The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1855-06-29
A NEBRASKA NEVER.

visit to Philadelphia, before the Hunker
and Rum prints Of the State, Straight oul
Wing as well as Democratic, assailed US in
terms similar to the following, which we
copy from the Augusta Age, published June
q: 1885.
"0ur Maine delegation must feel essen.
tally "done for" They come home with
their tails between their legs, like whipped
spaniels. They come home with the Ne
braska plank nailed 10 their backs, and The
Fugitive STATE Latr pasted on their fore
heads! How unlike its State creed, is the
rational creed Of Maine Know No,hinpism
AT Bangor, on the 9Th Of June. Maine
Know Noihingism was against the Nebras.
ka Bill-ior the repeal Of the Fugitive
Slave Law-ior the abolition Of slavery in
the District Of Columbia, in favor OF the
restoration Of the prohibitory feature of the
Missouri ompromise-againsi the admis-
sion OF any more slave States. AT Phila-
delphia, on the 18th OF the same month OF
June, National Knew Noihingism declares
Tor the Nebraska Bill, the Fugitive Slave
Law, and directly reversing every other po-
sltion taken BY Maine Know Nolhingism
The Bangor Convention sent Messrs. Ste
phens, Peck, Cowan, Sayward & Co. to the
Philadelphia Convention as the delegates
OF the order IN this Staie-lhey come home
with their abolition platform demolished,
and rank Nebraska aud Slavery platform
erected In lis s,ead-,hey come home with
the Nebraska plank riye,ed, as with huge
spikes, 20 their recreant backs. They went
10 Philadelphia Observation-Disclosures
come home NEBRAsKALs they went
tnilher aboliiionists-they return bound BY
Their oaihs 10 carry out and conform 10 the
p,o-slavery mandates Of a rank pro-slaysry
platform"
The very paper which contains this prec-
ious stuff. accusing us Of returning from
Philadelphia "Nebraskal,n "wi,h the
Nebraska plank nailed on our backs and the
Fugitive Slave Law pasted on our fore
heads" contains also the protest OF the
seeding members Of the Philadelphia X .
N. Convention, affirming tho grea, wrong
Of the repeal OF the Missouri Compromise,
aud declaring "ihat we canno, conscien-
'iously &c, with those who will no, aid Us
in the correction Of these national wrongs.
and who will not even permit their fair
consideration aud their full discussion"
The names Of the Maine delegation are
attached TO that protest, our own is there,
and we are no, sorry that this attack, and
others, particularly one which originated in
the State Of Maine, OF the same import,
and which is now travelling the rounds Of
the Hunker and Rum press Of the State, Of
a still more offensive character, gives US an
opportunity to state with more precision
than we have done heretofore, some mat
tiers connected with our visit 10 Phiadel-
phia.
II is true, as the Age alleges, that the
Maine delegation went to Philadelphia IA
vorable 10 all the objects i, enumerates.-
They wen, there, not only determined, but
instructed, TO resis, all and every attemp,
10 fasien upon the order prO-Slavery plat
form, and so FAR as we, Individually, were
concerned, with the perfect understanding
that should the deed be consummaied ior
which Southern men were working, that
we should refuse 10 abide by the declara-
ton, and come home without taking part in
the Convention longer. In the language oil
another delegate from the West, whose
name is also found upon the protest, we
say -
With many OF the principles Of the
American Oder, we have always concur
red. In common with them, we have
opposed the organization OF polilica
parties, or section OF parties, under TIE
name OF foreign nation, such as an
Irish party, German party, n Swiss par
~, &c. believing that immigrants hi'h
err, shorld strive in all things 10 American
ize themselves, instead Of banding together
as n distinct nationality. With them, we
have condemned the efforts Of the Papa
Church and its digsiiaries, TO suide on
ward TO commanding political power ia the
Na,ior 10 decide political elections and
presidential canvasses, by throwing ,heiI
united vote into one scale or the other; Il
claim special privileges and special exemp
tons nj the hands Of our Legislatures; ant
TO crush out all that stood in their way IN
these efforts. With them, we have oppos
ed the an,i.American course Of the Ma
tional Administration, in clothing man
with the vast appointing power OF the Posl
Oficc Department, as an express consider
alton, pledged in advance, Tor the votes o
his Church, which elected the head Of that
Administration and its equally censurablt
conduc, in filling many OF our mos, i'm
por,an, foreign missions with persons who
had no, thoroughly dives,sd themselves oil
their foreign prejuJices, thus causing ouI
American interests and policy TO be repre-
scented by Frenchman in Spain. German
in Belgium, a Scoichman in Naples, ar
Irishman in Portugal, &c. With Them, we
have protested agains, the unjus,fable con-
due, Of foreign authorities in emp,ying up.
on our hospi;able shores, by the ship-load
the inmates Of their prisons and their poor
houses, thrs inaicling upon our nation the
criminals and paupers which they should
themselves provide for. But while holding
these views, we have always believed, and
declared, publicly and privately, tina, prin-
ciples and character, no, birth place, are
the true les, OF genuine Americanism-,h
Protestant, foreigners, who Join sincerely 10
the vindicaiion Of spiritual freedom, free
Bible, free schools and free labor, as pillars
OF u free Republic, should no, be proscrib-
cd, but, on the contrary, welcomed-and
that. as in all other political parties. these
principles ough, TO be Inscribed on the out
ar walls with THAR HANNAH throu, f,eelv
TO the breeze.
We have openly and psrsisien,ly adyo-
Gated these principles, and in addition we
have, fOT now more than fifteen years, all
the time we have been connected with the
public press, uniformly resisted the aggres-
sions OF the slave power, never ALTERING,