Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-04-27
The CHARLESTON CONVENTION
Correspondence of The Star.l

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| Correspondence of The Starl
| = CHARLEsToN, April 25.
DEAR STAR: L am terribly tagged down this
| afternoon with the days excitement that has
| Deen most trying upon the strength of all who.
IKE myself, have endeavored to see, learn, and
| digest everything that has TRANSFERRED I'm ths,on
| Vention hall and out Of it. We are now fairly IN
| mtdtdS res. Matters taking definite shapes.
that allow something like rational conclusions to
be drawn from them. Thus, notwithstanding all
the hue and cry over their alleged victory in the
| adoption OF the resolution authorizing individu-
aI delegates TO vote against the sentiment of the
majority, in uninstructed delegations, the cause
OF the Doug lastes will not really be strengthened
i've votes by it, 1t will not give Douglas five
votes from the South, and will lose him in Maine.
Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, and Connecticut. quite
as many as it may gain for him in Pennsylvania,
the only non-slaveholding State delegation where
| in it can operate to his advantage
| The contest over the New York delepation oues
ton has been the subject matter Of most interest
| to-day. have repeatedly written you that the
Softs clearly had the right of the question. But
| for Fernando Woods intense energy and really
| most adroit management outside of the committee
room: TO create Southern sympathy in favor of his
cause, 1t would have been tossed out of court an
unceremoniously as that of the Illinois contestnp
| delegation was-that is, absolutely without even
me pretense OF contest in the committee room
| Inc Douglasltes Of course claim the defeat of
| ferhahdo Tor Douglas triumph;.as they claim
| that every thing occurring in the Convention
amounts to Douglas triumph Yet potbiny
| could be further from the truth MANY of tho
States voting for the admission of the Sofs are rs
enphatically Douglas as are all of them votin
for their exclusion; and since the Softs have boon
| admitted, they no longer conceal the fact that
Douglas is in dead minority in their councils
"here ne mas not more than third Of the vote
the other two-thirds being divided between Dick
| lnson and Guthrie, and having clearly combined
| against Douglas from first to last. They have
agreed to throw the vote of the State as INIT fo,
| either Of those two gentlemen when by 80 doing
his nomination may be secured So, it being now
| well known that Douglas may whistle till dooms
day for New iork's vote without getting it to
come TO his assistance such cursing of New York
leading politicians as the Douglasites in the bar
rooms are uterinS, are sufficient to Ike the hair
of Christian hearers stand on end Messrs Cros
well ana John Cochrane have been the engineers
of the combination in the New York delepation
that deprives Douglas of the States vote in anv
event-Croswell Oh behalf of the Dickinson in
| terest and Cochrane on behalf of the Guthrie
interest.
Inc effect OF this combination is first seen i'm \
vote few moments ago Of the New York delega.
uon, lnstructng Mr.. Croswell, their member of
the platform committee, to vote against the pro-
Douglas platform To-day Douglas telegraphed
TO his Leaders here to insist on the Cincinnati plat
form, pure and simple, according to the South a
single additional plank, declaring the wiIlno
ness of the Democracy to accent judicial III :
Supreme Court's) decisions as binding with refer,
ence to rights connected with slavery His first
instructions to them were doubtless to insist on
the adoption of the Illinois PLATFORM ultra-souat
Ter sovereignty platform; and he has thus hauled
in his horns only because made aware by tele
graph from here, yesterday, that he mil hit as well
urge the adoption of Stewards Rochester speech
platform. In obedience with his dispatches the
Cincinnati platform was offered In the committee
OH organization and voted down
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Cali
1ornla, oregon, Massachusetts, and Connecticut
are expected to vote in committee with the
south, for the platform proposed by Senator Bay
ard, which is substantially, that of the Senatorial
Democratic Caucus. Alabama and few otb.r
extreme Southern States, continue to be unwill-
ing Tin the committee) to accept aught less than
the Alabama platform. 1t is, however, believed
by those whose judgment should be confded I'm
that they will yield on that point, compromisinu
on the Bayard resolutions, which are as strongly
antl-Douglas as language make them Hence
the best Informed men here estimate that when
ever the Convention vote on the platform-one on
which Mr.. Douglas ''spits'' will be adopted nv
clear majority of 50 votes
You have no idea how rapidly his stock in the
bar-rooms-wtere, as in W ashincton il is chiefly
on exhlbition-is going down, as his drinkers
spouters, and blowers are coming to reaIiz. tina,
Cochrane and CIosweil have taken out Of Dean
Richmond's hands the direction of the sentiment
OF the New York delegation. need bar6 =, saw
70 you that the fact has brought both Die sInson
and Guthrie into great Prominence SO that many
OF the shrewdest calcuators here are now satisfied
that the nomination lays between them. Or
rather. that they will both be on the ticket
have, bythe-by every reason to believe that there
Is at this moment in Charleston a letter from MIR
Breckenridge directing the withdrawal of his
name the moment Mr.. Guthrie's prospects NAV SO
brighten as that his reckinridge's) competition
may seriously interfere with Mr.. G IS success
That is to say-whenever 1t becomes APPARENT
that Guthrie has some real chance of being nomi.
mated. IL this be true we shall have that 1st,e,
exhibited in twenty four hours or there ia little
dependence to be placed in the signs of the great
rise IN Guthrie stock around me.
CORRESPONDENT.
THK WEArHKR.-The following repor. OF the
weather for the morning is made from the Amer
lean Consolidated Telegraph Line to the Smith.
sonian institution. The time Of observation Is |