New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-14
THE RICHMOND CONvENTIONIsTs.

When the mountain would not come to NOLAN
med, Mohammed concluded to 90 to the mountain
The same judicious policy has been adopted by
the members of the Richmond Convention. The
secession from the Charleston Convention took
place, and the Richmond Convention was called,
in the evident hope and expectation that the
whole body Of the Southern States, if not, indeed,
several Of the Northern ones, would be induced to
join in the movement But the only attendants at
Richmond from the North were number of gentle
men from New-York, who appear to have depu-
tized themselves, and one Of whom gave lecture
80 very tedious and dstasteful, on the irksome
subject Of preserving the Union, that he fairly
drove the Southern deeea tes out Of the hall,
motion being made and carried to adjourn while
he was yet speaking. One district delegate ap-
peared from Virginia, another from Tennessee.
Delaware, which had taken part in the secession
at Charleston, was not represented at Rich
mOnd, while most of the delegates
actually present had been directed also
to attend at Baltimore-a direction which
amounted, in substance, to censure upon them
for having left the Cot yention at Charleston, how
tStI III WOlub tual act ullkut sCCiu W
be approved.
1t will be rather an awkward thing on the part
# these Richmond runaways asking to be re-
ceiyed back at Baltimore. The Convention, when
it Ieassembles at Baltimore, will stand on the
platform, the adoption of which was made the oc.
casion of the secession at Charleston. To ask to
be received at Baltimore will seem to imply, if
not an approval Of at least an acquiesence in the
position which that Convention now holds In
other respects, also, the moral position Of these
late seeding, bat now returning delegates, will be
greatly impaired. The threat of secession-after
such a mere make-believe trial of that Wanted
remedy for Southern wrongs-wlll lose it's terrors,
ard the threat Of secession aside, what other
means have the returning delegates of influencing
the proceedings of the Convention 1t seems to
be too late to expect to obtain any material altera-
ton of the platform. The non.seceding Southern
pected that, having declined to secede at Charles
ton, they should be ready to secede at Baltimore
without any additional provocation.
But though the friends of Douglas may and will
succeed in retaining platform which will allow
him and them to claim to be as good Democrats a
any body, the question who is to be the Democratic
candidate is quite another matter. The votes
the Southern States, and of all the Southern States
are indispensable to the election of the Democratic
candidate. That was frankly conceded at Charles
ton, where the votes Of the seeding States,
though they had no representatives in the Conven-
ton, were still allowed to count against Douglas.
Instead of strangling the heresy of Squatter
Sovereignty, the Richmond Conyentionists must
be content with strangling the adaptive father of
that heresy-which for all practical purposes will
perhaps amount to the same thing2while the sup
porters of Douglas must endeavor to console them.
selves, as the friends of DIR. Van Buren, did upon
like OCCASION by selecting the substitute for hun.