Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-03-01

must continue to triumph as long as our
Republican Government exists.
KNOW-NOTHING NATIONAL CON
VENTION.
This body, consisting of delegates from
the different States of the Union, num-
bering in all near three hundred, met at
Philadelphia on the 22d instant, and pro-
ceeded to the business which called them
together, the nomination of candidates
for President and Vice President of the
United States. With its meeting the
storm commenced and continued till its
adjournment. The Abolition wing of
the party first triumphed in the National
Council, which met few days previous
/ ly, by succeeding in having the 18th
section, the only guaranty which the
South possessed of her rights, abolished,
and new platform substituted, which is
specimen of the Janus-faced principles
which they maintain. 1t is milk and
water concern, and if it means anything
at all, it is concession and union for
the sake of the spoils."
Their second triumph was in the adj
mission to seats in the convention of the
Abolition set of delegates from Pennsyl-
yania. These were sent there as the
representatives of the friends of the
Reading State Council, which, soon after
the adoption of the Philadelphia National
platform of last year, adopted platform
to suit themselves, and utterly repudiated
the former so far as regarded the 18th
section.
Our friends will admire their consis-
tency when we inform them that these
harmonious brothers almost unanimously
admitted the delegates from Catholic
Louisiana, where they recognize the
equality of the professions of the Prot
estant and Catholic faith.
Friday and Saturday were consumed
in these preliminary movements, and a
strong effort was made to postpone the
nomination to later period But. on
Monday morning the motion TO proceed 70
a nomination prevailed, and a scene of
more wild confusion than had yet char
acterized the convention now existed -
The delegates from Connecticut, Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island and Ohio, and
parts of the delegation Of Illinois, Iowa,
and Pennsylvania, withdrew and left the
remainder to make the nomination. The
vote was taken, when, for President,
MlLLARD FmLMoRE, Of New York, re-
ceiyed 179 votes; GEORGE LAW, "a /;
KENNETH RAYXER, IA; JOHN Mclean,
10.
For Vice President, A. J. DoxELsoS
received 1Sl votes; Henry j GARDNER,
II; KENNETH RAyEER, s; r. j. VALE
Err, 8; and ANDREW STEWART, 2.
So the nominees are FILLMORE and
DoSELsoX, and these are the men with
whom they expect to vanquish the friends
Of equality and civil and religious liberty
in the coming campaign. Mr.. FILLMORE
is neither popular in the North Or South !;
the former does not consider him a sufi-
GENTLY "true friend of freedom" in the
present state Of anti-slavery excitement:
the latter, with the exception Of the
Know-nothing party, does not admire
his nationality.
Granting, however, that the Know
nothing party Of the South, which is
playing into the hands of their Abolition
brethren, conceding everything for the
sake of securing portion of the spoils,
is satisfied with the nomination, what
hope is there Of his election. In all the
elections in the Southern States during
the past year, that faction only succeeded
in carrying two States, Maryland and
Kentucky. They can effect nothing in
the South. Her people know full well
that the Democratic party has ever stood
up for her constitutional rights, and pro-
tected her interests from the encroach-
ments Of its opponentsof the North, and
consequently they are thoroughly Dem
ocratic. In fact, the Southern States of
the Union have ever been the stronghold
Of the Democracy, and still remain true
! to the principles.of this national party.