Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-07-04

The sane party also declared that Congress has no right
10 intervene for the settlement Of this question These
were the issues upon which the party succeeded IN 1900
bat how is it now Oae faction declares that the people
Of territory have no such conceded to them
in Sc and that Congress not only has the right TO inter
vene for the protection of slavery, but that 1t IS It's duty
to do IL The other faction sticks to the original pro-
gramme, and hence the split in the party But the best
part Of the joke IS that the boilers knew just as wei IN
SO as they do now the eeso character Of the doctrines
they then advocated and surrendered the rights o. the
South for party success Now they want to retrieve
VIA, their political vlny then lost them, and to cover
up their dishonesty BY show of virtuOus indignation
against their Northern partners in raseality.
why the virginia Delegates seeded.
Tho very singular course pursued by portion of the
Democratic delegation from Virginia 9 remaining in the
Convention at Charleston, after the Douglas platform
vas adopted ana after majority Of the Convention had
voted 10 nominate Douglas to- the Presidency, and rer-
ing from the same body when reassembed at Baltimore
pareny because they we're voted down upon trivial and
ptry question Of credentials needs some other expana-
ton TO satisfy sensible men, than that given by the dele
gates themselves Tbs ChlrlesOn Mercury, the organ
Of the Ssced,rs gives an explanation that believe to
De the tue one Tue Au1 "A1es'N" "
cause they we're unwilling 20 accept Douglas and submit
to Squatter gnty-foby remaining in the Charles
ton Convention they committed themselves to this
Nor did they withdraw because certain delegates, who
had resigned thei Charleston and demanded to
be readmtted to them atBatmore-although they were
at the very time holding seats in the antagnonie Con-
yeat5n in session Rchmondwere refused their de-
nand-and otber delegates, sent up to oil the vacancies
created by these designations, were allowed to take
seats for as the Mercury correctly says it was these
very vacancies that the States invited to ill by
resolution Of the Chlreston Couventon-and thatreso
luton was offered By the Virginia delegation The re-
lection of the old aud the admission of the new dele
gates the Mercury holds right and proper in the Bal
tmore Convention. Il was therefore, no ground for
the withdrawal Of the Virginia delegation. What
then was the real cause of that Withdrawals Simply
that the Virginia delegation were dominated and dra-
gooned by YAncey aud tho Hre-elters aud compelled
by simple terror Of the little squad Of South Carolina
Disunonsts who met daily in this city to thereon
nscon with the national party, and seek shelter as
Yancey expressed it, "under the diplomacy and arms Of
the Cotton States This is doubt the true explana
ton Of the mlter. TIE majority Of the Virginia dele
CATION had not tie backbone to resist the appeals and
the threats Of Yan,ey and his men. They preferred
making an issue aud coming 20 rupture With the friends
Of Douglas and SQuatteFSOvc'egnty, whom they stood
by at Charleston crossing anees with the desperate
men who were "frng the Southern heart" preparatory
:, precipitang the Cotton States into revolution
They therefore cut loose from the National party upon
false issue and threw themselves into the Of Yam
eey and the Disunionss At least such is nterpre
ation Of leading editorial in the Charleston Mercury
Of the SOth, ult portion of which subjon. Speak
Ing of the Richmond Convention the Mercury says
To understand its elements Of success must look at
il, poon Il consisted Of the eight Cotton States, rep
resulting that great staple which con rolls the commerce
of the United States and one-half the manufacturing n
lsrv OF the civilized world. They RATED for no "g-
a,fr,t5ls necessity for holding their ReetHg'-frOm
syeuts which might occur Baltimore. They organized
themselves in Convection at Richmond and stood before
tbe world a body prepared 70 a.. Independently aud
apart 10 yindcaton Of the rights OF the South ms n-
dependents position was fully understood at Baltimore
delegate IRON the Northwest in the Baltimore Conven
ton suosr Of the Richmond Convention, as dstdding
Threat % the Baltimore Convention. To the Frontier
S,iksra States tuas something more IL was an m
,ititi9n as well as threat /; plainly said to them
Choose us 6etccst, and united South, or TIE North
We desire you act With Us but you refuse to JOIN
Us We will without YOU. We did 50 at Cbarleston-
We will do so here" This alternative, could not be
without weight in the cOuuss OF the frontier Southern
ates The occasion for their action was the refusal OF
ne Baltimore Convention 20 receive the regularly ap
goDtei Delegates from Alabama and Louisiana into the
Convention But &c most plain, that this course was
,he necessity Of the secession Ct the Charleston
Convention The resolution adopted inviting De
mocrats from the seeding States TO send del
ecltes 70 fn vacancies, could not hare looked
% raraarisS iich might Ocr, iu his ordinary ~
ttiHgs-fsrttat yrpridH against By he dtorHateS
,,if.{ for srcry dLgafs ts the CoaysHiiOh The inv
,on therefore could have had reference only TO tie
~slcauciss" o,sasiousi b. de seeding deltgaies OF
course those who IN conformity TO this invitation,
90 6the seats OF the seeding delegates, could not ch
proprstg be rejected By those rdo 'R'id them Thertjec
ion Of the seeding delegates from Alabama and Louis
ttna therefore sray not he tr Of he cithdrdr1t
sf IfrgiHia Tennessee and Kentucky from the Blu-
more convention. They sat patiently IN this Convection,
after the eight Cotton States had Withdrawn from it
Whv should they leave it when only two-Ahbama and
Nis,is,pp;-weTc eced The answer is found ~, the
,risifucs Of he Richmond CoHgsatoa. The Richmond
convention did exist when the Democratic conven-
ion sat at Chares,on and the frontier Southern States
not only stayed In this convention, out teid ats eoes
ia pr0ujiHg for Supplying he rdcdicies oecIAtoHs1 On
tls seeding d,iea,ss, and 10 arranging platform 81
friciuI-t salts factory To them But when the Richmond
convention stood organized ready independent OF
hpuA A stern alternative was forced upon thcm-they
must unite now with the Southern States or lose forever
an influence In their counse aud all control over their
uesnies Tue frontier Southern States acted wisely for
themselves and the South in Withdrawing from the Bal
tmore convention and uniting with the South Instead
Of the Democratic party being FetRiegrdfed Oy the
Richmond convention il has been rent asuuder with
/ wider d.ntegraii1n The Richmond convention vas the
great cause which produced the secession OF the frontier
southern states from the Baltimore convention-the
subsequent OrgauizatOn-and the final nominations oil
Breckenridge aud Lane for the Presidency.
This is the way in which the Charleston M,re'Ty oI-
plains the action of the majority Of the Virginia delega-
ton These are the views Of the leading organ Of the
bsanionist Il is evident that the Mercury believes
that the hook Of D5aniOn has been fastened in the jaws
Of the Lsviahan Of the south. Without perhaps, in
tending it-even, it may be, without knowing how and
when it was done-the Virginia delegation have permit
ted the car Of the Od Dominion TO be fastened to the
traia Of Dsuniou, driven by WN. l.. YANcEY It will
not do TO say that the contains conservative cand
dates and a conservative party-We must look only
A, the track on which it runs the schedule by which its
movements are governed and the man by whom the en-
CINE directed Looking at these, we see nothing but
WN L. YANcEY-hls traCk--hs sebe iu.e-his hand at
the engine. Ahead is collision. The only escape is to
deach the car.
The Great Cushing.
great BILL and EvERErr demonstration is proposed
for Rockingham July Court over which the "C,tissn'
lawfully suggests tha. CALEB CUSHING he invited to pre-
side We hope not-uot that CALEB would decline the
hi hrt n NJ rece,t exneritasnts have shown his pre-.