Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-05-09

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/w Charleston is noble Southsfa City, The
inhabitants intelligent spirited, and hosptable
But notwithstanding this it is to be regretted that
the national Convention WAS held in Charleston
The outside pressure on the delegates was against
the Union, against the nationality Of the Democra-
tic party, and therefore unavorabe to calm delber
alton and fortunate results. The disunionist, Mr..
Yancey, was at home in Charleston. Night after
night large crowds assembled to hear speeches from
delegates and others, Mr.. Yancey and his followers
being conspicuous among the speakers. Nearly all
the speeches which we heard were ultra Southern
in their tone and denunciatory Of Mr.. Douglas. Nor
\ them Democrats could scarcely obtain hearing
Men who have stood by the Constitution and the
Union in the hotbeds of Northern treason and dis
union and who have contended for years face to face
land hand to hand with black Republicanism in its
ost odious shapes either Kissed or their voices
Drowned by the hootingsof the crowd And even
10 the Convention Maj. Perry, who refused to Sc
fede but remained for time and cast one vote for
Mr. Hunter as a delegate from South Carolina was
hissed by persons on the floor and in the galleries.
Free speech and free action were therefore virtually
denied to those delegates who regarded denuncia-
tons Of the starspanged banner unpatriotic and
reasonable, 1--WE heard the American flag bitterly
denounced in one of the crowds which assembled at
night in front of the Charleston Hotel,) and who
were determined to stand by the national Democratic
party as the great hope of the Union and to rebuke
the spirit of dsunion which threatened to divide and
destroy it.
Northern Democrats of course felt acutely this
condition of things, but they bore themselves like
patriots and gentlemen. They complained, but not
bitterly, of the outside pressure brought to bear
upon them. 1t had no effect them but to confirm
them in their devotion to their candidate Mr.. Doug
las. They had voted for the fugtive-slave law
they had voted to repeal the Missouri restriction
they had voted to annex Texas, and add thereby
three hundred thousand square miles of slayehold-
ing Territory to the Union-they had voted against
protective tariff laws of which South Carolina once
complained so bitterly, and on account Of which
she was about to leave the Union-they had strug-
gled in their respective States to prevent the enact
ment of laws to shield and protect gitiveslave and
they had recently honored one of South-Carolinas
prominent sons with the Speakership Of the House
of Representatives Under these circumstances,
not to mention Others these gallant men deserved
better treatment than they received at the hands Of
South Carolinians For our part we have no hest
tation in saying that VIC will not 60 with South-Car-
DINA, or with William L. Yancey and his followers
in their attempts to dissolve the Union. The star
spangled banner is not yet odous in our sight, nor
do we by any means despair of the Republic We
still have confidence in the national Democratic par
ty We look to Baltimore for confirmation of that
confidence and for ticket which will triumph in
November next Meanwhile ue are for the Consti-
tuition and the Union, and against all who would
trample on the one or dissolve the other. As for
Mr. Yancey, we leave him to the tender mercies Of
the Alabama Democracy. They will dispose of him.