man who can hold the Constitution in ono hand and the Hag in the other the flag of tho entire Union so that wo can enthusiastically rally to his sup port. We want a strong man fo hold tho tlig, steadily, firmly and manfully, and never let it fall. And thus the rrreat principles of tho ereat Democratic party will again triumph. [Here was renewed applause.] We go for the rights of the Union and the union of the" States. If we nominate any other candidate, we are gone. Let us put our candidate on this platform, and we must triumph. If the resolution should ho adopted, wo can appoint the committee in the afternoon. Mr. DUNIIAM, of Ind' in, s lid he had been informed that a resolution offered by his col league, (Judge Borden) providing for the ap pointment of a committee on resolutions had been adopted, and that the motion providing for the appointment of the committee by the dele gation from each State had boon laid upon the table. All that was necessary was to take that resolution from the table, and during the recess the delegations efiuld consult and report at the afternoon ses: ion llie names of the persons to compose the committee. In the meantime resold tions which gentlemen may desiro to offer can ho roferred to that committee. Mr. BORDEN replied that his colleague was laboring under a misapprehension. No motion to appoint a committee on ro-iolulions had been adopted. His impression was the whole subject had been laid upon tho table for tho present, ai I that tho resolution which he had submitted had reference only to the appointment of a Democratic general committee. It was true, that the time lor tho appointment of the committee had been postponed until to-inorrow. The resolution of Mr. Burrows, and tho pending amendments, were then tuken up. Mr. IK>OKER, of Mississippi, said it was impossible to do any business until the committee on credentials make their report. After further unimportant proceedings, among which was an ineffectual motion to adjourn until 3 o'clock, in order to re-arrange the hall, the question was taken on Mr. Charlick'h amendment to appoint two, instead of one delegate from each State to report resolutions to compose the Democratic platform ; and it was disagreed to. 1 The substitute of Mr. Brown, of Tennessee, i for the resolutiou of Mr. Burrows, wub adopted. 1 It provides for tho appointment of a delegate 1 uvui rain omie, 10 wnom an rcBuiuiions in relation to llie creed or platform of the Democratic pnrty, shall ho referred. Mr. BRIGHT submitted the following resolutions, and asked that they bo printed for the use of the Convention, namely : Resuhed, That the Democratic parly of the Union, faithful now, as in times past, to the compacts of the federal Constitution, regard it as a primary duty o abide by the series of measures known as (ho compromise, and will deprecate any attempt to impair their efficacy, as tending to weaken the bonds of our national Union. lietolvcd, That the fugitive slave law, being ! in strict accordance to tiie requirements of the j Constitution, its execution and maintenance are demanded as an act of justice to the States,and people of the South, and as a guarantee to all the sections of our beloved country, that the i constitutional rights of none shall ever ho impaired. Reports from committees were announced as now in order, when Mr. TIIOMI'SOV, of Mia-isaippi, said it was evident that some of the delegation < were not prepared to designate their coramitteea. ThU | was the poaitioa in which hi* State stood, and until the committee on credential* make their oport nothing could he done in tins particular. In order that an opportunity might he ulford'd to make better arrangement* in the hail, the ronveulion took a rect -.a until 5 o'clock. EVERIIK; BESSIOS. The Convention re. assembled ut 5 o'clock. A reaolution was ode rod declaring that the Convention ah.dl not make nomination* until .lie piairorm principle: are nrst loriucu. Senator SOULL oppon.d the resolution, as t was calculated to induce a struggle Jo form .lie platform to suit different aspirants. Mr. N'ABERS, of Mississippi, was for making .lie platform and putting tliu candidate* upon it. Mr. HENRY A. WISE could not concur sitli the gentleman from Louisiana. God forjiil th .t a platform of principles is an abyss to jc (eared by the Democratic party. Mr. FLOYD, of Virginia, sustained the reso ution on the part ol the delegation from that ' 3 tate. Mr. ROBINSON, of Indiana, expressed Ins niri rise at the position of Virginia. The debate was continued very warmly by 3oule and others for and against the resoluion. The committee on resolutions were then ippointed. 'Che committee 011 credentials w.u called ipou to report, but. was not prepared. 'Clio Georgia delegation contended that 110 msincss should bo transacted until their rights ' o scats are settled. 'Che resolution w.is laid on tho table by a vote >f one hundred and sixty-six to one hundred and sloven. The committee on credentials then retorted. A majority reporting against Mr. RanroUL and a minority in his favor. The whole somuiittee recommended Georgia to join delegatus and cast the vote of tiie State jointly. Great excitement.] Reports were laid on the able and ordered to be printed und made the >rder of the day for to-morrow. Adjourned to i) o'clock to-morrow. >mpromisk measures whig congressiohau 1 caucus the presidency". 1 ipccch of Hon. II. Marshall, of Kentucky. f/i the /louse of Representatives, May 26,- 1852. [continued.] i Mr. GREY. How is it now with the Whig i >upers in Kentucky between the gentleman and < nyself? ? Mr. MARSHALL. Sinou that paper had ad- i located General Scott, 1 think it has taken a < iking to the gentleman. [Laughter.] There < xisti a correspondence between tlirtf same paper * ind one who 1 learn hits in office at the desks of f lie Treasury Department a correspondence t evidently intended to prejudice me in the eyes of I ny constituency; which asperses my motives, i ind falsifies my public course. I take this oc- I :asion to state, that while 1 have not noticed and I lo not mean to notice the letter writers who i lave been so busy of late with my name, that I ' inderstund this Courier correspondent is also a t laily correspondent for an Abolition paper in i he District of the gentleman from Ohio, [Mr. I jiddings.] [Laughter.] I understand that ho i vrites, too, for (lie Cleveland Herald, over the I denature of "Otsego," and he but drops the t S " and writes to the Louisville (,'iurier over li.it of "Otego." I understand also, that the < laternity of these letters is acknowledged. Since I ie became a correspondent for the Louisville | Courier, and since that paper has gone the I vhole figure for General Scoff, it has, 1 frankly I fate, exhibited decidedly a better opinion of my i :ol league than it had before his election. [Laugh- ! or.] ' Mr. BROOKS. Will the gentleman from Kentucky permit ine? The same correspondent | vrites the same wav to a paper in the city of i Now York about a Fillmore man. i Mr. MARSHALL. My colleague talks of I publishing his speech to my constituents. "Oh! Lliat mine enemy would write a book !" Sir, it i they who assail my positions and meditate my < overthrow will just add to the speech of the I honorable member the Abolition letters which I are written to my district against me from the I desks of the Treasury Department, I promise > them all that my constituency shall put an in- 1 dorsment to show that it is not I, but the gen- > tleman who wears " garments out of fashion." < Mr. CAMPBELL, of Ohio. 1 wish merely | to correct tho gentleman as to the Cleveland i Herald. It is a compromise paper. i Mr. MARSHALL. 1 have never soen i',and I care very little about its character. My col league has chosen to allude to me as "a mum I candidate in 1849," and institutes a comparison ; between my position then and that of General i Scott now. This charge of my colleague will be laughed at by my constituents, and I would i not notice it wore his speech only to go before I them. But as he will circulate it extensively, i and as the Scott papers will no doubt strike I largo editions of it, 1 will render a brief expla iiHiion or now rar l wus a mum candidate. I wus tho candidate of tlio Whig parly?had accepted a [Vliig nomination for Congress. It ho occurred that at tho time I was canvassing my dia trict for a neat in Congress, candidates wore can vussing the several counties for sent t in the State convention, to revise and amend the State constitution. These discussed questions pertinent to tho duties of the office to which they aspired. Among other questions, the policy of providing in the now constitution for a system of gradual emancipation of the slaves in Kentucky arose This discussion brought forth intense feeling : and while the Whig nnd Democratic parties proserved their distinctive organizations, there was a union of Whigs and Democrats on n pro slavery ticket, and n union of Whigs and Democrats on an emancipation ticket, made for the express purpose of testing public sense on this local question, independent of the general party organiz ition. My district contained a very small Wliig majority, though it had not been repre sented in Congress in eighteen years by a Democrat. My competitor wanted to take the chances by turning our canvass for Congress on a purely local question, with which, when elected, the successful candidate could not, by possibility, have anything to do. I refused to permit the canvass for Congress to turn upon any such issue, and confined myself to the discussion of thoso questions which Congress had the right to consider. I made no concealment whatever of my views on the question 6t' emancipation I would not agree to canvass for a Congression al seat as a Whig candidate on that ground, because I could not possibly act officially 011 the quustion.no matter what ray opinions might be, and tho discussion was therefore utterly nnd in disputably irrevalent. If my colleague perceives no distinction between that case and the refusal to answer upon a point on which the Executive of the Unit-d States may, and, should General Scott b , Blccted, in all probability will, have to act, I shall hope for a clearer perception from impur Lial minds who will not read my reply through the discolored medium of personal prejudice As to the comments of mv colleague in regard to my casual meeting with Mr. Seward, utter my retirement from the caucus, I shall permit them to pass to his constituency, whithout further notice than that they are far beneath the j illowablo sour. v of i ferunce in a narlia-1 menlary discussion, and that 1 cannot aflbrd to t waste time or to outrage this House, l?y sen- a DUsly expressing the "reflections they awaken." t in the account of the proceeding* of tj)> j caucus, given to Kentucky by my colleague, t lao has attempted to ridicule my course on t that occasion, by producing what ho >ug : jests might be a circular letter to the men, j women, and children, of his district, giv c ng a familiar account of the occurrences of1 c .hat evening, to allay their fears. I have only f ,o say to the people of Kentucky, such an ac- c tonnt as he furnishes may contain s fair reflux a ?f the estimato tny colleague placed upon that c .cene. hut if they should he com[" Ito r,1. a >n it lor the facts they will die in utter ignorance , t >f the proper history of that caucus, and of ti, ii notices which animated those who retire! from I t. S,r, his account of the proceeding* of that I o MUCUS, is a series of gro 1 < .myyrelir <,f i |, "I I Uj?e f a . la which did transpire. and w,11 iui?i< i l ill wuo rely upon it The bonortbl< memf r rery possibly considered the introduction <>( oi) reaolution improper, but that taanol justify l . lUioiuont to the lountry, that the n-?o uti > was exhibited with a view of uicULn ; to t Whig National convention a platform of po ,ti aI principles for their adoption. Thai sn. h Iiurge is untenable is manifest on the f . . j die resolution, by its express terms. Indeed, it s plain that tin resolution refer-, to tin- m m >ers of Congress alone and it a.,s draa . ha? j1 ng a guarded verbiage, to avoid the very infer j 1 nice which my colleague seems to havadras: 'rotn it. Ttie party newspapers have repeate 1 no ouiiic ? imi _;t-, a a ib urij^iiuuiy ihhu i i>\ lie letter-writers from this Capitol ; for editors i ' >nly obtained the newi by tbo telegraph, b. heir articles were written, i rely upxii th? 1 andid among their fruturnily to corn t the I Mistake, and to do me justice when general'> 1 liey shall have discovered it, as I pettier* ?? ver 1 .1 in the West and South have already done \ ' dy colleague must have heard all that j> n >ed ' >otwcon the honorable president of that meeting : ind myself my reasons for introducing the . 1 esolution, and desiring its passage Tlho pro 1 est against the application of such a principle , ' >y Northern gentlemen and with these lights ' o guide Ins observation, respectfully 1 submit I 0 this House, and the country, that he stunds < ' iH'Xcusable for the circulation and reiteration : ' >f the charge, that it was diolatoiiai in its terms, ' .nd insulting to the delegates to the Whig 1 I SI ition&l convention. | I It has not been mentioned heretofore, yot it | 1 s most worthy of observation and remembrance,1 j hat the opposition to my resolution was first j resented upon the principle of the resolution ! ' I'o make this plain, I will recur to the current ! 1 jf the debate in the first caucus. Alter some 11 :onversation between the gentlemen present j ' ipon tlic propriety of an adjournment to secure 1 1 more numerous attendance, and several ?ug- j 1 {cations that the time ami place for holding u j ' lational convention would alone engage the at-1 ' .ention of the meeting, I submitted that before 1 .he time and place were fixed, I desired to sub- 1 nit the Congressional caucus resolution for 1 idoption by those who meant to participate in ' -he proceedings, as a proper ruodc of dctermin* ' ng who had the right to fix the time and place ' or the holding-a Whig national convention. I ! ' eferred to the occurrences attending the passage 1 >f that resolution; to it, as a principle adojited, ' iccording to my understanding, at the com- 1 nencement of this session for the basis of assoiiation and organization among Whig members J jf Congress: to the presence of gentlemen ' ,vho had seceded from that caucus rather than ,o submit to that principle, and to the repudiation of it by them in open session here, and 1 Imir nil I.I is iWI ? r I inn >1... U7L:.. numbers would not acknowledge it, or abide 1 jy it as a principle essential to Whig organiza.ion. I spoke of teat votes, which seemed to ' jonfirm their view, and of my own idea that its 1 idoption was essential absolutely to the main- ' .enance of the \\ hig party. The discussion I vhioh ensued immediately was not merely upon ' .lie propriety of introducing each a resolution ' it such a pi ee and time. It was opposition to 1 ,he principle of the re.-.olulion?opposition to ,ho acceptance of any such requisite to the Whig organization?and then it was that tiie inctrine was advanced hy a distinguished mom- ' aer from the North that the true policy of our ] aarty was "to agree to disagree." In that do aato my friends from Tennessee, [Mr. Gentry,] ' 'rom North Carolina, [Mr. Outlaw,] from Ma- ' yland, [Mr. Walsh,] from Louisiana, [Mr. j Moore,] and from Florida, [Mr. Cabell,] ningled, coming to my aid on the proposition ' ?the only vital, real proposition we have ever ' propounded, to wit: that the principle of my esolution is the only ba is on which the Whig 1 numbers of Congress can maintain organiz i- 1 .ion here, because it is ossentia! to a national I Whig organization. It was at the termination 1 jf this discussion that the president of the caujus tirut intimated he would decide tho resolu- ' Lion, if offered, to be out of order. Then the tactic i of our opponents at once changed. We loard no more dobute that night, or afterwards, in the principle ; the whole Northern opposition, rallying to tho support of tho chair, presented their front irnmedia'ely on the question of irde.r, and availed -themselves of tho active support of my colleague and others, who, as they isnert, were with me on the principle, but against ' me on the question of order. From the moment 1 the chairman made that extraordinary decision, wo iioard 110 more opposition 10 uio principle Of the Congressional onucui resolution. Oil, no ! now a readiness to support it was at once avowed?if il only was in order My proposition was first suggested as an originnl, substantive, independent proposition? : to precede tho resolution fixing time and place? and it whs as hi; It, that Mr. Mangum declared 1 tie would rule its introduction out of order, and beyond the competency of the meeting to conlidur. This was his first decision. It enabled ' the opponents of the conlpronii.e measures to make h false issue before the country. It had the effect to nils 1 squabble about order, and to cover under parliamentary gibberish, of which , tho people understand very little, that great piestioii which iie.s at tho base of the public 1 peace and of the Union, and about tho dolcruii- 1 nation of which tho people do feel tho liveliest nixicty, and the deepest concern. 1 am entirely aware, that the honorable chair- 1 man of th it caucus has a large experience in 1 parliamentary practice, and ordinarily, his deci- 1 lions would command great respect. They are j entitled to gre .t respect. Hut his standing as 1 l parliamentarian, and the character he has ' named in a long public life, conspired to invent ! Ihe extraordinary decision which he made on ' that Occasion, with a solemn importance?when ' jonnected with the instant change of the tactics if the opponents of the principle of mv resolu.ion. I saw the dangerous position ; I saw the ' "acility with which it would be defended and ' ;overed by the panoply of high parliamentary ' -eputation ; 1 saw there was to be Southern as 1 well as Northern opposition to the adoption of ' he proposition 1 had suggested. My colleague 1 inys he vould have voted for the principle of ' my resolution, but ho argues at length against I, as being out of order. 1 lis is a case, in point. 1'he facility with which such a view could be jnforoed on him indicates the danger 1 appre lend. I do not state?sir, 1 do not insinuate I there existed an intention anywhere to betray 1 the South?I do not intend to asperse the mo- i lives of any man from either South or North. < I intend merely t.) show how the decision in I Lhis case " luvested the proceedings with a mote < uilcmn importance, in my estiin ition, thin had | ii-retofore attached to them" by affording to ' diose who are opposed to the principle of mv > resolution the opportunity of gathering votes < in a parliamentary question, which they could < aot possibly have obtained on the rneritR ; at the I arne time by waiving the vital question, and < saving the agitation free to Rpread through the S'ortli in the approaching canvms, as fire in the leather. I am next to reply to the query : What was the i ne of offering the resolution in caucus? What I iad Congressmen to do with it ? Why not leave 1 lie principle you deemed so vital to he asserted | >y the delegates to the National convention who 1 would come from the body of the people to icttlo the principles on which the party should < inite ? i 1 will group these inquiries in order to nnswer i hern specifically, for 1 acknowledge their per- I i nancy. I Members of Cor gross are, in one sense, re- i ireaciiUlivc* of the people, as much as are del ' gall's to n National convention. Their asso- ' iatcd re-lion in p- ii'ical matters desig atea hih! t s everyw- r-- a-: opted as indicating the tendon- I ics of parti. But members of Congress arc, t t least, citiz-ns, and entitled,as freemen, to the xpressi >n o' epi.lion, and to qualify their own -1*. bv linri og the extent to which they intend o hind tin ill-selves by those acts. They had i io right u'timately t bind the party no right v o dictate to tie- National convention a platform I >f prin- ip i -but. on the other hand, n-itlirr tli-i p ur: !-- Na! ,<.mil convention |MisH--,scd the a right or p.-rtwr l-< u.mi th?i?, ?iUM>at thmr o? i fr? im?>*iiI Mr p->Mk? trn nor MUtllnM t?V tW *iil Of (Ml of \ot?4.|iaI .xiw ' ? >lh*i f.-ft < > iiitwi, ti>xi bv ? t 'f ??c ??t <i( u.?n My prlncip'M of u??? r??Mit t*n my ova rriw Iron, and art Umi p ?. ? o< tat ??n uitbi?*??l |i?dt lu.-irt Ttrrr VVb-g u? ?lwri of Coiigrroi * fir e-1 -J op >U to rt? rrruifto tho titoo liui plooo for bo. ting th? ^ ?U"? *1 rontmi,.#, - t* our odil. r a >rr i > r il rr ( Mr " > , . .1 I r l- r that In.., I, > ' ? > 1 I lt*r* ? ,? iiiliiualioa uf ti<? uii'b li << t?f? tt it# eb. I'-tU. Il *M tiff r> y p'i' hotl, (bat ?? wmtm Lu Di??l " to ? oil*tiler of 111 uf iinp rtatu-? U> tha VVI114 p-'irly, ?u4 i.i 1 araa li * of;*au < :iw uf Die raw- ? l b- . > rtMa p 4 im pOWuf In bruit li.f g ol ua uf Ihm t< audi ?ubji-.'t? .?? I I 1 Tii i.liar^ if * iiaki-d u*urp*ii m of uuwar " Iat b>< u* ? ioor.aitd it<il atUiaI*f lb#buiu r ,.iiti uulabw >ll. r?xl tb? r??>i!uUun in ,?< ili a. When Hie V\ li'o f,. (? ? >f t ^on^frM mot n Wu*li >n i 1. t, 111 l)i>< iiUi, thai ??*cy rmo lution waa ofTrfwd, ?liu li, al Ihm 11, rtif;j( uf Ilia iflh ?il April, I iinlwuU'il an Intention lu "it -r in. Wliat rnjlil bad VV in,; tnrtnbera o' fun. {ru in 1 to reij in* a*. . '' . him1 *e r? > I Hut ri'ioluti in ? ? a f at. p 111 ( . 1 iHnouialrd ?? '. on, >?? Whi,j?, 111 lii* lefi-Utmti ? f Cuii^reaa Tndr po#i-(i, a* m.-mb i? i?f jreii, wore l oiiK'-t liy tv I.' >n<tititlon ; lb r political aaaocialioa, by Uir implied iuitrwtiuiu tit' tlioau who ai-nt than lure, ?r their i*pr.?i jiled^oa ; and tiieir dulim w.-rr plain and anfom tile under tfi*-ir uiiii* of orti Why d.d tlmr tii'-ri |ri? iiit:i ciui'itn, an i uub rtaba to p*?? ? reaolutl'in wii. '1 w?t (Im. . ; ,- ? i'?. |?v> %. and coul J' nut bind iIih p - pic, or any paA there i)f? My colluajroc nay*, " bucMm + v Ami jt lint time, nrijiiiiiaitio f?r our own ,1. u.ui. a? moml>e a of Cungruia." Whal, air! c.iuld w. .lUbliali power, or prcrcriii# dutiua, <>r ,h tain rutoa on any subject, by ihe fraull of Ihe ran im! No! We could determine wtut we r,.. gard ui n principle, un which we should a-?o ite, politically, as members of l<f sums pot. a a! organization; and this much i claim we ha.i Llie name right to d > in tin' ea n ut ot the !? i. t April, or the caucus tit' the 'JOlh of April, w bclo. r tve inot with or without a limitation u mn tieabjectu for wliich w? had assembled. My d I league, however, begs ihe w hole (juration in Iti . ipeech ; lor he say*: " Had 'he honorable gentleman oiler?.) a reaoution of re-indoraetnent, before or alter Mr. Stanly's, and not as un am'mimmt tberi-t >, I tvould have voted lor it; for I thought the imin bers of thnt caucus might oon-ider and adopt tueh a resolution as expressive of ihntr own views, and without any reference to t!>? national convention." Without arguing the power ir right* of a caucus nny further, I reply, that h&l the gei lh man looked at my resolution a* it was oil', red, ib would have seen that it only proleen-a to express "our ovvjj views," and without in the alignliat manner attempting to refer to the de'.emulations of the national convention, except ?o far is to indicate how fur "our own views" will jind us to the result. If, as members of Congress and gentlemen, we could not pass the res >ution I offered as "expressive of our own view*," sow can the delegates to a national convention pass resolutions "expressive of their views?" Why may not some Mr. Maugum.in the chair of Lhat convention, tell those delegates thnt it is igainst the usage of the Whig party to adopt n platform of principles, and that precedent establishes the parliamentary law which merely reptires the candidate nominated to wri'e a letter dating his views anil purposes? It is said, 'Coming events cast their shadows before," ind God knows how long it may be before we rtiall have the precedent of the 20th of April pleaded upon a more extended ami more popu lar theatie ! AI.eady the idea has been advanced that there will bo 110 propriety, necessity, or pi 11dence, in passing a resolution indorsing the ,l finality of the compromise" through the Whig National Convention as a part of the Whig platform. llow easy the transition from such a position to the ruling of a resolution to be out of order which establishes the supposed platform, as be ing against usage, and the objects for which tha national convention assembles ! What do tho delegates assemble to perform ? To select candidates for the Presidency and Vice PresidencyWhy may not the President of the 11 itional convention declare that this is the only object for which they have met, and that the people will hear the nominee, and judge of his principles at their own homes, or at the ballot-box ? Will it. be replied, tlie delegates assemble to consider all matters of importance to the welfare of the party? I say, so were we called for the same express purpose on the Oth of April, and yet our chairman declared his determination to limit tho consideration of the meeting to the mere duty of fixing "time and place "for holding a national convention, and refused tho privilege of " expressing our own views" as to the extent to which we proposed to commit ourselves hy that act, or the basis on which we were willing to act for the purpose with others. And my 30Ileague stands here to endorse the doctrine of that chairman ; and a free press, unmindful of the principles such a precedent involves, pronounces condemnation upon me, and aspersi s my motives for resisting it! I have had no moLive but to assert a principle, which I solemnly assert, that T do believe is closely, nay, inseparably, identified this day with the Union of these States and tha common welfure of my countrymen. If the future shall exhibit the fatal conloquenees to flow from a failure to engrave that principle now on the administration of public iffiiirn, and to require tho popular favorite for Presidential honors not only to avow it anywhere and everywhere, hut to yield to its rnamLenance and acceptance by the old and the young, he influence the fro.-. bold, earnest influence sf his standing and position ; then, though it nay be too late for beneficial purposes, or to urest the wreck of national fortune, nnd the ivertlirow of our federal institutions, I nt least ihiill bo able to say to the ghost of this gloriou > Union " Thou ennst not Ray I did it : never shake Thy gory locks at me." My colleague says, however, that he wonl I lave voted for my resolution had it been offered Wore or after Mr. Stanly's but not as an intendment or substitute, for in that view ii was )iit of order ! Why? Did parliamentarian ev? r hear such a reason for such a oonelunion 1 "It. Mine," says he, "another proposition was then pending," and the caucus desired to proceed 'decently and in order," with one proposition at i time! I cannot argue such a point. Everylay's practice here, and e,veryd iy*b practice u"fier ''the rules of the Senate," show the insufficiency of the excuse. We sent to that Senate, sotne months since, the "deficiency bill," and it was in order to amend it ' under the rules of tho Senate," by proposing to tack to it "the Collins lino of steamers"?to pay the expenses of ji steam line from New York to Liverpool out of the treasury. I merely mention this to show the flexibility of the "rules of tho Senate," when parliamentary dispositions nre eo incident with the propositions introduced under tho-e rules. There should be no contest on this point of yrder. Lot us take our proper re'ponsihilitiee , and stand fairly to the positions we design to maintain before the people. 1 am ready to beiave that my colleague has been mistaken?but ie should frankly say so instead of assailing mo 11 an attempt to prove the correctness of his jourse. He asserts that I "ran away"?that I was "a deserter"?that I abandoned tny resoln'.ion when I was assured "it would come up tho lext thing in order;" and much more of tho wme character of assertion. [to be continued.] A destructive hail storm visited Florence, \l ibaina, lately, throwing down the telegraph vires, blocking up the roads with fallen timhei, flowing down severs! houses, and causing a ;rcat hiss in the destruction of glass, poultry nd live slock.