Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-16


of the Slave oligarchy might DO avoided, il was
concluded to dispense with a stated chaplaincy in
future"
Another Of their trials consisted in the fact that
they were reported in the Tribune; and divers ex-
pedients were rosorted to unavailingly to find out
the leak. Senator Wilson told them that If they
would drink less grog, and keep sufficiently sober
to know who they were talkingtwith at their hotels
the world would know less of their doings.
On Monday the Committee on the platform re-
ported in part. This report contained the result:
OF their deliberations on the Slavery question. We
have been told that the party was to IGNORE" the
Slavery question. No man Of sense over believed
it, All knew that it must be positively proslavery
and to succeed must out bid the special pets of the
Shareholders, the National Democrats; and if pos
siblc, they have done it in their platform.
A Majority Of the Committee agreed on the fol-
lowing resolutions {:
Resolved, That the American party, having
arisen upon the ruins and in spite of the opposi-
ton of the Wing and Democratic parties, cannot
be hold in any manner responsible for the obnoH-
ious acts or violated pledges Of either; that the
systematic agitation of tho Slavery question by
those parties has elevated sectional hostility into
a positive element of political power, and brought
our institutions into peril. 1t has therefore be.
come the imperative duty of ihe American party
to i%nterpose, for the purpose of giving peace 10
the country and perpetuity to the Union. That as
experience has shown it is impossible to reconcile
opinions sc extreme as those which separate the
disputants, and as there can be no dishonor in sub
hitting to the laws, the National Council has
deemed 1t the best guarantee of common justice
and of future peace to abide by and maintain the
existing laws upon the subject of Slavery, RS a
final and conclusive settlement of that subject in
spirit and in substance.
Resolved, that regarding it the highest duty to
avow these opinions upon a subject so important,
in distinct and unequivocal terms, it is hereby de-
clared as the sense of this National Council, that
Congress possesses no power under the Constitu-
ton to legislate upon the subject of Slavery in tho
States, or to exclude any State from admission in
to the Union because her Constitution does or does
not recognize the Institution of Slavery as a part
OF her social system; and expressly pretermitting
any expressions of opinion upon the power Of
Congress to establish or prohibit Slavery in any
Territory. 1t is the sense Of this National Coun.
ell that Congress ought not to legislate upon the
subject of Slavery within the Territories of tho
United States, and that any interference of Con-
gress with Slavery as it exists in the District of
Columbia would be a violation Of the spirit and in
ten ton OF the compact by which the State of Mary
land coded the District to tire United States, and a
breach Of the National Faith.
The minority also presented a report as follows
S'Ni'Su maj thc ltpthl VI III 4llsSOuTl OOm-
promise was an infraction of the plighted faith of
the Nation, and it should be restored, and if eff
forts to that end shall fail, Congress should refuse
to admit any State tolerating Slavery which shall
be formed out Of any portion of the Territory from
which that institution was excluded by that Com
promise.
Governor Gardner made an earnest and bold
speech" in opposition to the report, assuring the
Council that not a village in Massachusetts, could
be carried in its favor that he, that Massachusetts
and the people Of the entire free States, would OPP
pose and resist it. The committeeman from New
York, with those from tho Territory of Minnesota
went with the South. Those from all the free
States except New York, were for the minority re-.
port.
Such is the latest news before going to pross.-
The platform is still further to be discussed in the
convention and stormy times are anticipated.
The New York Express says all the indications
are, that Sam will split on the rock of Slavery and
be knocked to pieces-"Sambo will kick Sam out OF
his own Convention" So may it be. On whatso.
ever organization this milestone of Slavery falls,
J it will grind it to powder. Know-N othingism and
Democracy must eventually 60 the way of Wing.
gerry.