The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1855-07-14

are among the principal features in the platform.
While we have our senses, we can never subscribe
to any political creed that makes distinction be-
tween the equality of our citizens under the govern
mcnt All must stand alike, native or adopted, jew
or gentle christian nfdc In respect to the rights
of citizenship and the privileges 1t confers. Where
the Constitution has made no distinction we should
make none. II we are to believe the Northern pa
pers, the platform is nothing but cheat, and binds
no one.
The New York Express, one of the most conserva.
tive of the Northern Know Nothing Journals, says,
Every man is left free to resist the admission Of
Kansas, into the Union that there Is nothing In the
platform which compes northern man to endorse
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise! There is
no reason why every northern man should not 20 OH
with his organization Just as ever" The New York
Herald, the leading Know Nothing paper Of the
Union declares that sthe bulk Of the Northern States
having repudated the platform, the party of the
north are free In each state to conduct the business
upon the practical and local Issues of the day.
The New York Mirror speaking Of the platform
SAYS .Thcrc is no ground for hoping that the north
will deliberately ratify the outrage
The New York Courier and Enquirer, says, "Our
worst fears have bycn realized. the Convention has
split upon the rock of slavery The rent Is complete
and the whole concern ~ national organization
has gone TO the bottom. To all human appearance
il renders it certain that the next Presidential Cam
pagn will be purely sectional struggle, the very
contamination most to be deprecated by every mon
having an American feeling.
"Ihat the Northern states VIII not assent 10 Tue
ouroge involved In the deliberate violation of good
faith. thousand times less will they solemnly rat
ify 1t by taking such pledges now thrust upon
them by the southern members of the Convention
Every Know Nothing paper in New Jersey is out
against the platform, and some of the Pennsylvania
papers declare that Western Pennsylvania will spit
upon and repudiate ii and refuse to sustain the NOM
inees who may stand upon 1t.
For the especial benefit of the Editors OF the
American Patriot we will let of their organs,
the New York Herald, characterize the platform,
which they have pledged themselves through life to
sustain. lone half of the platform is mere badcr
dash and stuff. If il is necessary to use such twad
die to work on the feelings Of the people of the coun
try, double set of documents should be adopted.
for the intelligent readers, the other for those
who are not, and care should be taken to keep the
latter out Of the city papers. Neither are the other
points of tho platform worth much distractions
do not tell with the Muses. and are seldom worth
contending for"
This platform of the Southern portion of the Phil
adelphia Convention, claims power for the supreme
court, which is repugnant to the doctrine of state
rights as set forth in the Virginia and Kentucky
resolutions of 9s and 49, and Mr.. Madison's cele-
brated report thereon. 1t charges the Wing and
Democratic parties of violating pledges solemnly
made, by passing the Kansas-Ncbraska act, and re-
pealing the Missouri Compromise thus placing the
South in false position. and censuring those noble
wings and democrats In the last Congress, that stood
yb the rights of the south, and carried out in good
faith the Compromise of 1850. Such a platform can
never have our support.