The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-17
POLITICAL NEWS AND coMMEgTs

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CoNNEcrICUT.-A synopsis of the me asage
of the Governor of Connecticut is pres ,nted
ON our fourth page. 1t will be seen tbIt he
recommends submitting to the People &C the
State an amendment to the Constitute i for
the extension of the right of suffrage to every
male citizen of the United States, having resi-
ded in the State for the time now prescrib d by
the Constitution, but requiring that ever, per-
son, before being admitted to the rights If an
elector, shall be able to read any article { the
Constitution, or any section of the statu Is OF
the State. AS such provision would apply
equally to native and foreign born, white and
colored, making no distinction between cl,sses,
whatever may be thought of its policy, /! can
hardly be condemned as unjust
| No allusion is made to the general question
Of Slavery; but, like the rest of the know
Nothing Governors in the free States, he ex-
presses disapprobation of the Kansas NeSras-
ka Act. There is nothing in his message that
would preclude him from cooperating cordially
in the support of a National" Know NGihing
for the Presidency.
At meeting, May LIST, of Council No So,
| Greenwich the Clerk announced that he had
received notices from large number q the
members, asking to- be dismissed. Their re-.
quest was complied with, and the rema ming
members then voted to give up their chart sr on
the 9Th of May, when the State Council vas to
| meet. That is the true course for honest men,
New JERsEY.-The State Council OF the
Know Nothings on the I'd of May adopted, as
it is understood, the "National" Compromise
platform, and its delegates, says the NcW York
Herald, will go to Philadelphia, prepared to
eject the Massachusetts, heretics from the party.
MASSACHUSETTS AND New HAMPsHIRE.-
| would seem that Massachusetts, and New Hamp.
shire are the only States in which the Anti
Slavery Know Nothings have secured the as
tendency in the Order. The following are the
| resolutions reported to have been adopted by
| the State Council of the former:
ResOtUed, That while the American party
of Massachusetts fully recognises the right Of
the States to regulate their own domestic af.
fairs, we claim, and shall under all circum-
| stances exercise the right to relieve the Fed.
eral Government from all connection WITH, and
responsibility for, the existence of the sectional
institution of Slavery.
RESOLVED, That we discountenance all at
tempts to stiAe the fretssom of discussion and
the freedom of action upon all the great moral
questions of the age, and will resist any attempt
to exclude from our ranks any person, on ac-
count of his opinions upon such questions"
The resolutions are quite general, but they
do not indicate the terms on which the Know
Nothing party is willing to sustain the Nation
al organization. Suppose the National Coun-
Gil take antagonistic ground, what is to be done
then? :.
We hear reports of the growing power of
the Know Something's" section o. the
original Order. A correspondent of the Ne,c
/ York Epening Post says, they constitute. now
a majority of the Legislature, and the cleo
ton of Mr.. Slack, boiling Know Nothing, as
Speaker pro tenn, is their work.
The refusal Of Governor Gardner to rtmove
Judge Loring has aroused the indignat;in of
this portion of the party, while it has plsased
the Hunker faction, and awakened the pleudits
of the Wing press generally. Some givs him
credit for great independence some say, that,
AntiSlavery men and the Hunkers, he ia pre-
pairing for union ultimately between the latter
and the Wings; others will have it, that he is
DESTROYS of helping the cause in Virginia, and
has an eye to the chances for the next Presi;
dency.
We see in the newspapers the following reso.
lutions, said, upon what authority we knoy not,
to have been adopted by the New Hamashre
State Council of Know Nothngs:
"Whereas here appear to exist in the ninds
of portion ) the community some dou IT'S as
to the positiOr of the American party in egard
to Slavery, a., Il its extension over new ksrrito-
| ries, therefore,
ResOtoed., That the American Organic alton
as constitute, and existing in New Hami shire;
is not based% On one idea alone, but ccihpre-
bends every dnciple that will promote tie po-
litical welfar, yof free people.
Resolred, That the Declaration of dnde,
pendence, the tones and deeds of the fop lders
of this Republic all indicate that our threfa.
theirs intended that Slavery should be sectional
not MISUNDERSTANDING, not permanent.
"Resotced, That as a political party, plstlged
to regard and scatch ocer the best interests of
the whole Unseh, and to labor for its integrity
and peypeta,tg, soe sotemnty protest against tbs
repeal Of the Missouri Compromise, the Kgasas.
Nebraska baf. and the Fugitice Stare LG..c, as
ciolations Of tae spirit Of the Constitution, and
tending to disunion and The destruction If the
free institutions Of the country. !
"Resotred, That zoe neper icil2, undt any
circumstances consent to the admission O Sla,
rery into any portion O the territory emf raced
IN the compact Of 1920, and from Which ,oas
then excluded by the mutual agreement O. both
The NOrfheyu1Dd ,C,nyberu .SIofes
"ResoIred, That any attempt to CONN 1t the
american party of New Hampshire to Il e adj.
rancemem Of the interest Of Slacery, to gnore
as q political question: or to enjoin silence
upon as an regard TO its eriLs and encJoach.
nsents, deserves and shall receire our earnest
and unqualified disapprobatiom."
This is about as strong Anti Slavery ground
as the Wings of Massachusetts, took before the
year l948. We shall see whether the AntiSla.
very Know Nothings of New Hampshire are
any more successful than they were, in Impress
ing such principles upon National Orgeniza-
ton, in which Shareholders and Doushfac6 have
decided majority. 4
GEoRGIA.-In the Savannah Republican Of
May It'll we find the following:
at is generally understood that the i..meri-
can party in Georgia assembled in State Coun.
Gil at Macon, Wednesday last. 1t was ordered
that the following resolution, adopted by ,ouny
Gil and handed US by the President, shot Id be
published:
"Resolred, That Slavery and slave stitu-
tons are protected by the Constitution If the
United States, and the obligation to ms ntain
| them is not sectional, but national; tn. t the
right to establish them in the organization of