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Show Wlrulul'l TuIIt I rem the llllfioit Jicutuerul.-i. Springtieid, L.s., 8. 'IVe democratic demo-cratic convention organizi.-d by electing elect-ing Joim M. Pawner preeiuut and one vice pre.-:iient hum eac:i cou gre.jioua; district iu l:ie elate, be-(suien be-(suien a number ot at'cret.i.'ie.r. After a brief addri.os by Palmer, lion. I.ymari TrumhuJi eiibmilttd resolutions resolu-tions which Wert: adapted. Ti,'; de- i clare tnat au electoral count vuuu-it . li-e concurrence of lot.i hUse.-i wuuii ,oe contrary lo revolutionary ! .nd dan.-rou?; t : -t ev..-ii without ioy ruie or hUtut-, both l.ouits have too r-got under the eoiialilut:.;u to count iho votes and decide and de-eiare de-eiare ti.o res.i.t-; ta:h home has ju'.uority to inquire into the quiLn catujiid of electors and the u.anunr ol their appointment ; an unbroken '.hain ol precedents t-ntaohh luis riiit, ai w-?:l as th'i adoption by both ii'ioi-.ea of ti,e L'J 1 j.y.at rule, ai.d whicii was acqm'-S' td iu whi.e the repub.ica.'n were dominant iu both nouses, ll is toe duly of both houses to n eort tu ail par.iameotary means to secure a fair and i.wntst count, and i.mu peoplo will hold their senators and rpre-'.-ntaUveS rpoi.oibiu fur the i oi,.fcq'ieii':fa wnieii may follow 9. failure of the h&u-ir to agree upon a mode for making u.ii count. iCfuAveU, Tnat wmle we have no Joulit that caihiiel J. TiiiJwn and 1'iioriias A. IIndricliH are fairly en-tilled en-tilled Lo a majority of tho electoral i.'otjj lor president and vice president, wtj at the b.une time believe it to be fjur duty and are willing to submit tho question as to wno have been fairly and constitutionally elected to the decision of the senate and house 01 representatives, to whom it constitu-Munally constitu-Munally belongs; and we demand of .hem, as we believe do a vast majority ma-jority of the people of all parlies, that tney come to sumo agreement for on :ioucsl and fair count t.l the electoral vole, pledging uureeives to abide by the result whatever it may be; l':S(jti-:d, That it is a well settled principle of law that when au official duty 16 to be performed upon the Happening of a certain contingency, and no mode had been provided for deciding when the event lias occurred, oc-curred, those who are required to perform the duly are the sole judges as to when Iho contingency ariseH, and i accordance with this principle wo declare that it properly devolves upon c-ach hf'U.-e ol congress lo do-cido do-cido tor iiaelf when the contingency con-tingency shall arise that requires its separate action under the constitution, constitu-tion, in the election of president by iho house of repri'McntativeM, and vice president by the senate. Jicsuh-eJ, Thai in case the two houses, after exhausting every parliamentary parlia-mentary muaua, are unable to agree upon such a count of votes cant as will sccuro to any person a majority of tho wuole number of electors ap pointed, it will then become the duty of the house immediately lo choose a president aud uf tho senate a vice president, as provided by tho constitution, consti-tution, and if the house snail choose 6 president or the sonate a vice president presi-dent according to such provisions then such constitutional action must be sustained and all forcible opposition thereto be proceeded against as treason trea-son and revolution. They declaro that the announcement announce-ment by leading republican newspapers news-papers the morning alter the election that Soulh Carolina, Florida and Louisiana had gono for Hayes before nnypns.iil.Jrt iwjwh" could have been received, followed by orders to the army to protect the boards of canvassers can-vassers issued before the boards wero assembled, and without reason to bus-pect bus-pect dishonesty, together with the knowledge that the result of the election elec-tion in theie status could bo changed so as to bo for Hayes, and the knowledge that the Louisiaua returning return-ing board was tho same which had formerly reversed the legal vote of the state could on'y have intenJed to notify those canvassing boards that they would bo upheld in any villainy whatever, and the result proves that they appreciated the situation aud committed the - frauds that were 1 expected of them. They condemn , the aetion of Judge Bond iuoverrid-i mg tno SLaic courts ; me kcuoq ui luo army iu silting au illegal legislature in Mouth Caroliua; tho concentration of troops in tho south and threats in the partisan presa, that members of the house of representatives will bo arrested if the house attempts te participate par-ticipate in the count of votes. These things establish tho existence of a conspiracy by iorcc and fraud to proclaim pro-claim ami inaugurate a president and vico president, contrary to tho constitutionally expressed will of the American people. Itesolvtd, That it is the duty of the house of representatives, the grand inquest of tho nation,- to inquire into said conspiracy, and if officers of the government havo baen engaged in the conspiracy and have committed overt acts in furtherance of the plot, by an illegal use of the army or otherwise, to take immedia'o action lo defeat the conspiracy and to bring the conspirators to trial at tho bar of the senate. Hesolvcd, That the president of this convention send a copy of these resolutions reso-lutions to the president of the senate aud the speaker of the house of representatives, re-presentatives, with a request that each lay the same before the bodies over which they respectively preside. |