Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-06-15
THE "SATIONAL PLATFORM AChNo"-
IEDGED TO BE 4 CHEAT.


-, .ho xrsno,;nu. Of the Know Nothinss in tn
1,,Y.as,,b;a National Council, over the muc
y.u,,,d platform which was to he of such o natohS
onsr,c,.r "a to mite the conservatives OF all pare
md ~ NIL sections. In the language OF the He'
York Times, itreally "!ooks Just now as II 81,
sets had succeeded in getting bit Oh oaon r,,o
the party The South even thnk OF '''I Th
talk of A compromise that Is not az VI oA' ,,;,
Las, thought was TO re-airm the ooe"'.' " Wv
rouri Compromise 1.-THE SOP TO inc Aooi.'''""
10 resolve in favor Of the Cons'n"''o"' ,'"' ','
for the sou,h) New times, these II the soa'n WI"
satisfied thus"
III. compromise, hntod at, is described IN the COT
.es,o,dance of the Herald. 1t Is most m'selao'
hacking on: from the bold position assumed oy soneo
,be Southern Know Nothing presses Such an mP0'en
ra.v; as tue adoption ofsuch PLATFORM ~ouiu nu'"
reNy be expected from "nat'onul body' 'ua' @u".'
tho abo,itionis, Wilson iuto close afa'ia"oN WIZ
Southern men, and the same timc' excludes hou'''
.no a,,s,s,es. because of their religious opinions
II appears, too, that Gov. Gardner oi h"ssa'n"'e.
whose conservative course ON the LorhS question
AND the notification law Of Massachusetts was ''
highly cx;osd by Southern Know-Nothns o's'" ~
bas taken the back track and now s'anaS w "''
Wilson on the enti-savery PLATFORM .r,.,
Indications srs that the grand pow-~ow VIII o'''A
-, rvbop, adopng platform of any solid Character
TT. Eou, York Herald which tickled It's Sou1her'
Ku,wyotbiug contrercs with the hope 'na'
,i,,form would surely be established, Is coHpeieo
;, admir- that the thing is impossible, and that holnle
,no,s,rous humbuy and cheat can be produced
by tie mountain in labor 1t says ina. 'i'e N""N,
,b;s corven,ion must "boldly look the fact IN the
face no platform on the subject oil slavery eau u
sou,rivcd which the delegates FROM Georgia anu nus
eaohuaetts can concur in supporting. FIRE anu "''
cannot co.exist in the same Vesseli n'sht ap' ""'
cannot cover tho earth at the same moment Q" ''i''
neither can Al Eastern free-soiler ana "eoi1"
s,eve-owner view slavery or aSee' " "''
with slavery on the same principles and IN 'He '"'
manner They may pretesf 10 agree az" "'"s S'',"
jorLh Ls 10 the cord jor corrupt purposes o"s q" ~
an aous.. agreement or compromise no'""S " s"s
KIND ,s p,,ssl!c And il the convention are now al.
work in the hope that, by pruning anu sr"'''nS' a'''
,yr;s,;n, and dressing the old coumonpiaces aoo"'
they may place them in such light us 10 W
accountable TO both parties they will fail, and noh"
:, - e,ssrlv in prospcet for then. as CONFUSION ana
,,o,u,. We expect nothing of the kind. We have
var little concern about the platform discussion, tor
, hs,eye that il must end, as all such discussions
have ALWAYS ended in tho adoption by small mao
-;+v of f platform on which the defeated minority
y;u emit The real platform is the man; and how
.,sr the Know No,hinys at Philadelphia may quarrel
oh,,. s,svc-v, we SEQ no reason for supposnc they
Iii. o,o-r.I m the choice of a man. The Kao~-No
,h,-g, Of Hrssaeha,ei,s 'cR so home more -h'rceIy
ou;i.,iiysyy than before, and the Gsorgtdas T" DC
fercr thar. euer in their denane'a'to"' q "e a"o''
,,o,tst, but at the same time, both VIII Vo'e 'o'
GEORGE Law or whomsoever haprens to he the nomi-
n.s Of the Know Nothing Nominating Conventions
re.y th;. seems 70 DO sufficient for all practical pur
pose
The Y Express, one of "Sam's" fussieat bottle
ho,iers. amen,s the disastrous consequences which
rnu,, ensus from the Philadelphia conventions fall
ms into .ths slavery pit" with its cyes wide OPEN
rsnize Party in the Northern States iaV"r,nS, III
.nv re,pect the admission of Kansas into the Cnoh'
until i, ia thoroughly established that the voters III
,hs, State who have decided to have slavery there
were bona 6dc settlers there. The Northern nno ca
o;,ad and Indignant because of the faith IN
tho oatter OF the Missouri Compromise, ia enraSed De-
cause Of the doinss of Sringellow and A'ehlsoh IN
Knnsas and of the lynching and larceny OF men IN
Missouri, because of their opinions No "Resoutohe
can as.uage that excitement, or rage,-and every al
tempt to do it, will but aggravate 1t. Serer'heiess'
ons o. two New York gentlemen seem to think d'uer
entr,-bu, Governors Gardner OF Mass JohnS'o"'
of Pa. and Colby of n H., express the Northern sem
Gmeut. The New Workers, who "pledge" TO the con-
trary will be without votes, or endorsement III nome
A. faithful reaectors Of public sentiment IL our du
" 10 sag this,--whatever may be- our own 'ndVidus
opinions. Indeed there are no presses IN the N"r'h
oany party that has the least influence on puoc SEN
tinent here that will say anything to the contrary
whether these presses be Wing, Democratic or hno"-
Nothing. The Resolutions Of the Philadelphia Con-
yeurion If passed. es reported, 1rM be repuddted IN
all the free States # the Union. Tho Kansas and
Nebraska excitement is 10 be cured by time, not
by resolutions, And il wisdom regned in tho Phila-
delphia Convention, would be left To Time knn-
sas cannot come into the Union until She is purged of
"the frauds" charged upon tho electors there,-and
thu, will take time There is 10 pressing danger that
command, immediate action. There IL no danger oil
IA dissolution ofthe Cnion," abon. Kansas there
Is nobody to dissolve the Union about there. Iods
,o,vs tbs Cuion Us certain Georgian resolutions
+hrsasp If Kansas is kept out of the Union, is mere
viod--,be msrest wind Of political horn-blowsrs
Tie wind 40 often wasted. that wonder tho WING
;ns,runep,s Southwark blow it again and again.
There ~, however, 10 rcsi:lt Hoh 'uo Pi'P''SN ~
of,he Philadelphia Convention, an increased agitation
both North add South on the subject ut slavery
th;no aver 10 he deprecuted, but unavoidable now
These revelations of Northern Know Nothing
presses, boosted as conserv ative will show TO TIT
South bow little they ARE TO expect from the scheH
;pcs of the Know Nothing tricksters at Philadelphia
INCREASED agitation, both North and SOUTH aud tn
exclusion Of Kansas, as slave State are the preciou
boon for the South, to Cow from thi, great lame
rican'' party: Can any Southern man hereafter b
bumbusged by the professions Of such ty,whici
being inflated by abolition gas To an mnrd'nate SIZE
il about to burst into atoms, and to give place TO IN
crea. national Democratic party. under whose gu
dance alone tho Rights and the Union OF the State
arc safe 7
p. S.-Ths following sketches from the y. Y. TT
bure's co-respondcnt) Of tho Conventions proceed
inrs, on Tuesday, show in what Illuminating sttitud
Southern men hovo placed themselves by coao
with the Buntiinites
tits believed tho South will propose amilder slnv'
~ platform a compromise with the N"rth. but
viii not do. Nothing short Of the substitution OF II
minority MASSACHUSETTS resolution will prevent an e!
poson. The North grows sitter and sitter on TN
Is an ultimatum.
Eight O'clock, p. M.-Tbe debate on slavery hi
ragged all day with great vciemence. On the part
ness and power. Foster and Wilson, OF Massachuset
and Ford OF Ohio, have made magnificent speeche
showing the impossibity Of union OIL the MAORI,
resolutions, denounciug the repeal of the Nilsson
compromise aud demanding its restoration II
New York delegates have hecn ridded fore aud
for their doughtaceisiu. The South is cowsd con
rlerely and the douShtaces are thinning out wonde
fully Men here are beginning to Gud out that II
North ara in earnest. Seymour, of New York. m
deserted his associates and on to the r.sora,i,
platform. Pennsylvania has seen new light, and "a
-, Hns cd fSnl an fhuS ol,S
Rsyner has felt stiFcned up by dispatch from a r
liable friend in Now York, saying that not a SIM