The success of its candidates would, in their view, be just cause for resistance outside the pale of the Constitution.
MEETING OF CHARLESTON CONVENTION.
It was at the height of this overwrought condition of the Southern mind, that the National Convention of the Democratic party met at Charleston on the 23d of April, 1860.

The convention had been assembled in South Carolina, as the most discontented and extreme of Southern States, in order to signify that the Democracy could harmonize on her soil, and speak peace to the nation through the voice which had so often spoken peace before.

But the Northern Democrats failed to comprehend their Southern allies.

In their anxiety to impress the slave-holders with the depth and malignity of Northern anti-slavery feeling, they had unwittingly implicated themselves as accessories to the crime they charged on others.

If they were, in fact, the friends to the South which they so loudly proclaimed themselves to be, now was the time to show their faith by their works.