Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-06-22
Another National Convention.

ton Of Knoa0 Something's has been ia ses--
sion at Cleveland. All the Free States,
and Kentucky and Virginia are represented.
The number in attendance is large, and the
proceedings are harmonious. That our
people may understand the platform ofthis
new and rapidly increasing Order, we copy
it entire, as We find It in the Cleveland
Leader of the 18th inst: ssz
NATIONAL PLATFORM OF THE Know
SOMETHING'S, ADOPTED AT CLEVELAND June
IA, 1S55.-As servility to the Slave Power
characterizes the national organization of
the existing political parties, and as this SER
witty is perilous both to the MANHOOD Of
the North and the LIBERTY Of the Repub-
Ilic,
We declare:--
Frst-That the issue before the Ameri-
can People, is, ,ohethsr Freedom shall Be
limited 10 the Free States or whether Slav-
cry shall be limited to the Slave States.
iSecoHd-That this issue has been forced
upon the country by the Slave Power
through repeated agressions, and by acts
which have violated national faith, solemn
compacts, and sacred covenants.
Third-That these agressions, especially
the Nebraska outrage, with the brutal as
sauls upon the elective franchise in Kansas,
have aroused freemen of the Republic to a
Just sense of their duty and their danger;
and though they will invade no rightoT any
State, they will maintain every right Of
Freedom, and resist the admission of anoth-
er foot Of iSldvs Soil.
Fourth-That we shall meet this issue,
thus forced upon us, in the spirit our faith
ers met the issue of their day; and believ-
ing, as they believed, that, rightfully, man
can hold no property in man, we will main
tain the NATIONALITY of Freedom.
Fifth--Tbat freedom being one in aim
and end, the world over, the friends of Free
dom in this Republic should make PriHci-
pies and Character, not Birthplace, the
test of admission to citizenship, and its con-
stitutional rights.
Ahd aOe further declare:-
Sirth-That the right 10 worship God
according to the dictates of individual con-
science being inviolable, we will labor to
strengthen this great immunity through
wise State laws; but we will repel every
politico, ecclesiastical interference, in politi-
cal affairs, by potentate, pon!iff or priest,
or their abettors, as destructive alike of this
Right and our common Liberty.
Seventh-That intemperance being an
evil, we recommend to the several States
such action for the promotion of Temper
ance as will extend and establish that viz
tue.
Eig6th-That Free Schools, Free labor.
the improvement Of Rivers and Harbors,
an honest republican Official Representa-
ton Abroad, all measures that tend to ele-
vate MAN, establish the material prosperity
of the country, and give stability to the
Union, shall receive our hearty support.
NiHth-That TO insure practical success
we will strive TO eli all Offices with men Of
.undoubted integrity and sobriety, Of ability,
and Of nerve to resist aggression upon Right,
come when, where. or in what shape, it may
Tentt-That for these objects, vital alike
TO Humanity and the Republic, We are
ready to unite with all men, under what
ever name or organization, who will aid us
in carrying iDto successful operation, these
great principles.
The The 6. S. JfdEznal says, the only mate
rial difference between this pfa;fa,FFI pif ss2d
that of the Know Nothings, as agreed upon
at Cleveland few days since. is in relation
to the question of naturalization. and in its
reference to the question Of temperance
Upon THE great, absorbing and vital ques
ton of the day. there is no difference
They both stand squarely and firmly firmly on
the Republican ground of last year. The
avowal Of disposition @to unite with all
men under whatever name or organization" I"
to carry out the principles of freedom, will
meet with hearty response. II is in the
proper spirit The present is no time for
the true men of the North to higgle and
quarrel about men, or immaterial issues.-
Upon that which circumstances have made
tie great issue for 1856, there is. we are
happy to say, now ne difference of opinion.
Shoulder to shoulder the phalanx of free
dom will march forward in the coming
struggle. With this unity of purpose and
ardent zeal which the great cause inspires,
the triumph of the free North over the de-
feated and dismayed remnant of the Ne
braska Slave Democracy cannot fail to be
signal and conclusive.
P.s. Since writing the above we have
received the following additional intelli-
gence: In their Convention theyresolyed
to dispense with oaths, substituting pledge
of honor. They remain anti-slavery and
An attemp; to bind the organ
izatiou to support Seward, by the insertion
of an article in the Constitution, was oppos-
ed by several delegates, and pestponed.-I
The Constitution was adopted last evening.
Hiram Griswold. of Ohio. vas elected Pres
ident, and VIM. Richardson, of Albany,
Secretary. The Convention will probably
adjourn to-day.