Des Arc citizen., 1860-03-28
From the Washington Star, 17th.] THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION s
 NOMINATION.

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 We are al length able to express, upon carefully considered premises, something like definite opinion as to the probable action of the Charleston Convention. We do not mean to claim that we can tore- shadow who il will nominate for the Presi- dency--bul rather, that we can explain the state of the game for the nomination, as it stands al the present writing.
 Thus, we have 10 say that, the intense and extensive "blowing" of Senator Doug las and his grand army of newspaper wrl- ters to the contrary notwithstanding, his vote on the first ballot will be somewhere between sixty and seventy, and that his highest vote will be on the first ballot; and further, that he will not receive the vote of single Democrat representing district of certain Democratic Slate- We by no means regard Illinois as cer- tain Democratic State; if but because in the late contest for the United States Senatorship there his parlizans, though electing a majority of the Legislature, were, in the aggregate vote of the whole State, in clear minority of some 1000. We have further to say, Tn explanation of this opinion relative to the vote of MT. Douglas, that he will not receive single slavehoding State vote, except, possibly, two from Maryland and the vote of Dela- ware. We believe, however. that on reaching Charleston, every delegate from those States will realize the proprlety of maintaining the unity of the action of the South in the Convention.
 And still further: that New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey as repre- sented there, will on the first ballot vote for any gentleman upon whom the South may concentrate Its vote with any thing like unanimlty, if he be a statesman who may be regarded as fair representative of the ancient principles of the party and of that sort of national reputation as may be likely to secure for him the favor | of the conservative sentiment of the North, now really more efectually aroused | than ever before on the eve of Presden- lIal election.
 To continue: we have to say that six of the thirteen delegates from Indiana, a majority of the Minnesota and Massa- chusetts delegations, more than third of the delegations from Maine and Connecti- cut, and the Rhode Island delegation, are per SC, anli-Douglas men; and therefore may not be expected to enter upon the task of forcing his nomination upon the South. chalked out for them by ms (Mr. D.'s) newspaper writers.
 hfouisiana viii urge the nomination of her distinguished citizen, MT. Slidell- than whom no other would make either an abler or better Democratic President with great earnestness. In the late Loui- siapa Dem9cratic State Convention, out of more than 200 members, he had all but some 30, who were divided in theIr preferences among half dozen other as- pirants for the nomination, including MT Douglas.
 Mississippi will present Colonel Davis, and Georgia will present MT. Cobb; Ken lucky MT. Guthrie; and Tennessee MT. Johnson; while Virginia will doubtless present Mr. Hunter. At the recent Vir- ginia Stale Convention, though the Wise leaders claimed that they had the repre- sentalIves of majority of the aggregate party vote in the State, 1t was very clear that MT. Hunter had majority of the several electoral districts. The latter majority - not the former-controls the vote of the State at Charleston, as each electoral district will send delegates to vote it's own sentiments. We are further satisfied that the effort the Wise leaders to get snap judgment Gin the Conven- lion) against Mir. Hunter, will have the effect of so arousing the advocates of his nomination who are really in a large ma lorily in, we believe all but four districts in the State, as that Virginia will send to Charleston delegation quite three fourths of which will be in his favor-the ma jority it will be recolected, controlling the vote of the whole, according to Virginia's custom in Democratic National Conven- tons.
 The certainty that New York, Penn sylvania, New Jersey, and considerable portions of the delegations of other North ern States, will promptly signify to the South, at Charleston, that they will from the start support the gentleman in whose favor she (the South) may express herself with any approach to unanimity, will doubtless superinduce consultation and concert of action on the part of her dele gations. resulting we think, in the selec- tion of MT. Hunter; or MT. Breckinridge, (who is doubtless the favorte with con. siderable portion of the Pennsylvania delegation); MT. Guthrie, who, it is claimed, can carry Pennsylvanla and New Jersey because of his valuable ser- vices to the iron interest in the way of the introduction of American iron in the con. struction of public edifices; or MT. Dick nson, whose friends now claim that he can surely carry New York; or MT. An. drew Johnson, whose steady and so able advocacy of the homestead policy of which