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

form. 1t blames Senator Wilson and his follow
ers for the rash haste with which they quit the
convention, and intimates that those'resolutons
conceded to the Northern all that they
could ask. We iiaHcise some portions Of the fol-
lowing remarks extracted from the Express.
The 10Th section Of the Platform is not as ex-
plicit as we would wish--but il has such color
4 ing, as the Abolition Press of the North would
give it, II recognises and toerates The differences Of
opinion knoicn 10 eriSl the subject Of slavery, be-
iiceea the North and the South IL does not put
euery Northern man dolCn TO The starery grind
Stone-aS IL is said Ia these preSSes-but the
try leapes euery american 10 indulge in his oton
opinion that Subject-as indulge all men tciH, Of
| all parties higS, Democrats, or .4neIicans
The claim Of Stale 10 be admitted into the Unioa
,cuh icithout slapery, recognized in the PLATFORM
is in The rery ideas Of Mr. Selcard in his California
speech, urging Tie admission Of California into the
Union; and Of John Quincy adams, speaking Of The
| admission Of Florida. No State has been
denied admission into The Union because Of its being
a siaue free State. But there is nothing hire
pledging The american Pariy--as the ABOLITION
presses siatc--to admit Kansas into The Union, if
she presents herselE-as is threatened in some
quarters-,oih slaueAoding Constitution, made
by Missouri sqAers, icho, IN riolation Of popular
Sopereigniy, TO haze carried The Territorial Le
| StStauTe. A ne flSW ana uHiy " tCtTy
North and South, TO resist Sach violation II '.pop
uiar sorereigny," are apparent and open-and IL is
erident thai Kansas cannot be admitted into The
Union until she purges herself Of the Missouri rio
| ience and fraud. II must be a iceH settled thing-
that she is voluntary siarehoidng Stale, Of her
free ,ciH-btore the right Of popular Sovereignty"
| can begin to impose any claims upon Congress 10
greatest efforts icil be made TO perrert all This.
| The American Organ of this city halls tho plat
form with rapture and speaks with all the fervor
and confidence that characterized its predictions
| about the Virginia Election. The Organ says:
at is emnently national, conservative, and
american, and has been hailed with accamaton
by the American party in this city and the ada
cent States, well as in New York, Philadelphia,
| Richmond Baltimore. and other important Nor
| them and Southern cities from which dispatches
| have been received.
| This platform, we have the fullest confidence,
will be warmly endorsed throughout the South
ern States, and by the Union-loving citizens of
! all the States. At the ensuing elections in North
| Carolina, Georgia, Alabama Mississippi Ten
nessee, Kentucky, and other Southwestern States,
| it will strengthen the American party incalcu-
lably, and render it invincible by any force that
can possibly be brought against it, Had this
| platform been adopted one month earlier, the
| American party would have swept Virginia from
| the Atlantic to the Ohio.
Now that the convention has adjourned
rather what was left of it-adjourned under cir
cumstances Of modification, disappointment, and
passion-adjour never again to witness a re-
union of the Northern and Southern Know
nothings, that resignation which we spoke of in
the beginning of this article, begins to show
! itself. They are already heard exclaming that
the split in the convention was the best thing
that could have happened. Verify they are hap
| PLY constituted. They are thankful for bless
ngs and curses-for victories and defeats-for
conventions and dssolutions Of conventons-for
unions between Northern and Southern Know
nothngs, and for the ill-natured descriptions of
| those unions.
| The New York Herald, the great gun of the
| Order, which for weeks past has been trying to
bring about union and harmony between North
ern and Southern members, and has used every
| form of argument and persuasion to~nduce them
to agree upon a sound national platform, comes
out now, and halls the split in the convention as
the greatest of blessings. The Herald says:
g Our view of the matter is, that the split in
the Philadelphia Council on the question Of
! platform, secures the strength of this new party
think, too, that agreement, on the other hand
| upon either a Northern a Southern platform
would have destroyed the party in one section
| the other. BY the disagreement, the Order in
both sections remains substantially in tact. They
are thrown back, in each section and in each
| State, upon first principles. Slavery remains an
| open question, and must remain, at least till
the Inauguration of new administration"
Again says the Herald:
/ fail of he o,,I -,
this Philadelphia Council to agree upon a com
| mon platform, amounts TO nothing. 1t leaves tho
party precisely where it stood before-free in
each section and in each State to act according
to the circumstances of its position until the time
shall have arrived for a national movement upon
a common candidate for the succession. Nor is
it necessary that there should be any declaration
Of national platform upon slavery, if the party
can produce n sound conservative and acceptable
man TO all sections of the country. Whether
Kansas, upon her application to come into the
Union a slave State shall be rejected or adj
mitted, can only be determined by Congress.
| National Councils and conventions can do moth
ing with it, and they may just as well, therefore,
turn over the subject to the tribunal to which it
belongs.
"In agreeing to disagree upon this subject OF
slavery, the Philadelphia Council have acted iu-
diciously. They have not compromised their
strength in any quarter. They NAV INDULGE a
very in both sections, and make a common cause
Of union and cohesion upon other issues of quite
as much importance slavery in Kansas or the
District Of Columbia.
Well, we will not quarrel with the Know
nothing organs for being comforted. They have
patience far beyond that Of Job and a resgna-
ton infinitely exceeding that Of Rachel. She re.
fused to be comforted. They refuse to mourn
But Christian virtue is naturally 10 be expected
from an Order which, in its first resolution, most
pously and politely acknowledged the Deity.
The New York Courier tells the tale in few
sad and sorrowful words. 1t says:
"The Convention has split on the rock Of sa.
very. The rent is complete, and the whole con
Germ, a national organization, has gone TO tho
bottom
We have made this article too long, perhaps
Our apology is that we feel anxious TO present &c
our readers a comprehensive account of the great
convention that met in peace, TO part in anger
and broke up in a row only to thank God for Hi,