Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-12
THE LION AND THE LAMB LYING
DOWN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES AND
SOUTHERN "AMERICAN PLAT
FORMS-A CONTRAST.

FORMS-A CONTRAST.
No greater contrast was ever presented than
is now exhibited between the northern and
southern members of the new Order They
are as incongruous and dissimilar as extremes
can be, and yet victory achieved by them at
the North ELECTS hearty hurrahs at the South
Mark the difference in their platforms in New
Hampshire and Massachusetts and in Georgia,
on the great and vital question of the day.
From the Boston Telegraph
The following are the resolutions passed by
the State Council of New Hampshire, at a
meeting held at Concord, on the first and Sc
cond days of May, 1856. They are published
by vote of the Council:
"Whereas there appear to exist in the minds
of a portion of the community, some doubts as
to the position of the American party in re-
gard to slavery and its extension over new Ter
ritories, therefore,
"ReSotUed, That the American organization,
as constituted and existing in New Hampshire,
is not based on one idea alone, but compre-
hends every principle that will promote the
political welfare of a free people.
Resotced, That the Declaration of indie
pendence, the tones and deeds of the founders
of this Republic, all indicate that our forefathers
intended that slavery should be sectional, not
national-temporary, not permanent.
ReSotred, That as a political party, pledged
to regard and aCatch over the best interests of
the ,ohole Union, and to labor TOR us integrity
and peTpetuity, nee soleDaaty protest against tie
repeal Of the Missouri Compromise, tie Kansas
Nebraska bill, and the Fdgitice Stare laao, as
violations Of the spirit Of tie Constitution, and
tending to diSunion and the destruction of the
free Institutions Of the country.
"Resoloed That lce nerer lciH, under ann
circumstances, consent to the admission of sla-
rery into any portion of the Territory en-
braced in the compact Of 1920, and from aolsich
1t iods then excluded by the mutual agreement
Of both the Northern and Southern States.
" Resolued, That any attempt to commit the
american party Of Ne,c Hampshire to the adj
vanceuent Of the interest Of siacery, to ignore
Il as a political question, or 10 enyoin silence
upon as IN regard to its erils and encroach-
ments, deserves, and shall receire our earnest
and unqualified disapprobation."
From the Savannah Republic of May 7th
THE AMERICAN PARTY IN GEORGIA AND THE
SLAVERY QUEsTIoN.-1tis generally understood
that the American party in Georgia assembled
in State Council at Macon, Wednesday last.
1t was ordered that the following resolution,
adopted by Council and handed US by the Pre-
sident, should be published.
ResolUed, That slavery and slave institutions
are protected by the Constitution Of the United
States, and the obligation to maintain them
is not sectional but national; that the right
to establish them in the organization ofState
governments belongs to the native and natu.
rallied citizens; and THAI Congress has no
constitutional power to intervene, by excluding
a new State applying for admission into the
Union, upon the ground that the constitution
of such State recognises slavery.
THE MASSACHUSETTS platform is embraced
in the following resolutions passed by know
nothing convention there:
"ResolDed, That we hail with hope and ioy
the recent brilliant success Of the republican
party in the States Of Maine, Iowa, Indiana,
Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and we trust these
victories are foreshadow Of others soon to
come, by which the FREE STATES shall pre-
sent one SOLID PHALANX OF OPPOSE
TI0N TO THE AGGRESSI0NS OF SLA-
VERY.
"ResolUed That in the present chaoti condi.
ton Of parties in Massachusetts,, the only star
above the horizon is the love of human liberty
and the ABHORRENCE OF SLAVERY, and
that 1T is THE DUTY OF ALL ANTI.
SLAVERY MEN to rally round the republican
party, as an organization which invites the
united action Of the people on the hanscending
question Of Stare dominion which now divides
the Union"