Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-08-08

sale IN the hearts of the people.
Sir. this majoi y p.atlorm-this New
York platform was adopted in committee
by seventeen votes TO fourteen. Two o
these votes are from Minnesota and the
District of Columbia, that have no elec.
tcral votes to give, and in all the other
States the American party has been de-
feaLed whenever its banner has been
raised. The friends of that majority re-.
port have not an electoral vote now Sc.
cured, and they cannlt pledge us one
with any degree o. certainty. The mi.
nority platform, in favor of the restora-
ton Of freedom to Kansas and Nebraska,
received fourteen votes from fourteen
States having one hundred and twenty
six electoral votes, all now secured. -
Iowa Is not here, and now New York
can easily be ours upon that minority
platform. Adopt the mfjority platform,
and these one hundred and twenty si1
votes are lost Iowa and New York &C
with them, and the States that impose
this platform upon us will nearly all be
swept by the Democracy. Adopt the
restoration policy, and we sweep every
free State like a whirlwind. Adopt the
majority report, and defeat is inevitable
-annlhllatipn sure.
This majority platform expressly de
clares that 'the American party cannot
be held in any manner responsible foI
the obnoxious acts or violated pledges OF
either the Wing or Democratic parties. -
Having made this declaration, what does
it propose the American party shall do
1t proposes that the American party
shall Sanction these obnoxious acts and
violated pledges" by avowing lis pur-
pose to be, "to abide by and maintain
the existing laws upon the subject OF
slavery, as a final and conclusive settle
ment of that subject in spnit and sub
stance" 1t proposes not only, to sane
tify the legislation of the past, but to ig-
more all action in the future. 1t declares
that Congress has no constitutional pow
er " to exclude any State from admis-
sion into Union because its constitution
does or does not recognize the institution
of slavery us part of its social system;
and expressly pretermitting any expires
sion oil opinion upon the power OF Con-
gress to establish or prohibit slavery in
any territory, it is the sense of the ma
tional council that Congress ought not
to legislate upon the subject of slavery
within the Territory of the United States,
and that any interference by Congress
with slavery rs it exists in the District
of Columbia would be a violation of the
spirit and intention of the compact by
which the State of Maryland ceded the
District to the United States and breach
of the national faith" The adoption q
this platform commits the American par
ty Internationally to the policy of slave
ry-to the iron diminion of the black
power. l tell you, sir, l tell this con-
vention, that we cannot stand upon the
platform in a single State of the North
The people. of the North will repudiate it,
spum it, spit upon it. For myself, sir, l
here and now tell you to your faces, that
[ will trample with disdain on your plat
form. l will not otsuPport it. [ will sup
port no man who stands upon it. Adopt
that platform, and YOU array against you
every thing that is pure and holy-eve-
thing that has the elements ofpermanency
in 1.-THE noblest 'pulsalions Of the lnu-
man heart-the holies: convictions of the
human soul-the profoundest ideas oI
the human intellect and the attributes
of Almighty Godl Your party will be
withered and consumed by the blasting
breath Of the peoples wrath ! There is
an old Spanish proverb, which says thai
" the feet of the avenging Deities are
shod with wool" Softly and silently
these avenging deities are advancing
upon you. You will find that ''the mills
of God grind slowly, but they grind tC
powder"
OF one hundred and forty-two repre-
stntatives of the free States of the North,
one hundred and twenty, elected by morC
than 300,0i0 majority, are Pledge
against the Kansas-Nebraska iniquity.-
Your platform requires these represen
tatives to violate their pledges to tn,
people, to smother their own hOliest con
victions, to abandon your party or resigr
their seats. Do you, sir, believe thes,
representatives will obey your unholy
DEGREES ? Do you believe they will be
tray free and generous people at you
bidding? l tell you nay They vii
trample with disdain upon your platform
They will spurn it, and spurn you. The
people will sustain them, and tramplc
your platform and you in the dust.
Sir, the gentleman from Alabama
Judge HOpkins) takes exception to the
declaration made by me the other lay,
in reply to the gentleman from Virginia
{ Mr. Bolling) that ''the past was yours
the future ours - He objects. he tell;
US, to my assuming the functions of Z
prophet. Sir, make little pretensions lC
the gift of prophecy-but il requires bu
slight knowledge Of the aspects Of the
slavery question in America, to pro
nounce the opinion, that the past Of the
Republic belongs to Slavery-the future
to Freedom. Perhaps the distinguished
gentleman from Alabama believes that
we of the North aie mere conquered
provinces that the people will obey
your DEGREES and g conquer their preju.
dicos.' . One year ago, when the slave
propo gandiStS proposed TO repeal so much
of the Act of the 5.h of March, 1920, as
prohibited slavery in The vast territory
lying in the heart of the Continent, these
slave propogandists laughed to scorn the
predictions Of the friends of freedom, that
the repeal would meet the stern resist
ance of the people of the North The
naughty chiefs of the Black power, and
the Administration, and its Northern
tools in Congress, have gone down be-
fore the stormy wrath Of the people =
The predictions made by us in the Spring
OF 1854, are now historical deeds-"con-
summaJed facts" SO i: viii I've now. The
deed You are about to perform will seal
your doom forever
You tel u that we oa1ht t. rebuke