The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-04
KNow-NoTHINe CONVENTION.
DE PHILADELPHIA.

paper with a record Of its proceedings. All
accounts agree in representing that it was
composed of the most discOrdant, distracted,
factious and noisy set of individuals that
ever assembled in this country. We give
the new platform adopted by the Conven-
ton. 1t will be seen that the 12th or
Southern Section of the old platform has
been discarded-and string of evasive, !
milk and water, unmeaning, wordy and silly |
resolutions adopted by fragment of the |
Convention, to dupe and humbug, if posi- /
BILE, the people.
1t will also be seen that a fragment of
the Convention nominated Willard Fillmore,
for President, and Andrew jackson Donel
: son, for Vice Presidelt-a ticket Of which
we shall take occasion to speak III our /. ext
1t, and It's twin sister, the Black Re publi-
can ticket, will receive about votes enough
to give the Democratic porty nearly every
State in the Union.
To show the character of this Convention
we will introduce Know othing evidence.
Mr.. Boteler, leading Member from Vir-
gina, after the adm 'Ission of tie avowcd
abolitionists of PEI In$vlvania, and the re-
PUdiation of the ''I2th section" addressed
the Convention, and said:
- am CO. strained to believe that Amc
rEcanlsm Is being fast merged into Adolf
Flenism Practically the Amcricansm of
ftle Moth is AbpIitionism. | say of the
Amer can Party, | watched by its cradle. |
now stand by It's grave. 1t no longer exists
III ihe land. The elements of which it was
COMPOSED arc dissolved. We will 90 home
and take our principles, and make them the
basis of the union of the whole South. She
will present an unbrokcu front in defence of
her rights"
The Know-Nothing Nationals" at Phil
adelphia have gone through the most ridi-
culous farce ever enacted. In the first place,
upon the adoption of the new platform, ig-
noring tho 18th section, number of South
ern members seeded, as shown by the fol-
lowing PROTEST:
Alta meeting of the Southern members of
the National Council of the Native Amcri
can Union, and of others intending to adhere
TO the twelfth article of the platform of the
American party, held on the evening of the
10Th of February, ISJ6, it was with great
manimity resolved, (and the result hailed
with nine cheers that, in case the National
Council should strike out, or materially mo-
dify the twelfth article, the Southern dele
gates would at once retire i'll a body from
the hall, and proceeding to the Ninth Ward
coincil room, would there, with such other
members us might unite with them, contin-
ne the session of the true National ltmeri-
can Council. Some of the undersigned re-
tired, in pursuance of the above resolution,
the moment the entire platform was stricken
out; others remained to witness the result.
The undersigned deem it due to themselves,
and those they represent, to declare that
they cannot stand upon the new platform,
nor continue members of any national or
ganizatiOn of which it Is the supreme law,
of which those who represented several of
the Northern States, are members; and
they have, therefore, resi- gmed their COM
missions as members of the National COun-
ell, and severed their connection with the
national organization, a. at present consti-
uted,-udhering, aud meaning always to
adhere, with ndimniShrd loyalty, to the
American party of their respective States.
A. PIKE, of Arkansas.
&. MATTHEWS, of Califor.l liza.
In the next place, a. large number of
Southerncrs, including several Virginians,
seeded, in consequence of the admission of
the ant-twclfth section delegation from
Pennsylvania, and for the reasons set forth
in the following report of the minority of
the Committee on Credentials:
The undersigned members of the Com
mttee on Credentials find themselves con-
strained to differ from the majority, in re-
gard to eligibility of those claiming to be
delegates to this Convention from the State
of Pennsylvania. We regard the Conven-
ton as having been called for the purpose
of nominating candidates for President and
t.,ft Il
the basis of the conservative and national
adjustment of the vexcd question of slavery
embodied in the platform of June II, 1855,
and that no political organization, which
has rcpudiatcd rejected the substance
and principles of that adjustment Is emit
tied to q representative in this Conventions
Understanding that the delegates whose
claims have been admitted by majority of
the committee were elected under authority
of body known as the Edic Council, of
Pennsylvania, which claims to be the organ
of the American party in Pennsylvania, af-
ter having, as was admitted, rejected and
TePudiated the t,ceLfh section of said plat
form, we are of opinion that said delegates
have no right to seats i'll the Convention
and submit for the adoption of the Conven-
ton the following resolution:
RcSoiced, That the delegates from Penn
sylvania, elected under the authority of the
organization commonly called the Edic
Council, are not entitled to seats in this
Convention.
a. KENNEDY. of Maryland,
w. y. LAKE, of Mississippi
w. G. BROwNLuw, of Tennessee,
Il. X. CALL, Of Florida.
j. \. BAKER, of North Carolina,
w. L. SANFLY, of Texas,
j. ID. IMBODEN, of Virginia,
with note from Hon. Percy Walker
saying, that though not present in the com
mittee, he should have voted with the mi
nority.
The admission of the Anti-I2th section
Pennsylvania delegation produced the high
est excitement among the Southern MEM
bers, who held a caucus ON Saturday night
as to their future course. The result of
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