Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-04-19

SUITS the sSUldll VOICE Vi HIS Olu ing
conscience. He marches boldly to the is
sue of fact we made against his charge that
Black Republicanism was the controlling
power in the American Convention, and
that Mr.. Fillmore's nomination was de-
Iiberate fraud permitted by them, in order
to divide the forces of the national men,
aud secure them victory. he feels the
Importance of this point. 1t is his Mala-
kofI, which, if carried, his reflections" are
Ggmeuts, and his treachery is left in shame
less nakedneSs. But what new facts does he
bring to substantiate it, The "calumnlous
assaults" of Northern members on the
South. and the indignant denunciations"
which followed from the South in return.
We call upon his candor, if his new com
pany has not learned him to dispense with
that virtue. to know If such considerations
are worthy to be urged in the argument
which his cause demands Such proceed
iugs might take place if there were only
half score of Black Republicans IN a
body, opposed to half thousand national
men. He cites nearly a column OF extracts
to prove that bad feeling was engendered
and ordinations followed, but they are of no
force in sustaining his charge. 1t does not
follow because the session of the COnyen-
ton was stormy, that its action was I'M
sound A purified atmosphere is the con-
sequence of an elemental conflict. A pu-
rified Convention was the result of this
tempeStuous session. The storm had its
origin in the inability Of Northern section
aists to control the body. The hall of its
session resounded with their impotent raw
ings, and they retired. Our friend, we
venture to assert, has never examined an
authenticated report of the proceedings of
that Council He relies upon exaggerated
reports, written under excitement. We
put it to him if it is fair to resort to such
means to destroy the credit of Conven-
ton. We assure him he can give no color
of truth to his charge by such citations.
The points usually urged in support of
this assault are the following:
First. That the June Platform of 1855
was abrogated.
Secondly. That the platform substituted
contained a clause deploring the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise, as a re-opening
of sectional agitation. This is the Alpha
and Omega Of all the proof that can be
adduced and our columns are filled with
refutations of it, On the other hand, it is
the history of the convention that the new
platform was adopted by vote Of los to
77-nearly all of the negative votes being
freesOil. This is one instance in which they
failed to control the body Another in
stance is found in the action taken on the
following article proposed by Mr.. CoRwINE,
of Ohio, as a substitute for the eighth ar
tic!e of the platform as adopted:
ARTICLE 6. The unqualified recognition and
maintenance OF the reserved rights of the
several States, and the cultivation of harmony
and fraternal good will between the citizens of
the several States, and the preservation alike
of public and private trust and faith, and to
this end we declare, as a cardinal principle of
our Platform, that the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise was an infracton of the plighted
faith of the nation, and that it should be re-
stored; and if efforts to that end should fail,
o. Of, 70 mi, no
any State tolerating Slavery which shall be
formed out of any portion of the territory en-
braced under that Compromise.
The President of the Council ruled it ont
of order An appeal was taken, and lost,
by a vote Of l07 to 63-"a defeat of the
North" says the reporter, "by the South
and National Americans" This was the
action of the Council Does it not fatty
diSprove the charge that Northern men
ruled it? They attached no weight to the
simple regret that the Administration had
seen fit to conyulSe the country with slave
ry agitation. They interpreted the It'll
section as strongly pro-slavery as the Ne
braska bill itself, and so expressed them
selves, and so denounced it, and bolted
from the Council because Of its adoption
But let US examine the record of the
Convention which assembled on the next
day. We will here, however, state,
that several Southern men, Disguised at
the conduct of the Northern SecederS, be-
fore they did seceGe, had left the COnven-
ton Among these was Gen. CALL, of
Florida. The first test vote of the Con
vention was on motion to lay on the
table an amendment offered by Mr.. Kill
uYGER, of Pa, TO a series of resolutions
offered by Mr.. SMALL, that no candidate
for the Presidency should be nominated
who did not favor the restoration of the
Missouri Compromise. THIS WAS CARRIED
BY VOTE OF l4l To Co. After this tri-
umph Of the National men, and the indu-
bitable evidence of their power to control
the body, the Southern seccderS returned,
with but one or two exceptions, the fshy
Mr. PIKE, of Arkansas, being among them
The next test act of the Convention was
the cgregious fraud practiced on the South
by the nomination of Mr. FILLMORE, first
discovered by the n. Y. Courier and En-
guiyer, and now the theme Of endless CON-
mcnt by our "Old Clay Wing" In his first
paper he asserted it, with the forced adj
mission that IL involved q most stunning