Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-03-27
COMMUNICATIONS.


baae, and Times, the Columbus Journa,,he
Cincinnati Gasette, the Cleveland Herald,
and the Natiohal Bra, and Organ, and in |
addition, all the county papers, still we
wish for more information on political mat.
ters. APpropos Of this, observe in the
lGeepepddnt Republican, of the 20lh inst.
Communication from Capt Simpson In
which he gives history Of affairs at the
National sAmerican Convention, and his
action in that body. ln that article he
strives to make it apper that he occupied
the only true national ground-the happy
medium between the ultra North and South
bad supposed by reading the papears |
have cited above that the Capt. occupied
ground different from that on which he
was appointed, and went into the Conven-
ton, but he appears to think not. Let US
see.
In the first place, Mr.. Editor, am an
American-or rather was an American
until the Philadelphia Convention, but if
that Convention is proper exponent OF
Americansm, "then III none Of it,"
Capt. Simpson received his instructions
in the following resolutions:
Resolved, that our delegate to the Ma
tional nominating Conventon,be unanimous
Iy instructed to vote for no man for nomi-
nation, for p. or V. p. who is not an A.
merican in sentiment and who is not op-
posed to the admission of any Slave
State, into the Union, whether formed out
OF territory now belonging to the United
States, or out of territory which may be
hereafter acquired
| This comprises his whole instruction, it
is true, but of course the spirit of a Con-
vention which would thus instruct SER
want would. chad it foreseen the course of
events) have instructed him alsn, 20 oppose
TO the bitter end, all aggressons of the
slave power in that Convention. True this
is hut supposition on my part, but | sub
nit it TO you or 10 any one else. if it is
not fair deduction from the premises.
think so.
| obtain my information rom the N. Y.
Tribune and Times, which are considered
perfectly reliable in questions of fact. True
the Capt. seys:
The great excitement attending the de-
the floor together with the size of the hall
rendet the reports imperfect, and no attempt
was made to report all or one tenth part OF
what was said by any member.'
The question here arises-If the "noise
pnd confusion" was SO great . hat expert
enced reporters of large journals could not
get at the facts as they transpired, how
| r. Al.
CLEAN all the facts 50 carefully! He voted
to strike out the I2th section of the old
plaiform-and voted for the substitute which
latter, according to the Washington Organ,
"is just as THOROUGHLY SOUTHERN as If ii
contained that the 18th section" The
same paper says further: "1he platform ad.
limits all that The South suer ella lined, to wit:
"That Congress has no business to say
"that shareholders shall not carry their
"slaves into any territory of the United
States" OF another plank in the plat
form the Organ says:-"Of course this
means and it was intended to mean, Just
what it expressed on its face, that all laws
shall be enforced till repealed or declared
void by competent judicial authority. And
the fugitive sIaue law is one of these laws"
Again, the Louisville Journh u says:-.No
form of words could be devised repudia tina
more clearly The doctrine Of the Wi!mot ,proviso,
or setting forth more distinctly the right
of the people Of every territory, on coming
into the Union, TO come with or without
slavery as they themselves may decide. y
y The North has here yielded a principle
Which it never yielded TIL nop."
These extracts will, presume, show suf-
ficiently how the new platform is regarded
by the South. Now let us see how the
Ohio Delegation regarded it in the Council
and since: When II was adopted. Capt
IhoS. II. Ford, Gall honor to him,) follow
ed by eighteen others from Ohio being about
hree;Jourths of the whole delega tion, left
the Hall Meeting with other seceders they
issued an address .emhodng their reasons
for taking the step they had done--which
address your readers have seen. They
looked upon that platform just as the South.
ern press above quoted, did, aud there ore
repudiated it. FOUR Ohio delegates:-l
WhHe, Nash, Lippit, and Simpson, stuck to
the Council, Notwithstanding the fact thut
its pro-siauery action ,ods so strong that those
srtreme Southeraers iDho had before witldra,on
because it did not go far enough South, return
ed, and Parson BRowNLow, of Tennessee,
and Gov. CALL, Of Florida, in the ecxtatc
Joy of their hearts, leaped into each others
arms-so rejoiced were they at this victory
Of tho South. All The southern seceders re-
turned
Let us return, however, for moment, to
the Barnesville resolution, under which
Capt. Simpson held his appointment Ho
must "vote for no man for President or
Vice President who is not opposed to the
admission Iof any Slave State into the
Union' &c.
The Capt says:--"I voted, as did my
colleagues from this State, for Done lson. ~
Doneison says:--"l was born in a Southern
am the owner of one hundred
slaves--I love the Institutions of the South"
Put these three extracts together, and |
lhink a strict construction of the Barnes
'ille resolut on will place the Capt in an
inenyable light before his constituency -
More especially before that small portion
who listened to the pledges made by his
za.s... l.. F.