The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-14

| - "" Nv]hihs banquet were not of a very
nish oroer. It thinks that the speech of Kenneth
Rayner would have done honor TO any assembly,
IL says the American party presents the singular
| spectacle OF an army without general. which |;
caused By the spontaneous uprising of the pesple
without the aid of demagogical haraneues. 1t say,
that leaders will spring up after while, but no
party hacks. They will apring out of the party It.
| seIf-will be ofthem and with them.
THE NATIONAL CONVENTION AT PHrIApE,
| PHIA.-The New York Herald, of Tuesday. has
report OF the Conventions proceedinps on Mo-,
day. Its correspondent says That three dis
tinctive parties 10 the field is fact that will
not be controverted by any cne cogpizant of the
facts in the case, and that these three parties arr
the representatives severaly of the distinctive doc
| trines-
| First. That the Kansas Nsbraska act shall bs
| repealed, the Fugitive Slave law annulled the
power Of Congress over slavery in the District o.
| Columbia conceded, and the further admission o.
| slave States interdicted.
Second. The full recognition of the Ksnsas.Ns
braska act. and the admission of Kansas as a slave
State; no Interference with slavery in the States
or Territories the unqussionable right of rsnsitu
the ceasing to agitate the question In Congress,
| and the general and explicit acknow ledgment OF
| the whole question, 10 all lis phases and aspects
Third. The constitution, and the laws enacted
under 1.-THE rights of all being defended and pro
tected, as contemplated by its trainers and found
| ers-no sectionalism being recognized by ii the
doctrine of non.intervention with the rights OF the
| several States; and tse concession that under the
| constitution. the only requisition to be demanded
| of the Territories seeking admission as States
| shall be that the State constitution shall be repub-
| licsn in its form of government
The first section embraces all the fac,iopists OF
| New Engsnd and the North west, headed bv the
notorious aboli.opist, Wilson, of MASSACHUSETTS,.
AS ntmated In previous letter, the prelimiuaries
| {ara 81 bpIiEt Z
justed and arranged and their ultmatum is boldly
| TO be enunciated atd demanded. This faction has
not the entire sympathy of all the New Eogland
| States. Connecticut, Rhode Island, aud Vermont
| interpose, to some extent at least the national
| standard a barrier
The second embraces The extremists OF The South,
| who, though few in number here are nevertheless
urgent in their exactions.
| The third constitutes the great body of the nas
tional conservatives and are the legitimate repre-
sentetives OF the principles and doctrines of the
great American fraternity.
THE SLAVERY QUESTION.
| The following resolutions respecting the slavery
| question have been adopted by the platform CONS
| mitee
| Resolved, That the American party having
| srisen up Oh the ruins add in despite OF the oppo
sition of the Whig and democratic parties, cannot
be held In any manner responsible for the obnox-
| ious acts violated pledges of either that the
systematic agitation OF the slavery question by
| those parties has elevated sectional hostility into
positive element of political power, and brough;
our institutions into peril. II has, therefore, be-
| come the imperative duty of the American party
to interpose for the purpose of giving peace to the
| country and perpetuity to the Union that, ex-
perience has shown it, it Is impossible to nce
| opinions extreme those which separate the
! disputants; and, as there can be no dishonor in
| submitting to the laws, the National Council has
| deen ed 1t the best guarantee of common justice
| and of future peace to abide by and maintain
the existing laws upon the subject of slavery as
anal and conclusive settlement of that subject In
| spirit and substance.
| Resolved, That, regarding 1t the highest duty TO
| avow these opinions, upon subject 80 important,
in distinct and uneQuivscal terms, is hereby de.
! clared the sense of this National Council, that
| Congress possesses no power under the consttu.
ton TO legisiate upon the subject of slavery in the
States or to exclude any State from admission into
the Union because Its constitution does or does not
recognize the Institution OF slavery part oft the
social system, and expressly pertermltted any ex
preston of opinion upon the power OF Congress
TO establish prohibit slavery in any territory 1t
is the sense of this National Counc that Congress
ought not to eeisate upon the subject OF slavery
| it exists In the District OF Columbia, and that any
interference OF Congress with slavery Ii exists
in the said District, would be violation OF the sp
rit and intention of the compact by which the State
| of Maryland ceded 1t TO the United States, and a
breach OF the national faith.
The two resolutions sent In today constitute the
platform on the subject of slavery In the general
| stance as foows:
To the frat resolution will be added this provi.
sion viz Subject to the decision OF the proper
courts having judicial cognzauce thereof, and such
amendments as shall be needed 10 fully carry out
h cir spirit and more fully give to the Inhabitants
of the territories the entire power OF local sove-
reignty, as the same s possessed by the people ot
| the States
| THE UNION REsoLUTIoN.
Afier the second resolution will be added the fol-
S.ty B anft thn rfapn RI %
for the solution of the problem of Union:
Resolved, That it Is the opinion of this National
Council that the people OF the Territories OF the
| United States should possess as full and actua!
sovereignty within the same az the people OF the
States DO that Congress, Ia passing the or aDic
| law for the organization OF a Territory, should
| put therein more provisions than will merely
authorize the people of the Territories TO act fer
themselves; and should empower them to create
their own scheme OF government, limited to re-
publican character, authorizing them TO determine
upon what officers, from governor to the Lowest
subordinate, they will possess, and 20 elect the
same to establish wha, courts they choose, and
appoint elect the judges OF the same as they may
decide for themselves and give to their courts The
power TO sdjudicate their own laws as the
| courts of States possess the power 10 do, sueje
to the laws of the States snd the decisions OF tht
courts of tho States to review by the Supreme
Court of the United States 10 case OF coIfiic
with the constitution of the United States and .hs
laws passed in pursuance thereof. That Congress
shall create within the Territories such courts o
the United States as exist by laws OF Congress IL
the States, and the President of the United State
shall appoint, with the consent OF the Senate Of h
| United States, the judges thereof and the judge
thereof shall hold Office and possess Jurisdiction
as all such judges do In the like courts OF tn
United States In the States; that Congress sha
create ell such Offices and oficers in said Terrific
ry as are now existent In the States, and said OH
GERS shall be appointed by the President Is th
came are appointed by him, ei.her alone or wit
the consent of the Senate Of the United States
and that the Territories should In general posses
like powers rights, privileges and imm2 2ptsies o
do the States except representation la Congress
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