Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-05-04


CHARLESTON, May 3.-The Southern Con-
vention assembled at noon, about forty dele
gatespresent; Mr.. Bayard, of Delaware, Presid-
ing.
The motion pending was that the Conven-
ton express preference for candidates for
President and Vice-President.
A delegate from Texas moved that the
resolution he referred to Committee of one
from each State.
Delegates from Alabama and Texas said
they were prepared to act at once on the
resolution.
Mr.. jackson, of Georgia, withdrew the
resolution TO express preference for candi-
dates
Mr., Burrows, of Arkansas, presented res,
olution for appointing Standing Committee
of one from each State, to issue an address to
the Democratic party af the Union. This
Convention has in its possession the ark of
the Covenant. The resolutions are adopted
by seventeen States of this Union, and it was
point around which the country would rally.
Mr.. Meek, of Alabama moved substitute,
that committee be appointed merely to pre-
pare on address, giving reasons for the course
pursued. He further said that any Southern
State that shall go into the Baltimore Con-
vention, goes in MS an approver of squatter
sovereignty doctrines. The resolution adopted
at their adi adiournment invites the Southern
States to fill up the vacancies occasioned by
our secession, declaring our seats vacant. He
was in favor of nominating JEFF. Davis and
Bayard, but he yielded to the wishes of others
to forego the expression of any preference at
this time.
Mr.. Burrows Withdrew his proposition.
Mr.. Jackson, of Georgia, moved that the
Convention adjourn sine die. = la.-. ia ..A y.
Mr. Hill of Georgia, stated that if the
object was to make this disunion movement
he and his colleagues were prepared to leave
ut once. His constituents would approve of
nothing that would tend 10 disunion.
Mr.. Yancey asked who he alluded to as
| favoring disunion.
Mr.. Hill asked to be excused from answer
ing. . 't.
Mr.. Yancey demanded an answer, as he
| wanted it to go to the country, that there had
| been no word or deed tending to the dissolu-
| tion of the Union.
Mr.. Hill admitted that there had been moth
ing said or done, but the position we would
be put in by this action, would make us a
disunion combination, our attitude would be
u disunon attitude.
Mr.. Meek, of Ala had always been union
man and was so still if the Constitutional
rights of the South were respected.
A delegate from South Carolina denied
that there had been any disunion sentiments
here. He thought the course proposed of
| disbanding,was n singular one. We are about
separating without recommending or taking
| any action with regard to the Presidency.
| He therefore moved that should the Balti-
more Convention repudiate the resolutions
passed here, committee be authorized to
call National Convention. ' '..'''
Mr.. Jackson, of Ca. thought this no time
to cry Union. There was no man in Georgia
who would shout for Union at the expense of
| the rights of the South. [Shouts of ap-
| plause.] When the rights of the South are
| sacrificed to the North, | am for liberty first
and Union afterward. [Cheers.l If there
| he nobody here TO stand by me, | must quit
| the South. r' ..
| Mr.. Whitley, of Del, moved to lay the res
olutions of Mr.. Meek on the table and ad-
| iourn. The delegates from each State car
| give TO their States their reasons for the
| course pursued He was opposed to anygen.
eral address. He, therefore, moved that this
Convention now adjourn.
Mr.. Meek appealed to Mr.. Whitley to with
| draw moment, and said that if any one sup
| posed him to be devoted to the Union at the
| expense of the Southern rights, he was mis-
| taken. Sever the Constitution, and the Union
| is gone. He wished to vindicate before the
| world as well as the Union their position
| He wanted this greatmovementt to be properly
| understood. f ..
Mr.. Barry, of Miss, hoped this Convention
| would separate in union and harmony
| Where is South Carolina, that she is not
ready to respond to the EXTREMIST doctrine
of State rights. [Applause. He deemed il
unnecessary to urge those doctrines here
We are all united on them in some form o.
other, and il is unnecessary to express then
here. The other Convention had not dis
banded It has merely adjourned. VIII!
then should we disband, instead of adjourn
ing to meet elsewhere if we think properf