Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-06-19

SON, J. w. Foster, A. c. Carey, H. w. Rugg,
James Buiiinton, Andrew A. Richmond.
New Hampshire Anthony Colby, Jesse Mann,
\ Stephen b. Sherman
| Vermont-Ryland Fletcher, Evelyn Pierpoint,
Joseph IL. Barrett, r. Nj. Guilford, 10. ID. Hatch,
Horace Kingsley
Maine-Louis o. Cowan, A. s Richmond, B.
1 ID. Peck, John l.. Stevens John S. Sayward,
! Joseph Covell, James Nj. Lincoln.
/ Ohio-Thomas Ii. Ford, l.. N. Odds, Joshua
Martin, J. h. Marley, George r. Morton, A.
Mckay, Ii. M. McAbee, Jno. L. Rees, Bushnell
! White.
| Indiana-Wm Cumback, Schuyler Colfax,
Goodlove 5. Orth, J. l.. Harvey, +. ID. Allen,
JAS. II. Nj. Bryant, Thomas c. Slaughter.
| Michigan-lsrael Cogshall Mos. A. McNaugh-
| Ilnois-W. w. Danenhower, w. ii. Young,
Henry s. Jennings, ID. L. Eastman, William J.
Phelps.
.Iowa-James Thorington, VIM. Laughridge
Rhode lsland-Jacob @. Knight, Nathaniel
Green, VIM. H. Sweet.
Connectcut-David b. Booth, Thomas Clark,
N. ID. Sperry.
Wisconsin-D E. Wood, R. Chandler, c. w.
Cook.
The convention, as a National Convention, be-
ing thus split, dissolved, and broken up, the
with the members from the South, went off howl
ing like hungry wolves to their homes in the
grim and granite North. 1t is said that they i'm
mediately opened communication with a conven-
ton of undisguised, and therefore more honest
abolitionists then in session in Cleveland, Ohio,
which has since adopted the following (n bfief)
as its platform:
nd Iat IN ~
encroa chments of Slavery.
,. "A demand for the restoration of the Mis-
souri, Compromise.
g. ssInternal improvements under the author
ity of the General Government.
A. "Protection to American Industry"
A combination of rank Abolitionism and Fed
eral Whiggery-truly unctuous and fragrant.
Communication between the seceders from the
Philadelphia Convention and the Cleveland on
vention was thus opened by telegraph. The fol-
lowing dispatch was received by the Cleveland
Convention:
"The North is beaten. Thirteen States have
withdrawn in disgust. Say to our friends at
Cleveland, we with you heart and soul. May
God eternally d-n Slavery and Doughfaceism.
The announcement was received with singular
emotions. Three times three were given and re-
peated, for liberty and humanity. Delegates
have arrived from Philadelphia, who are author
lied to unite with the Know-somethings.
LIBERTY.
Thus bereft of their northern allies, who no
doubt convinced them that an abolitonist is that
human hyena that can be tanned neither by the
lash nor by kindness, the southern members of
the National Convention, that uas to be, sat with
grave dignity to finish the work they had com
menced. They were, however, not altogether
without comfort. New York was still with them
That mighty State, with so large vote in the
Electoral College, backed them up. Delaware,
little Delaware, whose patriotic antecedents, as
well as whose size, protects her from aught of
pungent comment, cheered them on. California,
favored for ability and enterprise as she is for
gold and Bowie-knives, also hung by them The
District of Columbia, too, which having no vote
in the Electoral College should have no voice in
political conventions, likewise chung to the south
ern members. Thus backed up and defended, the
Southern know-nothing Convention abolished the
rule requiring secrecy and-adjourned sine die.
"Oh if we had never met
We never would have parted"
Now for the platform which split and disbanded
the convention, Git will be found in another
column.) Why it should have done SO, we
cannot for our lives divine-for it expressly pre-
termitted the very thing that menaces dsunion-
the very thing that was guarded against by the
last Congress in the Nebraska-Kansas bill-the
interference Of Congress ,oiih sIarery in the Terri
tories. On this subject it expresses nQopinion.
1t preterms il; it ignores it; it studiousy leaves
it open. However, we will come to that pre-
sently.
As Feeling that that they had done something
to induce and justify the opinion that they are
blasphemers, nfdels, and unbelievers, they most
gravely and reverently, in their first resolve,
recognize and acknowledge In word,
they resolve that there is experimenting Provi-
dence. What is quite remarkable is, that the
question should have been taken without divi-
sion.
They also resolved in favor of the Uuion.
Against Catholics.
Against foreigners.
For amending the emigration and naturalza-
ton laws.
In favor Of State rights and the Constitution.
In favor of a reformation Of the character of
our National Legislature, $50, we presume, that
the members thereof shall be CONFIRMED to the
chivalrous, moral, and religious standard erected
by Mr. Hiss, who insulted unprotected women
in Roxbury, and the Hon. Mr.. Walk, Of New
York, who was lately in court Of Justice, con
yicted of kissing another mans wife,
In favor Of abolishing the secrecy Of the order,
&C., SC.
The only vital question that engaged the atten-
ton of the convention was that on which it split
the slavery question. The resolutions on this
subject are in one regard weak as dish water
True, it was resolved that Congress cannot con-
sttutionally egislate upon slavery in the States,
or exclude any State from admission into the
Union because its constitution does or does not
recognize the institution Of slavery as a part OF
its social system, and that any interference by
Congress with slavery in the District Of Colum-
ba would be violation mot Of the Constitution
but oc the spirit and intention Of the deed of ces-
zion from Maryland TO the United States; but al
the same time il expressly pRETERMIrs ANY TX