Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-12-05

The Transcript, after backing out Of its state
ment, made with such flourish of trumpets, that
certain Thomas B. Ford presided at the Gin
cinnad Convention, &C., turns round and accuses
others OF retracting. Let it be IN derstood that
we adhere to all our original statements in regard
to the proslayery character q that doughface
assemblage. Lieutenant Governor Ford instead
of countenancing the m jnrity resolutions passed
by that Convention, used all his influence
and voted against them, and endorsed the
minority resolutions offered by Mr, Spooner,
which were speedily rejected by that body
This minority platform, thus proposed by Mr..
Spooner, the President of the Ohio State Coun-
Gil of Know Nothings, repudated the proscriptive
doctrine Of Native Americanism, and was similar
to the Pittsburg platform, on which John P. Hale
was nominated for President in 1852. 1t pro-
posed co operation with all friends of freedom
throughout the North, on the recognized basis of
opposition to the slave power, as the PARA
MOUNT question of the day. It was such a
platform as Salmon P. Chase and Thomas H.
Ford were elected upon, Governor and Lieu
tenant Governor of Ohio. The resolutions of
the Convention which nominated them, show
this. The following extract from speech of Gov
ernor Chase, made at the late Republican festival
at Columbus, at which Lieutenant Governor Ford
attended and spoke, Gptly illustrates it,
"In Ohio we succeeded by Cancellation and
mutual forbearance. No man, he said, more
highly appreciated the great services tile mem
bers Of the American party had rendered the
cause of liberty than he did True Ameri-
canism, he said, consisted in maintaining the
original American idea upon which American
Ill
ca, for the first time in the history of the
world, had structure Of political institutions
been reared upon the basis of equal rights for
all, guaranteed by equal laws. Our fathers
had invited all, of every creed and of every
civilized nation, to come and pal take with US
the blessings of free government. The people
of America, thus made up, should rule Amer.
lea; and every man devoted to American
principles should be recognized as American.
He favored no extension of the present term |
of naturalization. All attempts to subvert
American institutions by ecclesiastical power, |
should be firmly resisted, but no citizen should |
be prescribed on account of his religious faith. |
federation in religion was fundamental prin.
ciple of true Americansm.''
Against movement based on such noble sen.
timents as these, there are those who would null
hfy all possibility of accomplishing any good,
practically, by raising some minor issue, such
as an extension OF the term of naturalization of
foreigners, &c.--a course which will inevitably
tend to divide the friends of freedom into frac-
tons, and allow the national democracy to ride
triumphantIy into power over in 1856. The
Thomas spooner. President 81 the Bhih6p Kh5bEE
Nothing State Council, and sanctioned by Gov
ernor Chase and Lieutenant Governor Ford, which
contains these noble words: "That prescription
on account of birth or creed, is unwaranted by
American principles"