New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-22
TnR CnARLRsTON CONVENTION.

The speech Of Mr.. Yancey, delivered at Mobile
onthe 10Th inst, and that Of Benz f. Butler deliv-
cred at Lowell On the 18th, throw considerable
Charleston Convention.
1t appears from Mr. Yancey's disclosures that,
previous to the opening Of the Convention, an at.
tempt was made by the Cotton delegates TO get up
Southern conference, in which everything might
be cut and dried beforehand. But the delegates
from Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and
Kentucky, declined to participate in this meeting.
1t would also appear that even Alabama, whose
delegates, acting under instructions from the State
Convention by which they were appointed, took the
lead in debating terms to the North did not IN
point of fact, present very united front. There
were, it seems a number of outsiders in attend
ance who claimed to be quite as much the repre-
sentatves of the Alabama Democracy as the regu-
larry appointed delegates, and who labored inde-
fatigably to counterwork them. Even in the dele
CATION itself, there was Judas who openly
offered heavy bets that, if Douglas were nomi-
mated he would carry Alabama by decided ma
iority
When the Committee on the Platform met, Mr..
Butler proposed simple reafirmation OF the I'm
cinnati Platform. This after warm discussion
was rejected, II to l6, California and Oregon
voting with the Slave States. The Ma Ority Plat
form was then brought forward. BY whom 1t was
drawn up does not appear; but the Cotton States
accepted it as embodying substantially their ideas,
and it passed the Committee BY the same vote by
which Buffers resolution had been rejected.
When the majority and minority had separated,
each to draw up its own report, three gentlemen,
representing themselves as a subcommittee OF a
caucus of the friends of Douglas, waited upon the
minority and proposed to add to the reafiirmation
of the Cincinnati Platform a resolution pledging
the party to abide by and faithfully carry out all
such determinations in relation to the rights of
property in States and Territories as had been or
might be made by the Supreme Court. This reso-
luton was urged as giving ground to the Southern
friends of Douglas to stand upon at home, and for
that purpose was accepted by all the members of
the minority except Mr.. Butler, who still adhered
to and made third report in favor of the Cincin-
matt Platform pure and simple.
Inc COlloH ucIcSdtcs, ouSPcClIuB INC oiiSin ""o
intention of the reference to the Judiciary, after
the majority report had been voted down, refused
to be satisfied with this clause of the minority
report; whereupOn the Northern delegates, finding
that a secession could not be prevented, them
selves voted against it.
The Southern delegates who adhered to the
Convection, evidently expected that the Northern
delegates, having been gratifed in the matter Of a
platform, and thus left a standing-pace at home,
would, after few complimentary votes for Mr..
Douglas, yield up to them the selection of a candi
date. The obstinacy with which Mr.. Douglass
friends adhered to him disappointed this expecta-
ton, and produced the adjournment to Baltimore.