The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-04

had been done to conciiiate the 18th sec
back into the convention and carried re-
solution to proceed TO the nomination of
candidates for President and Vice Presi-
dent. Thereupon, another grand Hegira
took place, but this time it was from the
North. The secession Of the delegations
from the following States was then formally
announced, viz: Ohio, Massachusetts,, Con-
necticut, Rhode Island, and parts of the
delegations from Pennsylvania, Illinois and
Iowa
The Convention, thus emasculated, nom
mated Willard Fillmore for President, and
4. J.'Donelson, the broken down renegade
from Tennessee, for Vice President. This
fragmentary ticket, brought about as it
has been, will fall still-born upon the pub
lie. The South, conscious that they have
been trodden down and crushed by the
''AbolitiOnist Americans las Mr.. Boteler
of Nirgini.r, called them,) in the repudia-
ton of t,he 18th section, and the total zig
nOringN of the slavery question, will refuse
to 70 into the contest with any spirit. 1t
requires no demonstration to prove, that the
( North will refuse to sustain such a mOngrel
| ticket. The whole concern is q miserable
! abortion.
There were ten States not represented in
! the NATIONAL Convention. The vote, in
making nominations, was as follows: For
| President of the United States-Millard
Fillmore of n. Y, US: George Law of n.
| Y, "a; Davis 10; Hustled 3; Kenneth
Ravner Of n. c., II; Judge Mclean of
Ohio, I3; Com. Stockston of New Jersey, 3.
For Vice President--Andrew Jackson
! Donelson of Tenn, Isl /; Kenneth Rayner
of y. c., II; VIM. r. Smith of Alabama, :.
How can Southern Know Nothings, who
made test ut Philadelphia, sustain the
nominees of the Convention, where that test
was entirely ignored and rcpudiated ,
! What evidence have they that Fillmore
stands on the 18th section, was, or is in
favor of the Kansas y ebraska acts Can
they, with any consistency, vote for him in
the dark! and will they not require from
him special pledges on these points AL
ready, leading Know Nothing paper in
the South, the Montgomery (Ala.) Mail.
has come out in advance against the NOM
ination of Mr.. Fillmore, and for unanswer-
able reasons. That paper dissented from
Mr.. II. w. billiards. preference for Mr..
! Fillmore, and gives its reasons as follows ::
He (Mr. Fillmorc) is not the man for the
timcs--he toiU ncrer stand on our platform
on SIdrery-and he is a politician against
! whom every Democratic member of the A
| merican party has already once voted. We
have strong reasons for believing that Mr..
F. is not opposed to the principle of Squat
ter Sovereignty. There is no need to send
out man doubtful on his important point
But it is useless to comment upon the
prospects of party, whose rottenness is I'M
iversalIy acknowledged, and whose con-
slant attempts to patch up ''nationality"
have produced the heartiest disgust with
the people. The Philadelphia News, a
leading organ and advocate of the Order,
has but confessed the truth when it said last
week:
''In common candor and frankness, we
must admit that we look no longer for any
good to result from the deliberations of
( Know Nothing Councils, nor the Or%aniza-
ton of the American party. The fact is
and it would be worse than folly to disguise
/ it-KnOw NOthingism is etfete. 1t has lost
| the respect and confidence of the mass of
/ the people. and is now only the foot ball of
! corrupt and unprincipled political dema-
/ gogues, who seek place and power by means
of its secret machinery, but in whom the
| people have no confidence, and never will
support in any movement they may under
take.
PROTEST OF THE BOLTERS
The Philadelphia papers contain a report
of a meeting ofthe delegates from the several
States, who bolted from the above conven-
ton. Ex-Governor Ford, of Ohio, presided.
! Delegates from eight States were present.
They adopted the following protest:
/ ''I'O the american Party Of the Union-
! The Undersigned, delegates to the National
/ Nominating Convention now in session at
! Philadelphia, find themselves compelled to
! dissent from the principles avowed bv that
! body. And holding the opinion, as thew
do, that the restoration of the Missouri
! Compromise, demanded by the freemen of
( the North, is redress of an undeniable
wrong, and the insertion of it, in spirit at
/ least, Indispensable to the response of the
country; they have regarded the refusal of
/ that Convention to recognise the we'll defined
( opinions Of the North and of the Americans
of the free States upon this question as a
denial of their right and u rebuke of their
sentiments.
They have therefore withdrawn from
the nominating convention, refusing to par
ticipate in the proposed nominations, and
now address themselves to the Americans
of the country. especially of the States they
represent, to Justify and approve their
action; and to the end that nominations
conforming to the overruling sentiments of
the country on the great issue may be
regularly and auspciously made, the I'M
dersigned propose to the Americans in all
the States to assemble in their several State
organizations, and that delegates be sent
! to the convention to meet in the city of New