The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-03-20
no rHr AnrRIcAN PARrY soUrH.

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h lad, article Of the platform OF June 1868, announced
ur propositions as the deliberate sense Of the Amer
=. TIA, The existing laws on The subject Of slavery
,uht "a be abisd by and maintained as nna settle
nsnt % the wAoe mattsE in spirit and substance and
,ha there ought b % further legislation ~ Congress
on the subject
no 10 Ie0ate on the subject Of slavery In the Terri
tories. ... 49,.
~ uri,ed States and Maryland aud contrary TO good
ss,th d abolish slavery in the District Of Columbia
Az That when new State presents herself for admis
sou into the Union she has Sgh TO come IN y her con-
nt,on il republican and she has the requisite popnia
or whether that constitution recognises or prohibits sla
very 49, .,.. 50,
Il was very general feeling at the South that we yield
"A ue,ine too much 10 pretermitiingR expression
oopinon as to he op Of Congress to legislaen regard
10 slavery in The Territories In most OF the southern
States the State councils made platforms stronger on TINS
pojn than the national None made them weaker
But ia framing that platform we were not making one
for he Soa alone but one that northern conservative men
could safely stand ON and il right that we should not
ask them 10 declare opinion as to the po~er Of Con-
gress while they entertained another danetricay oppo-
Site y could agree Aa Congress ouGur moi 70 exercise
tie pogv even If it has it.
The June platform does not declare that Congress ought
TO do ANY aWrUdHSc hpout smfetyp v" oheg S'''
oaqht 10 do nothing. .t.##
No southern American, having planted his feet on
that PLATFORM can step off from it TO another without de-
ssrped risk Of political ruin and annihilation.
No southern ought to abandon safely aban-
dom any one the four propositions If he does the South
ought to, and viii, abandon him.
The national council meeting the call of States which
had repudiaed the June platform assembled in Febru-
ary for the purpose of repeating the 9TH article The
northern men took control of it the beginning upon the
wrong basis of representation, and kept that control
The 10Th article with all the rest of the platform,
struck out and substituted
That new platform declares that the people of Territory
have the right to frame their constitution and laws
when n and regulate their own social aud domestic af
fairs but the word auey is carefully avoided and 1t
comedies Them not the rg but the PRIVILEGE of admis-
sion into the Union when they have the requisite popu
ton 49,.
1t certainly gives up three rst propositions of the 18th
article and il ers the 4tb that it amounts to little or
nothing
The st proposition the chief of the 18th article
The South mperavely demands that the agitation of the
subject of slavery in Congress shall cease and especially
that shall longer egsate that subject in the Ter
ritores .. ..s..... $500 .. s
The South demands and has right to demand, in every
platform, democratic wing, American, specific language
the subject Of slavery II does not want to be told that
laws consuiony enacted be obeyed until repealed
decided null by judicial authority 1t does not want to
be told that State shall have the privilege of admis-
sion. 1t is tired of antiquities, and sick of generates;
aud as the matter stands, when recaims his
slave the risk of his life and at times the expense Of
the savewhen clergymen preach sediton, and States
pass personal---very. acsam5igues and geueralities
mere transparent cheat and fraud on the South.
And such fraud is any platform that s,udousy omits
the word apy and roundabout phrases circomlocu
TONS to AVOID expressing plain ideas.
II the platform is the same in substance the old
why the change it is not the South has for it,
The new platform leaves the northern men who stand
upon perfectly free to agate against the fugitveslsve
law, for the abolition of slavery in the District for sup
pressing the trade in slaves between different States and
for the restoration of the Missouri Compromise and it
specially denounces the repeal Of that compromise by de-
nouncing the President for abetting 1t
do envy the southern who undertakes 10 de-
fend the platform after standing on the old
one.
was member of the national council both in June and
In February In June desired at first eTeiads the ques
ton Of slavery from the platform denouncing and not IN
essI ddenounc in doing So the men Of the party in
Massachusetts, and elsewhere in the North who had de-
clared ansavery be part Of the national American
creed as having done without authority and so per-
rered and prosttuted the organization improper pur
poses.
Met by unanimous resolve the part of the north
members to have declaration that the Missouri Com
promise ought TO be restored aided In establishing the
18th article One upon H. and deeming il emnently right
In principle Il became impossible for abandon it, or
consent 10 it's modification. When 1t was struck out
withdrew from the council and destroyed my creden tails
as delegate TO the nominating convention in which
fused 10 take,nly seat $50
The American party South ca4pot stand on the new
platform 1t must nesSary repudiate it. On it 1t would
not carry single county anywhere
1t is said that the nominated are platform enough
That might be So II We had platform IL they were on
no platform II we had had platform.
II said that the platform is suJsaially the same
as the old Then how II to be offered by free
soiler from Illinois who declared, after IL was adopted
that he would vote for The admission OF no State permitting
slavery lift suits him. II cannot suit me-
II is not substantially the II was framed In Wash
ington to get rid Of the 18th article II was offered and
adopted for that purpose in Philadelphia and we may rs
well look 1t frankly in the face II yields up all that we
fought for and gained the June before
And now as to the candidates That may not be mis-
understood, let say that was always whig until
joined the American party was a supporter Of Mr. Fill
mores administration. | indignant when he was
thrown aside for General Scott What thought Of him
then think now.
Bot when we formed the American party we assured
our democratic friends who Joined that Il meant
70 be the whig party 10 disguise They joined in that
beet On my motion my State council declared that the
nominee Tor President ought TO be northern whose
anleeedents had been democratic was playing fairly.
Inc Old whig organizations are revivng all over the
country The old wing committees and clubs are alive
ana "ur again Our democratic brethren will say that we
nave deceived them and that Il the old vhg party in