The proposal of Butler's report simply to reaffirm the Cincinnati platform was supported by only 105 ayes to 198 noes.

Then, by 165 to 138, the convention voted to substitute the minority report for that of the majority; in other words, to adopt the Douglas non-intervention platform.
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YANCEY.] The explosion was near, but still delayed, and the delegates of the Cotton States sat sullenly through a tangle of routine voting.
Finally, the question was renewed on Butler's proposition to adopt the Cincinnati platform pure and simple.

This was the red flag to the mad bull.

Mississippi declared that the Cincinnati platform was a great political swindle on one half the States of the Union; and from that time on the Cotton States ceased to act as a part of the convention.
As soon as a lull in the proceedings permitted, Mr.Yancey put in execution his programme of demand, disruption, disunion, and rebellion, labored for through long years, and announced by himself, with minute distinctness, nine months before.[7] Led by the Alabama delegation, the Cotton States,--Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas,--with protests and speeches, with all the formality and "solemnity" which the occasion allowed, seceded from the Charleston Convention, and withdrew from the deliberations in Institute Hall.
That same Monday night the city of Charleston expressed its satisfaction by a grand jubilee.