action of one solitary man as a representative in Congress, for the State of Maryland-to Henry W. Davis-we have a Speaker by whom we have been able to expose the corrupt frauds of the administration, and give us the assurance of victory in November. [Loud cheers.] And yet we are not willing to give her a full vote! In the name of God and humanity what are we doing? I heard a Maryland delegate say he was willing to take a half loaf of bread. I want to give her all; she has given us all. [Cheers.] This is all on that point. We have been charged for years with being a sectional party. The lie does not stick in their throats, but we can make it stick in theirs and ours by our folly; we are not a sectional party! [Cheers.] We want the slave states to come here and be represented. I say in this very connection, that, knowingly or not, the understanding of the slave states is that the power is to be changed from the hands of the slave oligarchy and placed in the hands of the friends of freedom, in the free states as well as the slave states, and hence they deserve to share in this great and glorious work. If we succeed next fall, as I believe we shall, with men competent to take charge of the government, and put secession and disunion where it belongs (and God grant we may all live to see it,) we will probably have the entire slave states represented in our next National Convention. [Loud cheers.] I believe it. Why should we not? The disunionists are in a small minority in the slave states, and they keep down the majority by just such unwise operations as was attempted here this morning. If we treat them kindly and hold our hands out to them, as men competent to fill the high offices of the United States, we shall have the majority out from under the heel of the slave oligarchy. We shall unite the voice of the American people in favor of the Republican organization. I say, sir, and I wish it to be understood everywhere, I am not here for the purpose of making war on the slave states, nor do I believe that there is a man in this house who is. We have been charged with that. It is false and they know it. We are here for the pur

pose of satisfying the American people that we are willing to

give the slave states their entire rights. We say to those gentlemen, "with that you will be content-beyond that you shall not go." A large majority of the voters south, if they dare express it in the south, would be with us. Their hearts are with us now. For God's sake and humanity's sake let us not establish the fact, by our folly, that we are a sectional party, and hate the slave states. [Cheers.]

MR. OYLER, of Indiana: I merely desire, gentlemen, to call the attention of this Convention to the call inviting delegates to this Convention. Read and reflect for one minute what that call contains and it settles this question. What is it?

“The Republican electors of the several states, the members of the People's Party of Pennsylvania and of the Opposition Party of New Jersey, and all others who are willing to cooperate with them in support of the candidates which shall there be nominated, and who are opposed to the policy of the present administration, to federal corruption and usurpation, to the extension of slavery into the territories, to the new and dangerous political doctrine that the constitution of its own force carries slavery into all the Territories of the United States, to the opening of the African slave trade, to any inequality of rights among citizens; and who are in favor of the immediate admission of Kansas into the Union, under the constitution recently adopted by its people, of restoring the federal administration to a system of rigid economy and to the principles of Washington and Jefferson, of maintaining inviolate the rights of the states and defending the soil of every state and territory from lawless invasion, and of preserving the integrity of this Union and the supremacy of the constitution and laws passed in pursuance thereof against the conspiracy of the leaders of a sectional party, to resist the majority principle as established in this government even at the expense of its existence, are invited to send from each state two delegates from each congressional district, and four delegates at large, to the Convention."

Why when we have issued a call to those men, called them from the sunny shores of the south to the bleak regions of the north, to meet us, why should be mooted the right of these gentlemen to counsel, to vote, to select a candidate and with us go home to help us elect the man that we may nominate, and carry forward the principles that we proclaim here. [Cheers.] I say, gentlemen, you can't discuss this question. The question is settled by the call. If we are honest, if we are not the veriest hypocrites in the world, we have no right to question the right of the slave states to be represented here upon this floor. [Applause.] I have a word to say about the territories. I don't think that they stand upon the same ground. The call is not to them. They have no vote for our candidates after we have nominated them, and I am in favor of following out the rules of the federation. I am in favor of the delegates from the territories holding seats upon this floor, being heard, and attentively heard, on our part; I am in favor of their counseling with us, but when it comes to the vote, as they have no vote for the ticket, they ought not to vote in forming it. The District of Columbia is in the same situation.

Gov. REEDER, of Pennsylvania-[in his seat]: Mr. Chairman, [cries of "take the stand,"] I can be heard here if I can get started. I have not much to say, but what I have to say I shall endeavor to say to the point. It seems to me that a great deal has been said altogether outside of this question now before the Convention. The proposition before us, if I understand it, is to refer this report back to the committee for the purpose of ascertaining whether these gentlemen now here upon the floor of the Convention from the states designated represent the entire, or less than the entire state. Now sir, all the eloquence, and all the fire of many of the gentlemen upon the other side is lost when we make the avowal that we have not the most remote idea of disfranchising the delegates who come here from the southern states. [Loud applause.] Sir, we humbly ask from our southern brethren

upon this floor the poor privilege of being put upon an equality with them. [Renewed applause.] When Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa come here, sir, with a delegate from one, two or three congressional districts, we want them to vote for one, two or three congressional districts. [Applause.] But, when they vote the entire vote of the State of Maryland, and the vote of the electors at large, they have a great advantage over us. What I wish to avoid, sir, is that in any state, whether north or south, east or west, a few men should come from a single county, or a single congressional district, and then come upon the floor of this Convention and ask to cast the entire vote of the state. Now, sir, I ask these gentlemen who have declaimed so loudly and so eloquently in favor of our brethren of the south to listen to us; and no man on this floor or away from this floor can go further than I in my admiration for those gentlemen who stand up in the face of the despotism exercised by the oligarchy that surrounds them, and contend for the rights of free speech, free labor and free men. [Applause.] Sir, I know what the despotism of that oligarchy is. [Great applause.] I know, sir, that it hunts men like hounds who have the spirit of freemen. [Renewed applause.] I respect and I admire every man to whom God has given the nerve and the back bone to stand up and face that despotism. [Continued applause.] I am ready to extend the right hand of fellowship to all the gentlemen who have come out "tried out of the fire" to meet us in this national conclave. What I ask of them is the poor privilege of being on an equal footing with them in this Convention. I am sure they ought not and would not ask any more; but if gentlemen are here representing a single district from the State of Texas, or a single district from the State of Maryland, or from the State of Kentucky, will they, sir, be unjust and unfair enough to stand up here, being the representatives of a single district, and ask to cast the vote of the entire state? Assuredly not, sir; and assuredly those gentlemen, when they come to reflect upon this subject, will see the propriety of ascertaining how much of their state is

represented, and having found that to apportion their vote according to what they really represent, giving to them such a vote as they represent, to which I would be willing to add two votes at large to which the state is entitled. [Prolonged applause, and cries of "Question," "Question."]

Mr. BUCKLAND, of Michigan: I cannot discover what object is to be gained by referring back that report to the committee, but that the gentleman may have the benefit of his motion. I wish to make an amendment. I propose to include also Oregon.

The CHAIR: I will put the question first on the general recommitment, and then the gentleman may propose states and territories.

Mr. BUCKLAND: I propose to make an amendment, and I believe the vote should first be taken upon my motion to amend.

Mr. MCCRILLIS, of Maine: I have a single word to say, in reply to the gentleman from Indiana. I agree with the gentleman in the doctrines he announces, as to the territories and the confederation; all of them, sir, except Kansas. Why, I say Kansas is in the Union now. It is a rule of equity, that when a thing ought to be done, it is to be considered as done. [Applause and laughter.] I say, sir, Kansas, if she is out of the Union, is out of the Union on account of the corrupt and despotic senate of the United States, and in this Convention she should be treated as a sovereign state. While I am up, I will make a remark in reply to the gentleman from Pennsylvania, Mr. Wilmot, who told the Convention that the time would come, although he qualified it some, when South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and all the southern states, would be represented in this Convention. On behalf of the most northeastern state in this Union, the State of Maine, I say that we from that cold region will welcome them—aye, thrice welcome them. [Applause.]