The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-07-05
THE NATIONAL ERA: WASHINGTON, D. c. JULY 5, 1855

irst, and to the Union and the South afterwards.
taking their stand upon the platform enunc g.
| ed by the seceders, they will grow stronger
md stronger and more firm in the determi6a
| ion to see that Compromise restored, and tae
:urse of Slavery confined to the pest-house il at
resent occupies" =
| The Dunkirk IN. " Journal know NosA-
| ,ng) gives the response of the Know Nothings of
Jattaraugus and Chautauque, through me it.
ng held at Fredonia on the 10th, as follows
| "The resolutions declare-that Slavery Is
ectional; that the South has no right to dems id
| sympathy for 1t from the North, and should be
;ontent with that protection which the G, u
ttuton guarantees; against the extension Vt
slavery, and against the repeal of the Misso ri
Compromise; and that Congress has the pof err
. legisate on the question of Slavery in lie
Territories of the United States; to all of VIII N
We say amen, emphatically."
| What they propose to do, the deponent sa III
lot. From an article in the Fredonia Court p,
We apprehend trickery.
The Cincinnati Gazette, which has q 30
icted with the Order, thus refers to the pl It.
| orm of the seceders:
60 What effect the above declaration of p1 n
I ciples may have upon the action of the Amt Fl.
| Dut this we believe, that any order or ga ty
hat plants itself in opposition to these pr a.
ciPles in the Northern States, will sink to Sc
| 40 more"
Well, suppose all the Councils in the F. ee
States adopt resolutions repudiating the s "a
very part of the platform, what then2 u i'll
| they remain in communion with the Nation al
zed Order, send delegates to its Convention on
ne I'D of February next, participate in tbe
nomination of Presidential candidate G We
| as light
The Portage County TO- Democrat TX. ~
| is exultant:
| The issue is made up. The North stat Is
like rock in mid-ocean. Its dorsal column is
like pillar of iron. The black power of Ia
| very has been met as it never was met bef e.
The much malgned, abused, misrepreseu I'd
and misunderstood Know Nothings, have d. he
what no other party or organized body in lis
country have ever done. They have met he
South with steady, unfinching nerve ne
South quailed before their bold bearing. he
| North triumphed. The boundary between a.
very and Freedom is decided"
| Wonderful to relate The North, outvoted ~
the South, two to one, and a portion of it, tn n,
to save its neck from the yoke, driven to Aig' t
Astounding victory! The Democrat comp ii
sanity assumes that the Northern Know No h.
ings will inaugurate the Party of Freed n
Never, unless they abandon their secresy, tb ,ir
extrajudicial oaths, their prescription on &C.
count of birth and religion. The Party of
Freedom was incorporated in 1910, when he
first distinct, independent vote against Slave v,
in Presidential election, was given to ae
nominees of the old Liberty Party The pa ty
then inaugurated has gone through many viz is
STUDIES; but what was the Anti Nebral ka
movement of last year, but an expression of
its principle and policy? The North can ne tsr
be rallied for Liberty On the narrow, Atai-
Democratic platform of Know Nothingisn =
NEVER!
The american Ballot, of Concord, N. t.,
sustains the seceders, publishes their appt u,
and declares
son this platform the People of the ee
States will stand and do battle against the he IS
of Slavery and their doughfaced allies. a id
to this platform will rally the friends of Er e.
dom in the free States, in such force Il at
Hunkerlsm throughout their borders shall Sc
as thoroughly PROSTATE as it is at the pres Mt
day in New Hampshire"
Let US assure our friend of the Ballot, he
People of the Free States will do no such thi! g.
The appeal of the seceders was not design d,
we presume, to lay down the platform 70, a
Freedom party. For one, with as much ID We
for "Spiritual Freedom" "Free Schools" "a
Free Bible" and the Americanisn, of Prifci-
pile, as the loudest DISCLAIMERS on those topi Is,
we are not to be enticed upon any plato IN
containing single plank of Nas;re Amtri-
canism. Our Naturalization Laws are q cd
enough, if properly enforced; and as to p su-
pers and felons, the States are competent al
ready to take care of themselves. The ides of
getting up National party to look after an
occasional pauper or criminal who may find lis
way into the country, is not exactly beftt lg
the nineteenth century. There is one ISIS 10,
the Slave Question, towering heaven-hgh abb We
all others. On that we will unite with you on
your Native American issues, neuer. If ou
are resolved to thrust them upon the free Stat IS,
you will divide them, cut the sinews of tb .r
power, and deliver them over again to the Ss I'VE
Despotism.
A telegraphic despatch, sent all over the
country. reports General Wilson as having said,
in Council of Know Nothings in Boston, that
it was "Me ain, and desire of the Massaclu-
sets delegation to auoid the question of Sta-
rery." We could not believe any such report
and now we are glad to find the Telegraph and
the Atlas, of Boston, both contradicting it.
The former declares
General Wilson said no such thing in his
speech in the llth ward. The Courier, we he
lieve contained notice of the meeting, in which
he is represented as using this language, but
there is no truth in the statement. What Gen.
Wilson said was this that the delegates from
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and some other
Northern States, desired to avoid the question
of Slavery, and that they were treated by the
South no better than the delegates who took
more decided ground"
| We have taken a pretty extensive survey on
one side now let US look at the other:
The american (Pa.) Banner talks 6ercely
against the Slavery part of the platform, but,
with this exception, is charmed with the noble
performance, as truly and magni6cently Ameri,
can. OF course, it says the Slavery part is
not binding upon the North. The action Of
the seceders it condemns in unmeasured terfas,
and gives no quarter to their appeal, which, il
says, has not q grain of Americanism in it.
The Banner 81 ,nds by the Nationalized Order,
just as the E. ston meeting does and it will
find too many Of like mind. The proceedings
of this meeting, in which Mayor Conrad and
E. Joy rrisiparticipated, are recorded in an