Southern shield., 1855-06-23
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE MEMPHIS WHIG. Know-N othing National Con-
 vention.

NEW Y oRK, June l6.-The American Con- vention at Philadelphia passed resolutions de- nouncing the Administration.
 The Ritual has been somewhat modified and the Catholic test was re affirmed.
 The representation in the nominating Con- vention (for President and Vice-Presldent) will comprise one delegate from each Congress ional District, and two at large in each State.
 The Platform adopted comprises fourteen sections. The
 lst-Acknowledges an Almighty Being.
 2d-The cultivation and development of American feeling.
 3d-The maintenance of the Union of the States, and the suppression of all tendencies to political division, founded on belief ot real difference of interest and of views between the various sections of the Union.
 4th-Obcdience to the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the land.
 5th-The modification of the emigration laws and settlements, offering honest emigrants friendly reception and protection, but con- demning the transmission of puapers from Eu- rope to America.
 6th-An essential modification of the natu- ralization laws.
 7th--Hostility to the corrupt means by which the leaders of parties have forced upon the Uuitod States incompetent rulers and dan gerous politics; and advising return to the purer days of the Republic, when office sought the men and not men the office. 8th-Rcsistance to the aggressive policy, and corrupt tendencies of the Roman Catholic Church, by the advancement to all political stations, executive, legislative, judicial and diplomatic, of those only who do hot hold al- legiance, directly or indirectly, to any foreign power. whether civil or ecclesiastical, and the elevation of those who are Americans by birth, derivation and training thus fulfilling the max i'm, ''Americans shall govern America. "-- Protection of all citizens in the legal and proper exercise of their civil and religious rights and privileges; the maintainance of the right Ofevery man to the full, unrestrained and peaceful enjoyment of his own religious opin- ions and worship, and jealous resistance tC all attempts, by any sect, denomination, ol | church. to obtain ascendenCy over any other in the State by means ofany special privilege, or exemption by any political combnatin ofits members.
 9th. Reformation in the National Legis- 1 lature
 10th. The restriction of Executive patron age.
 llth. Education of the youth of the coun- try in schools of the States common to all without distinction of creed or party.
 l2th. Mamtainance of the existing laws il relation to sltyery, as a final settlement of the subject in substance.
 18th. Peace with all foreign Governments exacting justice from the strongest, and doing iuSticn tO the UnallpS+
 l4th. Order hereafter to meet at New York, in June, 1856.
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 LIBEL SUIT.-A man by the name of Jones has recovered @ verdict agains Rev. J. R. Graves, editor of the Ten nessee Baptist, for 5000 damages. Graves appealed to the Supreme Court of Tennessee, and the Court affirmed the judgment.
 
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