The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-07-04
The Results at Baltimore.


| results at Baltimore and the main facts Of
| which they were the consequence. We are
therefore spared the necessity of preparing
lengthy detail almost at the very hour of put
ting our present sheet to press, and when
| wearied with travel and worn by the toll and
excitement unavoidable by those who partici-
pated in the stirring news enacted in that
city.
victions of duty, and with what they believed
to be the will of their constituents, the dele
gates from Mississippi to the Convention at
Charleston withdrew from that body at its first
session, for reasons set forth in the pro-
test that they caused to be spread upon the
journals of that body. Subsequent to their
withdrawal, the Convention unanimously
adopted a resolution inviting the Democracy
| of the States in which vacancies had been, or
might be, created, to supply those vacancies
that all the States might be fully represented
at the adjourned session. Coupled with this
fact. was an unmistakable ind cation that the
question of the platform had not been entirely
| closed and that such amendments might
be obtained as would Salty the withdrawing
delegations That we were not mistaken In the
opinion that the platform was still subject to
amendment, ample testimony was afforded
by the Chairman in his opening speech on the
re-assembling of the body and by the subse-
quent action of the Squattcr Sovereignty part
of the Convention, after the sound elements
had severed their connection with it. Will
ing to exhaust every resourse Of Cancellation,
not Incompatible with principle and with hon.
or, the Democracy of Mississippi on the 3oth
of May assembled in Convention and acting as
unit, accepted the invitation to which we
have referred, and after endorsing the course
of their delegates at Charleston, re-accredited
them to Baltimore. To Baltimore they re-
lerred to the Committee which had been origi-
nally packed by the partizans of Douglas to
decide upon contested claims to seats in the
interest Of that corrupt and degraded faction
With becoming dignity they awaited the re-
port Of that Committee, which after the lapse
of five days, was submitted to the Convention.
Of course unblushing audacity itself could not
| presume to question their right to seats, and
the consequence was that the report so far as
| it related to them, was unanimous in favor of
their admission. To this extent it was with
ike unanimity, sustained by the Convention
but coupled with their admission was the acto
excluding the representatives, of the regular Or
carnations of Alabama and Louisiana-the
inecGion of spurious element into the Ar
B. F. Hallett, of Massachusetts,, from the seat
to which he was duly accredited, that it might
be occupied by facile tool of the Douglas fac
ton.
| These outrages were perpetrated in spite Of
the earnest remonstrances of Virginia, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Maryland,
Oregon, California, q majority of Pennsyl-
vania, Massachusetts, and of scattering dele
cations from other non-slaveholding States.
1t is needless to say that the delegates from
Mississippi declined to accept tickets of ad-
mission upon such conditions. They would
have felt no less disgraced by sitting in coun-
| Gil in den Of thieves, as in such confedera-
cy of freesoil fanatics and political traitors
Moreover, upon the threshold of what had be.
come mere Rump Convention of corruption
lists and sectionalists, they would have en-
countered the Withdrawing delegations from
the States already enumerated above-dele-
cations which could no longer find it compat-
IDLE with their political integrity, their duty
to their constituents, and their self respect to
continue their connexion with the body in its
then disorganized, corrupted and leprous
state.
By this act of DISTINGUISHING the Democra-
ey of the States heretofore named, the Douglas
faction over did their work, but most happily
it succeeded in accomplishing riIa r,sIrficafivs
| of the National Democratic party and bring
| ing about what above all we could have deSir-
ed, the union of the South with the intrepid,
the sound and ineorruptible North.
In speech remarkable for its power, and
for its singing rebuke TO the factionists and
its stunning effect, Gen. Gushing declared that
he could no longer preside over the Conven-
ton as it had re-composed ITSELF
The representatives of the Southern De-
mocracy who withdrew at Charleston, to-
gether with delegations from thirteen other
States, representing every section of the I'm
ion, and the effective strength Of the Demo
cratic party, assembled together at once, after
this consummation, and with Gen. Gushing. as
their presiding officer, they proceeded to adopt
a platform of principle, and to nominate can
didates for the Presidency and Vice residen-
cy. This platform was adopted by acclama-
ton, and is in the precise words of what is
known as the Majority Platform which was
recommended BY eighteen States at Charleston
and which the Democracy of Mississippi en-
dorsed with unbounded enthusiasm in their
Convention of May the Both. That portion
of it which relates to the absorbing slavery
issue, and is explanatory of the Cincinnati
platform, will be found at the head Of our
| columns.
In the same spirit, the Convention presented
to the country as its ticket for the highest
offices within the peoples gft, the glorious and
honored names which float at our masthead
| BRECKENRIDGE AND LANE. Already
they have been acclaimed by the patriotic mas
ses throughout the land as talisman Of VIC
/ to, IN the coming struggle. The Democracy
of Mississippi from their serried columns,
send greeting to their brethren Of the North
and the South, the East and the West. with
the assurance that they will roll up twenty
thousand majority for this ticket in November.
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