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The SECEDERS DELIBERATIONS!
MIR. BAYARD RETIREs ,
Cozan1ot OF fo1o11a1o1asi
THE SOUTHERN CONVENTION IN JUNE

CHARLESTON, May 3.-Mr. Barry continued.
saying that the platform may be opened at
Baltimore, and may be changed TO meet our
views. think we are delegates to that Con-
vention, and that we ought to go TO ballot.
If our constituents choose to fill our places
with other delegates, they can do so; we are
as yet, however, still members of that Con-
vention, and no one except our constituents
can take our credentials from us; therefore,
he hoped the course he urged would be
adopted
The President--0h, no, that would not do.
Mr.. Hooper, of Mississippi, opposed the
proposition of Mr.. Barry. We are no longer
delegates to the other Convention. We sep
arated from them on principle, and he was
unwilling that they should carry them to Bal
timore, as an adjunct to that Convention. If
we adjourn without doing any thing, or say
ing any thing, we will stultify ourselves. If
we were to follow them TO Baltimore, we
would lose all the moral effect of this move
ment. Make your nomination now manfully
and boldly. He was for acting. We are
here for an object and a purpose, and if we
go home without action, we will merely be
annunciating a sentiment upon which there is
no difference of opinion in all the Southern
States. This is the time and place for acting
promptly and boldly.
",
proposition of Judge Meek for appointing o
Committee to prepare an address. He did
not think it would either save or break the
Union. The delegate from Georgia, in pre-
dieting q disuniOn movement by disunion
leaders, looked to the Georgia delegation
but declined to name who and what he meant
Another Georgia delegate seemed to charge
him (Yancey) with singing p@ans to the
Union. .. .....'. De- .'. '.
NJ Jool,,o,, ofnoo.o:a oo-4.:.I.. .,o..o.
intimated that the gentleman from Georgia
sung peans to the Union, certainly no one
will ever charge him with such an offense.
My remarks were directed rather to my col
league, who | thought was placing Georgia
in q wrong position. He did not wish to be
placed in a position of singing of paans to
the Union. IrIa'l ID .'' ..
Mr.. Yancey would not misrepresent Geor-
gin, but he did not wish any movement to go
| forth to the country either as a movement to
preserve or destroy the Union, but rather to
preserve the constitutional rights of the
| South, detailing the position of the Southern
| States in retiring from the Convention,
| and their subsequent action. We have
adopted the majority platform, which that
Convention rejected, and we propose to pre-
serve it as head-stone for the builders, upon
which the Democracy of the Union can rely.
We, therefore, consider it essential that an
these facts, in the simplest and brefest form,
before the country, in a true, constitutional
and national position. The question was de-
manded. e. -r-. l.3 H.' ~ s|
The resolution is as follows:
Resolved, That a committee of one from
each State represented be appointed to pre-
pare an address to the people of the United
States, explanatory of the reasons which
have actuated this Convention in adopting
1 hos in win nf
its principles for action. "
Gen. Simmons, of South Carolina, was un-
willing to allow any, Committee to put forth
an address representing him which he would
have no opportunity of previously examin l..
ing. He was no politician, but he had his
own views. He did not like some features
of the platform, especially those relating to
the Pacific Railroad, and that which declares
duty to the Union as superior to the South
ern States. He thought there was no neces-
sity for an address, nor would he follow the
Convention to Baltimore. When he came
out he left them forever. r.. ..... ....-.
Mr.. Bryan, of Texas, was in favor of both
nominations and address.
Mr.. jackson, of La, offered as substitute
a resolution that all who favor the action of
the seeding delegates meet them in WASH
ington on the second Monday of June.
On motion the Convention then adjourned
till P. NJ. The delegates were requested to
remain for private consultation on the prop
ositions before the Convention.
The Convention resumed at 8 p. M.
Mr. Bayard Immediately left the Chair
and addressed the Convention. He reviewed
the position of the seceders; he approved ofthe
platform, but it was not in language that he
would prefer. In regard to the resolution for
preparing an address and reassembling at
Washington one week anterior to the reas-
sembling of the Convention at Baltimore, he
could not approve of. He was unwilling to
assent to the proposition of an address by a
committee, which was to go forth to the
country before he could have an opportunity
of examining it. He could not trust any
thing or set of men, however able or patriotic
they might be to speak to the public for him.
He, therefore, should oppose the Union. He
continued to speak nearly an hour, defining
his position, reviewing the course of the
National Convention, and said that the South
ern non-Democratic States had voted down
seventeen Democratic States He desired
the unity of the Democratic party, and
was prepared TO support their nominee if
he should really prove National man.
His personal efforts were for Senator Hunter
He styled the New York Soft Delegation as
band of political gamblers, and concluded
by saying that he could not retain seat in
this Convention, if that resolution was
adopted. He could approve of it as a dele
gate from twelve of the Cotton States. He,
therefore, asked permission Of the Conven-
ton TO decline the position which they had
placed him and to retire. ''e Y. 10
He spoke for two hours very eloquently
against disunion and, an finishing, took his
hat and retired from the Convention. ~.
Robt. Clark was then chosen President
Judge Meek called up the resolution, but
as Mississippi and Texas objected to an ad-
dress, il was withdrawn -'" u, 'N
Mr.. jackson, of Ga, then offered his reso-
luton for Southern Convention to be held
on the second Monday in June, which was
adopted with but five or six dissenting per-
SONS.
A resolution providing that an address on
the grounds on which the Southern States
seeded from the Convention, be prepared and
published together with the proceeding Of
this Convention, was adopted, when the Con-
vention adjourned sine die. fl t..i '..i.i
The EDITORIAL Rxcarsion. ''.' F"
WHEELING, VA, May 3.-The editorial ex-