The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-07

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s. MONDAY MORNING. MAY :. 1850.
~ The CAarlesssa Convention.
The disruption or the Charleston Conven-
ton h locked upon BY many - the par ung OF
! another etraud ia the cable which hoios ule
shin Of state TO it, anchorage ana mas tnus
~ .s~ea Il nom the sea Of uncertainties which
mu, =, fo,io,v dissoiu ,ion Of the Union. One
lfnk aster another has given way in the divi-
.,or Of The Baptist. Methodist and IN. S. Pres
hv,ertsn churches; Congress itself Is little
bettar than i house divided against itself, and
now. the great Democratic party seems to have
broken in pieces, and left the Republic to the
mercy Of the winds aud waves. Such is the
gloomy view taken by many minds, of the
present state of public affairs.
We are not inclined to attribute such deci.
sive results to the late events in Charleston.
There is. a. any rate, room for hope that the
apparent split Is more superficial than radi-
cal. and that the Democratic party is not yet
sectionalixed. The real difficulty seems 10
have been about the man. more than the plat
form If they had been able to present a can.
didate whose name would Of itself have been
platform, it is possible there would not have
been much time consumed in the construction
Of resolutions. After all, the public have not
much faith in any platforms, except such
Gov. WISE constructed for JOHN BROWN and
those other distinguished members of the Re-
publican party who called u Convention and
nominated q ticket in Virginia last fall The
only mode Of giving entire repose and perma-
hence to the Republic will be 10 erect a SINH
lar platform for all intriguing politicians in
the United States, aud let them hang by the
neck till they are dead--dead-dead.
Man is a creature Of circums tances, a COM
pick machine, a combination of spirit and
matter, the harmony whereof can be greatly
disturbed by even such trivial circumstances
as the state Of the weather, and the condition of
his digestive organs. This last, however, is
no. SO inconsiderable a matter as it seems.
Great allowances ought to BE madsfor human
natnre when tie difiiculty of keeping the liver
in order is taken into consideration, and wise
aud benevolent government, instead OF SPEND
ing money in fishing bounties, in paying sharp
eyed and nasal New England fishermen for
catching indigestible cod, ought to dispense its
gratuities to those benefactors of their species
who advertise so extensively in the newspa.
pers preparations for the rectiflcation and in
cases ofactual crime may be traced to the disor-
derest condition of this organ, while nine out of
ten of the sour-visaeed, grum, u aamiable people
whom you meet in your daily walks, are sim.
ply the victims Of a bad stomach, and deserve
compassion rather than contempt. Even the
state of the weather, as we have sugges ted, has
its effect upon the temper, and even upon the
Judgment and the mind. The illustrious
Messrs HEENAN and SAVERS are said to have
exchanged some complimentary remarks on
the state Of the weather before they COM
menced their in ter national caresses. 1tis well
known that most of the suicides in England
are committed in the foggy, drizzling days OF
November. The sun is a great brightener and
purifyer of the moral as well as the physical
world, but too much of that good thing may
cause decomposition as well as fructifcatlon
We make these remarks because we think
the solution Of the late disruption at Charles
ton may be found in causes more superficial
than deep-seated cancer in the body polite
Instead of the spontaneous and graceful GEES
ture of welcome, which the delegates no doubt
anticipated from an elegant metropolis OF
Southern ospitaiity and refinement, the first
echo which the selection of the place of meet
ing awakened was the shout of the Charles
ton inn -keepers-"Five dollars day" 1t WAS
useless to explain to them that these enterpris-
ing inn keepers would necessarily be at great
expense and that the people of Charleston, a
refined and hospitable commu nifty, had no au :
thority to increase or to diminish the rates at
their hotels. The weight Of this demand upon
the pocket must have become an increasing bur-
then with every day of the Convention. In
Congress, where, up to a late period the longer
the session the more flourishing the pecunary
condition Of the members, no session could
have been too long tor human endurance; but i,
Congress We're itself to pay per diem of five
dollars, how long would Congress sit! Withou,
derogation to the late Convention at Charles.
ton, we may suppose that the personal incon-
venience and heavy expense of the occasion
abbre waited their consultations. Moreover, a
hot Southern city, the thermometer at s., mint
luieps and mosq aitoes not the most eff.
cient auxiliaries Of cool deliberation and calm
resolve We are, therefore, not surprised al
the secession, nor of course at the adjourn.
ment of the remaining body; for after the
withdrawal of twelve States from its delibe-
ratious. and its own fruitless ballotngs for a
candidate, there was no alternative but an adj.
iournment, and taking the chances which
sorrowful experience, sober second thoughts
cooler climate, and circumstances more fl.
yorable to the heaithful operation Of the di.
gestive organs may ensure. Whether the re-
assembling of this body will be attended by
better success, remains to be seen. Possibly
an entirely new Democratic Convention will
be assembled in Baltimore.
We observe that the Convention composed
of the seeding States, has paid our own city
the compliment Of selecting it AS their place
OF meeting. We can assure them of a cordial
welcome. We have here the handsome.t and
largest city Of the Southern Atlantic States, d
climate proverbial for healthfulness, and a:
hospitable, intelligent and patriotic people
as can be found in the broad limits OF the
Union. We have ia our midst the monuments
of the great men of the Past-of WASHING
TON, Of JEFFERSON, MASON, PATRICK HENRY,
who delivered us from foreign tyranny and
laid the foundations of the American Union
The old Church, st. Johns, Is still standing
in which PATRICK HENRY Numbered, in which
the first impetus was given to the ball Of the
Revolution in the South, and in which the
Convention met that accepted that Constitu-
ton. This is a sacred place. and all around it
is holy. This old, classic ground of the Reyolu-
ton is again to be grand political battlefield.
1t is well for National Conventions to meet
here, and drink in the inspiration which H.
Illuminated the soul Of the sages. statesmen and
soldiers by whom our independence was
achieved and our government established.
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