Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-06-21

THz AnERIoxs CozvEsrIoE m Pm
ApzzrHrA.-According to the reports il
the Herald and 7ri5uns. the Commits
appointed to make . platform reported
in part on the Slavery question. Their,
are two reports. The following are th'
Iresolutons Of the majority:
! Resolred, That the American party
having arisen upon the ruins and il
spite Of the opposition of the Wing anC
Democratic parties, cannot be held in
any manner responsible for the obnox
ious acts or violated pledges of either
that the systematic agitation of the
Slavery question by those parties ha:
elevated sectional hostility into posi-,
tive element of political power, and
brought our institutions into peril. II
has therefore become the imperative
duty of the American party to inter
pose for the purpose of giving peace to
the country and perpetuity to the
Union. That as experience has shown
1t is impossible TO reconcile opinions so
extreme, as those which seperate the
disputants, and as there can be no dis
honor in submitting to the laws, the Ma
tional Council has deemed it the best
guarantee of common justice and of
future peace 70 abide by and maintain
the existing laws upon the subject of
Slavery, as final and conclusive settle
ment of that subject IN spirit and in sub
stance.
Resolued, That regarding it the high
est duty to avow these opinions upon
subject so important, in distinct and un-
equivocal terms, 1t is hereby declared
as the sense of this National Council,
that Congress possesses no power under
the Constitution to legislate upon the
subject of Slavery in the States, or to
exclude any State from admission into
the Union because her Constitution does
or does not recognize the Institution of
Slavery as a part of her social system;
and expressly pretermitting any express
sions of opinion upon the power of Con-
gress to establish or prohibit Slavery in
any Territory. 1t is the sense of this
National Council that Congress ought
not to legislate upon the subject of
Slavery within the Territories of the
United States, and that any interference
Of Congress with Slavery as It exists in
the District of Columbia would be a
of the spirit and intention of
the compact by which the State of
ceded the District to the Uni
ted States, and breach Of the National
Faith.
The Nri6une's correspondent says the
minority presented the following resolu-
jon:
ResolUcd, That the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise was an .infraction of
he plghted faith of the Nation, and
hat it should be restored, and if efforts
% that end shall fail, Congress should
refuse to admit any State tolerating
Slavery which shall be formed out of
any portion of the Territory from which
hat Institution was excluded by that
Compromise.
The following dispatch was received
and published in the Cincinnati papers
If last Saturday. 1t appears the ma
ority report was adopted:
The Platform adopted by the Know
Convention is published to-day.
It embraces the resolutions on slavery,
Is reported by the majority of the plat
iorm committee. It declares that the
principles of the Order shall be hence
Onward openly avowed, and that MEM
'ers shall be at liberty to declare their
membership, and no further conceal
nent shall be made in regard to the
'lace of meeting, DC.
The delegates from thirteen of the
rec states withdrew from the Conyen-
ion when the majority resolutions were
ldopted. A dispatch from Boston. of
he 18th inst, gives the following in re-
,ard to counter move in New England |
owards calling another Know Nothing
The seeding delegates have returned
rom Philadelphia. A convention of
he Know Nothings of the Free States
S recommended for the purpose of
aking measures commensurate with
he present crisis.
Immediate action is to be taken; and
We learn from a reliable source that the
Order in this State will call a grand
Mass Convention of the Northern and |
Northwestern States.