The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-03-02


DENTS y the great leading features Of hi: sa~in,trs
We have got to abstain the abogAon Of the Missouri
compelled to stand In defence of squatter sovereignty
ard uphold the long catalogue of wrong and Outrage
;nst nv e.tensou Of s1wn ns hsye so
70 stand m the beginning to the end Of the eauPsgo,
side b, tide wh slavery propsg.ndism for We tell the
which placed the nominee Of the American Convention
in Lis pIetsnt positi1n 1t becaus. it in the
nan himself and IN his antecedents, platform which
answered its purpose, that gave him its support
Tbs step be taken Is TO betlay the y thousand
cur banner. We have got to fay pledges to them
that the American movement not silver gray
pledges TO them that would ignore the slavery issue
and s:a1d upon Ameri IAN principles leaving the
th.mieyes We have go: do all this because in the
hin self, at the North "a well as a. the SOUTH
The issue sns thus svs o % 9nr
from American mooriDgs into the service Of the
propaganda, and fight it's bastlestor eandi
cate, by his aDtececents, compels MS to do so.
In this position If matters, the question srses-Whst
is 10 may do they please. We viii keep
betrsy great cause, nor the friends who have conaded
In As toitor will not take bach our assertion
that the American movement In the State of New York
Was not silver gray movement. We will not take back
What said In addressing, during the last campstSa
the American party not pro. slavery party We
have no stomach battles Of the silver gray faction
we have hse enough OF experience in that way. we
have stomach FIR the battles OF slaverJ-Snd We will
lie. no man suppose that we intend to abandon the
great American doctrines, the principles OF the orgsrza
ton or tie party which upholds them. Ne~ Jersey
ana New York stand alone Of all the Northern
All the other states North of Mason and Dxons line
tue to American principles, true to the great
eniTsrrai sentiment Of the free States on ina SUB
ject Of slavery We content and anxious to ignore
hs
teong-to Congress and the federal Courts butt driven
from his position Ct and forced to sheUs s BE-
vice otslavery the abandonment Of nominate on in
go with the entire American party Of the North
New York and New Jersey alone; ard, If must take
tides on the great issue Of human slavery Se take the
sIoe Of New England OF Pennsylvania Ohio and the
the West. Compelled a last they to cho sc be-
tween uniting Ameticansm With slavery freedom we
choose the latter and IN full view OF the consequence
We being forced strike win strike with these Of
American brethren Who have added TO toelc American
platform Ieedt m TO all territory rib CT The Missouri
compromise line
From the Philadelphia American leading organ Of the
old line whig party of PenDsyvahial
have any notice Of the Presidential nomination
mace last Monday in tbs city As We to extent
we could at least have glimpse in this
that opricn is Although there is certainly kind ee-
ing entertained towards Mr. Fillmore personally, his
mination, under the circumstances attending it. falls
coldly unmpresevely on the public mind The con-
servatve men OF this community, at least with whom
lave org acted, stand off in dstrust Of the new
cca,ions that encompass Mr.. Fillmore, and which II
they veit bim entirely make him underlined and
he presented didate o,gsnzed2 How were its
members chosenf What is the constituent body ?
Under what obligation secret avowed do either the
constituents or the act9 Was this body
IL cItan OF secret lodges? Il it under the Obligation
Of oaths Are those who belong to it bound together
by ties ard duties on which the Law aud the consti-
| tn ion fown; Is Mr.. Filmore-she Milard Fill
of 164S an ex President Of the United States-s
re- he be-, member Of secret society, to
religious test and to excluaiveness Of the shic.es kip
To s these questions and for all these doubts there Is
ie at ' This is not Whig nemaatisns is not
pfelvative nominstior-it is not American nom.
i,a'ion in the high and true sense Of tina: much
With all its peculariies; and, at the very moment
at which it il made it is proclaimed, BY authority and
ard is member of Know Nothing lodge, in good
standing having taken ell three caths and that bu. for
that he d not and could not have been noninsted
ard on the ticket with him is placed gentleman who
was Mr. Fimore's most vruent assailant in 1850, and
ore If the ouesss in esnuneaan Of Henry Clay snd
| Theodore Frelipghuysen, Mr.. Frelinghuyssn being
10 Of be the hsss
NJ. Fillmore to Mr.. Clay, in 1874, s:'ey pointing to
votes from ane lost us the day. leader of those
opponents who thus cried down the native Americans
Mon this strange ticket. Well may consdersts men
Iod csck when, BY such processes, such results
The public thus puzzled the origin results OF
his strange convensoF have looked to its record and
I
tceres Ct disorder confusion win arise ia all large
Political bt dies overy one knows and no wonders At
But only when, underneath the frothy surface there
are at work secret ents and those elements OF the
most sc.id kind, that turmoil and disturbance become
serious Who read the proceedings Of this
ton without eLg that its vital and only cohesive prn
cipe form Of religious intelorance; and fron
Religious prescription and fectA,sD agon the true Anne
| Iican heart alwsys has and always will revolt. One
hardly ln,ws what sentiment predonuates on looking
| at Ibis painful and srotesque record.
Now it lie from q convention thus deportng tself,
rE.-fr of m nd
clergyman and lawyers ard uondesc2shug each other
in audjn nhusasm, and make speeshes about ''Sam
AND Saint Hldebrardo and spawned horses" that
This nomination comes; and coming thus, II has riga.
to ak the support Of wings and fair min led Of any
surely is the a'nful dstrust which this subject fills
| the public mind justa-d.
PECULIAR motives for resolute reserve just Nowhere
has the party which nominated Mr.. Fillmore lett
In the nstien has IL been tuchwe mean adm nistraive
lyas to conmsnd confidence Less than two years ago
sprang into gigantic exstence and commanded some
thing incTed 10 admiration fear With strong hand
nnc grasp bold that stout and honest heart ned
to reive it, It took possession in place another,
OF power and patronage. Pennsylvania and As.sachu
sets and New York yielded But the instant it con-
quered power showed itself unfit unable to admins
''s umong ''t the
locked al this result with disappointment. The two
.cipon alien to the heart and inteilisen,e Of the
American people only worked out their genuine fruits
Of fs 1o
and the enc what have said Nov, is 1t TO be
wondered st that with these facts sill recent-for two
years il the mit-conservave should regard with
suspicion nomination about which they have not only
not been consulted but from which they have been
peeled?
To such conservative who have not yet spoken we
sayi in al earnestness reserve your judgment Tnis
nominate has antecedens to and acquiescen:e
from wigs or those who act with whigs Least Of ALL
has 1t any claims on Pepnsyvanians We have not for
gotten the Of last winters legislation and i'm
potent ntrgues and remember we'll that the party
whose convention now nominates Mr.. Fillmore
power and responsible them Philadelphans, too, may
well before they follow this New York city lead
fndrg as thew do, among Mr. Fimose's prominent
thankgivers in this convention those who have sgosl
lied hen' by bitter opposition to our local interests
The time will soon when those who have hereto
fore protested whg principles, and who have yet
formed other connection ought to determine tn r
courfe and anfully proclaim it.