Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-11-30
The washington Union.

This mouthpiece Of the administration, goad-
ed ON by the late assaults Of the Boston Pilot
and Colt, who had pronounced tho Union
treacherous to the foreign party, contains, in
this mornings issue, the foulest calumnies and
the most reckless misrepresentation it has
ever yet made against the American party. If
the Pilot and Celt are not rcconciled to the
Union by its mendacious assaults upon our
purity to-day, they would not be satisfied even
though Satan himself were to WELD the edito-
rial tripod Of that press, and essay to eclipse
the Jesuitism ii now exhibits.
The Washington Union boldly and falsely
assumes that the Known othings seek TO intro
duce into the South I'm Abolition party under
0nother name.
There is not one word Of truth in this idea,
and the Union knotos it, or it is ignorant of
what nearly all the country knows, as a mat
t,r Of general politics. The American party is
in no manner or form, nor in the slightest de-
gree, tinctured with Abolitionism. Our party
is devoted to the Union, and will, by all means
in its power, essay to preserve the Union. We
recognize the constitutional rights Of all the
States, and win defend them.
We shall oppose the agitation Of slavery in
Congress and out Of Congress. We maintain
that the question Of slavery belongs exclusively
to those States in which it exists This is our
creed on the question Of slavery, and we shall
maintain and defend this creed whenever it
shall be assailed.
"But," says the Union, "thc Know Moth
ing party in the free States, except in New
York, has absorbed the Abolition party and the
Wing party both"
And the Union might have added, "and the
Democratic party also" II is true that in
several of the States our party has destroyed
all other parties.
And il the Union were sincere in its profess
sions Of devotion to Southern interests, pray
what objections would it make to this general
absorption? fla Wing ora Democrat, or even
an Abolitionist, chooses to join our party,
adopt our creed, fight with us against foreign
influences, pledge himself hereafter to be one
Of us, and give up all his former idols, win the
South lose anything by this transfer? If We
can make good Union men out of materials
which have been heretofore used for other pur-
poses, WHY does the Union object2
Certainly the Union would not object to this
if that press was sincere in its professions of
fealty to the South. But its professions are
moonshinel
But the Union cites the Now York Evening
Post TO show that " the notion that the Amer
lean party will be converted into grand fu-
sion Union-saving constitutional party, on the
Castle Garden model, is destined to prove dc
fusion, though it seems 10 prevail in certain
very respectable quarters"
And SO the opinions ofthe Evening Post are
adduccd as proofs by the Union, to sustain its
false allegations
unexpectedly decline permitting the Amer
lean party to be convicted upon such testimony.
Further discussing the subject, the Union
says:
"The New Orleans Bulletin does not understand,
or viii not see, the incorporating and violent
hostility OF the northern Wings and their aer allies
TO the institutions Of the South"
II is not for us to defend the northern Wings
against this charge, but we say, in reference to
the "ae1 allies" by which the Union means
the Know Nothings, the charge of our hostility
to the South is wholly gratuitous and unblush-
ingly false.
We may be permitted to say that, in relation
10 the Wings Of the North, they stand on this
question, precisely on the same platform with
the administration party, or the 80 called Dem
ocrsts. The man who asserts, that the Marcy
or Seymour or Pierce party at the North, are
any more reliable on the question Of sustaining
the constitutional rights of the South, than the
main body Of the Wing party, asserts what
every man, woman, and child at the North
knows to be untrue The administration dis
carded from its ranks, and sought to disgrace,
the only portion of tho Democracy who were
sound on this question at the North.
In like manner the Seward leaders Mt the
North, threw off the only portion Of the Wing
party there, who were sound on this question.
Tho Dickinson Democrats, and the Fillmore
Wings Of New York, with such others in the
North as have embraced their opinions in the
several States, arc the reliable portions Of the
late Wing and Democratic organizations, and
Of these classes, with such recruits from the
main body OF each party as were tired Of party
thraldom, the american party at the North is
composed Is there danger to the South from
such men?
Not the slightest Then why all this hurry
burly--this loud-mouthed denuncistion Of the
American party--these earnings to the South,
30 often uttered by tho Uaion' The answer
il easy. It's the last spasmodic effort Of a
hircling press in behalfof a doomed and dying
administration