Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-19
THE BALT1MoRE CONVENTION.

at Charleston is renewed and protracted
we will be able to announce its decision
on platform and candidates, or its second
disruption, in our next weeks issue.
1t will be remembered that the great
Democratic party met, by their delegates,
at Charleston, S. c., in April last, for
the purpose of settling the discordant
principles of the party, and nominating
candidates for President and Vice Pres
ident Of the United States. The fierce
and irreconcilable sectionalisms of the
different divisions of the party kept the
Convention in stormy session for nearly
two weeks, when, without being able to
agree upon platform, the Convention
split in two, and organized in two sepa-
rate bodies. One of these fragments,
after balloting fifty seue'e times for can
didate without nominating one, ad-
journed to meet in Baltimore on yester
day, to try it over again. This wing
was composed largely of the friends of
Douglas, but not sufficiently so to give
him the requisite two-thirds vote.
The other fragment of the split Con-
vention did not try to nominate can
didate at all, but adjourned to meet at
Richmond, Va, on yesterday week. 1t
met, accordingly, but did not nominate.
It adjourned over to the 21st that the
Delegates might meet their brethren at
Baltimore. These harmonious ele--
ments are doubtless, at this present
writing, in high state Of " fusion -
with probably the prefix "con'' before it.
A large number of Democratic Sena-
tors and Representatives in Congress,
some weeks ago, issued an address to the
members of the Richmond Convention,
advising them not to make nominations
there, but to demand their re-admission
into that wing which adjourned to Balti-
more, and control it if they could; but if
they could not, then to retire again, and
the Delegates of all the Democratic
States would go with them. The advice
was taken, and the Richmond Conven-
ton adjourned, the Delegates to which
are now in Baltimore, to carry out this
programme. Will itsucceed? We would
hope, for the good name of our country
and human nature, that it will not; but,
judging from the past, we suspect it will
triumph. The alternative is before the
world, and the gaze of the world upon
the actors may shame them into show
of manhood. We shall be happy to an
nounce that manliness has been, in some
degree, maintained; but we fear we will
not have that pleasure. That alterna-
tive is the complete, unconditional, hu-
initiating, servile submission of the
Northern Democracy to the degrading
demands of the nullifers and disunion-
lists of the extreme South, or the disrup-
tion Of the party. We will not now pre-
dict which horn of the dilemma will be
chosen. A short time will tell the story.
Impaled upon either, the triumph Of
Lincoln is reduced to moral certainty.
is 1T SO.
The Edgefeld Advertiser Is. CO. has
an article OF doleful tenor, in which the
utter decay of that mighty State is sadly
and sorrowfully set forth. Not a de-
crease of niggers, or falling away from
Democracy in the State, but of ''young
and promising politicians" 1t an
nounces in the tones of authority, but
softened by grief, that "the day Of
South Carolina's geat men is over. p
And the reason assigned is that Ham
mond, and host of like old men hang
on to all the Offices and the young
geniuses thus ruled out Of place, are vir-
tually crowded out Of the State. And to
add to the gloomy picture, many of these
young men go to the Northwest where
there are no "niggers, and in consequence
soon lose their Democracy, and turn
against their old mother 1t is a very
affecting dirge and ought to arouse the
sympathies of the Northern brethren of
the afflicted editor.
Two things are essential, it seems, to
the life of South Carolina Democrat
negroes and Offices They have abun-
dance of the first, but there are not Of
fees enough to supply the "rising stars"
of that land of chivalry. What shall
they do? They can 60 to the North
west and get offices y But there are
no "niggers' there. 1t requires both,
however, to insure their perseverance in
Democracy They will do what they
can to supply the lacking ingredient,
but if they cannot succeed, Democracy
dies out Of them and "they turn against
their, old mother"
We know Of no remedy except for
the Sovereign State of South Carolina to
keep supply on hand, and as soon as
one of her mYoung~ g~stat1smen tlnds an
Office in the North west, to send him
niger, and his perseverance in Democ-
racy will be insured. Verify these cul-
tivators of modern chivalry are making
themselves and the State supremely
ridiculous.