Little or nothing to
record. Fine Day. Rumor this afternoon of schism in the Charleston Convention,
certain Southern delegations of pyrophagi seceding. Not impossible, nor
unlikely if the Convention refused to put the ultra proslavery plank of a slave
Code for the territories into its platform, and so throw away all chances of
carrying any one Northern state. But I hope it’s untrue, and that this
congregation of profligate wire-pullers will mature its plans for the next
campaign without any open rupture. For if disunion tendencies within the
Democratic party are stronger than the cohesive power of public plunder and can
disintegrate the party itself, it’s a bad sign for our national unity.
SOURCE: Allan Nevins
and Milton Halset Thomas, Editors, Diary of George Templeton Strong,
Vol. 3, p. 24
