Each caucus and convention only accentuated and deepened existing differences.

When the convention met, its members brought not the ordinary tricks and expedients of politicians with _carte blanche_ authority, but the precise formulated terms to which their constituencies would consent.

They were only messengers, not arbitrators.

The Charleston Convention was the very opposite of its immediate predecessor, the Cincinnati Convention.

At Cincinnati, concealment and ambiguity had been the central thought and purpose.
Everybody was anxious to be hoodwinked.