PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, 1864. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL UNION CONVENTION HELD IN BALTIMORE, MD., JUNE 7TH AND 8TH, 1864. REPORTED BY D. F. MURPHY, Of the Official Corps of Reporters for the U. S. Senate. NEW YORK: BAKER & GODWIN, PRINTERS, PRINTING-HOUSE SQUARE, OPPOSITE CITY HALL. 1864. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, 1864. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL UNION CONVENTION HELD IN BALTIMORE, MD., JUNE 7TH AND 8TH, 1864. REPORTED BY D. F. MURPHY, Of the Official Corps of Reporters for the U. S. Senate. NEW YORK: BAKER & GODWIN, PRINTERS, PRINTING-HOUSE SQUARE, OPP. CITY HALL. 1864. NATIONAL UNION CONVENTION. TUESDAY, JUNE 7TH, 1864. THE National Union Convention to nominate Candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States, met this morning in the Front Street Theatre, Baltimore, Md., in response to the following call: UNION NATIONAL CONVENTION. The undersigned, who by original appointment, or subsequent designation to fill vacancies, constitute the Executive Committee created by the National Convention held at Chicago, on the 16th day of May, 1860, do hereby call upon all qualified voters who desire the unconditional maintenance of the Union, the supremacy of the Constitution, and the complete suppression of the existing rebellion, with the cause thereof, by vigorous war, and all apt and efficient means, to send delegates to a Convention to assemble at Baltimore, on Tuesday, the 7th day of June, 1864, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of presenting candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States. Each State having a representation in Congress will be entitled to as many delegates as shall be equal to twice the number of electors to which such State is entitled in the Electoral College of the United States. EDWIN D. MORGAN, New York, Chairman. E. H. ROLLINS, New Hampshire. L. BRAINERD, Vermont. J. Z. GOODRICH, Massachusetts. THOMAS G. TURNER, Rhode Island. GIDEON WELLES, Connecticut. . DENNING DUER, New Jersey. EDWARD MCPHERSON, Pennsylvania. HERBERT M. HOXIE, Iowa. O. H. IRISH, Nebraska. JOS. GERHARDT, District of Columbia. WASHINGTON, February 22, 1864. |