Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-02-16

York PENNSYLVANIA, and New Jersey, and she DELI
egates from the slaveholding States, to adopt the
platform, with the twelfth section in il, by dec
ded majority. But the significant and important
fact must be stated that that section was subse
quently repudated by the State Councils of all the
non slayeholdng Statesl 1t was repudiated by the
soundest, most conservative, most national, and
most influential members of the party at the North.
The New York Express. one Of whose editors Is
Mr. Erastus Brooks, the ablest and most Influential
man of the party in the Empire State, speaking OF
the PLATFORM said that platforms bound nobody, not
even those who framed them!
"The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, commonly
regarded as Mr. Fiilmore's home organ, repudiated
the twelfth section in the strongest language, and
declared il would not stand upon it Other equally
significant acts of individual reputation might be
mentioned, but these will suffice for our present
purpose. Ii is enough to say that the slavery sec
tion of the Philadelphia platform stands confessedly
and publicly repudiated by the great mass # the
American party in all of the slavehOdng States.
Turn we now TO the election for Speaker for a
further illustration OF the effect OF the insertion Of
the twelfth section of the Philadelphia platform.
Mr.. II. Marshall, of Kentucky, was brought out "a
the candidate of those members OF the American
party who stood upon that platform. In published
letter of his written at Washington on the 18th OF
DeceilDcF last, mr. MdfShdh
1.-The members who voted for me were not will
ling to compromise on the basis Of the Missouri
striction clause, but to man, stood upoa the Phil.
adephia platform of the American party, and all of
them knew that my position, declared openly
and above board"
''The highest vote received by ~. Marshall was,
we believe thirty OF these, three only, ii We re-
collect rightly, were from non Shaving Sates-those,
namely, of Messrs. Walk, Clarke, aud Whitney OF
! 1 ;.LlI H.,
who had supported him took up Fuller OF Pennsyl-
vania, as their candidate. Mr.. Fuller received the
votes of all the American members from the South,
and several more from the non sldyeholdng States
! than Mr. Marshall had received. But with few
individual exceptions, the great mass OF the Amer
| lean members from the non saveholding State
refusing to place themselves upon the Philadelphia
platform, Ton account Of the 18th secton.) voted
for Mr. Banks. At Washington, as in Philadelphia,
the slavery plank in the Philadelphia platform "rent
the party in twain"
the House. was further and most signally indicated
on the 26th January, on resolution introduced by
Mr. Dunn of Indiana, declaring that the Missouri
Compromise prohibition ought to be restored.
Against this resolution but five or six American
members from the non slavehoding States recorded
their votes Among those American members from
the .sav, holding States VINO voted for this
olution, which declared that the Missouri compror
mise line ought to be restored was MIR. Haven Of
Buffalo, n. Y, the law partner and warm personal
and political friend of Mr.. Fillmore Is not this
vote of MIR. Haven fall of significance? viii you
shut your eyes to SO pregnant a fact? VIII You
not reflect upon it and ask yourselves this question:
"lf Mr. FillmOre's home organ, the Buffalo Conn
mercia Advertiser, and Sir Fimore's immediate
representative in Congress, his law partner and
personal and political friend, Mr.. Haven, refuse TO
stand upon the slavery plank of the Philadelphia
platform, how many members of the American party
in the non-sIavehoIding States We as reasonable
! men, hope and believe will stand upon it?"
! There it is in plain English: The Free State
| Know Nothings all AboIitionsts. They repu-
date this twelfth plank universally and set up fOI
/ themselves. They the great OF the party;
! moreover. There cannot be union unless this
plank is discarded, and of course America can't be
! ruled by such divided Americans. Let the plank
! therefore go; pretermit the slavery question alto
! gether, and thus unite with the Abolitionists
! The South is here advised no longer to take an
issue with the North on this slavery question. Sur
render the whole matter and let it 90, for otherwise
/ the sworn brethren can't unite Let them fill Con
gress with Abolitionists and the Senate too, with
our connivance Let help them elect President
OF the pretermitting stripe, and then let them dc
with the South as seems good in their eyes. Let
Seward and Banks dictate the policy of this govern
/ ment
This proposition is too cool and impudent for
! comment. "Genhemen, our party North are Abo
! litiOnsUs-thcre Is TO denying it. They will not
act with at all i we insist upon our rights a:
| Southern men. Let Us therefore acquiesce in Abo
ltionm for the sake OF the spoils; for the sake Of
Am, ricans ruling America"
We put the thing on record that our readers may
see what treason is going OH, and that they may
see frank confession of the charges we have made
sgainst this Know Nothing party from one of their
own counsellOrs and advisers. He tells the breth'
rem the "npaiata5ie" truths that we have told them
all along. These truths have been studiOusly con
cealed by the Know Nothing press of this State
but it is now too late to hide them. Instead o.
repucating with scorn party thus confessed to be
rotten, it is shameessly proposed to surrender the
South to their tender merces and to assist them IL
/ their schemes to get the power to do the evil it j:
confessed they mediate.
! The American party South may try the expert
ment, but the mass of the people South will repu
date it with contempt aud scorn.