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(2) That the votes be taken viva voce by states; 
(3) That a committee of five be appointed to draught resolutions; 
(4) That a committee of five be appointed to draught an address 
to the citizens of the United States; 
(5) That a committee of one member from each state be appointed 
to select and nominate a national committee of correspondence; 
(6) That a committee on finance be appointed^® 
The above resolutions were then adopted and the com- 
mittees appointed as recommended in the resolutions. The 
chairman then announced that the next business before the 
convention was the nomination of a president and vice-presi- 
dent of the United States. Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsyl- 
vania placed the name of William Henry Harrison of Ohio 
before the convention as the candidate for president. The 
vote was then taken viva, voce by states, and Harrison received 
119 votes, being’ the unanimous choice of the convention. Daniel 
Webster of Massachusetts was then put in nomination for 
vice-president, and received the same unanimous vote of 119. 
Some speeches were then made to the convention. The last 
speaker, Mr. Clough of Massachusetts, remarked that the 
Whig principles were identical with those v/hich had achieved 
our glorious revolution ; they had ever been the favorite creed 
of Massachusetts; and he hoped that the two distinguished 
gentlemen who had been placed in nomination would go thru 
the ordeal victoriously, heart and hand together, in order 
that the country might see a return of the good old Whig 
times again. The convention then adjourned until 3:15 
p.m.^^ 
The committee that had been appointed to prepare an ad- 
dress to the people asked for more time, which was granted. 
The committee on resolutions then reported. The resolu- 
tions advocated equality of rights; supported the supremacy 
of the laws ; and denounced all secret and oath-bound associa- 
tions as pregnant with danger to liberty. The Sub-Treasury 
Scheme was condemned in these resolutions as anti-demo- 
cratic, and contrary to the spirit of republicanism, which, 
it was declared, could never tolerate the placing of the purse 
and sword in the same hands. The resolutions were adopted, 
and it was then resolved that an official account of the pro- 
ceedings of the convention be published in all the Democratic 
papers of the Union, and copies sent to General Harrison 
1*’ Niles’ Register, LV, 221. 
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