Both were allowed seats, although manifestly,
Mr. Ewing should have retired.
When the vote was declared, it appeared that eight States had voted in
the affirmative, and eleven States in the negative. The border State
men were sorely disappointed, and some of them wept like children. The
result they must have anticipated, but they had been wrought to a high
condition of nervous excitement, due in part to the circumstance that
they were unable to discuss the business of the convention in public.
The disagreeable silence which followed the announcement of the vote,
was broken by Mr. Francis Granger, who counseled calmness and
deliberation, and finally, he appealed to the States of the majority
to move a reconsideration. This was done by the State of Illinois,
through Mr. Turner, who made the motion. The next day the resolution
was adopted by a vote of nine to eight. Upon this question the
Missouri delegation refused to vote, under the lead, it was said, of
General Doniphan, who denounced the resolutions as not satisfactory to
either side. Doniphan was a large, muscular man, who acquired some
fame in the Mexican war as the leader of a cavalry expedition to
California, of which nothing was heard for about six months.
The reconsideration was attributed to the interference of Mr. Lincoln
or of his recognized friends.
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