Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-03-22
THE UNION THROUGH A BLOODY
AND PERILOUS ROAD"

know-nothing convention at Cincinnati,
in November last, composed of delegates
from screen of the Northern and North
western States. They declare
THAT the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise was an infracton of the plighted
faith of the nation, and that it should be
restored; and, if efforts to that end
should fail, Congress should refuse to
admit into the Union any State tolerating
slavery, which shall be formed out Of
any portion of the territory from which
that institution was excluded by that
compromise"
Yes, they will not admit Kansas if she
applies for admission as slave State
thus, according to the language of Mr.
Clay, and tsus, as every intelligent man
knows leading to the 'aissolution Of the
Union by bloody road !" You see by
this resolution how the now-nothings
in the northwestern States stand Twill
show you how they stand in the middle
States. In the legislature of Pennsyl-
vania, the Know-nothings and the Black
Republicans, true to their instincts and
actions, FUSED, and they declared, on
the 18th of January, 1856, in the fol-
lowing form, to wit:
" Resolved, That we are opposed to the
admission Of any more slave States into
this Union therefore,
Resolged, That Kansas and Nebras-
ka should only be ADMITTED into the
sisterhood as FREE STATES"
Opposed to the admission Of any
more Slare States into this Union )" the
rankcst and the most damnable free
soilism, as well as the most direct road
to dissolution
In New York-in the Empire State
the State which owes its greatness to the
commerce of the Union as it is--in that
State, so bound to us and so dependent
upon us by commercial ties, the Know
nothings met there in State convention
at Binghampton, and they, too, join in
the swelling chorus of abolitionism, and
resolve as follows:
RcSolred, That the national admin
istration, by us general course Of official
conduct together with an attempt to de-
stroy the repose, harmony, and fraternal
relations of the country, in the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise and the en-
couragcment OF aggresslons upon the
government Of the territorial inhabitants
of Kansas, deserves, and should receive,
~
The united condemnation of me american
people, and that the institution of sla-
very should receive NO EXTENSION from
such repeal"
The meaning of which is, that Kansas,
if applying as slave State, should be
rejected. This is the platform upon
which they went into their last fight =
This is the platform upon which they
gained their victory IA victory which
has been so much rejoiced over IA vic
tory which would lead to the dissolution
of the Union I! Thus stand the Know
nothlngs of New York Let us go to
the northeastern-thc New England
States. Maine, Connecticut, New liamp-
shire, Massachusetts,, all declare that
Whereas tho aggressive policy which
has been uniformly pursued by the slave
power, from the commencement of our
national existence down to the abrogation
OF the Missouri compact, evinces de-
termination to crush out the spirit as
well as the forms of liberty from among
us, and to subject the free States to re-
lentless despotism and whereas the sue
cess of the Southern Delegates to the
national council, recently held in Phlla-
dolphin, in making abject and uncom-
planning submission to pro-slayery legls-
latlon fundamental article in the creed
of the national American party, renders
it imperative on us TO express our views
upon the great question of the country
and the age: Therefore, we declare
That the great barrier to slavery,
ruthlessly broken by the repeal of the
prohibition, ought to be speedily
restored; and that, in any event, no
State erected from any part Of the terri
tory covered by that compromise ought
ever to be admitted into the Union as a
slave State p
Though ] have theY at hand, / will
not weary and DISCUS with any more
Of these northern Know-nothirg plat
forms. ] nave taken the northwest, the
centre, and the northeast. Ihavc shown
you, so that no honest man will ever de-
ny it who reads these platforms, that
they have gone, utterly gone, into prac-
teal abolitionism that no representative
no man who values the rights of the
act with them.
DO you want moreprocf2 Ircfer you
to the record OF the present Congress.