The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-06-27
Opinions of the Vermont Press.
THE KNOW NOTHING SPLIT.

A certain Wing National Convention
has received the sobriquet ofthc "Slough.
ter-house Convention" We think tho
term would be better applied to the Ma
tional Council of Know Notbings which
finished its session at Philadelphia, last
week. For it was a " house of slaugh-
ter" for doughfaces, if no others. We
gave, last week, an account OF the prog
ress Of the Convention up to the time of
going to press and Of the subsequent
proceedings and the final results we have
given in our columns, this week, pretty
liberal portions. The rroslavery plat
form was carried by the votes of the slave
States aud the delegation from New
York. But the North, though outvotcd,
was not conquered. Her representatives
refused to submit TO Southern dictation,
or give up their cherished principles of
freedom. Upon the passage of the OBJ.
n%oxious resolutions, they protested q.
gainst the action of the National Con.
vention, withdrew from its deliberations.
and adopted n platform oftbcir own. Aud
a strong platform it isl 1t is q plat.
form for misunderstanding the reg.
toration Of the Missouri Compromise,an d
refusing to bargain away Northern rights
for the loaves and fishes of Office.
The Northern delegates to the X. N.
National Convention, with the exception
Of The New York men, are deserving Of
great honor. They net the insolence Of
Southerners, and the trcachery of the
New Workers. with courage, ability aud
skill. Besides those we named last week
rs taking a prominent part in the vindi-
cation of Northern sentiment. Thomas
II. Ford, Of Ohio, is mentioned as one of
the most eloquent and effective speakers.
He is a Virginian by birth and a stump
orator Of no ordinary power. Ohio"
he said. " had stood up for the compro.
misses of 1850, and bad maintained them
in good faith but if the South refused to
right this great wrong. we will never
more be your lick-spittlos aud boot.
blacks, ard demean ourselves to catch
your runaway niggers. Two thirds of
the Ohio delegation hero arc Virginians
by birth-there is one here who didn't
leave Virginia until his head was AS
white as it is now but they will rcpudi.
ate the land that give them birth they
will no longer be bound by past comrro.
misses in favor of Southern slavery, un.
less Gou come manfully forward aud re.
turn what belongs to us, aud what you
have stolen, after having got the pay for
giving it to us"
The result Of the Convention, notwith.
standing the adoption by a majority of
its members Of pro slavery platform. is
a moral triumph Of the North. The
greatest danger to which the party in the
North was exposed. consisted in u ten
dency to ignore the cause of freedom and
become, at least indirectly, subseryicnt
to the purposes of the South. The
Northern Know Nothings are now free
from any suspicion Of that kind. They
have cleared their skirts from slavery
and doughfaceism. They will go into
the contest at the next election, with
their prestige Of success maintained.
Their platform is broad enough and
so'nd enough to hold all lovers Of free
dom ard resi- cctors of plightcd faith. So
long as they remain true to the princi-
PIES of their representatives. at Philadel.
rhio, so long they will continue Ito CON
trol the Free States Of the Union
Uinds0r Journal.