The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-06-21
The Know.NOthfng Convention.

The Convention of the secre! order sitting
In Philadelphia was terribly troubled with
the slavery question. The 81 Committee, BY
vote of II TO ID, reported as follows:
Resolved, That the American party hav-
ing arisen upon the ruins and in spite of OPP
position of the Whis and Democratic parties,
cannot be held in any manner responsible
for the obnoxious acts or violated pledges of
either; that the systematic agitation of the
slavery question by those parties has eleva-
ted sectional hostility into positive element
of political power, and brought our instilu
tions into peril. II has therefore become the
imperative duty of the American party TO in
terpose, for the purpose of giving peace TO
the country and perpetuity TO the Unron-
That as experience has shown il is impossi-
BILE TO reconcile opinions so extreme as those
which separate the disputanis, and as there
can be no dlshonor in submitting 10 the laws,
the National Council has deemed il the best
guarantee OF common justice and OF future
peace 10 abide and maintain the existing
laws upon the subject OF slavery, as final
and conclusive settlement of that snbiec, in
spirit and in substance.
Resolved, That regarding 1.-THE highest du-
ty 10 avow these opinions upon subject so
important, in distinct and unequivocal terms,
it is hereby declared, as the sense of this Ma.
tional Council, that Congress possesses no
power under the Constitution TO legislate up
on the subject of Slavery in the States, or TO
exclude any State from admission into the
Union because her Constitution does or does
not recognize the institution of Slavery as
part Of her social system; and expressly pre-
iermitting any expressions of opinion upon
the power of Congress 10 establish o. prohb-
il Slavery in any territory. II is the sense of
this National Council that Congress ought
not to legislate upon the subject Of Slavery
with in the territories of the United States, and
that any interference of Congress with Sla-
very as 1t exists in the District OF Columbia
would be violation of the spirit and inteD-
ton Of the compact by which the State of
Maryland ceded the District TO the United
States, and breach of tho national faith.
Minority Repon.-The minority resolution
was as follows --Resolved, That the repeal
Of the Missouri Compromise was an infrac-
lion of the plishted faith OF the Nation, and
that ii should be restored, and that if efforts
TO that effect shall fail, Congress should re-
fuse 10 admit any State toleraiing Slavery
which shall be formed out of any portion of
the territory from which iha: institution was
excluded by that Compounds.
The minority resolutions were signed by
the representatives Of Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Connecticut. Maine, Massachusetts, Rode Is
land, Vermont, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michi-
gan, Iinois-twelve in all. Delaware and
New Jersey also endorsed the FIRST clause.
New York, alone, of the Free States, went
for the majority resolutions, and, united with
Minnesota and the District of Columbia, en-
abled The South 10 carry the majority report
in Committee.
In discussing the resolutions, Gov. Gardi-
ner declared that neither he nor his State,
nor majority Of the free States, wonld abide
by the resolutions first reported. The party
could not carry village in Massachusetts
upon them. He charged the New York
Delegation with deserving the North. The
resolutions of the majority will undoubtedly
pass.