_ _fii.fi _. PITTbI3URGiI GAZETTE. eiisuepio eY u ¢.;wmTE----....- , 'PITTSBURGH • MONDAY MOILNEICI, 18.65 Met of -the - Pittsburgh Gm buildig glfthZ..t. Ira= ithe n id et iz tte klmmediatel n y. stkigaig the • ' . _ • 1116. Te Adverglbona—Neither 'the lantana Ems • et Peteethslbeehtlehmmtathe Daft Gasette.are veined • 4.onomptiteevtrodedrit their scams teswil in thepnver an Monde/ =rata& wllllpluanband them In Advance Paiments.—llereafter no sub- whiles well be titan 3se tbb Ds ly .oe Weeds Glebtte. +=bee Wawa le ambe fa Vieux*. libeneser de.. • tine Se eeD tb.letdett, tbt...bobertptiol said, tba pima be Wide*. ItVD•4,, =IWO ragalrAc." . " torwidOw whim s oft=t.. 111,1 tesaskat edysitbetase, •of fteler Alibelytkee, Inn io t abot to b. pad In id 'l'6 eat ebeePtiew whore ipadal month y . crying/ anstnite ear made.'• eerebdter mkt, Giksette.—Tb• sztangtv• - eirethaos dour 'Reidy Oudre offers% oat %madam Inn mot disdisbb. nudism et asking tbatr bailor lutoria . Our titsulatlon to brfarmilbor sad &mato:monad, maths Ahlboiltirna7 atudiest. aessualacturar aboPiDinxr .I,ll4lrti Plesubabroals. 4 ead Imam% Ohio. . . iarAr.B3..mtrzulat. - loto oaloio or tn. zQue J Zd saileoir,d3tumbed with tL. EittarriceV. Couriarl* satherbed to Keit waberiptions aed thmti.mmut• the Pituburet Gantt& becarding to ourimbliguod term 114 4 4 4 h .11±iron lioadlook Matter on tomb inure in this 'paper Tux ritocurionos AT RIADISO.—We are ; get- Sing by pieoemeal the full history of ing Consintioe; and, the' tame 'we learn of it, the • more reason we have for Mottling it as a bald plies of triekezi, unworthy even of the union pious trbikatere who appear to hare had the istanagement of it., , The stmemblage at Reading, wan the regular quarterly meeting of the State Council. To these meetings every subordinate cannon is an thorned toned three delegatek and as there are mid to he over one thousand of such subordinite siourthile, the assemblage, if full, would amount to over three thousand. Bat as the =dons traneetied is usually_ of a routine character, the attendants is generally very slight; and, on this particular othanion, nobody, beyond this special locality, appears to have thought the meeting of any Moment. • Tfiere were only about two hundred delegates present, in slhand of these very near one-half was furnished by, the two counties of Allegheny and Westmorriond. • Net more then cme-third of the counties in the state was represented; and the moat of those that kart . • represented, had hot one or two delegates each. Philadelphia. sent up very few; and: the east ern counties, generally, appear. either tS have ' taken no thought time • the National platform would come up to be peened upon, or to hove ocurithied that, if it did, it wee of no earthly con sequence whethespdopted. : rejected. The remit was that the , cont rol of the Council pun!' into the hands" of-those who bed succeed ed in peeling ik and that a very scull propor . tios of the Order in the State wee represented in the action taken. • - On the assembling of the Council, the Ellis delphio members saw what were the purposes •• of the majority, and endeavored, by pressing forwird the routine business of the Council, to ...stave off action on •the plottorto until they could .; get reinforcements. They succeeded through the greater-part of the bretday, and ultimately pt some more help; but not enough to offset , their oplonents. • A committee on the platform was appointed, consisting of nineteen members,. one from each of so many congressional districts. The mejor ity of this committee, consisting ens, (among whom we recognise the names - of B. 111. Riddle, Thomas BIC6IIIIOII, RAT. A. B. Quay and John • Covode;) reported one platform; eight others -reported another; sad the remaining one con tented himsell with rePorting the National plat form unaltered. This latter, on being brought to Vote in the council, was lost, yeas 80, nays • ' 148. The question was then-narrowed down to tra two platforms of the majority. 'and thinority. The majority report is loig, and is, in its main features, a mere reiteration of theNativistic and Proseriptive Tenons of the National platform, full • ifoat and humbug about foreigners, civil and re ligious liberty, Americans ruling America, and all that sort of stuff, The part relating to she very le es rollout: 8 Affirming the 111011 t, ardent attachment to the Vision of these ae the bulwark of our • civil end religious liberty and the depository of the honor and !glory of the Milton, and of - the citizens of the several States; and avowing • our determination to stand faithful to the Union at all hazards, save those of disloyally to free . dem and dishonor to ourselves as freemen.— apathies from the shadow of free institutions, we desire to make a pemanent._ record of our sentiments touching slavery as it exists in the Southern States of the and se it is obtru ded on us and made an element and condition Of our coberenoi-as a family, of States. i Slavery existing. only in and by • law in the Southern Btatesis necessarily a toad thing, end We ought not in fact to have to deal with it , in My form. Bat the present Constitution of tbe • • United States having made it the subject of re . ••• itraink evidently, too, as the beginning of mes lures for its abolishment,. and Congies having subsequently poised laws for the reception of • •• thane- escaping into the free States, this lecal Institution has been constantly forced upon the • cilia of the North until it basbecome the"ob. - • eat of a repugnant and well -retried public ' - The, public opinion of the inhabitants of the free Scots is, and has then, adverse to sla very, . sod ;that opinion halikeen onfirmed and strengthened by receat events. • • We sympathize with this northern sentiment • . in regard to slavery, and claim the right on all • ;legitimate occasions, to discriminate by the be . 'stunt of our suffrages in fever of the men and • the immures promising the most to conserve and give efficacy to the Northern !sandmen.. - teaching slavery, and to reproduce in ultiz-n practice in the Southern States the views of Southern statesmen, who. calculated the period - which should witness the abolishment of African slavery in the Voiced States. • • Reeriud, That we do not propose to interfere •in any wise with_slavery within the limits of ' - 'tholes States where by the laws it already exists; but that itp every attempt to 'bring the freemen of the 'North into new partnership with slavery; -to every attempt to subject new territory to slavery; thievery measure proposed . in Congress ; • for the further protectien or extension of elan - zy, and for the admission of new slave States, • .- we declarer ounelees now and immutably op ; • • ••posed end' repugnant. 2bsselvect„ ,That the repeal of the Missouri Comprombre was an infraction' of plighted .• . faith of the. Nation, and that .it nould be re -:. !stored ; and '.if _efforts .to that end should fall, ".!, Congress should refuse to admit any State tol entelng slavery, which shall he formed out of " • ;any portico of the territory froth which that in ",,stitutioth• waoszoluded by the Compromise. The minority report - embraced the:whole No " - -; tient .phetform, except the twelfth section, for which the following was substituted: • 12th: That the question of. slavery =outdate& ' introduced into the Platform'of the Americas, Part,. 'ban coed:toed that no Su= isam was , intended to be embraced within its end objects.'That we, believe in and shall ever de -1 ' feud the right of freedom of opinion and discue stall on that arid every other subject not intend ed to be embraced in the designs of the organi zation. But inasmuch . m the subject hes been forced upon us. e regard the repeal Of the scoot Compromise an an infraction of the Plight • • ; ed faith of the Notion„ end that it should be - . nand-and if efforts to 'that end should fa ' • Coopers should refuse to admit any State thler - , Bring slavery which shall be formed outo f+any portion of the „ter ri tory from which .thatinatitu tics was excluded by the Compromise. • The von was ordered without discussion, dee the preen:roof tite previous question; but • ....',•jetelt - se the roll was about to be called on the •;• '••• sot jeritl platfo rm , Gov. Job:tetra arose and 11X. • -pressed swish . ar hope that that part of timplat • - • form reloting to slavery should not be adopted. nits with delight by the rtiste= men and the-moderate members at the council, as - - • paving the way for-adopting' the minority report , . as a tompichalse bitereetStiti east and west, and • • . encilintary of , both. , When the vote, wee taken, accordingly, Cov. Johnston led - off in =ling : spinet the majority, report, followed by some Alois others from this orzakr, and it wag 'rejectted, • 89„ nays 104. ; The minariti report was , ' ••••' thin adopted, yeas 188„ nays fib, - some'Bl of these isle being western antislavery men who 4 s, not aatiis.4 with :mks 7147 7 1,64 y. 44., ' • resolution oft* !In initte upon the • ' l.• Wiiiilltilds:Piatiorts, to lust liiiiiiteatidtitn• „ Obietenitit on th e : B th or . - .Team*: 1856—te:ow aiatita b sash pale:ll4 imam as maybe necessary *sib* tbs yomiatiyon. of toindidatel lee TradAaat and Vie prad4ll that, tbe - < - •-• Subordinate Commis itit ' nd theieto Iron each Congressional' dishid. This, howev er,.... was amended so u td iedacfollowe 'That a cohunitteh of thirteen be ap 49hged eltieration of ell the State Councils in 010 oonfedersoi;wlici'may;be willing to - eonenrin - thit principlessnd platform this day adopted by , the .State of Pennsylvania, one and for her national ereed; -end that a- convention be held at , Clnelanati, -on the Bth- day of January next,",to dwelt nwasures 10 secure the nomination in ths Conerstion called trite Nathan, Coteiscilof 'tietttetiokunlor - Tevsident and Vice President, who srewilliog to stand upon the platform this day eptiblished, and transact such other matters as may oe deemed necessary to secure the success of the American Party in the Union. Therepresent stion of each State in said Convention to be I equal to the 'temper of members such State is entitled to - M the National Congress. in this 'Shape it was adopted, whereupon some ten or fifteen of "the delegates withdrew, and shortly after the Cpuncil adjourned. The seceding delegates, met on the hth, and organized another Council, set themselves up as the Simon Pores, and cavalierly treated the ma jority as "seceders" from the Order. Their Rro ceedings are thus officially given to the woild At a meeting of the American State Conven tion, held at Beading, on the sth Inst., the fol lowing preamble and resolutions, reported by Hon. Jacob Broom, cluiirman of the Committee OD resolutions,. were unanimously adopted, and ordered to be piffilished, signed by the officers of the Council, viz.: Wurmsas, The National Council at its late session at Philadelphia established and promul gated "The Platform and Principles of the Or ganizatiom" and, Whereas, According to the constitution and laws of the Order, the Notional Council is the supreme head of the Order, and as snob is en utled to the respect and ob edience of the subor dinate branches thereof; and, Whereas, the unfortunate agitation of section al matters within the said National Council has resulted in the introduction of au article NO to which there appears to be serious and grave objections on the part of a portion of the mem- , ben of the Order, therefore • Belayed, That while we deprecate and disap prose-of the agitation In any manner of the sub ject of Slavery, or any other questionof local or sectional concern, in the consideration of the principles of the American party, as being in compatible with harmony, end destructive of I that concert of action which is indispensible to the well-being of our nation at large, and the peace and security of posterity; yet, neverthe less, our imperious sense of duty and subordina tion to the National Council, end dey_otion to the great American cause, which We hold to be par amount to all other political or sectional consid nations, impels us to ratify, adopt and confirm the said platairm and principles. Ruched, That the minutes purporting to be the proceedings of the State Council of Pennsyl vania, which assembled at Beading on the 3d hd., disclose the fact of the secession from the National organization of a large number of those in attendance, who have repudiated the National Council and disowned its authority, and that therefore their entire proceedings are, in the opinion of this State Council, disorganising, and are hereby repudiated and disavowed Poses% W. Hussicxxx, President. Homo' Rom, Secretaries. Esium:ts B. Potrisos, J Thus far as to the history-of the affair; and now as to Its aspects. The platform of the State Convention, it will be seen, is -the same as that of the National Connell, with the exception of a weak substi tute for elm 12th article. A moderately firm antialivery platform was rejected, by a decided vote, and this substitute seized open as agreea ble to all and offensive to none; while the act tion taken with regard to the Cincinnati Con— attrition was so modified 113 to make that pro posed Convention solsordinate to the Convention celled by the National Council for the 22nd of February next, to nominate a Presidential can '.didate. Thee, while mildly dissenting from the pro-slavery acts of the National Council, Its au thority was distinctly recognized and submit ted to, and the connection of the State Conn ed of Pennsylvania therewith was ecrupulonaly maintained. The sabstitnte for the 12th seetionof the plat form Is very boldly esst up in certain quarters as • "Ifirthern" “backbone" affair, and the language rausaoked for adjectives in the su perlatite degree wherewith to characterize it.— How little reason there is for such jubilation will be seen by giving It • careful reading• It is • poor and 'miserable thing to offer to a sincere anti-slavery man; and It can delude none but those who are bothwilling and anions to be de luded. Rend it &gain. Analyze it, and see how lit. it,ill yield. It sets out with the assertion "That Me question of Slavers should not be intro dueedhao the Platform of the American Party, be ing convinced that no such issue was intended to be embraced within its principles and ob jects." In other words, the American party, as a party, has nothing to do with the Slavery question. It is foreign to the purposes of its org ...'sation, and mono; properly, be brought within the ecope of its &Woo. The great per pose of the order is Nantime-4he proscription and disfranchisement of foreigners and Cacho and 'with . other questions the party has nothing . to do. But, says the platform, "We believe in and shall ever defend the right of freedom of opinion and discussion on that and every, other subject sot Mended to be em braced within the draigna of the organization." Of course. Know Nothings, as individuals, may think se they please, and my what they please, and discuss what they please, without limit.— 'They may be pro-slavery in Philadelphia and anti-slavery in Allegheny, and half-in-half wherever ,that will snit best, for that is their right. We don't Pretend to be a unit, say they, on barge:ration but Nativism, and allow our members the utmost latitude on ail other ques done. "But," says the Council, "insomuch as the subject has been forced npon us we regard the repeal of the Missouri Compromise as an in fraction of the plighted faith of the Nation, and that it should be restored—and if efforts to that end abairld fall, Congress should refuse to ad mit any State tolerating slavery which shall, be formed out of any portion of the Territory froin which that institution was excluded by the Com promise," This, however, is a mere expression of opinion. It binds no one. and leaves every member of the party to do as ha pleases. ' The.whola of the matter, then, is this: the "American" party does not o,onsider the ques tion of Slavery as coming within the surge of its principles and objects; it allows freedom of dlenission and opinion to its members on all sub. jests not Intended to be embricehritbin its de signs; and, for the alike of tender-mindid breth ren, since tile Slavery question has been forced on them, it expresses the simple opinion that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was wrong, and that, if not restored, Congress should refuse admission to slave States formed out of territory north of the Missouri line. And that is all. And there could hardly hare been les+, . short of nothing at all. No real anthelavery man Can give his faith to such a party. The cease of the North and the interests of freedom are not to be defended and subserred by a party which scouts them as foreign to its purposes, and is merely willing to express its regards concerning them. What the North Wants le k party 'w hie h Will treat:the .question of Slavery one that should be introduced into iii platform; which Will be a unit upon it ; and which' wilt tip to Confirms with • united voice and a stern de mand for the legislation Which the alias:demands. Nothing lees than this wilimitisfy the true friends of freedom. Away with this poling party cow ardice, which is ashamed to : trest"this great and all-absorbing quesdon of the day as i legitimate one; which graciously condescends to permit the discussion of the only real mid vital issue before the people; and which Ganda no more than utter & vapid opinion of dissent from' the wrong-doing of the AM Congress while the members of the party are left free to perpetUate that wrong, if they choose. We spit upon all such platforms and all such opiates:is, and scout the spirit which prompts them. These. are times' when men should homes; and when those. who claim the publlo conlidetioe should do it in virtue of their numbness, inked of insulting the public: judg-. want with such it skulking and barren and mt.-. 4 0 program:Me as is contained in the platform of the Penscrlveee State Canna We will Wit; ultimo! • • m ekesiatfietorprise is the name of a' . _ . new ism just started at t opoeßnifl. - Fayette wady, Ps., by Markle &Jones. It 7 well peintod sad well *sista:Red. sad 'will doubtless soothe a good patronage.:: Tie melees= Library, le Xleibeig,7, will be epee* lobe as tie Oa lad. ' - ~. ry ~~'S "d''.f`skrc,~~'~~~'a` 3 S"'r" ' .y ~