Year: 1860

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| EDITOR NORTH CARoILNIAN: The breaking
up of the Charleston Convention without accompiis-


ing the purpose for which it assembled although not
wholly unexpected, has produced marked effect
here among business men. 1t seems to them good
deal like the first act of tragedy, the catastrophe
of which may be dissolution of the federal union
Some newspapers effect to regard the inability of the
| convention to agree upon platform mere pre-
etnse and affirms that the only real point issue
between the contendng factions is the nomination
of the who if elected, would divide the spos of
victory in satisfactory manner. L confident
that view of the subject is erroneous and that
its PRONUNCIATION will be productive of mischief, by
lulling the public mind in parts of the Union
to unsuspectng Indifference the critical and pre-
carious condition OF the relations which bind
the states together, of course, selhshness private
frendish, personal cnmity, revenge admiration and
huence or ,he delegates to Charleston All
and ever will be moro or less Influenced by their
passions but incline to the belief that the disrup-
ton OF the Charleston convention was really caused
by an rreconceable difference of opinion or the
right of STAKEHOLDER to emigrate to territory with
his slaves and there hold them slaves, protected


in his ownership by the federal authorities against
all enactments to the contrary by territorial legls
lature. One section Of the democracy claims, a
constitutional right the active intervention OF the
federal government to protect slave property IN the
territories and contends that majority OF the voters


in territory have right interfere in the matter
until after said territory shall have been admitted
into the Union sovereign state; While the other
section of the democracy contends the contrary,
that it is the federal government which has right
to interfere, but that the majority of the people of
territory should possess the exclusive right to deter


mine whether slavery should exist among them or
not Whatever miner Influences may have accelera-
ted the disruption OF the convention there is no
doubt repeat, that there is principle involved in
it which deserves the serious consideration of the
people.


| l do not see how this schism operate other
wise than disasrously to the democratic party and
to the country, unless it be agreed, at the second
convention Baltimore, to leave the disputed ques-
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the Supreme Court of the United States. If that
course be pursued, and if it be remembered by the
delegates that either the South the North is poll
tlcaly powerless alone, and that triumph lmpossi
BILE to the democracy without candidate around
whose Standard the conservative spirit of the whole
country may and will rally, may look for a
I inatiOn that will be equivalent to election. If
on the contrary, these considerations give way to
those of private ambition local strength, the gov
ernment will certainly pass into the hands of the
abolitioniSts.


ruption of municipal government is the passage
last week, by the Common Council, of resolution
ordering 5000 copies of the report of the Atlantic
| Gable celebration to be printed IN pamphlet form
The idea of taking palms, at this late day. to remind
| the world Of having acted like in giving
that premature ovation to Cyrus W. Field, would
be supremely ridiculous, if it not yillanous
Every body knows that the pamphlet will only be
read by proof reader, that three times the regular
prices will be paid to the printer and that the
plus will be shared by one more of the Common
!
in New York that no one is surprised


The entire first floor of one of most fashona-
BILE hotels has been engaged for the Of the ia
panese Embassy, and $4,000 have been appropria-
ted to defray the expenses of the reception. Clio
rous times for the aldermen! 1t is to be hoped
that committee of private citizens, gentlemen of
education and culture, will be entrusted with the
duties of entertaining the Prince of Wales, who may
be expected to pass through New York, shortly, on
his way to Washington. Our aldermen will do well
enough to receive the gentleman from Japan, provi-
ded few experienced detectives detailed for the
protection of the oriental visitors from the light-in-
gered dexterity which two of our city Off
cals are understood to have acquired during their
long and friendly associations with the cheraliers
d'mdustrie of New York but the Prince of Wales
who is said to be young gentleman of education
and cultivated tastes should be waited upon at least
/ by men with clean teeth and nails, able to speak
tolerable English without too much of an apparent
effort, and somewhat familiar with the usages and
requirements of good society in America. There
are hundreds of men in New York who would rep
resent the city creditably this occasion, but the
members of the Common Council, with few excep-
tons, would be much more at home with the under
servants of the Prince than with their master


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