The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1856-04-05
KNOW NOTHING OR
CANS DEMOLISHING THEIR PLAT

ISOUIHERN KNOW NOTHING OR
CANS DEMOLISHING THEIR PLAT
FORM. t.
The Wheeling (va.) Intclligcncer speaks
oft as follows
NEW KSow-NornING PLATOON.
This new declaration of principles, the third
in order since the birth of the Order is before
the public. Ii consists of IS articles of faith
some Of them substantially as in the old, and
some new ones The t,celtM action has been
pulled down, aud in its stead is found bill of
Indictment against the Administration, one of
the counts of which is the "repeat Of the Ms
souyi Compromise" and the present twelfth see
ton provides. "'The maintenance and en-
forccmcnt of all laws, until said laws shall be
repealed, or declared null and void by compc-
tent judicial authority" Apart from the tru-
ism contained in most of the other sections we
observe nothing worthy of note. Native
born citizens must be selected to Office in pref
erencc to foreign born" &c. This is quite IL
fall from the old platform, and the original
basis of the Order. Then it was an erlusion
of all foreign born citizens, now it is pref
eyence for native born Instead of opposition
to Catholics, as was their old motive, we now
have (scction 81 the non-selection of any per-
son who recognizes any allegiance or obliga-
ton, &C., TO any foreign prince, potentatc or
power and who does not take our State and
Federal Constitution us paramount rules of
political action.
We believe that this test has been in force
since the adoption Of the Constitution Of the
Union, as every Office holder has taken and
does take this oath to support his State and
Federal Constitution. Nothing new in this,
we opne.
| The whiting process has been adopted to
such an extent that hardly the tail of the first
platform at Cincinnati is left, and the 18th
section Gold stile) and the third degree are
now gone! Where aOw stand tie Southern
purity? MOI oaly has mir panaeea been takca
from Them, and aot one acord IN its stead, other
haa The implied deniai Of tie principles Of Tic
Nebrasha bill, as wW be seen by reference 10 Tic
1871 scctioa
The 18th section of the present platform is
as Machiavclian piece of FEASIBILITY as was
ever invented. 1t means thas any law may
and will be repealed so soon as the North can
do it-rery Htie different fran The Bleeh Re
publican Phttorm. "Repeal Of the Fugitive
Slave Law" Repeal Of the Kansas Law" is
their cry, and all they need is strength to car
i y it out. The 10Th section means little more
and yet we find SEVEN Virginians voting for
this section, and at the head of them Mr.
Boiling, nominated by Mr.. Bolts to represent
Virginia in this Abolition Aassembly.
We are glad that Mr.. Imbodcns name is
not found in the list of the captured. But
what of the last clause of this section? "Unt
declared null and void by competent judicial
authority" Amy Judge that decides, or who?
Dnrlopc FIN 81 ,f
would be deemed the highest judicial authority
with these gentlemen.
Where is our friend of the Richmond Uhig?
We should like to hear from him, and know
whether he does not knock under now to
Bolts and the little organ" What says our
neighbor of the Times? Can he go this plat
form? Ifhc can how long since he made up
his mind to take the pill, however bitter?-
Where now the safe, conservative, and nation
Ial platform which the party boastcd of last
Spring? Where now the guaranty of rights
and property to the South? We want to hear
from our friend of the 1cmes? We would like
to hear him on the Platform, apart from the
nominees. Mr. Fillmore is respected by all.
1t is not known that he will accept If he
does, we shall speak of it, AS for the second,
no one expected his nomination, and fen aciH
spnclicn it. But of this hereafter
The Columbia IS. O. Times, an advocate
'of the Know Nothing party protests against
the cmascuation of the old platform, particu-
larry with regard TO the famous l2tIi section.
1t says:
Bat what Shall We say of the alterations
which the Twelfth section has Undergone? Be
for, il was clear aud precise, except upon one
poiat in relation to the questions touching sla-
very. 1t denied, in unmstakabe terms, that
Congress has the power to exclude state from
the Union, because it may have established or
prohibited slavery. And although it prefer
mtted any expression Of opinion with regard
to the power of Congress to establish slavery
in the territories Of the United States, or to
exclude it from them, yet it declared that the
exercise Of such power would be unjust and
unequal. II is true there was little dod
gng upon this point, but it was, at least a
manifest dodge.
Now, however, in place of the 18th see
ton, one Of vague generalties, that may be
twisted to mean anything one may desire it to
mean or just nothing at all, has been snbstitu-
ted, gotten up after the most approved mode
of the Democratic party, for such purposes