Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-03-23
Delamare Mazeffe
Delaware. March "a, 1860

The Democratic camp is still in commotion
in consequence Of the high prices the Charles.
ton hotel and boarding heuse keepers propose
charging the delegates to their National Con-
~vention. The matter is getting worse rather
than better-it being now announced that the
price of board per day will range from 81 to
SIS. and that the Executive Committee have
no power to change the place of meeting
The Charleston Mercury regards 1t as a trick
of the friends of Douglas to get the Convention
removed to a northern city, where his friends will
be in the ascendant, and says:
This movement commenced many months
since, when they prated of the danger to be
apprehended from personal violence in Charles
ten. This is, however, their last card, and
this.wi fail. NJ. Douglas friends see plainly
that a convention in Charleston will preserve a
Southern aspect, and cannot be brow-beaten or
buIlied. The six hundred and fifty gentlemen
who compose the Convention will be taken
good care of, and the preference given to them.
About one hundred have already been invited
to accept the Inequalities of our citizens, and
tuduH ulOTC Undoubtedly n1i OO- Luz n
myriad Of hangers on, trhO are not admitted TO
the floor Of the Convention, must take fheir
chances for feed and sleep. 1t is greatly to be
desired that their numbers may be reduced to
as small a number as possible. The Conven-
ton will meet in Charleston but if Mr.. Doug
las ane his friends desire a Northern Conven-
ton, let them call one."
This disposes of the outsiders and hangers
on in a summary manner. The News. another
Democratic paper of that city, is still more
savage on the camp-foliowers- Instead of in
viting and extending hospitality to them, it as
serts that the doors will be closed against them,
and they will be closely trateisi. 1t says:
What has her private hospitality to do
with such a case, an irruption upon her of an
immense horde of men, intent on their own
selfish ends and indifferent alike to her peop'e,
their sentiments and interests? And thousands
of them, too, of such character and manners
! that if they we're to come here, individually,
again and again, it would never be thought, by
a respectable man of our city. to admit any Of
them within his doors. During the presence OF
that promiscuous crowd the private doors of
charleston VIII never have Deen So ti8HHT SIuJ
and carefully guarded as then. She will confer
more matching than hospitality upon the
"camp followers" who have come to swarm at
the the assembling of a National Convention. =
OF the threat to go elsewhere, the Charles
ton editor says:
Would it not be amusing if the Committee
did make the call, say. to New York, and the
Northern delegations met there, and the South
ern delegations, adhering strictly, as is their
wont, to authority and usage, met at Charles
ton? Would it not be a propitious event
The South, consisting of nearly all the Demo
cratic STATES, and constituting the true Den1oc-
racy, would lay dow Il constitutional platform,
nominate a proper statesman for the Presiden-
cy, and the Inscriptions unsoundness of the
Northern Democracy being sloughed off into
the New York body, representing nothing BIT
| Memselres.) would once more unfurl the consti-
~tutional banner, and under it beat buck the
hosts of Abolition, or give deliyerance to the
Southern States"