temporal things. We stand by him still. We have followed him with a single eye and with unwavering faith in times past. We marshal now behind him in the grand column which shall go out to battle for Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, and to conquer; for, mark you, what has happened to-day will happen in November next-Lincoln will be elected with just such a shout as has been given to-day in this vast assemblage. We say of our candidate, God bless his magnanimous soul. [Tremendous applause.] I promise you that in the State of Michigan, which I have the honor to represent, where the Republican party from the days of its organization to this hour never suffered a single defeat, but has carried this standard with an increasing triumph from that day to this, we will give you for the gallant son of Illinois, and glorious standard-bearer of the West, a round twenty-five thousand majority.

Mr. EVARTS: I have no wish to cut short any speeches of a general character, that are desired to be made, but I would suggest to the Convention that we have, perhaps, given a liberal share of our time to this enthusiasm at this stage in the performance of our duty. I rise, sir, merely to make a suggestion, and a motion, in regard to the subject of VicePresident and the adjournment of the Convention. Will the Convention allow me to do so?

Mr. JUDD: Illinois desires to respond by Mr. Browning for a few moments.

Mr. EVARTS: I did not exactly understand the nature of my friend's suggestion, but I suppose, from what has passed between him and myself, that I gather its purport, and if he prefers that Mr. Browning should speak now, before I make my business motions, it is all the same to me. [Voices, "Go on."] If I go on, he can have an opportunity to say what he wishes to say afterwards. Now, Mr. Chairman, it is half past one o'clock, and I think we require as much time as

from now till 5 o'clock, for the recess of this Convention. I would suggest, if no more desirable or rapid plan can be named, that the Chairman of each delegation, States and Territories, here present, meet at some hour in the interval, at the head-quarters of the New York delegation, at the Richmond House. Is that agreeable and convenient? [Voices, agreed."] I would suggest, then, that they should meet at that place as early as three o'clock. Is that suitable? [Voices, "Yes," and "All right."] Then allow me to say to our own delegation that I wish they would meet at the same place, the head-quarters of our delegation, at the Richmond House, immediately after the adjournment of the Convention.

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I shall move sir, now, that when this Convention adjourns, it adjourns to meet at 5 o'clock, and that the balloting for Vice-President be laid over during recess.

The motion of Mr. Evarts was carried.

Mr. EVARTS: Now, Mr. Chairman, allow me to say that I have been in error or out of order all the time, and you with me also. The motion that I made, that the nomination be made unanimous, has not yet been put, I suppose a speech from my friend from Illinois will be in order.

THE PRESIDENT: The Chair begs leave to state that the gentleman has not been out of order.

Mr. EVARTS: I am very glad to hear it.

Mr. BROWNING, of Illinois: Mr. President and gentlemen of the Convention: On behalf of the Illinois delegation I have been requested to make some proper response to the speeches that we have heard from our friends of the other States. Illinois ought hardly on this occasion to be expected to make a speech, or called upon to do so. We are so much elated at present that we are scarcely in a condition to collect our own thoughts, or to express them intelligently to those who may listen to us. I desire to say, gentlemen of the

Convention, that in the contest through which we have just passed, we have been actuated by no feeling of hostility to the illustrious statesman from New York, who was in competition with our own loved and gallant son. We were actuated solely by a desire for the certain advancement of Republicanism. The Republicans of Illinois, believing the principles of the Republican party are the same principles which inflamed the hearts and nerved the arms of our patriot sires in the Revolution; that they have the same principles which were vindicated upon every battle field of American freedom. In the contest through which we have just passed we were actuated solely by the conviction that the triumph of these principles was necessary, not only to the salvation of our party, but to the perpetuation of the free institutions whose blessings we now enjoy, and we have struggled against the nomination of the illustrious statesman of New York, solely because we believed here that we could go into battle on the prairies of Illinois with more hope and more prospect of success under the leadership of our own noble son. No Republican who has a love of freedom in his heart, and who has marked the course of Gov. Seward, of New York, in the councils of our nation, who has witnessed the many occasions upon which he has risen to the very height of moral sublimity in his conflicts with the enemies of free institutions; no heart that has the love of freedom in it, and has witnessed these great conflicts of his, can do otherwise than venerate his name. On this occasion, I desire to say, only, that the hearts of the Illinois delegation are to-day filled with emotions of gratification for which they have no utterance. We are not more overcome by the triumph of our noble Lincoln, loving him as we do, knowing the purity of his past life, the integrity of his character, and devotion to the principles of our party, and the gallantry with which we will be conducted through this contest, than we are by the magnanimity of our friends of the great and glorious State of New York in moving to make this nomination unanimous. On behalf of the delegation, from Illinois, for the Republican party of this

great and growing Prairie State, I return to all our friends, New York included, our heartfelt thanks and gratitude for the nomination of this Convention.

The Convention then adjourned until 5 o'clock, P. M.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

The Convention re-assembled and was called to order by the President at 5 o'clock.

THE CHAIR announced that the first business in order was to proceed to ballot for a candidate for Vice-President of the United States.

Mr. WILDER, of Kansas: Mr. Chairman, in behalf of the Kansas delegation, I am commissioned to nominate John Hickman, of Pennsylvania, as the candidate of the Republican party for the office of Vice-President of the United States. [Loud and prolonged applause.]

Mr. CARTER, of Ohio: I will present the name of Senator Hannibal Hamlin of Maine. [Great cheering.]

Mr. LEWIS, of Pennsylvania: I second the nomination of John Hickman of Pennsylvania. [Applause.]

Gov. BOUTWELL, of Massachusetts: Mr. President-In behalf of a large majority of the delegation from Massachusetts, and in behalf, I believe of a great majority of the people of that Commonwealth and New England, I present the name of the iron man of Massachusetts, Nathaniel P. Banks. [Loud applause.]

Mr. CALEB B. SMITH, of Indiana: In behalf of a large number of the Indiana delegation, I present the name of the gallant son of Kentucky, Cassius M. Clay. [Enthusiastic cheers.]

STATES.

A DELEGATE from Virginia: With all my heart I second the nomination of Cassius M. Clay.

Mr. LowRY of Pennsylvania: Mr. Chairman, I nominate Andrew H. Reeder of Pennsylvania and late Governor of Kansas. [Loud applause.]

The Convention then proceeded to ballot as follows, Mr. BURGESS being in the Chair:

Pennsylvania,