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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1860., [Electronic resource], Dispatches from Washington. (search)
mpassioned. In the Legislature, nothing of interest transpired to-day. [fourth Dispatch] Columbia,S. C., Dec. 17.--10 P. M.--The Convention had four ballots for permanent President. On the third ballot the vote stood: Chesnut, 17; Orr, 32, Jamison, 64; and some few scattering. On the fourth ballot, Jamison had Orr 30, scattering 3--Jamison elected. Mr. Jamison in taking the Chair said he had no language to express his high sense of the honor conferred upon him, as no higOrr 30, scattering 3--Jamison elected. Mr. Jamison in taking the Chair said he had no language to express his high sense of the honor conferred upon him, as no higher could be given a citizen of South Carolina than that of presiding officer over the Convention. He considered the body engaged in the most important duty ever devolved on South Carolina the result of which, God alone knows. He implored God to help the State. A resolution was offered that when the Convention adjourn it shall adjourn to meet at Charleston to-morrow at 4 o'clock. The resolution caused debate. Mr. Miles appealed to the Convention not to adjourn to Charleston, bu