The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1855-06-22
signed by the fOllwing members 0, the Com

signed by the follwing members OF the Com
mittee: VIM. F. Johnston, Pa; A. d.
Sperry, Conn Thos. H. Ford, Ohio; An
thony Colby, N. H.; John S. Sayward,
Me-; John w. Foster, Mass. Nathaniel
Green, X. |. Joseph II. Barrett, Vt. (;
Schuyler Colfax, Ind. ID. Z. Wood, Wis. /;
j. Cogshall, Mich; VIM. j. Phelps, ILL.,,
twelve in all also by Richard Clement, Del,
and @. ID. Deshler, N. j. as to frs. clause.
New York alone Of the Free States went for
the majarity report. Iowa was not repres.
ented. Minnesota Territory went with New.
York, as also the District Of Columbia; and
these with the united South, carried the
majority report in Committee.
In the Council Mr.. Mallory Of New-York
thought no discussion was needed. lie
asked insultingly ifany man there wonld not
succumb to the will Of the majority. Gov.
Gardner Of Mass. took up the gauntlet, and
declared that neither he nor bis State, nor a
majority OF the Free States would abide by
the resolutions first reported. The party
could not carry village in Massachusetts,
upon them. Ho charged the New.York
Delegation with deserving the North, and Of
even going so far in doughfaceism as to
complain to tn. South that they were con-
ceding too much TO the North.
Gov. Gardner madea bold earnest speech,
protesting against the resolutions Of the ma.
joity.
The Council adjourned to 8 o'clock this
evening, when the debate will be resumed.
A long and violent discussion is anticipated.
The resolutions Of the majority will undonbt.
eddy pass.
The minority resolution is as follows:
Resolved, That the repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise was an infraction Of the plight
cd faith Of the Nation, and that it should be
restored, and IL efforts 10 that end shall fail,
Congress should refuse to admit any State
tolerating Slavery which shall DO formed
out Of any portion Of the Territory from
which that Institution was excluded by that
Compromise.
June IL, he writes in part as follows:
The opening demonstration Of Gov. Gard
ner Of Massachusetts, on the Slavery plat
form yesterday eyening was quite effective.
The slave party have quite calculated on
the Governor and courted him with much
assiduity. The story Of the hotels is that
they offered to run him for Vice President
If he would turn his back upon his col
leagues and follow the Shiny course Of the
New-Yorkers. They though that because
he resisted Anti.Slavery ultraism at home,
he would not stand up against Pro.Slavery
ultraism at Philadelphia, and so piled their
seductions upon him. When the New-York
insult was given to the minority, therefore,
on the submission ef the resolutions as to
Slavery, and the Governor got the floor,
much interest was manifested to hear him
speak. Silence prevailed as he remarked
that the question of the gentleman from
New-York was pertinent If not polite
one, and should be calmy looked in the
face, and frankly, clearly and decidedly an
swered. II was asked whether any man
of the Convention felt that he was not
bound BY the decision Of q majority or
its members! He would answer IL for
himself, for Massachusetts,, for an all but
unanimous North, and, turning TO the New
York gentleman, he would il were an en-
tirely unanimous North, for then The
Council could not and would not dare deny
its demands. His answer then was that
they trould not DO bound by the action OF
that or any other body Of men for single
moment to q declaration Of principles that
were false to the Constitution, to liberty
and to the rights Of the humblest citizen Of
this Republic On the proposed platform
they would not stand for moment in a
single village OF New-England, and they
ought not if they could. The New-York
gentlemen deserved for out-IIerodins the
South to be swept away, as they were
doomed to be, by an outraged and indignant
people. The South itself was ashamed oil
Scw-York for their efforts here to reject
Just concessions 10 the North. New-Ens-
land, the North, the West, asked the only
boon of a Just and honest platform, and that
they would have or shake the dust of their
feet as testimony against Thorn.
Gov, Gardner proceeded in this strain
for some minutes amid profound silence, In
tcrrupted only by cheers from the Free
States, and closed with an eloquent appeal
to the magnaimity and chiyalry Of the
South to concede the restoration Of the Mis-
souri, Compromise.
The resolutions Of the majority Of the
Committee were drawn by Mr.. Burwell OF
Virginia, and submitted by Mr.. Lyons Of
New.York. The Committee adopted them,
II to 1.-THE Nays being those who signed
the minority report. Previously another
set of resolutions had been adopted by the
Committee, which il anything were more
obiecIional still. They were the production
Of vespasian Ellis Of the American organ at
Washington, and proposed in one of the
r,.k AL J:..,.s;n,, e ,ba Slavarv
question, in or on, Of its Councils, in any
Of its forms by the American party. This
v as adopted by the Committee. Yeas, 10;
Nays, Ii. Another OF this series proposed
that the Constitution and Laws Of the Gen.
eral Government should be rigidly obeyed
and enforced, and was intended to apply
particularly to the Fugitive Slave Law. A
Free State member proposed an addition ex-
tending its application to these laws which
guaranteed popular sovereignty to the
actual settlers in the Territories, and was
voted down by New. York and the South, l3
to Is! Thus you see the spirit and purpose
that control here.
Under date OF June 10, 1855, he says
speaking frs, OF the N. Y. delegation who
proposed the platform on Slavery or, advo.
Gated il.
The New York delegates who propose
the greatest treason, and have enacted the
bodies, misrep of their State al
this meeting, have at last fell, the force OF
this influence and turned their guilty faces
Reluctantly back upon their former course.
and shrunk at the accumulaling voice OF a
sound public opinion aud the meri'ed de-
nunciaiions Of all homes, and faithful men
into the insigniicence which their weakness
and wickedness alike merit. The resolu-
tons which Their coveted the dshonor OF in
Producing wen, forth 10 the nation, and the
returning voice has been so uniform anu
powerful in its denunciaiion, so decided In
It's assurance that their adoption sea led for
ever the fate oil the American party in every
Free State in the Union. tina, weakness has
smo,e their knees, and they PROSTATE them.
selves in disgrace before their allies and