The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-26

S. c., FRIDAY MORNING
Committee commenced operations on or about tht
June they Lad constantly several men in the fieli
at which time the operations of the Committee
were interrupted, leaving unfinished avast amount
of work then under consideration,
There htve been collected and placed in the
hands Of tho Treasurer $493.65, from which there
have been ,eXpended, exclusively for board and
travelling expenses OF speakers, s313.2O, leaving
balance of sl8O.45 in the hands of the Treasurer.
G. G. BOWEN, President
EDWARD WALL, Secretary.
PAUL NJ. POlNSETT, Treasurer.
R. O. DELARGE.
Mr. GnLIsoN (white) moved that the Committee
be discharged. Thereupon lively and somewhat
pointed discussion ensued, in which the delegates
from the low country took m active part.
At this iNncture the gas lights suddenly dis.
appeared and the hall was left in utter darkness
Whether the misfortune was owing to fault in
in the meter, or the freak Of somo mischeyious
boy, did not appear, but the circumstance was
deemod Of sufficient Importance to necessitate the
appointment Of q Committee to wait upon General
BURTON and ask for guard. In five minutes,
however, the gas again responded to touch Of o
lighted match, and the deliberations resumed
Mr. WILDER, OF Columbia, now fired off the
bombsnell Of the evening in the shape of resolu-
ton that Committee of one from each District
represented upon the floor be appointed to nomi-
nate officers and reorganize the Convention.
This called to his feet Mr.. G. G. Bowen, who
made passionate Speech marked with good
deal of force and that kind OF reasoning which
would infuance ignorant minds. But his
arguments did not fall upon the sandy soil which
he has been in tine habit of tling, and he brought
upon himself from colored men, who have quite as
much good sense as himself, storm OF responses
which silenced him for the remainder Of the
evening.
MIR. Whipper, very intelligent colorod speaker
from Orangeburg, contendcd, in reply to BOWEN,
that when they first assembled in Charleston, it
was with such pauc!ty of numbers rs scarcely to
warrant Convention; and when they did convene,
il was in such an irreg1lnr and informal manner
that twenty-iour hours before the meeting no
tice had been printed, md was about being distrib
uted, that it would not take place. He contended
that an organization made under these circum-
stances was neither fair nor legitimate Justice
ought to be done to Districts now represented.
They were entitled to voice in these proceedings,
and go far as his vote could aid the object, ho IT,
| tended that voice to be heard.
r. G. DeLarge (colored) now threw his toma-
hawk at Bowen, and fairly Drained him. He said :.
cone of the first requisites for the formation of
proper party is harmony; the next respect Mr..
B. did not seem to possess either spirit, and
b. ;.I,
not be brooked by men Of sense from any portion
OF the State. The delegates gathered here for the
first time were as much entitled to take part in all
the deliberations, and TO be represented in them,
as those who constituted the original organization
at Charleston. The feelings Of the up-country
were to be consulted in this matter. Tho Conven-
ton had met to accomplish great purpose-not
to appeal to passions preudices, but to the good
sense ofmen, to their principles. That which as
sembled at Charleston was but beginning, and
they scarcely dared to adopt platform. lest its
features should be Objectionable to that portion Of
the State which was unrepresented, aud thereby
prevent unity Of action.
He desired to see o reorganization without re-
spect to race or color, and the election of such
men as were best fitted for the position, whether
they were as black as midnight or white as the
dripping snow. In brief, hs did not think that
twenty or thirty men who constituted the original
organization should seek to control this real State
Convention.
Mr.. BISHOP, q white man. from Greenvile, said
that nineteen Districts we're represented in the
present body, and only nine in the first Conven-
ton. AS representative of three thousand coll
ored men, he did not feel that ho could conscien-
tiously tell his people that he had done his duty
under the former organization. He believed in re-
organization strongly.
Mr.. WHITTEMonE, OF the +. B., who has &c
quired some notoriety by surrounding himself
with armed negroes, and making other demon
stratons of IN incendiary character in the neigh
borhood Of Darlington, and who ia an active wire
puller, and prayerful man with an abdominal
voice, made speech in the now popular vein,
after which Mr.. Wilder (colored) demanded the
previous question. The previous question was Or
dered, and the main question Icing put, his
resolution was agreed to by vote of49 to 6.
Thereupon Committee Of One from each Dis
trict was appointed by the Chair, or rather the
nominations Of the Committee, had evidently been
prepared in anticipation OF tho moment, and the
jury retired to sit on the case.
During their absence, speeches were mado by
Rev. Mr. Randolph, Langley, colored teacher at
Beaufort, Elliot, formerly associate editor OF o
feedman's journal in Charleston, and ]. J. Wright
very intelligent and well-spoken colored lawyer
from SuAuehanna County, Penn, the only colored
lawyer licensed in that State. The tenor of the
speeches is familiar to your readers, save that
they were generally mild, conservative and unex-
ceptionable in their sentiment and utterance.
It is evident that better tone prevails among
the colored leaders, ard that they are beginning
to realize that the devil is not so black as he has
been painted; in other words, that the white gen
tlemen Of the South have shown that they recog-
mise the new status of tho race, and have yielded
obedience to that law which demands for it the
observance of its new privileges.
The Committee on Organization having return
ed, the following officers wero elected
President-R H. Gloaves (colored).
| Yicc-Presidents-C NJ. Wilder, Col. j. ]. Robert
son, Riohland; Gilbert Pillsbury, J. N. Hayne,
| Charleston.
Secrc aries-E. Dixon, Clarendon; Robert How
ard, ]. K. Sasportas, Orangeburg.
| Chaplain-Rev. NJ. Brockington.
It being now after midnight, the Convention ad-
iourned to 10 A. M. tomorrow. FELIX.
ALEXANDER HI. STEPHENS.
Libra" the very clever and readable, as well as
judicious correspondent of the New York Tines, in
the issue of that journal for Monday last, has a
letter covering over six columns, giving the result
of his conversations with tho Hon. ALEXANDER H.