Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-06-27
The nate of Know-Nvthinsism.

SThe rate of Observation-Disclosures.
The attention of tile whole countryGhas
recently been turned to Philadelphia, to
learn the resultof the great KnowsNoths
ing Convention which has just terminated
its labors there, and see whether itlwere
possible for body of men composed of
such incompatible and heterogeneous ma
terials. to patch up a platform broad
enough to sustain national party.
The result has proved the thing to be
impossible. It has also proved another
fact which has been often denied by the
members of that organization IN this secs
ton; and thatlis. that,the Know Nothing
party of the North has become almost
completely abolitionized. Nearly the en-
tire North seeded from the Convention
upon the adoption Of the national resolu>
tons by Southern votes, aided by very
few Of the Northern delegates. Northern
Know Nothing speakers and writer's scout
the idea submitting to any such plat
form. We could ell our columns with
denunciations of the platform adopted, by
Northern papers, but We will merely give
the following from the leading Know No
thing Wing journal of New Jersey, the
State Gazette, written while the report of
the committee was pending. It's tone is
that of its class Of papers generally
"Itis hardly necessary to say that what
ever may be the course pursued by the
New Jersey delegation, neither the Amer
lean party nor the people at large, in the
State, will abide by any such platform as
that presented in the majority report
| We never expected that an expression
could be obtained from the Convention
which would fully coincide with the views
entertained in our State, but we have been
willing to regard lavorably any sincere,
earnest and harmonious endeavor TO place
the question of slavery in such posilior,
that while political action would not be in 3,
terfered with. the rights OF freedom should
be secured against further aggression
trusting in the majority which the North
will hereafter possess in Congress to res
pair the evils already committed, and pre-
| vent the admission Of Kansas and Ncbras-
I;a rs slave States. But the American
| party Of New Jersey and the North, will
not only rcfus" such ~ platform as that
given above, no matter how much modi-
| fed, SO long rs it contains the essential
| principles there embodied, but it will also
refuse to co operate with any party which
adopts it. Ii Il disruption takes place
and the South, with the aid Of New Y urI,
| Minnesota and the District, shall bv their
numerical mai ority retain tine organic alton
of the Convention, we trust that the New
Jersey delegates will be among the sccc-
ders, should the majority report be adopt
ed. We can assure them that il: will br
utterly futile to tlttcm't the establishment,
Of an American party in this State on a
Southern platform. One which dealt
merely in gcneraIties without compromi-
sing principles, might have been tolerated:
but such us that presented in the TIA orify
report-NEvEn ~
From all the Information that we can
CLEAN, Know Nothingism is this day fur,
ther from being il national party than cv,
or before, and presents itself in less for,
mi!abie form. 1t is tru~, PATTERN has
been agreed to by a portion OF the party
upon which the South might unite, bur
the South has rs yet shown no disposition
IT, rmbrar" the party in any shape; while
the North, The only place where the order
has manifested any strength, has been
driven off, and declares that it will never