Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-05-12
CLOSING PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECEDING MINORITY OF THE CHARLESTON. CONVENTION.
T H uR s AY

THURSDAY
 Mir. Barry continued. saying that the platform may be arranged at Baltimore, and may be changed to meet our views. | think we are delegates to that convention, and that we ought to go there. If our con- stituents choose to fill our places with other delegates, they can do so. We are as yet, however, members of that convention, and no one except'our constituents can take our credentials from us; therefore, he hoped the course he urged would be adopted.
 The President-Oh, no; that will not do
 Mr. Hooper, of Miss, opposed the pro- position of Mir. Barry. ''We are no longer delegates to the other convention. We separated from 1t on principle" and he was willing that this should be carried to Balti more as an adjunct to that convention. If we adjourn without doing anything, we will stultify ourselves; if we were to follow them to Baltimore, we would lose all the moral effect of this movement. Make your nominations now, manfully and boldly. He was for acting. We were here for an object and purpose, and if we go home without action we will merely be enuncia- ting sentiment upon which there is no difference of opinion iii all the southern States. This is the time and the place for acting promptly and boldly.
 Mir. Yancey. of Ala, approved the propo- siton of Judge Meek for appointing a commttees to prepare an address. He did not think it would either save or break the | Union. The delegate from Georgia, Tn predicting disunion movement by disunion leaders, looked to the Georgia delegation, but declined to name who and what he meant. Another delegate seemed to charge him (Yancey) with singing p@ns to the Union.
 Mir. Jackson, Ga. I certainly never in timated that the gentleman from Georgia sung pens to the Union. Certainly no one will ever charge him with such an of fense My remarks were directed rather to my colleague, who l thought was placing Georgia in wrong position. He did not wish Georgia to be placed in position of singing p@ns to the Union. MT. lancey would not misrepresent Geor gia, but he did not wish any movement to go forth to the country either as a move ment to preserve or destory the Union, but rather to preserve the constitutional rights 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 pro- pose to preserve it as a headStone for the builders upon which the democracy of the Union can rely. We therefore considered it essential that an addresss should be pre- pared containing all these facts in the sim plest and briefest form before the country in true, constitutional and national posi- tion.
 The question was demanded.
 The resolution is as follows: Resoyred, That committee of one from each State represented be appointed to prepare an ad dress to the people of the United States, expana- tory of the reasons which have actuated this con vention in adopting the course it has pursued and in vndication of its principles for action
 Gen. Simmons, of South Carolina, was unwilling to allow any committee to put forth an address representing him, which he would not have an opportunity of pre- viously examining. He was no politician, but he had his 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 is superior to the southern States. He thought there was no necessity for an address, nor would he follow the convention to Balti more When he come out he left them forever.
 Mr. Bryan, of Texas, was in favor of both nominations and an address.
 MT. Jackson, of Georgia, offered as a sub stitute a resolution that all who favor the action of the,seceding delegates meet them in Washington on the second Monday ill June.
 On motion, the convention then adjourn ed till s ocock P. NJ.
 The delegates were requested to remain for private consultation on a proposition before the convention.
 NIGHT SEssIoN-The convention reas- sembled at F. NJ.
 Mr. Bayard immediately left the chair and addressed the convention. He reviewed the position of the seceders. He approved of the platform, but it was not in an- gnagc that he would prefer. In regard to the resolution for preparing an address and re-assemblng at Washington one week anterior to the re-assembling of the con vention at Baltimore, he could not approve of He was unwilling to assent to the | preparation of any address by a commit tee, which was to go forth to the country | before he could have an opportunity of ex- amning it. He could not trust anything or any set of men, however able or patriotic they might be, to speak to the public for him. He therefore should oppose the reso- lution. He continued to speak nearly an hour, defining his position, reviewing the | position of the national convention, and sald that the non-democratic States had voted down IF democratic States. He de- sired the unity of the democratic party, and was prepared to support the nominee if he should really prove national man.
 His personal preferences were for Sena- tor Hunter. He styled the soft delegation as band of political gamblers, and con- cluded by saying that he could not retain seat in that convention if that resolution was adopted He therefore asked permis- sion of the convention to decline the posi- tion in which they had placed him, and retire.
 He spoke for two hours very eloquently against disunion, and on finishing took his hat and retired from the convention.
 Robert Scott, of Alabama, was then chosen president.
 Judge Meek called up the resolution but as Mississippi and Texas objected to an address, 1t was withdrawn.
 Mr. Jackson, of Georgia, then offered his resolution for a southern convention to be held onaathe second Monday in June, which was adopted with but five or six dissenting persons.
 A resolution providing that an address on the grounds on which the Southern States seeded be prepared and published, together with the proceedings of this con vention, was adopted, when the convention adjourned sine die.
 Protest of the Southern States on With
 drawing from the Charleston Con-
 vention.
 ALABAMA.
 To Me Hon. Caleb Cushing, President of | Me Democratic Con0emion, noao in Session | i, tbe Gtu 0f CharlestOn. $. C.