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Richardson, of Illinois, then withdrew the name of Mr. Douglas, and Mr. Buchanan was unanimously nominated. The Convention then balloted for a candidate for Vice- President, and on the second ballot John C. Breckinridge was nominated.
Those voting in favor of such a convention shall have written or printed on the ballots by which they vote for delegates, as aforesaid, the words "For a convention," and those voting against such a convention shall have written or printed on such ballot the words "Against a convention."
In all the Northern States they still held in their hands the sacred right of the ballot, and it was safe to believe that in due time they would come to the rescue of their own institutions. It gives me pleasure to add that the appeal to our common constituents was not taken in vain, and that my confidence in their wisdom and virtue seems not to have been misplaced.
Women were more outspoken than men, because they could dare be. Men were more subtle and appeared more pliant, only to hoodwink government. They said in secret, "We'll yet gain by the ballot, with the help of Northern sympathizers, what we failed to accomplish with the bullet."
The Prime Minister, without quitting his seat says: "The Government does not assent to the motion." The President rings his bell and says: "A ballot has been demanded. A ballot will therefore be taken. Those in favour of Messrs. and 's motion must place a white paper in the urn; those who are against it, a blue paper." There was a great movement in the hall.
Under this head we hesitate not to declare that the hope of woman lies in the recognition of the laws of God, and the laws of her own higher nature. Look at the facts. Who demand the ballot for woman? They are not the lovers of God, nor are they the believers in Christ, as a class.
For from that time was dated the regulation which allows the noble old house of Limpurg, the Frauenstein- house, sprung from a club, besides lawyers, trades-people, and artisans, to take part in a government, which, completed by a system of ballot, complicated in the Venetian fashion, and restricted by the civil colleges, was called to do right, without acquiring any special privilege to do wrong.
"How he will shine in Congress!" she went on. "Of course he'll get the nomination?" She referred the query to Sprague. "Probably." His reply was lukewarm. "And isn't there news of the convention? You ought to know, who get straight from the wires what ordinary mortals must wait to read. Has he won?" "There was nothing definite when I left the office. They hadn't begun to ballot." Mrs.
The young lieutenant sat down abashed, under the impression that he had betrayed himself into some act of gross impropriety. This was his first appearance in the character of juror and judge; he was literally unaccustomed to public speaking, and did not hazard a reply. "Has any other gentleman any views to advance before we proceed to a general ballot?" inquired the President.
Wherefore the fundamental laws of Oceana, or the centre of this commonwealth, are the agrarian and the ballot: the agrarian by the balance of dominion preserving equality in the root; and the ballot by an equal rotation conveying it into the branch, or exercise of sovereign power, as, to begin with the former, appears by
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