The New York Herald wickedly insinuates that the reason why the Charleston convention adjourned so soon was because the delegates had not money enough to pay their board any longer; so that they had no alternative except to leave or run the risk of being sent to jail for debt—the laws on this subject being very strict at Charleston.
SOURCE: “Short Of Money,” Janesville Weekly Gazette, Janesville, Wisconsin, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 2, col. 2-3.
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