Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-05-12
SOUTH CAROLINA.

by the democratic State convention of South Carolina, beg leave respectfully to state that, according to the principles enun- ciated in their platform at Columbia, the power, either of the federal government, to abolish or legisate against property in slaves, either by direct or indirect legisa- ton, is explicitly denied; and. as the plat form adopted by this convention palpably and intentionally pretermits any expression affirming the incapacity of a territorial go- venment so to legislate, they would not be acting in good faith to their principles, or in accordance with the wishes of their constituents, longer to remain in this con- vention. They, therefore, respectfully an nounce their withdrawal therefrom.
 JAMES sIMONS,
 s. M. CONAN,
 B. H. WILSON,
 R. B. BOYLSTON,
 Delegates from the State at large.
 JAS. H. WITHERSPOON,
 E. w. CHARLES.
 Delegates from lst Congressional District.
 c. N. REYNOLES, JR.,
 T. Y. SIMONS,
 Delegates from 2d Congressional District
 JAS. PATTERSON,
 B. H. BROWN,
 Delegates from 3d'Congressional District
 J. 4. MEETS,
 Delegate from 4th Congressional District.
 JOHN $. PRESTON,
 FRANKLIN GAILLARD,
 Delegates from 9th Congressional District
 The reading of this paper was greeted with frequent bursts of most enthusiastic cheering on the floor and in the gallares. 1 am further instructed to say, that the communication is signed by all the delega- tion except three members.
 The South Carolina delegation then with drew from the convention amidst loud cheering
 MISSISSIPPI.
 Mir. Barry, of Mississippi I am in structed by the Mississippi delegation to state that they retire from the convention with the delegation from Alabama (Cheers.) They have prepared a protest which they desire to submit, but by acci- dent it is not now here. I desire also to state that they have adopted unanimously a resolution that they are the only dele gates-whch is uncontested-and that no one is or shall be authorized to represent them in their absence upon the floor ot the convention. (Cheers.)
 Mir. Glenn, of Mississippi. Mr. Presi- dent and gentlemen of this convention.- For the first time, for the only time, for the last time, in the name of the State that have the honor in part to represent here, desire to say but few words to this con vention l hold in my hand the solemn act of her delegation upon this floor, and say to you, gentlemen, that this is not a nasty action; that it Is not one conceived in passion, or carried out in caprice or disap- pointment. It is the firm resolve of the great body of the people whom we repre- sent, which was expressed in the conven- tion that sent us here, and that resolve, that people and we, their representatives, will maintain at all hazards. Loud cheers. We came here not to dictate to the re- presentatives of other sovereign States Since we have been here our intercourse has been courteous, so far as personalities are concerned We have all sought, and be- lieve have all been able to conduct ourselves as gentlemen. But we did not come here to exercise the courtesies of life alone. We came to settle the principles upon which our party must rest and must stand. We came here, gentlemen of the North, not to ask you to adopt principle which you could say was opposed to your consciences and to your principles. We did not believe 1t to be so. We came as equal members of common confederacy, simply to ask you to acknowledge our equal rights within that confederacy. (Cheers.) Sir, at Gin cinnati we adopted platform on which we all agreed Now, answer me, ye men Of the North, of the East, of the South, and of the West, what was the construction placed upon that platform n different sec tions of the Union? You at the West said it meant one thing; we at the South said it meant another Either we were right or you were right; we were wrong or you were wrong. We came here to ask you which was right and which was wrong. You have maintained your position. You say that you cannot give us an acknowledgme of that right, which, l tell you here now, in coming time will be your only safety in your contests with the black republicans of Ohio and of the North. Cheers.
 Why, sir, turn back to the history of your own leading men. There sits dis tinguished gentleman, once representative of one of the sovereign States of the Union in the Senate, who then voted that Con gress had the constitutional power to pass the Wilmot proviso, and to exclude slavery from the territories; and now, when the supreme court has said that 1t has not that power, he comes forward and tells Missis- sippians that the same Congress is impotent to protect that same species of property. There sits my distinguished friend, the Se nator from Ohio Mir. Pugh) who, but a few nights since, told us from that stand, that, if territorial government totally misused their powers or abused them, Con- gress could wipe out that territorial govern ment altogether. And yet, when we come here and ask him to give us protection in case that territorial government robs us of our property, and strikes the star which answers to the name of Mississippi from the flag of the Union, so far as the consti- tuition gives her protection, he tells us, with his hands upon his heart-as Governor Payne, of Ohio, had before done-that they will part with their lives before they will acknowledge the principle we contend for.
 Gentlemen, in such situation of things in the Convention of our great party, 1t is right that we should part. Go your way, and we will go ours. The South leaves you mot lika Hapar. driven into the wilderness