Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-04-28
He CHARLESTON CONVENTION
" A"c StuT.
CHARLESTON 8 C. Anil DC

| been over the platform proceedings in the Mat
form committee, where the real battle jnvol vfny
the question of the nominations is being foupbt
IL seems to me that every delegation has offered
different platform for the committees consid.ra
tion, and 1t is already clear that no one of them
Will be accepted, as whole, by that body Each
delegation has got to instructing its platform com
liii'tee-man upon every question arising in their
consultations; until sooner is question started
than an adjournment is proposed and carried To
enable some committeeman or other TO consult
MS delegation as to how he shall vote upon it
The result is interminable delay, of course: bid
ding fair to defeat the possibility of havino :,
majority report made, the Lord knows how long
Many Of the northern delegations are oettinU
heaftslck Of this system of doing business more
particularly as they have steamboats, under charter
that are to mulct them in damages at the rate of
from $500 to $500 per diem, additional for every
day they are kept here after Saturday next Thus
Instead of finding it the cheaper mode Of attend
Ing The Charleston Convention. those who have
chartered steamers to that end are likely to find
that 1t will cost them "a pretty penny, besides
"ha' should be the entire cost of their trip coming
by rail and paying, while here the Charleston
hotels extravagant charge of IS per day without
extras
All eyes are on the New York delegation
which is evidently playing, very earnestly. the
game OF ''heads ! win, tails you lose" The
heavy vote for the admission of the Richmond
CaSger delegation. it now turns out, was the
result of positive pledge of Richmond & Co
to sustain platform acceptable to the South
from whence the bulk of the Democratic e,ec
toral vote is to come in November Richmond
Co consented that Croswell sbould he the
New York platform committee only in order
to satisfy the South of the integrity of that pledge
OF theirs. And the ruse succeeded; for Croswell
personality possesses the entire confidence of the
south, which be deserves. But having been ad.
mltted, Richmond & Co. seek to turn their backs
on their pledges, and proclaim the purpose Of
making Northern Democratic party irrespective
OF the South and errights; assuming control tie
action Of Mr.. Croswell in the committee Cocb-
rane at the head of the Guthrie men of the dele
CATION, and Croswell at the head of the Dickin.
son men, are doing their best to break Richmond
Co.'S control Of the delegation; and at this
hour yesterday thought they had succeeded in
SO doing; but subsequent vote of the delegation.
of IL to %, instructing Croswcll to reverse his
vote on the platform, satisfies me that / then
reckoned without my host
Croswell did reverse that vote, leaving the plat.
form (agreed on by vote Of Is to 15-a mixture
OF Bayards proposition and the Missouri plat
form) to be reported by vote of Il yeas to Is navs
Had IL not been so that the change of Croswell's
vote could not defeat majority report | do not
believe that be would have changed it, The diff
fculty between Richmond and Cochrane on this
subject ran SO high in public hall in the Mills
House, not long since, to attract the attention
OF all by-standers-C. denouncing Richmond for
a faithlesS man, without personal character or
principle; and Richmond retorting with curses
against the South and the National Admin stra
ton. The upshot will be that Coo hrane wi here
after act with the Wood interest in New York
city, backed by three-fourths of what has hereto
fore been known as the Soft Democratic party Of
the city w GODS estimate is that the change I'm
the position of Cochrane and his friends will in
sure the defeat OF any Douglas Presidential ticket
in the city and county of New York SHOULD tie
Democratic party States run Douglass by
majority Of at least 81, 900; which will in turn,
iasure the defeat of any such ticket, in the whole
State, by at least from 80, OUO to 100 600 votes.
The only point in it (the platform reported)
upon which have time to comment or that is of
PARTICULAR interest at this time, is the plank with
reference to slavery in the Territories-upon viii,
really hinges all the constitutional rights of the
South with reference to slavery, involved in the
National contest Of 1860 in November next What
Is IT. Simply the attrmance that the Democratic
party will maintain the constitute nal rig hts 4,
the South, as those hts have been affirmed nv
the Supreme Court of the United States The
Douglas interest on the platform committee o.
pcsed its adoption 10 the death-fightny for the
Cincinnati platform, with the addition of the
bred Scott decision, as Douglas proposes to inter-
pref that. That is to say, that the bred Scott de-
cison simply attirms that the negro is not. and
cannot be, citizen and lin their construo ton Of
the Cincinnati platform) claiming authority in
Terri rial
Emigrant Aid Societies or what not, to exclude
slavery from United States Territories
There is really danger tonight that some few
delegates from slavehoiding States may desert tn.
South in this emergency; voting in the Convention
against the platform as to be reported Not more
than dozenin all, however, can posi- So and
their detection will be more that made up for or
l am greatly mistaken, by Northern votes for it
the platform as reported. Ii the Southern delega-
tons be permitted to split the platform divis.
ions Of Northern delegations-twice as numerous
as the Southern splitters-will claim the same
privilege. So, have no fear now, that the plat
form to be reported can be defeated
Yet, If by any possible chance that NAV occur.
we shall have Emusic" here. Not single State
certain 10 vote for any Democratic Presidential
candidate on any platform, opposes this platform
There may be, possibly, here and there. a vote
against il from two or three such States; but such
OBJECTIONS will only go to shown, by contrast. the
overwhelming sentiments of the States voting
for il.
Mr. Slidell who Is quite an imperious man, by
the by, = said to have cursed Dean Richmond
up hill and down dale'' to-day, as ALI unmiti-
gated scoundrel, better fitted to grace peniten-
tary cell than position In control of the New
York delegation in the Convention Richmond
however, pockets what Siidell is reported to have
. id Of him, as he pocketed what Cochrane doubt
less said to him.
My belief is that the platform to be reported
will carry in the Convention, unless there be far
more treachery in southern delegations than now
apPrehend. CORRESPONDENT.
| III A child nine weeks old was snCthered to
death In a feather bed on Monday, In st. Louis,