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Lucius G.. Peck. Wisconsin.
James f. Durham. David A. Gillies.
Hezekiah Griswold. John Lockwood.
Austin Baldwin. Robert Chandler.
Edmund Perkins. g. Burdick.
David B. Booth. G. w. Cook.
Massachusetts. Iosca.
Wild. s. Thurston. L. II. Webster.
z. r. Pangborn.
We concur in the secession from the Con-
vention, but do not concur in the call for a
Convention, believing that the whole North
ought to unite in common organization to
resist the aggressions of Slavery.
WILLIAM PENN CLARK, of Io,ca.
ID. w. w. SrANBAUGH, of Ohio.
THOMAS SPOONER, Of Ohio.
CHARLES NICHOLS, Of Ohio.
JOHN JOHNSON, Of Ohio.
j. II. BAKER, Of Ohio.
Among the speakers was Mr. Hammond,
editor of the Albany State Register, of New
York. He considered the nomination of Mr..
Fillmore the most violent betrayal of the prin.
ciples of their Order ever put upon any party
in this country. He is not member of the
Order, reports to the contrary Notwithstanding.
1t is Wing ticket, and nothing else. He
pledged New York for thirtyfive delegates to
the nominating Convention. He was opposed
to any union with the Republican party. He
had no objection to that party going up with
their kite, but it must be on the tail of it. APP
plause.
The following Executive Committee was ap-
pointed:
New Hampshire, A. Colby; Connecticut,
Austin Baldwin Rhode Island E. j. Nightin-
gale Massachusetts,, z. Pangborn; Vermont,
JIM. Slade New York, F. Fl. Ruggles; Ohio,
j. II. Baker; Wisconsin, John Lockwood
Illinois, Henry S. Jennings; Pennsylvania, w.
F. Johnston; Michigan, w. Fuller Iowa, l..
II. Webster; Indiana, Solomon Meredith.
| The following resolution was adopted:
Resolred, That the Executive Committee
are authorized, at their discretion, to alter the
vention, and that the Convention designate the
time and manner of electing the delegates.
At half past eleven, the Convention adjourn
ed in high glee.
He had no objection to the Republican Party
going up with the Know Nothing kite, but I" ii
must be on the tail Of IT." And there was ap-
plause!
The Seceders propose to organize North
American Party-to make an american u
kite, and fasten to it Republican tail. They
reject the policy of a union with the friends of
Freedom on the one issue rendered by the
shareholders. They will have no union, unless
On the Know Nothing platform. under the Know
ecutive Committee, and called Convention of
American delegates, to meet at New York on
the 18th of June next to nominate candidates
for the Presidency and Vice Presidency. Their
whole action looks to the perpetuation of the
Know Nothing Order in the Free States, with
all its peculiar dogmas, with this additional
one, so as to absorb the Republicans res
toration of the Missouri Compromises thing
which will never be done. They seeded be-
cause the restoration of the Missouri Compro.
mise was not conceded, and because the Louisi-
ana delegation, representing a Catholic con.
stituency, was admitted but they do not dis
sent from the position of the National Council,
that the period of naturalization should be
twenty-one years. And, finally, they propose
that the nomination should conform to the sem
timents of this new party. They will therefore
be pledged to the exclusion of Catholics from
Office, to the extension of the period of natu-
ralzation to twenty-one years, to the restora-
ton of the Missouri Compromise, if practical
BILE, and to the perpetuation of the Secret Or
der.
1t follows, that they array against their new
party the entire South, the whole body of natu-
rallied citizens, all Catholics, all opponents Of
religious tests, all opponents of Secret Politi-
cal Order, all National Know Nothings, the
whole Republican party. Success, of course,
they cannot expect. What, then, do they pro-
pose to accomplish A coalition with the Re-
publican party, and a mixed ticket. For one,
prefer to see power continued in the hands
of the so-called Democracy another four years,
to such coalition. With individuals entertain
ing different sentiments on the subjects of Free
Trade, Naturalization, Currency, 1 will unite
on one issue, throwing aside all others; but a
| union founded Oil coalition between parties
entertaining antag onistic principles, where sup
port to the coalition ticket must involve the
support of direct antagonisms, shall never have
our sanction or aid.
This miserable attempt, then, to perpetuate
the Know Nothing Order at the North, and
make the Republican movement tributary to
it, will, if persisted in, still mere deplorably
| divide the Free States. What would have
been thought in 1852, had few Wings sece-
ded from the Baltimore Convention on the
ground of Anti-Slavery principle, and then pro-
ceeded to construct Northern Wing party,
with the hope of rallying all the opponents Of
Slavery on the Wing basis, and in support OF
Wing policy, with a slight Anti-Slavery infu.
sion added? What better claim has American.
ism on us, who utterly reject it, than Whigery
had? Did not the Wing party in Massachu-
sets make just such an unwarrantable de-
mand? And what was the response of the
People?
1t is time that we all understood one another
The term, Republican" designates those OPP
pone''ts Of Slavery, Uho are cilling to dissolpe
all hitherto eristing party ties, to put aside all
ordinary issues, and to unite, soithomt distinc
ton Of party, in one organisation, ON tie ont
'ssue-the repeal Of all acts allowing S1auer,
to er'sf IN any Territory once consecrated I'd
Freedom, and the exclusion of Slavery from
the Territories Of the United States. These
persons are gradually crystallizing such Par
ty. They ask their fellow-citizens, Pedestrians
Catholics, Native born, Naturalized, Wings
Democrats, Abolitionists, Americans" te
unite with them on equal terms in forming
such an organization. They ask no more thar
they themselves have done. They have sun