The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-17

fUL114CAL NEWS AND COM mENTS.
CoSNEcTIcUr.-A synopsis of the message
| of the Governor of Connecticut is presented
on our fourth page. 1t will be seen that he
recommends submitting to the People of the
State an amendment to the Constitution for
the extension of the right of suffrage to every
male citizen of the United States, having resi-.
ded in the State for the time now prescribed by
the Constitution, but requiring that every per-
son, before beng admitted to the rights of an
elector, shall be able to read any article of the
Constitution, OF any section of the statutes of
the State. As such provision would apply
equally to native and foreign born, white and
colored, making no distinction between classes,
whatever may be thought of its policy, it can
hardly be cone smned as unjust
No allusion Is made to the general question
of Slavery; but, like the rest of the Know
Nothing Governors in the free States, he ex-
presses disapprobation of the Kansas Nebras-
ka Act. There is nothing in his message that
would preclude him from cooperating cordially
in the support of National Know Nothing
for the Presidency.
At meeting, May lst, of Council No. So,
Greenwich the Clerk announced that he had
received notices from large number of the
members, asking to be dismissed. Their re-
quest was complied with, and the remaining
members then voted to give up their charter on
the 9Th of May when the State Council was to
meet. That is the true course for honest men,
New JERsEY.-The State Council of the
Know Nothir gs on the I'd of May adopted, as
it is understo ID, the National" Compromise
platform, ant its delegates, says the Ncp York
Herald, will go to Philadelphia, prepared to
eject the Mas .chusetts heretics from the party.
MAssACHU, TITS AND New HAMPsnIRE.-It
would seem tat Massachusetts, and New Hamp-
shire are the only States in which the Anti.
Slavery Know Nothings have secured the as
tendency in the Order. The following are the
resolutions reported to have been adopted by
the State Council of the former:
"ResolUef That while the American party
of Massachusetts, fully recognises the right of
the States to regulate their own domestic af
fairs, we claim, and shall under all circum-
stances exercise, the right to relieve the Fed
responsibility for, the existence of the sectional
institution of Slavery.
"Resolred, That we discountenance all at
tempts to stife the freedom of discussion and
the freedom of action upon all the great moral
questions OF the age, and will resist any attempt
to exclude from our ranks any person, on ac-
count OF his opinions upon such questions"
The resolutions are quite general, but they
do not indicate the terms on which the Know
Nothing party is willing to sustain the Nation
al organization. Suppose the National Coun
Gil take antagonistic ground, what is to be done
then?
We hear reports of the growing power of
the Know Something's" section of the
original Order. A correspondent of the Ne,c
York Euening Post says, they constitute now
a majority of the Legislature, and the cleo
ton of Mr.. Slack, a boiling Know Nothing, as
Speaker pro tem., is their work.
The refusal Of Governor Gardner to remove
Judge Loring has aroused the indignation of
this portion of the party, while it has pleased
the Hunker faction, and awakened the plaudts
Of the Wing press generally. Some give him
credit for great independence some say, that,
foreseeing split in the Order between the
Anti-Slavery men and the Hunkers, he is pre-
pairing for union ultimately between the latter
and the Wings; others will have it, that he is
DESTROYS of helping the cause in Virginia, and
has an eve to the chances for the next Presi-
dency.
We see in the newspapers the following reso-
lutions, said, upon what authority we know not,
to have been adopted by the New Hampshire
State Council of Know Nothings:
"Whereas there appear to exist in the minds
of portion of the community some doubts as
to the position Of the American party in regard
to Slavery, and its extension over new Terrific
ries, therefore,
"ResoLUed, That the American Organization,
as constituted and existing in New Hampshire,
is not based on one idea alone, but compre,
bends every principle that will promote the po-
litica welfare of free people,
g ResotDed, That the Declaration of indie
pendence, the tones and deeds of the founders
of this Republic, all Indicate that our forefa-
theirs intended that Slavery should be sectional,
not natiOnal-temporary, not permanent.
g ResOlced, That as a political party, pledged
to regard and acatch ocer the best interests of
the wltOle UniOn and to labor for its integrity
and perpetuity, aoe sOlemnty protest against tile
repeal Of the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas
Nebraska bill, and the Fagitire Stare LdW, as
riolations Of the spirit Of the Constitution and
tending to disnnion and the destruction of the
free institutions Of the country.
"Resolced, That zoe neper aciU, under any
circumstances, consent TO the admission Of 'Sla-
rery into any portion O the territory embraced
IN the compact Of 1920, and from, which 1t aUas
b,,f Of
the Northern and Southern States.
"ResoIred, That any attempt to commit the
american party of New Hampshire TO the ad-
ra'cememt Of the interest Of Slacery, to ignore
as political question, or to enjOin silence
upon as an regard to its erils and encroach-
n,ents, deserves and shall receire our earnest
and unqualified disdpprobation."
This is about as strong Anti-Slavery ground
as the Wings of Massachusetts took before the
year l948. We shall see whether the Anti-Sla-
very Know Nothings Of New Hampshire gre
any more successful than they were, in imprea,-
ing such principles upon National Organiaa-
ton, in which Shareholders and Doushfaces ha1 e
decided majority.
GEoRGIA.--In the Savannah Republican 81
May It'll we find the following:
at is generally understood that the Amei
can party in Georgia assembled in State Cot 4.
Gil at Macon, Wednesday last. 1t was order I'd
that the following resolution, adopted by Cou a.
Gil and handed us by the President, should re
| published:
RESOLVED, That Slavery and slave instit a.
tons are projected by the Constitution of the
| United States, and the obligation to maints N
them is not-sectional, but national; that the
right to establish them in the organization Of