New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-22
SLAVERY AND THE AMERICAN PARTY

Tie Bsae1 Atlas, After letting the old BAY
State go Know Nothing" almost BY default, mas
been reused BY the result to an unusual display OF
energy. The following is one of many vigorous
and truthful leaders it has given since the cleo
tion. 1t strikes Us that like exhibition Of ear
uestness and FIRE before the eventful day mighs
have syerted or at least modified the disaster;
but we are glad to see it, even nov:
II half the bold words which have been uttered
sreinst the extension Of Slavery hsd only been sin
eere we should long since have been beyond such
rnischance Ii the indignation which we have
pressed against the Fugitive Slave Law had been
less simulated spasmodic ard sentimental, II might
have been enforced but 1t could not long have been
naip,aned But patriotic feeling must yieid 20 Der
.on,l intsrsst-nsonal peace 20 local proft-truth TO
,rads-prnciple 10 party -sincenty to success. lie
result hes been The engendering OF horde OF qusck
phsnthropisis who profess most mendsciousiy TO De
better than their neighbour and straight IN the pam
az duty when others .tam Bile; and who modestly as
sumo 20 be more honest than the mass wnen the iact
ia that thew have one more vice and no more virtues
than the rest of mankind. The course OF suen
teaches lesson and is worthy Of curious consiu
Grafton.
ne Uu,on. with its singular facility OF gathering
figs from thises sneers at Native American trlumphs
the victories OF abolition This is in keeping with
the whole Of that delectable sheet lts
and whoever opposes them is al Aboltionst, q u.s.
urionist periured traitor. The UaOa follows the
single sidecness If the Court and but one touch
stone A man is a sound politician who believes in
the institution of Slavery, and all Democratic creeds
begin and end with that.
The Native Anne ricsn triumph in this State is no
more victory Of the Abotonsts than il is of the Nor
mons or the Seventh Day Baptsts. Nine excellent
members Of Congressman of character, Of calibre,
of copduct-mep who steadily stood by what we then
thought right and who resisted fatigue sleepless
ness bravsdo insult csjolery and cunning when all
these ere brought into the service of consplrators
and mpromise br. ak ersthese men, worthy OF civic
crowns and the highest honors have been dismissed
from 20 bile service, just ss II they had been false IN
ste ad OF faithful traitorous instead OF true while POI
hiical apprentices, who know not the deyislon OF
battle more than spDser have been sent to occupy,
certainly net fill their places Is this an AntNeoras
ks triumph The whole Anti Slavery party Is such
has gone by the board and is no more an entity
than the Arctic steamer. With some dim and unde-
fined hope Of doing something, they hardly know
what they have abandoned their political organize
ton giving their regular candidate hardly hrfull of
yotes Mr. Reyes, the commissioned Thersites OF tue
faction asserts that the great strength OF the Amer-
can party in Massachusetts, came from the Free Soil
es and tbst they have only been settling old scores
ano feeding fat ancient grudges against the Wings.
An accurate calculation shows that much larger pee
centage of Free Sellers than of Wings or OF Demo.
eras Joined il the bold enterprise. The candidate Of
the Republicans slipped gracefully out of Mr.. GAd.
ner's way. The abolition newspapers said only soft
things OF the new cause and of its leaders IL ap-
peaiancts could only be trusted, If men were only
What they seem, the union, for wonder, would DO
half night. As tits, IL is wholly wrong.
The Free. Sellers who have gone into the order
have left their Anti Slavery sentiments at the doors
of the lodges from the wickets of which the aroma OF
nationality already reaches outside nostrs Mr. Clay
ton the nbest defense which has yet been made OF
the principles of the party expressly declares
that opposition the extension of Slavery not one
Of them. His whole palaver bresthes only acquies-
cence IL the compromises which pOlltcalqusck salyEs
have foist.d upon this nation which we were hrst
compelled to swallow, and then obliged to dsgorge.
Only three persons have been named as the probable
candidates OF the order for the Presidency. Old Sam
Houston is said to be organizing lodges in the vast
wilde OF Texas. Secret paths covert attacks and
smbuscsdes have heretofore been The preferences OF
the stout old border general but times have changed
aud NE q have ged with tn m Ii will hardly be-
tended that Cen Houston just the man for Northern
presidential candidate. Of John vi. Clayton we have
ALREADY spoken and further words devoted TO him or
TO hs position would be wasted. Miiard Fillmore Is
the third Of this trinmvirate of patriots, and by far
the greatest traveller Of the three. His Southern jour
Ley NAV have had other objects than health or roers
aticn. He may have let lodges in towns where he
found none, and taking time by the foreock out
unanswered bis competitors. We have had gun
not great one-from Mr.. Granger; and the vote for
Ulmann in New-York did not come altogether from
the Native Americans Toe grave has opened lis pom
derous and marble jaws, and the grtsetes OF politics
nice old ladies' but superannuated-haye come forth
in tolerabe repair, and with new but interesting
wrinkle.
IN the Sosthern States the American party is rapid
ly increasipp In slave breeding Virginia II grows
apace In South Carolina il is said TO be already large
eloueh TO control the Legislature; in Louisiana IL
has sGes1y won victories. He must bee very yer.
daDt person who no Presidential intrigue at
The cotton OF all this movement The South always
acts with siDgleness of purpose, and mean, only
slavery its perpetuty and extension. Feom the
rising Of the sun till the going down OF the same, the
Southern statesman thinks only OF slavery talks
only of Slavery, and acts Ouy for Slavery and lts
relative causes. IL is the Alphs aud Omega, the
title page and colOphon OF his political theory. lie
cares nothing for oyerimmgratlon he IL not taxed as
we are to support foreign pauperlsm or TO prevent
and punish foreign crimes. BY the last census there
were only 37s 205 persons Of foreign birth In the
saveholding States against l, 500 3s7 IN the nom
slayebOidng States. The State Of Delaware, when
has just been carried by the Natives, with popula-
ton OF 7s $685. has only foreign population OF Zo3
and these are centred principally in Newcastle
County for in Kent there only 1884, and IN Sussex
only IS persons Of alien birth. The movement then,
al the South not movement against alien influence,
but in favor of anteduvian politics. does n)t seek
for the repea of the nsturaz alton laws but strives
to prevent the repeal Of the Fugitive Slave law; 1!
would PROMOTE not the extension OF American IDEAS,
but Of American Slavery. u will, If IL can, make
tools of us through these trenew politics, az II mas
often done through the old To control and cr-
cumscIibe the electoral privileges Of Aliens 1t has no
oc aston i, needs rather the bsots Of those who are
of sound revolution AIRY stock If the family registers
can be believed against the evidence OF dead spirits,
and degene rate deeds The Irish population has never
fstsrpizsd with the AbotODsts il has ottener voted
with the Democratic party the natural any OF slave
~ The Catholic Church has always inclined 20 ths
support of this peculiar institution and crushed the
Abti-slayery instincts Of It's commandments. IL
will rot row be deserted by the South without reason,
and what hat reason will be- we have pretty PLAINLY
indicated.
We have Tot waited for the publication of these
schemes az anst the rights and Liberties of the free