The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1855-07-13
[From the Columbian ]
THE HINDOO PLATFORM.

/ ALL who are desirous 10 examine the
Platform adopted atlhc late Hi.,doo Con-
iyention at Cleveland, may find it in the
Colanabion of to-day. We feel disposed
to dissect the concern little by way Of
amusement.
',The unlimited freedom of Religion
disconnected with politics. Hostility to
ecclesiastical influence upon the affairs Of
GoveJnmeni."
( What does this mean? Does it mean
I that Christians must lay aside their fell
gion before they can obtain civil Office? or,
Bsfore they can go to the polls to vole?--
IL 9heyshould go into Office with religion
har ,jassIebaut, them; .itswonld certainly.
! have an Influence upon the affairs Of Gov
ernment' Where do the Hindoos stand?
Are yoti the Atheists, Or what? Perhaps
they don't mean anything?
- All 'Americanized Emigrants are to
have equality of rights, provided they
owe no allegiance, BY reason Of their re-
lig.on, higher than the Constitution Can
no people have equality Of rights unless
they are '&mericanized?' This is what it
says. Read it again carefully and see.-
The Declaration of1ndependence says that
ALL men are created equal But this
new declaration OF $40 hundred Hindoos
al Cleveland asserts that 'emigrahts' can
not have the equality ofrights' with which
they were endowed BY their Creator, un-
less they are Something more than Amer
icanized'-they must, besides, owe no
allegiance, by reason Of their religion,
higher than that to the Constitution
Temporal means measured by time.'-
T.ere must then be no religious allegiance,
for the time Of this earthly existence, to
any higberpower than the Constitution.
This is the lower law with a vengeance
Let no one say that we have misrepresen-
ted the plaiform-hat it means allegiance
to some foreign political power. We have
no tight 10 assume that it means anything
else than what il says. And, further, it Is
utterly inconsistent with language 10 make
the matter refer to tie Papal Religion, for
that: claims to be, not a TEMPORAL but a
spiritual power.
The protection of law to all who hon
estly emigrate from the love of liberty
Ii they emigI ate from any other kind Of
love-say the love of making money ias-
Ter, Or the love of making better living
for their families, are they to be deprived
Of the protection Of law?' Besides, who
is to faihom the rccesses Of their hearts 10
ascertain what kind oflove animates them ?
The Convention should have appointed a
committee for this purpose. Probably
they did, but as the proceedings are not
all made public, we cannot say with GER
tainty.
But the exclusion Of foreign paupers
and felons'
A poor person who is unable to live
among the crowded mass of the Old
J World without resistance, must be exclud-
ed from the broad and unpeopled plains Of
the New, even if he should slarve in con-
sequence. And, if any one should have
been detected IN an act which, by any
one Of the numerous tylanical laws of the
old countries is called felony, he must nev-
er come here upon the soil occupied by
our many scamps Who go unwhipped Of
Justice. .. .{
Opposition to all attempts to exclude
the Bible from Schools supported by the
Government
Very well. This perhaps is salvo for
the strange position taking at the begin.
} ling. But suppose this Bible should teach
some one pledge religious allegiance fol
the life measured by time to a Higher
power than that of the Constitution! Sup
pose It teacher that we should serve Cor
rather than Man? What then?
y
We support American Industry ant
genius against the adverse policy Of for
!, eign nations j.; .
What of it? Who does not support
industry and genius, whether American
or rot, against all adverse policy foreig'
or o herwse? But some say that this ha
reference to the Tariff But if so, wha
does it mean? Is it in favor of or agaius
protective Tariff? The policy OF for
eign nations favors high Tariffs. Do th'
Hndoos mean to say thatthey support tn
,, adverse policy'--low Tariffs ? If not
what do they mean? @
The Union of these States shall b
made perpetual by faithful allegiance t
the Constitution.
WHAT'S faithful allegiance? One thinl
at the South and its opposite at the North
One party clamors for this as strongly a
: the other, and, between The two the feso
l luton probably makes out to mean moth
ing. y" "- ". "
Such is the substance Of the platform
which resulted from the great Clevelan,
Convention. 1t may be proper to. ad
l. on the authority of one of the delegates
: that the platform was showed THROUGH ur
d der the gay Of the previous question. !
correspondent OF the Ledtler asserts tlla
S Lewis d. Campbell made a speech in ia
: vor of it, at the close Of which he move
! tie previous question, and the plalforr
1t was adopted with all It's crudiyies and an
y biguitiss, It's unmeaning utterahces, an
d is empty inanitlos! We Dan hardly rec
II ooncile ourselves to criticise severely
n Weak a production. The atbeistical fa
e of it might be called wicked, il it %as II
ally designed 10 be so, but it looks as if
was intended not to mean anything in pa
a. ticular. 1t does not seem worth while
Il getup quarrel with II.
!. 1t is said that the Convention gave u