Official proceedings of the National Democratic convention, held in Cincinnati, June 2-6, 1856. Pub. by order of the Convention:

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AFTERNOON SESSION-JUNE 4Ti.
The Convention met at two o'clock, and was called to order by the
President.
In conformity with the resolution empowering the President to
appoint a Sergeant-at-arms and two assistants, the following appointments were made: principal Sergeant-at-arms, George W. Palmer;
assistants, John R. Johnson and Stephen S. Ayres.
Mr. Hibbard, of New Hampshire, moved to reconsider the vote on
the first part of the report of the Committee on Resolutions, and that
said motion be laid on the table. The motion prevailed unanimously.
The Chair then proceeded to take the vote on the questions relative
to foreign policy. The first resolution was as follows:
1. Resolved, That there are questions connected with the foreign policy of this country which
are inferior to no domestic questions whatever. The time has come for the people of the United
States to declare themselves in favor of free seas and progressive free trade throughout the
world, and, by solemn manifestations, to place their moral influence at the side of their successful
example.
The vote by States being called, the following States voted unanimously in the affirmative:
Maine 8, New Hampshire 5. Vermont 5, Massachusetts 13, New
Jersey 7, Pennsylvania 27, Virginia 15, North Carolina 10, South
Carolina 8, Louisiana 6, Ohio 23, Indiana 13, Illinois 11, Missouri 9,
Arkansas 4, Michigan 6, Florida 3, Texas 4, Iowa 4, Wisconsin 5,
Kentucky 12.
The following States divided: Connecticut-i1 aye, 5 nays; Tennessee-11 ayes, 1 nay. The following States voted in the negative:
Rhode Island 4, Delaware 3, Maryland 6, Georgia 10.
The Chair proclaimed the resolution adopted, by 230 ayes, 29 nays.
The second resolution, which is as follows, was then voted on by
States:
2. Resolved, That our geographical and political position with reference to other States of this
continent, no less than the interest of our commerce, and the development of our growing
power, requires that we should hold as sacred the principles involved in the Monroe doctrine;
their hearing and import admit of no misconstruction; they should be applied with unbending
rigidity.
The following was the vote:
AYES Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts 12, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia 6, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ohio, Kentucky,
Tennessee 11, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Michigan, Florida,
Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Califoruia-239.
NAYs —Massachusetts 1, Rhode Island 4, Delaware, Maryland, Georgia 4, Tennessee 1-21.
C. A. Wickliffe, of the Kentucky delegation, asked leave to change
their vote on first resolution from the negative to the affirmative.
Granted. [Applause.]
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