The Feliciana Democrat., 1855-12-01
NO.33.

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didates for President and Vice President;
that the democratic and anti-know nothing
members of the legislature, together with
such other members of the party as may
be chosen to attend from their respective
counties, be, and are hereby requested TO
meet at some convenient time during the
present session and select twenty delegates
to said convention for this state. ds1J .s8
.. Resolved, That our delegates to said
convention ought, in our opinion, to be in
|structed by those who shall appoint them to
insist upon the adoption of platform Of
lprnciplc as basis of national organiza-
ton, prior to the nomination of candidates,
and that said platform shall, among other
things include, in substance, the following
propositions:
i. The recognition and adoption Of the
principles established in the Kansas-Ne.
braska act.
2. That neither the Missouri Compro-
mise nor any other anti-slavery restriction
shall hereafter be extended over any terri
tory of the United States. i4
3. The prompt and faithful execution of
the fugitive slave law, and its permanent
continuance upon the statute book.
10. Resoiped, That no man ought to be
held and considered member of the ma
tional democratic party who does not rec.
ognizc, approve, and adopt the foregoing
propositions, and that the democratic and
anti-know nothing party of this state
through its said delegation, ought not to
affiliate or act in said convention with any
delegate or delegates who shall disapproye
and vote against the same.
IL. Resotced That if said proposition
shall not in substance be Incorporated in
the platform adopted by said convention,
the delegates from Georgia ought, in the
opinion of this meeting, to withdraw from
the convention, and take no further partin
the nominations or other proceedings Of
the same; and that our delegates ought to,
be instructed SO to act.
u. Resotred, That the Democratic and
anti-know nothing party of this state ought
and will support the nominees of said CON
vention for President and Vice President
provided the platform adopted by said CON
vention be in accordance with the spirit
and intent of the foregoing propositions
and the nominees thereof be pledged, il
elected, to carry out the same in good faith,
in the administration of the government,
and in appointments to Office under the adj
ministration. e.e,..=.
ID. Resofced, That we sympatlize with
the friends of the slavery cause in Kansas
in their manly efforts to maintain their
rights and interests and the rights and in
terests of the southern people, and that
we rejoice at their present victories over
the paid adyenturers and .iesuitical hOrdes
Of northern abolitionism; that the deep in
tcrost felt and taken by the people of Mis-.
souri, in the settlement of Kansas, and the
decision of the slavery question in it, is
both natural and proper, and that it is their
right and duty to extend to their southern
brethren in that territory every legitimate
and honorable sympathy and support.
a. Reso,Ded, That we are uncompromis-
ingly opposed to the political organization
commonly called the know nothing order
or American party, having no sympathy
with their secrecy, their oaths, their uncon-
stitutonal designs, their religious intocr-
ancc, and their political prescription.
10. ResotDed, That we hail with delight
the late signal triumph in Virginia, Penn
sylyania Maine, and other states, including
Georgia, OF the democratic party and Of
the patriotic wings who co-opcrated in
achieying these results over the know no.
thing organization, as conclusive evidence
that in the great practical question involy-
ed in that contest southern men may homo
rably and successfully combine, without re-
gard to past political distinctions, to save
the constitution from dcsecraton and the
south from being prostratcd before the pow
er OF northern fanaticism and misrule.
l6 Resotped, That the democratic and
anti.know nothing party in all our sister
states, and especially The southern states,
are respectfully and earnestly requested to
take the foregoing resolutions into their
carly consideration, and cooperate with us
in the policy and objects intended to be
thereby secured.
MARRIAGE OF THOMAS FRANCIS MEAG-
HER.-Mr. Thomas Francis Meagher was
married on the 18th instant in New York,
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