Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-03-05
The two Convention.-Tbs Result.

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The two Conventions-The Result.
The Conventions have met and ad
journed. and the result is cheering 3,
every Republican. TIE National Know
Nsthing Convention at Philadelphia did
what it could hardly help doing. TIL,
northern delegates could not be made tc
agree 10 such a platform as the South
insisted upon, and the secession tool
place, Just as it was evident it must, from
the beginning. The southern wing with
such Northern doughfaces as it could
bold togeiherlhase nominated Willard
Fillmore for President, and have return.
ed home to ruminate upon the impossi.
'bility of shutting the Slavery question
out of politics. They know that the last
shadow of a hope of holding northern
men with them. has departed, and GER
tain defeat, without the slightest chance
of ever retrieving the ruined fortunes Of
their party, stsres them in the face.
Thus commences the last act Of the
drama Of South Americanism. 1t was a
game shreudly played by slaveholding
politicians, who fancied they saw a means
of dividing the North by swaking the
ssympsthies of those who could be excited
by the doctrines of Nativism. From the
outset their only intention has been
to play into the hands Of Slavery propo.
gandisis, and now hat their tracks are
discovered, we look for s speedy burial
of their dead organization. To defest
the Republican Speaker they would unite
with the Administration upon an ultra
Southern man /; to accomplish the same
results they have united with the Silver
Grays of New York upon Willard Fill
more. Every scheme has failed thus
far. and we are sure that we are now
looking upon the beginning of the
end"
= We regard the action al Philadelphia
a. foreshadowing the end of the distinc-
tive national organization of the Know
Nothings in nearly all the northern
States. and especially in Ohio. Those
whose sympathies lead them to the arm
of the Douglass-Atchison fraternity,
msy now be bold outspoken defenders of
border r%ufians. But those hosts Of good
men, and true, who. while they sympa.
thised with the Americanism of the par
~, would not sacrifice their Republican
ism, and their manhood, are now ~reIeas-
ed from all trammels, and every tie is
broken which hindered them from devo.
ting themselves with single purpose, to
the erecting of bulwarks which will say
TO the advancing tide of Slavery, thus
far shalt thou go, but no farther, and
there shall thy proud a be stayed.
We doubt not their hearts swell with
emotion. and they are ready to exclaim
with one voice,
At held SONS slight ~Tegianee till this hour
But nov my sHerd's my own ~
Feeling as we do, that there really is,
and can be but one issue now before the
American people. and that the watch
word I" no more Slave States, no more
Slave territory" is the only one that can
rally the friends of freedom, we look with
unmiIed pleasure upon the result of the
Philadelphia Convention. We are glad
they nominated Fillmore. An obscure
man could hide his principles in a cloud,
and be all things to all men, but the
North has its mark upon the man who
signed the Fugitive law instead of Veto
ing it. and will see to it that he is well
rebuked at the coming canvas for his
treachery to Freedom.
We have already referred to the har-
mony and emil usiaslic interest. of the
rally Of the Republicans at Pittsburg.-
Nothing like it has been seen. The WV
i'd description of its proceedings given by
our correspondent in another column,
makes 1t unnecessary for us to go into
detail. Suffice it TO say that on every
side we hear the most enthusiastic re-
joicings at the tone and spirit of the Con-
ven'ion, and our exchanges from all part,
OF the country are warm in their APPROX
al of the course taken.
The Republican party as a national
organization is now in complete array, Il,
and 1t will not be without supporters even
the most ultra Southern States. SEN
sible men of the South see the immense
advantages they themselves will gain /,
from the anti-slavery National policy,
and are beginning TO learn that their
interest is found in the support of
the cause of Freedom and Humanity,
From this time our forward course will
be doubly rapid, and since WI shall have
no cause of estrangement or contentious
ou OWN ranks, we feel that a 4
strong determined effort is all that will (
be necessary to secure a glorious victory
Tor liberty. in the coming Presidential $
canvass. I
The Fusion Patent Democracy. l
The plain truth is, the Democrats in -,
Congress laid down a platform at the
commencement of the contest for speak l
adhered to it throughout. and in it
hey declared their hostility to Know !
We defy the blacklist Re-
publican that runs en- legs to prove fairly
hat the Democrats did unite with the :
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