Posted on 06/09/2024 6:51:07 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
BALTIMORE, Wednesday, June 8.
The Convention reassembled at 10 o'clock this morning, President DENISON in the Chair.
A prayer was offered up by Rev. Mr. GADDIS, a delegate from Hamilton County, Ohio.
The hall was, if possible, more crowded than on yesterday, every nook and corner being occupied.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
The President called for reports from the Committees.
The Committee on the Order of Business by its Chairman, Mr. DAY, of Connecticut, reported a set of rules to control the convention in the transaction of its business, which were read, amended and adopted.
THE COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS.
PRESTONE KING of New-York, said: The Committee on Credentials, after a patient hearing of the representations made by gentlemen who have appeared as delegates to this convention, wherever there has been a question of their right to a seat here, from whatever cause that question may have arisen, have come to conclusions, which they report as the report of the committee, upon the main questions of which there has been entire unanimity. But upon some points there will be a minority report. There will also be two or three points upon which I differ from the report, but desiring that it should be regarded as the report of the committee, I concluded to agree to it as such, but to move to amend the report on my individual responsibility as a member of the convention. The report of the majority of the committee was in substance, as follows:
First -- That the delegations from the States of Maine, New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Oregon, California, Kansas and West Virginia are all regular, and are admitted to seats, with the rights and privileges of members,
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PRESIDENTIAL: Lincoln & Johnson – 2-4
Grant’s Army: Handsome Victory by General Hunter – 4-5
Affairs in the Southwest: Later from New-Orleans, &c. – 5
The War in Kentucky: Morgan on a Raid – 5
The Ninth Army Corps: Some Severe Fighting – 5-6
Gen. Sherman’s Army: The Battles of May 27 and 28 – 6-7
The Pirate Alabama Excluded from Chinese Ports – 7
News from the South: Richmond Papers of June 3 Received – 7
News from Washington – 7-8
Proceedings of Congress – 8-9
Editorial: The Baltimore Nominations – 9-10
Editorial: The Army of the Potomac – 10
Editorial: The Rebel Rams in England – 10-11
West Point Academy – 11
The Three Hundred Dollar Exemption Clause – 11
The Draft: Report of Provost-Marshal-General Fry – 11
Arrival of a Prize Steamer – 11
A Raid on Counterfeiters – 11
What a surprise.
The New York Times loves tyrants.
Not much has changed in the last 165 years.
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