New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-03-18
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w w. IT, penn by r. H. Biide and very interesting
c, NJ Letter from President Dsrbn see Last rage
acnth Carolina Speaks
4 great gathering of !" the Democracy Oh ooa'i
Carolina was held at the New Theatre, CnafiostoA'
on ina evening of the 11th inst.-Df. e. W. NoNi H'
prs.i5e,t. Hons. H. L. PrscKsEY, HEsRY DEAs,
x.s BoYcs, WIN. DUsosE and eight others Wee
Presidents. with four Secretaries. large ana
able Comg1i,,ee was appointed to report on the OBJ
iec.s of the meeting, which were avowed IN the
cell 70 be, to take into consideration the nomlna-
ZION of candidate for the Presidency OF the onited
States at the ensuing election, and also 70 coh-
sider the principles on which National ConVen-
ton should be organized, and Delegates selected 70
attend The same" This Committee having retired
70 deliberate, Hon. ISAAC F.. HOLMES, past and
future NJ c., addressed the meeting (says the ofl-
c,al reoortl in an eloquent and animated speech,
earnestly urging it to cling unfalteringly to the
crest principles Of Democracy which 1T had con-
vened to discuss
The Committee, having returned, through Its
Chairman. Hon. F. H. ELMoRE, former III. Z.
from Columba, made long and eble Report, &C
companied by Resolutions, setting forth IL sub
stance the following propositions;
l. That General Convention OF the party
ought 10 be held, 10 select its candidate for the
Presidency;
2. That Baltimore is the proper place to holdt'
3. That it must be fairly constituted, 80 as to
reflect and not to stiHe the popular will, in order
10 command the respectand obedience of the party;
4. That it ought TO be composed OF Delegates
elected by the several Congressional Districts,
each choosing one, and each giving independently
the vote of his District, together with two chosen
BY the Legislature or State Convention, answer
;nr to the T. S. Senators or Senatorial Electors OF
President.
s. That it osght not to convene in November
next, nor until May ensuing, so as to afford the
People the fullest opportunity for elaboration, and
allow the Delegates act in full view OF the act
ua condition Of the Country, the state of public
sentiment, and the developments of next winters
Legislation.
These positions are sustained by cogent argu-
men,s which we have no room TO exhibit The
recommendations of the late Virginia Convention
that the several Congressional Districts should
choose fee Delegates each, that the majority OF
the District Delegates should the vote of the
whole State, and that the Convention should as
sernbe next November; empha,ically con-
demned the first as giving the Central States too
gree, influence in the Convention, Communicating.
as they would, the sparser Delegations from the
distant States the second as crushing the small
States with the minorites Of the party in the lar
ger ones, and enabling bare majo-ies OF the party
in few great States to make the President; the
third as especially disadvantageous to the South
which desires TO observe the action of Congress al
IT'S next Session before settling the candidate for
President,
(Wecan put this last point in good deal clearer
light than the meeting saw fit 10. The plain truth
%. that the Southern Loco-Focos to drive
Van Buren,, Wright s. Co. into an uncompromis,
ing war on the Tariff next winter, confident tia,
either the overthrow of the Tariff will thus be en-
cured, or the defeat Of Van Buren, if his body
guard is detected in shutting this question
They know that if Van gets nominated first, he
and hi. friends will play fast, and loose on the Ia
riff, Just as he and Silas Wright did in 1928. So
they mean to bring him to his bearings first. and
see about voting for him afterwards. Bat he will
outwit them YETI
The meeting closed with an eloquent statement
Of the claims of JOHN c. CALHOUN to the support
OF the party for next President.
The meeting was addressed during the evening
by Hon. Isaac Z. HOLMES, Hon. F. Fl. GILMORE
Hon, F. w. PicxENs, Col. C. G. MgMMlNeER
end J. A. STUART, Esq. Hon. WM. r. KING, U.
S. Senator from Alabama, was present, but ex-
eased from speaking. pleading fatigue Letters
were read from Hon. MARX A. COOPER of Ga,
Hon. r. B. Razrr and Hon. DANIEL E. HuGER
.hs new U. S. Senator from South Carolina, ex,
pressing the heartiess cooperation in the object
Of the meeting, and tho most ardent desires for
sae election of JOHN C. CALRouE next Presi-
dent.
W The worth OF the steamboats, owned in Gin
einnas' Ia stated TO be nearly $4,000 600. They
employ 1873 hands and their united tonnage is
le,48s.
r The paragraph in ye.,asday's paper, in relation
II the is>nipg OF Coopsts lie soucho by the Brother
Jonathan publishers intencea by MS 10 CHARGE tier.
with ro55ery be the meaning oftae lnourer wa II
fs~fsth hath II. Graham