PRESIDENTIAL; THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION; Another Personal Encounter; A Break in the Convention Inevitable (6/21/1860)

New York Times archives - Times Machine ^ | 6/21/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. BALTIMORE, Wednesday Evening, June 20. The Convention has made very little progress as yet. Everything awaits the report of the Committee on Credentials, which was promised at first for this afternoon, and is now set down for to-morrow morning. It certainly involves no small amount of labor. There will be two reports, a majority and minority. The former will rehearse all the facts of the several contested delegations, and will argue the whole question very fully, in each case. It is this which causes the delay in its preparation. The majority report will be in favor of admitting the Douglas delegates from the South, and will be signed by fifteen or sixteen members. The minority report will be signed by ten. The Tennessee member of the Committee asks to be excused from voting.

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The Baltimore Convention: Another Personal Encounter * – 2-4
New Jersey: A Narrow Escape-A Church Struck by Lightning – 4
An Indian Fight: The Pawnees and Sioux at War – 4
The Captured Slaver – 4
Trial Trip of the United States Sloop-of-War Pawnee – 4
Defaulting of a Railroad President – 4
The Richmond Convention – 4
Murder of One Woman by Another – 4
Election of a President of the Cape May and Atlantic Railroad – 4

* “This roused the ire of his opponent, who inquired if he referred to him? Before we could get our pencils ready to put down the reply, WHITELEY had HIT HIM OVER THE HEAD with his cane. Number two drew off and planted his fives on WHITELEY’S peeper, drawing therefrom a quantity of the ruby.”

Political prose you won’t read in today’s NY Times.