Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-06-21

question BY those parties has elevated section
al hostility into a positive element Of politi-
cal power and brought car institutions into
peril it has therefore become the imperative
duty of the American party to interfere, for
the purpose of giving peace to the country and
perpetuity to the Union; that as experience
has shown it impossible to reconcile opinions
so extreme as those which seperate the dispu-
tants, and as there can be no dshonor in
submitting to the laws, the national council
has deemed it the best guarantee of common
justice and of future peace to abide by and
maintain the existing laws on the subject of
slavery as finaland conclusive settlement of
that subject, in spirit and in substance
Rcsolved, That regarding it the highest
duty to ayow these opinions upon subject SO
important in distinct and unequivical terms,
it is hereby declared as the sense of this ma
tional council, that Congress possess no power
under the constitution" to legislate upon the
subject Of slavery in the states, or to exclude
any state from admission into the Union be.
cause its constitution does or does not recog-
nize the institution of slavery as part Of its
social system and expressly pretermitting any
expression of opinion upon the power Of Con-
gress to establish or prohibit slavery in any
territory, it is the sense of this national coun-
Gil that Congress ought not to Ngislate upon
the subject of slavery within the territories
of the United States, and that an interference
of Congress with slavery as it exists in the
District of Columbia. would be violation of
the spirit and intention of the compact by
which the state of Maryland coded the dis
trict to the United States, and breach Of the
national faith.
The report of the minority, or free State
members, except those of New York and
Pennsylvania, as their ultimatum for going
into national campaign with their Southern
brethren was as follows:-
RcsolOed, That the repeal of the Missouri
was an infraction Of the plighted
faith OF the nation, and that it should be res
tored; and if efforts to that end shall fail,
Congress should refuse to admit any state tol-
Grating slavery, which shall be formed out of
any portion Of the territory from which that
was excluded by that compromise.
On these two opposing platforms, as might
be expected, a fierce debate ensucd, the results
of which, we copy from the Boston Journal,
together with that other important counter
acting movement OF the day, the assembling
and result of the National convention of the
Know Something's, at Cleaveland Ohio, during
the same time -
New York, June 14th.-The Know Moth.
ngs had stormy time in their Convention at
Philadelphia yesterday, and the session was
protracted until one o'clock this morning.
Numerous speeches were made, and there was
a great deal of elimination, and recrimnation.
Finally vote was reached upon the majority
report Of the platform committee, and agreed
to by vote of 80 to SO.
The vote on the minority report was 81 in
favor, and 80 against it; and on Kenneth
Raynors compromise proposition, the vote
stood yeas A, nays 81. The Convention
adjourned until nine o'clock this morning
when it was thought the injunction of.secresy
would be removed.
Governor Gardener left Philadelphia for
Boston yesterday.
New York, June 4th.-Specia dispatches
from Philadelphia mention that in view of
the action of the National Council of the Know
Nothing organization, last night, meeting of
delegates was held this forenoon. Hon. Hen
ry Wilson, Of Massachusetts,, was appoints
chairman. Great unanimity of feeling was
expressed, and determination to appeal from
The Council to the people in behalf of the
tight principle.
The following address was submitted, signed
BY the delegates present, and ordered to be
published to the nation -
10 the people Of the United Stntes-
The undersigned, citizeus of various States,
assembled at Philadelphia, on the 14th OF
June, 1855, feel constrained, under the ex.
lstlng state of affairs, to affirm the following
principles =
lst The unconditional restoration of that
tlme-honored compromise known as the Mis-.
souri, prohibition, which was DESTROYED in utter
Of the popular villa wrong which
no lapse of time can palliate, and no ploa for
its continuance can justify and we will use
all constitutional fieans to maintain the ,,osi.
tive guaranty OF the compact, until the object
for which it was enacted has been consummat-
ed by the admission of Kansas and Nebraska
as Free States.
I'd. The rights Of the settlers in territories
to the free and undisturbed exercise of the
elective franchise granted to them by the laws
under which they are organized, shall be
protected by the national executive
whenever violated or threatened, and that we
cannot consclentiously act with those who will
not aid us in the correction of these national
wrongs, and who will not even permit their
fair consideration and their full discussion.
3D.. We further declare our continued and
lnalterable reformation to use all honorable
efforts to secure such a modification of the
laws, aided by such an eeva-
ton OF public sentiment, as will preserve the
true interests of the nation, and guaran-
zee the :hree vital principles of Republican
Government, "Spiritual freedom" ga free
Bible" and " free Schools thereby promot.
ng the great work of Americanizing America.
4th. That we invoke the arm of legislation
o arrest that growing evil, the deportation
" foreign authorities of paupers and conyicts
o our shores, and that as the National Con-
titution requires the Chief Executive of our
country to be of native birth, we deem it
'qually necessary and important that our d.