Washington telegraph., 1856-05-07


tute by southern delegates, and majoyits
OF the southern delegates voted for Its adop
ton. Its provisions are certainly more ma,
tlonal than our platform. which was so trul,
Southern, that It almost verged upon sec
tionalism. which we Iepudiate in all it.
forms; yet the new platform retains sub.
std'atidlly all the provisions of the old. and
often In much better and less Objectionable
terms 1t is Conservative national. and
essentially american, ''from beginning to
end" 1t contains the pledge to sustain
Ndtire American principles; a cuarn7s.
ty of the absolute right of the Tesidez.,
citizens of each Territory to frame their
own Constitution and laws. in all matters,
including slavery, of course, and of admis-
sion as State: most explicit pledge to
the rights of the States; and above all to
maintain ultarnished the Constitution and
the american Union.
The senst6iLsttes Of sound and consery-
alive national man-one whose heart is en-
listed in the patriotic cause Of the Native
American Union-who has no selfish mo-
tlves to subserve-and cannot stand upoa
this platform with arg men who can or do
commiserarion, not cur wrath At the time
OF the adoption of this new platform. the
abolition editors of the North made fero-
cious war upon it. as Southern movement,
and the evidence of the preponderaace o..
Southern influences In the Council: and the
squad spoken of above Immediately announc-
ed their determination to have it changed,
or leave the Council, and continued to de-
nOunce it and we're repeatedly told to start,
and the ''soOncr the better;;'' but thew re-
mained as long as they could in order TO
effect mischief. Finally, in the Conven-
ton, before the nominations were made, the
Southern delegates. with the sanction of
the national men of the North, had prepar-
ed a proposition which would drive them
out; but the squad anticipated them, by Of
fering proposition of their own, to the ef-
feet that the National Council had no
authority to establish a platform, and
that the COnreution should nominate no
person for Presiden. or Vice President,
tci0 'rGs nat IN .faror Of 7orohibitiug
sLa ccry North Of 36o 30'-the Missouri
Compromise line. which was promptly vo-
ted down by an overwhelming majority-
This gave death blow to the Black Repub-
lican squad. and they immediately Withdrew
from the Hall-forty strong. amid the
Kisses and jeers of the Convention, and the
nirthful as well opprobrious epithets of
crowd of exulting spectators Such was
the finale of the Black Republican treason
at Philadelphia, lii February, as it had been
in June And none joined more heartily
in their denunciatiOn than the great body of
the true Northern men who remained with
US. and still constituted majority of our
body. This last discontinue, it is to be
hoped will forever deter such men from
again introducing their Trojan Horse in
10 Native American fortress: let them 90
where they Will find kindred spirits, and
meet with their usual success-to whig as
semblies of abolition ''wooly heads" or of
the freesoil democracy, so carefully foster
ed by the man in power, and his motley ad-
kerents-where they will doubtless find a
hearty welcome to ''the cohesive power OF
public plunder.''
Of the nominations, it is useless for ne
to speak. Fillmore and Donclson are
known to you al; the acts of both are en-
graved upon the records of the country
The latter was born and reared in the
midst Of our own local institutions, and is
deeply interested in their preServatiou-ed-
ucated under the eye. and 10 the last breath
receiving the undiminislicd confidence of
one of the MOBILES. patriots Of the last gene
ration that has adorned our political or mil
itary kaiends, and ike his revered guardian
ever ready TO set his foot upon disunion:
the former. tried in the crucible, and found
true to the Constitution and the Union,
in all things, especially In his approval as
President of all the Compromise measures.
and firm enforcement of the fugitive slave
law, whereby he rendered himself peculiar
" obnoxious to freesoilers and abolitionists,
who hate lin as their bane to this day
He was nominated for President ct the in
in Convention, was the first choice of my
worthy colleague. in which | was not 10th
to concur with him; and although he was
not the first choice Of many of our North
ern friends. they are pledged to lis support,
and from the newspapers, l see they shave
opened the canvass in New York, Massa-
chusetts. and other States, boldly and zeal
ously, under the flag of Fillmore and Dom
elson, aud are proudly and successfully raj
lying all true Americans to their standard
In the Southern States, l think it ippossi-
bic for this ticket to fail. without being sub
jected truthfully TO the charge of political
blindness and notwithstanding the
vi;uperation and calumnies of partisan news
papers, and small politicians. urged ON by
the crazy man Of the Old Dominion, and
the panders and props of an unprincipled
administration totteriug to its fall
With the present strength Of the Ameri-
can party in our State; with principles
which appeal not only to the head but the
heart of every native and every true natural
lied son of Arkansas; with a creed based
upon the preservation of the Constitution
and the Union. as Its foundation and chief
corner stone; with men unquestionably true
to our interests and our cause; can we fail I?
Fat should not be word in our vocabula-
~; and, In my poor opinion. with energetic
action, and united front. with hearts such