Daily national Democrat., 1860-07-14
The Split at Baltimore.

The Split at Baltimore.
1t is quite evident that there has been a
split at Baltimore, and that the Administra
tion is at the bottom of it. How many
Southern delegates have retired this time re-
mains to be seen, as well as how many North
ern Democrats have gone with them. The
Buchanan men in the Pennsylvania and Mas,
sachusetts delegations have doubtless joined
hands with the seceders at the bidding of
the President. As to what the precise cause
of the row was, the telegraph leaves us in
doubt At the last stage of the reported
proceedings, the Southern ultras had gained
point against the Douglas wing, by means
of the temporary detection of the New York
delegation, thirty-five in number, who voted
against tabling motion to reconsider the
vote 10y which the minority report of the
Committee on Credentials, admitting the Sc
ce1ing delegates, had been rejected The
New York delegation held the balance of
power, as without them the vote stood in the
Convention, on the question pending, one
hundred and ten and a half to ninety-nine
and half, leaving the scale to be turned by
that delegation, in favor of or against the
admission of the seeding delegates. From
the fact that there was a bolt at the very
next session of the Convention, it would
seem that the New York delegation did not
advance upon their step in voting against the
tabling of the motion to reconsider, but final
ly voted on the main proposition with the
Douglas side of the house, and thus carried
into execution, in the main, the plan of the
majority report which was to admit the en-
tire anti ti-Douglas delegations from Mississip-
pi, Texas and Delaware, the Douglas dele
gates from Louisiana and Alabama and to
divide the delegations from Arkansas and
Georgia equally between the Douglas men
and the Antics So much of the majority
report as related to Mississippi, Texas and
Delaware, and to Louisiana and Alabama,
was adopted all the Southern ultras voting
in favor of the Mississippi. Texas and Della
ware delegates, because they were opposed
to Douglas, and against the delegates from
Louisiana and Alabama, because they were
in favor of Douglas. There being two sets
Of delegates from Georgia and Arkansas,
Douglas and Anti>Douglas, the Douglas men
proposed, as a fair thing, that half Of each
should be admitted. This they did, notwith
standing they had, or seem to have had, the
came power to admit the entire Douglas del
egations from both States as they had just
ana and Alabama. The proposition to divide
was put to vote and defeated, the ultras all
voting against it, being determined to have
the entire delegations to themselves. The
New York delegation must have also voted
against it, as it is not probable that the strict
ly Douglas men would abandon their own
proposition. The fact is nevertheless true
that the Southern ultras refused what was a
fair compromise, and seemed determined to
have all or nothing At this point, the ul-
tras, thinking they had turned the scale in
their favor by the vote last given. moved to
reconsider the vote by which the minority
report was rejected. The Douglas men
moved to lay the motion on the table, and
the motion failed, as above related, by the
vote of the New York delegation. The next
vote would be upon the motion to reconsider,
but Just at this juncture, the Convention ad-
iourned. The next we hear is a rumor that
the Convention afterwards re-assembled, and
that there was then bolt but which side
bolted is not stated. The probabilities are
that the motion to reconsider was rejected
and that, then. the utras and their Buchanan
compeers made break from the Conven-
| ton.
The result of this bolt would not necessa-
rily break up the Convention. 1t would only
be parts of delegations from any of the
Northern states that would 60 with the ul-
tras and the places of the Southern seceders
would be filled by Douglas delegates already
elected or who could be elected in very
short space of time. Either the Baltimore
Convention admitted the Douglas delegates
about whom there had been a contest, and
proceeded to the business of nominating
candidate for the Presidency, or adjourned,
as at Charleston, in order to have the places
of additional seceders filled In either case,
Douglas will be the nominee of the Balti-
more Convention, and of the regular organi-
zation, while the seceders will put forth their
Boiling candidate at Richmond.
If the rumor be true that there was bolt
at Baltimore, Democrats may safely make up
their minds that they are to support either
Stephen A. Douglas as the nominee of the
Baltimore Convention, or some Boiling nom.
inee of the Richmond Convention, whoever
he may be, for there will be two candidates
in the field. The regular candidate will un-
doubtedly receive majority of the Demo
cratic votes of California.
INDIAN DEPREDATIoNs ON THE PLAINS. "A
late Washington dispatch says: Advices, Off
cial and private, received this morning, fully