, 1860-05-03
THE ~EcEDEzs AT CHARLESTON.

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THE ~ECEDERS AT CHARLESTON.
II is quite evident that tue seeding dele
.s:es from the Charleston Convention arc in |
downright t:.ruest, and that they represent
tho do,n,nanl feeling in South Caroliua, Geor-
gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Texas aud A,kansas, faithfully and literally.
They are a|l politicians. and their movements,
first last and all the time. are taken to save
themselves ut homr, and 10 keep their posi-
t,as Of leadership ausung their constituents.
There is nu doubt that Yancey Of Alabama is
to-day the foremost nun Of the South in the
confidence Of tile people. He has already
heeu singled oul rs Gov. Fitzpatrick's Success
sor in the Z. s. Senate, aud, willie his election
is still l,cuding, it is incredible to suppose that
ho would take i step which might weaken
him in bis own State. lsunnells Of Texas is
another prominent political aspirant, and iii
not 10 bc supposed thu! he would join in a
movement which lade fair to abate
from Ills popularity at home. So Of
the rest They are all demasogucs,
and like other demagogues they p'y the strict
est heed to the tuEe of pu.lic sentimentin the
constituencies which delegated them to Char-
lestoa. Like ether dcmagosues they care little
for principle but much for popularity They
are as 1rm1r held up to tho doctrine that
Congress ought 10 protect slavery III the Terri
tories, by their respective States, us the Doug
lay delegates are 1ie!d back from It by theirs
Heuoe the c,utiict at Charleston is an izre-
pycssib]e one, because tue differences between
tho Democracy c: Illinois and tie Democracy
Of Alabama are ratlic,l and irrcpressib}e. All
.unors md l,trtizau dispatches which as
sume tina. the seceders do not prop
esly represent the Democracy Of theil
own S:u.cs, ore idle and uonseusical-as
roid Of probability as the idea that Richardson
aud his colleagues do no: mirror the fccling'
pg tie Douglas party in Illinois. LISA matte
ofn,bl;c no,oricty tl1a: the State conyentio,
Of Alabama contained ou'y tsrelse delegates
out Of mors than I'VE hundred, who would tol
crate the Douglas hcresy for IN nstant. 1t j
quite fresh in Tho public mind, that III til
seuth Cssolun Convention there wa
no. ii n"utlt opaped to adyoca,
the doctrine ;hst slavery GILL by an
legal ,neaus he excluded from Territory
aud this WIS par err<2ence the conservative
wing Of the party in that State. II il equal
wei! known hat the Arkansas Convention r,
padiotcd nous1aasp, Ly au almost uuauimo,
vote. How scusel.ss then TO assert that thes
delegates are running ahead Of their cons,ito
ants in t!,e advocacy Of extreme measure
The Democratic pnrty has split on tho rock
s!avery AID lies stranded beside the wreck
old Whiggcry:
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