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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 1: the political Conventions in 1860. (search)
Bean, and A. W. Gilbert, Alternatives, to represent the Association at the Richmond Convention for the nomination of President and Vice-president, &c. They were finally treated with courteous contempt, by being simply admitted to the floor of the Convention as tolerated t commissioners, and were regarded by some as spies. In this matter, as in others, the proceedings were cautiously Metropolitan Hall. this building was formerly occupied as a Presbyterian Church, and known as that of Dr. Plummer's. managed. The leaders allowed no definite action. An expression of opinion concerning the platforms offered at Charleston was suppressed; and on the second day of the session, while a Colonel Baldwin, of the New York commissioners, smarting under the lash of W. L. Barry, of Mississippi, who charged him with abusing the courtesy of the Convention by talking of the horrors of disunion, was asking forgiveness in an abject manners, Halstead's History of the National Political Conventio