he people of the South will not respond to the call of
the secessionists."[566]

[Footnote 566: M. Halstead, _National Political Conventions of 1860_,
p. 207.]

The effect of Soule's speech greatly animated and reassured the
friends of Douglas, who now received 173-1/2 of the 190-1/2 votes
cast. Dickinson got half a vote from Virginia, and Horatio Seymour one
vote from Pennsylvania. At the mention of the latter's name, David P.
Bissell of Utica promptly withdrew it upon the authority of a letter,
in which Seymour briefly but positively declared that under no
circumstances could he be a candidate for President or Vice President.
On the second ballot, Douglas received all the votes but thirteen.
This was not two-thirds of the original vote, but, in spite of the
resolution which Dean Richmond passed at Charleston, Douglas was
declared, amidst great enthusiasm, the nominee of the convention,
since two-thirds of the delegates present had voted for him. Benjamin
Fitzpatrick, United States senator from Alabama, was then nominated
for Vice President. When he afterwards declined, the national
committee appointed Herschel V. Johnson of Georgia in his place.

Meantime the Baltimore seceders, joined by their seceding colleagues
from Charleston, met elsewhere in the city, adopted the Richmond
platform, and nominated John C. Breckenridge of Kentucky for
President, and Joseph Lane of Oregon for Vice President. A few days
later the Richmond convention indorsed these nominations.

After the return of the New York delegation, the gagged minority,
through the lips of Daniel S. Dickinson, told the story of the
majority's purpose at Charleston and Baltimore. Dickinson was not
depressed or abashed by his failure; neither was he a man to be rudely
snuffed out or bottled up; and, although his speech at the Cooper
Institute mass-meeting, called to ratify the Breckenridge and Lane
ticket, revealed a vision clouded with passion and prejudice, it
clearly disclosed the minority's estimate of the cardinal object of
Dean Richmond's majority. "Waiving all questions of the merits or
demerits of Mr. Douglas as a candidate," he said, his silken white
hair bringing into greater prominence the lines of a handsome face,
"his pretensions were pressed upon the convention in a tone and
temper, and with a dogged and obstinate persistence, which was well
calculated, if it was not intended, to break up the convention, or
force it into obedience to the behest