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Yesterday Afternoons Report,
THE BOLTBRs' CONVBNTIO n

CHARLESTON, May 4.
Mr. Barry continued saying that the platform
may be opened at Baltimore and may DO chang,
ed to meet our viewp think we are delegates
to that Convention and that we ought 10 es
there to ballot. flour constituents choose Il
Gil our places with other delegates they cat
do 50. We ere as yet however sill members
Of that Convention, and no one except our
constituents can take our credentials FROM US;
therefore he hoped the course he urged would
be adopted
The President-Oh, that would not do.
Mr.. Hooper. of Miss, opposed the proposi.
ton of Mr.. Barry. We arc no longer deloRates
TO the other Convention, we separated from
them on principle, and he was unwilling that
they should carry them to Baltimore as an al.
junct to that Convention.
If we adjourn without doing anything or
saying anything, we will stultyfy ourselves
II we we're to follow them to Baltimore we
would lose all the moral effect of this move
ment Mike your nominations now, manfully
and boldly. He was for acting We are here
for an object and a purp Sc, and If we 90 home
without action we will mereiy be annuneiating
4 sentiment upon which there is no difference
of opinion in all the Southern States. This is
the time and the place for acting promptly and
boldly.
Mr.. Yancy of Ala, approved of the propo
sition of Judge Meek for appointing a Com
mittee to prepare an address He did not
think it would either save or break the Union.
fhe delegates from Georgia. in predicting q
JisuniOn movement by disunioE leaders, looks
to the Georgia delegation but declined TO name
who and what he meant. Another Georgia
delegate seemed to change him (Yancey) with
singing paeans to the Union.
Mr. Jackson, Of Gal certainly never in
.imated that the gentlemen from Georgia sang
peans to the Union. Certainly no one will charge
him with such an offence Ny remarks were
directed rather to my colleague who l thought
was placing Georgia in a wrong position. He
did not wish Georgia 10 be in a position of
Staging PRans to the Union.
Mr.. Yancy would not misrepresent Georgia,
but he did not wish any movement to go forth
to the country either as a movement TO pre-
serve the constitutional rights of the South,
detailing the position Of the Southern States in
retiring from the Convention and their subse.
sequent action. We have adopted the majority
platform which that Convention rejected, and
we propose to preserve it as head stone for
builders upon which the DemOcrsey of the
Union can rely. We therefore consider it
essential that an address should be proposed
briefest form before the country in a true con-
stitutiOnal and national position
The question was demanded The resolution
is as follows;
ResoEDed, That a Committee of one from
each Stale represented be sppolaied to prepare
an address TO the people OF the United States,
explanatory Of the reasons whie have actuated
this Convention in adopting be course they
have pursued, and in vindicaeon of its privilege
of action.
Gen. Simmons, of s. g was unwilling to
allow any committee to put forth an address,
representing him, whidl tie would have no op
pOrlunity of preYieus aming. lie was no
politician, but he lad BIS ewn views. lie did
not like some features ofths platform, especial
ly those relating to the Pacii, R. R., aud those
which declare duty to tie Union as supe ior to
the Southern States. lie thought there was no
necessity Tor an address, nor would he follow
the Convention 70 Baltimore. When he came
out he leli them forever.
Mr. Bryan, Of Texas, was in favor of both
nominations, and an address.
Mr. Jackson, of Ga. offered as a substitute
a resolution that all favor the action of the
seeding delegates, meet them in Washington
on tho I'd Monday Of June
0n motion the Contention then adjourned
till p N.
The delegates were requested 10 remain for
private consultation on the proposition before
the Convention.
The Convention reassembled at o'clock
Pm.
Mr.. Bayard Immediately left the chair, and
proceeded to address the Convention lie re
viewed the position # the scceders. He ap
proved of the Platform, but it was not in the
language that he would prefer. In regard ID
the resolution for preparing "a address and
re-assembling at Washington ne week ante~
riOr to the Ie. assembling of the Convention at
Baltimore, he should not approve Of He was
to assent to the proposition Of an
address by Convention, (which was to 60 forth
TO the country, before he had an opportunity Of
examining it.
He could not trust my thing, or set Of men,
however able and patriotic they might be, to
speak to the public for him. He therefore
should oppose the resolution. He continued
for nearly an hour, defining his position, re-
viewing the course of the National Convention,
and said that sixteen Northern non democratic
States had voted down seventeen democratic
States. He desired the unity of the democratic
party, and was prepared TO support the nOmi
nee il be should really prove national man
His personal effJrts were for Senator Hunter.
He styled tue New York Soft delegation as
band Of political gamblers, and concluded by
saying that he could not retain seat in this
Convention if that resolution was adcpted. He
therefore asked permission of the Convention
TO decline the proposition on which they had
placed him and to retire.
He spoke two hours, very elCqufntly against
disunion, and on finishing, took his hat and
retired from the Convention.
Robert Scott Of Ala, was then chosen Presi-
dent.
Judge Meek called up the resolution, but as
Mississippi and Texas objected to an address,
it was Withdrawn.
Mr. jackson of Ga, then offered a resolution
for the Southern Convention to be held on the
I'd Monday in June, which was adopted with
but five or six dissenting votes.
A resolution, proposing that an Address on
the grounds on which the Southern States Sc
ceded from the Convention, be prepared and
published. together with the proceedings of this
Convention, was adopted, when the Convention
adjourned sine de.
xXxVIlh CONGREss--FIKsT SESSION.
. WAsmSeTON, May 4.
SENATE.
Mr.. King presented a memorial from the Beard
of Trade Of 0swego, complaining OF the manner
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