Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-02-24

The VIRGINIA STATE DEMOCRATIC CoNyRN-
rIoS.-The press Is already at work misrepre-
senting the action Of this body. Some newspapers
are Claiming 1t to have been a Victory for Wise,
while others, strange to say, are alleging that it
was neither more nor less than Douglas victory.
So far as the latter allegation IL concerned we ma
safely aver that every speaker there who ntimated
willingness to support Senator Douglas for the
Presidency. did SO with the declaration in effect
that he would support him only in preference to
seeing Mr.. Seward elected to the Presidency
while more intinated determination to refuse
MIN their support, even as the only means of pre-
venting tie election Of Mr. Seward
SO far as the Wise mares nest is concerned. that
is quite as easily set at rest. For months before
the Convention met, the Wise managers in Rich
mond had been corresponding throughout the
State to secure the attendance of as large body of
their adherents at the Convention as possible
Under the rule prevailing in the organization of
the party In Virginia, any Democratic voter who
Chooses to attend their State Convention as a dele
gate, may do SO. In two three counties only
docs different rule prevail. AS none others
sought to procure the attendance of any, Of course
the Wise men were as plenty as blac kberrissr
there. But when it was found that they were re-
quired to assume to give utterance to the voice of
the Democracy Of the State upon the subject of a
Presidential candidate, large portion of them
were not to be prevailed upon to attempt anything
of the sort, knowing well not only that the Con-
vention had no such authority delegated to them,
but also that the party in the State is not for the
nomination of Mr.. Wise by the Charleston Con-
vention.
Much uncertainty, by the by, exists as to the
manner in which the vote ''scaled' in an
nOuncing the result Of the several scaled votes
cast. The State in electng delegates to Charles
ton is divided into fifteen districts-nine eastern
and six western districts In the latter 1.-THE six)
the aggregate Democratic majority Of the popular
vote is far larger than in the former-the nine
Nevertheless. the delegates elected to Charleston
from the nine eastern districts if voting together
will, Of course, determine how the vote of Viz
ginia shall he cast there, though those represent
ing the western six may vote together for some
one else; for Virginia always votes as unit on
such occasions. 1t is very certain. we apprehend
that Senator Hunter will carry as many western
districts as Ex-Governor Wise will carry eastern
ones, in the election Of the delegation to Charles
t,n. The vote in the Convention should properly
have been scaled by electoral districts Had that
been done, the result would have shown An over
whelmins majority against the very foolish propo-
stion to pledge the State to the Ex-Governor,
whose friends, by the by, seeing defeat staring
them in the face, abandoned it in the end in
gloriously, though not until it had become ap
parent that to press the question to a conclusion
would make IT Palpable to all that they had been
beaten at every turn.