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Democratic Conv. Balto

1852

Tives of the condidates

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION,

HELD AT BALTIMORE, JUNE 1–5, 1852,

FOR THE NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR

PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

WASHINGTON:

PRINTED BY ROBERT ARMSTRONG,

1852.

US 5296.70

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
AUG 30 1945

Bright Jeand

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION,

HELD

AT BALTIMORE, JUNE 1-5, 1852.

TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1852.

The delegates elect to the Democratic National Convention assembled in the hall of the Maryland Institute, in Baltimore, which had been prepared for their reception by a Committee of Arrangements appointed by the democrats of Baltimore, to whom the convention were indebted, throughout the session, for their voluntary contributions and untiring exertions, through their committees and the persons employed by them, for the accommodations which were furnished, to the fullest extent, in the most liberal and convenient manner possible, for so large an assemblage. Neither pains nor expense were spared by the people of Baltimore to promote the comfort and facilitate the proceedings of the convention. The delegation of each State was attended by pages from the public schools, who had volunteered their services.

At 12 o'clock precisely, Hon. B. F. HALLETT, of Massachusetts, took the chair, and said:

Gentlemen Delegates elect to the Democratic National Convention: It has been assigned to me, as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, appointed by the last convention, to call this convention to order. Is it your pleasure that the convention do now come to order?

Cries of "aye!" "aye!"

Mr. HALLETT. Gentlemen, I am requested by the Committee of Arrangements, who have provided this hall for us, to state that their necessities have required that they should so arrange the seats upon this, platform as to correspond, for each State, to the number of its electoral members in the electoral college; and they request, as a means of forwarding the order and deliberations of this convention, and arriving at that result of harmony and co-operation which we so earnestly desire, that those States whose delegates are here in larger numbers than their congressional votes, will have the kindness to make a selection, or designation, in such manner as to leave upon the platform the number of persons corresponding to their electoral votes; and those who exceed that number, whether as delegates or alternates, will be accommodated with seats below the platform. The members of the State conventions, and those who are not delegates, except those who have been assigned seats upon this platform, are also requested to take their seats below.

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