The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-15
IMPORTANT FROM PHFLiDELPNIL.
THE AMERICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.
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The Bolt Of the Abolition Delegates.
Address OF the Know Nothing Boilers.
THE CLEVELAND KNOW SOMETHING CONVENTION.
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THEIR PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES.
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Call for q Grand Mass Meeting In
the Park,
&o., &C., 10.
THE AMERICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.
THE KNOW NOTHING NATIONAL COUNCIL.
Our Philadelphia Uorrsspondenee.

Our Philadelphia Correspondence.
PHILADELPHIA, June IA, 1856.
Rerie,o Of Wednesdays Proceedings Of the
Atol.ioniss-7Ae Administration RepSdiated-7ns
Vote on the Platform, de-, dc.
The proceedings Of yesterday constituted the crisis
and q most trying 1t was-of the nationality
Of the American organization. The fact apparent
that abotonism, in its most hdeous forms,
with emboldened front and arrogant pretenAon,
in the East West and Northwest had not only seized
the vesbule but with wicked and unwashed hands had
defaced the courts Of the inner temple. The period
define positions prncples-in short to expound Ameri
cans its objects and aims-had been precpitated by
the etrapged action of Massachusetts, from known and
recognized cocIines and the demand equal to the
crisis.
TWAS wisely determined that the homogeneousnsss of
the organization should either be vndicated the
gansm Of the body polite resolved into its proper
stuent eemepts and with that especial object in view
series Of measures involving the very Issues upon
which based the distinctive sectionasms that in
vaeed its national integrity, oiuced for the
avowed object Of the separation.
Those measures, enunciating new unjust
tiops being old and imper the enactments Of
the constitution ohe United States and upon ths posi-
tive requirements of which thsy were bassd operated
as bombshe in the general assemblage-only wound
ing, however, those against whom the constitutional
proectls lsvslled and discharged The extent Of
the damage, 'ts true greater than anticipated
and the excision thAti has been fully real
ized has only served to improve the national health
and spirits, and make the national body polite more ju
bilant and patriotic.
The full particulars Of this abolition stampede will
fuInsh you whsn the deliberations of its morning
sha have BEEN disclosed, which doubtless will be
before the close Of this communication.
Regarding, as do, the nStionsl pronuncamento the
the event Of the times and spectace Of ,ral grandeur
unparalleled by modern political delberation and &C
ton, if leisure permitted would delight eulogize
the men, the act and the deed but my space is
stricted, content myself by the negative Affirmation,
that it not designed, in any phase, to endorse in
any particular the imbecile and rotten Pierce
dynasty, the demagogue Douglas, or any of his
willy schemes for place or power. Neither the ono
the other merited received the least consideration
at the hands of the Convention. 1t simply met the Is
sue and In constitutional way forced upon the deli
beraops Of the body by the 'emboldensd demands Of
progressive fanatics and leaves to every Ameri
the exalted privilege of standing erecty and proudly
upon the constitution and laws, without the sacrifice Of
personal respect, duty and integrity.
striking fact and you cannot have failed to 70
mark has been discloged in this discussion and that
was that whilst the entire South was q unit ON the
majority platform, scarcely member from thence IN
the many speeches made BY them, essayed apology
for the Kanfas Nebraska act and whilst generally sub
scribpg to the doctrine Of intervention neverthe
less repudsted the and the administration which
foistsd 1t upon the country at the tremendous expend
ture Of plightsd faith, &c.