Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-03-22
Form the Charleston Evening News.
The Democratic Convention---change from
Charleston.

Charleston.
The New York Day Book makes an outcry
against the proposed charge at our hotels and
boarding houses of SIS per day, to the delegates
and visitors to the Charleston Convention, and
calls it ssrtortion' This is hard language and
although the Day Book is seldom unjust, it is so
in this case The boarding capacity OF Charles
ton, however ample for its wants in general, Is
limited in comparison with the vast numbers ex-
pected to seek accommodations during the greater
part of April To furnish these in the most e1-
tended form, aud to arrange for as many visitors
as possible, great expense has been aud Will be
incurred by the landlords in changing the
whole furniture and arrangements OF their es-
tablishments, so as to provide for the enter
tainment of much larger number OF guests.
For instance the Charleston Hotel will be htted to
afford comfortable bed and board for 1000
guests, whereas under its present organization,
300 would absorb its accommodations. Large
rents, too, have been paid by them for outside
houses for guests. In addition, heavy outlays
have been ard will be made on contracts and
purchases of supplies to feed the thousands ex-
pected. Already do they suffer enhanced e1pen-
ses from increased prices in all market articles,
arising from holding back by the market men of
meat, &c. for the Convention peri, i. In this re-
spect our people at large even now feel the Con-
vention to be burden. The charge Of So per
day, instead Of being an extortion, is but ne
cessity-a fair return compensation for the efforts
made and the expenses involved. The Day Book
should remember that at the Convention held
four years ago at Cincinnati "a city Of much larger
capacity than Charleston the least charge per
day was SIS, the ordinary to dollars, and in
many instapces $40. But that paper, in an avoid
ance Of this precedent, and to the disparagemen Mt
of Cincinnati, makes its claim upon the renown-
ed hospitality of the citizens Of Charleston
What has her private hospitality to do with such
q case, an irruption upon her Of an immense
horde of men, intent on their own selfish ends
and Indifferent alike to her people, their senti-
ments and interests And thousands OF them,
too, Of such character and manner that IL they
were to come here, individually, again and again,
it would never be thought, by respectable man
of our city, to admit any Of them within his
doors. During the presence Of that promlscu-
Gus crowd the private doors of Charleston will
never have been so tightly shut and cdrsutty
guarded as then. She will confer more watehsng
than hospitality upon the camp followers, who
have come to swarm at the assembling OF Ma
tional Convention.
The New York Herald urges that the place of
meeting shall be changed from Charleston, and
thousand inhabitants {half of them slsves) cannot
accommodate the masses-estimated by it from
twenty to fifty thousand-who wish to attend the
Convention. The true friend of the delegates
and the country should rejoice at any clrcum.
stance which should relieve the Convention OF
the outside pressure which would come from
the corruption, aspirations, interference and In
science Of such mass. The appropriate par
ties who should be at the Convention, do not e1-
ceed thousand. Charleston can and will pro-
vide for the accommodation Of ten thousand de.
cent visitors-surely enough for any Democratic
purpose And if the Herald will guarantee
that New York and other Northern cities will
keep away from Charleston their shoulder-hit-
tiers, plug uglies, prize fighters, blackguard
Office seekers, pick-pockets, burglars and row.
dies generally, the Meas will guarantee that
Charleston (now having sixty thoushnd lnhab-
itants, two-thirds whites will have accommoda-
tions ready for every respectable and well be-
haved visitor who may wish to be here during
the Convention. Charleston has but little athn-
ity with the Convention and less with the thou
sands who will come in its train, and her people,
however few might complain at the removal,
would be rejoiced if it were assembled at another
place.
Thetelegram from Washington announces that
the Democratic Central Committee there, propose
to call the Convention to some other place than
Charleston. They have no right to do so. The
last Convention selected Charleston as the place
for the Assembly, and this Committee, appoint ed
by it, were not charged with any authority in
the matter They can only arrange other details.
Would it not be amusing, if the Committee did
make the call, say, to New York, and the North
ern delegations met there, and the Southern dele
cations, adhering strictly, as is their WON'T to au-
thority and usage, met at Charleston. Would it
not be propitious political event! The South,
consisting of nearly all the Democratic States,
and constituting the true Democracy, would lay
down constitutional platform, nominate prop
er statesman for the Presidency, and the unscru-
pulous unsouudness of the Northern Democracy
being sloughed off into the New fork ooay lrs
presenting nothing but themselpss,) would once
more unfurl the constitutional banner, and un'
derit beat back the hosts Of Abolition, or give
deliyerence to the Southern States.