Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-06-19
Prom the New York Express, juno 10.
The Amerfcan COnventfOn.

We publish elsewhere the final proceedings Of
this body, which has been In session in Philadel-
phia now some ten days-a good part Of which
time has been spent in exciting philosophic and
constitutional discussions upon the African, and
his connexion with the American system of gov
srnment We have deprecated all along the in
PRODUCTION Of this African into the American party,
but II could not DO avoided-and the platform,
published elsewhere is, in its 18th article, the SUBJ
stance of what was concluded about him. This
article it was which caused the secession of certain
gentlemen under Mr.. Wilson--and hence some i'm
portance Is given 10 1t.
1t will be recollected that Mr.. Senator Wilson is
the same gentleman who bolted In huff from the
Philadelphia Taylor Convention, because he (Gen.
Taylor was not enough of an anti-slavery man
and that he and his party then rushed to Buffalo,
and nominated Martin Van Buren, and Francis
Adams They have repeated this bolt now Sec
ond time, but this time they have gone little
further up the Lake, and stopped at Cleveland, in
Ohio.
If they had stayed day longer In Philadelphia,
and moved a reconsideration of the vote which
passed this platform, they might have modified it,
or softened IL; and II that could not have been
brought about II could not have been said Of them,
that they hurried off on purpose not to better II
or modify II, as 1t can now be said. The records
Of the Council also show that they voted with the
ultras OF the South against every moderate propo-
stion, like that Of Kenneth Kayners; and that
they compelled the Council by their votes, to take
this platform, or TO have none but such as they
might dictate. There was no Cancellation on the
part of Mr.. Wilson but on the contrary, from the
start, an evident predetermination to repeat in
Phladephia, In 1855, the bolt there began by him
from convention In l648
The 10Th section Of the platform is not as ex-
plicit as we would wish but It has no such color
ing as the Abolition press Of the North would give
II. Ii recognises and toerates the differences OF
opinion known TO exist on the subject of slavery
between the North and the South. II does not
put every Northern mans nose down TO the sla-
very grindstone, as is said in these presses but,
on the contrary, leaves every American 70 indulge
in his own opinion on that subject, as indulge all
men viii, Of all parties-Whigs, Democrats, OF
Americans
The claim Of q State TO be admitted into the
Union, 9th or without slavery, recognised in the
Platform is in the very ideas Of Mr. Seward in his
California speech urging the admission Of Califor.
| MIA into the Union and Of John Quincy Adams,
speaking Of the admission Of Florida. No State
| has ever been denied admission into the Union
because Of It's being sidpe or free State. But
there Is nothing here pledging the American party,
As the abolition presses state TO admit Kansas into
the Union-f she present hcrself--as is threatened
now in some quarters with saveholding consti.
tuition, made by Missouri squatters, who, In viola.
ton Of popular sovereignty, seem 10 have carried
the Territorial Legislature The right and duty Of
every American, North and South, TO resist such a
violation Of popular sovereignty" are apparent
and opcn-and Il Ia evident that Kansas cannot be
admitted into the Union until she purges herself
Of the Missouri violence and fraud. II must be a
well settled thing-that she is a voluntary slave
holding State, OF her own free wil-befofo the
right Of popular sovereignty" can begin to i'm.
pose any claim upon Congress TO admit her into
the Union. Nevertheless, the greatest efforts win
DO made TO pcrvert all this.
The re-insttution Of the Missouri Compromise,
which Mr.. Wilson and the Wilsonites contend for,
Ia chmera-an imprscticability-a dream. That
the repeal was violation Of faith, by Northern, az
well as by Southern, members Of Congress- the e.
press has often said-and a wrong, which ought
not to have been done--but the undoing Of wrong
IL not so easy az the doing Of one 1t Is not in the
power Of Congress now to divest the vested rights
Of shareholders IL created and recognised by Kan
sas Territorial Legislature. Congress cannot divest
slave-owner Of his slaves held under preceding
act Of Congress. If the Territory Of Kansas makes
slaves property" Congress cannot take proper
| ty" from any man without compensation. Hence,
though Congress might repeal the Territorial act,
II could not repeal the rights Of property vested
under that act To GUST slavery, then, in Kansas
by act of Congress, is now legal mpossibity--
and II Congress was 10 try to do il, the Supreme
Court Of the United States would set aside the act
as unconstitutional The only way 70 save Kansas
| from being slave State now, il by obtaining pos
session of It's Territorial Legislature, under great
er free than siaps desiring population.
The general principles of the platform are patri.
otto and sound, and such az must commend them
to the attention Of every rightthinking man. Re,
lgious liberty II rscognised-while allegiance Of
all sorts 70 foreign potentate, called "a Pope