Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-25
Lnn, We Expccted.

Some time since, we took occasion to com
ment in rather severe terms upon the action
Of the late Cincinnati Know Nothing Con-
vention, stating that its object in adjourning
to meet at Philadelphia in February, was for
the Northern portion of the party to take
measures to creep back again into the old ma
tional pro-slavery organization, from which
they had pronounced themselves forever dis
severed in June last. At this Judgment many
of our Know Nothing friends took great Of
feuce. and Indignantly secuted all idea of
there being any such intention on the part Oh
these Northern representatives of their party,
as desire to unite again with the South
sswait and see, and you will find yourself
greatly mistaken in your calculations" said
they, with confident assurance that no such
treason to their principles was contemplated,
or likely to be enacted.
Well, we hare /" waited and 10 and be-
hold, in two months from the time of our
prediction, we see call issued, signed by the
President and Secretary of the Know Moth
ing State Council, and responded to by all the
local Councils, calling upon the members OF
the party in the State to meet in Convention
in the several Congressional districts, on the
3lst instant, for the choice of delegates to
the National Convention at Philadelphia, of
the same old pro.slayery organization, from
which they avowed they had completely
disconnected themselves. The following is
the resolution Of the Philadelphia Conven-
ton of June last, under which they act, which
was passed after the Northern bolt:
Resolved. That a convention for the purpose
of nominating candidates for the Presidency
and Vice Presidency be held in Philadelphia
on the 22d of February, 1856, to be composed
of delegates elected by the subordinate coun-
ellis, one in each congressional district, and
two by each state council as senatorial dele
gates at large.
In thus acting in obedience to that resolu-
ton, the members of the party in Massachu-
sets have faced squarely about, and eaten all
their own words. On the 2Sth Of June last,
they met in State Council in Boston, and af-
ter ratifying the action Of the seceders, at
Philadelphia, adopted manly and emphatic
address, written by Governor Gardner him
self, from which the following is extracted
sA platform expressive of the principles of
a majority of the national council has recent
ly been adopted and made public, attested by
the signatures of its officers. THE resolution
quoted above, and made the basis of the call
issued by Messrs Benchley and Baker, was
part of this platform. This platform con-
tains views and declarations on the subject of
slavery, utterly repugnant to tie convictions
of the American party OF Massachusetts,, and
which are deemed by them snexpedaeHt, an
true, and UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Their most sG-
cred duty to their country, to themselves, and
to posterity, constrain them to utterly Teptsds-
ate those views and declarations, and to Ut
TEELY Observer THEMSELVES AT ONCE FROM
ALL POLITICAL FELLOWSHIP Nth any or gGaas=G-
tt0p sohich proclainis such platform as ats rule
Of action
That there should be no mistake about the
meaning of the State Council, it repeated its
purpose of separation from the national or
ganization, in its resolutions, as follows =
ResoDed, That this organization be hence
forth known as the American party Of Mass
GchAsetts, and does hereby seeer all connection
with the majority of the national American
council recently assembled at Philadelphia.
Yet, with these emphatic and decisive de-
clarations on record, the officers Of the party
have taken the responsibility of repudiating
them all, and issuing call re-uniting them
selves again in full embrace with the South.
We shall see how many of the masses of the
party here they can carry with them in their
perfdous course.