The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1855-06-16

SStIl June. !N>t"it. ~ ~ q CLOCK, A. NJ. To nOml
nate State Officers for the year ensuing and for The
transaction OF sue, oEcr business rs shall be nron
err t. the OCCASION
LAWRENCE HEAISEED. Chairmen of
JOHN PORTER subcommittee
June = l.5i
IN COUNCIL.
The Know Notlings have been in ounci
FOR week or more past at Philadelphia. tn,
! Convention consists Of Delegates from eacl
State, and also from tlc District of Column.
bia. Their meetings are secret, though an
evening festival was holden with open doors
at which speeches were made uron several
topics embraced in the creed of the party.
AT the election of officers on the S,h. after
six ballots. Barker was !a;;i out cold. On
the frs: ballot he received Sc Ricardo (of
Mary!aEd.) %: Gardner 80: Bartlett II
Dannehower (of lllnois)2 On the third,
Gardner ha: ~, and on the fourth, Sc. On
the sixth ballot. his friends united with t!,os /,
Of l.. Is. Bartlett, Of Kentucky, giving the
latter "a, and cectiny him.
The other officers elected were as follows
Vice President, {. d. Freeman. OF Penn
sylvania: Corresponding Secretary. De>llcr
of New Jersey Recording Secretary, Ste
rhcns, Of Missouri: Chaplain, Ruys. Of Mas
sachuSctts: Treasurer, Crane. of Ohio. The
Committee on the platform consists of one
delegate from each State, named bv their re-
srcctive States.
The Massachusetts, delegates, after due
probation. were admitted to seats. They
were kept out, nominal.v on account Of a
pretended informally in taeir credentials.
but really. TO doubt on account Of the flat
footed resolutions Of the order of the State
upon the Slavery question. The Southern
section of The order are disposed TO cast out
all Of their Northern brethren a. all .inr,ur-
cd with anti-slavcry sentiments. The Mas
sachusetts delegate presented a resolution
upon the subject Of slavery. as follows:
Heso'red. That the 1li.hted faith Of the
nation. violated 10y the unexpected and IN
called for repeal Of the Missouri Compromise
should he restored and if efforts to this end
shall fail, Congress should refuse admission
TO the inion to any State, to!cratiny Slave
~. which shall be formed out OF any portion
Of the territory from which that institution
liz 81 Tall ,. v1,,t
of thirty four years standing
This was voted down two 10 one in the
Committee. Rhode Island voted against it.
"Gov Johnston, Of Pennsylvania, had.
says despatch to the Springfield RcpubIi.
can. Submitted proposition to restore the
Missouri Compromises, with aproviso in favor
Of actual settlers" 1t was kicked cat unani
mouslv.
Mr.. Rug, tni.ersaist clergyman Of
Massachusetts. was elected chaplain Thi.
did not suit all. and a Lubbul, was raised
when Mr.. Rug. resigned The Council then
voted to dispense with Chaplain y dis
patch to .Lc A:las, dated Philadelphia. june
lth, SAYS THE Council is in the midst of
contest over the resolutions on slavery
The majority report is damnab,e. All the
free States Tut New York report as the mi
nority the Massachusetts, resolutions to re-
store Kansas to freedom: and unless that be
substituted 'or the majority report, half a,
least will bolt. Gardner led off in = bcld
speech tonight"
We report further progress. The plat
form, so far as it relate to slavery, is curl
Gus. but canno. be misintcrprcte,l. It is a,
follow:
He<o''e", That the american party having
arisen on the ruins and in spite of the cppo.
Sition of the whc and democratic parties
cannot be held in any manner responsible
for the obnoxious acts or violated pledges of
either: that the systematic agitation of the
slavery question by those parties, has elcva.
ted sectional hostility into a positive clcmen,
Of political power and brought our institu-
tons into peril: it has therefore become the
imperative duty OF the American par,y
to interfere. for the purpose Of giving peace
to the country and perpetuitv to the Union
that as experience has shown it impossible TO
reconcile opinions so extreme as those which
separate the di,putants, and as there can be
no dIshonor in submitting to the laws, the ma
tional council has deemed it the best cuaran-
tee Of common Justice and of future peace 70
abide by and maintain the existing laws upon
tie subject OF slavery, as a final and conclu.
sive settlement of that subject, in spirit and
in substance.
EeSolred, That regarding it the highest
duty to avow these opinion. upon srhect so
important in distinct and unequivccal terms.
it is hereby declared as the sense of this ma
tional council, that Congress possesses no
power under the constitution, to lecislate un-
on the subject of slavery in the states, or to
exclude any state from admission into the
Union because its constitution does or does
not recognize the institution of slavery as n
part of lis social system: and expressly pre.
termitting any expression of opinion upon
the power of Congress to establish or prohib-
1t slavery in any territory, it is the sense of
this national council that Congress ought not
to legislate upon the subject of slavery with.
in the territories Of the United States, and
that any interference Of Congress as it exists
in the District of Columbia would I've viola
tioa Of the spirit and intention of the com
pact by which the state of Maryland ceded
the district to the United States. and a
breach of the national faith.
The resolution Of the minority, moderate
enough in all ons,icn,e va. ,s Glloue