Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-04-20
Charleston Convention.

Next Monday (23d) the auneIen'' VI
the National Administration consrega'e al
the ho,-bed of Notification, to plan how
to perpetuate their power and continue
their plunder for another four years. Mos'
Of the Delegates from the North arc pen
sioners or chosen friends of Buchanan, and
bis course will quite probably be endorsed
1t is somewhat doubtful whether they
will add materially TO the Cincinnati psat
form, but if they do not they will lose
many of the more earnest Of the party,
who demand an unconditional avowal OF
the dogma that the U. S. Constitution
carries Slavery into the Territories, and
protects it there in defiance Of be People
and of Territorial Legislatures. Others,
fearful of losing their last foothold in the
Free States under such an avowal, propose
to shirk that issue, and to "subnit it to
the U S. Supreme Court, as purely Ju-
dical questiOu"-knociag that the Sa
preme Court is already udh the S'areocracy
on tbs poiat-aud knowing also that it is
eminently Political question, which has
ever been and should be decided by the
National Legislature. This is the latest
scheme, which-with its Northern and its
Southern faces-tbey fancy will lull and
mystify the North, and satisfy the South
also.
The candidates are still more uncertain.
Stephens and Cobb have left the field, and
there are not more than ten or fifteen can
didates remaining. Douglas has probably
the most Delegates, and, with his imper-
ious will and understandings with the
Slave-code ultraists may (under the two
thirds rule) compel his own nomination.
He is justly the most obnoxious of all the
candidates, and would meet some of the
bitterest opponents; but he has energy,
utter recklessness, and subtlety, which
might make him their best man in the
Northwest. The Papacy are his friends;
and his children's "slaye plantation" fact
at the South, with his "squa,,er sovereign
ty" humJng at the North, would win him
supporters in both sections. Hunter of
Va, John Brown has killed Wise, Lane
of Oregon, S!idell Of La, Davis and Brown
Of Miss, Breckinridge and Guthrie of Ky,
are also represented at Charleston, with
Dickinson and various gentlemen of the
North who it is not intended to nominate
Buchanan is also willing to forego his re-
tirement to save the Union. But no one
can guess either Candidate or Platform
The Polk and Pierce game may again be
resorted to as most likely to harmonize
aud to blind the popular mind as to the
under-power that moves.
la the mean time, the Charestonians
give notice that they are putting on bolts
aud bars, and increasing their police, in
view of the threatened irruptions of the
city rowdies that comprise the
of the Convention. They
DO not thank any outsiders, loOkers-on,
eaves-droppers, reporters, &c, for over
looking their proceedings or spying out
their nakeduess. But to the Members of
the Convention themselves they will be all |
and pick their pockets to the
tune of So or $40 per day, for board aud
lodging, with all the gentlemanly suavity
and condcscending airs which they can
summon for the urgent occasion.
Next week, We shall probably have
the Candidates aud the Platform.
Ships will 90 to Charleston from Bos-
ton, New York, Philadelphia and Balti-
more, probably, Oh which Delegates and
others will drink aud sleep and thus avoid
the abOminable extortions of the "hospi-
table chivalry." 1t will cost each passen-
ger about sl00 each Oh the average, on
board ship.
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