Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1860-05-10
Adjournment of the Charleston Conven'
tion-No Nomination Great
Humbug Exploded!

withdrawal Of a portion Of the Southern
Delegates. After this, two days were spent
in ballotling. Fifty, seven ballots were
had. The first ballot stood as follows:
Douglas, l454; Guthrie, 361; Dickinson,
Z; Lane, 6; Hunter, AZ; Davis, l.; Toucey,
%; Pierce, l, Johnson, l.
The States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota,
voted entire for Douglas. He also received
half of the vote of Missouri.
Douglas gained in the succeeding ballots,
until he received one hundred and fifty.two
and-a-half votes. On the fifty. seventh and
last ballot, the vote stood:
Douglas 1914; Guthrie 62a; Hunter l6;
Lane l6; Dickinson 2; Davis l.
The vote for adjournment stood ayes las,
nays 100.
The Convention adopted q rule making
two-thirds necessary 10 q nomination. The
body cast the same number of votes of
which the Electoral College is composed,
viz: BOB. After the Southern States with
drew, the number of votes was reduced to
249, yet the rule required the successful
candidate TO get two.thirds of the full con-
vention. Douglas got a majority Of the
whole vote, even in the disrupted Conven-
ton, and his friends doubtless thought he
was strong enough to adjourn the fight,
and let The boiling States send up new del =.
egations 10 Baltimore, on the 18th June.
The Seceders organized, had a split
among themselves, and adjourned, as will
be seen by...a teleeraphio account of the
proceedings, in another column. They are
10 hold Convention in Richmond, Virginia,
on the first Of June, we believe.
So, the Great National, Humbug, Plum
der Democratic Party, has gone up! It's
own cOrruptions, dOubIe-dealings and by
pocracy broke its back, and lis enrsged
members turned upon each other, and made
good all the charges that the wings have
preferred against it for years. They de-
clsred it insincere ard sectional-bound TO-
gs,her alone by the cohesive power Of pub
lie plumber, and witnesses arise in their
own synagogue, and declare the charges
true! 1t was charged upon the democracy
that they were sectional-that in the North
they were abolitionized, and no better than
the Republicans, and Mr.. Baysrd, Of Della.
ware, rose in the Convention and declared
he "did not regard the influence that over
ruled principle in the National Convention,
SO much as the spiri! of Black Republican
I ISN'T was struggle for power and plum
der-the corruptions and bargains Of gen.
eral scramble for Office"
Mr.. Burrows, of Arkansas, declared
she considered the Northern Democrats as
worse than the Black Republicans. He
did not care whether the Black Republicans
whipped them, or they whipped :hs Black
Republicans. or the two he considered
the Black Republicans the most open and
manly foes of the South. AS to Douglas,
he would not support him, even II he was
nominated. He considered him as gredt an
enemy TO the South as the traitor Se,Oard
uas." Aud so we might quite from the
leaders Of that party to make good all the
charges that have been made against the
party, TO show that it was. utterly unfit TO
govern this great COuntry-that it is hope
lessly corrupt and hypOcrltical. Witness
the lebate on the platform question: Not q
country meeting was held in this State, that
did not re-afirm and re-endorse the Gin
cinnati Platform, yet in the Charleston Cen.
vsntion half the delegates from this State
voted against that same Cincinnati Plat.
form! Men who fought and won the last
Presidential election on that Platform, de-
nouncsd it in the Convention as tricky
devics-a doubls-faced sham! Our whole
paper would not suffice to give the evidence
that democrats themselves, proclaimed TO
show that their party was denationalized
and its platform q humbug!
We need not tell our readers that We ore
rejoiced that the democratic party is broken
down: and we are doubly rejoiced that it
broke itself down, because, when family
sewers, then, and then only, do you get the
truth Of The troibles-gst q fair view Of
the iniquities and foulness that was before
concealed by common pride and a common
desire to fstten on ill-gotten gains. And
the eountry will rejoice, too, and cast about
for more homes. and patriotic men to fill
posts of honor and trust. Fortunately, the
honest, conservative element Of the coun-
try is now in session in Baltimore, with a
view to recommend candidates for Presl-
dent and Vice President, to the people,
whose unknown patriotism, honesty, capae-
ity, and and conservatism, will enable them