Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-05-19

pennsylvania, Mr.. LonSncckcr.
The Charleston Convention and its Conse |
quenceS.
The split in the Charleston Convention has |
resulted, as our readers already know, in the !
division of the old timc-honorcd Democratic !
party. Sprung from the State Rights School
OF Mr. Jefferson, it is the only national party
tiiat has ever dared to meet at all the consoi-
q national bank, q disconnection of the Coy
crnment with grand schemes of internal im-
provemcnts, reduction of the protective tar
itf systom the expansion of our territorial
limits, and the annexation of both slavchold-
ing and non-slavchGding communities to the
confcderacY.. It's ppgrcss has recently re-
cciscd shock from(Shich it may never re-
cover; but if it does, Se hope it will be under
such auspices that it %,l again rise to power
with banner Of prinSplcs floating proudly
above it. Eight Of the Southcrn States have
ROW raised the standard aound which all who
desire lis rcgenemcy upon principle, should
now rally. They call not ADon the Southern
States alone, but upon all \ho recognize the
equal rights of all the Stata in the common
Territories of the Union, mir shbboleth is
" equal rights" and wiUl thisN.ttlc cry, they
intend to go forth to battle in &ory State Of
the Union They so forth within appcal not
To section, but to the entire Uhn. Those.
who imagine they sec in it, cthA Awith fear
or favor, a foreshadow, or rather Alcsien, of
disunion, are mistaken. They miht, with
as much propricty, call the ConstitutA, which
binds the States together an instrlScn of
disunion. The Richmond ConventiA will
meet one week in advance of the BaAnorc
4 (ionyIntinn Pho minority nlntfnrn 49,
similar to 1t, will be presented, and candi&cs
! upon it. Bctwccn this and the time OF y
meeting, the Chicago Convention and Vi
Baltimore Union Convention will each haNi
entered the contest, with their respective prirN
ciplcs announced and their candidates pro
thus have the benefit of their action Tho
delegates from the Southern States that with
drew have referred their action back to then
respective constituencies. They have done
that which exceeded the object of their ap
pointment, and they will appeal to those vino
appointed them to give them the sanction Of
their approval through another State Convcn
ton. BY notice from the Chairman of tht
Deihocratic Central Committee of the State
it will be seen that meeting of the Commit
tee has been called THIS Committee viii
then determine upon the time of the Conven
tior and issue a call for District and Parisi
meetings for appointing delegates to anothc
State Democratic Convention. That it will
be warmly seconded by all who participates
in and favored the State Democratic Convcn
tion of April, we haveno dOtsbt. We are ais
satisfied that thcro will he monv tn ioTp n
now who didnot disapprove of the Convention
policy in itself, but were deferred from pa1
ticipating in it by the many unfounded an
unjust rumors raised and circulated by som
who opposed tho April movement. The pre-
priety of the policy has been vindicated.- =
More than once during the course of the lat
National Convention, the vote of South Care
lima turned the scales. But fer the vote {
our committeeman, COL Preston, who lahore
for days with the other members of the Con
mittee on Platform, the Cincinnati Platforl
would not have been voted down, as the mi
jority against it was only one. The Ricl