Year: 1860

Ai From the Washington Constitution. eraEl


AS each democratic convention of the several
States meets and appoints delegates to the Ma
tional Convention which is to meet at Charles
ton on the.23d of April, the interested outsi-
ders, Immediately informed the public that the
delegates, or a majority of them, are pledged
to support some particular one out sof the
large number of candidates for the next presi-
dency. In the cases where she conventions
have, by resolution, declared preference for
any individual, the delegation to Charleston
may properly be considered to be Gin favor of the
nomination" of that person for the presidency;
but where no such resolutions have been
adopted, and no such preference indicated, n
is safe to conclude that the delegates are rn-
pledged, and will vote for the candidate whom
the majority of the Convention may select
with view to the best interests of the country
and of the democratic party. We know that
this is so with regard to the delegations os
several States whom telegraphic newspaper,
correspondence have decribed as positively
pledged to vote for A, B, or G. Individual
members of those delegations may prefer A to
B, or B to G, but they will not allow their
personal feelings to interfere with the proper
discharge of their duty, or lead them into any
committals as to their conduct which could
embarass their action in the convention.


In the morning papers of yesterday, for
instance, a telegraphic despatch relative to the
proceedings of the democratic convention OF
the State of Connecticut announced positively
that eleven out of twelve of the delegates to
Charleston were in favor of the nomination OF
Judge Douglas. We are credibly informed that
such is not the fact; that the Connecticut dele
gates are wholly uncommitted to the support OF
any particular candidate, and that they will cast
their votes for whomsoever they think most
eligible when the time comes We have also
hoe I'd a.,d zoa,, - 4hof dolauafinr.
from New York (and by that we mean the
delegation chosen by the regular democracy ct
the State at their State convention held at
Syracuse last September) is also committed.
We have the best reason to know that this ID
untrue The delegates from New York viii
proceed to Charleston perfectly free and un-
trammelled, determined to consult with the
democratic delegates from the several States,
and not to endeayor, as has been alleged, ta
force the nomination of any candidate whose
principles are known to be decidedly obnoxious
to the people of any section. The present
crisis in the affairs of this country imposes il
as duty on those who are delegated to select
the standard-bearer of the democratic par in
the next campaign not to allow individual
partialities to control their conduct, not to
sacrifice sense to sensbility ;--in short not to
allow themselves to be influenced by any other
consideration than desire to select q man
who is acceptable to the democracy of all
sections of the Union, in whom they can
| fully confde, and whose principles accord
with those of the great mass of the democratic
party. i a5 as ga4irg fso7 soils,
/ The attempt to manufacture popularity by
the aid of these telegraphic Misrepresentation
is as improper as it is injudicious, and ought
to be exceedingly distasteful to those for whose
apparent benefit it is made by indiscreet and
over-zealous admirers. 49, es41 ss..--., ,4ss