The Creed of the American Party--The Platform misrepresented by Mr. Watkins--Official Vote on the adoption of the new Platform--What the Abolitionists and Democrats say of the Platform--Seceders from the Nominating Convention, and their Address. Lord Byron, just as the war of Greece approached, said: "It is not one man, nor a million, but the _spirit of liberty_ which must be spread;" and, carrying out the same bold idea of liberty, he continues, "It is time to act;" or, in the language of the Know Nothing salutation, "It is time for work;" for "what signifies _self_, if a single spark of that genius of liberty worthy of the past, can be bequeathed unquenchably to the future?" In the language of a fair poetess: --"Our country is a whole, Of which we all are parts; nor should a citizen Regard his interests as distinct from hers: No hopes or fears should touch his patriot soul, But what affects her honor or her shame." The civilization--the nationality--the institutions, civil and religious--and the mission of the United States, are all eminently American. Mental light and personal independence, constitutional union, national supremacy, submission to law and rules of order, homogeneous population, and instinctive patriotism, are all vital elements of American liberty, nationality, and upward and onward progress. Foreign immigration, foreign Catholic influence, and sectional factions nourished by them--and breeding demagogues in the name of _Democracy_, by a prostitution of the elective franchise--have already corrupted our nationality, degraded our councils, both State and National, weakened the bonds of union, disturbed our country's peace, and awakened apprehensions of insecurity and _progressive deterioration_, threatening ultimate ruin! To rescue and restore American institutions--to maintain American nationality, and to secure American birthrights, is the mission and the sole purpose of the AMERICAN PARTY--composed of conservative, patriotic, Protestant, Union-loving, native-born citizens of every section, and of every Christian denomination--self-sacrificing patriots, who prefer their country, and the religion of their fathers, and of the Bible, to a factious name, a plundering political organization, and an infamous Papal hierarchy!