The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-12-14
rae AmerIcmu Party.

every State where elections have been held
the strongholds Of Partyism have been in
yaded and purged of their poisonous cor
.ruption, Throughout the lengths and
breadth Of the land general feeling offer
ror has taken possession ofthe spoilsmen---
places once ruled by the iron rod of dem
agogues arc ruled no more-the people,
the great American PEopLE, are everywhere
throwing of TN shackles of party seryi-
tude and standing erect in the true dignity
of AMERICANS, claiming the inalenable
right of sclf-government. Blind submis-
sion to partisan dictation has every where
ceased to exist, and in those places where
party drill was most powerful and until re-
Gently irresistible, the people are thinking.
acting and indus.riously working for them
selves and the American cause.
is il any wonder. under these circum.
stances, that men who have fatteued at the
public crib should grow restless and make
a desperate struggle to avert their impend-
ing ruinH That they should appeal to the
prejudices and passions of the unsuspccting
and ignorant, Is natural enough--for their
principles, as set forth in their struggle for
power, are, most unquestionably the spoils
of victory,and with fairpromises Of reward
they haveled many to embrace theircause.
They seek not to promote the best interests
of the country but to secure individual pro-
motion and roll in aflluence and case at
the expense of their deluded victims.
They arc most bitterin their denuncia-
lions of the United American order and
stigmatise ifas a "secret mi1night con-
claye". They forget,in tleirblinl devotion
to the spoils, that the Boston Tea Party was
a secret organization-yet where is the or
ganization, secret or open, that has been
more instrumental in the work Of political
revolution and which has vouchsafed great
er blessings to mankind than did that little
secret band ofAMERIcAN patriots? They
forget in their blind devotion to the spoils,
that the Tammsny societies in the days OF
the immortal JEFFERSON, SO eminently in
strumental in organizing the "AMERIcAN
PARTY" In that day. were secret societies.
What, wo would ask, have these huckstcr-
ling politicians to say against the secret So
cieties Of AMERICANS in the days of the pa
triot JEFFERSON? What denunciations have
the gambling politicians of the present day
to heap on the -honored heads and patriot
hearts .ofthat little band of AMERICANS who
composed the ever to be revered "BostOn
Tea Party9'' -.e.
| NeYerin the history of our country has
there been greater necessity for powerful
secret combination Of AMERICANS than nj
the present time The Halls Of our Nation
al Congress have been made the scenes o
the most disgraceful and bullying conflicts
between corrupt partisan lcaders-one
third Of whom perhap;,werc born on for
cign soil; in sight of the monument being
erected TO pcrpetuate the name ofthe Faith
erofhis Country, has there been open threat.
and deep scheming to dissolve the Union
; thus threatening to destroy the very exis
I tence Of the confedcracy. The high posi-
ton once given only to the grestest states
men ( purcst patriots ofthc land, ,isnow pu
up at political auction and gambled away
t at partisan conventions in which the pco
pie have no voice. a.. .....,,
When political leaders and wtre-puller
, met in secret caucus and laid their plans t,
rule the people, all went on swimmingl,
, and to the qualification of demagogues; bu
now that the PEOPLE have taken upon them
selves the business of selecting their owl
servants without consulting tie wishes, lad
vice and interests of old party leaders; tn
most bitterinvectives are herelded fort
from the partisan press, and the mgort
of the voters Of the country are denounce
as midnightassassins. 1t is because dema
gogues are cut off from all commune
with the people that this growing spiri
; for the spoils is heard.
$ Thefactis, all politicalparties are more O
; hlesssecretin their OF ganization corporations
Or both. The order Of Free and Accepte
Masons is secret society; and though nc
strictly political one, it has doubtless ex
D ertcda great moral influence in the poll
I tics ofall countries. Nj WISE, the mos
bitter ofall the opponents Of the Unite
: American cause, is himselfa a member Of til
: order Of ,Mi;afs0ns, and yet he repudiatc
: the Know Nothings because their secret
: are best known to themselves, So far a
their secrets are concerned we care nothin
!. about them, we know what their princi
pies are and that is sufficient for us. Tn
revelation they seek to accomplish is on
eminently needed in Che country, and on
? in which they have our hearty eo-opea
tion. .f,ua o7l H
. STATE BOARD OF AeR1cuLTuRE.-Th
, Board, composed of the members boldin