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TIE CHARLESTON CONVENTION,
Meeting of the seoeders.
j. @. PRESTON CIIAIRM'N
ADDRESSES EXPRESSION. YANCEY AND sAYARU.
Tho Democratic Convention Denounced.
MORE STATES EXPECTED TO sEoEDE
DELAY IN ACTION RECOMMENDED.

CHARLESTON, May l.--St. Andrews Hall,
last night, was thronged with members of
the boilers from the Convention, John G.
Preston, of South Carolina, presiding.
On taking the chair, Mr.. Preston delivered
a short address. He considered this q great
occasion. He said we only know the i'm
periled institutions of our country We are
here to preserve our rights and redress our
wrongs--if we had submitted we would have
done that which would have driven us from
the land of our forefathers, and deprived us
Of the liberty they fought for and ultimately
would have driven us from the spot in which
their sacred ashes repose.
Mr.. Yancey followed, with a statement of
his views Of the position occupied by the
Southern delegates. We appear here simply
as citizens of the State in which we live.
We were sent to the National Democratic
Convention as delegates, but our mission has
been fulfilled and we retire as mere citizens
from the late National Democratic Conven-
tion, which is now q mere sectional gather
ing A few Southern delegates still remain
there, it is true, but it is in the hope of in
iucing them to forego their Black Republi-
3an purposes. Mr.. Yancey proposed that
they should take no action, but remain here
and watch the proceedings of the regular
Convention. Should that Convention nomi-
nate Douglas, it would then become their
duty to present and recommend to the peo-
Pile of the United States candidates for
President and Vice President, and on a
national and constitutional basis, and there
ore Southern basis. He thought no steps
should be taken by the seeding Convention,
until the proper time. ..... ..
Mr.. Bayard, of Delaware, did not regard
the influence that overruled principle in the
National Convention, so much the spirit of
Black Republicanism as it was a struggle for
power. -..,D... .
He was very severe on the New York del
egates, who came here he said, protesting a
desire to join in such O nomination as would
suit the South, but as soon as they had se-
cured their seats, turned their backs on the
| South.
He trusted that other States would with
| draw from that Convention and that 1t would
be utterly. dissolved. He did not consider
| that seceders had the power to make regular
| nominations but he would recommend if IL
| should be found necessary that they should
| Join in the recommendation of some suitable
candidates with written address to their
| constituents. '.r uia.s; .I..i-.' ....n
A call of the States was then made, and
| when New York was reached, DR.. Skinner,
| Of the Wood delegation responded He said
he came there to attend a National Conven-
tion, and had been sitting out in the cold for
| eight days; his delegation having been ousted
from their seats by fraud. He was Hard,
and the difference between Hard and Soft
was that the former sacrificed place for prin-
cipes and the latter principles for place. He
had no doubt that Mayor Wood would have
been here if he had known the meeting was
to be held. 'l.h al.gu hsluI ... aa0.-
Delaware called, Bayard and one other
| lelegate came forward.
Maryland, no answer, .
Virginia was responded to by Fisher who
said there would be more of that State here.
He also said he had sent an invitation to
| Mayor Wood to be here. .-., ID
South Carolina called. Mr.. Reed said he
was one Of the three whose names are NOT
| signed to the protest. He had hesitated about
eaving the Convention, in the hope of secur-
ing harmony, but where Alabama goes, thcre
t'the Cnroinas will 60 also; and he was salts.
Piled Georgia will be with us before to-mor.
row night, and also, he hoped, every Southern
State i'i'N '.' '. '.''' 80 y "a
| Georgia called---Mr. Lamar said he believed
rlarge majority of his delegation will, before
tomorrow morning, enroll their names.
The entire Florida delegation responded.
All the seeding States Signed the roll.
The Convention then adjourned to meet
tomorrow. i''n. 2ln.,l w w ,i.
r.Yancey afterward addressed at the City
Hall, a mass meeting of seceders,
CHARLESTON, May 1.-The seceders ap-
pointed q Committee on Organization, and
will meet at noon to-day, whenian organiza-
ton will be perfected. ,syyr. ri4a'IH .Hf
Il WASHINGTON, May l.-Mr. Douglas pro-
fesses satisfaction with the result declaring
that the seceders do not represent all the
i popular sentiments of the States. 1'i., =
All the Wood delegation join the seceders