The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-10
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Wager WorshipY,ang State Platform.

Nagger WOrshippang State Platform.
The late Quarterly State Council of the
Know Nothing party Of Massachusetts, has is
sued its platform rs revised and improved"
under the auspices of that prince of negro
philanthropy, Senator Henry Wilson. Clipped
of superhuous verbiage, this platform is az fol-
lowe:-
L. twenty-oae years naturalization Law.
p Stringent penalties against the fraudulent transfer
OF naturalization papers
3 Opposition 10 all fcregn military Political orgaa
cations.
T. Efficient laws against the deportation here of foreign
criminals and paupers.
5. None but natives ministers abroad
8. Free religion and against the Pope, his herar
archy and his church.
Z. The Bible as the basis Of al popular, education
There is nothing very dreadful in all this,
compared with the foreign branch of this
Know Nothing Massachusetts platform Of o
year ago, which, in its practical operation,
under the Hiss Legislature, extended to the ex-
portatior of the surplus Irish from the State,
and the elevation OF the African blacks to the
same level with the Puritan whites in the COM
mon schools. But we come now to the Negro
branch Of the present Know Nothing Massa-
chusetts platform, as revised and i'm
proved" at Springfield. The Springfield
Republican, says that the result though
not all that the earnest friends Of fusion could
desire. may still be regarded as favorable"
and that "it was SO regarded by the advocates
of union in the Council. They feel that they
have won q substantial triumph over the ultra
native and pro-slavery section Of the organiza-
ton, and paved the way for such union of
Massachusetts, men and parties SIS has been SO
well corsnmmated in Ohio, Indiana, and other
Of the free States" We supposed as much
when Gen. Wilson ''payed the Way at the
late Philadelphia Council, and especially when
his game was fully developed in the Know
Something saturnalia at Cleveland. But here
is the new platform of the Senator and his par
ty on the vital question Of niggers:--
l, That all legislation must be conducted upon the
doctrine that freedom is national and slavery sectional
=. That the Federal government must be relieved of all
connection WITH accountability fer American slavery
3. That State sovereignty, in its legislation and judi
ciary, ,uust b. held invioate
That the Missouri line be restored and no part
that territory that made free by said line shall
admitted rs slave state.
s. That Satters' rights must be protected in the free
and undsturbed exercise Of the elective franchise.
The first of these articles of faith on the
Niger question covers the whole ground
of sectional crusade against the South
the third places the multiplying legislation and
she courts Of MASSACHUSETTS, above the consti-
tuition and Supreme Court Of the United States;
and the fourth is the main pillar Of the Seward
platform.
4sow il all this will not answer for the pur-
poses Of Il fusion Of all the odds and ends of
free soil and abolitionism in Massachusetts,, the
ultras have no other alternative than Lloyd
Garrison's programme of immediate disunion
at all hazards the destruction Of the churches
and the Bible, the overthrow Of society and u
new start for the millennium, from the simple
elements of barbarism Certainly we shall
either have " fusion" or confusion in the old
infatuated Bay State from this ''revised and
improved" Wilson American platform aud
for all national purposes, it matters very little
whether the result is coalition or u split
Most of our Presidents have been elected
against the vote of Massachusetts, and all have
been elected without it. So we suppose that
she may be spared in 1856, without much
damage TO the conservatives Of the Union and
their ticket. Let her go.