Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-11-28
The Game Of our Enemies.

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The Game Of our Enemies.
The administration, alias foreign party"
presses are daily filled with the grossest cal
umnies, in their reckless assaults upon the
American party and its purposes. They hope,
by their continued repetitions Of the same
charges, to persuade the masses Of the old
Democratic party Of their truth Having ex-
hausted their vocabularies in heaping the foul
est epithets upon our organizations, and thus
stated their malignity by an unlimited indul-
gence in abuse, they have finally directed their
efforts to two points-.1irst, to show that we
are Wings in disguise, and, second, to prove
that we are allied to, and cooperate with Abo-
litionists
Both these charges are daily repeated by
those presses which are supported by the
amounts they receive from the National Treas
ury, and without which pap they would cease
to exist and yet both these charges are known
by those who make them to be utterly false
and unfounded. The first charge has been
triumphantly refuted in the recent elections,
where the bitterest enemies we met in combat
we're the leaders of The latd Wing party. In
New York, the whole strength Of the Wing
party, under the lead of Seward, Greeley, and
Weed, not only arrayed itself against the
American party, but sought, by means of
treachery, to break up our organization.
Numbers Of Seward Wings wormed them
selves into our organization, with view to
control it or to break it into fragments, and
filling in both, withdrew therehom, and under
the gar5 of Americanism, repudiated the NOM
nation Of Ullman, and adopted Clark MS their
Know Nothing candidate A more contemp-
tible scheme of treachery and viIlany was
never concocted by those Wing leaders above
adverted to.
The election came on, and the bitterest hos
tility was daily and hourly manifested by these
Wing leaders and their presses against the
American party.
In the Massachusetts, elections the same hos
tile attitude was assumed by the old Wing
party and their leaders, to the American party.
Four tickets were ruin for Governor to wit, adj
ministration, freesoil, Wing, and American.
The three first tickets received the votes Of
their present strength, but the most unrelent-
ing and bitter warfare, made upon the Ameri-
can party, was made by the old leaders Of the
original Wing party Of that State. The Amer.
lean party triumphcd over all these other parties
by 10000 votes
But 1t win DO asked, from what sources did
the American party draw its supplies of voters ?
We answer, From the conservative portions
cfau other parties. The masses Of the peo-
pie Of Massachusetts,, as Of nearly oil the other
States, were tired Of the corruptions, the in
trigues, the selHshness Of other parties, and
determined to free themselves from bondage to
politicians. For few years past, the Wing
majority in Massachusetts, has boon small, not
averaging 10000, and perhaps not 5000 votes
during the last ten years In a single yoar,
the American party, based upon conservative
principles, has destroyed the Wing, Democrat
&c, and Free-soil parties there and is now over
whelmingi
Though there are Wings as well as Demo-
Gratis in the Massachusetts, organizations Of
Americans, yet there is neither Whiggery nor
beinoCiaSyi us swoftj w W iVuiin III WIG hhSi-
lean party.
We might refer las we have formerly re-
ferred) to numerous other elections which have
transpirod during this year, refating the fall
lacy that ours is the Wing party in disguise.
But the other charge must be examined.
Are we in alliance with abolitionistsf We
pronounce the charge the base fabrication Of a
base heart Is not our party openly and vio-
lently denounced by the abolitonists and their
recognised presses?
We are yet to sec the first abolition print
which has not denounced our principles and
our purposes. We rcciprocote their denunei-
ationa The National Era, Of this city, the
recognised organ OF the abolition party Of the
country, has oper and again taken the strong
est grounds against our party. Is not this
enoughP Ifnot, let our enemies point to the
,hghtest proof Of the abolition tendencies Of
our party, and wo viii refutc tho accusation in
terms and with proofs that even Jesuit shall
not controvert.
We invite the attention Of our readers to the
communication Of "Amitie." II is from the
pom Of prominent Virginia Democrat, who has
become Disguised with the coruptions of party
and the intrigues ofpoliticians, and who justly
regards the establishment Of American princi-
pies az the sheet anchor Of our country's hopes,