Weekly conservative. (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1854-1860, 1855-06-23
Chas ID. Fontaine.
The American National Platform
what should the South do !?

II isa fact that both of thotwo old parties at
She North have become SO far abolitionzed as
no longer to deserve the confidence of Southern
men. The Sound Wings and Democrats of the.
North have seen this some time since. Their
manly efforts to stay the march of fanaticism
have been unsuccessful and but one alternative
was left them. They were forced to turn their
backs on Northern Khiggery and Democracy
and seek, by union for the formation of the
American party, to stay the dark abolition tide
that threatened to sweep away the very foun-
aations on which our free institutions were
based.
But while this truly national party was form
tug the Northern fanatics sought, by creeping
into it, to strangle the young Hercules inits in
fancy. But their insiFious designs have met
with a signal overthrow. FOFneysm and Abo
Etionism, now Synonymous TERMS have alike
been powerless in their dark designs.
1t is known to almost every one Tat Ma.
floral Convention of the American Party has
lately been in session in the city of Philadelphia.
That Convention comprised many of the
abest men in the Union. Its platform on the
question of slavery may be found in another.
part of this paper, and we ask for it candid
and dispassionate perusal. Such platform has
not been presented to the South for long years
1t is preelninentiy national and strictly constitu-
tional in its features. 1t looks to the rights of
the South and bases all action on the vexed
question of slavery where the Constitution has
placed it, in the viii of the people It gives the
South all she can justly ask and fully yindicates
the true position of the American Party. There
is no lodging, no double-dealing, no ambiguity
aboutit it is pointed, concise and patriotic and
so plain that s'the yay-faring man, though a
fool, need not err therein. it cannot bemisun-
derstood or msconstrued
But the noble action of the Convention in
natiOnalizing the party, has ''crnshcd out free
sOi:ism; the Sew abolitionsts. who had crept in.
have fed bowling from the Order, with cries Of
vengeance on their lying lips. But many sound
Northern men plant themselves with their broth
ren of the South, on the national platform ID
battle for the rights of the States the COnstifir
ton and the Uuion Win Southern men meet
these patriots in their efforts to preserve from
the COMMUNICATING touch Of fanatieism the only
free government on earth VIII they aid II
projecting their own institutions? viii fhey
assist in defending their constitutional rights
their faith and their firesides2 The. American
south. In It are conccptrated all our hopes
tits vain longer to expect anything Of Pierce
AMI ForneyisIn If the Administration had ths
viii. Il has not the power to protect as. Ba
II snsss not the WILL Its past actions point d
"a many hnaer-boards to its dark affiliations.
Dp We not know that it has placed Fl'eesoiler
III thousands in the highest plseesg Have W
not seen It bring to bear all the tyrannlcal en-
aiaes 81 executive power to prevent the exten
sion Of slavery by the acquisitions Of Cuba =
Have we not noticed It's efforts through its Al
oI;tinn net Governor Reeder. to exclude South
er,l men from Kansas and make It q free state
WHY the filnsy veil which has covered its defol
niities is becoming 50 transparent that even II
Washington Union i throwing itloM The yer