Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-12-15
Nationality Of Americanism.

The New Orleans Creole, an advocate Of
American doctrines, utters the following senti-
ments, on the questions which we have of late
discussed touching the nationality Of our prin-
ciples:
!" Americanism must be national Withina year
past 1t has grown to be tangibity-a great living
MISUNDERSTANDING along all the arteries Of our
national life vibrating in every thought, pulsatng
in every deed The sentiment that Americans
should rule America--that they are competent and
willing to govern themselves, has become inn
bodied force-nn actual element in the politics Of
our country; and no earthly influence can put 1t
down or avert its progress. The old parties may
seek to stem the tide that is sweeping through the
land, hut they will themselves be washed away in
the effort They may charge it with abolitionism
and prescription, with being intolerant, or even
Protestant, but they will not arrest its growth.
The American party is now the only really vital
party of the country; it is the young Hercules
which, scarcely yet out of its swaddling Clothes ia
still able, with an effort scarcely perceivable, to
revolutionize the politics of nation, and infuse
power and vitality into principles that were con-
sidered dead If the Democratic party of our
State and nation expect TO achieve a triumph only
when Americanism shall have died out under the
charge of abolitionsm or any other heresy against
the Union, they may as well at once put up their
weapons and withdraw from the field, for that day,
they may rest assured, will never come"
We must eschcw disunionism in all its forms
and phases, whether it appears in the dress Of
aboltionism or of disunionism Our princi-
pies, our purposes, and our action, must be ma
tional and not sectional.
This is the general sentiment Of our party,
rs well at the North as at the South. We have
referred to undoubted facts in proof that our
friends at the North are ready to stand on this
platform; and we arc equally sure that our
friends at the South viii forever curb the spirit
which seeks disunion through secession. If
further proof were wanted, to show that a
change has come over large portion of the
people of New England within the last twelve
months, wa might cite the recent election Of the
Mayor Of Boston, by an overwhelming majority
of Know Nothing votesl
The mayor elect of Boston, il will be remem-
bered, was one of those who firmly and fear
lcssly maintained and upheld the laws Of the
ton of the fugitive Burns to his master. The
excitement Of that occasion will not soon be
forgotten, nor the fact that, public odium fell
upon all who sought TO preserve the peace and
to enforce the laws, and upon no one did that
odium rest more heavily than upon the present
mayor elect of the city Of Boston.
II we mistake not, the people Of Boston burnt
him in efigy, and heapcd all sorts Of indigni-
ties upon him-but reason and reflection have
changed the opinions Of the populacc, and the
mayor elect is now one Of the most popular
men in the Commonwealth Of Massachusetts.
Do the people Of Massachusetts, love slavery
more, or hate ii less, than formerly Not at
all Are they more fayorably inclined towards
the provisions Of the fugitive-slaye law than
formerlyS Not at ALL But they have become
Amsricans, according to the national meaning
Of the word they are opposed to the "higher
law" notions Of Seward and Sumner, and they
mean to support the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States, and all laws passed in conformity
thereto, and to aid in perpetuating the Union
Of these States, under which their ancestors
and themselves have been happy and prosper