Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-11-26
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MONDAY. NOV. 20. 1855.
Tee Ciucinnasi x. n. Convention.

Th;. bodv concluded its labors at a late hsur
oD Thur,day night, November 22d, after adopting,
large majority, SO to II, the delegates voting
by States, the report Of the majority OF the Com
mittee on Resolutions. ThisrePort, the accounts
state. reafirms the minority platform rejected
.. the Philadelphia Convention, on the slavery
nue.ton. sdeclaring that the repeal of ne Missou-
:; COMPROMISE was an infraction of plighted faith
and should be restored, and that If efforts to that
end fail, States formed out Of the territory en-
hr,ced in its jurisdiction should come in as free
States: protests against coalescing with any
marty that demands the abandonment of the
American principles or disorgsnization of the
American party; and recommends a meeting of
the delegates at Philadelphia on the 10Th of Feb
,n,rv next" where the National Council of the
mart, Represented by tue ual.'ri'v platform
.aopted at the Philads'p hia Conventionl, is to
meet for the nominal ~ Of Presidential candi-
dates, on the 22d. three days subsequent.
This cunningly devised pian vi! euable thernto
eopcect measures to crawl, sneaking back again
,oto the old organization from which they were
a;srunted in June last The endorsement of the
rl,,foryn of the seeding delegates at Philadel-
uhis was done merely to quiet, temporarily, the
eonseiences of their constituents, until they can
be more easily transferred over to the slave oil.
rarchy. three months hence, under influences
emauatine from Washington, which may then be
more efficiently brought to bear upon them, in
Philadelphia. But we trust they cannot carry
many OF the masses Of the organization,
North. with them The Springfield Repub-
Lcan of Saturday, which published, in coHzmon
with the New York papers, the telegraphic re-
ports Of the last days doings of that body, says
ofit:-
The Cincinnati Know Nothing Convention
has ended, after taking measures TO get back
into the national organization. At the same
time. to keep the northern sentiment of some
of their constituents quiet, the delegates re-
heated the minority resolution at Philadelphia
The hollowness Of this is apparent in the fact,
that they propose to join with those, who re-
jected this resolution and never can be brought
to submit to it, in the coming Presidential
campaign. They openly reject the aid of the
Republicans in giving power and success to
the declarations of that resolution, but court
union with the men who spit upon it. In
other words they condemn the noble bolt of
Philadelphia. and bolt back into the arms OF
the pro- slavery party.
R~NS~--S
Thursday, the second day of the Convention.
of these, 20 were from Ohio and 10 from
Pennsylvania-these two States comprising
more than half of the whole; from Indiana,
from Illinois, 8 from Michigan and one
from Wisconsin the remaining from New
England, as follows Rhode Island, J. G.
Knight; Massachusetts, S. M. Allen, j. M.
Keith, z. R. Swain, S. c. Maine, E. c. Bak-
er; Vermont, E. Mattocks. Of the whole
number only three or four were at the Phila-
delphia Convention. Tie majority of the
delegates from each State were empowered to
cast the whole vote of each State.
The minority report of the Committee on Res
olutions at that Convention, which was rejected
to make WY Tor the majority's plan to re-instate
the Northern wing of the party back again into
the old pro-slayery concern was noble platform
on which the entire North, East, and West, might
have united at the coming Presidential struggle,
ana siscrsd freedom 81 and Sc
lican and truly American" stamp. 1t was sus-
tanned only by the Ohio and Michigan delega-
tions. II insisted on the exclusion Of slavery
from all the national territory, and declared that
prescription on account of birth, place soas ts-
scorTG'sted 1t recommended open action; re-
garded the slavery question as the paramount
issue; and recommended river and harbor i'm
proyements and generous foreign policy" This
is the only basis of principles on which Free
dom party can triumph in 1856. Any attempt tc
organise party at the North protesting anti
slavery sentiments, with an antagonistic, pro.
scriptive plank in its platform, will ALLEVIATE from
its support all the Western States, and by alb
stracting SO many from the ranks Of the party Of
unqualified freedom, throughout the North, give
the united Pierce, Douglas. and Nebraska De.
mocracy an inevitable triumph at the polls in the
country at large, in the contest of next year.
1t seems there were present at the Convention,
on Thursday, the last day, seven delegates from
New England, although but one dared open his
mouth, and he (Stephen NJ. Allen of Massachu-
setts) disgraced the State which sent him there,
by his humlliating subservency to the slavery in
fuence. None of the prominent delegates who
were chosen to attend, from Massachusetts, from
Governor Gardner down, dared risk the reputa-
tion which they profess to maintain at home, by
venturing there. 1t is stated that Senator Baker
of Medford attended, but if so, he had not pluck
enough to get up there and rebuke the dough
faces, BY uttering any of the bold anti.slaveIy
words which he is accustomed to get off in our
City Hall.